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Accepting the Gift Every Moment Brings

How can you tell when you are seeing wrong, or someone else is failing to perceive the lesson he should learn? ²Does pain seem real in the perception? ³If it does, be sure the lesson is not learned. ⁴And there remains an unforgiveness hiding in the mind that sees the pain through eyes the mind directs.

God would not have you suffer thus. ²He would help you forgive yourself.

This is the lesson God would have you learn: There is a way to look on everything that lets it be to you another step to Him, and to salvation of the world. ²To all that speaks of terror, answer thus:

³I will forgive, and this will disappear.

⁴To every apprehension, every care and every form of suffering, repeat these selfsame words. ⁵And then you hold the key that opens Heaven’s gate, and brings the Love of God the Father down to earth at last, to raise it up to Heaven. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 193, W-193.7:1–8:2;13:1-5. See also ACIM Lesson 193 Insights.)

There is only one lesson God would have us learn, but it takes many forms in the world we seem to live in. The ego’s images overlay the formlessness of God’s all encompassing, changeless Love. Forgiveness undoes the images the ego makes which represent its grievance against God’s Love.

There is a clear symptom that helps us recognize the need for forgiveness. Does our perception include pain or any disturbance of our peace? These disturbances can be a gift from God if we recognize they opportunity they offer to forgive. Each time we recognize that our perception is not peaceful and loving becomes a gift when we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to see with His vision. His vision sees past the illusion to the Reality of Love’s presence everywhere, always.

Let us accept His gifts today by responding to every disturbance of our peace with the thought, “I will forgive and this will disappear.”

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Resting in the Certainty of Love

I have already chosen what You will.

Father, I thought I wandered from Your Will, defied it, broke its laws, and interposed a second will more powerful than Yours. ²Yet what I am in truth is but Your Will, extended and extending. ³This am I, and this will never change. ⁴As You are One, so am I one with You. ⁵And this I chose in my creation, where my will became forever one with Yours. ⁶That choice was made for all eternity. ⁷It cannot change, and be in opposition to itself. ⁸Father, my will is Yours. ⁹And I am safe, untroubled and serene, in endless joy, because it is Your Will that it be so.

Today we will accept our union with each other and our Source. ²We have no will apart from His, and all of us are one because His Will is shared by all of us. ³Through it we recognize that we are one. ⁴Through it we find our way at last to God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 329, W-329. See also ACIM Lesson 329 Insights.)

In truth, we are Love, extended and extending. Nothing else. No form can limit the Love we are, neither in space nor time. Love is eternal. It does not change over time. There is no place where Love is not. This Self that is Love is everywhere, always. Love always joins with Love. Thus are we united with the Love that is every brother and our Creator.

Today we rest in the certainty of the changeless Love that is our being, limitless and forever.

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The Truth That Sets Us Free

God does not suffer conflict. ²Nor is His creation split in two. ³How could it be His Son could be in hell, when God Himself established him in Heaven? ⁴Could he lose what the Eternal Will has given him to be his home forever? ⁵Let us not try longer to impose an alien will upon God’s single purpose. ⁶He is here because He wills to be, and what He wills is present now, beyond the reach of time.

²No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth, and it is truth we seek to reach today. ³…we will ask to see the rising of the real world to replace the foolish images that we hold dear, with true ideas arising in the place of thoughts that have no meaning, no effect, and neither source nor substance in the truth.

Remember often that today should be a time of special gladness, and refrain from dismal thoughts and meaningless laments. ²Salvation’s time has come. ³Today is set by Heaven itself to be a time of grace for you and for the world. ⁴If you forget this happy fact, remind yourself with this:

⁵Today I seek and find all that I want.
⁶My single purpose offers it to me.
⁷No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth. (W-131.8;10:2-3;15)

Feelings of depression, emptiness, inadequacy, superiority, uncertainty, resentment, guilt, anger and fear are all the effect of believing the ego’s lie that separation from God’s Love is real. This mistaken idea leads us to search for the truth. The truth sets us free because it shows us that separation is not real. We remain complete as God created us. We remain whole in the oneness of Love, sharing Love with All That Is.

The key to awakening to the truth is letting the Holy Spirit be our Guide instead of the ego. We can count on His strength to support us in our search for truth. He knows the way. He knows how to teach us to see the truth behind the ego’s false images. He shines a Light that dispels the veils of illusion the ego uses to hide the truth of What we are.

Today we seek the truth by choosing the Holy Spirit to be our Interpreter of all that we perceive in the world.

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Awakening to the Value of Love

All things are valuable or valueless, worthy or not of being sought at all, entirely desirable or not worth the slightest effort to obtain. ²Choosing is easy just because of this. ³Complexity is nothing but a screen of smoke, which hides the very simple fact that no decision can be difficult. ⁴What is the gain to you in learning this? ⁵It is far more than merely letting you make choices easily and without pain.

Heaven itself is reached with empty hands and open minds, which come with nothing to find everything and claim it as their own. ²We will attempt to reach this state today, with self-deception laid aside, and with an honest willingness to value but the truly valuable and the real. ³…begin with this:

I will not value what is valueless, and only what has value do I seek, for only that do I desire to find.

