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Accepting the Stillness of God’s Peace

Today He speaks to you. His Voice awaits your silence, for His Word can not be heard until your mind is quiet for a while, and meaningless desires have been stilled. Await His Word in quiet. There is peace within you to be called upon today, to help make ready your most holy mind to hear the Voice for its Creator speak.

It is your voice to which you listen as He speaks to you. It is your word He speaks. It is the Word of freedom and of peace, of unity of will and purpose, with no separation nor division in the single Mind of Father and of Son. In quiet listen to your Self today, and let Him tell you God has never left His Son, and you have never left your Self. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 125, W-pI.125.6;8. See also ACIM Lesson 1 Insights.)

Today we call upon the peace of God within to help us quiet our minds that we may receive His message that tells us we remain loved and safe in the Mind of God. His Will is ours. His joy is ours. In the stillness of God’s peace we remember that we are one with the Love that is the truth of every brother. Nothing that appears to happen the world can change what Love created us to be. In the stillness of God’s peace, we remember our Self, God’s one Son.

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Seeing Our True Friend in Everyone

When you are still an instant, when the world recedes from you, when valueless ideas cease to have value in your restless mind, then will you hear His Voice. So poignantly He calls to you that you will not resist Him longer. In that instant He will take you to His home, and you will stay with Him in perfect stillness, silent and at peace, beyond all words, untouched by fear and doubt, sublimely certain that you are at home.

Rest with Him frequently today. For He was willing to become a little Child that you might learn of Him how strong is he who comes without defenses, offering only love’s messages to those who think he is their enemy. He holds the might of Heaven in His hand and calls them friend, and gives His strength to them, that they may see He would be Friend to them. He asks that they protect Him, for His home is far away, and He will not return to it alone. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 182, W-pI.182.8-9. See also ACIM Lesson 182 Insights.)

Everyone in the world is seeking for peace. But the world we experience through the body was made to keep the Source of peace out of our awareness. To find the peace we seek we need to step out of the world of form.

We need to be still, let our thoughts be quiet and open our minds to the Love within that is our true Self, God’s one Child.… In stillness we can remember the safety of our Home in God.… We can feel His strength in us and remember only Love is real.… We remember our strength and bring it with us back into the world of bodies.… We know that our strength is not of this world, but remains with us wherever we go.… We can trust in the strength of God within us and know that it will support us through each day.…

Today we will practice being still and remembering the strength of Love as we offer It to everyone. Thus we will learn that a seeming foe is truly our Friend Who is one with us.

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We Live in God Eternally

…ideas leave not their source. If this be true, how can you be apart from God? How could you walk the world alone and separate from your Source?

You cannot walk the world apart from God, because you could not be without Him. He is what your life is. Where you are He is. There is one life. That life you share with Him. Nothing can be apart from Him and live.

Yet where He is, there must be holiness as well as life. No attribute of His remains unshared by everything that lives.

I walk with God in perfect holiness. I light the world,
I light my mind and all the minds which God created
one with me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 156, W-pI.156.1:3-5;2:4-3:2;8:5-6. See also ACIM Lesson 156 Insights.)

We feel alone and vulnerable in the world of separate bodies. Yet this is only because we believe we are separate from God. Beyond the appearance of danger and loss is the sure protection of God’s Love, never wavering and always certain.

We can claim the sure protection of God’s strength and Love now. It still surrounds us with perfect peace. We become aware of this through forgiveness, by letting go of the belief that anything could happen to change God’s one Son, our Self. As we are willing to let the Holy Spirit show us that all things which disturb our peace never really happened, we take away the veil that hides the Life we live in God.

We live in God eternally. This thought cannot be overemphasized, for its acceptance is the end of hell. Punishment and death are recognized as weird imaginings that could never be true. We live in God. He is our Life. There is nothing else. In Him is our safety and our peace.

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The Ego Is Fake News

Unless I look upon what is not there, my present happiness is all I see. Eyes that begin to open see at last. And I would have Christ’s vision come to me this very day. What I perceive without God’s Own Correction for the sight I made is frightening and painful to behold. Yet I would not allow my mind to be deceived by the belief the dream I made is real an instant longer. This the day I seek my present happiness, and look on nothing else except the thing I seek.

With this resolve I come to You, and ask Your strength to hold me up today, while I but seek to do Your Will. You cannot fail to hear me, Father. What I ask have You already given me. And I am sure that I will see my happiness today. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 290, W-pII.290. See also ACIM Lesson 290 Insights.)

The information we receive through the body’s senses is fake news. If we choose to believe it, we are deceiving ourselves. Our belief makes it seem true, but it does not make it true. This fake news is filled with terror and pain, loss and guilt. It never brings true happiness.

