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Letting the Light of Love Guide Our Way

I will there be light.

I will use the power of my will today. It is not my will to grope about in darkness, fearful of shadows and afraid of things unseen and unreal. Light shall be my guide today. I will follow it where it leads me, and I will look only on what it shows me. This day I will experience the peace of true perception.

There is no will but God’s.

I am safe today because there is no will but God’s. I can become afraid only when I believe there is another will. I try to attack only when I am afraid, and only when I try to attack can I believe that my eternal safety is threatened. Today I will recognize that all this has not occurred. I am safe because there is no will but God’s.

Let me perceive this in accordance with the Will of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 87, W-pI.87.1;3;4:2. See also ACIM Lesson 87 Insights.)

Love is the Light in which we see with true perception. This Light reveals the presence of Love beyond the dark shadows of the ego’s denial of Love. God’s Will is that we have all of Love eternally. When we choose to let Love guide our perception, we choose to perceive in accordance with God’s Will.

Feeling guilty or afraid is a sign that we believe our will is in opposition to God’s Will. We have accepted the ego’s belief that separation is real. This belief is in direct opposition to God’s Will that only the oneness of Love is real. Only in dreams could the ego’s belief seem to be true. Dreams are not real and have no effect on Reality.

We remain eternally safe in the Love of God. To awaken from dreams of fear and death, we need to choose the Light of Love as our Guide for all our perceptions. Today we remind ourselves often that we want to perceive with Love and let all our actions be guided by Love. With this practice we accept God’s Will for us to share His peace and joy.

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Accepting God’s Limitless Love

The search for the special relationship is the sign that you equate yourself with the ego and not with God. For the special relationship has value only to the ego. To the ego, unless a relationship has special value it has no meaning, for it perceives all love as special.

The special relationship is totally meaningless without a body. If you value it, you must also value the body. And what you value you will keep. The special relationship is a device for limiting your self to a body, and for limiting your perception of others to theirs. The Great Rays would establish the total lack of value of the special relationship, if they were seen. For in seeing them the body would disappear, because its value would be lost.

For a time the body is still seen, but not exclusively, as it is seen here. …For you will realize that the only value the body has is to enable you to bring your brothers to the bridge [to Heaven] with you, and to be released together there.

The Holy Spirit asks only this little help of you: Whenever your thoughts wander to a special relationship which still attracts you, enter with Him into a holy instant, and there let Him release you. He needs only your willingness to share His perspective to give it to you completely. (A Course in Miracles, T-16.VI.1:1-3;4:1-6;6:2,5;12:1-2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

In the special relationship, “love” is exclusive. It leaves out everything that is not valued by the special relationship. This denies the universality of God’s Love, which is given equally to all, without limit.

The ego is an attempt to limit God’s extension of Love. The special relationship is the ego’s key tool in its attempt to limit love by denying God’s unlimited Love. When we believe in limited, exclusive love, we are denying our true Self. This denial leads to guilt and fear. For beneath the layers of the ego’s illusions is the awareness that limited love is an attack on God by denying His limitless Love.

The way to free ourselves from the ego’s limits is to be vigilant for any thoughts of limitation. These thoughts characteristically have an underlying guilt and fear: sadness, resentment, conflict and many other forms of lack of peace. We need to be mindful of our level of peace.

Whenever our peace is disturbed, we need to pause and open our minds to the Holy Spirit’s healing. He will show us the radiant Light of Love that shines everywhere to be seen with His vision. In this Light, the body and every image of separation fades as the value we give them diminishes.

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Seeing Past Judgment to Love’s Oneness

To forgive is to overlook. Look, then, beyond error and do not let your perception rest upon it, for you will believe what your perception holds. Accept as true only what your brother is [Son of God], if you would know yourself. Perceive what he is not and you cannot know what you are, because you see him falsely. Remember always that your Identity is shared, and that Its sharing is Its reality.

