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Claiming the Strength of God Within

God is the strength in which I trust.

If you are trusting in your own strength, you have every reason to be apprehensive, anxious and fearful.

God is your safety in every circumstance. His Voice speaks for Him in all situations and in every aspect of all situations, telling you exactly what to do to call upon His strength and His protec­tion.

…reach down into your mind to a place of real safety. You will recognize that you have reached it if you feel a sense of deep peace, however briefly. Let go all the trivial things that churn and bubble on the surface of your mind, and reach down and below them to the Kingdom of Heaven. There is a place in you where there is perfect peace. There is a place in you where nothing is impossible. There is a place in you where the strength of God abides.

Remember that peace is your right, because you are giving your trust to the strength of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 48, W-pI.48.1:1;3:1-2;7;8:3. See also ACIM Lesson 48 Insights.)

We cannot count on the world to provide safety and security. It is entirely an illusion. Illusions can change in an instant. What appears to be solid ground can turn out to be quicksand. The eternal changelessness of God is our only source of certainty and safety. We can count on It because It never changes. This is the Home of our true Self, which shares Its changelessness.

Our belief in being separate from God has banished His peace and Love from our awareness. We can recover awareness of His certainty by changing our mind about what we believe. To do this we need the help of the Holy Spirit to guide us.

When we feel anxious, confused or sad, we need to pause and step back from our focus on the world. Let our mind settle into the quiet peace within that is the Home of God. As we let peace become stronger in our awareness, God’s Voice becomes clear. We let It guide us to see past the transitory states of the world to the certainty of the Love we are, united in that Love with all that is real. We accept God’s strength as our own, for so it is in truth. We are at peace when we trust the strength of God in us.

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Living in Love

All fear is past and only love is here.

All fear is past, because its source is gone, and all its thoughts gone with it. Love remains the only present state, whose Source is here forever and forever. Can the world seem bright and clear and safe and welcoming, with all my past mistakes oppressing it, and showing me distorted forms of fear? Yet in the present love is obvious, and its effects apparent. All the world shines in re­flection of its holy light, and I perceive a world forgiven at last.

Father, let not Your holy world escape my sight today. Nor let my ears be deaf to all the hymns of gratitude the world is singing underneath the sounds of fear. There is a real world which the present holds safe from all past mistakes. And I would see only this world before my eyes today. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 293, W-pII.293. See also ACIM Lesson 293 Insights.)

Fear always comes from a perception of harm in the past applied to the present. This perception is projected onto the present, hiding it from our awareness. In this situation we are seeing memories from the past adapted to present appearances so that it seems new to us. But its foundation is always the same — the ego’s denial of Love.

The continuation of the ego’s dream of lovelessness depends upon continuing the perception of lack and loss from the past. Without the overlay of the past, the present moment would be revealed in the glorious Light of Love. Fear is impossible in this Light, for the reality of Love is accepted. Here we know we are perfectly safe in the changelessness of Love. In Love’s oneness, conflict is impossible and we rest in God’s peace.

Today we choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide. We seek His vision, moment by moment, to see past the dream of fear to the Love in which we live, united with every brother at Home in the Heart of God.

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Finding the Happy Outcome God Promises

A happy outcome to all things is sure.

God’s promises make no exceptions. And He guarantees that only joy can be the final outcome found for everything. Yet it is up to us when this is reached; how long we let an alien will appear to be opposing His. And 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. Yet is the ending certain. For God’s Will is done in earth and Heaven. We 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. Help 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 Workbook Lesson 292, W-pII.292. See also ACIM Lesson 292 Insights.)

When we identify with the ego, we are believing that the ego’s alien will is real and can actually oppose God’s Will. But the ego is not real; the belief that it is real is the source of all problems and unhappiness.

The ego is an unforgiving thought; a rebellion against God because He could not give special Love and remain the changeless Love He is. “Forgiveness is the key to happiness.” (Lesson 121) We need to forgive — let go of — the ego’s rebellion against God. This rebellious thought is disguised by many forms in the world.

Believing a brother is a body is a projection of the ego, an attempt to make separation real. The body seems to be capable of myriad forms of attack and justification for guilt. As we let the Holy Spirit teach us that bodies are not real and show us the Love the body hides, forgiveness clears the way to receive God’s Love. His Will for us is perfect happiness (Lesson 101). With His Love, we experience God’s joy as our own because we accept that our will is His Will in truth.

Today we welcome Christ’s vision, which shows us our unity with every brother in God’s Love. With this practice, a happy outcome is assured.

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The Timelessness of Love

This instant is the only time there is.

I have conceived of time in such a way that I defeat my aim. If I elect to reach past time to timelessness, I must change my perception of what time is for. Time’s purpose cannot be to keep the past and future one. The only interval in which I can be saved from time is now. For in this instant has forgiveness come to set me free. The birth of Christ is now, without a past or future. He has come to give His present blessing to the world, restoring it to timelessness and love. And love is ever-present, here and now.

Thanks for this instant, Father. It is now I am redeemed. This in­stant is the time You have appointed for Your Son’s release, and for salvation of the world in him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 308, W-pII.308. See also ACIM Lesson 308 Insights.)

