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Being Faithful to God’s Love

Creation’s freedom promises my own.

The end of dreams is promised me, because God’s Son is not abandoned by His Love. Only in dreams is there a time when he appears to be in prison, and awaits a future freedom, if it be at all. Yet in reality his dreams are gone, with truth established in their place. And now is freedom his already. Should I wait in chains which have been severed for release, when God is offering me freedom now?

I will accept Your promises today, and give my faith to them. My Father loves the Son Whom He created as His Own. Would You with­hold the gifts You gave to me? (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 279, W-pII.279. See also ACIM Lesson 279 Insights.)

Our misplaced faith in the ego leads us to believe its fantasy of a world where everything is limited, Love’s oneness is denied and fear, guilt, defense and attack are justified. This fantasy could never be real because it denies the reality of Love. But our faith in the fantasy imprisons us in a world of shadows. But we are not lost forever in this fantasy.

Our true Self remains unaffected by this fantasy. The memory of our Reality remains in our mind, calling to the part of our mind wrapped up in the fantasy. It is the source of our yearning for Love. The ego defends against this yearning by sending us on wild goose chases to preventing us from finding the Love we yearn for. It is always present to be found, but not in the ego’s dream. The Holy Spirit is our unbreakable link that leads us to return to the Love in which we were created and in which we remain.

We need to switch our faith from the ego to God. As we give our faith to His Voice, we will learn to correct our misperceptions and free ourselves from the mistaken belief in limitation and lack of Love. God has promised that His Son remain eternally within His Love. We choose Love as our Guide today, for we would be free to be the limitless Love we were created to be.

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Remembering the Love We Are

The Holy Spirit stands at the end of time, where you must be because He is with you. He has already undone everything unworthy of the Son of God, for such was His mission, given Him by God. And what God gives has always been.

You will see me [Jesus] as you learn the Son of God is guiltless. He has always sought his guiltlessness, and he has found it. For everyone is seeking to escape from the prison he has made, and the way to find release is not denied him. Being in him, he has found it. When he finds it is only a matter of time, and time is but an illusion. For the Son of God is guiltless now, and the brightness of his purity shines untouched forever in God’s Mind. God’s Son will always be as he was created. Deny your world and judge [God’s Son] not, for his eternal guiltlessness is in the Mind of his Father, and protects him forever. (A Course in Miracles, T-13.I.4:4-5:8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our true Self, God’s Son, resides eternally in God’s Mind, safe in His changeless Love. This Self is free to extend Love without limit, along with God. God knows no limit and what God creates is as limitless as Himself.

The ego is an attempt to limit Love. Our belief in limited love imprisons us in a world of limitation, where Love cannot be found. We retain the memory of limitless Love, but our belief in limits makes us unaware of It.

The memory of Love calls to us, so we seek to find that Love. But the ego directs us on countless searches where Love cannot be found. It always seeks form instead of content. It searches for special relationships, status, possession of special things, none of which satisfy because they are empty shells, void of Love’s oneness.

There is a better way. We answer the call to Love by being willing to open our mind to the Holy Spirit’s lead. He will guide us in the way of Love to remember the Love we are. As we remember, we see our unity with the Love in every brother. The forms in the world are overlooked as the Love we are joins with the reality of Love in everyone. This practice awakens us to our true Self, the limitless Love of God.

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Being a Messenger of Peace in the World

I will be still, and let the earth be still along with me. And in that stillness we will find the peace of God. It is within my heart, which witnesses to God Himself.

I bless the world because I bless myself.

God’s blessing shines upon me from within my heart, where He abides. I need but turn to Him, and every sorrow melts away, as I accept His boundless Love for me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 208, W-pII.208.1:2-4;207.1:1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 208 Insights.)

We are constantly bombarded with appearances that disturb our peace, if we let them. These appearances are projections designed by the ego to trick us into believing separation is real, the body is our identity and we must be on constant guard for our safety. The ego views peace as its adversary to be defended against.

We have the means to neutralize the ego and reduce its affects on our peace of mind to nothing. We start with stilling our mind. We pause, take a breath and tune in to the peace of God within us. It’s there, waiting for us to welcome it and accept it. From that place of stillness in God’s peace, we bring peace to the world. We are able to see the ego’s apparitions as nothing but a false idea which we overlook as we dwell in the peace of God.

In God’s peace we are certain of our invulnerability. We feel the strength of Love supporting and embracing us. In this certainty, we recognize the Love we are in every brother. He is not an adversary but a true friend, united with us in the oneness of God’s Love.

Let us practice this today to be messengers of peace in the world.

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There Is Truly Nothing to Fear

My Father gives all power unto me.

The Son of God is limitless. There are no limits on his strength, his peace, his joy, nor any attributes his Father gave in his creation. What he wills with his Creator and Redeemer must be done. His holy will can never be denied, because his Father shines upon his mind, and lays before it all the strength and love in earth and Heaven. I am he to whom all this is given. I am he in whom the power of my Father’s Will abides.

Your Will can do all things in me, and then extend to all the world as well through me. There is no limit on Your Will. And so all power has been given to Your Son. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 320, W-pII.320. See also ACIM Lesson 320 Insights.)

The world is constantly giving us signals to “prove” that we are weak, vulnerable and powerless to protect ourselves from the constant danger that seems to surround us. All this centers on the body, the ego’s substitute for the Son of God. If we believe we are a body, we have every reason to be fearful.

