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Finding Our Completion in God’s Love

Miracles mirror God’s eternal Love.
To offer them is to remember Him, and
through His memory to save the world.

What we forgive becomes a part of us, as we perceive ourselves. ²The Son of God incorporates all things within himself as You created him. ³Your memory depends on his forgiveness. ⁴What he is, is unaffected by his thoughts. ⁵But what he looks upon is their direct result. ⁶Therefore, my Father, I would turn to You. ⁷Only Your memory will set me free. ⁸And only my forgiveness teaches me to let Your memory return to me, and give it to the world in thankfulness.

And as we gather miracles from Him, we will indeed be grateful. ²For as we remember Him, His Son will be restored to us in the reality of Love. (W-350)

What we judge separates us. What we forgive unites us in the oneness of Love. Judgment denies our true Self and makes an illusion of a self as a substitute identity. As long as we identify with this substitute, we cannot be truly happy. We feel lacking of Love and search to find It.

By the grace of God, we have the means to release this false identity and return to the Self that is God’s Son. Through forgiveness we remember we are whole and complete, loved and loving, sharing in the glory of our Creator. We know we are safe. Our joy is complete as we extend the Love we accept from our Creator. In this awareness, we bring salvation to the world.

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Joining the Circle of Love

I am not asked to make a sacrifice to find the mercy and the peace of God.

The end of suffering can not be loss. ²The gift of everything can be but gain. ³You only give. ⁴You never take away. ⁵And You created me to be like You, so sacrifice becomes impossible for me as well as You. ⁶I, too, must give. ⁷And so all things are given unto me forever and forever. ⁸As I was created I remain. ⁹Your Son can make no sacrifice, for he must be complete, having the function of completing You. ¹⁰I am complete because I am Your Son. ¹¹I cannot lose, for I can only give, and everything is mine eternally.

The mercy and the peace of God are free. ²Salvation has no cost. ³It is a gift that must be freely given and received. ⁴And it is this that we would learn today. (A Course in Miracles, W-343. See also ACIM Lesson 343 Insights.)

The ego is the belief in sacrifice. With the wish for specialness comes the idea that it is possible to have more and others have less. Forgiveness clears this judgment and accepts the Love God has given His Son.

To fulfill our function we must both accept and extend Love. By our extension of Love we complete our Creator. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us release our judgments and see the presence of Love everywhere. We ask His help when there is an appearance of lack of Love to answer with Love. This is how we will know that we are Love and join in the eternal circle of Love.

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We Choose Love to Forgive Our Judgements

God is the Love in which I forgive.

³Forgiveness is the great need of this world, but that is because it is a world of illusions. ⁴Those who forgive are thus releasing themselves from illusions, while those who withhold forgiveness are binding themselves to them. ⁵As you condemn only yourself, so do you forgive only yourself.

“Yet although God does not forgive, His Love is nevertheless the basis of forgiveness. ²Fear condemns and love forgives. ³Forgiveness thus undoes what fear has produced, returning the mind to the awareness of God. ⁴For this reason, forgiveness can truly be called salvation. ⁵It is the means by which illusions disappear.”

⁴God is the Love in which I forgive you, [name].

³God is the Love in which I forgive myself.

⁵God is the Love with which I love myself.
⁶God is the Love in which I am blessed.

³I cannot be guilty because I am a Son of God.
⁴I have already been forgiven.
⁵No fear is possible in a mind beloved of God.
⁶There is no need to attack because love has forgiven me. (A Course in Miracles, W-46.1:3–2:5;4:4;5:3,5-6;6:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 46 Insights.)

Judgment is an attack on the innocence of God’s Love. His Love never changes. It is all inclusive. All of His Creation is held in His Love. Nothing else exists.

When we accept God’s Love as ours, we know that we have always been forgiven because Love sees only Itself. In the dream of this world, we have accepted a substitute for God’s Love. This substitute is held in place by judgment.

This is why forgiveness is needed to release the dream of fear and guilt. When we accept the Love we are, we no longer need to attack with judgment to divide the world into separate parts. We have been forgiven. Judgment has no place in our reality of Love.

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Remembering God’s Gift of His Love

Today the peace of God envelops me, and I forget all things except His Love.

Father, I wake today with miracles correcting my perception of all things. ²And so begins the day I share with You as I will share eternity, for time has stepped aside today. ³I do not seek the things of time, and so I will not look upon them. ⁴What I seek today transcends all laws of time and things perceived in time. ⁵I would forget all things except Your Love. ⁶I would abide in You, and know no laws except Your law of love. ⁷And I would find the peace which You created for Your Son, forgetting all the foolish toys I made as I behold Your glory and my own.

And when the evening comes today, we will remember nothing but the peace of God. ²For we will learn today what peace is ours, when we forget all things except God’s Love. (A Course in Miracles, W-346. See also ACIM Lesson 346 Insights.)

