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Letting Go of Barriers to Love

Let me not be Your critic, Lord, today, and judge against You. ²Let me not attempt to interfere with Your creation, and distort it into sickly forms. ³Let me be willing to withdraw my wishes from its unity, and thus to let it be as You created it. ⁴For thus will I be able, too, to recognize my Self as You created me. ⁵In love was I created, and in love will I remain forever. ⁶What can frighten me, when I let all things be exactly as they are?

Let not our sight be blasphemous today, nor let our ears attend to lying tongues. ²Only reality is free of pain. ³Only reality is free of loss. ⁴Only reality is wholly safe. ⁵And it is only this we seek today. (A Course in Miracles, W-268.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 268 Insights.)

The body cannot perceive anything real, because the body itself is an illusion. But beyond the illusions is the reality of Love. That means what we are and all things are is Love and nothing else.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit’s help to see all things exactly as they are; to see Love and nothing else. With His help, we will forgive the false images that hide the truth from our awareness. We will forgive the wish for specialness. As we let go of that mistake, the Love we are will fill our awareness and we will see the reality of Love everywhere. This is our calling.

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The Certainty of Our Safety

⁵God is the strength in which I trust.

…try to slip past all concerns related to your own sense of inadequacy. ²It is obvious that any situation that causes you concern is associated with feelings of inadequacy, for otherwise you would believe that you could deal with the situation successfully. ³It is not by trusting yourself that you will gain confidence. ⁴But the strength of God in you is successful in all things.

The recognition of your own frailty is a necessary step in the correction of your errors, but it is hardly a sufficient one in giving you the confidence which you need, and to which you are entitled. ²You must also gain an awareness that confidence in your real strength is fully justified in every respect and in all circumstances.

…reach down into your mind to a place of real safety. ²You will recognize that you have reached it if you feel a sense of deep peace, however briefly. ³Let go all the trivial things that churn and bubble on the surface of your mind, and reach down and below them to the Kingdom of Heaven. ⁴There is a place in you where there is perfect peace. ⁵There is a place in you where nothing is impossible. ⁶There is a place in you where the strength of God abides.

³Remember that peace is your right, because you are giving your trust to the strength of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-47.4:5–7:6;8:3. See also ACIM Lesson 47 Insights.)

In the dream, we feel a constant need to protect ourselves, to be safe from physical, emotional or mental harm. This world is based on the belief that loss is possible and separation is real. With this as a foundation, peace is impossible.

But there is a place in our mind of perfect peace. In this place is the strength of God. There is nothing real outside of this place. The Love of God is all that is real. His strength is invincible because Love never changes.

Today we open our minds to the thought of God within that is perfect peace and perfect happiness. Today we pause and let our mind be quiet. We let ourselves settle into this peace and strength within. We allow ourselves time to sink into the certainty that we are safe. We can bring this experience of safety into our daily experiences knowing that God is our strength.

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Accepting Our Oneness in God’s Love

Christ’s is the vision I will use today.

Each day, each hour, every instant, I am choosing what I want to look upon, the sounds I want to hear, the witnesses to what I want to be the truth for me. ²Today I choose to look upon what Christ would have me see, to listen to God’s Voice, and seek the witnesses to what is true in God’s creation. ³In Christ’s sight, the world and God’s creation meet, and as they come together all perception disappears. ⁴His kindly sight redeems the world from death, for nothing that He looks on but must live, remembering the Father and the Son; Creator and creation unified.

Father, Christ’s vision is the way to You. ²What He beholds invites Your memory to be restored to me. ³And this I choose, to be what I would look upon today. (A Course in Miracles, W-271. See also ACIM Lesson 271 Insights.)

Christ sees with forgiving eyes. The ego sees only what it wants to see. Its top priority is not to see the oneness of Love. The recognition of Love’s oneness dismisses the ego and all its illusions of separation, conflict, competition, anger and guilt.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us see the presence of Love in all things, beyond the forms. As recognition of Love becomes our top priority, we forgive the world for all we thought it was. Our brothers are recognized as our dearest friend, one with us in God’s Love. We join in the eternal extension of His Love.

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Learning to See a Forgiven World

My sight goes forth to look upon Christ’s face.

I ask Your blessing on my sight today. ²It is the means which You have chosen to become the way to show me my mistakes, and look beyond them. ³It is given me to find a new perception through the Guide You gave to me, and through His lessons to surpass perception and return to truth. ⁴I ask for the illusion which transcends all those I made. ⁵Today I choose to see a world forgiven, in which everyone shows me the face of Christ, and teaches me that what I look upon belongs to me; that nothing is, except Your holy Son.

