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Satisfying Our Hunger for Love

You are my goal, my Father. Only You.

Where would I go but Heaven? ²What could be a substitute for happiness? ³What gift could I prefer before the peace of God? ⁴What treasure would I seek and find and keep that can compare with my Identity? ⁵And would I rather live with fear than love?

You are my goal, my Father. ²What but You could I desire to have? ³What way but that which leads to You could I desire to walk? ⁴And what except the memory of You could signify to me the end of dreams and futile substitutions for the truth? ⁵You are my only goal. ⁶Your Son would be as You created him. ⁷What way but this could I expect to recognize my Self, and be at one with my Identity? (A Course in Miracles, W-287. See also ACIM Lesson 287 Insights.)

Everyone in the world is hungry for Love. Under the ego’s direction we are led on fruitless searches, looking for Love in all the wrong places. The ego’s goal is always to avoid Love, for the full acceptance of Love’s oneness would be its end.

We are hungry because we want to return to awareness of our true Self. We want to return to our Source. We want to return to Love, our true Identity.

Today we call upon the Holy Spirit, Whose mission is to lead us Home to Love. His vision shows us the presence of Love beyond the ego’s decoys that are lifeless substitutes for Love. By following the Holy Spirit, we awaken to the Love we are; our hunger is satisfied.

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Finding What We Truly Want

³The only purpose worthy of your mind this world contains is that you pass it by,…

Pause and be still a little while, and see how far you rise above the world, when you release your mind from chains and let it seek the level where it finds itself at home. ²It will be grateful to be free a while. ³It knows where it belongs. ⁴But free its wings, and it will fly in sureness and in joy to join its holy purpose. ⁵Let it rest in its Creator, there to be restored to sanity, to freedom and to love.

Give it ten minutes rest three times today. ²And when your eyes are opened afterwards, you will not value anything you see as much as when you looked at it before. ³Your whole perspective on the world will shift by just a little, every time you let your mind escape its chains. ⁴The world is not where it belongs. ⁵And you belong where it would be, and where it goes to rest when you release it from the world. ⁶Your Guide is sure. ⁷Open your mind to Him. ⁸Be still and rest.

Protect your mind throughout the day as well. ²And when you think you see some value in an aspect or an image of the world, refuse to lay this chain upon your mind, but tell yourself with quiet certainty:

³This will not tempt me to delay myself.
⁴The world I see holds nothing that I want. (A Course in Miracles, W-128.2:3;6-8. See also ACIM Lesson 128 Insights.)

Everything the ego values is worthless. It will not bring us lasting happiness or peace. It is an expression of the denial of Love, so it cannot offer Love. Only our belief in this false world seems to give it value.

We are free to change our belief in every instant. We open to this change as we recognize nothing in this world can give us what we truly want. Our true Self wants only to give the Love it freely receives from Its Creator. This is where we find joy and peace. This is how we know we are Love and nothing else.

Today we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to see the Love that surrounds us and join with It in joyous peace.

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The Reality of Love

A miracle is a correction. ²It does not create, nor really change at all. ³It merely looks on devastation, and reminds the mind that what it sees is false. ⁴It undoes error, but does not attempt to go beyond perception, nor exceed the function of forgiveness. ⁵Thus it stays within time’s limits. ⁶Yet it paves the way for the return of timelessness and love’s awakening, for fear must slip away under the gentle remedy it brings.

Forgiveness is the home of miracles. ²The eyes of Christ deliver them to all they look upon in mercy and in love. ³Perception stands corrected in His sight, and what was meant to curse has come to bless. ⁴Each lily of forgiveness offers all the world the silent miracle of love. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.13.1;3:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 341 Insights.)

Our goal today is to view the world through the eyes of Christ. We call upon the Holy Spirit to be our Guide. With His help we will set aside the petty judgments, the conflict, uncertainty and lovelessness we see with the body’s eyes. With His help we will see Love’s presence through the eyes of Christ. With this vision, we will become aware that fear and guilt are baseless. For we will be seeing the reality of Love with the eyes of Love.

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Forgiveness Welcomes Love

I am entitled to miracles.

²I am entitled to miracles [extensions of Love] because I am under no laws but God’s. ³His laws release me from all grievances [belief in separation], and replace them with miracles. ⁴And I would accept the miracles in place of the grievances, which are but illusions that hide the miracles beyond. ⁵Now I would accept only what the laws of God entitle me to have, that I may use it on behalf of the function He has given me.

You might use these suggestions for specific applications of this idea:

²Behind this is a miracle [extension of Love] to which I am entitled.
³Let me not hold a grievance [belief in separation] against you, [name], but offer you the miracle that belongs to you instead.
⁴Seen truly, this offers me a miracle. (A Course in Miracles, W-89.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 89 Insights.)

The ego rejects God’s gifts. It is the belief that specialness is more valuable than the oneness of God’s Love. The best the ego can offer is a dream in which specialness seems possible and real. This is the dream we experience as human beings in a world of fear, conflict and lack. Lasting happiness cannot be found in this dream.

