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Awakening from Our Dreams

[Dreams] are dreams because they are not true. Their equal lack of truth becomes the basis for the miracle, which means that you have understood that dreams are dreams; and that escape depends, not on the dream, but only on awaking. Could it be some dreams are kept, and others wakened from? The choice is not between which dreams to keep, but only if you want to live in dreams or to awaken from them. (A Course in Miracles, T-29.IV.1:2-5)

We waken from dreams when we are willing to no longer believe in them. Dreams are really nothing, but they appear very real while we still are attracted to make them real. It is the Holy Spirit in our minds That shows us the difference between truth and illusion. As we are willing to consistently step back, the Holy Spirit shows us again and again that there is nothing to fear. Our eternal Reality remains safe in our oneness with God.

Each day our practice is to be willing to be shown that we are dreaming a dream and that its content is not true. This is what the Course calls forgiveness. We are learning to forgive our illusions and return to the awareness that we never left our Father’s Home in Heaven. Forgiveness is our only function here while we still think we are a separate body living in a world that is separate from us.

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Accepting the Holy Instant

The world is filled with fearful stories of vulnerability, loss and deprivation. It is filled with stories of conflict and differences. We are now learning to take these stories to the Holy Spirit to receive a different perspective. We are learning to take all our uncertainty and doubt and pain to the Holy Spirit, and to see everything through Its healing Light. We are learning to listen and receive the truth behind the illusions of this world.

Our practice today is to consistently open to the holy instant, which is the gift the Holy Spirit brings to us as we open to Its healing Light. We are shown the eternal certainty of our safety in God. We receive the gifts of peace and a deep sense of happiness. We remember that we are being carried as we are willing to let Him heal all our thoughts.

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Deciding for God

Decide for God, and everything is given you at no cost at all. Decide against Him, and you choose nothing, at the expense of the awareness of everything. (A Course in Miracles, M-13.8:2-3)

We decide for God as we are willing to open up to the Holy Spirit and see everything in this world as the Holy Spirit sees it. The Holy Spirit teaches us to see everything as Love sees. Love sees only Love. Love recognizes that anything else is a call for Love, and extending Love is the only appropriate response.

The Holy Spirit lifts our thinking out of the ego’s projection of guilt, shines a light on all our illusions, and shows us that only Love is real. As we practice seeing with the Holy Spirit, letting His judgment replace our own, we are filled with peace and happiness. There is nothing to fear as we are willing to let our minds be returned to the truth that we remain as Love created us. All these blessings come as we practice, this day and every day, deciding for God

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Accepting God’s Strength in You

It is God’s strength in you that is the light in which you see, as it is His Mind with which you think. His strength denies your weakness. It is your weakness that sees through the body’s eyes, peering about in darkness to behold the likeness of itself;…

Strength overlooks [weakness] by seeing past appearances. It keeps its steady gaze upon the light that lies beyond them. It unites with light, of which it is a part. It sees itself. It brings the light in which your Self appears. In darkness you perceive a self that is not there. Strength is the truth about you;… (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.92.3:1-3;4:1-7)

Because the ego is the denial of the Source of our strength, it is always showing us images that portray our seeming weakness. They are false images which have no substance. It is only our belief that makes it seem that we are weak and vulnerable.

But there is another way to see that shows us the opposite of what the ego would have us believe. We receive this other way of seeing as we let go of the denial of our unity with our Source. As we accept that God is our Source, we experience His strength, which was given us in our creation and remains eternally ours.

Whenever we feel uncertain, vulnerable, fearful or guilty, we can use this as a reminder to take this appearance to the truth in our minds, the Holy Spirit. As we open to the Holy Spirit’s Light, It shines away the false ideas and shows us the Light in our brothers and ourselves. With this practice, our experience of the world changes from feeling that we need to protect ourselves from all forms of harm to the welcome and joyful experience of recognizing the Love in everyone and the strength of that Love in ourselves. Our experience of the world becomes increasingly joyful and peaceful. It is worth the practice.

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We Are One with God’s Mind

There is only one Mind in truth and that is the Mind of God. The Sonship resides in the Mind of God, whether we remember it or not.

Our practice for today is to open to the truth of Where we really reside. We are in God’s Mind, one with God’s Mind. Our practice for today is to take all our wandering thoughts to the one Self That is our true Identity. Our one Self knows what to do with these thoughts. In God’s Light, they merely disappear. We make this a spectacular day by being willing to accept that we are one with God’s Mind.

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We Share One Life in Perfect Love

Let us today be children of the truth, and not deny our holy heritage. Our life is not as we imagine it. Who changes life because he shuts his eyes, or makes himself what he is not because he sleeps, and sees in dreams an opposite to what he is?…

His holy home we strive to keep today as He established it, and wills it be forever and forever. He is Lord [in charge] of what we think today. And in His Thoughts, which have no opposite, we understand there is one life, and that we share with Him… (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.167.10:1-3;11:1-3)

We let Love lead today. We would not try to make decisions on our own. We let the truth return to our minds again and again, all through the day. We let ourselves remember that we are perfect Love. We let ourselves see that perfect Love in all our brothers. We share one Life in perfect Love.

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Accepting Holy Spirit’s Purpose

If you accept the Holy Spirit’s purpose for the world, it will in time become a happy place where the Truth of Heaven is reflected, and Love and forgiveness are extended to all. The beauty of Truth will shine forth, the Light will shine in every living thing, and you will see everyone as brother to you. (From the Christ Mind, p. 169-170)

Unhappiness is the inevitable result of judgment. It hides reality from our awareness. It stands between us and the awareness of the Love we are.

Happiness is the inevitable result of forgiveness. Forgiveness clears away the barriers to the awareness of Love’s presence. It opens the doors and windows of our minds to welcome the Light of Love. Through forgiveness we welcome the truth in our brother and ourselves.

The Holy Spirit was given us, in the moment of our insanity when we believed that we could be separate, as our Guide to lead us back to sanity — to lead us back to Love. Without this Guide we would indeed be stuck in the dream of loneliness and loss. But with the practice of bringing all our thoughts of guilt, fear and judgment to the Holy Spirit with the willingness to accept His Help, we return to the joy of our true Self. We will experience the happiness that comes with remembering our oneness with our brothers.

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