Daily Inspiration for Living A Course in Miracles

The changelessness of God’s Love makes It invincible. This is the Home God keeps for us to protect us from mistaken beliefs and attempts to change what cannot be changed. We can rest in peace in the certainty of God’s sure protection. Only illusions of differences bring uncertainty and only to the mind that believes differences are possible and real.

God calls to us through the Holy Spirit to let go of these mistaken beliefs, not because it affects Him at all. But in His Love for His Son, God gave the Holy Spirit to awaken him from his dream of pain, guilt, fear and anger. God’s only desire is that we remain one with Him as He created us, and so it is.

Today let us answer to His Call by accepting the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive our mistaken beliefs. It is a Call to peace and happiness. It is the Call of Love to Love.

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Letting Our Light Shine

I 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 [my function] as it is. (A Course in Miracles, W-81.1;3. See also ACIM Lesson 81 Insights.)

The Light of Love is in everyone and everywhere. While we believe separation is real, we cannot see this Light. We have taught ourselves to trust what the body’s eyes show us. But the ego made them unable to see Love’s Light because it denies Love.

Denial has no effect on the reality of Love and the Light it radiates without limit. We become the Light of the world when we forgive our wish to be separate and special. We cannot ask the ego to teach us how to forgive. The ego knows forgiveness would dispel it.

But we have a Teacher we can trust to show us how to forgive, to see past the images of the dream. With His help we become aware of Love’s presence. As we welcome Love, It guides our thoughts and deeds. We become a Light in the world where the Light has been denied.

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Opening to Our True Self in God’s Love

Let all things be exactly as they are.

Let me not be Your critic, Lord, today, and judge against You. ²Let me not attempt to interfere with Your creation, and distort it into sickly forms. ³Let me be willing to withdraw my wishes from its unity, and thus to let [creation] be as You created it. ⁴For thus will I be able, too, to recognize my Self as You created me. ⁵In love was I created, and in love will I remain forever. ⁶What can frighten me, when I let all things be exactly as they are?

Let not our sight be blasphemous today, nor let our ears attend to lying tongues. ²Only reality is free of pain. ³Only reality is free of loss. ⁴Only reality is wholly safe. ⁵And it is only this we seek today. (A Course in Miracles, W-268. See also ACIM Lesson 268 Insights.)

God’s Creation extends the Love He is. Only Love creates, and only like Itself.

When we believe separate bodies and separate things are real, we deny God’s Creation. The body is not Love because it is a limited form that cannot exist in the oneness of Love. Thus to identify with a body is to be blasphemous against God.

This mistaken identification blinds us to our true Self. Yet the Self God created as His Son remains unchanged. We seem to live in a world of form which has no effect whatsoever to our real Life we live in God. But our engagement in this dream prevents us from knowing the joy and peace that come with co-creating in Love with God.

We can awaken from this dream by welcoming the Holy Spirit’s vision. Today we seek the Holy Spirit’s interpretation of all our perceptions. With His reinterpretation, our minds are opened to know the Self God created as His Son.

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Welcoming Our Mighty Companion

Into His Presence would I enter now.

“his is a day of silence and of trust. ²It is a special time of promise in your calendar of days. ³It is a time Heaven has set apart to shine upon, and cast a timeless light upon this day, when echoes of eternity are heard. ⁴This day is holy, for it ushers in a new experience; a different kind of feeling and awareness. ⁵You have spent long days and nights in celebrating death. ⁶Today you learn to feel the joy of life.

Your body will be sanctified today, its only purpose being now to bring the vision of what you experience this day to light the world. ²We cannot give experience like this directly. ³Yet it leaves a vision in our eyes which we can offer everyone, that he may come the sooner to the same experience in which the world is quietly forgot, and Heaven is remembered for a while.

As this experience increases and all goals but this become of little worth, the world to which you will return becomes a little closer to the end of time; a little more like Heaven in its ways; a little nearer its deliverance. ²And you who bring it light will come to see the light more sure; the vision more distinct.

…the Holy One, the Giver of the happy dreams of life, Translator of perception into truth, the holy Guide to Heaven given you, has dreamed for you this journey which you make and start today, with the experience this day holds out to you to be your own.

Into Christ’s Presence will we enter now, serenely unaware of everything except His shining face and perfect Love. (A Course in Miracles, W-157.1;6:1–7:2;8:2–9:1. See also ACIM Lesson 157 Insights.)

We do not have to continue our lonely journey in a dream where we feel isolated and without a love that we search for unceasingly. This is not our home. It is not what God wills for us. God wills that we remain eternally safe in His Love, fulfilled by giving It as It was given us. We seem to have lost our way, but God has given us His Comforter and Teacher to lead us out of our misguided dream. His Comforter is with us always, but we must welcome Him to know His Presence.

Today we affirm that we want Love to guide our ways. We want to join in the eternal extension of Love. We want the vision that shows us Love’s Presence in everyone, everywhere. This is a journey of return to joy. It leads to our awakening to the Will we share with God. We welcome His Comforter as our mighty Companion throughout this day.

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Reclaiming Our True Identity

I am as God created me.

Today we continue with the one idea which brings complete salvation; the one statement which makes all forms of temptation powerless; the one thought which renders the ego silent and entirely undone. ²You are as God created you. ³The sounds of this world are still, the sights of this world disappear, and all the thoughts that this world ever held are wiped away forever by this one idea. ⁴Here is salvation accomplished. ⁵Here is sanity restored.

True light is strength, and strength is sinlessness. ²If you remain as God created you, you must be strong and light must be in you. ³He Who ensured your sinlessness must be the guarantee of strength and light as well. ⁴You are as God created you.

³I am as God created me.
⁴I am His Son eternally.

⁵…the Son of God in you… is the Self that never sinned [separated], nor made an image to replace reality. ⁷This is the Self that never left Its home in God to walk the world uncertainly. ⁸This is the Self that knows no fear, nor could conceive of loss or suffering or death.

…be sure to respond to anyone who seems to irritate you with these words:

⁶You are as God created you.
⁷You are His Son eternally. (A Course in Miracles, W-94.1:1–2:4;3:3-8;5:5-7. See also ACIM Lesson V Insights.)

When we choose to identify with the body, we choose a fake identity. We are trying to hide our real Identity beneath an image that limits and distorts the truth of What we are. We have so thoroughly convinced ourselves that we are this alias that we do not question its reality. We walk about in a world that seems hazardous to our existence. We need to be constantly alert to defend against outside forces that can harm us and even kill us. There is no peace in this seeming existence. But it is all false.

When we repeat today’s idea, we remind ourselves of our true Identity. Our true Identity is secure in the mind of God, held forever in His changelessness. The memory of our true Identity is always with us. It calls to us, leading us to search for what seems to be missing in our life. It is not missing. It is only hidden behind a false façade.

As we awaken to the fact that we are as God created us, the façade is dispelled and the Light of Love we are radiates throughout all eternity.

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