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Finding Happiness and Peace

Only God’s plan for salvation will work.

It is senseless for me to search wildly about for salvation. I have seen it in many people and in many things, but when I reached for it, it was not there. I was mistaken about where it is. I was mistaken about what it is. I will undertake no more idle seeking. Only God’s plan for salvation will work. And I will rejoice because His plan can never fail.

These are some suggested forms for applying this idea specifically:

God’s plan for salvation will save me from my perception of this.
This is no exception in God’s plan for my salvation.
Let me perceive this only in the light of God’s plan for salvation. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 86, W-pI.86.1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 86 Insights.)

Whatever we think will bring us peace or happiness is what we believe is our salvation. The ego directs us on wild goose chases to seek peace and happiness in forms in the world. We seek for a special relationship, a better job, money, a nicer car or status in the world. All these are seeking salvation where it cannot be found. God’s peace and joy are already in us in our true Self. Our true Self remains united with God and shares all His attributes.

We find our salvation by following the Guide God gave us. The daily, moment by moment, practice of bringing all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit for His clear vision will bring us the true salvation we seek. He will clear the grievances that hide the Light of Love within us and return true perception to us. With this practice all events and situations become opportunities to accept God’s plan for salvation and remember we already have all of His gifts of peace, joy and Love.

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Celebrating Our Oneness in God’s Love

The Name of God is the inheritance He gave to those who chose the teaching of the world to take the place of Heaven. In our practicing, our pur­pose is to let our minds accept what God has given as the answer to the pitiful inheritance you made as fitting tribute to the Son He loves.

No one can fail who seeks the meaning of the Name of God. Experience must come to supplement the Word. But first you must accept the Name for all reality, and realize the many names you gave its aspects have distorted what you see, but have not interfered with truth at all.”

Father, our Name is Yours. In It we are united with all living things, and You Who are their one Creator. What we made and call by many different names is but a shadow we have tried to cast across Your Own reality. And we are glad and thankful we were wrong. All our mistakes we give to You, that we may be absolved from all effects our errors seemed to have. And we accept the truth You give, in place of every one of them. Your Name is our salvation and escape from what we made. Your Name unites us in the oneness which is our inheritance and peace. Amen. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 184, W-pI.184.12:5-13:3;15. See also ACIM Lesson 184 Insights.)

God shared His Identity with His Son, our true Self. God’s Identity is our inheritance. In the story of the prodigal son, the son left his home and his inheritance. Yet his father saved his son’s inheritance for him and celebrated his return.

Likewise, God’s Identity is still ours, even though we wander in the wilderness of the dream of separation. We can awaken from the dream by being willing to give all our mistaken perceptions to Him to be absolved of their effects. As we accept that only Love is real we escape from our dream, awakening to our unity with all in the Home our Father has held open for our return. We join in joyous celebration that we are truly at home in Love.

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Awakening from the Impossible Dream

I will receive whatever I request.

No one desires pain. But he can think that pain is pleasure. No one would avoid his happiness. But he can think that joy is painful, threatening and dangerous. Everyone will receive what he requests. But he can be confused indeed about the things he wants; the state he would attain. What can he then request that he would want when he receives it? He has asked for what will frighten him, and bring him suffering. Let us resolve today to ask for what we really want, and only this, that we may spend this day in fearlessness, without confusing pain with joy, or fear with love.

Father, this is Your day. It is a day in which I would do nothing by myself, but hear Your Voice in everything I do; requesting only what You offer me, accepting only Thoughts You share with me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 339, W-pII.339. See also ACIM Lesson 339 Insights.)

It doesn’t seem that we choose pain and suffering. But that is what we choose when we identify with the ego belief that separation is not only possible but real. That choice led to the dream of a world of separation with the body as the hero of the dream.

With believing separation is real comes guilt because we believe we stole our self away from our Creator. With this belief comes a companion belief that our Creator must take vengeance upon us for what we stole. All this is the foundation of the dream world. Fortunately it is an impossible dream.

The way to awaken from the impossible dream is to choose God’s Voice as our Guide for everything we do. His Voice is the Voice of Love. It will guide us to awaken to Love and let go of the dream of guilt and fear. We need only maintain our commitment to follow only His Voice to awaken to our Home in the Heaven of God’s Love. Let us join together in this dedication today.

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The Cure for All Sickness

The happy dreams the Holy Spirit brings are different from the dreaming of the world, where one can merely dream he is awake. The dreams forgiveness lets the mind perceive do not induce another form of sleep, so that the dreamer dreams another dream. His happy dreams are heralds of the dawn of truth upon the mind. They lead from sleep to gentle waking, so that dreams are gone. And thus they cure for all eternity.

Atonement heals with certainty, and cures all sickness. For the mind which understands that sickness can be nothing but a dream is not deceived by forms the dream may take. Sickness where guilt is absent cannot come, for [sickness] is but another form of guilt. Atonement does not heal the sick, for that is not a cure. It takes away the guilt that makes the sickness possible. And that is cure indeed. For sickness now is gone, with nothing left to which it can return.

Peace be to you who have been cured in God, and not in idle dreams. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 140, W-pI.140.3:1-5:1. See also ACIM Lesson 140 Insights.)

Guilt is the underlying sickness beneath all appearances of sickness in the world. The world is the outward picture of the ego’s belief in guilt. It appears in myriad forms, ranging from body ailments and death to disappointment when circumstances to do not meet what we would like.

