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Accepting the Love in Which We Live

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.)

Our release from a world of fear and pain depends upon forgiveness. It is held in place by our belief that we are a separate identity, distinct from everything and everyone. Yet this world is only a dream formed by this belief.

True forgiveness comes with the help of the Holy Spirit. When we are willing to accept His help, He will show us that the images of the world are illusions. These images have no effect on our true Self God created as His Son. When this fact is fully accepted, the mistaken beliefs are dispelled. We see the Love in our brothers that unites us as God’s one Son. In the changelessness of Love, we find peace and freedom from fear and guilt.

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The Key to Freedom from Fear

Judgment and love are opposites. From one come all the sorrows of the world. But from the other comes the peace of God Himself.

Forgiveness looks on sinlessness alone, and judges not. ²Through this I come to You. ³Judgment will bind my eyes and make me blind. ⁴Yet love, reflected in forgiveness here, reminds me You have given me a way to find Your peace again. ⁵I am redeemed when I elect to follow in this way. ⁶You have not left me comfortless. ⁷I have within me both the memory of You, and One Who leads me to it. ⁸Father, I would hear Your Voice and find Your peace today. ⁹For I would love my own Identity, and find in It the memory of You. (A Course in Miracles, W-352. See also ACIM Lesson 352 Insights.)

The ego is the denial of Love so it judges everything as different and separate from itself. It does not recognize our true Self because its judgment denies its Presence. We are not the ego, but if we identify with it, we cannot recognize the Love we are.

This is why forgiveness is the key to our salvation. It frees us of the judgment that blinds us to the awareness of Love. God has given us His Voice to guide us to true forgiveness. His Voice helps us let go of judgments to see the presence of Love beyond the ego’s images.

Today we will be mindful of our judgments and welcome the Holy Spirit’s guidance to let them go. Thus will we remember we are one with all in God’s Love.

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Accepting the Total Equality of Love

I came for the salvation of the world.

Here is a thought from which all arrogance has been removed, and only truth remains. ²For arrogance opposes truth. ³But when there is no arrogance the truth will come immediately, and fill up the space the ego left unoccupied by lies. ⁴Only the ego can be limited, and therefore it must seek for aims which are curtailed and limiting. ⁵The ego thinks that what one gains, totality must lose. ⁶And yet it is the Will of God I learn that what one gains is given unto all.

Father, Your Will is total. ²And the goal which stems from it shares its totality. ³What aim but the salvation of the world could You have given me? ⁴And what but this could be the Will my Self has shared with You? (A Course in Miracles, W-319. See also ACIM Lesson 319 Insights.)

Love gives equally to all, without limit. The wish for specialness, for inequality, is what we need to be saved from. Inequality is not the Will of God. It can only seem to be achieved in dreams with winners and losers.

The will of our true Self is the same as God’s Will because our one Self remains united with our Creator. Our only meaningful purpose in a dream of separation is to let go of the wish for inequality. This is how we bring salvation to the world.

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Learning to See Love’s Presence in All

⁶In your questioning of illusions, ask yourself if it is really sane to perceive what was as now. ⁷If you remember the past as you look upon your brother, you will be unable to perceive the reality that is now.

…the past can cast no shadow to darken the present, unless you are afraid of light. ⁵And only if you are would you choose to bring darkness with you, and by holding it in your mind, see it as a dark cloud that shrouds your brothers and conceals their reality from your sight.

This darkness is in you. ²The Christ as revealed to you now has no past, for He is changeless, and in His changelessness lies your release. ³For if He is as He was created, there is no guilt in Him. ⁴No cloud of guilt has risen to obscure Him, and He stands revealed in everyone you meet because you see Him through Himself. ⁵To be born again is to let the past go, and look without condemnation upon the present. ⁶The cloud that obscures God’s Son to you is the past, and if you would have it past and gone, you must not see it now. ⁷If you see it now in your illusions, it has not gone from you, although it is not there.

The miracle enables you to see your brother without his past, and so perceive him as born again. ²His errors are all past, and by perceiving him without them you are releasing him. ³And since his past is yours, you share in this release. ⁴Let no dark cloud out of your past obscure him from you, for truth lies only in the present, and you will find it if you seek it there. (A Course in Miracles, T-13.VI.1:6-7;2:4–3:7;5:1-4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The Course often uses light as a metaphor for Love. Fear is the absence of Love. Fear is darkness and Love is light. When we try to bring the past to the present, we are bringing the darkness of the past to hide the Light of Love that is in every Son of God.

Our mind is healed when we no longer bring the past to influence our present awareness. In the present moment, only Love is there, free of the past. As we forgive the past, we see our brother truly as the Love he is. In this recognition, we see ourselves as we were created — Love and nothing else, free of guilt and fear.

