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My Safety Is in Defenselessness

Your practicing will now begin to take the earnestness of love, to help you keep your mind from wandering from its intent. Be not afraid nor timid. There can be no doubt that you will reach your final goal. The ministers of God can never fail, because the love and strength and peace that shine from them to all their brothers come from Him. These are His gifts to you. Defenselessness is all you need to give Him in return. You lay aside but what was never real, to look on Christ and see His sinlessness. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.153.20)

Today my practice for today is to focus on accepting the constancy of Love and strength and peace that come from our one true Self — the Holy Spirit. My job is to be willing to step back from the dream and accept the gift consistently through the day. The Holy Spirit does the rest. The gift of truth is everything and shows me that the dream of separation is really nothing. There is nothing to fear as I am willing to step back and accept the Light of Love’s oneness all through the day.


A sense of vulnerability and a need to protect myself is a sure sign that I am believing in a false image of what I am. The Self that God created is changeless and shares His strength. No protection is needed because there is no strength but His.

Today I will practice being mindful of when I feel a need for protection and offer that thought to the Holy Spirit. With His help I will see that the need is based on a false idea and I will let it go. This is how I return to the joy of Heaven.

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What Do I Want to See Today?

If I want to see my brother truly, I need to see him with Christ’s vision. I cannot do this on my own. In fact, if I believe I am on my own, Christ’s vision is blocked.

Today I ask for Holy Spirit’s help to see with the vision of Love. This is how I will see my brother truly, for he is Love and nothing else, as am I. With Holy Spirit’s help, I can let go of perceiving myself as separate. I can feel the strength of Love in my heart. The veil of body images fades as my inward vision, guided by the Holy Spirit, shows me Love and nothing else. It is through this practice that I will learn that the truth in me is Love and nothing else. This is my release.


What do I want to see today? Do I want to see through the eyes of Love or the eyes of ego? If I see differences, I am seeing through the eyes of the ego, for only in separation’s thought system could differences be seen. Today my practice is to observe when I am seeing differences and immediately hand over this perception to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit sees past all illusions of differences to the one pure Love that is always truly there. This is my practice for today.

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The Blessing of Vigilance

The habit of looking to the past as a guide for what to do and how to prepare for the future is very strong. It is the mechanism that keeps me tied to the ego thought system.

It takes consistent vigilance to become aware of this thinking and turn it over to the Holy Spirit with a willingness to let Him be my Guide in each moment. The habit is so strong that it is easy to go for extended periods following the old pattern without recognizing what I am doing.

Yet vigilance does work. Those periods of being caught up in the old way of thinking are interrupted more frequently now, thanks to the practice of vigilance. As a result I am more peaceful, less judgmental, and consequently happier.

Today I dedicate to continued vigilance to interrupt the old pattern, step back, move into a state of peace and open my mind to Holy Spirit’s inspiration.


My vigilance for today is to practice stepping back with a willingness to be led. As I am willing to let go of control and stick to my role of following by handing over the reins to the Holy Spirit, I can relax. I need not make any decisions on my own today. And for this I give thanks.

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Trust in God’s Strength

“The presence of fear is a sure sign that you are trusting in your own strength.” (ACIM W-pI.48.3:1)

If I am not perfectly at peace, fear has entered my mind and therefore I must be trusting in my own strength. God’s Will for me is perfect peace. If I experience anything less than that, I am denying God’s Will.

“Trusting in my own strength” is another way of saying that I am identifying with the ego as what I am. If I believe I am separate from God, I must be trusting in my own strength because I no longer have God’s strength available to me. I need only accept God’s gift of Himself to return to perfect peace.

Forgiveness is the means to accept His gift. This means letting go of all I think the world is. Today my prayer is to walk with Love and see with Love. This can be done only in the present instant in which the past has been let go. This is my practice today.


God is the strength in which I trust. I will give time today to sink down below the ego’s chatter to the place of perfect peace. Here I will receive everything I need. Here is the answer to every perceived problem.

