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Accepting and Giving Love to Our Brothers

It is impossible to let illusions be brought to truth and keep the illusions. Truth demonstrates illusions have no value.

Healing will always stand aside when it would be seen as threat. The instant it is welcome it is there. Where healing has been given it will be received. And what is time before the gifts of God? …No teacher of God should feel disappointed if he has offered healing and it does not appear to have been received. It is not up to him to judge when his gift should be accepted. Let him be certain it has been received, and trust that it will be accepted when it is recognized as a blessing and not a curse.

It is the relinquishing of all concern about the gift that makes it truly given. And it is trust that makes true giving possible. Healing is the change of mind that the Holy Spirit in the patient’s mind is seeking for him. (A Course in Miracles, M-6.1:2-3;2:1-4,7-9;4:1-3)

The Holy Spirit’s singular purpose in our mind is to heal our illusions which deny God’s gift of all His Love. He is our Guide to truth. As we accept the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love, the ego’s illusions are recognized as valueless and freely let go.

This is the truth about everyone. When anyone exhibits behavior that is unloving, defensive, fearful or guilty, he is calling for the Holy Spirit’s lesson in Love. He has forgotten the truth that he is already Love and has all of God’s Love. He lacks nothing of value.

Forgiveness, letting go of illusions, is the way we heal our mind and offer healing to our brothers. Forgiveness brings our illusions to the Truth and dispels them in Its Light. With our clarified vision, we offer our forgiveness as a gift of Love to our brothers. It does not matter whether a brother accepts our gift of forgiveness, of Love. The gift is received by the Holy Spirit in his mind, for it comes from the Holy Spirit in our mind.

If our brother believes he is protected by his unforgiveness, he will not accept forgiveness for himself. But the Holy Spirit in his mind receives the gift for him and holds it for him until he is ready to accept it. Whether or not a brother acknowledges and accepts the gift of Love is not our concern. The healing has been given to our brother and to ourself. The Light has come.

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The Wonderful Gift of Forgiveness

How easily are God and guilt confused by those who know not what their thoughts can do. Deny your strength [Love], and weakness [guilt] must become salvation to you. See yourself as bound, and bars become your home. Nor will you leave the prison house, or claim your strength, until guilt and salvation are not seen as one, and freedom and salvation are perceived as joined, with strength beside them, to be sought and claimed, and found and fully rec­ognized.

The world must thank you when you offer it release from your illusions. Yet your thanks belong to you as well, for [the world’s] release can only mirror yours. Your gratitude is all your gifts require, that they be a lasting offering of a thankful heart, released from hell forever. Is it this you would undo by taking back your gifts, because they were not honored? It is you who honor them and give them fitting thanks, for it is you who have received the gifts.

It does not matter if another thinks your gifts unworthy. In his mind there is a part that joins with yours in thanking you. It does not matter if your gifts seem lost and ineffectual. They are received where they are given. In your gratitude are they ac­cepted universally, and thankfully acknowledged by the Heart of God Himself. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 197, W-pI.2:1-4:5, emphasis added. See also ACIM Lesson 197 Insights.)

The ego needs guilt to maintain its seeming existence. It uses judgment to project guilt on others to maintain perception of differences and separation. It sees the perception of guilt in others as relief from its own guilt. But this doesn’t really work because thoughts do not leave their source. Perception of guilt in another depends upon acceptance of guilt in the ego-self.

Forgiveness is the only way to relieve the guilt we hold in our minds. It does not matter if the seemingly external object of our forgiveness acknowledges or appreciates the forgiveness. The real gift of forgiveness is to our Self, for it releases our self from guilt. This is the only gift that matters. It is the release from the prison of the ego’s guilt we have believed is our own. We are not the ego and its guilt does not belong to us.

God is grateful for our forgiveness because it opens the door to the limitless flow of His Love, which has been blocked by guilt. We were created worthy of all of God’s Love and we remain worthy of It. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us release our unforgiving thoughts and welcome the eternal gift of Love. With this practice we will be blessed by this Love as we offer It to the world.

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Returning to Our True Mind in God

My mind holds only what I think with God.

That is a fact, and represents the truth of What you are and What your Father is. It is this thought by which the Father gave creation to the Son, establishing the Son as co-creator with Himself. It is this thought that fully guarantees salvation to the Son. For in his mind no thoughts can dwell but those his Father shares. Lack of forgiveness blocks this thought from his awareness. Yet it is forever true.

