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Seeing Love’s Reflection in Our Brothers

¹¹The voice you hear in [in your brother] is but your own. ¹²What does he ask you for? ¹³And listen well! ¹⁴For he is asking what will come to you, because you see[in him] an image of yourself and hear your voice requesting what you want.

“Before you answer, pause to think of this:

²The answer that I give my brother is what I am asking for. ³And what I learn of him is what I learn about myself.

⁴Then let us wait an instant and be still, forgetting everything we thought we heard; remembering how much we do not know. ⁵This brother neither leads nor follows us, but walks beside us on the selfsame road. ⁶He is like us, as near or far away from what we want as we will let him be. ⁷We make no gains he does not make with us, and we fall back if he does not advance. ⁸Take not his hand in anger but in love, for in his progress do you count your own. ⁹And we go separately along the way unless you keep him safely by your side.

Because he is your equal in God’s Love, you will be saved from all appearances and answer to the Christ Who calls to you.

Be very still an instant. ²Come without all thought of what you ever learned before, and put aside all images you made.

Forgive your brother all appearances, that are but ancient lessons you have taught yourself about the sinfulness in you.

An instant spent without your old ideas of who your great companion is and what he should be asking for, will be enough to let [Christ be reborn in both of you].

⁷For next to you is One Who holds the light before you, so that every step is made in certainty and sureness of the road. ⁸A blindfold can indeed obscure your sight, but cannot make the way itself grow dark. ⁹And He Who travels with you has the light. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.II.5:11–7:1;8:1-2;9:1;10:1;11:7-9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The ego uses other bodies as a target to project what we want to disown in ourselves. The guilt and anger we feel is intolerable. But if we can project it on someone else and convince ourselves that he is the cause of our guilt and anger, we have found a scapegoat. We sacrifice the truth in him to avoid the truth in us that would free us from the ego thought system of separation, guilt and fear.

It is important that we recognize what we see in our brother is our own reflection. This recognition becomes a gift when we let the Holy Spirit bring His Light to shine upon the misperception of our brother. This Light reveals the truth in our brother which reminds us of the truth of What we are.

The practice of accepting the Holy Spirit’s help is essential to our healing. In the dream we need Love’s reflection in our brother to help us remember What we are.

Let us walk with our brother by our side today. We hold his hand in union as we remember together we are one Love held eternally in the Love of God.

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Remembering We Walk with God

Forget not once this journey is begun the end is certain. ²Doubt along the way will come and go and go to come again. ³Yet is the ending sure. ⁴No one can fail to do what God appointed him to do. ⁵When you forget, remember that you walk with Him and with His Word upon your heart. ⁶Who could despair when hope like this is his? ⁷Illusions of despair may seem to come, but learn how not to be deceived by them. ⁸Behind each one there is reality and there is God. ⁹Why would you wait for this and trade [reality] for illusions, when His Love is but an instant farther on the road where all illusions end? ¹⁰The end _is_ sure and guaranteed by God. ¹¹Who stands before a lifeless image when a step away the Holy of the Holies opens up an ancient door that leads beyond the world?

Let us wait here in silence, and kneel down an instant in our gratitude to Him Who called to us and helped us hear His Call. ²And then let us arise and go in faith along the way to Him. ³Now we are sure we do not walk alone. ⁴For God is here, and with Him all our brothers. ⁵Now we know that we will never lose the way again. (A Course in Miracles, C-ep.1;4:1-5)

We walk with God, safe in His Love eternally. This is true no matter what appearances we may perceive. We walk with God. This cannot be affirmed too often, for it calls upon the memory of our Source and our Home. We walk with God, united with every brother in His Love. In Him there is no loss nor conflict. We call upon His Help as we walk in the world today to see past illusions to the changeless Love that is our natural state. We have believed in illusions but we have not left our Home in truth.

Today we remember our Reality as we remind ourselves throughout the day, “I walk with God in Perfect Love.”

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We See What We Treasure

Judgment is but a toy, a whim, the senseless means to play the idle game of death in your imagination. ²But [Holy Spirit’s] vision sets all things right, bringing them gently within the kindly sway of Heaven’s laws. ³What if you recognized this world is an hallucination? ⁴What if you really understood you made it up? ⁵What if you realized that those who seem to walk about in it, to sin and die, attack and murder and destroy themselves, are wholly unreal? ⁶Could you have faith in what you see, if you accepted this? ⁷And would you see it?

Hallucinations disappear when they are recognized for what they are. ²This is the healing and the remedy. ³Believe them not and they are gone. ⁴And all you need to do is recognize that you did this. ⁵Once you accept this simple fact and take unto yourself the power you gave them [by your belief], you are released from them. ⁶One thing is sure; hallucinations serve a purpose, and when that purpose is no longer held they disappear. ⁷Therefore, the question never is whether you want them, but always, do you want the purpose that they serve?

