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Gratitude for Our Oneness in Love

³To everyone who lives will Christ yet come, for everyone must live and move in Him. ⁴His Being in His Father is secure, because Their Will is One. ⁵Their gratitude to all They have created has no end, for gratitude remains a part of love.

Thanks be to you, the holy Son of God. ²For as you were created, you contain all things within your Self. ³And you are still as God created you. ⁴Nor can you dim the light of your perfection. ⁵In your heart the Heart of God is laid. ⁶He holds you dear, because you are Himself. ⁷All gratitude belongs to you, because of what you are.

Give thanks as you receive it. ²Be you free of all ingratitude to anyone who makes your Self complete. ³And from this Self is no one left outside. ⁴Give thanks for all the countless channels which extend this Self. ⁵All that you do is given unto Him. ⁶All that you think can only be His Thoughts, sharing with Him the holy Thoughts of God. ⁷Earn now the gratitude you have denied yourself when you forgot the function [of forgiveness] God has given you. ⁸But never think that He has ever ceased to offer thanks to you. (A Course in Miracles, W-197.7:3–9:8. See also ACIM Lesson 197 Insights.)

We are united with everyone as the Self that is God’s Son. If we perceive anyone as an adversary, we have first decided that we are separate. We are denying the Self God created as His Son. Neither we nor our brothers are ego’s. But in the dream the ego we think we are sees other ego’s as separate. This is the basis of all conflict.

In this dream of ego’s battling ego’s, forgiveness is our only meaningful purpose. Through forgiveness we release the barriers that hide the unity of Love. In truth, we are united in one Love and share the Will of God.

When we let go of the barriers to Love, gratitude is inevitable. We feel the joy of extending Love as we unite with the Love that is the truth in everyone. When we forgive the image of a separate brother, we simultaneously forgive our own image as a separate identity. We shift our viewpoint from a separate identity to a recognition of our oneness as the one Son God created. We are one Self. There is no distance between us. And we are grateful that this is so.

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Being a Bearer of Light

am the light of the world.

²How holy am I, who have been given the function of lighting up the world! ³Let me be still before my holiness. ⁴In its calm light let all my conflicts disappear. ⁵In its peace let me remember Who I am.

Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.

²It is through accepting my function that I will see the light in me. ³And in this light will my function stand clear and perfectly unambiguous before my sight. ⁴My acceptance does not depend on my recognizing what my function is, for I do not yet understand forgiveness. ⁵Yet I will trust that, in the light, I will see it as it is. (A Course in Miracles, W-81.1;3. See also ACIM Lesson 81 Insights.)

As the extension of God’s Love, our true Self is Light. Light knows no limits. It can be stopped by barriers of denial of Love, but forgiveness dismisses those barriers. We cannot bring darkness to Light but we can bring Light to darkness to dispel it. We bring Light today through forgiveness, letting go of belief in separation.

We ask the Holy Spirit to guide our thoughts and help us see past barriers to Love’s presence. When something disturbs our peace, we ask for His help to recognize that only the presence of Love is real. We are safe in Love.

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Seeing the Love We Are in Everyone

Forgiveness offers everything I want.

Forgiveness lets the veil be lifted up that hides the face of Christ from those who look with unforgiving eyes upon the world. ²It lets you recognize the Son of God, and clears your memory of all dead thoughts so that remembrance of your Father can arise across the threshold of your mind.

Why would you seek an answer other than the answer that will answer everything? ²Here is the perfect answer, given to imperfect questions, meaningless requests, halfhearted willingness to hear, and less than halfway diligence and partial trust. ³Here is the answer! ⁴Seek for it no more. ⁵You will not find another one instead.

God’s plan for your salvation cannot change, nor can it fail. ²Be thankful it remains exactly as He planned it. ³Changelessly it stands before you like an open door, with warmth and welcome calling from beyond the doorway, bidding you to enter in and make yourself at home, where you belong.

Here is the answer! ²Would you stand outside while all of Heaven waits for you within? ³Forgive and be forgiven. ⁴As you give you will receive. ⁵There is no plan but this for the salvation of the Son of God. ⁶Let us today rejoice that this is so, for here we have an answer, clear and plain, beyond deceit in its simplicity. ⁷All the complexities the world has spun of fragile cobwebs disappear before the power and the majesty of this extremely simple statement of the truth. (A Course in Miracles, W-122.3:1-2;4-6. See also ACIM Lesson 122 Insights.)

In the dream, judgment is used to maintain separation. It declares that what we judge is different from what we are. This guarantees conflict.

Yet there can be no conflict in the Son of God. The Son is the extension of God’s Love and remains eternally united with Him. There is no conflict in Love because Love is one and changeless.  The veil of judgment is dispelled.

We call upon the Holy Spirit to help us let go of the judgments that divide us from our brothers. We want to see him as the Love he is in truth. And in this recognition, we learn that we are Love as well. We remember the joy and peace that is our Home in the Heaven of God’s Love.

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We Welcome Peace of Mind

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.)

To welcome Love into our hearts is to see ourselves as one with everyone. In that oneness there is no cause for fear. Nothing exists outside of Love, so we are certain of our safety. As Love extends without limit, when we join with it, we know the joy of being in the eternal flow of Love.