But there is another world that reflects the truth. It is a world seen only through forgiving eyes, which have let go of the past and see only the present. Only Love is present now, for only Love is real. No fake substitutes hide it from our awareness when we have truly forgiven the past. Here in this present Love is joy beyond words and peace that cannot be disturbed. Forgiveness offers this.

Today we ask for the strength of God to help us see truly and forgive the past. Thus will we experience the perfect happiness that is God’s Will for us.

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We Have the Power to Change Our Thoughts

It can be but myself I crucify.

…to attack another is but to attack yourself. …[Your brother’s] safety is your own, and in his healing you are healed.

…teach your mind that you are not an ego. For the ways in which the ego would distort the truth will not deceive you longer. You will not believe you are a body to be crucified. And you will see within today’s idea [It can be but myself I crucify] the light of resurrection, looking past all thoughts of crucifixion and of death, to thoughts of liberation and of life.

For once you understand it is impossible that you be hurt except by your own thoughts, the fear of God must disappear. You cannot then believe that fear is caused without. And God, Whom you had thought to banish, can be welcomed back within the holy mind He never left.

When the fear of God is gone, there are no obstacles that still remain between you and the holy peace of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 196, W-pI.196.1:2,4;3;8:3-5;12:2. See also ACIM Lesson 196 Insights.)

The ego always plays the blame game. First it tries to project blame on others to convince us that they are the cause of our pain. If that doesn’t work, it points to our own guilt, our inadequacies and “sins.” This is the way the ego insures the maintenance of guilt that keeps the ego in place. So the ego would try to turn the fact that our thoughts are responsible for everything we experience into justification of our guilt and continuation of our hell.

But it’s really good news to learn that our thoughts are the cause of our experience because we can change our thoughts. The ego cannot take this power from us, but we can give it to the ego by believing we are the ego. One of the most important lessons we can learn is that we are not the ego — never were and never will be. As we withdraw our identification with the ego, we open the way for the help of the Holy Spirit to show us that in fact we remain Love as we were created. Only our loving thoughts are eternal. This is our freedom from the ego’s tyranny.

Today we will remind ourselves that we remain Love and nothing else. We will let the Holy Spirit show us the truth of Love in everyone and in ourselves.

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We Choose to Accept God’s Help

No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth, and it is truth we seek to reach today. …we will ask to see the rising of the real world to replace the foolish images that we hold dear, with true ideas arising in the place of thoughts that have no meaning, no effect, and neither source nor substance in the truth.

You cannot fail today. There walks with you the Spirit Heaven sent you, that you might approach this door some day, and through His aid slip effortlessly past it, to the light. Today that day has come.

Today is set by Heaven itself to be a time of grace for you and for the world. If you forget this happy fact, remind yourself with this:

Today I seek and find all that I want.
My single purpose offers it to me.
No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 131, W-pI.131.10:2-3;14:1-3;15:3-7. See also ACIM Lesson 131 Insights.)

Because we were created by Love as Love, all we really want is to remember we are Love. And by Love’s nature, all we want to do is extend Love.

By God’s grace we have been given the Help we need to move past the dark and loveless world we have made to the Light of Heaven. Today we choose to accept this help.

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Joining God’s Circle of Love

Today I let Christ’s vision look upon
All things for me and judge them not, but give
Each one a miracle of love instead.

So would I liberate all things I see, and give to them the freedom that I seek. For thus do I obey the law of love, and give what I would find and make my own. It will be given me, because I have chosen it as the gift I want to give. Father, Your gifts are mine. Each one that I accept gives me a miracle to give. And giving as I would receive, I learn Your healing miracles belong to me.

Our Father knows our needs. He gives us grace to meet them all. And so we trust in Him to send us miracles to bless the world, and heal our minds as we return to Him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 349, W-pII.349. See also ACIM Lesson 349 Insights.)

The world we experience with the body is the effect of denying God’s gift of perfect Love. It comes with the belief that to give is to lose and what we receive is taken from the giver.

But in the reality of God’s Love, giving and receiving are the same because Love is one. Thus to accept and experience God’s gift of Love we must give It. This is the full circle demonstration of giving and receiving are the same. When we accept Christ’s vision, which sees innocence with nonjudgment, we see the innocence in ourselves. 

This is why the Course puts so much emphasis on reminding us that giving and receiving are the same. As we practice seeing innocence with Christ’s vision and extending Love to all, we learn of our own innocence and Love. We free ourselves from guilt and fear as we free our brothers.

Today we practice choosing Christ’s vision all through the day.

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