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Becoming Aware of Our Home in Heaven

God is my life. I have no life but His.

I was mistaken when I thought I lived apart from God, a separate entity that moved in isolation, unattached, and housed within a body. ²Now I know my life is God’s, I have no other home, and I do not exist apart from Him. ³He has no Thoughts that are not part of me, and I have none but those which are of Him.

Our Father, let us see the face of Christ instead of our mistakes. ²For we who are Your holy Son are sinless. ³We would look upon our sinlessness, for guilt proclaims that we are not Your Son. ⁴And we would not forget You longer. ⁵We are lonely here, and long for Heaven, where we are at home. ⁶Today we would return. ⁷Our Name is Yours, and we acknowledge that we are Your Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-223. See also ACIM Lesson 223 Insights.)

The dream we seem to live in is not real. Every dream is characteristically unaware of anything outside the dream. Anything beyond the dream is unknown and we are naturally afraid of it. This lesson is helping us to consider that there is something beyond our awareness in the dream that has greater than anything we can conceive of within the dream.

The Course is teaching us that there is nothing of value in the dream of space, time and separate bodies. This idea alone would be frightening. But we are being shown that beyond this dream world is everything we really want.

Acceptance of it will reward us with deep peace, unlimited joy and eternal extension of Love’s oneness. As we learn to accept the one Life with share with God, the dream is dispelled and we become aware of our Home in Heaven.

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Awakening from the Dream of Fear

³There is no relationship between what is real and what you think is real. ⁴Nothing that you think are your real thoughts resemble your real thoughts in any respect. ⁵Nothing that you think you see bears any resemblance to what vision will show you.

You think with the Mind of God. ²Therefore you share your thoughts with Him, as He shares His with you. ³They are the same thoughts, because they are thought by the same Mind. ⁴To share is to make alike, or to make one. ⁵Nor do the thoughts you think with the Mind of God leave your mind, because thoughts do not leave their source. ⁶Therefore, your thoughts are in the Mind of God, as you are. ⁷They are in your mind as well, where He is. ⁸As you are part of His Mind, so are your thoughts part of His Mind.

⁵We will not let the beliefs of the world tell us that what God would have us do is impossible. ⁶Instead, we will try to recognize that only what God would have us do is possible.

…tell yourself gently:

⁴My real thoughts are in my mind. ⁵I would like to find them.

⁶Then try to go past all the unreal thoughts that cover the truth in your mind, and reach to the eternal.

…this is no idle game, but an exercise in holiness and an attempt to reach the Kingdom of Heaven. (A Course in Miracles, W-45.1:3–2:8;4:5-6;6:3-6;8:7. See also ACIM Lesson 45 Insights.)

In the dream, we believe in a mistaken separate identity. The thoughts of which we are aware stem from this mistaken identity. Our existence in the dream is not real. But like every dream, we are not aware of anything beyond the limits of the dream. We need help to see beyond the dream’s limitations.

Today’s exercise will help us open our mind to the truth beyond the dream. We are Love and nothing else, as God Is. We remain safe in His Love, and share His Thoughts of Love. As we let our minds receive the Thoughts we share with God, we let His Love guide our thoughts away from fear and back to the Thoughts of Love we share with God.

With this practice we will become aware of the Love we are and see that Love in everyone. The realization that Love is the only reality will return us to our Home in the Heaven of Love.

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Welcoming the Happy Present

My present happiness is all I see.

Unless I look upon what is not there, my present happiness is all I see. ²Eyes that begin to open see at last. ³And I would have Christ’s vision come to me this very day. ⁴What I perceive without God’s Own Correction for the sight I made is frightening and painful to behold. ⁵Yet I would not allow my mind to be deceived by the belief the dream I made is real an instant longer. ⁶This the day I seek my present happiness, and look on nothing else except the thing I seek.

With this resolve I come to You, and ask Your strength to hold me up today, while I but seek to do Your Will. ²You cannot fail to hear me, Father. ³What I ask have You already given me. ⁴And I am sure that I will see my happiness today. (A Course in Miracles, W-290. See also ACIM Lesson 290 Insights.)

When we let Love direct our seeing, we see only happiness. Joy is an attribute of Love, and Love sees only Itself everywhere. We were created by Love as Love. We are innately joyous.

If we are not joyous, we are letting the ego’s denial of Love cloud our vision. This need not be. God offers us all His strength and His Love to support our seeing. We need only accept His help to let our innate joy shine forth. This happiness is always present and cannot be seen while we cover the present with memories of the past.

Today we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to overlook the past and welcome the happy present.

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Accepting the Attributes We Share with God

⁷What you think you are is a belief to be undone. ⁸But what you really are must be revealed to you. ⁹The belief you are a body calls for correction, being a mistake. ¹⁰The truth of what you are calls on the strength in you to bring to your awareness what the mistake conceals.

²You need to be aware of what the Holy Spirit uses to replace the image of a body in your mind. ³You need to feel something to put your faith in, as you lift it from the body. ⁴You need a real experience of something else, something more solid and more sure; more worthy of your faith, and really there.

