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Letting Go of Our Limitations

Forgive, and you will see this differently.

²These are the words the Holy Spirit speaks in all your tribulations, all your pain, all suffering regardless of its form.

Shall we not learn to say these words when we are tempted to believe that pain is real, and death becomes our choice instead of life? ²Shall we not learn to say these words when we have understood their power to release all minds from bondage? ³These are words which give you power over all events that seem to have been given power over you.

How can you tell when you are seeing wrong, or someone else is failing to perceive the lesson he should learn? ²Does pain seem real in the perception? ³If it does, be sure the lesson is not learned. ⁴And there remains an unforgiveness hiding in the mind that sees the pain through eyes the mind directs.

God would not have you suffer thus. ²He would help you forgive yourself. ³His Son does not remember who he is. ⁴And God would have him not forget His Love, and all the gifts His Love brings with it. (A Course in Miracles, W-193.5:1-2;6:1-3;7:1–8:4. See also ACIM Lesson 193 Insights.)

Forgiveness seems hard only because we are not willing to give up our special identity. It feels like sacrifice is demanded of us. But the cost for keeping this fake identity is a ‘life’ of uncertainty, fear and guilt that ultimately ends in death. This is only a dream.

Our real life is the life we live in God. It is an eternal state of peace, joy and Love. This is the experience of our true Self, the extension of God’s changeless Love. Forgiveness makes ways for Love to flow through us in the continuous giving and receiving of Love’s blessings.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us forgive our beliefs in limitation. We want to remember we are united with all Creation in Love’s joyous blessings.

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Letting Love Lead Us Home

I follow in the way appointed me.

I have a special place to fill; a role for me alone. ²Salvation waits until I take this part as what I choose to do. ³Until I make this choice, I am the slave of time and human destiny. ⁴But when I willingly and gladly go the way my Father’s plan appointed me to go, then will I recognize salvation is already here, already given all my brothers and already mine as well.

Father, Your way is what I choose today. ²Where it would lead me do I choose to go; what it would have me do I choose to do. ³Your way is certain, and the end secure. ⁴The memory of You awaits me there. ⁵And all my sorrows end in Your embrace, which You have promised to Your Son, who thought mistakenly that he had wandered from the sure protection of Your loving Arms. (A Course in Miracles, W-317. See also ACIM Lesson 317 Insights.)

The choice to go our appointed way is the choice to be happy and live in peace. The ego asks for sacrifice, but not our Father. But when we identify with the ego, we project the belief in sacrifice on God. So we believe that dedicating our life to following our Father’s lead would require sacrificing things we value. But this is only the result of misplaced values.

Today we choose to value Reality. We choose to let Love guide us in all our thoughts and actions. We will recognize the Love we share with everyone. We will recognize calls for Love and joyfully answer with Love’s embrace. We are grateful that Love leads us Home to the Heaven of God’s Love.

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Remembering We Are Love and Nothing Else

Use all the little names and symbols which delineate the world of darkness. ²Yet accept them not as your reality. ³The Holy Spirit uses all of them, but He does not forget creation has one Name, one meaning, and a single Source which unifies all things within Itself. ⁴Use all the names the world bestows on them but for convenience, yet do not forget they share the Name of God along with you.

Father, our Name is Yours. ²In It we are united with all living things, and You Who are their one Creator. ³What we made and call by many different names is but a shadow we have tried to cast across Your Own reality. ⁴And we are glad and thankful we were wrong. ⁵All our mistakes we give to You, that we may be absolved from all effects our errors seemed to have. ⁶And we accept the truth You give, in place of every one of them. ⁷Your Name is our salvation and escape from what we made. ⁸Your Name unites us in the oneness which is our inheritance and peace. ⁹Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-184.11;15. See also ACIM Lesson 184 Insights.)

When we identify with the ego, the wish for specialness, we deny our the Identity we share with God. This misidentification has made a dream of myriad forms that represent the differences we value in our quest for specialness. They hide our eternal unity in the oneness of our Father’s Love.

To awaken us from this dream, the Holy Spirit uses the labels we value, but knows they have no meaning. When we accept His help, he teaches us to see the one Meaning behind all the forms of differences. With His help we will learn to forgive our mistaken beliefs and recognize we remain one with our Creator and share His Identity. We are Love, and nothing else. And we give thanks.

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Recognizing the Light That Unites Us

Why wait for Heaven? ²Those who seek the light are merely covering their eyes. ³The light is in them now. ⁴Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all. ⁵Light is not of the world, yet you who bear the light in you are alien here as well. ⁶The light came with you from your native home, and stayed with you because it is your own. ⁷It is the only thing you bring with you from Him Who is your Source. ⁸It shines in you because it lights your home, and leads you back to where it came from and you are at home.

