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Gratitude for the Love We Are

Love is the way I walk in gratitude.

The Holy Spirit is my only Guide. He walks with me in love. And I give thanks to Him for showing me the way to go.

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

It can be but myself I crucify.

All that I do I do unto myself. If I attack, I suffer. But if I forgive, salvation will be given me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 215, W-pI.215.1. 216.1:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 215 Insights.)

Because we are as God created His Son, we are not a body. To see a brother as a body is to crucify him because we are seeing him as a limited form that is separate from God. To see our brother as a body, we must also believe we are a body. To believe this is to crucify ourselves because we are accepting the ego’s attempt to limit the Son of God. But what God creates shares the limitlessness of His Love.

As we accept our true Self as one with God’s Love, gratitude is inevitable. It comes as we accept the joy and peace of God. His gifts are already ours, but we must clear away the barriers that make us unaware that we are God’s Son. Forgiveness is the way to remove those barriers and welcome the truth of our eternal unity in God’s Love.

Let’s join together in His Love by letting Love guide our vision. With this practice we become God’s messengers of Love.

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The Foundation for Our Loving Thoughts

‘God is the Mind with which I think’ holds the key to what your real thoughts are. They are nothing that you think you think, just as nothing that you think you see is related to vision in any way.

Under all the senseless thoughts and mad ideas with which you have cluttered up your mind are the thoughts that you thought with God in the beginning. They are there in your mind now, completely unchanged. They will always be in your mind, exactly as they always were. Everything you have thought since then [in time] will change, but the Foundation [Mind of God] on which it rests is wholly changeless.

Here is your mind joined with the Mind of God. Here are your thoughts one with His. For this kind of practice only one thing is necessary; approach it as you would an altar dedicated in Heaven to God the Father and to God the Son. For such is the place you are trying to reach. …this is no idle game, but an exercise in holiness and an attempt to reach the Kingdom of Heaven.

…repeat ‘God is the Mind with which I think’ throughout the day to appreciate your mind’s holiness. Stand aside, however briefly, from all thoughts that are unworthy of Him Whose host you are. And thank Him for the Thoughts He is thinking with you. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 45, W-pI.45.1:1-2;7;8:2-5,7;9:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 45 Insights.)

The thoughts we think with God are thoughts of Love. They are thoughts expressing the unity of Love which joins us with the Love in every brother and God.

The split mind that accepts separation can seem to have thoughts, but they are only hallucinations. They are expressions of the denial of Love’s oneness. They seem to shift and change moment to moment. There us no stable foundation in the thought system of separation. Beneath those hallucinations is the changeless Foundation of the Mind of God.

The repetition of today’s idea reminds us of the perfect stability of the changeless Mind of God. Here we find peace, for what is changeless can never be disturbed. Here we find happiness, for joy comes when our thoughts express the Love of God. Our hearts are filled with gratitude.

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Being a Messenger of Love

You are one Self, united and secure in light and joy and peace. You are God’s Son, one Self, with one Creator and one goal; to bring awareness of this oneness to all minds, that true creation may extend the allness and the unity of God. You are one Self, complete and healed and whole, with power to lift the veil of darkness from the world, and let the light in you come through to teach the world the truth about yourself.

You are one Self, in perfect harmony with all there is, and all that there will be. You are one Self, the holy Son of God, united with your brothers in that Self; united with your Father in His Will. Feel this one Self in you, and let It shine away all your illusions and your doubts. This is your Self, the Son of God Himself, sinless as Its Creator, with His strength within you and His Love forever yours. You are one Self, and it is given you to feel this Self within you, and to cast all your illusions out of the one Mind that is this Self, the holy truth in you. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 95, W-pI.95.12-13. See also ACIM Lesson 95 Insights.)

We all have the same unified mission: To bring God’s Love to the world. This is the mission of our true Self, the Son of God.

If we identify with the ego, we are unaware of this mission, denying that it is there. The ego teaches us that Love is weak. But this is just a projection of its own belief in weakness. God is Love and His Love carries all of His strength, which has no opposite. Because only Love is real, It cannot be opposed. Denial makes us unaware of It but cannot change the changeless Love of God.

Today we choose the mission God gave us as His Son. We practice asking the Holy Spirit’s help to see with Christ’s vision, the vision that sees the reality of Love’s innocence and unity. With this practice, we become God’s messengers to help the world accept its unity as one Love.

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Bringing Love’s Blessing to the World

To overcome the world is no more difficult than to surmount your little wall [of guilt]. For in the miracle of your holy relationship, without this barrier, is every miracle contained. There is no order of difficulty in miracles, for they are all the same. Each [miracle] is a gentle winning over from the appeal of guilt to the appeal of love. How can this fail to be accomplished, wherever it is undertaken? Guilt can raise no real barriers against [the appeal of Love]. And all that seems to stand between you and your brother must fall away because of the appeal [of Love] you answered. …[The Holy Spirit’s] home is in your holy relationship. Do not attempt to stand between Him and His holy purpose, for it is yours. But let Him quietly extend the miracle of your relationship to everyone contained in it as it was given.

There is a hush in Heaven, a happy expectancy, a little pause of gladness in acknowledgment of the journey’s end. For Heaven knows you well, as you know Heaven. No illusions stand between you and your brother now. Look not upon the little wall of shadows. The sun has risen over it. How can a shadow keep you from the sun? No more can you be kept by shadows from the light in which illusions end. Every miracle is but the end of an illusion. Such was the journey; such its ending. And in the goal of truth which you accepted must all illusions end. (A Course in Miracles, T-19.IV.A.5:1-7,9-11;6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The Holy Spirit sees every special relationship as a teaching opportunity. The ego uses special relationships to foster guilt by making separation seem real through exclusion. As we let the Holy Spirit help us forgive the imagined difference between what we are and how we perceive a brother, we remove a barrier to Love.