…allow your mistaken thoughts about your attributes to be corrected, and their opposites to take their place. ³Say, for example:

⁴I am not weak, but strong.
⁵I am not helpless, but all powerful.
⁶I am not limited, but unlimited. (A Course in Miracles, W-91.6:7-10;7:2-4;8:2-6. See also ACIM Lesson 91 Insights.)

Misplaced belief has the power to obliterate our awareness of reality. But by the grace of God, belief cannot make real. We can undo our belief that we are body with a separate identity, and let reality take the place of belief.

Aș we practice letting the Holy Spirit reinterpret our perceptions, which reflect our beliefs, our beliefs are undone. We learn that we have all of God’s attributes. We are loving, strong, certain, peaceful, happy and eternal.

Today we are willing to let our mistaken beliefs be corrected. We are willing to accept the Self God created one with Himself.

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The Choice for Love

This holy instant would I give to You. Be You in charge. For I would follow You, certain that Your direction gives me peace.

And if I need a word to help me, He will give it to me. ²If I need a thought, that will He also give. ³And if I need but stillness and a tranquil, open mind, these are the gifts I will receive of Him. ⁴He is in charge by my request. ⁵And He will hear and answer me, because He speaks for God my Father and His holy Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-361-365. See also ACIM Lesson 361 Insights.)

The Holy Spirit is the part of our mind that always knows our best interests. He speaks for God. The other voice in our mind speaks for the ego, which always leads to death. This voice does not know our best interests.

In every moment we choose between these two voices. The ego’s voice speaks only of illusions that deny the Source of true happiness and peace. But we can choose the Voice for God, which always teaches us that we remain united with our Creator. He leads us gently on the path of awakening from the ego’s lies to the truth that we are Love and nothing else.

This is our choice today. It is the choice for Love.

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Letting Our Mind Rest in Love

Peace to my mind. Let all my thoughts be still.

Father, I come to You today to seek the peace that You alone can give. ²I come in silence. ³In the quiet of my heart, the deep recesses of my mind, I wait and listen for Your Voice. ⁴My Father, speak to me today. ⁵I come to hear Your Voice in silence and in certainty and love, sure You will hear my call and answer me.

Now do we wait in quiet. ²God is here, because we wait together. ³I am sure that He will speak to you, and you will hear. ⁴Accept my confidence, for it is yours. ⁵Our minds are joined. ⁶We wait with one intent; to hear our Father’s answer to our call, to let our thoughts be still and find His peace, to hear Him speak to us of what we are, and to reveal Himself unto His Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-221. See also ACIM Lesson 221 Insights.)

We give ourselves a great gift when we welcome God’s peace as ours. This gift was given long ago, but denied when time began and belief in separation ruled our mind. We are not separate from the Love that created us. Love gave us all of Itself, with all Its peace and happiness.

Today we have the opportunity to let our mind open to the peace that is our Home. We pause to start the day by choosing God’s peace and accepting it as our Home. We set aside the ego’s chaotic thoughts and let our mind rest in Love.

Love shines away thoughts of fear and guilt. This Light reveals the truth that we are Love, forever united in Its oneness. This Light shines on our world and shows us the presence of Love in every brother. From a mind at peace, we see our unity. We are grateful that we remain unchanged by dreams of separation and specialness. We are Love and nothing else.

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The Value of the Wish to Forgive

All things I think I see reflect ideas.

This is salvation’s keynote: What I see reflects a process in my mind, which starts with my idea of what I want. ²From there, the mind makes up an image of the thing the mind desires, judges valuable, and therefore seeks to find. ³These images are then projected outward, looked upon, esteemed as real and guarded as one’s own. ⁴From insane wishes comes an insane world. ⁵From judgment comes a world condemned. ⁶And from forgiving thoughts a gentle world comes forth, with mercy for the holy Son of God, to offer him a kindly home where he can rest a while before he journeys on, and help his brothers walk ahead with him, and find the way to Heaven and to God.

Our Father, Your ideas reflect the truth, and mine apart from Yours but make up dreams. ²Let me behold what only Yours reflect, for Yours and Yours alone establish truth. (A Course in Miracles, W-325. See also ACIM Lesson 325 Insights.)

This lesson explains clearly how the world we see is a projection from our mind. What we see reflects what we believe we are. We believe we are a separate individual in a separate body because of our wish to be special. The world reflects that wish.

This is good news because the world gives us continuous feedback of what we are wanting. When we see conflict, it doesn’t seem that we want conflict. But the conflict comes with the wish to be separate and different. When there are any differences, conflict is inevitable.

If we let go of the wish for specialness by forgiving it, the world we see changes. Kindness reins. Love shines forth. Peace returns to our troubled mind. We have the choice to forgive. And we have Help to let go of our mistaken wishes that cause guilt and fear.

Today we call upon the Holy Spirit to help us forgive our insane wishes and return to the eternal oneness of Love given us by our Creator.

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