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Letting God’s Love Flow Through Us

Forgiveness is the only thing that stands for truth in the illusions of the world. It sees their nothingness, and looks straight through the thousand forms in which they may appear.

Across this bridge [of forgiveness], as powerful as love which laid its blessing on it, are all dreams of evil and of hatred and attack brought silently to truth. They are not kept to swell and bluster, and to terrify the foolish dreamer who believes in them. He has been gently wakened from his dream by understanding what he thought he saw was never there. And now he cannot feel that all escape has been denied to him.

Forgiveness must be practiced, for the world cannot perceive its meaning, nor provide a guide to teach you its beneficence.

Today we practice true forgiveness, that the time of joining be no more delayed. For we would meet with our reality in free­dom and in peace. Our practicing becomes the footsteps lighting up the way for all our brothers, who will follow us to the reality we share with them. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 134, W-pI.134.7:1-2;11;13:1;14:1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 134 Insights.)

The ego is a thought of unforgiveness, the rejection of God’s gift of all of His Love. We cannot ask the thought of unforgiveness to teach us how to forgive.

But we have a Guide Whose function is to teach us to see past the illusions made by the thought of unforgiveness. As a bridge of God’s Love into the world, the Holy Spirit lovingly teaches us to recognize the unreality of illusions. Recognized for what they are, we easily overlook illusions, for they have had no effect on the reality of the Self God created one with Him.

The Holy Spirit’s lessons will never increase our fear. They gently awaken us from the dream of fear and guilt to the experience of God’s peace and joy. Each lesson accepted strengthens our willingness to let the Love of God flow through us. We awaken to the Love we are and remember every brother is one with us in that Love.

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Awakening to Our Homecoming

My function here is to forgive the world for all the errors I have made. For thus am I released from them with all the world.

I am essential to the plan of God for the salvation of the world. For He gave me His plan that I might save the world.

God’s Will is perfect happiness for me. And I can suffer but from the belief there is another will apart from His.

I share my Father’s Will for me, His Son. What He has given me is all I want. What He has given me is all there is. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 115, W-pI.115💯2–3;2:2-3;116💯2-3;2:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 115 Insights.)

Our true Self is God’s one Son, His extension of His Love. The ego is the wish to have something other than God’s universal Love. Because only Love is real, the ego could never truly exist. It can only seem to be real in a dream made by the ego, which projects the world we experience. Because it is the thought of separation, the ego appears as many separate ego’s. Yet they all stem from the single thought of separation.

When we believe the ego’s thought of separation, we join the dream that projects a separated world with a unique identity we call our own. The projected world is a self deception that blinds us from knowing our one Self in the oneness of Love.

The way to heal our blindness is to let go of our allegiance to the ego. Through the Holy Spirit’s vision we learn to dismiss thoughts of separation as meaningless. The dream world is healed as our mind is healed. When we have forgiven all the mistaken thoughts of separation, the world will simply cease to seem to to be.

We no longer project a world of separation, for we have accepted our eternal place in the Mind of God. God’s plan to heal our mistake awakens us from the dream of a separate world. The appearance of many fades as the Light of Love fills our mind and we rejoice with all our brothers in a glorious Homecoming. We are free to be as God created us.

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The Vision That Guides Us Home

Tolerance for pain may be high, but it is not without limit. Eventually everyone begins to recognize, however dimly, that there must be a better way. As this recognition becomes more firmly established, it becomes a turning point. This ultimately reawakens spiritual vision, simultaneously weakening the investment in physical sight. The alternating investment in the two levels of perception is usually experienced as conflict, which can become very acute. But the outcome is as certain as God.

