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Claiming Our Home in God’s Love

⁵You are but asked to let the future go, and place it in God’s Hands. ⁶And you will see by your experience that you have laid the past and present in His Hands as well, because the past will punish you no more, and future dread will now be meaningless.

²As it becomes a thought that rules your mind, a habit in your problem-solving repertoire, a way of quick reaction to temptation, you extend your learning to the world. ³And as you learn to see salvation in all things, so will the world perceive that it is saved.

What worry can beset the one who gives his future to the loving Hands of God? ²What can he suffer? ³What can cause him pain, or bring experience of loss to him? ⁴What can he fear? ⁵And what can he regard except with love? ⁶For he who has escaped all fear of future pain has found his way to present peace, and certainty of care the world can never threaten. ⁷He is sure that his perception may be faulty, but will never lack correction. ⁸He is free to choose again when he has been deceived; to change his mind when he has made mistakes.

Place, then, your future in the Hands of God. ²For thus you call the memory of Him to come again, replacing all your thoughts of sin and evil with the truth of love.

²For in God’s Hands we rest untroubled, sure that only good can come to us. (A Course in Miracles, W-194.4:5-6;6:2–8:2;9:2. See also ACIM Lesson 194 Insights.)

The ego is afraid of the future because it hangs on to a fearful memory of the past. It sees only uncertainty, so it makes plans for the future to try to control what happens and be safe. Because the ego itself is an illusion, all its plans are illusions with inherent uncertainty. As long as we identify with the ego, this is our state of mind.

But we have an alternative that brings us certainty and peace. If we are willing to place the future in God’s hands, we accept His peace as ours. God is certain because He is changeless Love. We can relax into His certainty, knowing that His plan for us is to keep us forever safe within His eternal Love. This is the Home He holds for us. We need only place our future in His Hands to claim our Home as our own. We are grateful that His plan for us is perfect peace, joy and Love.

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The Gift That Awakens Us to Love

All gifts I give my brothers are my own.

As every gift my brothers give is mine, so every gift I give belongs to me. ²Each one allows a past mistake to go, and leave no shadow on the holy mind my Father loves. ³His grace is given me in every gift a brother has received throughout all time, and past all time as well. ⁴My treasure house is full, and angels watch its open doors that not one gift is lost, and only more are added. ⁵Let me come to where my treasures are, and enter in where I am truly welcome and at home, among the gifts that God has given me.

Father, I would accept Your gifts today. ²I do not recognize them. ³Yet I trust that You Who gave them will provide the means by which I can behold them, see their worth, and cherish only them as what I want. (A Course in Miracles, W-316. See also ACIM Lesson 316 Insights.)

We do not recognize our Creator’s gift to us because of our wish for specialness. Because of this wish, we don’t recognize His gift of Love. We see what we want to see. So we don’t see God’s gift of all of His Love to all equally. His Gift is unacceptable, so we deny It.

This is why forgiveness is essential for us to recognize the value of God’s one Gift of Everything. When we are able to forgive a judgment, a mistaken perception, it is a gift given to both our brother and ourself because we are one in God’s Love. It does not matter whether we believe we are forgiving ourselves or our brother. Our brothers are always reflecting back to us what we believe we are.

Today we dedicate to giving the gift of forgiveness, for in that gift, we awaken to our treasure in the Heart of God.

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Seeing the Love Beyond All Appearances

Creation is the sum of all God’s Thoughts, in number infinite, and everywhere without all limit. ²Only love creates, and only like itself. ³There was no time when all that it created was not there. ⁴Nor will there be a time when anything that it created suffers any loss. ⁵Forever and forever are God’s Thoughts exactly as they were and as they are, unchanged through time and after time is done.

Creation is the opposite of all illusions, for creation is the truth. ²Creation is the holy Son of God, for in creation is His Will complete in every aspect, making every part container of the whole.

We are creation; we the Sons of God. ²We seem to be discrete, and unaware of our eternal unity with Him. ³Yet back of all our doubts, past all our fears, there still is certainty. ⁴For love remains with all its Thoughts, its sureness being theirs. ⁵God’s memory is in our holy minds, which know their oneness and their unity with their Creator. ⁶Let our function be only to let this memory return, only to let God’s Will be done on earth, only to be restored to sanity, and to be but as God created us. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.11.1;11.3:1-2;4)

God is only Love and His Will is to extend only Love. We, His Son, are that extension and thus our will is united with His. Our only function as His Son is to continue the extension of Love that created us.

In the dream we interrupt the extension of Love by dreaming separation is real. This makes Love’s extension appear to be limited, but only in the dream. We wake up from this dream of lack of Love by choosing the Holy Spirit as our Guide to interpret all our perceptions.

With His help, we will learn the perceptions are meaningless and nothing. With His vision we will overlook these perceptions to see the reality of Love everywhere. This is how we forgive the world for all our mistaken perceptions. We awaken to the Love we are — eternal, limitless, joyous and in peace. We awaken to our Reality.

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Letting Love Replace Grievances

Let miracles replace all grievances.

²By this idea do I unite my will with the Holy Spirit’s, and perceive them as one. ³By this idea do I accept my release from hell. ⁴By this idea do I express my willingness to have all my illusions be replaced with truth, according to God’s plan for my salvation. ⁵I would make no exceptions and no substitutes. ⁶I want all of Heaven and only Heaven, as God wills me to have.

