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Using the Body to Awaken from the Dream

My body is a wholly neutral thing.

I am a Son of God. ²And can I be another thing as well? ³Did God create the mortal and corruptible? ⁴What use has God’s beloved Son for what must die? ⁵And yet a neutral thing does not see death, for thoughts of fear are not invested there, nor is a mockery of love bestowed upon it. ⁶Its neutrality protects it while it has a use. ⁷And afterwards, without a purpose, it is laid aside. ⁸It is not sick nor old nor hurt. ⁹It is but functionless, unneeded and cast off. ¹⁰Let me not see it more than this today; of service for a while and fit to serve, to keep its usefulness while it can serve, and then to be replaced for greater good.

My body, Father, cannot be Your Son. ²And what is not created cannot be sinful nor sinless; neither good nor bad. ³Let me, then, use this dream to help Your plan that we awaken from all dreams we made. (A Course in Miracles, W-294)

We are not a body, we are spirit—a Son of God. As God’s creation, we are His extension of Love, and nothing else.

The body has a purpose in the dream. It can be used to as a means to help remove the dream’s barriers to Love. It is a means for communication in the dream of separation. We need this means as a bridge to help us awaken from the dream.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us bring healing forgiveness to the world. As we use the body as a means to extend Love, the body serves a meaningful purpose. This is our vocation.

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Remembering Our Oneness as God’s One Son

Forgiveness is the only gift I give.

Forgiveness is the only gift I give, because it is the only gift I want. ²And everything I give I give myself. ³This is salvation’s simple formula. ⁴And I, who would be saved, would make it mine, to be the way I live within a world that needs salvation, and that will be saved as I accept Atonement for myself.

Father, how certain are Your ways; how sure their final outcome, and how faithfully is every step in my salvation set already, and accomplished by Your grace. ²Thanks be to You for Your eternal gifts, and thanks to You for my Identity. (A Course in Miracles, W-297. See also ACIM Lesson 297 Insights.)

It is important to the ego to see everything in the world as separate from ourselves. That is how it seems that we are without God’s Love and vulnerable to outside forces beyond our control. This separation also provides outside targets to project our guilt upon for denying out Identity as God’s Son.

But this dream of separation has no effect on the reality that remain one with God. He has shared all that He is with the one Self we share with everyone. The fact that our Identity is the one Son of God is why everything we give is given to our Self. We accept this fact by forgiving the wish for specialness and let go of all judgments. We practice this today.

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Remembering the Christ in Our Mind

The Christ in you is very still. ²He looks on what He loves, and knows it as Himself. ³And thus does He rejoice at what He sees, because He knows that it is one with Him and with His Father. ⁴Specialness, too, takes joy in what it sees, although it is not true. ⁵Yet what you seek for is a source of joy as you conceive it. ⁶What you wish is true for you. ⁷Nor is it possible that you can wish for something and lack faith that it is so. ⁸Wishing makes real, as surely as does will create. ⁹The power of a wish upholds illusions as strongly as does love extend itself. ¹⁰Except that one deludes; the other heals.

There is no dream of specialness, however hidden or disguised the form, however lovely it may seem to be, however much it delicately offers the hope of peace and the escape from pain, in which you suffer not your condemnation. ²In dreams effect and cause are interchanged, for here the maker of the dream believes that what he made is happening to him.

Where could your peace arise but from forgiveness? ²The Christ in you looks only on the truth, and sees no condemnation that could need forgiveness. ³He is at peace because He sees no sin. ⁴Identify with Him, and what has He that you have not? ⁵[Christ] is your eyes, your ears, your hands, your feet. ⁶How gentle are the sights He sees, the sounds He hears. ⁷How beautiful His hand that holds His brother’s, and how lovingly He walks beside him, showing him what can be seen and heard, and where he will see nothing and there is no sound to hear. (A Course in Miracles, T-24.V.1:1–2:2;3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We experience a world of separation, of fear and guilt because we identify with the ego. This mistaken identification leads us to believe we are a body, vulnerable and weak.

Fortunately we can change our identification. We can change what we believe we are. Christ is in us, now and forever. When we identify with Christ, we identify with our reality as Love. Love sees no need to forgive anything because harm is impossible in its unity. It is always at peace.

Today we remind ourselves that Christ is in our mind. We follow Christ’s vision and let It show us the Christ in every brother. With His vision, we see a forgiven world. We see Love everywhere and recognize It in ourselves.

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We Welcome Christ’s Vision Today

I can be free of suffering today.

Father, I thank You for today, and for the freedom I am certain it will bring. ²This day is holy, for today Your Son will be redeemed. ³His suffering is done. ⁴For he will hear Your Voice directing him to find Christ’s vision through forgiveness, and be free forever from all suffering. ⁵Thanks for today, my Father. ⁶I was born into this world but to achieve this day, and what it holds in joy and freedom for Your holy Son and for the world he made, which is released along with him today.