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I Will There Be Light

Your picture of the world can only mirror what is within. The source of neither light nor darkness can be found without. Grievances darken your mind, and you look out on a darkened world. Forgiveness lifts the darkness, reasserts your will, and lets you look upon a world of light. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.73.5:1-4)

Once again I am willing to remember that the world I experience is a reflection of which guide and I choosing in my mind. I am willing to remember that nothing leaves the mind. There is no outside. Ideas leave not their source.

When I am willing to practice allowing the Holy Spirit to lift the veil of the ego thought system, I look upon a world of Light. Today I am willing to practice reinforcing this willingness to join with Holy Spirit in seeing past the ego’s thought system of separate bodies to the Light that is eternally there. This practice brings me peace. This practice brings me happiness. I will there be Light.


This lesson reminds me that, if I want to be happy, I need only accept that I share God’s Will for me — perfect happiness. The ego cannot oppose this will, but if I believe in the ego thought system, I become unaware of my will. Very simply, awareness of my will is restored to me through forgiveness or letting go of the false idea of separation. Separation is simply an idle wish that could never be true. I remain Love as Love created me.

I ask Holy Spirit’s help today to recognize mistaken perceptions of separation and to receive His loving correction. This is how I welcome happiness.

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How Does Love See This?

Today my practice is to remember that I am always making a choice to see through the eyes of Love or the eyes of the ego. Today my practice is to recognize which choice I have made. Love always sees Love. The ego always separation through judgment. My vigilance today will be to notice whether I am judging or extending Love. If I notice that I am judging (thinking I am separate from my brother), my opportunity is to hand it over to be transformed by the Holy Spirit.

A practice that will help me through the day is to observe how peaceful I feel. Extending Love brings peace. Judging through the ego brings tension and feeling I need to defend against something outside me. Judging is an attempt to maintain ego identification, whether I realize it or not. So the practice of asking myself again and again, “How does Love see this?” will remind me to choose Love instead of separation.


When I am willing to see as Love sees, I will be at peace because peace is an attribute of Love. The practice of letting Love be my Guide to seeing is the path to happiness and peace. This is all I really want, though I have convinced myself that there must be something of value in the dream of separation.

Through the practice of letting Love guide me, I will learn that there is nothing of value in the world of separation. As I lay down thoughts of separation, I remember Who I am and I return to the peace and joy of God.

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Accepting Holy Spirit’s Bridge

“Christ’s vision is the bridge between the worlds. …Christ has dreamed the dream of a forgiven world. It is His gift, whereby a sweet transition can be made from death to life; from hopelessness to hope. Let us an instant dream with Him. His dream awakens us to truth. His vision gives the means for a return to our unlost and everlasting sanctity in God.” (A Course in Miracles W-pI.159.6:1,10:4-8)

My opportunity today is to join with Holy Spirit’s dream of a forgiven world. When I accept Holy Spirit’s forgiveness lessons, I am shown the Light of God where I once saw separate bodies. I am shown innocence where I once saw guilt. Instead of the fearful dream, I am shown the truth beyond illusions. I am shown unity and Love. All this comes to me as I am willing to join the Holy Spirit’s dream of a forgiven world. I realize I share one mind with everyone — the Mind of Love. And for this I give thanks.


I received a visual metaphor for the experience of seeing with Christ’s vision. One of the “powers” of superman is xray vision. With this vision he is able to see past what appear to be impenetrable forms. The body’s eyes can only show the appearance of solid forms. But with Christ’s vision, those forms are given no credence and I am able to see beyond them to the Light of Love that is really there.

To accept Christ’s vision, I simply need to redirect my attention from the images the body presents to the vision of innocence that comes in Christ’s dream of forgiveness. From His dream it is an automatic step back into my Home in Heaven. All the self-imposed barriers have been removed and I am free to be my Self, the Self I share with all. This is my practice today.

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