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Joining the Eternal Flow of Love

I will receive whatever I request.

No one desires pain. ²But he can think that pain is pleasure. ³No one would avoid his happiness. ⁴But he can think that joy is painful, threatening and dangerous. ⁵Everyone will receive what he requests. ⁶But he can be confused indeed about the things he wants; the state he would attain. ⁷What can he then request that he would want when he receives it? ⁸He has asked for what will frighten him, and bring him suffering. ⁹Let us resolve today to ask for what we really want, and only this, that we may spend this day in fearlessness, without confusing pain with joy, or fear with love.

Father, this is Your day. ²It is a day in which I would do nothing by myself, but hear Your Voice in everything I do; requesting only what You offer me, accepting only Thoughts You share with me. (A Course in Miracles, W-339. See also ACIM Lesson 339 Insights.)

The wish for specialness, a unique identity, is a demand for what could never be real. Only the Love of God is real. His Love is given freely without exceptions or differences to all.

Our identification with the wish for specialness has made us uncertain and confused about what we want. We ask for what our Father cannot give. So we make up a story of differences that conflict, compete and make a world of chaos. Projection makes it seem we have nothing to do with what we experience from an outside world.

We are being called to change our allegiance from the ego, which divides, to our Creator, Who unifies. As we commit to listening to His Voice, we will learn to let go of our mistaken wishes and join with the eternal flow of Love.

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Accepting Heaven’s Harmony

I gladly make the “sacrifice” of fear.

Here is the only “sacrifice” You ask of Your beloved Son; You ask him to give up all suffering, all sense of loss and sadness, all anxiety and doubt, and freely let Your Love come streaming in to his awareness, healing him of pain, and giving him Your Own eternal joy. ²Such is the “sacrifice” You ask of me, and one I gladly make; the only “cost” of restoration of Your memory to me, for the salvation of the world.

And as we pay the debt we owe to truth,—a debt that merely is the letting go of self-deceptions and of images we worshipped falsely—truth returns to us in wholeness and in joy. ²We are deceived no longer. ³Love has now returned to our awareness. ⁴And we are at peace again, for fear has gone and only love remains. (A Course in Miracles, W-323. See also ACIM Lesson 323 Insights.)

Every day in the world there seems to be constant stream of causes for fear, sadness and a sense of loss. Meanwhile there is another steady streaming Source that offers a constant flow of peace, happiness and Love. We connect with this stream by forgiving our judgments about the world.

Forgiveness lets God’s constant feed of His Love return to our awareness. We remember our unity with all our brothers in the oneness of Love. Our hearts are filled with joy as we freely give the Love we receive. We dwell in Heaven’s harmony.

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Giving and Receiving Blessings

My holiness shines bright and clear today.

Today I wake with joy, expecting but the happy things of God to come to me. ²I ask but them to come, and realize my invitation will be answered by the thoughts to which it has been sent by me. ³And I will ask for only joyous things the instant I accept my holiness. ⁴For what would be the use of pain to me, what purpose would my suffering fulfill, and how would grief and loss avail me if insanity departs from me today, and I accept my holiness instead?

Father, my holiness is Yours. ²Let me rejoice in it, and through forgiveness be restored to sanity. ³Your Son is still as You created him. ⁴My holiness is part of me, and also part of You. ⁵And what can alter Holiness Itself? (A Course in Miracles, W-285. See also ACIM Lesson 285 Insights.)

The Light of Love radiates from us when we accept Christ’s vision. As we see with forgiving eyes, appearances of differences and separation fade away. We see Love’s Light reflected back to us as we remember our unbreakable unity with our Creator.

Love puts a smile on our face and generosity in our hearts as we freely give the blessings we receive. This experience is within reach. We need only bring all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit to help us see with the eyes of Love. Blessings are ours to give and receive, now and forever.

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Letting Love Be

Today I learn the law of love; that what I give my brother is my gift to me.

This is Your law, my Father, not my own. ²I have not understood what giving means, and thought to save what I desired for myself alone. ³And as I looked upon the treasure that I thought I had, I found an empty place where nothing ever was or is or will be. ⁴Who can share a dream? ⁵And what can an illusion offer me? ⁶Yet he whom I forgive will give me gifts beyond the worth of anything on earth. ⁷Let my forgiven brothers fill my store with Heaven’s treasures, which alone are real. ⁸Thus is the law of love fulfilled. ⁹And thus Your Son arises and returns to You.

