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Accepting My Only Function

The Course makes it clear to me that my one function is to forgive. This is how I am the light of the world. This is how I bring salvation to the world. This is how I accept the perfect happiness God wills for me and all my brothers.

I forgive by letting go of values I have given to images in the world. I see a world of separation because somewhere in my mind, hidden in the unconscious, is the belief that a world of separation offers me something I want. All the images I see in the world are a projection of that belief. I am indeed responsible for the world I see.

Accepting that responsibility is the first step toward forgiveness. The next step is to offer the images I see to the Truth in my mind, the Holy Spirit. The Truth will show me the nothingness of every image. All I need do is to accept that the image is nothing and I will easily let it go. This is forgiveness. This is how I accept happiness. This is how I accept my function. Today is another opportunity to practice.

Forgiveness is my salvation. I place my trust in forgiveness when I am willing to follow and not lead. When I am willing, I am always carried past illusions to the truth. My job is to be willing.

My willingness is strong when I remember that on my own I know nothing. I have an open mind instead of a closed mind. My willingness is strong when I step back from trying to figure it out on my own and choose peace instead. When I choose to join with the Holy Spirit, my mind will always be filled with peace instead of conflict.

Inspiration just naturally comes for how to be truly helpful when I remember to choose peace. Willingness to choose peace is part of the forgiveness process. It opens the door to the thought reversal that comes to me from the Holy Spirit. This is my practice for today.

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Choosing with My Inner Teacher

The more I work with the Course, the clearer it is to me that if I really want to be happy, I have to stop giving value to anything in the world. To this the ego screams of sacrifice. But each time I succeed in forgiving something or someone, which means letting go of being right or having something my way, I learn that rather than having lost something of value, I have gained more peace and happiness. This is what I really want.

I’m learning that I don’t really want the images of the world. I want to be happy. Forgiveness releases the need to be right and makes way for happiness. Today is a happy day of practicing offering everything I see to the Voice for God within to receive Its interpretation, that I may see the Love that is always present.

Do I want the experience of separation or oneness? Do I want the ego or do I want God? Do I want fear or Love? I am making this choice each moment.

Today my practice is to watch the ego’s scripts with my inner Teacher so that I can see the difference between the real and the unreal. Do I want everything or do I want nothing? I choose once again. And this time I choose to walk through this day following Holy Spirit’s lead. The Christ is all I want to see today. What an important practice I have today!

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Trusting in God’s Strength

God is the strength in which I trust. It is not my own strength through which I forgive. It is through the strength of God in me, which I am remembering as I forgive. As I begin to see, I recognize His reflection on earth. I forgive all things because I feel the stirring of His strength in me. And I begin to remember the Love I chose to forget, but Which has not forgotten me. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.60.2)

I want to see as the Holy Spirit sees. I do this through being willing to be open to His vision. The Holy Spirit shows me the Love that is beyond the body when I am willing to see beyond illusions. It brings joy and happiness to be shown the real world. Letting the veil of separation be lifted brings peace and a sense of well being. This is my practice for today.

The strength to forgive is in me now. This strength is not of me alone. It is the strength of God which is given me and can never be lost. My prayer today is to accept God’s strength in me so that I may loose the world from all the false images I have believed. This is how I will remember Who I am.

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Forgiving the Dream

God’s Son is perfect, or he cannot be God’s Son. Nor will you know him, if you think he does not merit the escape from guilt in all its consequences and its forms. There is no way to think of him but this, if you would know the truth about yourself. I thank you, Father, for Your perfect Son, and in his glory will I see my own. (A Course in Miracles T-30.VI.9:1-4)

My practice for today is to see past all differences to the fact that everyone in the dream is God’s one perfect Son. The illusion of differences does not matter and is only a representation of the ego’s wish to see a separated and guilty world outside itself. Today I choose to see past separation to oneness.

I am getting more and more clearly that forgiveness is the only purpose for the world because it is the Holy Spirit’s purpose. I can make up other seeming purposes, but they seem to have value only because I believe in a false world of separation. Since these made up purposes are based on illusion, they are meaningless.

