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Welcoming God’s Gift Every Moment

There is no end to all the peace and joy,
and all the miracles that I will give,
when I accept God’s Word. Why not today?

Why should I wait, my Father, for the joy You promised me? ²For You will keep Your Word You gave Your Son in exile. ³I am sure my treasure waits for me, and I need but reach out my hand to find it. ⁴Even now my fingers touch it. ⁵It is very close. ⁶I need not wait an instant more to be at peace forever. ⁷It is You I choose, and my Identity along with You. ⁸Your Son would be Himself, and know You as his Father and Creator, and his Love. (A Course in Miracles, W-355.1:1-8. See also ACIM Lesson 355 Insights.)

We already have God’s gift of the only real Treasure — His Love. But while we think something else is of greater value to us, we are unaware of the Treasure that is with us now. The ego’s seeming existence is built upon the past, which it harbors to use to build images to cover the present. As long as we value a separate identity, different from God’s Love, we are limited to the ego’s dream.

The choice to be limited can be changed to the choice to accept and be Love in every moment. Only the value we give to the ego’s limited offerings keeps us from knowing the joy and peace that are already ours.

We need help to recognize our mistaken beliefs and let them go. When we choose the Holy Spirit’s lead in place of the ego’s misdirections, we clear the way to receive our true Treasure — the only gift we really want.

Today we choose to remember the Holy Spirit walks with us and in us, pointing the way to the greatest Treasure there is. Today we would follow Him.

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A Gift with Value Beyond Measure

…[God] wills the happiness His Son inherited of Him be undisturbed; eternal and forever gaining scope, eternally expanding in the joy of full creation, and eternally open and wholly limitless in Him. ³That is His Will. ⁴And thus His Will provides the means to guarantee that it is done.

Certain it is that all distress does not appear to be but unforgiveness. ²Yet that is the content underneath the form.

Forgive, and you will see this differently.

²These are the words the Holy Spirit speaks in all your tribulations, all your pain, all suffering regardless of its form. ³These are the words with which temptation ends, and guilt, abandoned, is revered no more. ⁴These are the words which end the dream of sin, and rid the mind of fear. ⁵These are the words by which salvation comes to all the world.

Shall we not learn to say these words when we are tempted to believe that pain is real, and death becomes our choice instead of life? ²Shall we not learn to say these words when we have understood their power to release all minds from bondage? ³These are words which give you power over all events that seem to have been given power over you. (A Course in Miracles, W-193.1:2-4;4:1-2;5:1–6:3. See also ACIM Lesson 193 Insights.)

Forgiveness is a powerful antidote for every problem we seem to have in the world. Nothing can prevail against true forgiveness, which comes when we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to see the truth beyond every appearance. The dream seems to tell us that we are alone, weak and vulnerable and that our “life” is certain to end in death. But illusions only seem to replace Reality when we believe illusions are real.

Fortunately beliefs can change. We have all experienced changed beliefs many times in our lives in the world. The changeability of beliefs provides our escape from the dream of fear and guilt. We have taught ourselves to believe that lies are true. Through forgiveness, we learn to undo these mistaken lessons.

Today we can choose to give ourselves the most valuable gift we can give. We can accept the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive our mistaken beliefs. As we accept His help, our experience in the world will be transformed. We will find peace where there was conflict. We will find joy where there was depression. We will find Love where there was fear.

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God’s Welcome Home

Under the ego’s dark foundation is the memory of God, and it is of this that you are really afraid. ²For this memory would instantly restore you to your proper place [in Heaven], and it is this place that you have sought to leave. ³Your fear of attack is nothing compared to your fear of love.

You must look upon your illusions and not keep them hidden, because they do not rest on their own foundation. ²In concealment [illusions] appear to do so, and thus they seem to be self-sustained. ³This is the fundamental illusion on which the others rest. ⁴For beneath them, and concealed as long as they are hidden, is the loving mind that thought it made them in anger. ⁵And the pain in this mind is so apparent, when it is uncovered, that its need of healing cannot be denied. ⁶Not all the tricks and games you offer it can heal it, for here is the real crucifixion of God’s Son.