“How near we are to one another, as we go to God. ²How near is He to us. ³How close the ending of the dream of sin, and the redemption of the Son of God.” (A Course in Miracles, W-344. See also ACIM Lesson 344 Insights.)

Today we pause to let the Light of Love fill our minds. We let It shine away the dark corners or thoughts of separation and specialness that seemed to block the flow of Love. As we let the Light in, we return to our true Nature. We experience the joy of participating in the eternal flow of Love to Love. We feel Love’s blessing and we share It with all our brothers. 

We are grateful for the Holy Spirit in our mind Who guides us in the way of Love. With His help, we step back and let Love be.

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Accepting We Are as God Created Us

Eternal holiness abides in me.

My holiness is far beyond my own ability to understand or know. ²Yet God, my Father, Who created it, acknowledges my holiness as His. ³Our Will, together, understands it. ⁴And Our Will, together, knows that it is so.

Father, my holiness is not of me. ²It is not mine to be destroyed by sin. ³It is not mine to suffer from attack. ⁴Illusions can obscure it, but can not put out its radiance, nor dim its light. ⁵It stands forever perfect and untouched. ⁶In it are all things healed, for they remain as You created them. ⁷And I can know my holiness. ⁸For Holiness Itself created me, and I can know my Source because it is Your Will that You be known. (A Course in Miracles, W-299. See also ACIM Lesson 299 Insights.)

Belief can make illusions seem real. We always respond to what we believe is real. If we believe we are separate, we will see a world of conflict, competition and chaos. But this belief denies the reality that we were created in Love’s oneness. In oneness conflict is impossible. There is no change and peace cannot be disturbed.

This describes our true Home, which is the Heaven of God’s Love. We can awaken to this Home by taking all our perceptions of conflict and chaos to the Holy Spirit for His interpretation. His vision will show us the truth of Love’s oneness beyond the appearances of differences. With His vision, we remember we are Love and nothing else.

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The Lessons God Would Have Us Learn

Fear is not justified in any form.

Fear is deception. ²It attests that you have seen yourself as you could never be, and therefore look upon a world which is impossible. ³Not one thing in this world is true. ⁴It does not matter what the form in which it may appear. ⁵It witnesses but to your own illusions of yourself. ⁶Let us not be deceived today. ⁷We are the Sons of God. ⁸There is no fear in us, for we are each a part of Love Itself.

How foolish are our fears! ²Would You allow Your Son to suffer? ³Give us faith today to recognize Your Son, and set him free. ⁴Let us forgive him in Your Name, that we may understand his holiness, and feel the love for him which is Your Own as well. (A Course in Miracles, W-240. See also ACIM Lesson 240 Insights.)

The world we perceive as a body is a reflection of what we believe about ourselves. If we react to these perceptions as if they are real, we deceive ourselves into believing the body is our reality. This is why the Course tells us “All things are lessons God would have us learn.”

If we let the Holy Spirit interpret our perceptions for us, we will learn to look past our perceptions to the one truth that never changes: Only Love is real.

As we practice asking Holy Spirit to interpret our perceptions on our behalf, we learn that we are Love and nothing else. We are safe. We are kind. Our experience brings us joy as we join with the Love that is all around us and learn It is in us. Fear diminishes, for we know that we are safe eternally in God’s Love.

We dedicate today to accepting the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love.

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The Gift That Extends to Eternity

²He needs our voice that He may speak through us. ³He needs our hands to hold His messages, and carry them to those whom He appoints. ⁴He needs our feet to bring us where He wills, that those who wait in misery may be at last delivered. ⁵And He needs our will united with His Own, that we may be the true receivers of the gifts He gives.

²I am among the ministers of God, and I am grateful that I have the means by which to recognize that I am free.

The world recedes as we light up our minds, and realize these holy words are true. ²They are the message sent to us today from our Creator. ³Now we demonstrate how they have changed our minds about ourselves, and what our function is. ⁴For as we prove that we accept no will we do not share, our many gifts from our Creator will spring to our sight and leap into our hands, and we will recognize what we received. (A Course in Miracles, W-154.11:2-5;13:2-14:4. See also ACIM Lesson 154 Insights.)

Accepting the role of minister of God is a gift we give ourselves. It means we accept His Love and share It with the world. We accept His strength and are confident that we are safe in His Love. We bless as we are blessed. We give as we receive. It is a life of joy, peace and gratitude.

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