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Finding Our Way Home to Love

You are a stranger here. But you belong to Him Who loves you as He loves Himself. Ask but my help to roll the stone away, and it is done according to His Will. We have begun the journey. Long ago the end was written in the stars and set into the Heavens with a shining Ray that held it safe within eternity and through all time as well. And holds it still; unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable.

Be not afraid. We only start again an ancient journey long ago begun that but seems new. We have begun again upon a road we travelled on before and lost our way a little while. And now we try again. Our new beginning has the certainty the journey lacked till now.

And then let us arise and go in faith along the way to Him. Now we are sure we do not walk alone. For God is here, and with Him all our brothers. Now we know that we will never lose the way again. (A Course in Miracles, C-ep.2:1-3:5;4:2-5)

We seem to be on a journey far away from Home in the ego’s fantasyland. Nothing here is real, but we are so fascinated by it that the memory of our Home is forgotten. But forgetting our Home does not mean we have lost it; it merely makes us unaware of Where we are in truth.

God has set an end to our journey through fantasyland. He has given us the means to awaken from this fantasy to recognize that we remain in the Home God created for us. In fact, we never really left His changeless Love.

The means to remember our Home is to accept the Holy Spirit’s help. Jesus demonstrated the transformation that comes by identifying with the Holy Spirit instead of the fantasies of the ego.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to guide all our thoughts and perceptions, for we would awaken to our Home in Love.

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Learning to See Past Fantasies to Love’s Reality

Christ’s Second Coming, which is sure as God, is merely the correction of mistakes, and the return of sanity. It is a part of the condition that restores the never lost, and re-establishes what is forever and forever true. It is the invitation to God’s Word to take illusion’s place; the willingness to let forgiveness rest upon all things without exception and without reserve.

It is the all-inclusive nature of Christ’s Second Coming that permits it to embrace the world and hold you safe within its gentle advent, which encompasses all living things with you. There is no end to the release the Second Coming brings, as God’s creation must be limitless. Forgiveness lights the Second Coming’s way, because it shines on everything as one. And thus is oneness recognized at last.

Pray that the Second Coming will be soon, but do not rest with that. It needs your eyes and ears and hands and feet. It needs your voice. And most of all it needs your willingness. Let us rejoice that we can do God’s Will, and join together in its holy light. Behold, the Son of God is one in us, and we can reach our Father’s Love through Him. (A Course in Miracles What Is the Second Coming?, W-pII.9.1-2;5. See also ACIM Lesson 301 Insights.)

Christ’s Second Coming is not something that happens to us or the world. It comes to us automatically when we are willing to fully forgive the belief in separation. It represents our willingness to accept the Self we are as God created It.

Our responsibility is to be willing to let go of all our judgments. We cannot do this within the ego thought system, which defines our identity as separate and alone. We are not alone. We have the help in our mind of God’s Teacher Whose sole lesson plan is to teach us to recognize that separation is not real. The appearance of separate images is simply fantasies made up to make judgments justifiable. But fantasies can justify nothing.

With the Holy Spirit’s help, we can learn to see past the ego’s fantasies and dismiss them as unreal. When we have learned His lessons without exception, forgiveness is complete and the Second Coming is welcomed. We have accepted our true Self at one with God, forever safe, forever love, loved and loving.

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Truth Is Powerful Healing

What is unalterable cannot change. And what is wholly sinless cannot sin.

Such is the simple truth. It does not make appeal to might nor triumph. It does not command obedience, nor seek to prove how pitiful and futile your attempts to plan defenses that would alter it. Truth merely wants to give you happiness, for such its pur­pose is. …what God wills for you must be received.

It is this fact that demonstrates that time is an illusion. For time lets you think what God has given you is not the truth right now, as it must be. The Thoughts of God are quite apart from time. For time is but another meaningless defense you made against the truth. Yet what He wills is here, and you remain as He created you.

Truth has a power far beyond defense, for no illusions can remain where truth has been allowed to enter. And it comes to any mind that would lay down its arms, and cease to play with folly. It is found at any time; today, if you will choose to practice giv­ing welcome to the truth. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 136, W-pI.136.11:7-14:3. See also ACIM Lesson 136 Insights.)

Love is truth because only Love is real. Nothing but Love exists in truth. This fact is the foundation for our salvation from the ego’s thought system of separation. The passage of time, pain and loss, fear and guilt of the ego’s world could never exist in truth. We experience this world only because we have identified with the ego’s image of a separate self instead of the Self God created one with Him.

We are not the ego. It is time to disown the ego and all its hellish gifts. By choosing Love to guide our thoughts and actions, we choose our true Identity. We choose to accept God’s gifts of happiness and peace. The fear of danger is replaced by the certainty of our safety in changeless Love.

Today we choose the power of truth and release the ego to the nothingness from which it came. We remember we are as God created us.

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Walking in Love with Every Brother

This is the way salvation works. As you step back, the light in you steps forward and encompasses the world. It heralds not the end of sin in punishment and death. In lightness and in laughter is sin gone, because its quaint absurdity is seen. It 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. The past is gone, with all its fantasies. They keep you bound no longer. The approach to God is near.

“Who walks with me?” This question should be asked a thousand times a day, till certainty has ended doubting and estab­lished peace. Today let doubting cease. God speaks for you in answering your question with these words:

I walk with God in perfect holiness. I light the world, I light my mind and all the minds which God created one with me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 156, W-pI.156.6;7:1-4;8. See also ACIM Lesson 156 Insights.)

We bring Light to the world when we accept our true Self as the Love God created It to be. We accept Love by extending Love. Any thought of judgment stands in the way of Love’s extension.

