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Accepting the Help of Our Best Friend

Anything in this world that you believe is good and valuable and worth striving for can hurt you, and will do so. ²Not because it has the power to hurt, but just because you have denied it is but an illusion, and made it real. ³And it is real to you. ⁴It is not nothing. ⁵And through its perceived reality has entered all the world of sick illusions. ⁶All belief in sin, in power of attack, in hurt and harm, in sacrifice and death, has come to you. ⁷For no one can make one illusion real, and still escape the rest. ⁸For who can choose to keep the ones that he prefers, and find the safety that the truth alone can give? ⁹Who can believe illusions are the same, and still maintain that even one is best?

⁵Without [the Holy Spirit] you are friendless. ⁶Seek not another friend to take His place. ⁷There is no other friend. ⁸What God appointed has no substitute, for what illusion can replace the truth?

³Make no illusion friend, for if you do, it can but take the place of Him Whom God has called your Friend. ⁴And it is He Who is your only Friend in truth. ⁵He brings you gifts that are not of this world, and only He to Whom they have been given can make sure that you receive them. ⁶He will place them on your throne, when you make room for Him on His. (A Course in Miracles, T-26.VI.1:1-9;2:5-8;3:3-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The world seems very real to us because we have identified our self with a body. It is the central figure in the dream. It is carefully constructed to filter out the reality of Love’s oneness. The body can only focus on form, which can never be real. What is perceived through the body’s senses are other forms that seem to confirm the reality of the physical universe.

Fortunately we have a Friend in our mind Who does not believe anything the body perceives. He knows us as pure Love. He knows we are forever united with our Creator. He brings us to the truth of What and where we are — held wholly in the eternal Love of God. When we are willing to hear His Voice, He leads us to let go of the false images that have given us nothing but fear and guilt. He is our best Friend because He offers us only the truth, which sets us free.

Today we welcome His help to guide us to acceptance of our true Identity as God’s Son.

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Our Opportunities to Heal Our World

God is the only goal I have today.

The way to God is through forgiveness here. ²There is no other way. ³If sin had not been cherished by the mind, what need would there have been to find the way to where you are? ⁴Who would still be uncertain? ⁵Who could be unsure of who he is? ⁶And who would yet remain asleep, in heavy clouds of doubt about the holiness of him whom God created sinless? ⁷Here we can but dream. ⁸But we can dream we have forgiven him in whom all sin remains impossible, and it is this we choose to dream today. ⁹God is our goal; forgiveness is the means by which our minds return to Him at last.

And so, our Father, would we come to You in Your appointed way. ²We have no goal except to hear Your Voice, and find the way Your sacred Word has pointed out to us. (A Course in Miracles, W-256. See also ACIM Lesson 256 Insights.)

Today and every day offers opportunities to heal. The only question is whether or not we will accept the opportunity. If we are following the ego’s plan, we will overlook the opportunities. Instead our thoughts and actions will reinforce our sense of lack of Love. This misperception is the basis for all illness.

Every apprehension, sadness, fear, guilt or anger stems from the wish not to accept the all-inclusive oneness of God’s Love. But these misperceptions can be recognized as a sign of our need to forgive. If that recognition is followed by a willingness to accept the Holy Spirit’s help, we can seize the opportunity to heal. The opportunity to give ourselves the gift of healing is offered in every instant.

Today we can join in a shared commitment to seize the opportunities to bring healing to the world. We choose to forgive and remember we are Love and nothing else.

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God’s Holiness Is Ours

Truth answers every call we make to God,
responding first with miracles, and then
returning unto us to be itself.

Forgiveness, truth’s reflection, tells me how to offer miracles, and thus escape the prison house in which I think I live. ²Your holy Son is pointed out to me, first in my brother; then in me. ³Your Voice instructs me patiently to hear Your Word, and give as I receive. ⁴And as I look upon Your Son today, I hear Your Voice instructing me to find the way to You, as You appointed that the way shall be:

⁵Behold his sinlessness, and be you healed. (A Course in Miracles, W-357. See also ACIM Lesson 357 Insights.)

Forgiveness opens our mind to accept the truth. It appears in this world as a miracle because what was perceived as sinful has been dismissed as nothing and the eternal presence of holiness is recognized. Truth heals all errors in our minds.

The Holy Spirit is always patiently offering us the truth. It is patient because It knows only the truth is real. Our true Self, the Son of God, cannot be harmed or changed at all. It shares God’s holiness.

Today we are willing to hear God’s Voice remind us that we remain as He created us, holy and complete.

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We Are Limitless Love

Whom God created limitless is free. ²I can invent imprisonment for him, but only in illusions, not in truth. ³No Thought of God has left its Father’s Mind. ⁴No Thought of God is limited at all. ⁵No Thought of God but is forever pure. ⁶Can I lay limits on the Son of God, whose Father willed that he be limitless, and like Himself in freedom and in love?

Today let me give honor to Your Son, for thus alone I find the way to You. ²Father, I lay no limits on the Son You love and You created limitless. ³The honor that I give to him is Yours, and what is Yours belongs to me as well. (A Course in Miracles, W-280.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 280 Insights.)

