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Awakening to Our Life in Love

You are your brother’s savior. ²He is yours. ³Reason speaks happily indeed of this. ⁴This gracious plan was given love by Love. ⁵And what Love plans is like Itself in this: Being united, It would have you learn what you must be. ⁶And being one with It, it must be given you to give what It has given, and gives still. ⁷Spend but an instant in the glad acceptance of what is given you to give your brother, and learn with him what has been given both of you. ⁸To give is no more blessed than to receive. ⁹But neither is it less.

The Son of God is always blessed as one. ²And as his gratitude goes out to you who blessed him, reason will tell you that it cannot be you stand apart from blessing. ³The gratitude he offers you reminds you of the thanks your Father gives you for completing Him. ⁴And here alone does reason tell you that you can understand what you must be. ⁵Your Father is as close to you as is your brother. ⁶Yet what is there that could be nearer you than is your Self? (A Course in Miracles, T-21.VI.9–10. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Denial of our oneness in Love is the foundation of all our perceived problems. It is the lynchpin that holds the ego’s thought system of separation together. When we fully accept our unity with every brother and our Creator, the ego falls apart, disappearing into the nothingness from which it came.

When we embrace the Love that is the truth in every brother, we feel Love’s blessing. Limits on love we perceived give way to the joyous giving and receiving of Love. Loneliness is replaced by unlimited communion with our one Self. We awaken to the Life we live in Love.

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Uniting with Creation in Love’s Oneness

In quiet I receive God’s Word today.

Let this day be a day of stillness and of quiet listening. ²Your Father wills you hear His Word today. ³He calls to you from deep within your mind where He abides. ⁴Hear Him today. ⁵No peace is possible until His Word is heard around the world; until your mind, in quiet listening, accepts the message that the world must hear to usher in the quiet time of peace.

This world will change through you. ²No other means can save it, for God’s plan is simply this: The Son of God is free to save himself, given the Word of God to be his Guide, forever in his mind and at his side to lead him surely to his Father’s house by his own will, forever free as God’s. ³He is not led by force, but only love. ⁴He is not judged, but only sanctified.

In stillness we will hear God’s Voice today without intrusion of our petty thoughts, without our personal desires, and without all judgment of His holy Word. ²We will not judge ourselves today, for what we are can not be judged. (A Course in Miracles, W-125.1:1–3:2. See also ACIM Lesson 125 Insights.)

The Course tells us not to seek to change the world, but to instead to change our mind about the world. This is because the world we see is a projection of our beliefs. Change our beliefs and the world we perceive will change.

Forgiveness is the way we release our mistaken beliefs to be replaced by the oneness of Love, which is all that is real. The Truth calls to us from the Voice within our mind. It is the call of Love to let Love be. This is our will, which we share with our Father.

We welcome this Voice by going to the quiet place of peace in our mind. From this peace we are led to recognize the Presence of Love in which we live. Here we see every brother as part of our one Self, forever united in the holiness of our Father.

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Accepting the Will We Share with Our Father

I will there be light.

³The will you share with God has all the power of creation in it. ⁴The ego’s idle wishes are unshared, and therefore have no power at all. ⁵Its wishes are not idle in the sense that they can make a world of illusions in which your belief can be very strong. ⁶But they are idle indeed in terms of creation. ⁷They make nothing that is real.

Idle wishes and grievances are partners or co-makers in picturing the world you see. ²The wishes of the ego gave rise to it, and the ego’s need for grievances, which are necessary to maintain it, peoples it with figures that seem to attack you and call for “righteous” judgment. ³These figures become the middlemen the ego employs to traffic in grievances. ⁴They stand between your awareness and your brothers’ reality. ⁵Beholding them, you do not know your brothers or your Self.

Your picture of the world can only mirror what is within. ²The source of neither light nor darkness can be found without. ³Grievances darken your mind, and you look out on a darkened world. ⁴Forgiveness lifts the darkness, reasserts your will, and lets you look upon a world of light. (A Course in Miracles, W-73.1:3–2:5;5:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 73 Insights.)

As long as we believe the forms we see in the world are real, we are believing in the ego’s fantasy of a world of specialness. We use the images to justify our grievances and our special status. Because the images are illusions, they are seen as unreliable, requiring constant defense. But all these fantasies cast a dark shadow on the reality of the world of Love in which we truly live.

If we want to be happy and at peace, we need to forgive our belief in the ‘reality’ of the images of ego’s fantasies. Through forgiveness, the Light of Love is welcomed in our mind. We remember that our true will is shared with our Father, Whose Will is that only Love is real. We joyfully accept the life we live in His Love.

