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Remembering We Are as God Created Us

Does Jesus Have a Special Place in Healing?

God’s gifts can rarely be received directly. Even the most advanced of God’s teachers will give way to temptation in this world.

[Jesus Christ] has recognized himself as God created him, and in so doing he has recognized all living things as part of him. There is now no limit on his power, because it is the power of God. So has his name become the Name of God, for he no longer sees himself as separate from Him.

What does this mean for you? It means that in remembering Jesus you are remembering God.

The name of Jesus Christ as such is but a symbol. But it stands for love that is not of this world. It is a symbol that is safely used as a replacement for the many names of all the gods to which you pray. It becomes the shining symbol for the Word of God, so close to what it stands for that the little space between the two is lost, the moment that the name is called to mind. Remembering the name of Jesus Christ is to give thanks for all the gifts that God has given you. And gratitude to God becomes the way in which He is remembered, for love cannot be far behind a grateful heart and thankful mind. God enters easily, for these are the true conditions for your homecoming. (A Course in Miracles, M-23.1:1-2;2:6-3:2;4)

In the Clarification of Terms we are told that Christ is in us just as it is in Jesus. The only difference between us and Jesus is that he has accepted Christ wholly and thus has acknowledged his unity with God. That same unity exists in us but is hidden by illusions of separation coming from the ego. Only these illusions need to be healed.

Calling upon the name of Jesus Christ is calling upon the memory of our complete and total unity in God’s Love. It is calling upon the strength of this union in Love to support us in forgiving the illusions that tempt us to believe we are alone, weak and guilty for having denied our Creator. Jesus has demonstrated that it is possible to wholly forgive all the ego beliefs that stand as barriers to our awareness of the Love we are. His demonstration becomes the staff upon which we can lean for strength when we are tempted by illusions.

Today we call upon the name of Jesus to strengthen us as we practice forgiving the world for what we thought it was. As we walk with him, we journey to Heaven.

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Joining in Love Saves the World

There is a peace that Christ bestows on us.

Who uses but Christ’s vision finds a peace so deep and quiet, undisturbable and wholly changeless, that the world contains no counterpart. Comparisons are still [silent] before this peace. And all the world departs in silence as this peace envelops it, and gently car­ries it to truth, no more to be the home of fear. For love has come, and healed the world by giving it Christ’s peace.

Father, the peace of Christ is given us, because it is Your Will that we be saved. Help us today but to accept Your gift, and judge it not. For it has come to us to save us from our judgment on ourselves. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 305, W-pII.305. See also ACIM Lesson 305 Insights.)

The ego judges God’s gift of Love as inadequate because it does not offer the specialness the ego demands. Having identified with the ego, we need the help of the Holy Spirit to heal the ego’s judgments which we have embraced as our own. These judgments make the world of separation seem real.

As we consistently practice asking the Holy Spirit to reinterpret our perception with Christ’s vision, we learn that the ego’s judgments are not our own. They stand as a barrier to our awareness of God’s gift of Love. With the help of Christ’s vision, we overlook the ego’s interpretations and see the face of Love’s innocence in every brother. Our hearts join together in the oneness of Love.

It is this joining that heals and saves the world. We recognize that God’s Love is everything we want and need. The ego offers us nothing of value, for it only offer illusions. Now we seek only the truth. We seek to accept God’s Love as What we are. Here we find the undisturbable peace of God.

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Healing the Thought of Sacrifice

Never forget you give but to yourself. Who understands what giving means must laugh at the idea of sacrifice. Nor can he fail to recognize the many forms which sacrifice may take. …He recognizes sacrifice remains the one idea that stands behind [all pain, loss, sickness, grief, poverty, starvation and death], and in his gentle laughter are they healed.

Illusion recognized must disappear. Accept not suffering, and you remove the thought of suffering. …The thought of sacrifice gives rise to all the forms that suffer­ing appears to take. And sacrifice is an idea so mad that sanity dismisses it at once.

Never believe that you can sacrifice. There is no place for sac­rifice in what has any value. If the thought occurs, its very pres­ence proves that error has arisen and correction must be made. Your blessing will correct it. Given first to you, it now is yours to give as well. No form of sacrifice and suffering can long endure before the face of one who has forgiven and has blessed himself. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 187, W-pI.187.6:1-2,5;7:1-2,4-5;8. See also ACIM Lesson 187 Insights.)

To believe in separation we must believe that we can disconnect from the oneness of God’s eternal gift of changeless Love. But this belief is insane because it is the belief that the impossible is possible. This can only appear to be true in a dream of illusions.

The Holy Spirit heals our mistaken beliefs by teaching us to recognize illusions. As we let Him guide our thoughts, we learn that what we thought was justification for fear or guilt was actually a call for Love. What seemed to be justification of judgment becomes an opportunity to let Love heal our misperception. We accept Love’s healing blessing by giving Love’s blessing to the world. The illusion of separation disappears as we accept the oneness of God’s Love.

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Learning to Accept God’s Gift of Peace

Peace of mind is clearly an internal matter. It must begin with your own thoughts, and then extend outward. It is from your peace of mind that a peaceful perception of the world arises.

Search your mind for fear thoughts, anxiety-provoking situations, “offending” personalities or events, or anything else about which you are harboring unloving thoughts. Note them all casually, repeating the idea:

I could see peace in this situation instead of what I now see in it.

