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Seeing with the Eyes of Love

A madman’s dreams are frightening, and sin [separation from Love] appears indeed to terrify. And yet what sin perceives is but a childish game. The Son of God may play he has become a body, prey to evil and to guilt, with but a little life that ends in death. But all the while his Father shines on him, and loves him with an everlasting Love which his pretenses cannot change at all.

How long, O Son of God, will you maintain the game of sin? Shall we not put away these sharp-edged children’s toys? How soon will you be ready to come home? Perhaps today? There is no sin. Creation is unchanged. Would you still hold return to Heaven back? How long, O holy Son of God, how long?

Let me behold the Son of God today, and witness to his glory.

He is Your Son, my Father. And today I would behold his gentleness instead of my illusions. He is what I am, and as I see him so I see myself. Today I would see truly, that this day I may at last identify with [Your Son]. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 250, W-pII.4.4-5;250.1:1,2:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 250 Insights.)

No matter where we live in the world, we seem to be subject to threats to our safety or at least our happiness. But these threats only seem real when we believe we are a body. The body was made to make separation from Love seem real. Everything that appears to happen to the body supports the “reality” of separation, a.k.a. sin. These appearances are nothing but illusions. To believe they are real is self deception.

Believing we are a body denies that we are God’s Son. To see truly means we do not see our brother as a body, but as an extension of God’s eternal Love. This is the truth of what everyone is. So today our prayer is to see with the eyes of Love. This vision sees no sin (separation), for it sees only Love’s oneness. Any appearance that seems to contradict this is simply a call for Love.

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Celebrating the Time of Christ

Father, I give You all my thoughts today. I would have none of mine. In place of them, give me Your Own. I give You all my acts as well, that I may do Your Will instead of seeking goals which cannot be obtained, and wasting time in vain imaginings. Today I come to You. I will step back and merely follow You. Be You the Guide, and I the follower who questions not the wisdom of the Infinite, nor Love whose tenderness I cannot comprehend, but which is yet Your perfect gift to me.

Today we have one Guide to lead us on. And as we walk together, we will give this day to Him with no reserve at all. This is His day. And so it is a day of countless gifts and mercies unto us. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 233, W-pII.233. See also ACIM Lesson 233 Insights.)

Today is dedicated to remembering God, our Creator. He gave us all of Himself — all His Love, all His joy, all His peace. We have forgotten Him by believing we have separated and made a world without Love. In this world we feel lost, alone and afraid. We yearn for the comfort and safety of His Love.

Today we turn to the Guide within that calls us unceasingly to remember we are loved, we are loving, we are Love. We give our little thoughts of separation to Him, knowing that He will joyfully exchange them with His Thought of Love. He welcomes the gift of our little thoughts, for it opens the door for us to receive His eternal Gift of Love. With this practice we celebrate the time of Christ.

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God’s Love Is with Us Eternally

God’s Voice speaks to me all through the day. There is not a moment in which God’s Voice ceases to call on my forgiveness to save me. There is not a moment in which His Voice fails to direct my thoughts, guide my actions and lead my feet. I am walking steadily on toward truth. There is nowhere else I can go, because God’s Voice is the only Voice and the only Guide that has been given to His Son.

I am sustained by the Love of God. As I listen to God’s Voice, I am sustained by His Love. As I open my eyes, His Love lights up the world for me to see. As I forgive, His Love reminds me that His Son is sinless. And as I look upon the world with the vision He has given me, I remember that I am His Son. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 69, W-pI.60.4-5. See also ACIM Lesson 60 Insights.)

God’s Voice is our eternal connection with our Creator. It is an open channel through which God communicates His Love for us, His Son. This loving Voice is constantly reminding us of the Love we share with God. It is the means by which we learn to see past the images of the world that pictures separation.

This Voice of Love teaches us that we are Love because only Love is real. We need His help because we have convinced ourselves that the body and the world we perceive with it is real. Our belief in it makes us unaware of Love.

The practice of welcoming the Holy Spirit’s lessons in forgiveness dispels the shadows of separation. It is the means to free ourselves to accept and give the eternal flow of Love from our Creator. We are never alone. God’s Love is with us eternally.

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Receiving and Giving the Gift of Forgiveness

Forgiveness 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. All illusions save this one must multiply a thousandfold. But this is where illusions end. Forgiveness is the end of dreams, because it is a dream of waking. It is not itself the truth. Yet does it point to where the truth must be, and gives direction with the certainty of God Himself. [Forgiveness] is a dream in which the Son of God awakens to his Self and to his Father, knowing They are One.

Forgiveness is the only road that leads out of disaster, past all suffering, and finally away from death. How could there be another way, when this one is the plan of God Himself? And why would you oppose it, quarrel with it, seek to find a thousand ways in which it must be wrong; a thousand other possibilities?

Is it not wiser to be glad you hold the answer to your problems in your hand? Is it not more intelligent to thank the One Who gives salvation, and accept His gift with gratitude? And is it not a kindness to yourself to hear His Voice and learn the simple lessons He would teach, instead of trying to dismiss His words, and substitute your own in place of His? (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 198, W-pI.198,2:10-5:3. See also ACIM Lesson 198 Insights.)

Because God (Love) does not condemn, He has no need to forgive. But when we accept the ego thought system of separation, we accept judgment as a means for making separation appear real. It is this practice of condemnation that needs forgiveness to let it go.