Only two purposes are possible. ²And one is sin, the other holiness. ³Nothing is in between, and which you choose determines what you see. ⁴For what you see is merely how you elect to meet your goal. (A Course in Miracles, T-20.VIII.7:1–8:7;9:1-4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The ego has one purpose—to make separation from God real. The demand for specialness, which God cannot give, could only seem real in hallucinations of separateness. Our choice to identify with the ego, the wish for specialness, has bound us to its world of illusions. It is a world of conflict because it is the effect of believing that some can have what others do not. What we see with the body, itself an illusion, demonstrates that separation is real. Yet it only seems real in the ego’s fantasies. These fantasies serve the ego’s purpose of denying the truth of our eternal unity in God’s Love.

We can choose another purpose—to join with God’s purpose of being and extending only Love. Love is one, changeless and with no differences. Where there are no differences there are no conflicts, only profound peace and indescribable joy. We can choose this purpose while we still believe in the dream by choosing the Holy Spirit’s vision as our priority.

As we value His vision, we devalue what the body sees. We learn that the body, itself an illusion, only sees meaningless hallucinations. Holy Spirit’s vision shows us only what has meaning—God’s Love. As we value Love over specialness, we see the Love that is our brother and naturally join with It.

Today we remind ourselves that all we really treasure is the Love God created us to be.

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Becoming an Emissary of Love

Forgiveness ends all suffering and loss.

Forgiveness paints a picture of a world where suffering is over, loss becomes impossible and anger makes no sense. ²Attack is gone, and madness has an end. ³What suffering is now conceivable? ⁴What loss can be sustained? ⁵The world becomes a place of joy, abundance, charity and endless giving. ⁶It is now so like to Heaven that it quickly is transformed into the light that it reflects. ⁷And so the journey which the Son of God began has ended in the light from which he came.

Father, we would return our minds to You. ²We have betrayed them, held them in a vise of bitterness, and frightened them with thoughts of violence and death. ³Now would we rest again in You, as You created us. (A Course in Miracles, W-249. See also ACIM Lesson 249 Insights.)

It seems hard to believe that the body and the world we experience through it are illusions of our own making. That is because we have convinced ourselves that separation is real. That conviction brings with it all the illusions of separation.

Built into the thought system of separation is the self deception of projection. This mechanism allows us to project illusions from our mind so they appear separate from us and we are not their source. This closed system will not recognize or acknowledge anything that does not conform to the “rules” of separation. The reality of Love’s oneness is irreconcilable with the belief in separation. We see only what we believe.

The way out of the closed separation thought system is to change the belief at its foundation. This change comes through forgiveness. We need to forgive our choice to believe separation is real. To accomplish this, we need help from beyond our mistaken belief. That Help is the Holy Spirit, our true Self.

When we are willing to accept the Christ vision that the Holy Spirit offers, we see the reality of Love’s oneness beyond the projected images of separation. As we accept this vision, our experience in the world becomes increasingly happy, peaceful and loving. We are no longer alert for adversaries to defend against. We no longer need to protect ourselves from loss. Instead this vision expands our awareness of Love’s presence. Appearances of lovelessness are recognized as calls for Love and answered with Love. We become emissaries of Love in a world hungry for Love.

Today we choose to be emissaries of Love.

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Remembering Our Oneness in God

⁶Knowledge transcends the laws governing perception, because partial knowledge is impossible. ⁷It is all one and has no separate parts. ⁸You who are really one with [knowledge] need but know yourself and your knowledge is complete. ⁹To know God’s miracle is to know Him.

Forgiveness is the healing of the perception of separation. ²Correct perception of your brother is necessary, because minds have chosen to see themselves as separate. ³Spirit knows God completely. ⁴That is its miraculous power [to know God]. ⁵The fact that each one has this power completely is a condition entirely alien to the world’s thinking. ⁶The world believes that if anyone has everything, there is nothing left. ⁷But God’s miracles are as total as His Thoughts because they are His Thoughts.

As long as perception lasts prayer has a place. ²Since perception rests on lack, those who perceive have not totally accepted the Atonement and given themselves over to truth. ³Perception is based on a separated state, so that anyone who perceives at all needs healing. ⁴Communion, not prayer, is the natural state of those who know. ⁵God and His miracle are inseparable. ⁶How beautiful indeed are the Thoughts of God [His Sons] who live in His light! ⁷Your worth is beyond perception because it is beyond doubt. ⁸Do not perceive yourself in different lights. ⁹Know yourself in the One Light where the miracle that is you is perfectly clear. (A Course in Miracles, T-3.V.8:6–10:9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We are all God’s miracles — not as bodies but as His Thoughts held forever in His Mind. The perception of ourselves as bodies is an error, a misperception. Only within the false belief system of separation does it seem possible to perceive anything external.

