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Seeing Our World in the Light of Love

[The] space you see as setting off all things from one another is the means by which the world’s perception is achieved. ²You see something where nothing is, and see as well nothing where there is unity; a space between all things, between all things and you. ³Thus do you think that you have given life in separation. ⁴By this split you think you are established as a unity which functions with an independent will.

Such is the teaching of the world. ²It is a phase of learning everyone who comes must go through. ³But the sooner he perceives on what it rests, how questionable are its premises, how doubtful its results, the sooner does he question [the world’s] effects. ⁴Learning that stops with what the world would teach stops short of meaning. ⁵In its proper place, it serves but as a starting point from which another kind of learning can begin, a new perception can be gained, and all the arbitrary names the world bestows can be withdrawn as they are raised to doubt. (A Course in Miracles, W-184.2;7. See also ACIM Lesson 184 Insights.)

What the body perceives through its senses is not real, so it is really nothing. The body itself is not real and thus cannot perceive reality. We want these perceptions to be true because they are the means that provide specialness we seek. If we want to awaken to the happiness and Love that is our reality, we must learn to question the reality of the body and its perceptions.

This is what the Course is teaching us. As we learn to let go of our investment in specialness, we find peace. Without specialness, there is no need for form; only the joining in the oneness of universal Love. Without form, there is no conflict.

Our true Self is the Love we seek. As we accept the Holy Spirit’s perceptions in place of our own, our life experience becomes more joyous, peaceful and loving. We ask His help today to see past the body’s perceptions and see our world within the Light of Love.

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Accepting God’s Call to Love

Do you not understand that to oppose the Holy Spirit is to fight yourself? ²He tells you but your will; He speaks for you. ³In His Divinity is but your own. ⁴And all He knows is but your knowledge, saved for you that you may do your will through Him. ⁵God asks you do your will. ⁶He joins with you. …¹¹God is no enemy to you. ¹²He asks no more than that He hear you call Him “Friend.”

How wonderful it is to do your will! ²For that is freedom. ³There is nothing else that ever should be called by freedom’s name. ⁴Unless you do your will you are not free. ⁵And would God leave His Son without what he has chosen for himself? ⁶God but ensured that you would never lose your will when He gave you His perfect Answer. ⁷Hear It now, that you may be reminded of His Love and learn your will.

Look once again upon your enemy, the one you chose to hate instead of love. ²For thus was hatred born into the world, and thus the rule of fear established there. ³Now hear God speak to you, through Him Who is His Voice and yours as well, reminding you that it is not your will to hate and be a prisoner to fear, a slave to death, a little creature with a little life. ⁴Your will is boundless; it is not your will that it be bound. ⁵What lies in you has joined with God Himself in all creation’s birth. (A Course in Miracles, T-30.II.1:1-6,11-12;2:1-7;3:1-5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

To be happy we need only be true to our Self. This Self is Love and our will is to extend that Love. If we consider the times when we have felt loved and loving, a key part of that experience is happiness and peace. To be true to our Self is to be loving.

While we experience ourself as a body, Love seems to be a fleeting experience at best. That is only because the ego is terrified of the experience of Love and tries to minimize it. The ego sees Love as an attack because when we accept Love, we accept Love’s oneness. The ego cannot exist in oneness.

Today we choose to welcome God’s call to Love. It is His gift that brings us His joy and peace. When we accept His call, we accept our Self. With this acceptance, our day will be happy, peaceful and loving.

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The Path of Return to Heaven

Christ’s vision is a miracle. ²It comes from far beyond itself, for it reflects eternal love and the rebirth of love which never dies, but has been kept obscure. ³Christ’s vision pictures Heaven, for it sees a world so like to Heaven that what God created perfect can be mirrored there. ⁴The darkened glass the world presents can show but twisted images in broken parts. ⁵The real world pictures Heaven’s innocence.

Christ’s vision is the miracle in which all miracles are born. ²It is their source, remaining with each miracle you give, and yet remaining yours. ³It is the bond by which the giver and receiver are united in extension here on earth, as they are one in Heaven. ⁴Christ beholds no sin in anyone. ⁵And in His sight the sinless are as one. ⁶Their holiness was given by His Father and Himself.

Christ’s vision is the bridge between the worlds. ²And in its power can you safely trust to carry you from this world into one made holy by forgiveness. (A Course in Miracles, W-159.3:1–5:2;. See also ACIM Lesson 159 Insights.)

Christ’s vision sees only Love’s oneness. If we perceive anything that disturbs our peace, we have chosen the ego as our guide for seeing. Lack of peace is a sign that we need to forgive our thoughts of separation.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to heal our fear-based thoughts. We are vigilant to see our world through the eyes of Christ. This practice is the path of return to our Home in Heaven.

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Joining with the Eternal Extension of Love

Eternal holiness abides in me.

My holiness is far beyond my own ability to understand or know. ²Yet God, my Father, Who created it, acknowledges my holiness as His. ³Our Will, together, understands it. ⁴And Our Will, together, knows that it is so.

