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The Process of Awakening to Love

I love You, Father, and I love Your Son.

My gratitude permits my love to be accepted without fear. ²And thus am I restored to my reality at last. ³All that intruded on my holy sight forgiveness takes away. ⁴And I draw near the end of senseless journeys, mad careers and artificial values. ⁵I accept instead what God establishes as mine, sure that in that alone I will be saved; sure that I go through fear to meet my Love.

Father, I come to You today, because I would not follow any way but Yours. ²You are beside me. ³Certain is Your way. ⁴And I am grateful for Your holy gifts of certain sanctuary, and escape from everything that would obscure my love for God my Father and His holy Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-298. See also ACIM Lesson 298 Insights.)

It is impossible to be grateful for what we judge against. The wish for specialness is a judgment against the oneness of God’s Love. When we align with the ego thought system, the thought of separation, we do not welcome God’s Love. The belief in separation is manifested in the dream as images perceived as forms, personalities and time, that maintain our wish for specialness.

Forgiveness of the dream is a process. Each time we let go of a judgmental thought, we take a step toward the release that forgiveness brings. As we continue this practice, we begin to realize that we are forgiving the central belief that separation is real. The Love we are is eternally united with the Love in every brother. Together we are united with the Love of our Father. Our gratitude for God’s Love increases as we walk toward accepting His Love.

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Letting Love Inspire Our Doing

All gifts my brothers give belong to me.

Each day a thousand treasures come to me with every passing moment. ²I am blessed with gifts throughout the day, in value far beyond all things of which I can conceive. ³A brother smiles upon another, and my heart is gladdened. ⁴Someone speaks a word of gratitude or mercy, and my mind receives this gift and takes it as its own. ⁵And everyone who finds the way to God becomes my savior, pointing out the way to me, and giving me his certainty that what he learned is surely mine as well.

I thank You, Father, for the many gifts that come to me today and every day from every Son of God. ²My brothers are unlimited in all their gifts to me. ³Now may I offer them my thankfulness, that gratitude to them may lead me on to my Creator and His memory. (A Course in Miracles, W-315. See also ACIM Lesson 315 Insights.)

In the world we perceive everything as form. The ego gives meaning to form. We seek forms to satisfy our needs, to protect us and make us happy. But form is illusion. It has only the meaning ego assigns to it.

As God’s Son, we are a Thought in His mind which remains forever united with Him. God has no form. He is the eternal Thought of Love. We dwell in this one mind. Every loving or forgiving thought in the mind of every brother brings blessing to the one Mind. This is why we are blessed by the loving and forgiving thoughts of every brother.

The ego shows us a world of separation, where decay and death seem real. The Thought of God shows us one world which contains every loving thought. In truth, we live in this universe of Love.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us experience the presence of Love in our mind. When we let our mind rest in Love’s peace, we experience Its blessing. In this presence, we naturally join with the Love in every brother and experience Its blessing. We are inspired to Love. The forms of the world fade from our awareness as the Love we are becomes our focus. Love becomes our Guide with the Holy Spirit’s help and we join in Love’s blessing for all.

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How to Be Free from Guilt

The special relationship is totally meaningless without a body. ²If you value it, you must also value the body. ³And what you value you will keep. ⁴The special relationship is a device for limiting your self to a body, and for limiting your perception of others to theirs. ⁵The Great Rays would establish the total lack of value of the special relationship, if they were seen. ⁶For in seeing them the body would disappear, because its value would be lost.

²For a time the body is still seen, but not exclusively, as it is seen here. …⁵For you will realize that the only value the body has is to enable you to bring your brothers to the bridge 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. ²He needs only your willingness to share His perspective to give it to you completely. (A Course in Miracles, T-16.VI.4:1-6;6:2,5;12:1-2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We see what we value. We see a world of separate bodies because we want separation and specialness to be real. This wish casts a shadow that covers the truth that we remain united in Love. Specialness, which requires differences, denies the universal oneness of Love where can be no difference. This leads to guilt because for one to have something that is his alone, it must be denied of others. This guilt maintains the belief in separation.

We release the guilt when we forgive the mistaken value we give specialness. For this forgiveness, we need the Holy Spirit’s help. Whenever we have a thought that disturbs our peace of mind, guilt has entered. With the practice of bringing these thoughts to the Holy Spirit with willingness to receive His perspective in place of ours, we dispel the veil that hides the Light of Love. The Holy Spirit is ever present and willing to help. When we ask for His help, we have expressed our willingness to accept it. Today we choose release from guilt by welcoming His help.

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We Want to Awaken to Our True Self

Injury is impossible. ²And yet illusion makes illusion. ³If you can condemn, you can be injured. ⁴For you have believed that you can injure, and the right you have established for yourself can be now used against you, till you lay it down as valueless, unwanted and unreal. ⁵Then does illusion cease to have effects, and those it seemed to have will be undone. ⁶Then are you free, for freedom is your gift, and you can now receive the gift you gave.

Condemn and you are made a prisoner. ²Forgive and you are freed. ³Such is the law that rules perception. ⁴It is not a law that knowledge understands, for freedom is a part of knowledge. ⁵To condemn is thus impossible in truth. ⁶What seems to be [condemnation’s] influence and its effects have not occurred at all. ⁷Yet must we deal with them a while as if they had. ⁸Illusion makes illusion. ⁹Except one. ¹⁰Forgiveness is illusion that is answer to the rest.