And yet he is not crucified. ²Here is both his pain and his healing, for the Holy Spirit’s vision is merciful and His remedy is quick. ³Do not hide suffering from His sight, but bring it gladly to Him. ⁴Lay before His eternal sanity all your hurt, and let Him heal you. ⁵Do not leave any spot of pain hidden from His light, and search your mind carefully for any thoughts you may fear to uncover. ⁶For He will heal every little thought you have kept to hurt you and cleanse it of its littleness, restoring it to the magnitude of God. (A Course in Miracles, T-13.III.2:1-3;6-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The quest for specialness is the underlying cause of all our fear and guilt. Specialness demands that nothing can be shared, for we cannot claim specialness if someone else has what we claim as our own. Championship can be claimed by only one team. Possession by definition means that we own something that no one else has. To maintain this specialness, we must defend it against anything and anyone whom we perceive could take it from us.

In the oneness of God’s Love, everything is the same, no differences, no separate ownership and loss is impossible. The nature of Love is that It is eternally extended. Any attempt to keep Love for one’s self alone makes Love unknown to us.

In every instant we choose between the “treasure” of specialness or the eternal gift of Love. The first is a choice for lovelessness, which can only seem real when illusions are treasured. The second choice is for all that is Real without end or limit. It is always a choice between hell and Heaven.

Today we choose Heaven by our willingness to bring all our fear-based thoughts to the Holy Spirit for His loving correction. It is God’s guaranteed plan to welcome us Home.

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The Holy Spirit’s Loving Lessons

Illusions will not last. ²Their death is sure and this alone is certain in their world. ³It is the ego’s world because of this. ⁴What is the ego? ⁵But a dream of what you really are. ⁶A thought you are apart from your Creator and a wish to be what He created not.

What is the ego? ²Nothingness, but in a form that seems like something.

The ego’s opposite in every way,—in origin, effect and consequence—we call a miracle.

What is a miracle? ²A dream as well. ³But look at all the aspects of this dream and you will never question any more. ⁴Look at the kindly world you see extend before you as you walk in gentleness. ⁵Look at the helpers all along the way you travel, happy in the certainty of Heaven and the surety of peace. ⁶And look an instant, too, on what you left behind at last and finally passed by.

This was the ego—all the cruel hate, the need for vengeance and the cries of pain, the fear of dying and the urge to kill, the brotherless illusion and the self that seemed alone in all the universe. ²This terrible mistake about yourself the miracle corrects as gently as a loving mother sings her child to rest.

The miracle forgives; the ego damns. (A Course in Miracles, C-2.1:1-6;2:1-2;5:1;7:1–8:2;10:1)

When we act and perceive according to the ego’s dictates, we are participating in a dream that does nothing. It has no effect on what we are as God’s Son. But it does keep us engaged in the dream which makes us unaware of the Love we are. The dream denies Love so it is filled with fear, conflict and condemnation.

We make what we treasure appear real. Because the ego is only a dream, we can dismiss it by recognizing it is not real. Illusions recognized as unreal disappear, for they are no longer valued. We need to learn that nothingness has no value. It is an investment that yields nothing in return.

We can learn to recognize illusions for what they are and forgive them — let them go. This is the Holy Spirit’s sole purpose for the dream. Forgiveness clears away the barriers to the awareness of Love’s presence.

Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s kind and loving lessons in forgiveness. We hold the Holy Spirit’s Hand as we journey to the Heaven of God’s Love.

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Accepting True Perception

⁵To be one is to be of one mind or will. ⁶When the Will of the Sonship and the Father are One, their perfect accord is Heaven.

Nothing can prevail against a Son of God who commends his spirit into the Hands of his Father. ²By doing this the mind awakens from its sleep and remembers its Creator. ³All sense of separation disappears.

