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Remembering Our Unity in Love

³Let us turn to Him Who leads the way and makes our footsteps sure.

His is the only way to find the peace that God has given us. ²It is His way that everyone must travel in the end, because it is this ending God Himself appointed. ³In the dream of time it seems to be far off. ⁴And yet, in truth, it is already here; already serving us as gracious guidance in the way to go. ⁵Let us together follow in the way that truth points out to us. ⁶And let us be the leaders of our many brothers who are seeking for the way, but find it not.

And to this purpose let us dedicate our minds, directing all our thoughts to serve the function of salvation. ²Unto us the aim is given to forgive the world. ³It is the goal that God has given us. ⁴It is His ending to the dream we seek, and not our own. ⁵For all that we forgive we will not fail to recognize as part of God Himself. ⁶And thus His memory is given back, completely and complete.

It is our function to remember Him on earth, as it is given us to be His Own completion in reality. (A Course in Miracles, W-fl.in.1:3;2:1–4:1)

To remember our Father is to remember who we are. Our true Self is everything God is. He has given us all His peace, His joy, His Love. We are grateful He has given us the means to awaken to the truth that we are all united in His Love.

We dedicate today to following His Voice to guide us to fulfill the function He has given us. We welcome His help to see past our mistaken beliefs to the Presence of Love that surrounds us. We want to remember our unity in Love.

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Using the Body to Be a Blessing in the World

My body is a wholly neutral thing.

I am a Son of God. ²And can I be another thing as well? ³Did God create the mortal and corruptible? ⁴What use has God’s beloved Son for what must die? ⁵And yet a neutral thing does not see death, for thoughts of fear are not invested there, nor is a mockery of love bestowed upon it. ⁶Its neutrality protects it while it has a use. ⁷And afterwards, without a purpose, it is laid aside. ⁸It is not sick nor old nor hurt. ⁹It is but functionless, unneeded and cast off. ¹⁰Let me not see it more than this today; of service for a while and fit to serve, to keep its usefulness while it can serve, and then to be replaced for greater good.

My body, Father, cannot be Your Son. ²And what is not created cannot be sinful nor sinless; neither good nor bad. ³Let me, then, use this dream to help Your plan that we awaken from all dreams we made. (A Course in Miracles, W-294. See also ACIM Lesson 294 Insights.)

Like our Father, our true Self is Love and nothing else. In the dream we seem to have a body. It has no motivation of its own. Our mind gives it direction for what to say and do and feel. If it is the ego part of our mind that gives it direction, it seems to be capable of harm. It attacks itself with sickness or others with words or actions.

Our true Self directs the body to express Love in the dream. Its expression brings with it awareness of our unity as God’s one Son. It brings blessing, happiness and peace. Today we dedicate to using the body for Love’s extension in the dream.

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Remembering Our Eternal Unity in Love

Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free.

The ego makes illusions. ²Truth undoes its evil dreams by shining them away. ³Truth never makes attack. ⁴It merely is. ⁵And by its presence is the mind recalled from fantasies, awaking to the real. ⁶Forgiveness bids this presence enter in, and take its rightful place within the mind. ⁷Without forgiveness is the mind in chains, believing in its own futility. ⁸Yet with forgiveness does the light shine through the dream of darkness, offering it hope, and giving it the means to realize the freedom that is its inheritance.

We would not bind the world again today. ²Fear holds it prisoner. ³And yet Your Love has given us the means to set it free. ⁴Father, we would release it now. ⁵For as we offer freedom, it is given us. ⁶And we would not remain as prisoners, while You are holding freedom out to us. (A Course in Miracles, W-332. See also ACIM Lesson 332 Insights.)

Forgiveness is the antidote for every fearful perception. Fear only comes with belief that separation is real. That idea manifests in many forms — in jealousy, depression, frustration, irritation, guilt or rage. Yet none of these need to be in our experience. Forgiveness shines away these dark thoughts.

Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s help to see the truth that Love is all that is real. As we accept His help, we see the Love that is the truth in our brothers. We experience the joy of giving Love to all and receiving what we give. We find peace in Love’s changelessness. We remember that we are eternally united with our Father.

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Christ’s Vision Brings the Joy of Extending Love

Love is extension. ²To withhold the smallest gift is not to know love’s purpose. ³Love offers everything forever. ⁴Hold back but one belief, one offering, and love is gone, because you asked a substitute to take its place. ⁵And now must war, the substitute for peace, come with the one alternative that you can choose for love. ⁶Your choosing it has given it all the reality it seems to have.

