Living A Course in Miracles — Our Restoration to Heaven’s Love Is Guaranteed

Our Restoration to Heaven’s Love Is Guaranteed

⁶Pursuit of the imagined leads to death because it is the search for nothingness, and while you seek for life you ask for death. ⁷You look for safety and security, while in your heart you pray for danger and protection for the little dream you made.

Yet searching is inevitable here. ²For this you came, and you will surely do the thing you came for. ³But the world can not dictate the goal for which you search, unless you give it power to do so.

Be glad that search you must. ²Be glad as well to learn you search for Heaven, and must find the goal you really want. ³No one can fail to want this goal and reach it in the end.”

No one remains in hell, for no one can abandon his Creator, nor affect His perfect, timeless and unchanging Love. ²You will find Heaven. ³Everything you seek but this will fall away. ⁴Yet not because it has been taken from you. ⁵It will go because you do not want it. ⁶You will reach the goal you really want as certainly as God created you in sinlessness. (A Course in Miracles, W-131.2:6–3:3;4:1-3;5. See also ACIM Lesson 131 Insights.)

Everyone in this world is seeking for love. This is because this world is a dream where Love’s Reality is denied. It denies our true Identity as Love. It is only natural that we would seek to return to our natural, happy and peaceful Identity.

Because we innately seek for the truth of What we are, we are guaranteed that we will find It. But we must be willing to forgive the wish for specialness that denies Love’s Reality. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to heal our mistaken wishes. We want to remember the Love of Heaven That is our Home.

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Claiming the Happiness That Is Our Birthright

God, being Love, is also happiness.

Happiness is an attribute of love. ²It cannot be apart from it. ³Nor can it be experienced where love is not. ⁴Love has no limits, being everywhere. ⁵And therefore joy is everywhere as well. ⁶Yet can the mind deny that this is so, believing there are gaps in love where sin can enter, bringing pain instead of joy. ⁷This strange belief would limit happiness by redefining love as limited, and introducing opposition in what has no limit and no opposite.

Fear is associated then with love, and its results become the heritage of minds that think what they have made is real. ²These images, with no reality in truth, bear witness to the fear of God, forgetting being Love, He must be joy. ³This basic error we will try again to bring to truth today, and teach ourselves:

⁴God, being Love, is also happiness.
⁵To fear Him is to be afraid of joy.

…happiness belongs to you, because of what He is.

Allow this one correction to be placed within your mind each waking hour today. ²Then welcome all the happiness it brings as truth replaces fear, and joy becomes what you expect to take the place of pain. ³God, being Love, it will be given you. (A Course in Miracles, W-103.1:1–2:5,7;3:1–3. See also ACIM Lesson 103 Insights.)

The ego projects its image on God, making God appear to be something to fear. The reality that God’s Love is eternal and changeless is unaffected by the ego’s projections.

It is time to undo the ego’s fantasies of separation. We dedicate today to frequently remind ourselves the happiness of God’s Love is ours now. It is our birthright.

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Returning to Our Innate Peace and Joy

Forgiveness lets me know that minds are joined.

Forgiveness is the means appointed for perception’s ending. ²Knowledge is restored after perception first is changed, and then gives way entirely to what remains forever past its highest reach. ³For sights and sounds, at best, can serve but to recall the memory that lies beyond them all. ⁴Forgiveness sweeps away distortions, and opens the hidden altar to the truth. ⁵Its lilies shine into the mind, and call it to return and look within, to find what it has vainly sought without. ⁶For here, and only here, is peace of mind restored, for this the dwelling place of God Himself.

In quiet may forgiveness wipe away my dreams of separation and of sin. ²Then let me, Father, look within, and find Your promise of my sinlessness is kept; Your Word remains unchanged within my mind, Your Love is still abiding in my heart. (A Course in Miracles, W-336. See also ACIM Lesson 336 Insights.)

The answer to all our perceived needs is within. Perception can only occur in dreams of separation. These dreams deny the presence of Love and the reality of oneness.

Within our mind remains the Love that unites us with our Creator and all our brothers as His one Son. Forgiveness releases us from the dream of differences and loss. It frees the mind to accept the true Self that remains one with All That is. Here is where we awaken to our innate state of happiness and peace. Today we gratefully bring our perceptions to the Holy Spirit to receive His loving correction.

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Learning to Perceive Truly

I choose to see my brother’s sinlessness.

Forgiveness is a choice. ²I never see my brother as he is, for that is far beyond perception. ³What I see in him is merely what I wish to see, because it stands for what I want to be the truth. ⁴It is to this alone that I respond, however much I seem to be impelled by outside happenings. ⁵I choose to see what I would look upon, and this I see, and only this. ⁶My brother’s sinlessness shows me that I would look upon my own. ⁷And I will see it, having chosen to behold my brother in its holy light.