Let us begin our preparation with some understanding of the many forms in which the lack of true forgiveness may be care­fully concealed. Because [forms] are illusions, they are not per­ceived to be but what they are; defenses that protect your unforgiving thoughts from being seen and recognized. Their purpose is to show you something else, and hold correction off through self-deceptions made to take its place.

And yet, your mind holds only what you think with God. Your self-deceptions cannot take the place of truth. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Review IV, W-pI.rIV.1:2-4:2. See also ACIM Lesson 141 Insights.)

The thoughts of our true Self which come from the Mind at one with God’s Mind must be thoughts of Love. God is only Love and so our true Self is only Love. What we see in the world of separation seems to be anything but Love — fear, anger, lack and loss, loneliness and depression seem to be the norms in this world. But these are just the ego’s smokescreen to distract our attention from the reality of Love. Love is still present but we are unaware of It.

We perceive the world because we have accepted the ego thought system that denies Love’s presence. What we see represents the unforgiveness of the ego’s judgment against our Creator’s Love.

To return to awareness of Love’s presence, we need to forgive the world for what we think it is. This forgiveness is done through many steps. Every day and every hour we are presented with a choice: To give credence to the images of separation or to accept the Holy Spirit’s vision that shows us the Love beyond the appearance of separation.

Every perceived slight, sense of loss, feeling of threat, disappointment or disapproval is an opportunity to forgive and see it differently with the Holy Spirit’s help. Each time we accept His help and change our mind we come closer to accepting our true mind which holds only the Thoughts we share with God. Today we practice choosing the Holy Spirit’s perception instead of the ego’s projections.

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Being a Minister of Love

Give Him your thoughts, and He will give them back as mir­acles which joyously proclaim the wholeness and the happiness God wills His Son, as proof of His eternal Love. And as each thought is thus transformed, it takes on healing power from the Mind which saw the truth in it, and failed to be deceived by what was falsely added. All the threads of fantasy are gone. And what remains is unified into a perfect Thought that offers its perfection everywhere.

Spend fifteen minutes thus when you awake, and gladly give another fifteen more before you go to sleep. Your ministry be­gins as all your thoughts are purified. So are you taught to teach the Son of God the holy lesson of his sanctity. No one can fail to listen, when you hear the Voice for God give honor to God’s Son. And everyone will share the thoughts with you which He has retranslated in your mind.

And we will hourly remember Him Who is salvation and deliverance. As we give thanks, the world unites with us and happily accepts our holy thoughts, which Heaven has corrected and made pure. Now has our ministry begun at last, to carry round the world the joyous news that truth has no illusions, and the peace of God, through us, belongs to everyone. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 151, W-pI.151.14-15;17. See also ACIM Lesson 151 Insights.)

Our ministry is to live as Love, as our true Self, united with our Creator. We teach by demonstrating Love in a world where Love is hidden by images of separation, division, isolation, harm and loss. As we align with the Love within us, we see past these false images to the presence of Love that is the truth in everyone.

Of ourselves, we do not know how to demonstrate Love, for we are not the separate self we believe we are. But as we give our thoughts to the Voice for God to be purified, we learn how to unite with the Love in all our brothers. Judgmental thoughts are recognized as calls for Love and answered with Love. From a mind at peace, kindness and helpfulness become our way of being. We remember that our interests and our brothers’ interest are the same: We all want to remember that we are Love and nothing else.

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Accepting Our Limitlessness

Everything in this world is little because it is a world made out of littleness, in the strange belief that littleness can content you. When you strive for anything in this world in the belief that it will bring you peace, you are belittling yourself and blinding yourself to glory.

Yet what you do not realize, each time you choose, is that your choice is your evaluation of yourself. Choose littleness and you will not have peace, for you will have judged yourself unworthy of it.

All your striving must be directed against littleness, for it does require vigilance to protect your magnitude in this world. To hold your magnitude in perfect awareness in a world of littleness is a task the little cannot undertake. Yet it is asked of you, in tribute to your magnitude and not your littleness. Nor is it asked of you alone. The power of God will support every effort you make on behalf of His dear Son.

…“Would you be hostage to the ego or host to God?” Let this question be asked you by the Holy Spirit every time you make a decision. …Every decision you make is for Heaven or for hell, and brings you the awareness of what you decided for.” (A Course in Miracles, T-15.III.1:5-6;2:1-2;4:4-8;5:1-2,7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our true Self shares the limitlessness of our Creator. The Love, joy and peace of our true Nature can no more be limited than can God. This world is an attempt to limit the unlimited, to exchange littleness or God’s Magnitude. As long as we believe our identity is limited to this world, we will feel incomplete and little.

