Living A Course in Miracles — Dismantling the Veil of Love’s Denial

Welcoming the Joyous Present

³The holy instant is the opposite of the ego’s fixed belief in salvation through vengeance for the past. ⁴In the holy instant it is understood that the past is gone, and with its passing the drive for vengeance has been uprooted and has disappeared. ⁵The stillness and the peace of now enfold you in perfect gentleness. ⁶Everything is gone except the truth.

What God has given you is truly given, and will be truly received. ²For God’s gifts have no reality apart from your receiving them. ³Your receiving completes His giving. ⁴You will receive because it is His Will to give. ⁵He gave the holy instant to be given you, and it is impossible that you receive it not because He gave it. ⁶When He willed that His Son be free, His Son was free. ⁷In the holy instant is His reminder that His Son will always be exactly as he was created. ⁸And everything the Holy Spirit teaches is to remind you that you have received what God has given you.

There is nothing you can hold against reality. ²All that must be forgiven are the illusions you have held against your brothers. ³Their reality has no past, and only illusions can be forgiven. ⁴God holds nothing against anyone, for He is incapable of illusions of any kind. ⁵Release your brothers from the slavery of their illusions by forgiving them for the illusions you perceive in them. (A Course in Miracles, T-16.VII.6:3-6;8:1–9:5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Every time our peace is disturbed, it is because we are holding some thought about a past experience. Only when we believe separation is real do we believe that there is a time that is past and a time that is future which is different from the present. In the reality of God’s Love, there is no time, no past, no future. This is the lesson the holy instant offers.

As we open our mind to the Holy Spirit’s Voice, He will help us see the joyous present moment in which the wholeness of God’s Love is undisturbed. In Love’s changelessness, we are perfectly safe. There is no cause for fear nor guilt. Love is all that is real.

Today we welcome the Holy Spirit vision which shows us the joyous present of our Father’s Love.

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Choosing Our Guide to Forgiveness

³Spirit is the Thought of God which He created like Himself. ⁴The unified spirit is God’s one Son, or Christ.

In this world, because the mind is split, the Sons of God appear to be separate. ²Nor do their minds seem to be joined. ³In this illusory state, the concept of an “individual mind” seems to be meaningful. ⁴It is therefore described in the course as if it has two parts; spirit and ego.

Spirit is the part that is still in contact with God through the Holy Spirit, Who abides in this part but sees the other part as well.

The other part of the mind is entirely illusory and makes only illusions.

The mind can be right or wrong, depending on the voice to which it listens. ²Right-mindedness listens to the Holy Spirit, forgives the world, and through Christ’s vision sees the real world in its place.

Wrong-mindedness listens to the ego and makes illusions; perceiving sin and justifying anger, and seeing guilt, disease and death as real. ²Both this world and the real world are illusions because right-mindedness merely overlooks, or forgives, what never happened. (A Course in Miracles, C-1.1:3–3:1;4:1;5:1-2;6:1-2)

In truth, our reality is the one Mind of God. As His Son, we are His Thought, Which has never left His mind.

While we identify with the ego idea of separate identities, it is impossible to understand the our Reality in God’s One Mind. But we can learn to forgive the world by overlooking the forms of the world we see, realizing they never happened.

The Holy Spirit is our Teacher to help us learn this important lesson. It frees us from fear, anger and guilt. The more we forgive, the more clear our perception of the forgiven real world becomes. It is in our best interest to choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide to forgiveness in every moment.

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Finding Our Self Created by Love

In me, God’s holy Son, are reconciled all parts of Heaven’s plan to save the world. ²What could conflict, when all the parts have but one purpose and one aim? ³How could there be a single part that stands alone, or one of more or less importance than the rest? ⁴I am the means by which God’s Son is saved, because salvation’s purpose is to find the sinlessness that God has placed in me. ⁵I was created as the thing I seek. ⁶I am the goal the world is searching for. ⁷I am God’s Son, His one eternal Love. ⁸I am salvation’s means and end as well.

Let me today, my Father, take the role You offer me in Your request that I accept Atonement for myself. ²For thus does what is thereby reconciled in me become as surely reconciled to You. (A Course in Miracles, W-318.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 318 Insights.)

Everyone in this world is searching for love in some way. If we choose the ego as our guide, we will seek love in some form outside ourselves. But this is a futile search, guaranteed to fail. Love is not outside of us.

We were created by Love as Love. All we need to do is accept our Identity as Love’s Creation. In that acceptance we recognize the Love that unifies with all of Creation, Which includes every brother who is united with us as God’s Son.

Today we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to look within to find the Self that is God’s holy Son.

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Learning to Choose the Reality of Love

There is no end to all the peace and joy, and all the miracles that I will give, when I accept God’s Word. Why not today?

“Why should I wait, my Father, for the joy You promised me? ²For You will keep Your Word You gave Your Son in exile. ³I am sure my treasure waits for me, and I need but reach out my hand to find it. ⁴Even now my fingers touch it. ⁵It is very close. ⁶I need not wait an instant more to be at peace forever. ⁷It is You I choose, and my Identity along with You. ⁸Your Son would be Himself, and know You as his Father and Creator, and his Love.” (A Course in Miracles, W-355. See also ACIM Lesson 355 Insights.)