Father, my holiness is not of me. ²It is not mine to be destroyed by sin. ³It is not mine to suffer from attack. ⁴Illusions can obscure it, but can not put out its radiance, nor dim its light. ⁵It stands forever perfect and untouched. ⁶In it are all things healed, for they remain as You created them. ⁷And I can know my holiness. ⁸For Holiness Itself created me, and I can know my Source because it is Your Will that You be known. (A Course in Miracles, W-299. See also ACIM Lesson 299 Insights.)

The truth of What we are is that we remain whole and complete in God’s Love. We don’t experience this holiness because we have accepted a false image as our identity. The wish to be unique and separate, to have something we can claim as our own alone, hides our holiness from our awareness. But the Love we are remains unchanged. In this Love, we are one with every brother and our Source.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit for His help to let Christ’s vision show us the Love we are. We want to be Love and nothing else. We want to join in Love’s oneness and extend Love. This is how we can begin to understand our holiness. This is how we remember our will is joined with the Will of our Creator in the eternal extension of Love.

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The Inestimable Value of God’s Love

All things are valuable or valueless, worthy or not of being sought at all, entirely desirable or not worth the slightest effort to obtain. ²Choosing is easy just because of this. ³Complexity is nothing but a screen of smoke, which hides the very simple fact that no decision can be difficult. ⁴What is the gain to you in learning this? ⁵It is far more than merely letting you make choices easily and without pain.

Heaven itself is reached with empty hands and open minds, which come with nothing to find everything and claim it as their own. ²We will attempt to reach this state today, with self-deception laid aside, and with an honest willingness to value but the truly valuable and the real. …begin with this:

⁴I will not value what is valueless, and only what has value do I seek, for only that do I desire to find.

And then receive what waits for everyone who reaches, unencumbered, to the gate of Heaven, which swings open as he comes. (A Course in Miracles, W-133.12:1–14:1. See also ACIM Lesson 133 Insights.)

No form in this world has any value of itself. Love is the only value because only Love is real. Only if a form is used for Love’s purpose does it have value. The ego’s world was made to hide from Love. As long as we let the ego be our guide, we will be valuing the valueless. The ego uses form to deny Love’s oneness.

While we believe we are in this world, we need to use form for Love’s purpose. Form then becomes a means for communication. When we have completely given up any value in separation, we will know that we are Love and nothing else. As we let , we no longer value the valueless. We awaken from the dream to the Heaven of God’s Love.

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Freedom Comes with Identifying with Love

The body is a fence the Son of God imagines he has built, to separate parts of his Self from other parts.

The body is a dream. ²Like other dreams it sometimes seems to picture happiness, but can quite suddenly revert to fear, where every dream is born. ³For only love creates in truth, and truth can never fear. ⁴Made to be fearful, must the body serve the purpose given it. ⁵But we can change the purpose that the body will obey by changing what we think that it is for.

The body is the means by which God’s Son returns to sanity. ²Though it was made to fence him into hell without escape, yet has the goal of Heaven been exchanged for the pursuit of hell. ³The Son of God extends his hand to reach his brother, and to help him walk along the road with him. ⁴Now is the body holy. ⁵Now it serves to heal the mind that it was made to kill.

⁴Love is your safety. ⁵Fear does not exist. ⁶Identify with love, and you are safe. ⁷Identify with love, and you are home. ⁸Identify with love, and find your Self. (W-pII.5.1:1;3:1–4:5;5:4-8)

When we identify with a body, we seem to live in uncertainty. Everything in this world changes. Our circumstances can change in an instant. It seems that a word or an external appearance can change our mood from happiness to fear or sadness. We must constantly strive to make ourselves safe in an unsafe world. All this is a dream that will disappear when we awaken to the Life we live in Love.

No sacrifice is asked of God’s Son. God’s Will is that he be happy, without limit. As we learn to identify with Love, our identification with the body weakens. Eventually we will all realize the body is only a dream, and awaken to our Home in Love.

Today we choose to focus on Love. It is our path to happiness.

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Accepting the Happiness God Guarantees

A happy outcome to all things is sure.
“God’s promises make no exceptions. ²And He guarantees that only joy can be the final outcome found for everything. ³Yet it is up to us when this is reached; how long we let an alien will appear to be opposing His. ⁴And while we think this will is real, we will not find the end He has appointed as the outcome of all problems we perceive, all trials we see, and every situation that we meet. ⁵Yet is the ending certain. ⁶For God’s Will is done in earth and Heaven. ⁷We will seek and we will find according to His Will, which guarantees that our will is done.

We thank You, Father, for Your guarantee of only happy outcomes in the end. ²Help us not interfere, and so delay the happy endings You have promised us for every problem that we can perceive; for every trial we think we still must meet. (A Course in Miracles, W-292. See also ACIM Lesson 292 Insights.)

While we dream of a world of separation, it does not seem that lasting happiness is possible. But this is only because the ego’s will, which opposes God’s, we believe is real. When we undo this belief, with the Holy Spirit’s help, we will experience the unlimited happiness, peace and Love God Wills for us.

Today we affirm that we want to accept the Will we share with God. We are willing to accept our true Self’s help to recognize there is no opposition to God’s Will. As we welcome His Will as ours, we will find the happiness we have searched for. We will know that we are blessed eternally by God’s Love.

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