Today our sight is blessed indeed. ²We share one vision, as we look upon the face of Him Whose Self is ours. ³We are one because of Him Who is the Son of God; of Him Who is our own Identity. (A Course in Miracles, W-269. See also ACIM Lesson 269 Insights.)

To see the face of Christ in our brothers, we need to disregard the appearance of bodies and what they seem to do. The body is a mask the ego uses to hide the Son of God, our true Self, from our awareness. If we believe the body is real, we see ourselves as separate from other bodies. Most importantly, we believe we are separate from our Creator.

Believing we are separate from Love in the dream, we feel lacking Love. We search it in the world, but this Love cannot be found in a dream of forms. Love has no form. As we learn to let go of our investment in making bodies and separation real, forgiveness dismisses the false images. , the Son of God.

Today we call upon the Holy Spirit to help us forgive our perceptions of bodies, and what they say and do. With His help, we will see our brothers as they are, Love and nothing else. We will see the face of Christ.

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We Would See Love and Nothing Else

Let me perceive no differences today.

Father, You have one Son. ²And it is he that I would look upon today. ³He is Your one creation. ⁴Why should I perceive a thousand forms in what remains as one? ⁵Why should I give this one a thousand names, when only one suffices? ⁶For Your Son must bear Your Name, for You created him. ⁷Let me not see him as a stranger to his Father, nor as stranger to myself. ⁸For he is part of me and I of him, and we are part of You Who are our Source, eternally united in Your Love; eternally the holy Son of God.

We who are one would recognize this day the truth about ourselves. ²We would come home, and rest in unity. ³For there is peace, and nowhere else can peace be sought and found. (A Course in Miracles, W-262. See also ACIM Lesson 262 Insights.)

Conflict is impossible within what is one and wholly uniform throughout. That is why we find peace in the oneness of the one Self we share with every brother and our Creator. That is our Home.

In the dream we see differences which inevitably conflict. But we can ask the Holy Spirit to help us see the oneness of Love that unites all form. Love is the only Reality. It is our Self.

Today we frequently remind ourselves, “We are Love and nothing else.” As we see or think of any brother, we remind ourselves that he is Love and nothing else. We offer any perception of anything other than Love in a brother to the Holy Spirit to receive His healing vision. Today we would see Love and nothing else.

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Calling for Help Welcomes the Answer

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 the answer for all our mistaken thoughts. He has already given the Thought that created His Son holy and complete, eternally united with Himself. We can count on our Creator to keep us whole within Himself. We need only call for His Help. This call welcomes the help He has already given. It opens our mind to receive His gift.

Whenever we feel lack of peace or happiness, we can call for His help by pausing and welcoming the peace within. His Answer is always found in a peaceful mind. In peace we hear His Voice. In peace we receive His vision to see past appearances in the dream to the reality of present Love. God welcomes our call.

Today is a great day to practice accepting His Help.

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Remembering God’s Will for Us, His Son

God in His mercy wills that I be saved.

I need but look upon all things that seem to hurt me, and with perfect certainty assure myself, “God wills that I be saved from this,” and merely watch them disappear. ²I need but keep in mind my Father’s Will for me is only happiness, to find that only happiness has come to me. ³And I need but remember that God’s Love surrounds His Son and keeps his sinlessness forever perfect, to be sure that I am saved and safe forever in His Arms. ⁴I am the Son He loves. ⁵And I am saved because God in His mercy wills it so.

Father, Your Holiness is mine. ²Your Love created me, and made my sinlessness forever part of You. ³I have no guilt nor sin in me, for there is none in You. (A Course in Miracles, W-235. See also ACIM Lesson 235 Insights.)

The ego has a very low opinion of what we are. It tells us we are sinners, guilty and do not deserve to live. It sees our death as proof that it is right, and God must be wrong. If we listen to the ego, we see ourselves in constant jeopardy in a world that is out to destroy us. Happiness seems to be temporary, lasting only for fleeting moments.

God sees His Son as the same as Himself, holy, at peace, and creating with Love eternally. He keeps His Son one with Him, held in His safety and certainty that His Son remains at Home with Him in the Heaven of His Love. This is His Will for us. It is time to remember that His Will for us remains unchanged and unchangeable.

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