It only takes an instant to make a decision. That is all it takes for us to choose God in place of the ego as our identity. It only seems hard to make this decision because part of our mind still values the idea of specialness.

We have the means within our mind to help us learn that specialness has no value whatsoever. Only in illusions do specialness and differences seem real. We see illusions because we want to see them. The Course is helping us to see that these illusions offer nothing that we truly want.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us sort the valuable from the valueless. As we learn to recognize the presence of Love everywhere, we will learn to recognize all that is truly valuable. Only Love is real. We want to learn to decide for Reality and accept our Identity as God’s Son.

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Learning That Only Love Is Real

The body is a fence the Son of God imagines he has built, to separate parts of his Self from other parts.

The body is a dream. ²Like other dreams it sometimes seems to picture happiness, but can quite suddenly revert to fear, where every dream is born. ³For only love creates in truth, and truth can never fear. ⁴Made to be fearful, must the body serve the purpose given it. ⁵But we can change the purpose that the body will obey by changing what we think that it is for.

The body is the means by which God’s Son returns to sanity. ²Though it was made to fence him into hell without escape, yet has the goal of Heaven been exchanged for the pursuit of hell. ³The Son of God extends his hand to reach his brother, and to help him walk along the road with him. ⁴Now is the body holy. ⁵Now it serves to heal the mind that [the body] was made to kill.

⁴Love is your safety. ⁵Fear does not exist. ⁶Identify with love, and you are safe. ⁷Identify with love, and you are home. ⁸Identify with love, and find your Self. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.5.1:1;3:1–4:5;5:4-8)

Almost all of our time in the dream is focused on maintaining and protecting the body. It keeps our mind preoccupied with our vulnerability and, ultimately, death. That is the ego’s purpose for the body.

Our belief in death centers on the body as our identity. The good news is that we can give the body a new purpose that will lead to awakening to the Life of our true Self, which cannot end. Our true Self is eternal Love. Its joy and peace never end, for It remains one with Its Creator.

We are not locked into the fearful dream of death. We can join with the Holy Spirit in our mind. Under His direction, the body becomes a means to learn of our true Life, Which lives eternally in the Love of God. Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s guidance to help us teach and learn that only Love is real.

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Letting Christ’s Vision Return to Our Mind

Let me remember God created me.

Father, I did not make myself, although in my insanity I thought I did. ²Yet, as Your Thought, I have not left my Source, remaining part of Who created me. ³Your Son, my Father, calls on You today. ⁴Let me remember You created me. ⁵Let me remember my Identity. ⁶And let my sinlessness arise again before Christ’s vision, through which I would look upon my brothers and myself today.

Now is our Source remembered, and Therein we find our true Identity at last. ²Holy indeed are we, because our Source can know no sin. ³And we who are His Sons are like each other, and alike to Him. (A Course in Miracles, W-260. See also ACIM Lesson 260 Insights.)

Christ’s vision shows us that everyone we see or think of is one with our true Self. Together we are God’s one Son. There are no differences between us. Our perfect peace is assured by our unity. There can be no adversary in the oneness of God’s Love. The Identity we all share remains united with our Creator. He shares all that He is with His Son.

To recognize this Reality, we need to forgive our mistaken wish for specialness. Specialness requires there be differences. But differences cannot occur in Love’s oneness. Forgiveness is the way we awaken from dreams of conflicting differences. We are grateful that we have a Guide to help us heal our mistaken beliefs and let them disappear as Christ’s vision returns to our Holy Mind.

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Our Promised Resurrection to Love

³Heaven asks nothing. ⁴It is hell that makes extravagant demands for sacrifice. ⁵You give up nothing in these times today when, undefended, you present yourself to your Creator as you really are.

He has remembered you. ²Today we will remember Him. ³For this is Eastertime in your salvation. ⁴And you rise again from what was seeming death and hopelessness. ⁵Now is the light of hope reborn in you, for now you come without defense, to learn the part for you within the plan of God. ⁶What little plans or magical beliefs can still have value, when you have received your function from the Voice for God Himself?

Try not to shape this day as you believe would benefit you most. ²For you can not conceive of all the happiness that comes to you without your planning. ³Learn today. ⁴And all the world will take this giant stride, and celebrate your Eastertime with you. ⁵Throughout the day, as foolish little things appear to raise defensiveness in you and tempt you to engage in weaving plans, remind yourself this is a special day for learning, and acknowledge it with this:

⁶This is my Eastertime. ⁷And I would keep it holy. ⁸I will not defend myself, because the Son of God needs no defense against the truth of his reality. (A Course in Miracles, W-135.24:3–26:8. See also ACIM Lesson 135 Insights.)

The choice to want specialness in place of the unity of Love triggered a dream of lovelessness in which death is believed to be real. This dream is fraught with conflict and loss. It seems to require constant defense to protect our perceived unique and separate identity. This is not our Home in truth.

Today we are reminded that we can leave this hellish dream behind. We can rise above this mistaken thought system to the oneness of our Creator’s Love. In this Love, we find perfect peace and joy unknown in the dream. Today we gratefully accept the Holy Spirit’s help to remember that we are God’s Son, united in His Love with all of Reality.

His vision shows us the Light of Love that shines brilliantly from our Father and every brother whom He created as His one Son. We are grateful that this promised resurrection is ours to claim.

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