Yet God did not create the body. He created His Son one with Him and shared all of His power, His changelessness and His Love. Thus our true Self, God’s Son, has all God’s strength and Love. As we accept this Self as our Identity instead of the powerlessness of this body, we can walk in the dream world fearlessly, for we know no appearance in the world can affect our true Self.

Our safety is guaranteed by God. As we live more and more in the awareness of the Love we are, we become God’s teachers in the world. We become channels of His Love to bring healing to the minds of those living with the mistaken belief that they are a body.

Today we practice asking the Holy Spirit to heal our fear-based thoughts that we may view the world with the Light of Love and demonstrate that, in truth, there is nothing to fear.

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Letting the Christ in Us Transform Our World

The holy Christ is born in me today.

Watch with me, angels, watch with me today. Let all God’s holy Thoughts surround me, and be still with me while Heaven’s Son is born. Let earthly sounds be quiet, and the sights to which I am accustomed disappear. Let Christ be welcomed where He is at home. And let Him hear the sounds He understands, and see but sights that show His Father’s Love. Let Him no longer be a stranger here, for He is born again in me today.

Your Son is welcome, Father. He has come to save me from the evil [separate, loveless] self I made. [Christ] is the Self that You have given me. He is but what I really am in truth. He is the Son You love above all things. He is my Self as You created me. It is not Christ that can be crucified. Safe in Your Arms let me receive Your Son. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 303 , W-pII.303. See also ACIM Lesson 303 Insights.)

Christ is born in us when we accept the Son God created as our Self. The self we believe we are is the ego’s false substitute which denies God’s gift of all of His Love. The birth of Christ in us is simply the acknowledgement of the Love we have always been in truth.

The path to complete acceptance of Christ as our Identity is through forgiveness of the false beliefs of the ego. We forgive by accepting Love as our Guide and Interpreter of all we perceive. Love sees only Itself and recognizes denial of Love as a call for Love. With Love as our Guide, the world is transformed and we see God’s world of Love instead of the ego’s denial of Love.

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Letting Love Illuminate Our Perceptions

Why wait for Heaven? Those who seek the light are merely covering their eyes. The light is in them now. Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all. …[Light] is the only thing you bring with you from Him Who is your Source. It shines in you because it lights your home, and leads you back to where it came from and [where] you are at home.

This light can not be lost.

It is not difficult to look within, for there all vision starts. There is no sight, be it of dreams or from a truer Source, that is not but the shadow of the seen through inward vision. There perception starts, and there it ends. It has no source but this.

The peace of God is shining in you now, and from your heart extends around the world. It pauses to caress each living thing, and leaves a blessing with it that remains forever and forever.”

The peace of God can never be contained. Who recognizes [peace] within himself must give it. And the means for giving it are in his understanding. He forgives because he recognized the truth in him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 188, W-pI.188.1:1-4;7-8;2:1;2:5-3:2;5:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 188 Insights.)

 

The Light of Love is in us eternally. It is everything we are, God’s gift to His Son. We can reclaim It as ours in any moment. We just need to stop denying What we are.

God’s gift of His Love brings His peace with It. Peace is an attribute of Love and cannot be experienced when Love is denied.

The world we see is a projection of what we believe we are. If we believe we are a separate identity, we perceive a world of separation. If we look within and accept the Love we are, we perceive the Light of Love everywhere. Our perceptions always show us what we believe we we are. If we do not see Love’s oneness, we are seeing a reflection of a belief that needs to be forgiven. Our perceptions are always offering us this lesson.

Today we call upon the Light of Love in us to illuminate our perceptions with Its beneficence. In Its Light, we will see beyond the forms of the world to the presence of Love. Conflict will be dispelled in the presence of Love’s peace. The self-made barriers to Love’s extension fade away. We perceive an increasingly happy world where judgment is let go and the Love of our brothers is accepted. We join in Love’s oneness, bringing Its blessing to the world.

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Love’s Guarantee

I merely follow, for I would not lead.

Father, You are the One Who gave the plan for my salvation to me. You have set the way I am to go, the role to take, and every step in my appointed path. I cannot lose the way. I can but choose to wander off a while, and then return. Your loving Voice will always call me back, and guide my feet aright. My brothers all can follow in the way I lead them. Yet I merely follow in the way to You, as You direct me and would have me go.

So let us follow One Who knows the way. We need not tarry, and we cannot stray except an instant from His loving Hand. We walk together, for we follow Him. And it is He Who makes the ending sure, and guarantees a safe returning home. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 324, W-pII.324. See also ACIM Lesson 324 Insights.)

The Voice of Love is always calling us Home. It offers us a plan to awaken from the dream of separation and fear. It is a plan guaranteed to work for it leads us from the ego’s dream of fear to the reality of Love’s Oneness.

The ego defends against Love’s plan with plans of its own. Its plans are guaranteed not to work. They lead us on fruitless searches for the only thing we lack in the dream — Love. The ego is terrified of Love because were we to find and accept It, the ego would disappear into the nothingness from which it came. We would be at Home in the warm embrace of the eternity of Love.

Today we choose the Voice for Love to Guide our thoughts, our words and our actions. Love is guaranteed to lead us Home.

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