Because I have bought in to the idea of separation, I need help from beyond this thought system to fulfill my purpose. This help is the Holy Spirit’s function. My part in forgiveness of the world is to bring every unforgiving thought, every image of separation, to the Holy Spirit with willingness to accept His help.

With His help, I can see the innocent face of Christ in every brother. With His help, I can see my Self reflected back to me in every brother. My prayer today is to be willing to accept Holy Spirit’s guidance in all my seeing today. This is how I will see a forgiven world — the real world.

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I Want to Serve God’s Plan Today

All I really want is to serve God’s plan today — to extend Love. To me this means that no matter what I am doing — whether it’s driving down the street, talking on the phone or working at the computer — beyond the form, Love is being extended. That means I’m not judging. Rather I’m letting Love guide all my thoughts.

To do this, I need to be vigilant for peace, which is an attribute of Love. Whenever there is a disturbance to my peace, it is a signal that I need to reinforce my focus on the peace that is within me. This is my practice for today. This is how I will serve God’s plan today.

I serve God’s Plan when I am willing to step back from making plans of my own. I serve God’s Plan when I am willing to go to a place of quiet in my mind and listen, instead of engaging in the ego’s constant chatter. I serve God’s Plan when I am willing to stop, relax, and let the Holy Spirit take charge.

God is very quiet. In God’s quiet I am led to be aware that I am one with every brother and that every brother is one with God. In this sacred place of quietness, I see that we share the same Mind of Love, eternally. This is where I place my trust today.

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Seeing the World Through Holy Spirit’s Eyes

This is salvation’s keynote: What I see reflects a process in my mind, which starts with my idea of what I want. From there, the mind makes up an image of the thing the mind desires, judges valuable, and therefore seeks to find. These images are then projected outward, looked upon, esteemed as real and guarded as one’s own. From insane wishes comes an insane world. From judgment comes a world condemned. And from forgiving thoughts a gentle world comes forth, with mercy for the holy Son of God, to offer him a kindly home where he can rest a while before he journeys on, and help his brothers walk ahead with him, and find the way to Heaven and to God.” (A Course in Miracles W-pII.325.1)

Today my practice is to recognize that the images I see through the body’s eyes are projections that are coming my mind. My practice today is to see these images through the eyes of the Holy Spirit. In this way I am able to see the real world. I am able to experience gentleness and kindness. I am able to extend Holy Spirit’s peace instead of the ego’s fear. What an important function I have today as I consistently practice stepping back and letting Holy Spirit lead the way.

The process of projection described in this paragraph from the ACIM Workbook is done unconsciously. So it seems like I have nothing to do with what I see through the body’s eyes. The Course is teaching me how to choose another Guide for seeing that does not use the body’s eyes. It is through this inner Vision with the Holy Spirit that I see the truth beyond the projected images.

As I am willing to accept and trust this inner Vision, I release the world from my projections, my judgments. It is through this inner vision with the Holy Spirit that I forgive, making way to remember that I am still at Home in God’s Love. Today my focus is on opening my mind to my inner vision with Holy Spirit.

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Accepting Your One Identity

Everyone is in God and of God. This is what you want to remember. This is the real world. Everyone’s real mind is one with God’s. Letting go of the false mind creates an opening where the Light of truth can shine through. The Light of truth is always there, waiting for acceptance. Willingness to let go of the false makes room for the true.

This is your practice for today – a willingness to let go of individuality, which makes room for the awareness of oneness. Awareness of oneness is awareness of your true Home and where you reside eternally. Let go and accept the fact that Love’s Presence is all that is real. Anything else is illusion created by the false idea of separation from Love.

Today practice letting the Light of Love shine on everything you see, on every thought. This Light will show you the truth beyond every image. It will show you the one Self you share with all. It will show you your Identity. This Light of Love shines from the peace in you. Be vigilant for peace and the Light of Love will reveal your Identity to you.

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