As we let the Holy Spirit teach us to recognize that ego perceptions are unreal, we free ourselves from the ego’s limitations. We open our minds to join with the Mind of Love by letting go of judgment. This is the practice that frees us from the dream of fear and guilt.

When forgiveness is complete, we have let go all barriers to Love’s presence. We awaken from the dream to the certainty of our Home in changeless Love. Forgiveness is the greatest gift we can offer to everyone. Forgiveness is the way we celebrate the birth of Christ in everyone.

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Our Guiltlessness as God’s Son

The only part of your mind that has reality is the part that links you still with God. Would you have all of it transformed into a radiant message of God’s Love, to share with all the lonely ones who have denied Him? God makes this possible. …Leave the world of death behind, and return quietly to Heaven. There is nothing of value here, and everything of value there. Listen to the Holy Spirit, and to God through Him. He speaks of you to you. There is no guilt in you, for God is blessed in His Son as the Son is blessed in Him.

Everyone has a special part to play in the Atonement, but the message given to each one is always the same; God’s Son is guiltless. Each one teaches the message differently, and learns it differently. Yet until he teaches it and learns it, he will suffer the pain of dim awareness that his true function remains unfulfilled in him. The burden of guilt is heavy, but God would not have you bound by it. His plan for your awaking is as perfect as yours is fallible. You know not what you do, but He Who knows is with you. His gentleness is yours, and all the love you share with God He holds in trust for you. He would teach you nothing except how to be happy. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.V.1:1-3,9-12;2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Through the Holy Spirit, God speaks to the part of the mind that believes it is separate and alone. He speaks to us of the Love we are and our eternal unity with God. He speaks to us of God’s joy and reminds us that we have been given this joy by our Creator.

The ego cannot teach us how to forgive or how to join in Love. It tries to offer substitute plans with the promise that these plans will make us happy. Yet because the ego is the denial of Love, its plans will always exclude Love. But happiness is an attribute of Love so the ego’s plans will always fail to bring us lasting happiness.

God’s plan is guaranteed to bring us happiness because His plan returns us to the awareness of changeless Love. It returns us to the Heaven that is our Home. As we learn true forgiveness which shows us Love’s innocence, we see Love’s innocence everywhere because only Love is real.

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We Are Safe in the Heart of Love

Forgiveness offers everything I want.

All the complexities the world has spun of fragile cobwebs disappear before the power and the majesty of this extremely simple statement of the truth.

Here is the answer! Do not turn away in aimless wandering again. Accept salvation now. It is the gift of God, and not the world. The world can give no gifts of any value to a mind that has received what God has given as its own. God wills salvation be received today, and that the intricacies of your dreams no longer hide their nothingness from you.

Open your eyes today and look upon a happy world of safety and of peace. Forgiveness is the means by which it comes to take the place of hell. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 122, W-pI.122.6:7-8:2. See also ACIM Lesson 122 Insights.)

The ego cannot forgive. True forgiveness would eliminate the belief in separation. When forgiveness is complete, the ego would simply cease to seem to exist.

By God’s grace, we have been given the means for true forgiveness. The Holy Spirit’s mission is to teach us to see as He sees; to remember only Love is real. This remembrance comes with true perception, which the Holy Spirit’s vision offers us. His vision sees past the illusionary images of the world to the oneness of Love that is the one Self we all share.

As we accept the Holy Spirit’s vision, the value of the ego’s images diminishes to be replaced by God’s peace and joy. The temporary “benefits” of things in the world are recognized as meaningless in the Light of eternal Love that is seen with true perception. All we really want is to remember that we are Love, at Home in Love, safe in the Heart of Love. Forgiveness offers this.

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Dispelling Fear with Love

…a meaningless world is impossible. Nothing without meaning exists. However, it does not follow that you will not think you perceive something that has no meaning. On the contrary, you will be particularly likely to think you do perceive it.

Recognition of meaninglessness arouses intense anxiety in all the separated ones. It represents a situation in which God and the ego “challenge” each other as to whose meaning is to be written in the empty space that meaninglessness provides. The ego rushes in frantically to establish its own ideas there, fearful that the void may otherwise be used to demonstrate its own impotence and unreality. And on this alone it is correct.

It is essential, therefore, that you learn to recognize the meaningless, and accept it without fear. If you are fearful, it is certain that you will endow the world with attributes that it does not possess, and crowd it with images that do not exist. To the ego illusions are safety devices, as they must also be to you who equate yourself with the ego. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 13, W-pI.13.1:2-3:3. See also ACIM Lesson 13 Insights.)

If we believe we are an individual housed in a body, we are equating ourselves with the ego. God is the Source of all meaning, being eternal and changeless. Only His Love is real. It is our unity with our Creator that gives us meaning. It keeps our true Self eternally connected with the flow of Love.

The ego is trying to make a different meaning that is disconnected from Love. The wish for specialness denies Love because Love is always given equally to all. The ego is afraid of God’s Will because it is competing with God, yielding to His Will would mean the end of the ego.

The Will of our true Self is the same as God’s Will. In our union with God we find peace and happiness. The best the ego can offer are empty substitutes that give the appearance of specialness but cannot be real. Thus the ego’s images are meaningless. When we identity with the ego, we will always feel unfulfilled. Fulfillment comes when we serve our only true purpose — to extend Love. Extending Love is the antidote that dispels the ego’s fear. As we join in Love, we equate ourselves with God’s one Son.

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