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Choosing to See with Love

Creation’s gentleness is all I see.

I have indeed misunderstood the world, because I laid my sins on it and saw them looking back at me. ²How fierce they seemed! ³And how deceived was I to think that what I feared was in the world, instead of in my mind alone. ⁴Today I see the world in the celestial gentleness with which creation shines. ⁵There is no fear in it. ⁶Let no appearance of my sins obscure the light of Heaven shining on the world. ⁷What is reflected there is in God’s Mind. ⁸The images I see reflect my thoughts. ⁹Yet is my mind at one with God’s. ¹⁰And so I can perceive creation’s gentleness.

In quiet would I look upon the world, which but reflects Your Thoughts, and mine as well. ²Let me remember that they are the same, and I will see creation’s gentleness. (A Course in Miracles, W-265. See also ACIM Lesson 265 Insights.)

Our real Thoughts are the Thoughts we share with God. Because only Love is real, these are Thoughts that extend Love. To see Creation’s gentleness is to see Love.

A dream represents thoughts that are not real, and have no effect on reality. To choose to see Creation’s gentleness is to awaken to the loving Thoughts in our mind that come from our true Self. These Thoughts are reflected back to us in the world when we have forgiven it for all we dreamed it was.

Today we choose to see with Love.

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The Vision That Brings Peace and Happiness

It is important to remember that miracles and vision necessarily go together. ²This needs repeating, and frequent repeating. ³It is a central idea in your new thought system, and the perception that it produces. ⁴The miracle is always there. ⁵Its presence is not caused by your vision; its absence is not the result of your failure to see. ⁶It is only your awareness of miracles that is affected. ⁷You will see them in the light; you will not see them in the dark.

³You do not doubt that the body’s eyes can see. ⁴You do not doubt the images they show you are reality. ⁵Your faith lies in the darkness, not the light. ⁶How can this be reversed?

…instruct yourself that you are not a body. ³Faith goes to what you want, and you instruct your mind accordingly. ⁴Your will remains your teacher, and your will has all the strength to do what it desires. ⁵You can escape the body if you choose. ⁶You can experience the strength in you.

³Remember that all sense of weakness is associated with the belief you are a body, a belief that is mistaken and deserves no faith.

…your efforts, however meager, are fully supported by the strength of God and all His Thoughts. (A Course in Miracles, W-91.1;3:3-6;5:2-6;9:3;10:1. See also ACIM Lesson 91 Insights.)

Throughout the Course we are encouraged to let go of our attachment to the body. It is a limitation. It was made by the ego to support our belief that we are separate, alone and unique. The body is not what we are in truth.

God is Love and everything He creates is an extension of His Love. True vision comes with acceptance of His Love; with acceptance of the Love we are. Love is the Light that enlightens our world. In Love’s Light, we see the Love our brothers are and recognize It as our own.

We ask the Holy Spirit to help us free ourselves from our mistaken identification with the body. We ask His help to see as He sees, to know only Love is real. With this vision, we will find peace and happiness.

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Christ’s Vision Heals Our Thoughts

My holy vision sees all things as pure.

Father, Your Mind created all that is, Your Spirit entered into it, Your Love gave life to it. ²And would I look upon what You created as if it could be made sinful? ³I would not perceive such dark and fearful images. ⁴A madman’s dream is hardly fit to be my choice, instead of all the loveliness with which You blessed creation; all its purity, its joy, and its eternal, quiet home in You.

And while we still remain outside the gate of Heaven, let us look on all we see through holy vision and the eyes of Christ. ²Let all appearances seem pure to us, that we may pass them by in innocence, and walk together to our Father’s house as brothers and the holy Sons of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-263. See also ACIM Lesson 263 Insights.)

Christ’s vision is the means to release ourselves from this world of separation. Christ’s vision is seen with forgiving eyes. When we let go of our judgments, the forms of this world do not drag us into the dark shadows of fear and guilt. Forgiving eyes recognize the presence of Love in all things, everywhere. The world Christ’s vision sees is bright with Love. It brings us to Heaven’s gate, where we are welcomed in Love.

Today we bring all our judgments, our opinions, to the Holy Spirit. We ask His help to let them go so that Christ’s vision can replace the ego’s condemning thoughts.

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Awakening to Our Home in Love

I am surrounded by the Love of God.