Useful specific forms for applying this idea would be:

²I would not hold this grievance apart from my salvation.
³Let our grievances be replaced by miracles, [name].
⁴Beyond this is the miracle by which all my grievances are replaced. (A Course in Miracles, W-89.3–4. See also ACIM Lesson 89 Insights.)

Any sense of conflict in a situation or with a person, or organization represents a grievance. Grievances always come up when there is a perception of differences. Differences can only be perceived when belief in separation has been accepted. Any grievance stands as a barrier against our acceptance of Love’s oneness.

The willingness to accept a miracle, which lets go of a perception of differences and accepts oneness in its place, is key to our awakening. Fortunately, we have help to let grievances go.

If we are willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to see with Christ’s vision, forgiveness is welcomed. We see that nothing has really happened to change our true Self. We remain as God created us, Love and nothing else. Our willingness lets the Holy Spirit heal our mistaken beliefs. Conflict fades and Love takes its place.

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Accepting the Radiant Love in Our Brothers

You have so little faith in yourself because you are unwilling to accept the fact that perfect love is in you. ²And so you seek without for what you cannot find without. ³I offer you my perfect faith in you, in place of all your doubts. ⁴But forget not that my faith must be as perfect in all your brothers as it is in you, or it would be a limited gift to you. ⁵In the holy instant we share our faith in God’s Son because we recognize, together, that he is wholly worthy of it, and in our appreciation of his worth we cannot doubt his holiness. ⁶And so we love him.

³In the holy instant you recognize the idea of love in you, and unite this idea with the Mind that thought it, and could not relinquish it. ⁴By holding it within itself, there _is_ no loss. ⁵The holy instant thus becomes a lesson in how to hold all of your brothers in your mind, experiencing not loss but completion. ⁶From this it follows you can only give. ⁷And this is love, for this alone is natural under the laws of God.

¹⁰For in the holy instant you will recognize the only need the Sons of God share equally, and by this recognition you will join with me in offering what [Love] is needed. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.VI.2;5:3-7;6:10. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

To know our true Self, we must must recognize the true Self in our brothers. This Self is one and the same. This Self is the extension of God’s Love, His Son. It has no form, but it is the Mind we share with our Creator.

While we identify with a body, we need to learn to disregard what the body sees and experiences; it is all part of the illusion of separation. But we can allow ourselves moments of clarity in our mind which the Course calls the holy instant. In this instant we see past all the forms to the reality of Love.

The Holy Spirit was given us to help us learn to welcome the holy instant through forgiveness. As we forgive the appearances in the world that seem to make us separate, we let the Light of Love dawn upon our mind. We see the Love in our brother and overlook the appearance of bodies and what they seem to do. They are recognized as meaningless.

As we let illusions go, the radiant Love that joins us with our brothers fills our mind. We find peace and joy in our unity. This is the only gift we need to give. It is a gift we receive as we give.

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Recognizing Our True Self in Our Brothers

We stand together, Christ and I, in peace and certainty of purpose. And in Him is His Creator, as He is in me.

My oneness with the Christ establishes me as Your Son, beyond the reach of time, and wholly free of every law but Yours. ²I have no self except the Christ in me. ³I have no purpose but His Own. ⁴And He is like His Father. ⁵Thus must I be one with You as well as Him. ⁶For who is Christ except Your Son as You created Him? ⁷And what am I except the Christ in me? (A Course in Miracles, W-354. See also ACIM Lesson 354 Insights.)

We stand with Christ, not beside us but in us. He is our true Self. He is the unity that keeps us joined with every brother. He is not defined by bodies, but by the Love of His Creator.

Today, as we think about or see a brother, we remind ourselves, “Christ is in him as He is in me.” We share this one Self. There is no other. As we accept this fact, thoughts of judgment and differences fade away.

We know we live under the law of Love. This law guarantees that what we give, we receive. Each moment we are able to recognize the Christ in a brother, the Christ within is more clear to us. His peace and happiness are ours and accepted more and more.

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Experiencing Limitless Love

Today I learn the law of love; that

what I give my brother is my gift to me.

This is Your law, my Father, not my own. ²I have not understood what giving means, and thought to save what I desired for myself alone. ³And as I looked upon the treasure that I thought I had, I found an empty place where nothing ever was or is or will be. ⁴Who can share a dream? ⁵And what can an illusion offer me? ⁶Yet he whom I forgive will give me gifts beyond the worth of anything on earth. ⁷Let my forgiven brothers fill my store with Heaven’s treasures, which alone are real. ⁸Thus is the law of love fulfilled. ⁹And thus Your Son arises and returns to You.

How near we are to one another, as we go to God. ²How near is He to us. ³How close the ending of the dream of sin, and the redemption of the Son of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-344. See also ACIM Lesson 344 Insights.)

How we see our brother is how we see ourselves. If we see him as a body, we believe we are a body. If we see Him as Love and nothing else, His vision comes from the Love we are, our true Self.

Anything that interferes with our recognition with the Love that is our brother, must be forgiven. As we forgive our perception of a brother, we experience Love’s blessing. Every day is filled with opportunities to accept the Love we are by giving gifts of forgiveness. We ask the Holy Spirit to help us see with Christ’s vision and know that only Love is real. There is no limit to the Love we will experience.

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