This is our natural state. When we welcome Love, we accept our true Self. We experience peace of mind, for there is no conflict in Love. We welcome Love when we accept the Holy Spirit’s interpretation of all our perceptions. He shows us our unity with our Creator. We learn we dwell in Love.

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Being a Messenger of God’s Love

I am one Self, united with my Creator.

Today’s idea accurately describes you as God created you. ²You are one within yourself, and one with Him. ³Yours is the unity of all creation. ⁴Your perfect unity makes change in you impossible. ⁵You do not accept this, and you fail to realize it must be so, only because you believe that you have changed yourself already.

You see yourself as a ridiculous parody on God’s creation; weak, vicious, ugly and sinful, miserable and beset with pain. ²Such is your version of yourself; a self divided into many warring parts, separate from God, and tenuously held together by its erratic and capricious maker, to which you pray. ³It does not hear your prayers, for it is deaf. ⁴It does not see the oneness in you, for it is blind. ⁵It does not understand you are the Son of God, for it is senseless and understands nothing.

You have seen the extent of your lack of mental discipline, and of your need for mind training. ⁵It is necessary that you be aware of this, for it is indeed a hindrance to your advance.

…unless you are reminded of your purpose frequently, you tend to forget about it for long periods of time. ³…you have not yet formed the habit of using the idea as an automatic response to temptation.

…with all the certainty that you can give [affirm]:

²I am one Self, united with my Creator, at one with every aspect of creation, and limitless in power and in peace. (A Course in Miracles, W-95.1–2;4:4-5;5:2-3;11:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 95 Insights.)

If we are not supremely happy, we are believing we are a false image of ourself. If we are not at peace, it is because we believe that we can change or be changed, harm or be harmed. In truth we are as unchangeable as God.

We are the same Love, unlimited and eternal. Our true Self sees Love in the world and offers Love where there is a belief in lack of Love. This is our purpose, shared with our Creator. We are extensions of His Love, and being one with Him, we extend that Love.

Today we would remember to be messengers of Love.

 

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Awaken and Be Glad

I feel the Love of God within me now.

²The Love of God is what created me. ³The Love of God is everything I am. ⁴The Love of God proclaimed me as His Son. ⁵The Love of God within me sets me free.

I choose the joy of God instead of pain.

²Pain is my own idea. ³It is not a Thought of God, but one I thought apart from Him and from His Will. ⁴His Will is joy, and only joy for His beloved Son. ⁵And that I choose, instead of what I made.

⁶I am not a body. ⁷I am free.
⁸For I am still as God created me.

(A Course in Miracles, W-209.1:1-5;210.1. See also ACIM Lesson 209 Insights.)

As God’s Son, we are His Love with all Love’s attributes. In the dream, we believe we are a body. The body is a limit, and as long as we believe we are a body, we cannot know His Love as ours. In the dream, judgment is used to reinforce the wish for specialness. This keeps us bound to the body’s limitations. We do not see ourselves as Love, joined in complete unity with all Love.

Each time we forgive our perception of separation, we take a step toward freedom to be the Love God created us to be. The unhappiness that comes with judgment is replaced with the joy of extending Love without limit. This is our purpose, to awaken and be glad.

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Remembering Who We Are as God’s Son

God’s Name is holy, but no holier than yours. ²To call upon His Name is but to call upon your own. ³A father gives his son his name, and thus identifies the son with him. ⁴His brothers share his name, and thus are they united in a bond to which they turn for their identity. ⁵Your Father’s Name reminds you who you are, even within a world that does not know; even though you have not remembered it.

Repeat the Name of God [Love’s oneness], and call upon your Self, Whose Name is His. ²Repeat His Name, and all the tiny, nameless things on earth slip into right perspective. ³Those who call upon the Name of God can not mistake the nameless for the Name, nor sin for grace, nor bodies for the holy Son of God. ⁴And should you join a brother as you sit with him in silence, and repeat God’s Name along with him within your quiet mind, you have established there an altar which reaches to God Himself and to His Son.

All little things are silent. ²Little sounds are soundless now. ³The little things of earth have disappeared. ⁴The universe consists of nothing but the Son of God, who calls upon his Father. ⁵And his Father’s Voice gives answer in his Father’s holy Name. ⁶In this eternal, still relationship, in which communication far transcends all words, and yet exceeds in depth and height whatever words could possibly convey, is peace eternal. ⁷In our Father’s Name, we would experience this peace today. ⁸And in His Name, it shall be given us. (A Course in Miracles, W-183.1;5;11. See also ACIM Lesson 183 Insights.)

We must not mistake a body for the Son of God. We are not a body. To know our freedom as God’s Son, we must remember we are united with Him in Love’s oneness. Only Love is Real. This is what we acknowledge when we repeat God’s Name. As we identify with Love, individual forms are recognized as meaningless. Only Love is present, now and forever.

In the dream of separation and individual forms with separate identities, we have lost awareness of our true Self. We cannot experience the unity of Love while we identify with a body. But we can practice accepting the Love within. We can practice seeing the Love in a brother beyond appearances in the world. As we shift our focus from bodies to Love’s unity, all sense of conflict, loss and fear fade. Our certainty of the Love we are illuminates our world. We remember Who we are as God’s Son.

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