But the miracle of Love’s extension into the dream opens the door to acceptance of God’s gifts. We cannot make a miracle on our own. We need the Holy Spirit’s help to remember the truth that only Love is real. We make way for this awakening from the dream through forgiveness. Forgiveness releases the ego’s grievance against God.

Whenever we judge another, we are really expressing the ego’s grievance against the truth that everyone is united in God’s Love. When we accept the Love that we are and everyone is, we free ourselves from the ego’s imprisonment in a dream of lovelessness. As we observe ourselves judging, we can welcome a new perspective by reminding ourselves that beyond this appearance is the expression of God’s Love. We welcome the Holy Spirit’s vision in place of the ego’s projection. This is a miracle.

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Love’s Oneness Is Beyond Comparison

⁵It is not our part to judge our worth, nor can we know what role is best for us; what we can do within a larger plan we cannot see in its entirety. ⁶Our part is cast in Heaven, not in hell.

Whatever your appointed role may be, it was selected by the Voice for God, Whose function is to speak for you as well. ²Seeing your strengths exactly as they are, and equally aware of where they can be best applied, for what, to whom and when, He chooses and accepts your part for you.

It is through His ability to hear one Voice which is His Own that you become aware at last there is one Voice in you. ²And that one Voice appoints your function, and relays it to you, giving you the strength to understand it, do what it entails, and to succeed in everything you do that is related to it. ³God has joined His Son in this, and thus His Son becomes His messenger of unity with Him.

²It is this Voice which speaks of laws the world does not obey; which promises salvation from all sin, with guilt abolished in the mind that God created sinless. (W-154.1:5-6;2:1-2;3;4:2)

The ego judges in terms of specialness. It may be satisfied that some aspects are sufficiently special. But it always dwells upon the areas it judges insufficient and is quick to draw attention to our inadequacies.

The Holy Spirit knows us as God’s Son. He knows God has given us all of Himself, Which is all that is real. We can count upon the Holy Spirit to judge us truly and remind us of our true worth. Unlike the ego, the Holy Spirit does not compare. He knows we are all united in the universal sameness of God’s Love.

As we let the Holy Spirit be our Guide, we become God’s messengers. We remember that we are Love Itself and extend Love equally to all. This is the one function God would have us fulfill. Today we will practice being a messenger of Love.

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We Let the Light of Love Lead Us Today

Peace be to me, the holy Son of God. Peace to my brother, who is one with me. Let all the world be blessed with peace through us.

Father, it is Your peace that I would give, receiving it of You. ²I am Your Son, forever just as You created me, for the Great Rays remain forever still and undisturbed within me. ³I would reach to them in silence and in certainty, for nowhere else can certainty be found. ⁴Peace be to me, and peace to all the world. ⁵In holiness were we created, and in holiness do we remain. ⁶Your Son is like to You in perfect sinlessness. ⁷And with this thought we gladly say “Amen.” (A Course in Miracles, W-360. See also ACIM Lesson 360 Insights.)

No matter what the appearances there are in the world, the peace of God is in us. He is our Source to Which we are eternally connected. We call upon His peace as we start the day, confident that He is with us. Throughout the day we will remind ourselves that His peace is ours. We are certain that peace is there for us to claim.

We rest in His peace, confident that He will guide us in all our doing today. The Light of His Love shines on our path to lead us in the way of Love. We walk with gratitude in His peace, for we are blessed by His enduring Love. Today we receive God’s peace and extend God’s peace. And we give thanks.

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Accepting Our Innate Holiness

My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy.

Today’s idea does not describe the way you see yourself now. ²It does, however, describe what vision will show you. ³It is difficult for anyone who thinks he is in this world to believe this of himself. ⁴Yet the reason he thinks he is in this world is because he does not believe it.

You will believe that you are part of where you think you are. ²That is because you surround yourself with the environment you want. ³And you want it to protect the image of yourself that you have made. ⁴The image is part of this environment. ⁵What you see while you believe you are in it is seen through the eyes of the image. ⁶This is not vision. ⁷Images cannot see.

…the direction of your fantasies about yourself does not matter.

As often as possible during the day, pick up a specific attribute or attributes you are ascribing to yourself at the time and apply the idea for today to them, adding the idea in the form stated above to each of them. ²If nothing particular occurs to you, merely repeat “My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy” to yourself, with closed eyes. (A Course in Miracles, W-35.1:1–2:7;5:3;9. See also ACIM Lesson 35 Insights.)

The key to happiness is to remember Who we are. We were created happy by the Source of happiness. We have not left our Source. So any form of unhappiness must be a false idea of what we are that denies our unity with our Source.

To return to our natural state of happiness we need to remind ourselves frequently that our mind is part of God’s. We share all His attributes, His joy, His peace, His holiness. As we look upon the world today we remind ourselves that the true mind of everyone is part of God’s. We are very holy.

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