Spiritual vision literally cannot see error, and merely looks for Atonement [correction of perception]. All solutions the physical eye seeks dissolve. Spiritual vision looks within and recognizes immediately that the altar has been defiled and needs to be repaired and protected. Perfectly aware of the right defense [spiritual vision] passes over all others, looking past error to truth. Because of the strength of its vision, it brings the mind into its service. This re-establishes the power of the mind and makes it increasingly unable to tolerate delay, realizing that it only adds unnecessary pain. As a result, the mind becomes increasingly sensitive to what it would once have regarded as very minor intrusions of discomfort. (A Course in Miracles, T-2.III.3:5-4:7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Spiritual vision is the means to awaken from the dream of fear and death. Physical sight sees only images of separation, for it comes from the ego belief in the reality of separation. What the mind believes is true is perceived as real. Ego belief in separation projects a misperception of a world that confirms separation’s reality.

The ego’s misperception is corrected by spiritual vision. It sees past the world’s images of separation to the changeless Spirit that unites everyone in the unity of God’s Love. When we reach the point of willingness to consider that what we have believed is true may be wrong, our mind becomes open to another way of seeing.

We begin to question the part of our mind that has embraced separation; we may not be the separate identity that the ego made. We may be free of its limitations and in fact, wholly held in the invulnerability and Love of God. We become willing to receive the Holy Spirit’s vision to let it correct the misperceptions of the ego. We have begun a journey leading out of the fearful dream. As we give priority to spiritual vision instead of physical sight, we awaken to our eternal Home in God.

Our prayer today: Holy Spirit, guide my vision today for my desire is to remember my true Self, united with every brother in Love’s oneness.

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Making Way for God’s Love in Our Mind

Under the ego’s dark foundation is the memory of God, and it is of this that you are really afraid. For this memory would instantly restore you to your proper place, and it is this place that you have sought to leave. Your fear of attack is nothing compared to your fear of love. You would be willing to look even upon your savage wish to kill God’s Son, if you did not believe that it saves you from love. For this wish caused the separation, and you have protected it because you do not want the separation healed. You realize that, by removing the dark cloud that obscures it, your love for your Father would impel you to answer His Call and leap into Heaven. You believe that attack is salvation because it would prevent you from this. For still deeper than the ego’s foundation, and much stronger than it will ever be, is your intense and burning love of God, and His for you. This is what you really want to hide.

Do not hide suffering from [the Holy Spirit’s] sight, but bring it gladly to Him. Lay before His eternal sanity all your hurt, and let Him heal you. Do not leave any spot of pain hidden from His light, and search your mind carefully for any thoughts you may fear to uncover. For He will heal every little thought you have kept to hurt you and cleanse it of its littleness, restoring it to the magnitude of God. (A Course in Miracles, T-13.III.2;7:3-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Specialness is impossible in the oneness of God’s Love where differences are impossible. In order to have the specialness we treasure, we must deny God’s Love. The only way to deny the reality of Love is to make a fantasy of a world where Love cannot enter. Our bodies and all the images of the world are made to hide the presence of changeless Love.

Our belief that this fantasy of separation is real cannot allow God’s Love to be accepted because the Light of Love would awaken us from the fantasy. Our special, unique identity would disappear into the nothingness from which it came. We believe this would be our annihilation. Yet in truth, it would reveal our true Identity as Love in the Heart of Love.

The emotional, political and military battles in the world all come from the need to defend the fantasy of specialness. The fear of loss of specialness is so intense that we would give up our “life” in its defense. We see this fear played out in individual relationships, in political conflicts within a nation and in conflict between countries. They all have the same root cause — the defense of specialness. All are resolved with one, simple idea: Only Love is real. Nothing else exists in truth.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to heal our fear-based thoughts to make way for the Love of God to fill our minds and remind us that we are His Son, complete and healed and whole. Our true Life is eternal in Him. Life in the fantasy was never really life at all.

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Remembering God’s Strength and Vision

God is my strength. Vision is His gift.

The idea for today combines two very powerful thoughts, both of major importance. It also sets forth a cause and effect relationship that explains why you cannot fail in your efforts to achieve the goal of the course. You will see because it is the Will of God. It is His strength, not your own, that gives you power. And it is His gift, rather than your own, that offers vision to you.

God is indeed your strength, and what He gives is truly given. This means that you can receive it any time and anywhere, wherever you are, and in whatever circumstance you find yourself. Your passage through time and space is not at random. You cannot but be in the right place at the right time. Such is the strength of God. Such are His gifts.