You do not understand how to overlook errors, or you would not make them. It would merely be further error to believe either that you do not make them, or that you can correct [errors] without a Guide to correction. And if you do not follow this Guide, your errors will not be corrected. The plan is not yours because of your limited ideas about what you are. This sense of limitation [what you think you are] is where all errors arise. The way to undo them, therefore, is not of you but for you.

The Atonement is a lesson in sharing [Love], which is given you because you have forgotten how to do it. The Holy Spirit merely reminds you of the natural use of your abilities. By reinterpreting the ability to attack into the ability to share, He translates what you have made into what God created. (A Course in Miracles, T-9.IV.1:2-7;2:2-3:3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our true Self is the Son of God, which is shared with every brother even though our brothers appear as many. The appearance of many different identities is an illusion made by the ego to hide our true Identity. When we accept the ego’s thoughts, founded in the belief in separation, we cannot truly see our brother or our true Self.

The Holy Spirit’s mission in God’s plan for our atonement is to teach us to overlook the ego’s decoys of separate identities. Forgiveness relieves our mind of the ego’s judgments which maintain separation. Without judgment, we accept Christ’s vision which sees our unity with every brother.

Love does not condemn; It joins in peace in the unity of God’s Love. In this unity, we share God’s joy and peace with everyone. When forgiveness is complete, we have accepted our Self without limitation as God’s one Son.

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We Live in the Unity of Love

God is with me. I live and move in Him.

God is with me. He is my Source of life, the life within…. He is my home, wherein I live and move; the Spirit which directs my actions, offers me Its Thoughts, and guarantees my safety from all pain. He covers me with kindness and with care, and holds in love the Son He shines upon, who also shines on Him. How still is he who knows the truth of what He speaks today!

Father, we have no words except Your Name upon our lips and in our minds, as we come quietly into Your Presence now, and ask to rest with You in peace a while. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 222, W-pII.222. See also ACIM Lesson 222 Insights.)

Our true nature is kind and caring. Our true Self, like God, is Love and nothing else. This is why the truth in us lives in God.

When unloving thoughts — thoughts of fear, guilt or condemnation — enter our mind, they come from the ego. The ego denies the Love we are. To keep its seeming existence in our mind, the ego feeds us a constant stream of thoughts that deny the oneness of Love. These are not our real thoughts because we are not the ego; our real thoughts are the Thoughts of Love we share with our Source.

Our mistaken identification with the ego needs to be let go for us to remember our true Life that we live in God. The Holy Spirit was given us to help us release the mistaken belief that binds us to a world of conflict, lack and loss.

Throughout today we ask the Holy Spirit to heal our fear-based, unloving thoughts. As we let them go, our innate kindness and caring shines through. We answer calls for Love with Love. We increasingly experience the Life we live in God.

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Awakening to Safety from Dreams of Fear

Like any good teacher, the Holy Spirit knows more than you do now, but He teaches only to make you equal with Him. You had already taught yourself wrongly, having believed what was not true. You did not believe in your own perfection. Would God teach you that you had made a split mind, when He knows your mind only as whole? What God does know is that His communication channels are not open to Him, so that He cannot impart His joy and know that His children are wholly joyous. Giving His joy is an ongoing process, not in time but in eternity. God’s extending outward, though not His completeness, is blocked when the Sonship does not communicate with Him as one. So He thought, “My children sleep and must be awakened.

How can you wake children in a more kindly way than by a gentle Voice that will not frighten them, but will merely remind them that the night is over and the light has come? You do not inform them that the nightmares that frightened them so badly are not real, because children believe in magic. You merely reassure them that they are safe now. Then you train them to recognize the difference between sleeping and waking, so they will understand they need not be afraid of dreams. And so when bad dreams come, they will themselves call on the light to dispel them.

