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Letting Illusions of Separation Pass By

This holy instant is salvation come.

What joy there is today! ²It is a time of special celebration. ³For today holds out the instant to the darkened world where its release is set. ⁴The day has come when sorrows pass away and pain is gone. ⁵The glory of salvation dawns today upon a world set free. ⁶This is the time of hope for countless millions. ⁷They will be united now, as you forgive them all. ⁸For I will be forgiven by you today.

We have forgiven one another now, and so we come at last to You again. ²Father, Your Son, who never left, returns to Heaven and his home. ³How glad are we to have our sanity restored to us, and to remember that we all are one. (A Course in Miracles, W-241. See also ACIM Lesson 241 Insights.)

The happy day this lesson describes is available to us in any instant. It is revealed the instant we have wholly forgiven every brother. We no longer see any justification for judgment. Perceived differences are dismissed as meaningless. We accept the vision of our true Self which shows us only the oneness of God’s Love.

This day seems to be only a distant possibility because we still value something in the dream of separation. But each time we are willing to let the Holy Spirit bring us true perception, we take a step closer to this joyous day. We are worthy of the effort to practice bringing every perception to the Holy Spirit to receive His interpretation. With His help, we will learn that only Love is real and let the illusions of separation pass by.

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Letting Our Days Be Joyous and Fearless

In fearlessness and love I spend today.

This day, my Father, would I spend with You, as You have chosen all my days should be. ²And what I will experience is not of time at all. ³The joy that comes to me is not of days nor hours, for it comes from Heaven to Your Son. ⁴This day will be Your sweet reminder to remember You, Your gracious calling to Your holy Son, the sign Your grace has come to me, and that it is Your Will I be set free today.

We spend this day together, you and I. ²And all the world joins with us in our song of thankfulness and joy to Him Who gave salvation to us, and Who set us free. ³We are restored to peace and holiness. ⁴There is no room in us for fear today, for we have welcomed love into our hearts.” (A Course in Miracles, W-310. See also ACIM Lesson 310 Insights.)

Our true Identity is invincible, for It shares the power of God. Fear is the effect of believing we have succeeded in separated from our Creator. Fear can only occur in dreams formed from this belief.

Today we are called upon to accept the truth of our Identity in God’s Love. We do not need to do anything. But we do need to let go of the false belief that stands between our true Identity and our dream of separation.

The Holy Spirit is always present in our mind to shine the Light of Love’s oneness into our dark dreams of fear. As we are willing to accept His help, dreams are dispelled and our days become joyous and fearless. We are grateful that we have the help we need to return to our glorious Identity in God.

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Transforming Our Experience of the World

…it is your thoughts which made [the world] and must set it free, that you may know the Thoughts you share with God.

³God shares His Fatherhood with you who are His Son, for He makes no distinctions in what is Himself and what is still Himself. ⁴What He creates is not apart from Him, and nowhere does the Father end, [or] the Son begin as something separate from Him.

There is no world because it is a thought apart from God, and made to separate the Father and the Son, and break away a part of God Himself and thus destroy His Wholeness. ²Can a world which comes from this idea be real? ³Can it be anywhere? ⁴Deny illusions, but accept the truth. ⁵Deny you are a shadow briefly laid upon a dying world. ⁶Release your mind, and you will look upon a world released.

Today our purpose is to free the world from all the idle thoughts we ever held about it, and about all living things we see upon it. ²They can not be there. ³No more can we. ⁴For we are in the home our Father set for us, along with them. ⁵And we who are as He created us would loose the world this day from every one of our illusions, that we may be free. (A Course in Miracles, W-132.11:6;12:3–14:5. See also ACIM Lesson 132 Insights.)

In many ways the Course makes it clear that we remain at one with our Creator. As God’s Son, where He is we are.

Meanwhile the ego tempts us in many ways to believe that we are alone; that we have succeeded in separating from our Creator. This could only seem to be real in dreams from a mind that has denied its unity with the Mind of God. This denial is the cause of all the unhappiness, fear and guilt in this world. Peace is impossible where Love’s oneness is denied.

Today can bring great release from all that disturbs our peace of mind. As we practice bringing all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit, with willingness to receive His correction, our experience of the world will be transformed. Though we have thought differences separate us, we will recognize that nothing has changed the truth of our unbreakable unity with our Father. We remain as we were created, Love and nothing else.

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Welcoming the Peace of God

Peace to my mind. Let all my thoughts be still.

Father, I come to You today to seek the peace that You alone can give. ²I come in silence. ³In the quiet of my heart, the deep recesses of my mind, I wait and listen for Your Voice. ⁴My Father, speak to me today. ⁵I come to hear Your Voice in silence and in certainty and love, sure You will hear my call and answer me.

Now do we wait in quiet. ²God is here, because we wait together. ³I am sure that He will speak to you, and you will hear. ⁴Accept my confidence, for it is yours. ⁵Our minds are joined. ⁶We wait with one intent; to hear our Father’s answer to our call, to let our thoughts be still and find His peace, to hear Him speak to us of what we are, and to reveal Himself unto His Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-221. See also ACIM Lesson 221 Insights.)

Here we have a practice laid out for us that can bring amazing transformation to our lives. The prayer prepares our mind to be receptive to God’s guaranteed gift. We are all worthy of His gift because He created us to remain eternally one with Himself.

