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The Choice for Peace of Mind

Vision will come to you at first in glimpses, but they will be enough to show you what is given you who see your brother sinless. ²Truth is restored to you through your desire, as it was lost to you through your desire for something else. ³Open the holy place that you closed off by valuing the “something else,” and what was never lost will quietly return. ⁴It has been saved for you. ⁵Vision would not be necessary had judgment not been made. ⁶Desire now [judgment’s] whole undoing, and it is done for you.

Do you not want to know your own Identity? ²Would you not happily exchange your doubts for certainty? ³Would you not willingly be free of misery, and learn again of joy? ⁴Your holy relationship offers all this to you.… ¹⁰Vision is freely given to those who ask to see.

Your brother’s sinlessness is given you in shining light, to look on with the Holy Spirit’s vision and to rejoice in along with Him. ²For peace will come to all who ask for it with real desire and sincerity of purpose, shared with the Holy Spirit and at one with Him on what salvation is. ³Be willing, then, to see your brother sinless, that Christ may rise before your vision and give you joy. ⁴And place no value on your brother’s body, which holds him to illusions of what he is. (A Course in Miracles, T-20.VIII.1:1–2:5,10;3:1-4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our salvation is found when we see our brother as an equal in the oneness of God’s Son. We see our brother truly when we forgive our illusions of being separate individuals in separate bodies. Without the idea of individuality and differences, there is nothing left to judge. The cloud of judgment is dispelled and the Light of Love joins us together in Its oneness.

This is the gift the Holy Spirit’s vision offers us. The choice to accept His vision is the choice for peace of mind, unlimited joy and the certainty of our eternal unity with our Creator. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us see, with His vision, our Reality in Love.

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Willingness to See Christ’s Innocence in Everyone

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. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Today we practice accepting the Holy Spirit’s help 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.
With this choice, we see past separation to oneness.

Forgiveness is the only purpose for the world because it is the Holy Spirit’s purpose. We may make up other seeming purposes, but they only seem to have value we believe in a false world of separation. Since these made up purposes are based on illusion, they are meaningless.

Because we have bought into the idea of separation, we need help from beyond this thought system to fulfill our purpose. This help is the Holy Spirit’s function. Our 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, we can see the innocent face of Christ in every brother. We can see our Self reflected back to us in every brother. As we are willing to accept Holy Spirit’s guidance in all our seeing today, we will see a forgiven world — the real world.

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Vigilance for the Kingdom of Love

Today the lights of Heaven bend to you, to shine upon your eyelids as you rest beyond the world of darkness. ²Here is light your eyes can not behold. ³And yet your mind can see it plainly, and can understand. ⁴A day of grace is given you today, and we give thanks. ⁵This day we realize that what you feared to lose was only [the idea of] loss.

Now do we understand there is no loss. ²For we have seen its opposite at last, and we are grateful that the choice is made. ³Remember your decision hourly, and take a moment to confirm your choice by laying by whatever thoughts you have, and dwelling briefly only upon this:

⁴The world I see holds nothing that I want.
⁵Beyond this world there is a world I want. (A Course in Miracles, W-129.8:1–9:5. See also ACIM Lesson 129 Insights.)

We do not need to strive for anything. Only in this dream does lack seem possible. But we dwell in the House of God where Love is everything. It is already ours. To know this fact we need to be vigilant of our thoughts, that we keep them focused on the truth of What we are.

In the world we do want and seek for the peace and Love of God, only because we have denied that it is ours now. With vigilance, we can recognize the mistaken beliefs which accept that lack as real. We call upon the Holy Spirit to release these thoughts so that we may recognize that we already have everything we want in truth.

With this practice the importance we place upon this world fades. Our attention dwells increasingly on the world beyond this dream. We recognize the Light of Heaven as our Home.

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Accepting Our Safety in God’s Love

Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free.

The ego makes illusions. ²Truth undoes its evil dreams by shining them away. ³Truth never makes attack. ⁴It merely is. ⁵And by its presence is the mind recalled from fantasies, awaking to the real. ⁶Forgiveness bids this presence enter in, and take its rightful place within the mind. ⁷Without forgiveness is the mind in chains, believing in its own futility. ⁸Yet with forgiveness does the light shine through the dream of darkness, offering it hope, and giving it the means to realize the freedom that is its inheritance.

We would not bind the world again today. ²Fear holds it prisoner. ³And yet Your Love has given us the means to set it free. ⁴Father, we would release it now. ⁵For as we offer freedom, it is given us. ⁶And we would not remain as prisoners, while You are holding freedom out to us. (A Course in Miracles, W-332. See also ACIM Lesson 332 Insights.)