(A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 34, W-pI.34.1:2-4;3:2-3;5:4. See also ACIM Lesson 34 Insights.)

We are training our mind to choose with the Holy Spirit, instead of with the ego. With Holy Spirit, we are reversing thoughts of conflict to thoughts of peace, joy and Love. We reversing thoughts of vulnerability and weakness, and claiming our Higher Power within. We are accepting enlightened thoughts instead of dark, depressing thoughts.

Today we practice accepting peace from our inner Teacher, the Holy Spirit. We allow ourselves to feel the calmness and safety that eternally surround us.

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We Are Entitled to Happiness

Happiness is an attribute of love. It [happiness] cannot be apart from it [Love]. Nor can [happiness] be experienced where love is not. Love has no limits, being everywhere. And therefore joy is everywhere as well. Yet can the mind deny that this is so, believing there are gaps in love where sin [separation] can enter, bringing pain instead of joy. This strange belief would limit happiness by redefining love as limited, and introducing opposition in what has no limit and no opposite.

Allow this one correction to be placed within your mind each waking hour today. Then welcome all the happiness it brings as truth replaces fear, and joy becomes what you expect to take the place of pain. God, being Love, [happiness] will be given you. Bolster this expectation frequently throughout the day, and quiet all your fears with this assurance, kind and wholly true:

God, being Love, is also happiness.
And it is happiness I seek today.
I cannot fail, because I seek the truth. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 103, W-pI.103.1;3. See also ACIM Lesson 103 Insights.)

Limitless joy is our birthright. It is already ours. We are not aware of it because we have disowned what God gave us. But God did not stop giving it. We can reclaim our birthright in any moment by forgiving, letting go of, the mistaken belief that we have separated from God.

The statement, “I need do nothing,” means stop interfering with the eternal flow of the Love and happiness that God is giving us. There is nothing we need do to qualify or earn His gifts. We just need to stop interfering and rejecting His gifts.

Today we will remind ourselves frequently that happiness belongs to us because it is God’s Will, and therefore ours. We are entitled to happiness now.

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Awakening to the Perfect Son of God

The unforgiving mind is full of fear, …sad, …suffers and abides in misery….”

Forgiveness is acquired. It is not inherent in the mind, which cannot sin [separate from God]. As sin is an idea you taught yourself, forgiveness must be learned by you as well, but from a Teacher other than yourself, Who represents the other Self in you. Through Him you learn how to forgive the self you think you made, and let it disappear. Thus you return your mind as one to Him Who is your Self, and Who can never sin.

Each unforgiving mind presents you with an opportunity to teach your own how to forgive itself. Each one awaits release from hell through you, and turns to you imploringly for Heaven here and now. It has no hope, but you become its hope. And as its hope, do you become your own. The unforgiving mind must learn through your forgiveness that it has been saved from hell. And as you teach salvation, you will learn. Yet all your teaching and your learning will be not of you, but of the Teacher Who was given you to show the way to you.”

Forgiveness is the key to happiness. I will awaken from the dream that I am mortal, fallible and full of sin, and know I am the perfect Son of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 121, W-pI.121.2;6;7;13:6-7. See also ACIM Lesson 121 Insights.)

When we or a brother appear to be fearful, angry, sad, miserable or sick, it is a call for Love. Sin, separation from God, is the belief in lack of Love. Where Love is absent, there can be no peace or happiness. This could only seem to occur in a dream of being separate from God, Love. Forgiveness is the key to happiness because it is the means to let go of the mistaken belief that it is possible to not be Love, to not be one with our Creator.

Letting go of belief in being without Love awakens us to our true Self, Who remains unbreakably united with Its Source. The Holy Spirit in our minds was given us to teach us how to let go of the false identity we taught ourselves to believe is real.

This little self is maintained only through belief. Through undoing these mistaken beliefs with the help of our inner Teacher, we are restored to our Self. We are restored to the undisturbable peace, indescribable joy and unlimited, eternal Love in the Heaven that is our Home. We remember that we are the perfect Son of God.

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Letting Our True Self Be Our Guide

If you are as God created you, then there has been no separation of your mind from His, no split between your mind and other minds, and only unity within your own.

You are as God created you. Today honor your Self. Let graven images you made to be the Son of God instead of what he is be worshipped not today. Deep in your mind the holy Christ in you is waiting your acknowledgment as you. And you are lost and do not know yourself while He is unacknowledged and unknown.

Seek Him today, and find Him. He will be your Savior from all idols you have made. For when you find Him, you will under­stand how worthless are your idols, and how false the images which you believed were you. Today we make a great advance to truth by letting idols go, and opening our hands and hearts and minds to God today. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 110, W-pI.110.4:1;9-10. See also ACIM Lesson 110 Insights.)

When we believe we are a separate identity in a body, we are believing in a false image, an idol made to replace our true Self, the Son of God. This belief blocks our awareness of the loving Self that remains eternally one with God.

Again and again the Course emphasizes that we were created as God’s Son and this will never change. Our beliefs do not change Reality, but they can block our awareness of It. This is why forgiveness of our mistaken beliefs is the path to awakening to Reality.

Today let us pause frequently to ask, “How would Love perceive this… [situation, relationship, thought]?” With this question we are seeking to let our true Self be our Guide. With this as our focus, Christ’s vision will see past the false images of the world and show us our unity with the Love that is everywhere around us and in us.

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