Limitations seem to be a fact of life. Some of us try to push the limits of what the body can do. Others feel depressed because of what they believe they cannot do. But neither attitude is focused on solving our only problem. We need to awaken to the fact that we have no limits on our Reality; the Love we are knows no limits.

Today we choose to look upon a different world. We set aside our beliefs that tell us Love is limited and fear justified. We welcome Christ’s vision which shows us the presence of Love everywhere, beyond every appearance, and every belief and limitation.

We are limitless Love. This is our true nature. We yield to our true Nature as God’s extension of His Love. We are willing to give up illusions of limitation and accept that we are God’s Creation, forever one in His Love.

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We Let Love Guide Us Today

I will not be afraid of love today.

If I could realize but this today, salvation would be reached for all the world. ²This the decision not to be insane, and to accept myself as God Himself, my Father and my Source, created me. ³This the determination not to be asleep in dreams of death, while truth remains forever living in the joy of love. ⁴And this the choice to recognize the Self Whom God created as the Son He loves, and Who remains my one Identity.

Father, Your Name is Love and so is mine. ²Such is the truth. ³And can the truth be changed by merely giving it another name? ⁴The name of fear is simply a mistake. ⁵Let me not be afraid of truth today. (A Course in Miracles, W-282. See also ACIM Lesson 282 Insights.)

Our identity is Love. It is our only real identity. We have made up a different identity that is afraid of our true Identity. This identity dreams of a life in fear. It populates this dream with separate identities that seem to threaten its life — from micro-organisms to competing personalities to atomic bombs. It is indeed a dream that fears the truth. It fills this dream with all these images to make the dream seem real and hide the truth.

We can awaken from this fearful dream by forgiving the wish for specialness that supports the dream. Within the dream, forgiveness allows God’s Love to be reflected in the dream. We are always free to accept our true Identity as God’s Son, His extension of His Love.

We are Love and nothing else. Today we welcome Love as our Guide. It will help us see beyond the images of the dream to the oneness that is our Self. The dream will fade as we accept the Reality that we are only Love.

This acceptance is reflected in the dream by receiving and giving Love. Love becomes our motivation. Our true desire is to extend Love and answer calls for Love with Love. Love judges only between the reality of Love and the recognition of calls for Love. Its response to either is Love. Today we will listen to Love as our Guide.

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Welcoming the Voice of Love

Let every voice but God’s be still in me.

Father, today I would but hear Your Voice. ²In deepest silence I would come to You, to hear Your Voice and to receive Your Word. ³I have no prayer but this: I come to You to ask You for the truth. ⁴And truth is but Your Will, which I would share with You today.

Today we let no ego thoughts direct our words or actions. ²When such thoughts occur, we quietly step back and look at them, and then we let them go. ³We do not want what they would bring with them. ⁴And so we do not choose to keep them. ⁵They are silent now. ⁶And in the stillness, hallowed by His Love, God speaks to us and tells us of our will, as we have chosen to remember Him. (A Course in Miracles, W-254. See also ACIM Lesson 254 Insights.)

The Voice for Love is always calling to us. It tells us God’s Will, which is to be and extend His Love. His Voice comes to us in peace, for that is Love’s innate condition.

We have become accustomed to hearing the voice of chaos. This voice seems to dictate what we need, what to do, and what we are. But it only speaks of illusions that deny Love.

Today we can set aside this voice of fear and welcome the Voice of Love. As we welcome this Voice, we learn to recognize the Self that extends Love without limit. We practice stepping back from engaging in the world’s chaos to settle into Love. In peace, we awaken to our eternal Home in Love’s oneness.

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We Are Eternally Held in God’s Love

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

Loss is not loss when properly perceived. ²Pain is impossible. ³There is no grief with any cause at all. ⁴And suffering of any kind is nothing but a dream. ⁵This is the truth, at first to be but said and then repeated many times; and next to be accepted as but partly true, with many reservations. ⁶Then to be considered seriously more and more, and finally accepted as the truth. ⁷I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. ⁸And I would go beyond these words today, and past all reservations, and arrive at full acceptance of the truth in them.

Father, what You have given cannot hurt, so grief and pain must be impossible. ²Let me not fail to trust in You today, accepting but the joyous as Your gifts; accepting but the joyous as the truth. (A Course in Miracles, W-284. See also ACIM Lesson 284 Insights.)

The proper perception of loss is that it is an illusion, and therefore does not exist. Pain is impossible because it can only seem to occur between conflicting images which are not real. This recognition is the basis for our release from the dream of separation.

While we seem to be engaged in this dream, we need help to release our investment in loss and pain. This is a process only because we hang on to perceived value of things in the world — bodies, possessions, status and relationships with things.

The practice of forgiveness is the practice of letting go of our investment in the dream and making way for the joy of God’s Love to return to our mind. It seems that we have to forgive many different things. But the differences are not real.

Ultimately we are letting go of our attempts to make illusions real in order to maintain our unique and special status. There is no greater status we could achieve than to acknowledge that we remain eternally held within God’s Love, His joy and peace.

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