⁵It is not difficult to look within, for there all vision starts. ⁶There is no sight, be it of dreams or from a truer Source, that is not but the shadow of the seen through inward vision. ⁷There perception starts, and there it ends. ⁸It has no source but this.

The peace of God is shining in you now, and from your heart extends around the world. ²It pauses to caress each living thing, and leaves a blessing with it that remains forever and forever.

The peace of God can never be contained. ²Who recognizes it within himself must give it. ³And the means for giving it are in his understanding. ⁴He forgives because he recognized the truth in him. (A Course in Miracles, W-188.1;2:5–3:2;5:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 188 Insights.)

We are the Light of the world because we are an extension of the Love that created us. The Light of Love in us shines without limit. As we recognize this, the Light we are illumines our world. We see that only Love is real and we look upon a world of innocence. We see no justification for judgment, only the holiness of all Creation.

Today we pause to remember the Light within by welcoming the peace of God. Peace is our natural state. We are grateful that we have the means to see past images of separation to see the Light which unites us in the universe of Love.

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Acknowledging Our Source of Strength

If you are trusting in your own strength, you have every reason to be apprehensive, anxious and fearful. ²What can you predict or control? ³What is there in you that can be counted on? ⁴What would give you the ability to be aware of all the facets of any problem, and to resolve them in such a way that only good can come of it? ⁵What is there in you that gives you the recognition of the right solution, and the guarantee that it will be accomplished?

Of yourself you can do none of these things.

God is your safety in every circumstance. ²His Voice speaks for Him in all situations and in every aspect of all situations, telling you exactly what to do to call upon His strength and His protection.

³It is not by trusting yourself that you will gain confidence. ⁴But the strength of God in you is successful in all things.

The recognition of your own frailty is a necessary step in the correction of your errors… (A Course in Miracles, W-47.1:1–2:1;3:1-2;5:3–6:1. See also ACIM Lesson 47 Insights.)

God is the Source of all our strength. But if we believe that we are separate from Him, we will feel that we must rely on the semblance of strength that our body and intellect seem to offer. Yet this “self” reliance fails to provide consistent safety. We are not able to resolve problems in a way that is beneficial to all.

It is time to acknowledge that of ourselves, we can do nothing. It is time to claim our inheritance by accepting that God is our strength and safety. He has given us His Voice to guide us past the self deception of isolation to recognize the strength of Love within us.

It calls to us to remember that we remain joined with our Father and all His strength. Today we pause to let the peace of God embrace us and fill us with the certainty that all our needs are met.

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Remembering All Our Needs Are Met

I have no cause for anger or for fear, for
You surround me. And in every need that
I perceive, Your grace suffices me.

Father, let me remember You are here, and I am not alone. ²Surrounding me is everlasting Love. ³I have no cause for anything except the perfect peace and joy I share with You. ⁴What need have I for anger or for fear? ⁵Surrounding me is perfect safety. ⁶Can I be afraid, when Your eternal promise goes with me? ⁷Surrounding me is perfect sinlessness. ⁸What can I fear, when You created me in holiness as perfect as Your Own?

God’s grace suffices us in everything that He would have us do. ²And only that we choose to be our will as well as His. (A Course in Miracles, W-348. See also ACIM Lesson 348 Insights.)

God’s grace assures us that we live eternally in the safety, peace and joy of His Love. We live in the innocence of His holiness. We can relax now, remembering our eternal unity with our Father. This is our only Reality.

If we seem to experience anything but peace and happiness, we know we must be believing in a false identity that can never be real. We use this perception as a reminder to pause to return to peace and ask the Holy Spirit to help us forgive our mistaken belief. As we accept His help, we remember that all our needs are met by our Father’s changeless Love.

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Remembering Love’s Eternal Blessing

The glory of my Father is my own.

Let not the truth about ourselves today be hidden by a false humility. ²Let us instead be thankful for the gifts our Father gave us. ³Can we see in those with whom He shares His glory any trace of sin and guilt? ⁴And can it be that we are not among them, when He loves His Son forever and with perfect constancy, knowing he is as He created him?

We thank You, Father, for the light that shines forever in us. ²And we honor it, because You share it with us. ³We are one, united in this light and one with You, at peace with all creation and ourselves. (A Course in Miracles, W-239. See also ACIM Lesson 239 Insights.)

The Love we are can be hidden, but It cannot be extinguished. Only our belief in the illusion of separation hides Love from our awareness. We live in the Love of our Father. To guarantee that we cannot lose His Love, He gave us a Teacher in our mind to help us unlearn the dark lessons of separation we have accepted.

We are grateful for our inner Teacher Whose purpose is to awaken us from the dream of being separate and alone. He calls to us from our center of peace within to let Him show us the Love that unites us with our Father and all our brothers. He shows us the glorious Light of Love that surrounds us and radiates from within. We are truly blessed as Love’s extension in the universe of Love.

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