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Finding What We Really Want

No one remains in hell [separation], for no one can abandon his Creator, nor affect His perfect, timeless and unchanging Love. You will find Heaven. Everything you seek but this will fall away. Yet not because it has been taken from you. It will go because you do not want it. You will reach the goal you really want as certainly as God created you in sinlessness.

Why wait for Heaven? It is here today. Time is the great illusion [Heaven] is past or in the future. Yet this cannot be, if [Heaven] is where God wills His Son to be. How could the Will of God be in the past, or yet to happen? What He wills is now, without a past and wholly futureless. It is as far removed from time as is a tiny candle from a distant star, or what you chose from what you really want.”

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.131.5-6;15:5-7. See also ACIM Lesson 131 Insights.)

Heaven is now because Heaven is eternal. We can dream of being separated from Heaven but we cannot make the dream real. Our true Self wants only to be remembered as It is — Love and nothing else. This is our true heart’s desire.

We have chosen to believe in separation and accept the ego’s goals. The best the ego can offer is a substitute for God’s Love that will never satisfy. Nothing the ego offers is real. Unreal substitutes can never satisfy our heart’s desire to remember Love. But we have taught ourselves to accept the ego’s goals, to believe the ego offers us something we want. We need to learn that there is nothing in the world, the ego’s dream of separation, that we really want.

The Holy Spirit will teach us the valuelessness of everything in the world if we are willing to let the Holy Spirit be our Guide in all things. What is recognized as valueless is easily let go. This is how we seek and find what we really want.

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We Have Help We Can Count On

If you are trusting in your own strength, you have every reason to be apprehensive, anxious and fearful. What can you predict or control? What is there in you that can be counted on? What would give you the ability to be aware of all the facets of any problem, and to resolve them in such a way that only good can come of it? What is there in you that gives you the recognition of the right solution, and the guarantee that it will be accomplished?

Of yourself you can do none of these things. To believe that you can is to put your trust where trust is unwarranted, and to justify fear, anxiety, depression, anger and sorrow. Who can put his faith in weakness and feel safe? Yet who can put his faith in strength and feel weak?

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. (, A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 47, W-pI.47.1:1-3:2. See also ACIM Lesson 47 Insights.)

Fear, anxiety, depression, anger and sorrow are of our own making. They are the effect of believing the ego is our identity. The ego denies our unity with God and thus denies the only Source of strength. But we are not left without Help in the ego’s fantasy world of separation.

God has given us His Voice to help us. We can count on the Holy Spirit’s help at all times. He is aware of all that we have perceived from the past and what effects the present moment brings to our future.

If we are willing to accept His help, fear, anger and depression are replaced with the vision of our certain safety in the strength of God. Sorrow is replaced by God’s joy. Anxiety is replaced by the peace of God. Fear is replaced by the Love of God. These are the gifts we receive when we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to resolve every perceived problem. He leads us out of the fantasy of separation into the experience of our eternal Home in God’s Love.

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God Is Our Eternal Companion

It is quite possible to reach God. In fact it is very easy, because it is the most natural thing in the world. You might even say it is the only natural thing in the world. The way will open, if you believe that it is possible.

Throughout the day use today’s idea [God goes with me wherever I go] often, repeating it very slowly, preferably with eyes closed. Think of what you are saying; what the words mean. Concentrate on the holiness that they imply about you; on the unfailing companionship that is yours; on the complete protection that surrounds you.

You can indeed afford to laugh at fear thoughts, remembering that God goes with you wherever you go. (, A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 41, W-pI.41.8:1-4;9-10. See also ACIM Lesson 41 Insights.)

The ego abandoned God to make a fantasy of a loveless world that is the denial of God. Unable to accept the guilt that comes with this abandonment, the ego projects its guilt on God. This projection leaves us feeling abandoned by God. Actually we abandoned God by choosing the ego as our identity.

No matter how strongly we have identified with the ego’s isolation, God remains with us. He knows us as His one Son, eternally united with Him. The angst that comes with identifying with the ego is relieved as we accept that God goes with us wherever we go.

All God’s Love, peace and joy are ours merely by accepting them. God’s gifts are given eternally. He does not change His mind about us, knowing that His Son is one with Him. God knows no fear, being only Love. As His Creation, we are only Love. There is nothing to fear.

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Practicing True Forgiveness

Forgiveness must be practiced, for the world cannot perceive its meaning, nor provide a guide to teach you its beneficence. There is no thought in all the world that leads to any understanding of the laws [forgiveness] follows, nor the Thought that it reflects. It is as alien to the world as is your own reality. And yet it joins your mind with the reality in you.