Beliefs will never openly attack each other because conflicting outcomes are impossible. ²But an unrecognized belief is a decision to war in secret, where the results of conflict are kept unknown and never brought to reason, to be considered sensible or not. ³And many senseless outcomes have been reached, and meaningless decisions have been made and kept hidden, to become beliefs now given power to direct all subsequent decisions. ⁴Mistake you not the power of these hidden warriors to disrupt your peace. ⁵For it is at their mercy while you decide to leave it there. ⁶The secret enemies of peace, your least decision to choose attack instead of love, unrecognized and swift to challenge you to combat and to violence far more inclusive than you think, are there by your election. ⁷Do not deny their presence nor their terrible results. ⁸All that can be denied is their reality, but not their outcome. (A Course in Miracles, T-24.I.1–2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The process of forgiveness begins with recognizing there is a need to forgive. The symptoms of the need are our signposts — any disturbance of our peace of mind. We can use these signposts as reminders to be mindful of our thoughts. Then ask of the Holy Spirit, “What is this for?” Then pause and wait to receive His insight.

He will help us recognize the unreality of our belief and show us the reality of Love beyond the appearance that is disturbing our peace of mind. As we accept Christ’s vision, fear, anger and guilt are replaced by the joy of extending Love.

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Claiming Our Inheritance of Perfect Love

God, being Love, is also happiness.

²Let me remember love is happiness, and nothing else brings joy. ³And so I choose to entertain no substitutes for love.

I seek but what belongs to me in truth.

²Love is my heritage, and with it joy. ³These are the gifts my Father gave to me. ⁴I would accept all that is mine in truth. (A Course in Miracles, W-117.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 117 Insights.)

We claim our inheritance with forgiveness. Every judgment denies God’s gift of Love’s perfect oneness. Our judgments are always reflections of what we believe we are — a separate identity in a world of separation. This identity is false because we were created to remain eternally one with our Father. His happiness and peace are ours eternally.

We choose to forgive this false image by asking the Holy Spirit to help us see with Christ’s vision. His vision always shows us the Love or call for Love every brother offers us. With this vision, we naturally join with Love or answer calls for Love with Love. This is our mission for today.

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Letting Our Fear Thoughts Be Healed

I walk with God in perfect holiness.

Today’s idea but states the simple truth that makes the thought of sin impossible. ²It promises there is no cause for guilt, and being causeless it does not exist. ³It follows surely from the basic thought so often mentioned in the text; ideas leave not their source. ⁴If this be true, how can you be apart from God? ⁵How could you walk the world alone and separate from your Source?

⁴You cannot walk the world apart from God, because you could not be without Him. ⁵He is what your life is. ⁶Where you are He is. ⁷There is one life. ⁸That life you share with Him. ⁹Nothing can be apart from Him and live.

⁴In lightness and in laughter is sin gone, because its quaint absurdity is seen. ⁵It is a foolish thought, a silly dream, not frightening, ridiculous perhaps, but who would waste an instant in approach to God Himself for such a senseless whim?

Yet you have wasted many, many years on just this foolish thought. ²The past is gone, with all its fantasies. ³They keep you bound no longer. ⁴The approach to God is near. (A Course in Miracles, W-156.1;2:4-9;6:4–7:4. See also ACIM Lesson 156 Insights.)

Love is our Life. There is no life apart from Love. The idea that life could exist apart from eternal Love is an illusion.

Today we offer our mistaken beliefs to the Holy Spirit for His help to forgive them. As we let Him heal our thoughts which are barriers to Love, we will experience the joy and peace of God. We will remember we always walk with God.

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Welcoming the Light of Love

The ego is insane. ²In fear it stands beyond the Everywhere, apart from All, in separation from the Infinite. ³In its insanity it thinks it has become a victor over God Himself.

The Son of God is egoless. ²What can he know of madness and the death of God, when he abides in Him? ³What can he know of sorrow and of suffering, when he lives in eternal joy? ⁴What can he know of fear and punishment, of sin and guilt, of hatred and attack, when all there is surrounding him is everlasting peace, forever conflict-free and undisturbed, in deepest silence and tranquility?

To know reality is not to see the ego and its thoughts, its works, its acts, its laws and its beliefs, its dreams, its hopes, its plans for its salvation, and the cost belief in it entails.

Yet will one lily of forgiveness change the darkness into light; the altar to illusions to the shrine of Life Itself. ²And peace will be restored forever to the holy minds which God created as His Son, His dwelling place, His joy, His love, completely His, completely one with Him. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.12.2:1-3;3;12.4:1;5)

The ego does not exist in truth. But our belief in it makes it seem real. We believe we are in its dream of conflict, attack, loss, fear and guilt. We believe the ego is our identity.

The ego is only the belief in a false identity. It denies our true Identity but does not change It in the least. Having accepted the ego’s denial, there is just one thing we must do. We must let go of its denial of Love. This is what forgiveness does.

Each judgment we forgive welcomes the Light of Love into our mind. We are grateful that we have been given the Holy Spirit to help us forgive our mistaken beliefs. With His help, we let the Light of Love fill our mind.

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