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Make Way for Love

Today we learn a lesson which can save you more delay and needless misery than you can possibly imagine. It is this:

You make what you defend against, and by your own defense against it is it real and inescapable. Lay down your arms, and only then do you perceive it false.

Now do your eyes belong to Christ, and He looks through them. Now your voice belongs to God and echoes His. And now your heart remains at peace forever. You have chosen Him in place of idols, and your attributes, given by your Creator, are restored to you at last. The Call for God is heard and answered. Now has fear made way for love, as God Himself replaces cruelty. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.170.2:4-7;12)

Today is a day for letting the Call for God be heard. This Call resides in everyone, for It is their natural Home. Now is the time to return to where we belong. The Light of God within beckons as we willingly lay down our arms. Our fearful projections quietly disappear and we see they are nothing. Peace returns. We willingly make way for Love. And what we seek for in our heart of hearts we find. Fear is replaced by Love as we lay down our defenses.

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Today’s Prayer of Dedication

Holy Spirit, we acknowledge that Your Will is ours. We dedicate today to holding our minds open to Your guidance, that we may be instruments of Your peace and expressions of Your Will. We would see as You see and do as You direct us to fulfill our part in your plan of Atonement. Hour by hour, we open to your Will and follow as you direct.

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From Loneliness to Oneness

The cure for loneliness is to accept our Self as God created It — One with all Love, one with our Creator, one with all our brothers, who are contained within our one Self. Loneliness comes when we believe we have separated from our Creator and our Self. With that belief comes a sense of incompletion and a yearning to be complete.

The belief that we are separate would direct us to look to another body, another place, another circumstance in which we could feel better, more safe, somehow more complete. But the thought system of separation can never offer us the completion we already have. It can only offer us more images of separation. But no matter how much we buy into the belief in separation, we can never lose the Spark of truth that is forever calling to remind us that we remain as Love created us.

Today our practice is to listen to that Call and let It show us the Spark in our brother that joins us in the Light of Love. Here we find the cure for loneliness. Here we find our completion. Here we find the Love that we are. Love sees only Love and we remember Who we are.

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Joining with the Holy Spirit

It is this joining [with the Holy Spirit] that we undertake to recognize today. We will not seek to keep our minds apart from Him Who speaks for us, for it is but our voice we hear as we attend Him. He alone can speak to us and for us, joining in one Voice the getting and the giving of God’s Word; the giving and receiving of His Will.

We practice giving Him what He would have, that we may recognize His gifts to us. He needs our voice that He may speak through us. He needs our hands to hold His messages, and carry them to those whom He appoints. He needs our feet to bring us where He wills, that those who wait in misery may be at last delivered. And He needs our will united with His Own, that we may be the true receivers of the gifts He gives. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.154.10-11)

Today our practice is to join with the Holy Spirit. We want to receive the truth about ourselves. We want to receive the truth about every brother. And what we truly wish for in our heart of hearts we will receive. Our joining with the Holy Spirit is our highest priority as we go through this day.

Choosing to join with the Holy Spirit is choosing to be happy. His Will is God’s Will. And God’s Will for us is perfect happiness. The ego warns that if we join with the Holy Spirit we will be sacrificing our “identity.” But what we will be giving up is a false identity of lack of Love, loneliness and sadness. Is it a sacrifice to give up such an identity in order to receive our true Identity, which is perfect peace and happiness? Our practice today is the choice for happiness.

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Joining with Holy Spirit to See God’s Light in Everyone

Consider once again your special function. One is given you to see in [your brother] his perfect sinlessness. And you will ask no sacrifice of him because you could not will he suffer loss. The miracle of justice you call forth will rest on you as surely as on him. Nor will the Holy Spirit be content until it is received by everyone. For what you give to Him is everyone’s, and by your giving it can He ensure that everyone receives it equally. (A Course in Miracles T-26.II.6:5-10)

When we join with Holy Spirit, we see past bodies to the universal Light in everyone. Seeing with Holy Spirit is our true function and our practice for today. Seeing with Holy Spirit brings happiness and peace because we recognize everyone as our dear Friend.

ACIM tells us that seeing through the eyes of the ego (separation) is our only problem and that seeing through the vision of the Holy Spirit (oneness) is the solution. We free ourselves from the limitations of the ego as we are willing to practice receiving the vision of oneness throughout the day. The vision we receive we give, and the vision that we give we receive. As we see our brothers truly, we learn of the truth in ourselves.

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We Choose Between Illusions and the Truth

My holy brother, think of this awhile: The world you see does nothing. It has no effects at all. It merely represents your thoughts. And it will change entirely as you elect to change your mind, and choose the joy of God as what you really want. Your Self is radiant in this holy joy, unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable, forever and forever. And would you deny a little corner of your mind its own inheritance, and keep it as a hospital for pain; a sickly place where living things must come at last to die?

Let our gratitude unto our Teacher fill our hearts, as we are free to choose our joy instead of pain, our holiness in place of sin, the peace of God instead of conflict, and the light of Heaven for the darkness of the world. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.190.6,11:2)

Today we open to the inspiration of our inner Teacher… We loosen our grip on what we thought was true… We accept the peace that heals our thoughts of conflict and belief in limitation and pain… We choose to see beyond the illusions of separation to the truth of Love’s all inclusive oneness…

We have the power to choose to accept our oneness with Love instead of denying it. With this choice we set ourselves free to be the Love we were created to be. It is the choice for happiness instead of pain.

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Accepting Holy Spirit in the Now Moment

Our opportunity today is to practice opening our minds to Holy Spirit’s guidance in each present moment as we go through our day. We only have right now. The point of power is in the present. Every now moment we have the power to step back from illusions and receive the truth. Every now moment we have the power to accept and receive Holy Spirit’s gift of peace.

Receiving Holy Spirit’s peace brings inspiration with it in how to be truly helpful. This is our practice for today. And we give thanks that the Holy Spirit is there to inspire us with the truth all through the day.

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