The idea for the day is a beginning step in bringing thoughts together, and teaching you that you are studying a unified thought system in which nothing is lacking that is needed, and nothing is included that is contradictory or irrelevant. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 42. See also ACIM Lesson 42 Insights., W-pI.42.1-2;7:2)

God is our strength. We can do anything that is our/God’s Will. Seeing the face of Christ in all our brothers is our natural ability. It is easy to see innocence because God gave us the ability to see it. God’s strength is always available to help us see. Whenever we are in fear, we can always call on God’s strength in us to help us see Love. The vision given us by God shows us innocence and nothing else. With this vision, we see past judgment to Love.

Let’s join in remembering that God is our strength and vision is His gift today.

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Seeing Past Perception of Differences

Each [holy relationship] has looked within and seen no lack. Accepting his completion, he would extend it by joining with another, whole as himself. He sees no difference between these selves, for differences are only of the body.

Think what a holy relationship can teach! Here is belief in differences undone. Here is the faith in differences shifted to sameness. And here is sight of differences transformed to vision. Reason now can lead you and your brother to the logical conclusion of your union. It must extend, as you extended when you and he joined. It must reach out beyond itself, as you reached out beyond the body, to let you and your brother be joined. And now the sameness that you saw extends and finally removes all sense of differences, so that the sameness that lies beneath them all becomes apparent. Here is the golden circle where you recognize the Son of God. For what is born into a holy relationship can never end. (A Course in Miracles, T-22.in.3:2-4;4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The ego’s seeming existence depends upon belief that the body is real. This is the purpose the ego gives it. Every body is unique, identified by its uniqueness. We give bodies different names to reinforce the belief differences are real.

As we begin to accept that we are not a body, we start to question the importance of these differences. As we practice asking the Holy Spirit what everything is for, we learn the differences that seem to separate us do not affect the truth that we are Spirit, complete and whole, united as one in God’s Love.

Our true Self is in need of nothing; God has already given It all His Love, peace and joy. As we learn this, we no longer seek for completion through relationships with “others.” Now relationships become a means to join together in the awareness of Love’s oneness. The acceptance of oneness automatically includes all. What was once perceived as different becomes accepted as one and the same in the unity of Love.

Today we practice asking the Holy Spirit to help us see past the perception of differences to the unity of Love.

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The Healed Mind Accepts Love’s Unity

Just as forgiveness overlooks all sins that never were ac­complished, healing but removes illusions that have not oc­curred.

Healing, forgiveness, and the glad exchange of all the world of sorrow for a world where sadness cannot enter, are the means by which the Holy Spirit urges you to follow Him. His gentle lessons teach how easily salvation can be yours; how little practice you need undertake to let His laws replace the ones you made to hold yourself a prisoner to death. His life becomes your own, as you extend the little help He asks in freeing you from everything that ever caused you pain.

And as you let yourself be healed, you see all those around you, or who cross your mind, or whom you touch or those who seem to have no contact with you, healed along with you. Perhaps you will not recognize them all, nor realize how great your offering to all the world, when you let healing come to you. But you are never healed alone. And legions upon legions will receive the gift that you receive when you are healed.

Those who are healed become the instruments of healing. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 132, W-pI.132.5:2;9:1-11:1. See also ACIM Lesson 132 Insights.)

Dreaming occurs only in the mind. Appearances in the dream are projected illusions representing what the mind believes is true. Illusions of sickness are fostered by the mind’s belief in separation from the oneness of God’s Love. Because the source of illusions is in the mind, healing can only occur in the mind.

The healed mind is not deceived by appearances in the world. Recognizing illusions for what they are, the healed mind knows its oneness with every mind, joined in the one Self created by the Mind of Love. With its willingness to share the Holy Spirit’s vision, the healed mind offers the gifts of Love, peace and joy to the world.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit’s Help to see as He sees, for we want to accept Love’s blessing and share it with the world.

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