The way to correct distortions is to withdraw your faith in them and invest it only in what is true. ²You cannot make untruth true. ³If you are willing to accept what is true in everything you perceive, you let it be true for you. ⁴Truth overcomes all error, and those who live in error and emptiness can never find lasting solace. ⁵If you perceive truly you are cancelling out misperceptions in yourself and in others simultaneously. ⁶Because you see them as they are, you offer them your acceptance of their truth so they can accept it for themselves. ⁷This is the healing that the miracle induces. (A Course in Miracles, T-3.II.4:5–5:3;6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

When we invest our faith in the ego, we perceive a world where separate bodies, separate interests and separate wills appear to be true. In this perception, conflict and loss is inevitable. But this is false perception based on our investment in the ego’s wish for specialness.

Our perceptions can be healed if we accept the Holy Spirit’s purpose for the body. He uses the body to teach true perception, which looks upon the presence of Love everywhere. In this perception we naturally join in Love’s oneness. We accept God’s Will as our own. When we no longer hold any wish to be separate, we awaken to Heaven. We awaken to Love.

Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s gift of true perception. We want to remember we are Love.

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The Choice to Be a Bringer of Peace

Peace be to me, the holy Son of God.
Peace to my brother, who is one with me.
Let all the world be blessed with peace through us.

Father, it is Your peace that I would give, receiving it of You. ²I am Your Son, forever just as You created me, for the Great Rays remain forever still and undisturbed within me. ³I would reach to them in silence and in certainty, for nowhere else can certainty be found. ⁴Peace be to me, and peace to all the world. ⁵In holiness were we created, and in holiness do we remain. ⁶Your Son is like to You in perfect sinlessness. ⁷And with this thought we gladly say “Amen.” (A Course in Miracles, W-360. See also ACIM Lesson 360 Insights.)

Would we bring peace or conflict to the world? We answer that question by the guide we choose. The ego thrives on conflict using judgment as its primary tool to foster division and battles over who is right. On the other hand, the Holy Spirit sees only the oneness of Love. Love does not condemn; It cannot divide and be Itself.

By choosing the Holy Spirit as our Guide, we become bringers of peace. Where the ego sees “others,” the Holy Spirit sees only Itself in everyone, for the Holy Spirit sees only Reality. The ego perceives only illusions. Will we be bringers of peace today? The choice is ours. We have the means to remember we dwell in the peace of God.

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The Choice for Love and Peace

The memory of God comes to the quiet mind. ²It cannot come where there is conflict, for a mind at war against itself remembers not eternal gentleness. ³The means of war are not the means of peace, and what the warlike would remember is not love. ⁴War is impossible unless belief in victory is cherished. ⁵Conflict within you must imply that you believe the ego has the power to be victorious.

Conflict must be between two forces. ²It cannot exist between one power and nothingness. ³There is nothing you could attack that is not part of you. ⁴And by attacking it you make two illusions of yourself, in conflict with each other. ⁵And this occurs whenever you look on anything that God created with anything but love.… ⁹Let all this madness be undone for you, and turn in peace to the rememberance of God, still shining in your quiet mind.

Illusion meets illusion; truth, itself. ²The meeting of illusions leads to war. ³Peace, looking on itself, extends itself. ⁴War is the condition in which fear is born, and grows and seeks to dominate. ⁵Peace is the state where love abides, and seeks to share itself. ⁶Conflict and peace are opposites. ⁷Where one abides the other cannot be; where either goes the other disappears. ⁸So is the memory of God obscured in minds that have become illusions’ battleground. ⁹Yet far beyond this senseless war it (memory of God) shines, ready to be remembered when you side with peace. (A Course in Miracles, T-23.I.1:1-5;8:1-5,9;12. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The dream of a world was made to be a place where God, Love, is forgotten. Being one and the same always and everywhere, there is no conflict in Love. In every moment we choose between the ego and its dream of conflict and our true Self and the changelessness of Love.

Fear is inevitable in dreams of conflict. Likewise only the reality of Love is in the memory of God. In His remembrance, fear is impossible; peace is a constant, invulnerable state. In truth, the memory of God is all we really want. Nothing else will satisfy, for it is the awakening to our true Self.

Today we pause frequently to welcome peace in our mind, for we would remember the Love of God.

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