Only our mistaken perceptions of differences stand in the way of accepting His gift of peace. But through our willingness to listen to His Voice, we can learn let go of the interference. As we join with our mighty Companion, we will experience the peace we seek.

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Remembering We Are Love

¹²Communication between what cannot be divided cannot cease. ¹³The holy meeting place of the unseparated Father and His Son lies in the Holy Spirit and in you. ¹⁴All interference in the communication that God Himself wills with His Son is quite impossible here. ¹⁵Unbroken and uninterrupted love flows constantly between the Father and the Son, as Both would have it be. ¹⁶And so it is.

Let your mind wander not through darkened corridors, away from light’s center. ²You and your brother may choose to lead yourselves astray, but you can be brought together only by the Guide appointed for you. ³He will surely lead you to where God and His Son await your recognition. ⁴They are joined in giving you the gift of oneness, before which all separation vanishes. ⁵Unite with what you are. ⁶You cannot join with anything except reality. ⁷God’s glory and His Son’s belong to you in truth. ⁸They have no opposite, and nothing else can you bestow upon yourself.

There is no substitute for truth. ²And truth will make this plain to you as you are brought into the place where you must meet with truth. ³And there you must be led, through gentle understanding which can lead you nowhere else. ⁴Where God is, there are you. ⁵Such is the truth. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.VIII.2:12–4:5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We have led ourselves into a dark dream where Love is absent and oneness is unknown. Thankfully, dreams can have no affect on reality. But we need help to be awakened from our dreams. We have been given the Holy Spirit whose function is to gently bring the Light of Love to our troubled mind.

His function is to show us that there is no distance between ourselves and every brother. We are eternally united in the Love that is the truth about everyone. He teaches us that differences are meaningless. They only interfere with our awareness of our true Self, which remains in constant communication with our Father through the unlimited flow of Love extending without limit.

As we accept the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love, we remember that we are loved and loving.

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Bringing the Light of Love to the World

Like any good teacher, the Holy Spirit knows more than you do now, but He teaches only to make you equal with Him. ²You had already taught yourself wrongly, having believed what was not true. ³You did not believe in your own perfection. ⁴Would God teach you that you had made a split mind, when He knows your mind only as whole? ⁵What God does know is that His communication channels are not open to Him, so that He cannot impart His joy and know that His children are wholly joyous. ⁶Giving His joy is an ongoing process, not in time but in eternity. ⁷God’s extending outward, though not His completeness, is blocked when the Sonship does not communicate with Him as one. ⁸So He thought, “My children sleep and must be awakened.

How can you wake children in a more kindly way than by a gentle Voice that will not frighten them, but will merely remind them that the night is over and the light has come? ²You do not inform them that the nightmares that frightened them so badly are not real, because children believe in magic. ³You merely reassure them that they are safe now. ⁴Then you train them to recognize the difference between sleeping and waking, so they will understand they need not be afraid of dreams. ⁵And so when bad dreams come, they will themselves call on the light to dispel them.

⁴The Holy Spirit makes no distinction among dreams. ⁵He merely shines them away. ⁶His light is always the Call to awaken, whatever you have been dreaming. ⁷Nothing lasting lies in dreams, and the Holy Spirit, shining with the light from God Himself, speaks only for what lasts forever. (A Course in Miracles, T-6.V.1:1–2:5;4:4-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

God is eternally giving all of His joy to His Son. If we are not experiencing His joy, we are simply engaged with a dream that isolates our mind from our true nature. We have been given a gentle Voice that calls us to awaken. It reminds us that we are forever safe in our Father’s Love. It is ours, now and forever.

Let us pause, if at least for a moment, to step back from the busyness in the world and let our mind be quiet. In quiet, the Holy Spirit shows us that we remain safe, protected from any harm by our Father’s warm embrace. His vision helps us see past our perceived problems to the one Love we share with all creation. With a peaceful mind, we resume our appointed way to bring the Light of Love to the world.

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Welcoming the Love That Is Our Identity

The holy Christ is born in me today.

Watch with me, angels, watch with me today. ²Let all God’s holy Thoughts surround me, and be still with me while Heaven’s Son is born. ³Let earthly sounds be quiet, and the sights to which I am accustomed disappear. ⁴Let Christ be welcomed where He is at home. ⁵And let Him hear the sounds He understands, and see but sights that show His Father’s Love. ⁶Let Him no longer be a stranger here, for He is born again in me today.

Your Son is welcome, Father. ²He has come to save me from the evil self I made. ³He is the Self that You have given me. ⁴He is but what I really am in truth. ⁵He is the Son You love above all things. ⁶He is my Self as You created me. ⁷It is not Christ that can be crucified. ⁸Safe in Your Arms let me receive Your Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-303. See also ACIM Lesson 303 Insights.)

Christ is another name for God’s Son, our true Identity. In the stupor of our dream of separation, we are unaware of our Identity as Christ. But as we welcome the Love that is our true Self, we remember that we live in our Father’s Love. We remember the safety and peace of the Home our Father keeps for us, untouched by our fearful dreams.

Our heart dances with joy as we remember our unity with every brother. We celebrate the return of Christ as our true Self as we forgive our mistaken belief that we ever lost our Father’s Love.

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