A perception requires a perceiver, separate from what is perceived. This is the mechanism that holds the dream of separation in place. It does not make the dream real but it does reinforce the perceiver’s belief that separation is real. This is the belief that must be let go for us to return to the Knowledge of our oneness in God’s Love.

The antidote for perception is forgiveness. As we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive our perceptions, the veil of separation fades and God’s Light dawns upon our mind. In His Light we know our unity with God and all of His Creations—His Thoughts which create His Sons one with Him.

Today we would awaken, with the Holy Spirit’s help, to the truth that we remain God’s Thought, at one with His joy, peace and Love.

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Deliverance from the Dream of Lovelessness

It is our function to remember [God] on earth, as it is given us to be His Own completion in reality. ²So let us not forget our goal is shared, for it is that remembrance which contains the memory of God, and points the way to Him and to the Heaven of His peace. ³And shall we not forgive our brother, who can offer this to us? ⁴He is the way, the truth and life that shows the way to us. ⁵In him resides salvation, offered us through our forgiveness, given unto him.

We will not end this year without the gift our Father promised to His holy Son. ²We are forgiven now. ³And we are saved from all the wrath we thought belonged to God, and found it was a dream. ⁴We are restored to sanity, in which we understand that anger is insane, attack is mad, and vengeance merely foolish fantasy. ⁵We have been saved from wrath because we learned we were mistaken. ⁶Nothing more than that. ⁷And is a father angry at his son because he failed to understand the truth?

We come in honesty to God and say we did not understand, and ask Him to help us to learn His lessons, through the Voice of His Own Teacher. ²Would He hurt His Son? ³Or would He rush to answer him, and say, “This is My Son, and all I have is his”? ⁴Be certain He will answer thus, for these are His Own words to you. ⁵And more than that can no one ever have, for in these words is all there is, and all that there will be throughout all time and in eternity. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Final Lessons Introduction, W-fl.in.4–6. See also ACIM Lesson 361 Insights.)

Believing an illusion is real is the definition of insanity. Because only the oneness of Love is real, believing in anything else is insane. The world we experience as a body clearly denies the reality of Love’s oneness. It’s an insane dream.

Fortunately it is always possible to awaken from a dream. While we are engaged in a dream, we do not realize we are dreaming. It seems real and we respond to it based on this perception. We need an intervention from outside the dream to help us awaken. God gave us this Helper the instant the dream began. God does not will that His Son suffer. He sees only his innocence and knows His Son as eternally one with Him.

The mission of the Holy Spirit is to lovingly guide our dreaming mind to awaken to our eternal safety, innocence and love. The Holy Spirit is patient because He knows our dreams have no effect on the truth of What we are. While we wander in our misperceptions, He calls to us with messages of Love that guide us to see the presence of Love in our brothers. With His help we forgive our misperceptions and recognize the truth in them beyond the appearance of a body.

Today we practice pausing to step back from our perception and welcoming Christ’s vision to show us our dear brother whose Love is our own As we share this Love, we remember the Love of God in which we live in peace and happiness.

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It’s Time to Choose Everything Instead of Nothing

³Deny your own Identity, and this is what remains. ⁴You look on chaos and proclaim it is yourself.”

Yet what is it except a game you play in which Identity can be denied? ²You are as God created you. ³All else but this one thing is folly to believe. ⁴In this one thought is everyone set free. ⁵In this one truth are all illusions gone. ⁶In this one fact is sinlessness proclaimed to be forever part of everything, the central core of its existence and its guarantee of immortality.

But let today’s idea [I am the holy Son of God Himself] find a place among your thoughts and you have risen far above the world, and all the worldly thoughts that hold it prisoner. ²And from this place of safety and escape you will return and set it free. ³For he who can accept his true Identity is truly saved. ⁴And his salvation is the gift he gives to everyone, in gratitude to Him Who pointed out the way to happiness that changed his whole perspective of the world. (A Course in Miracles, W-191.2:3-4;4:1–5:4. See also ACIM Lesson 191 Insights.)

A single change in what we choose to believe is our identity can free us from the world and awaken us to our true Identity as God’s Son. This choice disowns the mistaken identification with the body as our identity. For the body to be real, separation must be real. But God’s Creation is one with no separation, no differences.

We have learned and over learned that we are a body, with a unique personality that defines us as different from everyone and every thing. This is so important in what we believe that anything that seems to suggest that it is not true or real is perceived as a threat. Our defenses arise immediately to protect this limited identity.

The choice for freedom is simple but it is difficult because of our fear that we will lose the identity we treasure. Yet we treasure an empty image to the exclusion of the Reality of God’s Love, joy and peace. It is time to stop choosing nothing and choose everything by accepting God’s gift of all of Himself to His Son, our true Self.

Today is a day to walk with our mind open to the Voice for Love. It will guide us to see beyond the meaningless forms to the oneness of Love that is our Home. Following this Guide is the choice to be free and be as God created His Son to be.

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