Unforgiveness always depends upon a “memory” of the past. It looks upon the present through a distorting filter from the past that causes misperception. This process makes it impossible to truly perceive the present moment.

To the Holy Spirit, our true Self, the only meaningful purpose for time is to let the past go, to forgive. Without the shadows of the past, the Light of eternal Love shines in our mind. Love is now and always. Forgiveness releases the future from the past, letting the eternal now extend beyond time.

We want to remember our Identity as Love. Today we practice opening our mind to the vision of Christ Who looks past our misperceptions and sees Love radiate in us and through us.

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The World Is United by Love

To give is to receive. Today we will attempt to offer peace to everyone, and see how quickly peace returns to us. Light is tranquility, and in that peace is vision given us, and we can see.

So we begin the practice periods with the instruction for today, and say:

To give and to receive are one in truth.
I will receive what I am giving now.

Then close your eyes, and for five minutes think of what you would hold out to everyone, to have it yours. You might, for instance, say:

To everyone I offer quietness.
To everyone I offer peace of mind.
To everyone I offer gentleness.

Say each one slowly and then pause a while, expecting to receive the gift you gave. And it will come to you in the amount in which you gave it. You will find you have exact return, for that is what you asked. It might be helpful, too, to think of one to whom to give your gifts. He represents the others, and through him you give to all. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 108, W-pI.108.7:3-9:5. See also ACIM Lesson 108 Insights.)

In every moment we have the opportunity to give peace and Love to the world and receive It for ourselves. In moments of sadness, we pause to offer Love to the world. It can be as simple as smiling to a stranger or expressing gratitude to a friend. These simple thoughts we give are returned to us and we are blessed.

If we are afraid, we pause to remember the Love we feel for someone dear to our heart. And in that remembrance, our hearts are warmed by that Love. From a quiet mind, we offer kindness, gentleness, peace, happiness and gratitude.

This is the natural extension of our true Self. It automatically joins with the truth in every brother, who is united with us in Love. It does not matter to whom it appears we are offering the gift of Love and peace, in truth it is given to the world. We remember that the world is united by Love.

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Bringing God’s Peace to the World

Peace be to me, the holy Son of God. Peace to my brother, who is one with me. Let all the world be blessed with peace through us.

Father, it is Your peace that I would give, receiving it of You. I am Your Son, forever just as You created me, for the Great Rays remain forever still and undisturbed within me. I would reach to them in silence and in certainty, for nowhere else can certainty be found. Peace be to me, and peace to all the world. In holiness were we created, and in holiness do we remain. Your Son is like to You in perfect sinlessness. And with this thought we gladly say “Amen.” (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 360, W-pII.360. See also ACIM Lesson 360 Insights.)

Everyone in the world is seeking peace because, in their heart, they want to remember their true Self. Our true Self remains one with the peace of God. But if we follow the ego’s guidance to find peace, we will seek it by inappropriate means that do not achieve the goal.

Remember, the ego wants us dead as “proof” that it has succeeded in replacing the Will of God. In the ego’s world, this plays out by some people even “killing” the body. Yet killing is as much an illusion as the body itself. Death of the body has no effect whatsoever on our true Self, the Son of God.

We bring peace to the world when we accept our true Self as our Identity. We identify with God’s holiness, which He gave to His Son. Peace is an attribute of holiness. We open to the awareness of peace by quieting our mind and letting the Holy Spirit show us the Love that surrounds us and is our true Self.

Today we remind ourselves often to ask the Holy Spirit to help us be aware of the Love we are and to see It all around us. As we accept His vision, we bring peace to the world.

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The End of Conflict and Return to Peace

Father, Your Will is mine, and only that. There is no other will for me to have. Let me not try to make another will, for it is senseless and will cause me pain. Your Will alone can bring me happiness, and only Yours exists. If I would have what only You can give, I must accept Your Will for me, and enter into peace where conflict is impossible, Your Son is one with You in being and in will, and nothing contradicts the holy truth that I remain as You created me.

And with this prayer we enter silently into a state where conflict cannot come, because we join our holy will with God’s, in recognition that they are the same. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 307, W-pII.307.1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 307 Insights.)

The ego is an attempt to divorce God on the grounds of an unsatisfying relationship. Unable to get the specialness it demanded for an acceptable relationship, the ego attempted to make a separate will that excludes God and His Love. Because only the oneness of Love is real, the ego could only seem to accomplish its demand in a dream. Our identification with the ego makes the dream appear real while the reality of eternal Love is hidden by denial.

This lesson is reminding us that a dream does not change reality. The ego’s wish is not our will. Our true will is the same as God’s Will. It has never changed, being eternally united with God. When we remember and accept the Will we share with God, all appearances of conflict and loss disappear. We awaken to the eternal now of changeless Love. We are released from the past and the future is in the Hands of Love. This is true forgiveness.

Today we join with the Voice for Love to look past the misperceptions of conflict and loss to the certainty of Love. With this choice we step into the peace and joy of Heaven.

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