Each time a shadow of guilt is released from a special relationship, Love is allowed to enter. This is the miracle. Because we are one with every brother, this miracle extends to all the world bringing Love’s blessing to all, for Love cannot be limited.

Our practice of bringing all our perceptions in our special relationships to the Holy Spirit to be purified with Love brings blessing to the world.

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Letting the Light of Love Guide Our Way

I will there be light.

I will use the power of my will today. It is not my will to grope about in darkness, fearful of shadows and afraid of things unseen and unreal. Light shall be my guide today. I will follow it where it leads me, and I will look only on what it shows me. This day I will experience the peace of true perception.

There is no will but God’s.

I am safe today because there is no will but God’s. I can become afraid only when I believe there is another will. I try to attack only when I am afraid, and only when I try to attack can I believe that my eternal safety is threatened. Today I will recognize that all this has not occurred. I am safe because there is no will but God’s.

Let me perceive this in accordance with the Will of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 87, W-pI.87.1;3;4:2. See also ACIM Lesson 87 Insights.)

Love is the Light in which we see with true perception. This Light reveals the presence of Love beyond the dark shadows of the ego’s denial of Love. God’s Will is that we have all of Love eternally. When we choose to let Love guide our perception, we choose to perceive in accordance with God’s Will.

Feeling guilty or afraid is a sign that we believe our will is in opposition to God’s Will. We have accepted the ego’s belief that separation is real. This belief is in direct opposition to God’s Will that only the oneness of Love is real. Only in dreams could the ego’s belief seem to be true. Dreams are not real and have no effect on Reality.

We remain eternally safe in the Love of God. To awaken from dreams of fear and death, we need to choose the Light of Love as our Guide for all our perceptions. Today we remind ourselves often that we want to perceive with Love and let all our actions be guided by Love. With this practice we accept God’s Will for us to share His peace and joy.

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Accepting God’s Limitless Love

The search for the special relationship is the sign that you equate yourself with the ego and not with God. For the special relationship has value only to the ego. To the ego, unless a relationship has special value it has no meaning, for it perceives all love as special.

The special relationship is totally meaningless without a body. If you value it, you must also value the body. And what you value you will keep. The special relationship is a device for limiting your self to a body, and for limiting your perception of others to theirs. The Great Rays would establish the total lack of value of the special relationship, if they were seen. For in seeing them the body would disappear, because its value would be lost.

For a time the body is still seen, but not exclusively, as it is seen here. …For you will realize that the only value the body has is to enable you to bring your brothers to the bridge [to Heaven] with you, and to be released together there.

The Holy Spirit asks only this little help of you: Whenever your thoughts wander to a special relationship which still attracts you, enter with Him into a holy instant, and there let Him release you. He needs only your willingness to share His perspective to give it to you completely. (A Course in Miracles, T-16.VI.1:1-3;4:1-6;6:2,5;12:1-2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

In the special relationship, “love” is exclusive. It leaves out everything that is not valued by the special relationship. This denies the universality of God’s Love, which is given equally to all, without limit.

The ego is an attempt to limit God’s extension of Love. The special relationship is the ego’s key tool in its attempt to limit love by denying God’s unlimited Love. When we believe in limited, exclusive love, we are denying our true Self. This denial leads to guilt and fear. For beneath the layers of the ego’s illusions is the awareness that limited love is an attack on God by denying His limitless Love.

The way to free ourselves from the ego’s limits is to be vigilant for any thoughts of limitation. These thoughts characteristically have an underlying guilt and fear: sadness, resentment, conflict and many other forms of lack of peace. We need to be mindful of our level of peace.

Whenever our peace is disturbed, we need to pause and open our minds to the Holy Spirit’s healing. He will show us the radiant Light of Love that shines everywhere to be seen with His vision. In this Light, the body and every image of separation fades as the value we give them diminishes.

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Seeing Past Judgment to Love’s Oneness

To forgive is to overlook. Look, then, beyond error and do not let your perception rest upon it, for you will believe what your perception holds. Accept as true only what your brother is [Son of God], if you would know yourself. Perceive what he is not and you cannot know what you are, because you see him falsely. Remember always that your Identity is shared, and that Its sharing is Its reality.

You do not understand how to overlook errors, or you would not make them. It would merely be further error to believe either that you do not make them, or that you can correct [errors] without a Guide to correction. And if you do not follow this Guide, your errors will not be corrected. The plan is not yours because of your limited ideas about what you are. This sense of limitation [what you think you are] is where all errors arise. The way to undo them, therefore, is not of you but for you.

The Atonement is a lesson in sharing [Love], which is given you because you have forgotten how to do it. The Holy Spirit merely reminds you of the natural use of your abilities. By reinterpreting the ability to attack into the ability to share, He translates what you have made into what God created. (A Course in Miracles, T-9.IV.1:2-7;2:2-3:3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our true Self is the Son of God, which is shared with every brother even though our brothers appear as many. The appearance of many different identities is an illusion made by the ego to hide our true Identity. When we accept the ego’s thoughts, founded in the belief in separation, we cannot truly see our brother or our true Self.

The Holy Spirit’s mission in God’s plan for our atonement is to teach us to overlook the ego’s decoys of separate identities. Forgiveness relieves our mind of the ego’s judgments which maintain separation. Without judgment, we accept Christ’s vision which sees our unity with every brother.

Love does not condemn; It joins in peace in the unity of God’s Love. In this unity, we share God’s joy and peace with everyone. When forgiveness is complete, we have accepted our Self without limitation as God’s one Son.

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