Healthy forgetting makes way for healing remembering. We need to forget our wish for specialness and separation. We need to forget the value we place on things in this world. The only real value is God’s gift of all His Love. This gift brings peace and joy with It.

Today we are grateful for the happy forgetting that comes with true forgiveness. We remember that we live and have our being in the Love of God. It is our eternal Home. We live in joy and peace. His Love not only surrounds us, It is in us. It is our true Identity. Today we happily forget all values in the world to remember Love.

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Seeing with Love’s Eyes

I offer only miracles today, for I would have them be returned to me.

Father, a miracle reflects Your gifts to me, Your Son. ²And every one I give returns to me, reminding me the law of love is universal. ³Even here, it takes a form which can be recognized and seen to work. ⁴The miracles I give are given back in just the form I need to help me with the problems I perceive. ⁵Father, in Heaven it is different, for there, there are no needs. ⁶But here on earth, the miracle is closer to Your gifts than any other gift that I can give. ⁷Then let me give this gift alone today, which, born of true forgiveness, lights the way that I must travel to remember You.

Peace to all seeking hearts today. ²The light has come to offer miracles to bless the tired world. ³It will find rest today, for we will offer what we have received. (A Course in Miracles, W-345. See also ACIM Lesson 345 Insights.)

True forgiveness dispels our barriers to Love, letting the miracle of Love’s extension bring blessing to the world. And by extending Love’s blessing, we are blessed, for the law of Love is that giving and receiving are the same.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to show us the Love that is always behind all appearances in the world. As we see with eyes of Love, we see that nothing can harm or change God’s Son, our true Self. We are eternally safe in His Love. With the Holy Spirit’s help, we will remember this today and bring miracles to the world.

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Fulfilling Our Role as Love’s Extension

There is no conflict, for my will is Yours.

How foolish, Father, to believe Your Son could cause himself to suffer! ²Could he make a plan for his damnation, and be left without a certain way to his release? ³You love me, Father. ⁴You could never leave me desolate, to die within a world of pain and cruelty. ⁵How could I think that Love has left Itself? ⁶There is no will except the Will of Love. ⁷Fear is a dream, and has no will that can conflict with Yours. ⁸Conflict is sleep, and peace awakening. ⁹Death is illusion; life, eternal truth. ¹⁰There is no opposition to Your Will. ¹¹There is no conflict, for my will is Yours.

Forgiveness shows us that God’s Will is One, and that we share it. ²Let us look upon the holy sights forgiveness shows today, that we may find the peace of God. ³Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-331. See also ACIM Lesson 331 Insights.)

Any disturbance to our peace of mind is a sign that we have accepted the idea of differences and conflict in our mind. It is a sign that there is an illusion we believe is real, and it needs to be forgiven. Forgiveness dispels illusions and lets the Light of Love shine in our mind. It lets our true Self shine forth to fulfill Its role as Love’s extension.

As we let the Holy Spirit guide us in the way of Love, we become a healing presence in the world. We cease to oppose Love’s Will, accepting Its Will as our own, for so It is.

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Choose Peace to Remember Love

⁶In quietness is [the peace of God] acknowledged universally. ⁷For what your inward vision looks upon is your perception of the universe.

Sit quietly and close your eyes. ²The light within you is sufficient. ³It alone has power to give the gift of sight to you. ⁴Exclude the outer world, and let your thoughts fly to the peace within. ⁵They know the way. ⁶For honest thoughts, untainted by the dream of worldly things outside yourself, become the holy messengers of God Himself.

We practice coming nearer to the light in us today. ²We take our wandering thoughts, and gently bring them back to where they fall in line with all the thoughts we share with God.

…we acknowledge that the peace of God still shines in us, and from us to all living things that share our life. ²We will forgive them all, absolving all the world from what we thought it did to us. ³For it is we who make the world as we would have it. ⁴Now we choose that it be innocent, devoid of sin and open to salvation. ⁵And we lay our saving blessing on it, as we say:

⁶The peace of God is shining in me now.
⁷Let all things shine upon me in that peace,
and let me bless them with the light in me. (A Course in Miracles, W-188.5:6–7;6;9:1-2;10. See also ACIM Lesson 188 Insights.)

We do not have to qualify to receive God’s peace. It is already given, and for eternity. But we do have to accept His gift.

The ego thought system is the effect of rejecting God’s gift of all His Love. Love cannot be found in the ego-made world, though it sends us on a constant quest to seek Love where it cannot be found. Then, using its key tool of separation, it projects the lack of Love on God. It claims to be the victim of God’s denial, but it is a lie. The ego is solely responsible for our experience of lack of Love.

Here we are learning the way to undo this experience, to undo the ego. Each moment that we step back and welcome the peace of God loosens the ego’s influence on our experience. As we accept His peace, we open our mind to His Love, His healing messages, His gentle direction in the way of peace. We choose peace today, for we would remember we live in God.

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