The ego made the outer world in an attempt to escape the pain of its guilt by projecting it. But it doesn’t work because thoughts do not leave their source. What is projected is retained in the mind that projected it. Projection is only an attempt to hide the guilt that remains in the mind by making the guilt unconscious.

In short, when we let the Holy Spirit help us undo the mistaken belief in separation and guilt, we free ourselves to remember the truth that we remain Love as Love created us. And nothing else. This is the mind healing that is the ultimate cure for all forms of sickness. It returns our mind to the truth that we remain one with All That is, for we realize that nothing else really exists.

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Our Dedication to Accept God’s Gift

Now do we come to [God] with but His Word upon our minds and hearts, and wait for Him to take the step to us that He has told us, through His Voice, He would not fail to take when we invited Him.

Sit silently and wait upon your Father. He has willed to come to you when you have recognized it is your will He do so.

Father, we give these holy times to You, in gratitude to Him Who taught us how to leave the world of sorrow in exchange for its replacement, given us by You. We look not backward now. We look ahead, and fix our eyes upon the journey’s end. Accept these little gifts of thanks from us, as through Christ’s vision we behold a world beyond the one we made, and take that world to be the full replacement of our own.

And now we wait in silence, unafraid and certain of Your com­ing. We have sought to find our way by following the Guide You sent to us. We did not know the way, but You did not forget us. And we know that You will not forget us now. We ask but that Your ancient promises be kept which are Your Will to keep. We will with You in asking this. The Father and the Son, Whose holy Will created all that is, can fail in nothing. In this certainty, we undertake these last few steps to You, and rest in confidence upon Your Love, which will not fail the Son who calls to You. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Part II, W-pII.in.4:1;5:5-6;6:2-7:8. See also ACIM Lesson 221 Insights.)

The ego is the epitome of ingratitude, rejecting all of God’s gifts — the only gifts that exist in truth. But though we have rejected His gifts by identifying with the ego, we have not lost them. God gave us the Holy Spirit with the mission to lead us to exchange the ego’s empty gifts with our Father’s gift of all of Himself.

The last two paragraphs of the above quote from ACIM can be considered a prayer of dedication to accept the Holy Spirit’s exchange, replacing the ego’s substitutes with the certainty of God’s peace, joy and Love. This is our dedication for today.

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Finding Freedom to Be Love

I feel the Love of God within me now.

The Love of God is what created me. The Love of God is everything I am. The Love of God proclaimed me as His Son. The Love of God within me sets me free.

I choose the joy of God instead of pain.

Pain is my own idea. It is not a Thought of God, but one I thought apart from Him and from His Will. His Will is joy, and only joy for His beloved Son. And that I choose, in­stead of what I made.

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 209, W-pI.209:1-5;210:1-8. See also ACIM Lesson 209 Insights.)

The body is an image made by the ego. It represents thoughts that deny our oneness in the Love of God and reinforces thoughts of separation. All pain, whether physical or emotional, is associated with our identification as a body. This is why the Course emphasizes repeatedly that we are not a body.

As we learn that we are not a body, we free ourselves from the limits belief in the body imposes. The seeming reality of the body comes entirely from our belief. Without our belief, the body would hold no value to us. We would know that we are free to accept that we are at one with God, that we have all of His Love, joy and peace.

We need the help of our inner Teacher to help us see beyond the body with Christ’s vision. His vision shows us the limitless Love hidden by the forms of the world. With practice, the vision of Christ becomes more real to us and identification with the body fades.

Today we welcome Christ’s vision, for we choose the Love of God instead of the ego’s denial of Love.

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The Lesson That Leads to Heaven’s Gate

How can you tell when you are seeing wrong, or someone else is failing to perceive the lesson he should learn? Does pain seem real in the perception? If it does, be sure the lesson is not learned. And there remains an unforgiveness hiding in the mind that sees the pain through eyes the mind directs.

God would not have you suffer thus. He would help you forgive yourself.

This is the lesson God would have you learn: There is a way to look on everything that lets it be to you another step to Him, and to salvation of the world. To all that speaks of terror, answer thus:

I will forgive, and this will disappear.

To every apprehension, every care and every form of suffering, repeat these selfsame words. And then you hold the key that opens Heaven’s gate, and brings the Love of God the Father down to earth at last, to raise it up to Heaven. God will take this final step Himself. Do not deny the little steps He asks you take to Him.” (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 193, W-pI.193.7;8:1-2;13. See also ACIM Lesson 193 Insights.)

Here we have a key signal that lets us know there is a lesson to be learned; forgiveness is needed. Any form of pain, anything that disturbs our peace signifies the presence of unforgiveness. Somewhere in our mind we are hanging on to guilt, which at its foundation comes from the belief that we have separated from Love, our Source.

The practice of being vigilant for these signals and then bringing our perceptions to the Holy Spirit for His lesson in forgiveness will lead us Home to the certainty and peace of God’s unconditional, eternal Love. This practice turns everything that disturbs our peace into a gift we can give ourselves. We can exchange pain for peace, despair for happiness, fear for Love. Under the Holy Spirit’s tutelage, we can learn to forgive and let the barriers to Love’s presence disappear. We have the key in our hands. We can use it now.

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