Be glad today! ²Be glad! ³There is no room for anything but joy and thanks today. ⁴Our Father has redeemed His Son this day. ⁵Not one of us but will be saved today. ⁶Not one who will remain in fear, and none the Father will not gather to Himself, awake in Heaven in the Heart of Love. (A Course in Miracles, W-340. See also ACIM Lesson 340 Insights.)

Christ’s vision shows us a forgiven world. Our willingness to forgive, to let go of our judgments, is essential for us to be able to see with the eyes of Christ. To truly forgive, we need to let the Holy Spirit help us release our judgments. If we are willing, He will show us that what offended us, what caused us guilt or fear, is not real.

Though the ego proclaims loudly that the images of this world are real, the Holy Spirit shows us how to see beyond them. As we recognize the unreality of the appearances of differences, we recognize our unity with the universe of Love. We welcome this vision today.

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Accepting the Love in Which We Live

Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free.

The ego makes illusions. ²Truth undoes its evil dreams by shining them away. ³Truth never makes attack. ⁴It merely is. ⁵And by its presence is the mind recalled from fantasies, awaking to the real. ⁶Forgiveness bids this presence enter in, and take its rightful place within the mind. ⁷Without forgiveness is the mind in chains, believing in its own futility. ⁸Yet with forgiveness does the light shine through the dream of darkness, offering it hope, and giving it the means to realize the freedom that is its inheritance.

We would not bind the world again today. ²Fear holds it prisoner. ³And yet Your Love has given us the means to set it free. ⁴Father, we would release it now. ⁵For as we offer freedom, it is given us. ⁶And we would not remain as prisoners, while You are holding freedom out to us. (A Course in Miracles, W-332. See also ACIM Lesson 332 Insights.)

Our release from a world of fear and pain depends upon forgiveness. It is held in place by our belief that we are a separate identity, distinct from everything and everyone. Yet this world is only a dream formed by this belief.

True forgiveness comes with the help of the Holy Spirit. When we are willing to accept His help, He will show us that the images of the world are illusions. These images have no effect on our true Self God created as His Son. When this fact is fully accepted, the mistaken beliefs are dispelled. We see the Love in our brothers that unites us as God’s one Son. In the changelessness of Love, we find peace and freedom from fear and guilt.

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The Key to Freedom from Fear

Judgment and love are opposites. From one come all the sorrows of the world. But from the other comes the peace of God Himself.

Forgiveness looks on sinlessness alone, and judges not. ²Through this I come to You. ³Judgment will bind my eyes and make me blind. ⁴Yet love, reflected in forgiveness here, reminds me You have given me a way to find Your peace again. ⁵I am redeemed when I elect to follow in this way. ⁶You have not left me comfortless. ⁷I have within me both the memory of You, and One Who leads me to it. ⁸Father, I would hear Your Voice and find Your peace today. ⁹For I would love my own Identity, and find in It the memory of You. (A Course in Miracles, W-352. See also ACIM Lesson 352 Insights.)

The ego is the denial of Love so it judges everything as different and separate from itself. It does not recognize our true Self because its judgment denies its Presence. We are not the ego, but if we identify with it, we cannot recognize the Love we are.

This is why forgiveness is the key to our salvation. It frees us of the judgment that blinds us to the awareness of Love. God has given us His Voice to guide us to true forgiveness. His Voice helps us let go of judgments to see the presence of Love beyond the ego’s images.

Today we will be mindful of our judgments and welcome the Holy Spirit’s guidance to let them go. Thus will we remember we are one with all in God’s Love.

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Accepting the Total Equality of Love

I came for the salvation of the world.

Here is a thought from which all arrogance has been removed, and only truth remains. ²For arrogance opposes truth. ³But when there is no arrogance the truth will come immediately, and fill up the space the ego left unoccupied by lies. ⁴Only the ego can be limited, and therefore it must seek for aims which are curtailed and limiting. ⁵The ego thinks that what one gains, totality must lose. ⁶And yet it is the Will of God I learn that what one gains is given unto all.

Father, Your Will is total. ²And the goal which stems from it shares its totality. ³What aim but the salvation of the world could You have given me? ⁴And what but this could be the Will my Self has shared with You? (A Course in Miracles, W-319. See also ACIM Lesson 319 Insights.)

Love gives equally to all, without limit. The wish for specialness, for inequality, is what we need to be saved from. Inequality is not the Will of God. It can only seem to be achieved in dreams with winners and losers.

The will of our true Self is the same as God’s Will because our one Self remains united with our Creator. Our only meaningful purpose in a dream of separation is to let go of the wish for inequality. This is how we bring salvation to the world.

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