But we have not lost our magnitude in God. It remains the truth of what we were created to be. In every moment of every day, we choose between accepting the magnitude of our true Identity or the littleness of the ego’s substitute identity, limited to a body and bound to die. Thankfully we have Help to guide us out of this mistaken belief to awaken to our limitlessness.

The practice of keeping our mind open to the Holy Spirit’s guidance helps us choose on behalf of our true Self instead of the ego. It is the choice between heaven and hell. Our vigilance in this practice is supported by the power of God. For His Will is that we remain within His safe embrace, forever whole, forever Love and forever loving in peace and joy.

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Becoming Christ’s Reflection of Love’s Unity

Oneness is simply the idea God is. And in His Being, He encompasses all things. No mind holds anything but Him. We say “God is,” and then we cease to speak, for in that knowledge words are meaningless. There are no lips to speak them, and no part of mind sufficiently distinct to feel that it is now aware of something not itself. It has united with its Source. And like its Source Itself, it merely is.

When revelation of your oneness comes, it will be known and fully understood.

…you have work to do to play your part. …your part is still what all the rest depends on. As you take the role assigned to you, salvation comes a little nearer each uncertain heart that does not beat as yet in tune with God.

Forgiveness is the central theme that runs throughout salvation…

What is the face of Christ but his who went a moment into time­lessness, and brought a clear reflection of the unity he felt an instant back to bless the world? How could you finally attain to it forever, while a part of you remains outside, unknowing, un­awakened, and in need of you as witness to the truth?

Be grateful to return, as you were glad to go an instant, and accept the gifts that grace provided you. You carry them back to yourself. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 169, W-pI.169.5;10:2;11:1,4-5;12:1;13:3-14:2. See also ACIM Lesson 169 Insights.)

Revelation is an experience of knowing oneness that is beyond words to describe. While in the world of limitation, we can have this experience for an instant when we allow our mind to be open to hear the Call of God to awaken. We have let our mind rest in God’s peace.

As we practice pausing to accept God’s peace in our mind and receive His grace, we can bring His message to the world in a form that the world can understand. We become Christ’s reflection of Love’s unity in the world. We accept the blessing of God’s Love by sharing It with our brothers. This is the work we must do bring our brothers with us as we awaken to our reality in Love.

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Dismantling the Ego’s Wall Against Love

God goes with me wherever I go.

We understand that you do not believe all this. How could you, when the truth is hidden deep within, under a heavy cloud of insane thoughts, dense and obscuring, yet representing all you see? Today we will make our first real attempt to get past this dark and heavy cloud, and to go through it to the light beyond.

Try… to get a sense of turn­ing inward, past all the idle thoughts of the world. Try to enter very deeply into your own mind, keeping it clear of any thoughts that might divert your attention.

…sink down and inward, away from the world and all the foolish thoughts of the world. You are trying to reach past all these things. You are trying to leave appearances and approach reality.

It is quite possible to reach God. In fact it is very easy, because it is the most natural thing in the world. You might even say it is the only natural thing in the world. The way will open, if you believe that it is possible. This exercise can bring very startling results even the first time it is attempted, and sooner or later it is always successful.

You can indeed afford to laugh at fear thoughts, remembering that God goes with you wherever you go. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 41, W-pI.41:5;6:5-6;7:2-8:5;10. See also ACIM Lesson 41 Insights.)

Our true Self is always peaceful, joyful and loving, for It remains united with the Love that created It. The identity we believe we are is a disguise made by the ego to hide the Truth. It is a smoke screen built upon lies and made-up images which we believe are real. That is the world we believe in. Yet it only seems to be there because we believe in it. But belief does not make it real; it only blinds us the to reality of Love.

We are innately loving, joyous and peaceful. We remember this when we forgive our beliefs in the reality of separation. The thought system of separation is a closed loop that builds a wall blinding us to the reality of Love.

The Holy Spirit provides the help we need from beyond the wall to dismantle it, belief by belief. At its core, every block in this wall is founded on one mistaken belief: Separation is real. We have given these blocks many labels and forms. We must forgive the forms, one by one until we recognize their common core. With this recognition, the wall comes tumbling down. The Light of Love dawns upon our minds. We can see clearly now, for the clouds are gone and we remember the Love we are.

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