Love is not extended to what we perceive as outside ourselves because Love sees only Oneness. Love sees no differences. It sees only Itself everywhere, in all things. The Love God is walks with us in every moment, holding us in Love’s sure protection.

Today we remind ourselves often that we walk with every brother in Love’s perfect holiness. We ask the Holy Spirit’s help to see past perceptions of differences, for we would keep no barriers against Love’s Presence. It will be a happy day indeed.

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The Journey from Fear to Love

There is nothing outside you. That is what you must ultimately learn, for it is the realization that the Kingdom of Heaven is restored to you. For God created only this, and He did not depart from It nor leave It separate from Himself. The Kingdom of Heaven is the dwelling place of the Son of God, who left not his Father and dwells not apart from Him. Heaven is not a place nor a condition. It is merely an awareness of perfect Oneness, and the knowledge that there is nothing else; nothing outside this Oneness, and nothing else within.”\

The belief that you could give and get something else, something outside yourself, has cost you the awareness of Heaven and of your Identity.

Minds are joined; bodies are not. Only by assigning to the mind the properties of the body does separation seem to be possible. And it is mind that seems to be fragmented and private and alone. Its guilt, which keeps it separate, is projected to the body, which suffers and dies because it is attacked to hold the separation in the mind, and let it not know its Identity.

The mind cannot attack, but it can deceive itself. And this is all it does when it believes it has attacked the body. It can project its guilt, but it will not lose it through projection. And though [the mind] clearly can misperceive the function of the body, it cannot change its function from what the Holy Spirit establishes it to be. The body was not made by Love. Yet Love does not condemn [the body] and can use it lovingly, respecting what the Son of God has made and using [the body] to save him from illusions. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.VI.1;2:3;3:1-4;4:3-8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

As the idea of being separate from God, the ego is a thought in opposition to the Oneness of God’s Love. Believing it is opposing God brings guilt with it because it denies the innocence of Love. This is why the ego has to find a way to hide the guilt. It attempts to do this by projecting guilt outside of itself. Images of separate bodies and forms are the ego’s mechanism for projecting guilt. The problem is that guilt is still retained within the thought of opposing Love.

Only by forgiving the thought of opposition to God can the guilt be released and Love be restored to our awareness. The ego uses the myriad forms of the world to deceive the mind into believing this outer world is the cause of our guilt and fear.

The Holy Spirit’s function is to teach us to forgive these illusionary forms which seem to be the cause of our pain and suffering. No matter the form, our belief in its reality must be let go. The Holy Spirit uses each of these misperceptions as teaching opportunities to help us learn that beyond the form is the eternal presence of Love.

The practice of asking the Holy Spirit to guide all our perceptions and bring us Christ’s vision to see beyond the forms to Love’s innocence is the way to remember our Home in Heaven. it is a journey that leads from fear to Love.

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Finding Our Safety in God’s Love

Pain is but witness to the Son’s mistakes in what he thinks he is. It is a dream of fierce retaliation for a crime that could not be committed; for attack on what is wholly unassail­able. [Pain] is a nightmare of abandonment by an Eternal Love, which could not leave the Son whom It created out of love.

It is your thoughts alone that cause you pain. Nothing external to your mind can hurt or injure you in any way. There is no cause beyond yourself that can reach down and bring oppression. No one but yourself affects you. There is nothing in the world that has the power to make you ill or sad, or weak or frail. But it is you who have the power to dominate all things you see by merely recognizing what you are. As you perceive the harm­lessness in [all things], they will accept your holy will as theirs. And what was seen as fearful now becomes a source of innocence and holiness. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 190, W-pI.190.2:3-5;5. See also ACIM Lesson 190 Insights.)

We are not the false identity constructed by the ego as a substitute for the Son God created one with Himself. This identity appears to be weak, vulnerable and capable of dying. Yet it is nothing but an hallucination which has never occurred in truth. Only our acceptance of this substitute identity makes fear, pain and death seem real.

We have taught ourselves to believe we are this substitute identity. It is time to learn the Holy Spirit’s lesson which teaches us to recognize the unreality of the ego and clear away the veil that has hidden the eternal Love we are. In this Love is our perfect safety and perfect happiness.

Today we practice opening our mind to the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love’s reality.

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A Dedication to Awaken to Love

Sit silently and wait upon your Father. He has willed to come to you when you have recognized it is your will He do so.

Father, we give these holy times to You, in gratitude to Him Who taught us how to leave the world of sorrow in exchange for its replacement, given us by You. We look not backward now. We look ahead, and fix our eyes upon the journey’s end. Accept these little gifts of thanks from us, as through Christ’s vision we behold a world beyond the one we made, and take that world to be the full replacement of our own.

And now we wait in silence, unafraid and certain of Your com­ing. We have sought to find our way by following the Guide You sent to us.

…we need only call to God, and all temptations disappear. Instead of words, we need but feel His Love. Instead of prayers, we need but call His Name. Instead of judging, we need but be still and let all things be healed. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Part II Introduction, W-pII.in.5:5-6;6:2-7:2;10:2-5. See also ACIM Lesson 221 Insights.)

This prayer could be called a dedication to awaken to the Life we live in Love. Another lesson tells us we have only one Life, the Life we live in God. The only meaningful purpose for the “life” we experience in the world is to awaken from it to the Love we are. This dedication leads away from pain, suffering, sorrow, loneliness, lack and loss to the completion of our true Self forever one with God. It is the decision to disown the ego and all its judgments, fear and guilt, and take ownership of the Self God created one with Him.

Today we choose the vision of Love that we may see the unity we share with every brother in innocence, peace and happiness. This is how we welcome our Father in gratitude.

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