Father, You stand before me and behind, beside me, in the place I see myself, and everywhere I go. ²You are in all the things I look upon, the sounds I hear, and every hand that reaches for my own. ³In You time disappears, and place becomes a meaningless belief. ⁴For what surrounds Your Son and keeps him safe is Love itself. ⁵There is no source but this, and nothing is that does not share its holiness; that stands beyond Your one creation, or without the Love which holds all things within itself. ⁶Father, Your Son is like Yourself. ⁷We come to You in Your Own Name today, to be at peace within Your everlasting Love.

My brothers, join with me in this today. ²This is salvation’s prayer. ³Must we not join in what will save the world, along with us? (A Course in Miracles, W-264. See also ACIM Lesson 264 Insights.)

We dwell in the Love of God. It is our Home. Nothing else exists. Only in dreams can we seem to lack Love and be vulnerable to loss. This prayer is a call to awaken to our true Self, God’s Son. It reflects a never ceasing call, which draws us Home to where our true Life remains.

As we awaken to our eternal Home in Love, we remember we are God’s Son. We remain eternally safe in God’s Love. He is our Sanctuary where nothing can touch the truth that we are Love, united with every brother in the Love of God.

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Remembering We Live in Love and Peace

God is my refuge and security.

“\I will identify with what I think is refuge and security. ²I will behold myself where I perceive my strength, and think I live within the citadel where I am safe and cannot be attacked. ³Let me today seek not security in danger, nor attempt to find my peace in murderous attack. ⁴I live in God. ⁵In Him I find my refuge and my strength. ⁶In Him is my Identity. ⁷In Him is everlasting peace. ⁸And only there will I remember Who I really am.

Let me not seek for idols. ²I would come, my Father, home to You today. ³I choose to be as You created me, and find the Son whom You created as my Self. (A Course in Miracles, W-261. See also ACIM Lesson 261 Insights.)

The body is a barrier made to wall us off from the Love of God. It keeps us separated from Reality and only provides confirmation that we live in an imaginary world. In this world we are not safe and must constantly plan for our protection. This is all a nightmare that could never be true.

Our real Life is in God. He is our Source and our strength. God does not change the Love He is. In this we can trust that we remain eternally united with Him. In God we trust because He is all that is Real. There is no conflict in Love and no harm can come because Love is changeless. We live in God. We affirm this fact today to remember that we live in perfect safety. We live in peace.

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We Practice Letting Go of Judgments

There is a peace that Christ bestows on us.

Who uses but Christ’s vision finds a peace so deep and quiet, undisturbable and wholly changeless, that the world contains no counterpart. ²Comparisons are still before this peace. ³And all the world departs in silence as this peace envelops it, and gently carries it to truth, no more to be the home of fear. ⁴For love has come, and healed the world by giving it Christ’s peace.

Father, the peace of Christ is given us, because it is Your Will that we be saved. ²Help us today but to accept Your gift, and judge it not. ³For it has come to us to save us from our judgment on ourselves. (A Course in Miracles, W-305. See also ACIM Lesson 305 Insights.)

Christ’s vision shows us Love because It sees with forgiving eyes. When our judgments are forgiven, only Love remains. Love knows only itself.

As we let go of our judgments, conflict is dispelled. No longer is harm feared, for Love is constant, changeless and all that is Real. When we accept Christ’s vision, we accept Love as our Reality. In Love’s Reality, peace of mind is complete. We live in joy because we join in extending God’s Love.

Today we practice letting go of our judgments and welcoming the vision of Christ. This is how we find the peace of God.

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Joining Love’s Eternal Extension

Father, Your Will is mine, and only that. ²There is no other will for me to have. ³Let me not try to make another will, for it is senseless and will cause me pain. ⁴Your Will alone can bring me happiness, and only Yours exists. ⁵If I would have what only You can give, I must accept Your Will for me, and enter into peace where conflict is impossible, Your Son is one with You in being and in will, and nothing contradicts the holy truth that I remain as You created me.

And with this prayer we enter silently into a state where conflict cannot come, because we join our holy will with God’s, in recognition that they are the same. (A Course in Miracles, W-307.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 307 Insights.)

The ego is a demand that God give what He cannot give. God gives us all of His Love, which is all that is Real. He cannot give more than everything.

Because God cannot give what the ego demands, the ego made up a dream with images that appear to offer specialness. This substitute “will” we have accepted as our own. But it is not our real Will. Because we are extensions of God’s Love and remain united with Him, His Will is ours. Our only will is to be Love and extend Love. When we accept our will as God’s, the ego’s substitute is dispelled into the nothingness from which it came.

Today we choose to accept the Self that is God’s Love and join in Love’s eternal extension.

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