Forgiveness sweeps all other dreams away, and though it is itself a dream, it breeds no others. ²All illusions save this one must multiply a thousandfold. ³But [forgiveness] is where illusions end. ⁴Forgiveness is the end of dreams, because it is a dream of waking. ⁵It is not itself the truth. ⁶Yet does it point to where the truth must be, and gives direction with the certainty of God Himself. ⁷It is a dream in which the Son of God awakens to his Self and to his Father, knowing They are one. (A Course in Miracles, W-198.1:1–3:7. See also ACIM Lesson 198 Insights.)

Our Self and our Creator are one. This is the truth that forgiveness reveals. Only our wish for specialness, which denies the unity of Love, makes it seem that injury is possible. When we forgive this mistaken wish, the dream is undone. And we return to the oneness of Love.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us see the valuelessness of the dream’s illusions. All we truly want is to awaken to our true Self, united with the Source of Love.

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Waking to Love

Now would I be as God created me.

Today I will accept the truth about myself. ²I will arise in glory, and allow the light in me to shine upon the world throughout the day. ³I bring the world the tidings of salvation which I hear as God my Father speaks to me. ⁴And I behold the world that Christ would have me see, aware it ends the bitter dream of death; aware it is my Father’s Call to me.

Christ is my eyes today, and He the ears that listen to the Voice for God today. ²Father, I come to You through Him Who is Your Son, and my true Self as well. ³Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-237. See also ACIM Lesson 237 Insights.)

Christ is in us as the Self God created eternally one with Himself. Christ is the holy extension of God. He sees Himself forever united in holiness with every brother. Were it not for our allegiance to the ego, we would see the Christ everywhere.

This allegiance is a choice. We can choose differently. We can choose Love over fear, oneness over division. This is the choice between waking to Reality and dreaming of denying God’s Love.

Today we choose Love. We choose to see with the eyes of Christ and hear God’s Voice with His ears. With this choice, we see a world of Light without the shadows of the ego thought system. We welcome Love today.

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Acknowledging Our Unity in God’s Love

I am forever an Effect of God.

Father, I was created in Your Mind, a holy Thought that never left its home. ²I am forever Your Effect, and You forever and forever are my Cause. ³As You created me I have remained. ⁴Where You established me I still abide. ⁵And all Your attributes abide in me, because it is Your Will to have a Son so like his Cause that Cause and Its Effect are indistinguishable. ⁶Let me know that I am an Effect of God, and so I have the power to create like You. ⁷And as it is in Heaven, so on earth. ⁸Your plan I follow here, and at the end I know that You will gather Your effects into the tranquil Heaven of Your Love, where earth will vanish, and all separate thoughts unite in glory as the Son of God.

Let us today behold earth disappear, at first transformed, and then, forgiven, fade entirely into God’s holy Will. (A Course in Miracles, W-326. See also ACIM Lesson 326 Insights.)

The ego tells us that it is arrogant to claim that all God’s attributes are ours and that we can create like Him. Yet, in Reality, it is arrogant to deny God’s Will. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us let go of our mistaken attempts to be separate from all things. Specialness offers nothing of value, for it is nothing more than a dream.

Today we choose to let go of this dream and welcome the Reality that we remain forever united with our Creator. As we learn this lesson, we become His messengers. As we accept the Love we are, we demonstrate to our brothers the Love they are. We acknowledge our unity in Love, joined in the Light of Heaven, at Home in the Heart of God.

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Learn to Be Quiet

¹¹Holy are you, eternal, free and whole, at peace forever in the Heart of God. ¹²Where is the world, and where is sorrow now?

Is this your judgment on yourself, teacher of God? ²Do you believe that this is wholly true? ³No; not yet, not yet. ⁴But this is still your goal; why you are here. ⁵It is your function to prepare yourself to hear this Judgment and to recognize that it is true. ⁶One instant of complete belief in this, and you will go beyond belief to Certainty. ⁷One instant out of time can bring time’s end. ⁸Judge not, for you but judge yourself, and thus delay this Final Judgment. ⁹What is your judgment of the world, teacher of God? ¹⁰Have you yet learned to stand aside and hear the Voice of Judgment in yourself? ¹¹Or do you still attempt to take His role from Him? ¹²Learn to be quiet, for His Voice is heard in stillness. ¹³And His Judgment comes to all who stand aside in quiet listening, and wait for Him.

⁶There is no deceit in God. ⁷His promises are sure. ⁸Only remember that. ⁹His promises have guaranteed His Judgment, and His alone, will be accepted in the end. ¹⁰It is your function to make that end be soon. ¹¹It is your function to hold it to your heart, and offer it to all the world to keep it safe. (A Course in Miracles, M-15.1:11–2:13;.3:6-11)

Learn to be quiet. This is key to letting the Holy Spirit be your Guide. There are times when it can help to step away from the busyness of the world to a quiet place. This can be an opportunity to reset our mind to bring it in greater alignment with our true Self.

But we each have a role to play in the world. It is important to learn to pause and return to peace for a moment in the midst of everyday activity. Such a pause gives the Voice for God welcome in our mind. This practice is the way to let our daily activities be directed by God’s Voice. It is a way to let forgiveness welcome Love’s presence. With His Voice as our Guide, we see the Love in our brothers and we respond with Love when there are calls for It.

The practice of stepping for a moment to the peace in our mind leads to a happy and peaceful life. Kindness becomes our general mood and we walk in gratitude.

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