What could restore Your memory to me, except to see my brother’s sinlessness? ²His holiness reminds me that he was created one with me, and like myself. ³In him I find my Self, and in Your Son I find the memory of You as well. (A Course in Miracles, W-335. See also ACIM Lesson 335 Insights.)

All our judgments are based on perceived forms. These judgments block our awareness of Love’s presence in which form does not exist. We remain one in Love, united and inseparable from our brothers and our Father.

Today we turn all our judgments over to the Holy Spirit. We put them in His Hand to help purify our perceptions to see our brothers truly. With His help, we see the Love that unites us with our brothers, and remember we are that same Love. The Holy Spirit’s vision shows us the sinlessness of our brothers and ourselves.

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Accepting the Gift of God’s Will for Us

There is no conflict, for my will is Yours.

How foolish, Father, to believe Your Son could cause himself to suffer! ²Could he make a plan for his damnation, and be left without a certain way to his release? ³You love me, Father. ⁴You could never leave me desolate, to die within a world of pain and cruelty. ⁵How could I think that Love has left Itself? ⁶There is no will except the Will of Love. ⁷Fear is a dream, and has no will that can conflict with Yours. ⁸Conflict is sleep, and peace awakening. ⁹Death is illusion; life, eternal truth. ¹⁰There is no opposition to Your Will. ¹¹There is no conflict, for my will is Yours.

Forgiveness shows us that God’s Will is One, and that we share it. ²Let us look upon the holy sights forgiveness shows today, that we may find the peace of God. ³Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-331. See also ACIM Lesson 331 Insights.)

Because of its denial, the ego does not know what Love is. It sees Love as a threat because the ego could not seem to exist in the oneness of God’s Love. Thus God is the ego’s enemy. It projects its own interest in attack on God, telling us to fear Him.

Forgiveness of our mistaken belief in separation reveals the limitless love God gives us, His Son. The appearance of danger and conflict disappears. We share God’s Will for us that we be united with Him in the peace of His eternal Love. Today we open our hearts to accept His Gift with joy.

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Joining with Gratitude in Love

My sinless brother is my guide to peace. My sinful brother is my guide to pain. And which I choose to see I will behold.

Who is my brother but Your holy Son? ²And if I see him sinful I proclaim myself a sinner, not a Son of God; alone and friendless in a fearful world. ³Yet this perception is a choice I make, and can relinquish. ⁴I can also see my brother sinless, as Your holy Son. ⁵And with this choice I see my sinlessness, my everlasting Comforter and Friend beside me, and my way secure and clear. ⁶Choose, then, for me, my Father, through Your Voice. ⁷For He alone gives judgment in Your Name. (A Course in Miracles, W-351. See also ACIM Lesson 351 Insights.)

The key to finding peace is to let the Holy Spirit judge all things on our behalf. He sees only the reality of Love. Anything that is not Love He judges as meaningless and dismisses it. He will show us the Love that is the truth in every brother, if we are willing to accept His vision.

When we see the Love in our brother, we remember the Love we are. We recognize our unity with the Love that created us. We join in gratitude.

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Remembering the Love That Unites Us

I need but call and You will answer me.

I am not asked to take salvation on the basis of an unsupported faith. ²For God has promised He will hear my call, and answer me Himself. ³Let me but learn from my experience that this is true, and faith in Him must surely come to me. ⁴This is the faith that will endure, and take me farther and still farther on the road that leads to Him. ⁵For thus I will be sure that He has not abandoned me and loves me still, awaiting but my call to give me all the help I need to come to Him.

Father, I thank You that Your promises will never fail in my experience, if I but test them out. ²Let me attempt therefore to try them, and to judge them not. ³Your Word is one with You. ⁴You give the means whereby conviction comes, and surety of Your abiding Love is gained at last. (A Course in Miracles, W-327. See also ACIM Lesson 327 Insights.)

God has promised that He will answer all our needs. There is really only one need. It is to extend Love. If that extension is interrupted by belief that the separation has occurred, we experience a sense of loss.

This separation seems to take many forms. God has given us His Voice to answer our needs in forms that we understand. This is His assurance that He will never abandon us. He loves us without limit and without end.

Today we pause and let our mind be quiet to listen for His Voice. God’s answer comes when we are willing to accept it. Our willingness to listen is essential for us to accept His help. We are grateful that we can always call on Him to help us remember the Love that unites us with every brother and our Father.

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