Today we practice true forgiveness, that the time of joining be no more delayed. For we would meet with our reality in freedom and in peace. Our practicing becomes the footsteps lighting up the way for all our brothers, who will follow us to the reality we share with them.

Forgiveness should be practiced through the day, for there will still be many times when you forget its meaning and attack yourself. When this occurs, allow your mind to see through this illusion as you tell yourself:

Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.
Would I accuse myself of doing this?
I will not lay this chain upon myself. (, A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 134, W-pI.134.13:-14:3;17:1-5. See also ACIM Lesson 134 Insights.)

As part of God’s one Son, every brother is one with us. There is no distance nor separation. This is why if we judge another we are judging ourselves. We are in fact accusing ourselves for what we are judging in our brother. This is the opposite of the way the ego thinks.

The ego tells us that when we see guilt in another, we escape guilt in ourselves. This is the ego’s chief defense mechanism — projection. The ego is incapable of forgiveness.

To practice true forgiveness, we need to accept the help of the Guide to forgiveness in our minds. The Holy Spirit will help us see the truth beyond the projection of guilt. When we remind ourselves that when we judge another we judge ourselves, and ask for help to see as Holy Spirit sees, we take another step toward removing the chains that bind us to the world of guilt.

The journey of true forgiveness returns us to Love.

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Choose to Be Happy and at Peace

This holy instant would I give to You.
Be You in charge. For I would follow You,
Certain that Your direction gives me peace.

And if I need a word to help me, He will give it to me. If I need a thought, that will He also give. And if I need but stillness and a tranquil, open mind, these are the gifts I will receive of Him. He is in charge by my request. And He will hear and answer me, because He speaks for God my Father and His holy Son. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 361,W-pII.361-365. See also ACIM Lesson 361 Insights.)

The choice to put the Holy Spirit in charge is the choice for inner peace and happiness. The ego also tells us that it knows how to find happiness. The problem is that the ego denies the Source of true happiness. Thus the ego’s direction always leads us on a fruitless search to find what it cannot find.

When we let go of following the ego’s direction and accept the Holy Spirit’s guidance, we are on the path to finding true and lasting happiness and peace. The affirmation in this lesson, committed to wholeheartedly, is the means to free ourselves from the fear and guilt of this world. It is the means to find our way back to our Home in the peace and joy of God.

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Allegiance to the Holy Spirit Leads Us to Heaven

Forget not that the healing of God’s Son is all the world is for. That is the only purpose the Holy Spirit sees in it, and thus the only one it has. Until you see the healing of the Son as all you wish to be accomplished by the world, by time and all appearances, you will not know the Father nor yourself. For you will use the world for what is not its purpose, and will not escape its laws of violence and death. Yet it is given you to be beyond [the world’s] laws in all respects, in every way and every circumstance, in all temptation to perceive what is not there, and all belief God’s Son can suffer pain because he sees himself as he is not.

Look on your brother, and behold in him the whole reversal of the laws that seem to rule this world. See in his freedom yours, for such it is. Let not his specialness obscure the truth in him, for not one law of death you bind him to will you escape. And not one sin you see in him but keeps you both in hell. Yet will his perfect sinlessness release you both, for holiness is quite impartial, with one judgment made for all it looks upon. And that [judgment] is made, not of itself, but through the Voice that speaks for God in everything that lives and shares His Being. (A Course in Miracles, T-24.VI.4-5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

When we let the Voice for God judge all things on our behalf, we will see only the innocence of God’s Love. We have been making judgments by the rules of the ego, which keeps us in the hell of fear, guilt and death.

It is time to change our allegiance from the ego as our guide to the Holy Spirit in our mind. As we accept the Holy Spirit’s help, we will begin to see the appearances presented by the ego as having no real effect because only Love is real.

As we align with the Holy Spirit’s vision, the world becomes a place of safety and peace. What used to disturb or upset us is easily overlooked and let go. Forgiveness passes by the meaningless images the ego offers in its illusionary world of separation. The Holy Spirit will always guide us to remember we are safe; we are healed; we are Home in the peace of God.

Today we practice choosing the Holy Spirit’s vision as our Guide to interpret all our perceptions. It is a practice that leads us Home to Heaven.

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Accepting Peace and Extending It to All

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 1360, W-pII.360. See also ACIM Lesson 360 Insights.)

The Great Rays represent the spark of the Love of God that remains with us, no matter how deeply we sink into the darkness of the ego thought system of separation. The ego thought system is innately depressing because it denies the Love we are. Yet Love remains in us and is always within reach. God gave us the Holy Spirit to answer our call for Love the moment we chose to believe the ego’s denial of It.

Today we accept and extend our Father’s peace and extend it to the world. We give ourselves time to pause and let the Holy Spirit guide us deeply into the peace of God. We would remain happily in God’s peace today.

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