And then receive what waits for everyone who reaches, unencumbered, to the gate of Heaven, which swings open as he comes. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 133, W-133.12:1–14:1. See also ACIM Lesson 133 Insights.)

While we believe we are a body in a world of separation, we do not know how to distinguish what is valuable from what is valueless. The Course tells us to ask of everything, “What is this for?” This means ask the Holy Spirit, not the ego. It values only the valueless—illusions that depend upon separation for their seeming existence. The ego treasures illusions which are inherently valueless. Only the meaning the ego gives illusions seem to give them value.

The Holy Spirit’s assignment is to guide us to the truly valuable. Because only Love is real, only Love is truly valuable. Only Love brings us happiness, for that is an attribute of Love. The Love that is our true Self seeks only to join with Love to be complete. When we let the Holy Spirit guide all our choices, we will be led lovingly and gently to awaken to the Love we are.

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The Way to Overcome All Doubts and Fears

³God is but Love, and therefore so am I.

⁴This Self alone knows Love. ⁵This Self alone is perfectly consistent in Its Thoughts; knows Its Creator, understands Itself, is perfect in Its knowledge and Its Love, and never changes from Its constant state of union with Its Father and Itself.

⁴Let us raise our hearts from dust to life, as we remember this is promised us, and that this course was sent to open up the path of light to us, and teach us, step by step, how to return to the eternal Self we thought we lost.

I take the journey with you. ²For I share your doubts and fears a little while, that you may come to me who recognize the road by which all fears and doubts are overcome. ³We walk together. ⁴I must understand uncertainty and pain, although I know they have no meaning. ⁵Yet a savior must remain with those he teaches, seeing what they see, but still retaining in his mind the way that led him out, and now will lead you out with him. ⁶God’s Son is crucified until you walk along the road with me.

My resurrection comes again each time I lead a brother safely to the place at which the journey ends and is forgot. ²I am renewed each time a brother learns there is a way from misery and pain. ³I am reborn each time a brother’s mind turns to the light in him and looks for me. ⁴I have forgotten no one. ⁵Help me now to lead you back to where the journey was begun, to make another choice with me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Review V, W-rV.in.4:3-5;5:4–7:5. See also ACIM Lesson 17i Insights.)

We have a mighty Companion who knows the way to overcome all our doubts and fears. His Presence never leaves us. We can find the peace and happiness we yearn for. We can remember our unity with the Love of our Creator. We just need to practice stepping back from our interpretations of what we perceive in the world. Today we practice stepping back and letting Him lead the way. It will be a happy, peaceful and loving journey.

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Accepting God’s Help to Forgive

God’s answer is some form of peace. All pain is healed; all misery replaced with joy. All prison doors are opened. And all sin is understood as merely a mistake.

Father, today we will forgive Your world, and let creation be Your Own. ²We have misunderstood all things. ³But we have not made sinners of the holy Sons of God. ⁴What You created sinless so abides forever and forever. ⁵Such are we. ⁶And we rejoice to learn that we have made mistakes which have no real effects on us. ⁷Sin is impossible, and on this fact forgiveness rests upon a certain base more solid than the shadow world we see. ⁸Help us forgive, for we would be redeemed. ⁹Help us forgive, for we would be at peace. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 359, W-359. See also ACIM Lesson 359 Insights.)

The ego doesn’t like to ask for help. It believes it knows what to do and is entirely on its own. This attitude is carefully contrived to keep the Love of God out of this world. This is top priority for the ego because, were Love allowed into the ego’s realm, it would be transformed and the ego would simply cease to seem to be.

To escape from the ego’s loveless world, we need only ask for Help that comes from beyond the ego’s proclaimed domain. Our Father is always with us, ready to help us forgive. We need only be willing to accept His Help. God wants us to know His peace and joy. He wants us to know we share His domain of limitless Love.

Today we are willing to acknowledge we need help to escape from the fear and guilt the ego propagates. We ask for His Help to forgive today.

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Doing Our Part to Free the World from Guilt

Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free.

The ego makes illusions. ²Truth undoes its evil dreams by shining them away. ³Truth never makes attack. ⁴It merely is. ⁵And by [truth’s] presence is the mind recalled from fantasies, awaking to the real. ⁶Forgiveness bids [truth’s] presence enter in, and take its rightful place within the mind. ⁷Without forgiveness is the mind in chains, believing in its own futility. ⁸Yet with forgiveness does the light shine through the dream of darkness, offering it hope, and giving it the means to realize the freedom that is its inheritance.

We would not bind the world again today. ²Fear holds it prisoner. ³And yet Your Love has given us the means [forgiveness] to set [the world] free. ⁴Father, we would release it now. ⁵For as we offer freedom, it is given us. ⁶And we would not remain as prisoners, while You are holding freedom out to us. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 332, W-332. See also ACIM Lesson 332 Insights.)

When we experience disappointment, it means some form in the world did not measure up to our expectations. Disappointment is a form of anger that keeps us locked in the the ego’s dream of guilt.

If, instead, we recognize disappointment as a call to forgive, we can use it as a stepping stone to forgive and free the world from guilt and belief in separation. Today we choose to watch for signs of unforgiveness and ask for truth to fill our mind. Thus we do our part to set the world free and return to Love.

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