Forgiveness welcomes the Light of Love to shine away our dark, fearful thoughts. With the wish for specialness comes the need to battle for status. Yet this status is based on illusions because, in the Love which is our truth, there can be no hierarchy, no status that sets us apart from another. We are all united in the Love of God.

Today we welcome the truth that keeps us safely encompassed within God’s Love.

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Accepting Our Father’s Gift of Peace

“Peace be to me, the holy Son of God.
Peace to my brother, who is one with me.
Let all the world be blessed with peace through us.

Father, it is Your peace that I would give, receiving it of You. ²I am Your Son, forever just as You created me, for the Great Rays remain forever still and undisturbed within me. ³I would reach to them in silence and in certainty, for nowhere else can certainty be found. ⁴Peace be to me, and peace to all the world. ⁵In holiness were we created, and in holiness do we remain. ⁶Your Son is like to You in perfect sinlessness. ⁷And with this thought we gladly say “Amen.” (A Course in Miracles, W-360. See also ACIM Lesson 360 Insights.)

Everyone in this world seeks for peace. It can be found within us all, in the unity of Love that we all share. But while we identify with the ego, we will search for peace where it cannot be found. It will direct us on myriad journeys that seem to offer temporary respite while we wait for the next upset to our peace.

This is not the world God wills for us. His Will is that we share all that He is. He is the peace we seek. He has given His peace to us, His Son, never to be withdrawn. To guide us out of the ego’s madness, He gave us the Holy Spirit. It is His function to teach us how to forgive our misidentification and accept our Father’s gift. Today we welcome His Help.

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Gratitude for God’s Will

You are entitled to miracles because of what you are. ²You will receive miracles because of what God is. ³And you will offer miracles because you are one with God. ⁴Again, how simple is salvation! ⁵It is merely a statement of your true Identity. ⁶It is this that we will celebrate today.

Today we will claim the miracles which are your right, since they belong to you. ²You have been promised full release from the world you made. ³You have been assured that the Kingdom of God is within you, and can never be lost.

…remind yourself that you are asking only for what is rightfully yours. ³Remind yourself also that miracles are never taken from one and given to another, and that in asking for your rights, you are upholding the rights of everyone. ⁴Miracles do not obey the laws of this world. ⁵They merely follow from the laws of God.

⁵You are but asking that the Will of God be done. (A Course in Miracles, W-77.1;3:1-3;4:2-5;5:5. See also ACIM Lesson 77 Insights.)

Forgiveness releases us from our dependence on the body for our identity. It releases us from the ego, which made the body as a symbol of its unique identity. We are not the ego. Thus our true Identity is not the body.

As we free ourselves from our misidentification with the body, we open our mind to the vision of Christ, seen through eyes of Love. This is the vision that welcomes miracles. It sees only the presence of Love in everyone, everywhere, in all things. It sees only the Love that is our Reality and dismisses illusions as meaningless. This is God’s Will for us, and we are grateful that this is so.

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Seeing Past Appearances to Eternal Love

²The miracle attests salvation from appearances by showing they can change. ³Your brother has a changelessness in him beyond appearance and deception, both. ⁴It is obscured by changing views of him that you perceive as his reality.

⁵The Christ in him is perfect. ⁶Is it this that you would look upon? ⁷Then let there be no dreams about him that you would prefer to seeing this. ⁸And you will see the Christ in him because you let Him come to you. ⁹And when He has appeared to you, you will be certain you are like Him, for He is the changeless in your brother and in you.

This will you look upon when you decide there is not one appearance you would hold in place of what your brother really is. ²Let no temptation to prefer a dream allow uncertainty to enter here. ³Be not made guilty and afraid when you are tempted by a dream of what he is. ⁴But do not give it power to replace the changeless in him in your sight of him. ⁵There is no false appearance but will fade, if you request a miracle instead. (A Course in Miracles, T-30.VIII.2:2-4;5:5–6:5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

What we want to be real determines what we see. The ego is the wish for specialness and so it perceives a world of differences. Appearances replace reality, for both cannot be seen together. The vision that sees the reality of Love sees no differences, for Love is one.

We have been dreaming of an existence in a world of differences. It is fraught with conflict, lack, loss, and appearances of harm. Guilt is inevitable in such a dream. This is not Reality.

Christ’s vision comes as we forgive the wish for specialness. It dismisses what the body’s eyes report and identifies with the inner vision that forgiveness reveals. This vision shows us the presence of Christ in every brother, along with ourselves.

Today we choose Christ’s vision by welcoming Love in our mind. Christ’s vision helps us dismiss false appearances and welcomes our unity with all.

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