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Awakening to Our Life in Love’s Oneness

There are not different kinds of life, for life is like the truth. ²It does not have degrees. ³It is the one condition in which all that God created share. ⁴Like all His Thoughts, it has no opposite. ⁵There is no death because what God created shares His life. ⁶There is no death because an opposite to God does not exist. ⁷There is no death because the Father and the Son are one.

Death is the thought that you are separate from your Creator. ²It is the belief conditions change, emotions alternate because of causes you cannot control, you did not make, and you can never change. ³It is the fixed belief ideas can leave their source, and take on qualities the source does not contain, becoming different from their own origin, apart from it in kind as well as distance, time and form.

His holy home we strive to keep today as He established it, and wills it be forever and forever. ²He is Lord of what we think today. ³And in His Thoughts, which have no opposite, we understand there is one life, and that we share with Him….

We share one life because we have one Source, a Source from which perfection comes to us, remaining always in the holy minds which He created perfect. ²As we were, so are we now and will forever be. (A Course in Miracles, W-167.1;4;11:1-3;12:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 167 Insights.)

It is said that everyone in this world fears death. But it is not our true Self that fears death. Our true Self is Love and nothing else. Fear is simply the absence of Love, which is impossible in truth. Only Love is real. It is only a false image that is afraid of death, but that is a construct of the ego.

We have identified with the ego as what we are. With this misidentification, we experience a dream of lack of Love. This would be death if it were true. What is unreal can never be true. Despite our fearful dreams, we continue to live in the Love of God. Love is our Home, our very nature. Love is What we are. As we forgive our mistaken identification with the ego, we remember our eternal Life in God.

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Awakening to God’s Glory in Our Self

You can encounter only part of yourself because you are part of God, Who is everything. ²His power and glory are everywhere, and you cannot be excluded from them. ³The ego teaches that your strength is in you alone. ⁴The Holy Spirit teaches that all strength is in God and therefore in you. ⁵God wills no one suffer. ⁶He does not will anyone to suffer for a wrong decision, including you. ⁷That is why He has given you the means for undoing it. ⁸Through His power and glory all your wrong decisions are undone completely, releasing you and your brother from every imprisoning thought any part of the Sonship holds. ⁹Wrong decisions have no power, because they are not true. ¹⁰The imprisonment they seem to produce is no more true than they are.

Power and glory belong to God alone. ²So do you. ³God gives whatever belongs to Him because He gives of Himself, and everything belongs to Him. ⁴Giving of yourself is the function He gave you. ⁵Fulfilling it perfectly will let you remember what you have of Him, and by this you will remember also what you are in Him. ⁶You cannot be powerless to do this, because this is your power. ⁷Glory is God’s gift to you, because that is what He is. ⁸See this glory everywhere to remember what you are. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.III.7–8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We have not lost our place in the heart of God. He has given all that He Is to His one Son. Together we are all united as His one Son whom He looks upon with Love and joy.

Today we practice letting the Holy Spirit show us the truth He sees in God’s Creation — our one Self. As we let this vision in, conflict is replaced by peace. Sadness and lonelineness are replace by joy. Fear is dispelled. And the presence of His Love is welcome. We awaken to the Self God created one with Him.

We are grateful that we remain as God created us.

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The Joy of God Is Ours Now

³Pain is but witness to the Son’s mistakes in what he thinks he is. ⁴It is a dream of fierce retaliation for a crime that could not be committed; for attack on what is wholly unassailable. ⁵It is a nightmare of abandonment by an Eternal Love, which could not leave the Son whom It created out of love.

It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain. ²Nothing external to your mind can hurt or injure you in any way. ³There is no cause beyond yourself that can reach down and bring oppression. ⁴No one but yourself affects you. ⁵There is nothing in the world that has the power to make you ill or sad, or weak or frail. ⁶But it is you who have the power to dominate all things you see by merely recognizing what you are. ⁷As you perceive the harmlessness in them, they will accept your holy will as theirs. ⁸And what was seen as fearful now becomes a source of innocence and holiness.

My holy brother, think of this awhile: The world you see does nothing. ²It has no effects at all. ³It merely represents your thoughts. ⁴And it will change entirely as you elect to change your mind, and choose the joy of God as what you really want. (A Course in Miracles, W-190.2:3-5;5:1-8;6:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 190 Insights.)

We can “dominate” the world we see because what we see is only a projection from our mind. Nothing exists outside of us. We perceive what we believe we are reflected back to us.

ACIM is a training program to teach us how to change our mind about our world. We need to learn first that our thoughts and beliefs are the cause of what we perceive. The next part of the lesson is that we can change our thoughts and beliefs. The next step is to accept the Help we are given in our mind to let go of false beliefs and learn to recognize the reality of Love. This process the Course calls forgiveness. As we let go of mistaken beliefs, we awaken to the Love in which we live and have our being.

We are God’s Son, forever united with our Father, safe in His eternal Love. His joy is ours, now and forever.

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