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Answering Calls for Love

Now let a new perception come to me.

Father, there is a vision which beholds all things as sinless, so that fear has gone, and where it was is love invited in. ²And love will come wherever it is asked. ³This vision is Your gift. ⁴The eyes of Christ look on a world forgiven. ⁵In His sight are all its sins forgiven, for He sees no sin in anything He looks upon. ⁶Now let His true perception come to me, that I may waken from the dream of sin and look within upon my sinlessness, which You have kept completely undefiled upon the altar to Your holy Son, the Self with which I would identify.

Let us today behold each other in the sight of Christ. ²How beautiful we are! ³How holy and how loving! ⁴Brother, come and join with me today. ⁵We save the world when we have joined. ⁶For in our vision it becomes as holy as the light in us. (A Course in Miracles, W-313. See also ACIM Lesson 313 Insights.)

In every moment the Holy Spirit calls to us to join with Him in the vision that reveals the reality of Love. When we are willing to join with Him, we will see only innocence, only the constant giving and receiving of Love. This is the vision of Christ, which sees that only Love is real.

Each time our peace of mind is disturbed, it is our own call to remember Love’s reality. By offering the disturbing perception to the Holy Spirit, we make way for Love to answer the call.

Today we walk in gratitude by letting Love show us the truth within all our perceptions. With this vision, we recognize the holiness of our Home in Heaven’s Love.

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The Choice to Be Love’s Messenger

There is a light in you which cannot die; whose presence is so holy that the world is sanctified because of you.

This is the way salvation works. ²As you step back, the light in you steps forward and encompasses the world.

“Who walks with me?” ²This question should be asked a thousand times a day, till certainty has ended doubting and established peace. ³Today let doubting cease. ⁴God speaks for you in answering your question with these words:

⁵I walk with God in perfect holiness. ⁶I light the world, I light my mind and all the minds which God created one with me. (A Course in Miracles, W-156.4:1;6:1-2;8. See also ACIM Lesson 156 Insights.)

For most of us, most of the time, the answer to “Who walks with me?” is the ego. But God does not condemn us for this mistaken choice. He has given us the Holy Spirit who waits patiently for us to choose Him instead.

The choice to walk with the Holy Spirit is the choice for peace of mind that cannot be disturbed. It is the choice for lasting happiness and joyous union with all our brothers in the Mind of God.

Today we have the opportunity to diligently practice making this choice. Each time we make this choice, our confidence in our perfect holiness and unity with our Creator grows stronger. Our light in the world becomes brighter. We become messengers of Love to the world.

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Opening Our Mind to Receive God’s Love

Truth will correct all errors in my mind.

²I am mistaken when I think I can be hurt in any way. ³I am God’s Son, whose Self rests safely in the Mind of God.

To give and to receive are one in truth.

²I will forgive all things today, that I may learn how to accept the truth in me, and come to recognize my sinlessness. (A Course in Miracles, W-119.1:1–2:2. See also ACIM Lesson 119 Insights.)

If the oneness of Love is all that is real, our minds must deny the truth in order for individuality to seem real. This is the ego’s goal in order to defend its belief in separation. Despite all its efforts, the ego cannot change reality. The most it can do is make up a dream of separation which hides the presence of Love. When we identify with the ego, we believe its dream is our reality.

Forgiveness is the key to waking up from the ego’s painful and fearful dream. Because we have accepted the ego’s belief system, we need the Holy Spirit to help us let go of our errors. He is the bridge between the ego’s dream and our reality in the oneness of God’s Love.

As we let Him show us Love’s Reality beyond the images in the dream, we learn to overlook the ego’s lies and focus instead on the Love that is our real Identity. As we forgive our mistaken perceptions, we receive the blessing of Love’s peace and joy. We remember our Home in the Heaven of God’s Love.

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Welcoming Love’s Healing Embrace

Christ’s Second Coming, which is sure as God, is merely the correction of mistakes, and the return of sanity. ²It is a part of the condition that restores the never lost, and re-establishes what is forever and forever true. ³It 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. ²There is no end to the release the Second Coming brings, as God’s creation must be limitless. ³Forgiveness lights the Second Coming’s way, because it shines on everything as one. ⁴And thus is oneness recognized at last. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.9.1–2)

Forgiveness is the way our minds welcome our true Identity as God’s one Son. We have accepted a false narrative that we live in a world of differences which conflict with each other; where individual identities need to be defended and loss seems possible.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us forgive the fearful thoughts that deny Love’s oneness. We want to remember the peace and joy of our true Identity in God’s Love. We want to see the innocence of Christ in everyone, including ourselves. We want to welcome Love’s healing embrace.

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