The Holy Spirit makes no distinction among dreams. He merely shines them away. His light is always the Call to awaken, whatever you have been dreaming. Nothing lasting lies in dreams, and the Holy Spirit, shining with the light from God Himself, speaks only for what lasts forever. (A Course in Miracles, T-6.V.1-2;4:4-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our world certainly does not feel like a safe place. There seem to be threats to our existence everywhere. But the Holy Spirit assures us that our true Self, the Son of God, is safe now and eternally. We don’t realize this because we do not know the difference between dreams and reality. This world is not our home; it is not our reality. It is nothing more than a dream.

While we dream of a world of fear and guilt, the Holy Spirit is in our mind to teach us how to distinguish truth from fantasy. We can awaken from our dream by being vigilant for the lead of the Holy Spirit in our mind. As we learn His gentle, loving lessons, the Light of Love dawns upon our minds. The dark dreams of loss and death are shined away as we learn that only Love is real. God’s Love is What we are, now and forever. Love is the answer to every perceived problem. In Its Light, we awaken to our safety in the arms of God.

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Following the Guide to Life

Death is the central dream from which all illusions stem.

Death is the symbol of the fear of God. His Love is blotted out in the idea [of death], which holds [Love] from awareness like a shield held up to obscure the sun.

Without the idea of death there is no world. All dreams will end with this one. This is salvation’s final goal; the end of all illusions. And in death are all illusions born.

Teacher of God, your one assignment could be stated thus: Accept no compromise in which death plays a part. Do not believe in cruelty, nor let attack conceal the truth from you. What seems to die has but been misperceived and carried to illusion. Now it becomes your task to let the illusion be carried to the truth. Be steadfast but in this; be not deceived by the “reality” of any changing form. Truth neither moves nor wavers nor sinks down to death and dissolution. And what is the end of death? Nothing but this; the realization that the Son of God is guiltless now and forever. Nothing but this. But do not let yourself forget it is not less than this. (A Course in Miracles, M-27.1:1;3:1-2;6:3-6;7)

Love is the source of Life. Because Love is one and indivisible, to believe separation is real is to believe death is real. There can be no life where Love is absent. But in reality Love is everywhere. Nothing else exists. This fact guarantees that we are forever safe in the Love of God. Only in a dream of separation can it seem that death (lack of Love) is real. We can awaken from this deadly dream by choosing Love as our Guide for all our thoughts, words and actions.

Each time we forgive a perception of separation, the way is opened to accept God’s Love and the Life we live in Him. The Holy Spirit is our Guide to Life, the end of death.

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Finding Our Refuge in God’s Love

Sin [separation from Love] is the only thought that makes the goal of God seem unat­tainable. …What else but sin [lack of Love] en­genders our attacks? What else but sin could be the source of guilt, demanding punishment and suffering? And what but sin could be the source of fear…?

Father, I would not be insane today. I would not be afraid of love, nor seek for refuge in its opposite. For love can have no opposite. You are the Source of everything there is. And everything that is remains with You, and You with it.

Father, I did not make myself, although in my insanity I thought I did. Yet, as Your Thought, I have not left my Source, remaining part of Who created me. Your Son, my Father, calls on You today. Let me remember You created me. Let me remember my Identity. And let my sinlessness arise again before Christ’s vision, through which I would look upon my brothers and myself today.

Now is our Source remembered, and Therein we find our true Identity at last. Holy indeed are we, because our Source can know no sin. And we who are His Sons are like each other, and alike to Him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 259, W-pII.259💯1,3-5;2. 260:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 259 Insights.)

The world is the ego’s refuge, a dream where it can hide from the oneness of God’s Love. Because the ego is the belief that separation is real, it cannot exist in Love’s oneness. Because only Love is real, separation does not exist at all. Yet the world with all its separate images seems real only because we believe it is true. It is this mistaken belief that must be undone for our mind to return to the refuge of God’s Love. Forgiveness, guided by the Holy Spirit is the way we undo our mistaken beliefs.

Holy Spirit, guide my thoughts today in the way of Love. I want to remember my true Self, the holy Son of God. I want to remember that I and all my brothers are Love and nothing else. I want to remember I am eternally safe in the Heart of God.

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