Living A Course in Miracles — We Have Help to Remember We Are Only Love

We Have Help to Remember We Are Only Love

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.)

In many ways throughout the Course, we are being told that the world we see is a projection. It is generated by the wish for specialness, to be different and see differences. Differences are the hallmark of the ego thought system. It is their perception that fosters fear, anger, guilt and a sense of profound loss. All this comes from a desire to stand out, to have something for ourselves alone. It is a steep price to pay.

We have been given Love without limit, given equally to all. It is everywhere, without limit, bringing with it peace that cannot be disturbed and joy beyond description. This is God’s gift to us. Because Love is one and cannot be divided, loss is impossible. There can be no cause for guilt or fear in Love’s oneness.

Love is our natural state. We pay no price to gain this except to let go of the wish for specialness. This release comes in many wonderful, little, easy steps, guided by the Holy Spirit. Under His leadership, we peel away the layers of false ideas upon which our dream of specialness has been built. As we let the layers go, the Light of Love that lies deep within shines brighter. We are grateful that we have the help we need to remember we are Love and nothing else.

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Becoming Love’s Expression

Today I let Christ’s vision look upon all things for me and judge them not, but give each one a miracle of love instead.

So would I liberate all things I see, and give to them the freedom that I seek. ²For thus do I obey the law of love, and give what I would find and make my own. ³It will be given me, because I have chosen it as the gift I want to give. ⁴Father, Your gifts are mine. ⁵Each one that I accept gives me a miracle to give. ⁶And giving as I would receive, I learn Your healing miracles belong to me.

Our Father knows our needs. ²He gives us grace to meet them all. ³And so we trust in Him to send us miracles to bless the world, and heal our minds as we return to Him. (A Course in Miracles, W-349. See also ACIM Lesson 349 Insights.)

Christ’s vision comes when we forgive — we let go of our judgments. God has given us all that He is, which is all that we need. But the ego’s wish for separation rejects His gifts. It has conjured a world of appearances that appeal to the wish for specialness. But the quest to obtain specialness brings with it fear and guilt.

Forgiveness comes as we let the Holy Spirit teach us how to dismiss appearances by welcoming the presence of Love’s oneness. We are able to see appearances as meaningless apparitions that have no affect on our reality. Today we let the Light of Love illuminate our world. In this Light we become Love’s expression to all.

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Forgiveness Welcomes 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;4:1;5)

The ego is not our identity, but our belief in it casts a veil upon it which covers our true Identity. This false identity appears to be real. Shrouded in fear, we seem to live a life that requires constant vigilance for our safety. The only way out seems to be death.

Yet the Life we live in God is untouched by these hallucinations. We remain as God created us, His one Son. We are surrounded by His peace, His Love and His joy. Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s help to heal our fear-based thoughts and open our vision to see the Light of Love in which we live.

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Forgiveness Is a Gift Without Limit

All gifts my brothers give belong to me.

Each day a thousand treasures come to me with every passing moment. ²I am blessed with gifts throughout the day, in value far beyond all things of which I can conceive. ³A brother smiles upon another, and my heart is gladdened. ⁴Someone speaks a word of gratitude or mercy, and my mind receives this gift and takes it as its own. ⁵And everyone who finds the way to God becomes my savior, pointing out the way to me, and giving me his certainty that what he learned is surely mine as well.

I thank You, Father, for the many gifts that come to me today and every day from every Son of God. ²My brothers are unlimited in all their gifts to me. ³Now may I offer them my thankfulness, that gratitude to them may lead me on to my Creator and His memory. (A Course in Miracles, W-315. See also ACIM Lesson 315 Insights.)

Because our true Self is united with every brother as God’s one Son, every gift of forgiveness a brother gives is a gift to all. Only the ego believes in limited giving. God’s Love knows no limits.

Forgiveness heals our mind of belief in limited love that can be assigned to a select individual or group. Limited love could only seem to occur in the ego thought system of separation. We are grateful that any brother who forgives a belief in limited love helps us all awaken to our unity in the Heaven of God’s Love.

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Remembering We Live in Love

Conflicting wishes cannot be my will.

Father, Your Will is mine, and only that. ²There is no other will for me to have. ³Let me not try to make another will, for it is senseless and will cause me pain. ⁴Your Will alone can bring me happiness, and only Yours exists. ⁵If I would have what only You can give, I must accept Your Will for me, and enter into peace where conflict is impossible, Your Son is one with You in being and in will, and nothing contradicts the holy truth that I remain as You created me.

And with this prayer we enter silently into a state where conflict cannot come, because we join our holy will with God’s, in recognition that they are the same. (A Course in Miracles, W-307. See also ACIM Lesson 307 Insights.)

God gave His Will to His Son. The ego views His Will as an imposition, not a gift. That is because the ego is the idea of imposing a different will on the Son of God. When we identify with the ego, it lets us see only its own imposed beliefs that deny the Love and peace of God. This mistaken identification is the source of all our pain and unhappiness.

It is God’s Will that we, His one Son, share all His joy, peace and Love. We need only forgive our mistaken wish for a unique identity to remember that our Will is one with our Creator’s Will. In the dream of separation, we feel a need to recover the peace and Love we believe we have lost. Yet It remains ours forever. When we accept our true Identity, we know that we live in Love.

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Love Is Our Source of Meaning

I seek a future different from the past.

From new perception of the world there comes a future very different from the past. ²The future now is recognized as but extension of the present. ³Past mistakes can cast no shadows on it, so that fear has lost its idols and its images, and being formless, it has no effects. ⁴Death will not claim the future now, for life is now its goal, and all the needed means are happily provided. ⁵Who can grieve or suffer when the present has been freed, extending its security and peace into a quiet future filled with joy?

Father, we were mistaken in the past, and choose to use the present to be free. ²Now do we leave the future in Your Hands, leaving behind our past mistakes, and sure that You will keep Your present promises, and guide the future in their holy light. (A Course in Miracles, W-314. See also ACIM Lesson 314 Insights.>ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Forgiveness is the means to have a new perception of the world. Everything that upsets us is a perception based on our beliefs about the past. All our judgments are based on past learning that assigns means to perceptions of the present.

Today we choose Love as our reference for meaning. It shows us only the reality of Love. Love is eternally present. Love perceives no past. With Love as our Guide, we will see only the Love that unites us with everyone in a happy state of peace. Our hearts are filled with gratitude.

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Remembering Our Safety in God’s Love

I am surrounded by the Love of God.

Father, You stand before me and behind, beside me, in the place I see myself, and everywhere I go. ²You are in all the things I look upon, the sounds I hear, and every hand that reaches for my own. ³In You time disappears, and place becomes a meaningless belief. ⁴For what surrounds Your Son and keeps him safe is Love itself. ⁵There is no source but this, and nothing is that does not share its holiness; that stands beyond Your one creation, or without the Love which holds all things within itself. ⁶Father, Your Son is like Yourself. ⁷We come to You in Your Own Name today, to be at peace within Your everlasting Love.

My brothers, join with me in this today. ²This is salvation’s prayer. ³Must we not join in what will save the world, along with us? (A Course in Miracles, W-264. See also ACIM Lesson 264 Insights.)

We can deny Love, hide from it, and believe we have broken it into little pieces, but we cannot change the reality that Love is one, changeless and eternal. Nothing but Love is real. Love is our real life, forever untouched by hallucinations of separation.

Today we acknowledge that Love is our Source. It is the Home in which we live. We ask that Love be our guide in all our doing. We ask the Holy Spirit to heal our fear-based thoughts. We want to remember the comfort and safety of our Creator’s all-encompassing embrace.

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