Living A Course in Miracles — Welcoming the Joyous Present

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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Welcoming the Love That Unites Us

I merely follow, for I would not lead.

“Father, You are the One Who gave the plan for my salvation to me. ²You have set the way I am to go, the role to take, and every step in my appointed path. ³I cannot lose the way. ⁴I can but choose to wander off a while, and then return. ⁵Your loving Voice will always call me back, and guide my feet aright. ⁶My brothers all can follow in the way I lead them. ⁷Yet I merely follow in the way to You, as You direct me and would have me go.

So let us follow One Who knows the way. ²We need not tarry, and we cannot stray except an instant from His loving Hand. ³We walk together, for we follow Him. ⁴And it is He Who makes the ending sure, and guarantees a safe returning home. (A Course in Miracles, W-324. See also ACIM Lesson 324 Insights.)

The ego is the wish to take control of our ‘life’ experience. It is saying to our Father, “I want to do it my way.” It is a rebellion against the authority of our Creator.

Yet our Creator’s Will for His creation is perfect peace and joy in the oneness of Love. This is our Reality. Rebellion against Reality can only occur in dreams. When we are engaged in a dream, our belief makes it seem very real. But when we wake up from the dream, it is clear that nothing really happened in the reality.

We have been given a Guide Whose mission is to lovingly lead us out of the dream. This Guide knows the truth of what we are and disregards our vain imaginings as meaningless. When we are willing to follow His lead, we will learn to recognize the Reality of Love in which we live. Our focus shifts to Christ’s vision, which forgives the world which we have dreamt and welcomes the Love that joins us all together as one.

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Returning to the Promised Land of Love

The Holy Spirit is described as the remaining Communication Link between God and His separated Sons. ²In order to fulfill this special function the Holy Spirit has assumed a dual function. ³He knows because He is part of God; He perceives because He was sent to save humanity. ⁴He is the great correction principle; the bringer of true perception, the inherent power of the vision of Christ. ⁵He is the light in which the forgiven world is perceived; in which the face of Christ alone is seen. ⁶He never forgets the Creator or His creation. ⁷He never forgets the Son of God. ⁸He never forgets you. ⁹And He brings the Love of your Father to you in an eternal shining that will never be obliterated because God has put it there.

The Holy Spirit abides in the part of your mind that is part of the Christ Mind. ²He represents your Self and your Creator, Who are One. ³He speaks for God and also for you, being joined with Both. ⁴And therefore it is He Who proves Them One. ⁵He seems to be a Voice, for in that form He speaks God’s Word to you. ⁶He seems to be a Guide through a far country, for you need that form of help. ⁷He seems to be whatever meets the needs you think you have. ⁸But He is not deceived when you perceive your self entrapped in needs you do not have. ⁹It is from these He would deliver you. ¹⁰It is from these that He would make you safe. (A Course in Miracles, C-6.3:1–4:10)

The wish for specialness is the wish for differences. Differences conflict and can seem to lose value or be harmed. Anger, fear and guilt are inevitable in this environment. But such an environment could never occur in the oneness of God’s Love. Thus any death or destruction that seems to occur could never be real.

Into this environment that we accepted as real, our Creator has sent the Holy Spirit as the bridge of return to the reality of His Love. The Holy Spirit can see our mistaken perceptions but does not recognize them as real. Thus He can be a Guide to lead us out of our chosen world of perceived differences into the promised land of God’s Love. He can lead us out of our belief lovelessness and bring us Home to the reality of our oneness in the Love of God.

Today we choose to step back from our perceptions and welcome the Holy Spirit’s gift of true perception. We want to remember that we are Love, and nothing else.

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