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Accepting Our One Self Brings Peace to the World

You are as God created you. Today honor your Self. Let graven images you made to be the Son of God instead of what he is be worshipped not today. Deep in your mind the holy Christ in you is waiting your acknowledgment as you. And you are lost and do not know yourself while He is unacknowledged and unknown.

Seek Him today, and find Him. He will be your Savior from all idols you have made. For when you find Him, you will understand how worthless are your idols, and how false the images which you believed were you. Today we make a great advance to truth by letting idols go, and opening our hands and hearts and minds to God today.

We will remember Him throughout the day with thankful hearts and loving thoughts for all who meet with us today. For it is thus that we remember Him.
(A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 110, W-pI.110.9:1-11:2. See also ACIM Lesson 110 Insights.)

Christ is always in us, for He is our one Self, the Son Who God created. It doesn’t seem that Christ is Who we are or that He is even in us. This is because we believe in a false image of what we are. We need to learn that we are not the ego and that we are not the false image the ego made as a substitute identity to overshadow the Son of God.

We have a Teacher in our minds ready to help us recognize the unreality and falsity of the image we believe we are. As we welcome the Holy Spirit’s vision in our minds, He will help us look past the shadows of the ego to the Light of Christ that is everywhere to behold. As we share His vision, we bring healing and salvation to the world. We bring peace to the world. This is the function God would have us fill and He has given us everything we need to fulfill it. We need only accept the help.

Today we dedicate to accepting the Holy Spirit’s help that we may see the truth beyond illusions.

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We Are Never Alone

Be in my mind, my Father, when I wake, and shine on me throughout the day today. Let every minute be a time in which I dwell with You. And let me not forget my hourly thanksgiving that You have remained with me, and always will be there to hear my call to You and answer me. As evening comes, let all my thoughts be still of You and of Your Love. And let me sleep sure of my safety, certain of Your care, and happily aware I am Your Son.

This is as every day should be. Today, practice the end of fear. Have faith in Him Who is your Father. Trust all things to Him. Let Him reveal all things to you, and be you undismayed because you are His Son. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 232, W-pII.232. See also ACIM Lesson 232 Insights.)

The ego is the wish to be alone, isolated and separate from everyone and everything. It is the wish to have a domain it can call its own. It must protect this domain from intrusions from all directions. This private domain could never be real but the choice to believe in it makes it seem real.

We can never be alone, for God is always with us. We may try to hide from Him out of our guilt and shame, yet God sees us as wholly innocent, united with Himself. No matter how deeply we fall into despair or fear, we can always call on Him. He will answer with His Love and strength.

Let us remember God is with us today, as He is every day. Let us trust in His strong support, His guidance in the way of Love and His certainty that we are His one Son. Let us remember we are never alone.

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Being God’s Messengers of Love

If you will lay aside the ego’s voice, however loudly it may seem to call; if you will not accept its petty gifts that give you nothing that you really want; if you will listen with an open mind, that has not told you what salvation is; then you will hear the mighty Voice of truth, quiet in power, strong in stillness, and completely certain in Its messages.

Be not afraid today to circumvent the voices of the world. Walk lightly past their meaningless persuasion. Hear them not. Be still today and listen to the truth.

Be ready for salvation. It is here, and will today be given unto you. And you will learn your function from the One Who chose it in your Father’s Name for you. Listen today, and you will hear a Voice which will resound throughout the world through you. The bringer of all miracles has need that you receive them first, and thus become the joyous giver of what you received.

Let me be still and listen to the truth.
I am the messenger of God today,
My voice is His, to give what I receive. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 106, W-pI.106.1;3:1-4;6;10:3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 106 Insights.)

Only fulfilling our function here will bring us happiness. Our function is given us by God — to give the gifts He has given us — all His Love, all His joy, all His peace. We cannot try to keep any of God’s gifts for ourselves alone, for this only makes God’s gifts unknown to us. Inherent in God’s gifts is that they are shared equally with all.

As we let our minds be still and hear God’s Voice, we receive God’s gifts to share. It is in our sharing of these gifts that we claim them as our own on behalf of all our brothers. For what is ours belongs to all. Let us today be God’s messengers by offering God’s Love, peace and joy to all.

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Healing Division

Today we will attempt to see God’s Son. We will not let ourselves be blind to him; we will not look upon our grievances.

Then let us ask of Him Who knows this Son of God in his reality and truth, that we may look on him a different way, and see our savior shining in the light of true forgiveness, given unto us. We ask Him…

Let me behold my savior in this one You have appointed as
the one for me to ask to lead me to the holy light in which he
stands, that I may join with him.

God thanks you for these quiet times today in which you laid your images aside, and looked upon the miracle of love the Holy Spirit showed you in their place.

We will remember this throughout the day, and take the role assigned to us as part of God’s salvation plan, and not our own. Temptation falls away when we allow each one we meet to save us, and refuse to hide his light behind our grievances. To everyone you meet, and to the ones you think of or remember from the past, allow the role of savior to be given, that you may share it with him. For you both, and all the sightless ones as well, we pray:

Let miracles replace all grievances. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 78, W-pI.78.4:1-2;7:1-3;9:1;10. See also ACIM Lesson 78 Insights.)

We cannot hold a grievance unless we see the object of our grievance as separate from us. Grievances maintain the great divide that the ego would have us believe is real. Yet what God creates is one and cannot be divided into separate little pieces which conflict with each other. There is no conflict in oneness.

If we would know the truth of What we are, we must see our brother truly. We cannot see him as a body separate from us and see the truth of the Love he is. We dedicate today to choosing the Holy Spirit’s vision in our minds to help us see past all grievances to the Light of Love that is everywhere. As we see the Love in our brother, we bring healing to the great divide. We bring salvation to the world.

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Our Self-Made Dreams Are Calls for Love

[Dreams’] equal lack of truth becomes the basis for the miracle, which means that you have understood that dreams are dreams; and that escape depends, not on the dream, but only on awaking.

How happy would your dreams become if you were not the one who gave the “proper” role to every figure which the dream contains. No one can fail but your idea of him, and there is no betrayal but of this. The core of dreams the Holy Spirit gives is never one of fear. The coverings may not appear to change, but what they mean has changed because they cover something else. Perceptions are determined by their purpose, in that they seem to be what they are for. A shadow figure who attacks becomes a brother giving you a chance to help, if this becomes the function of the dream. And dreams of sadness thus are turned to joy.

What is your brother for? You do not know, because your function is obscure to you. Do not ascribe a role to him that you imagine would bring happiness to you. And do not try to hurt him when he fails to take the part that you assigned to him, in what you dream your life was meant to be. He asks for help in every dream he has, and you have help to give him if you see the function of the dream as [Holy Spirit] perceives its function, Who can utilize all dreams as means to serve the function given Him. Because He loves the dreamer, not the dream, each dream becomes an offering of love. For at its center is His Love for you, which lights whatever form it takes with love. (A Course in Miracles, T-29.IV.1:3;5:1-6:7. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The ego’s purpose for every dream is to make lack of Love seem real. While we accept the ego’s purpose, we will see every figure, every event and every circumstance as an image of lovelessness which we must defend against. Even the ego’s “pleasant” dreams are tenuous and can be easily lost. Lasting happiness is impossible in dreams that serve the ego’s purpose.

If we align with the Holy Spirit and allow the Holy Spirit to assign His purpose to our dreams, they become opportunities to extend and join in Love. The Holy Spirit knows only Love and therefore sees every dream as an opportunity to offer Love. The images we perceive may be the same, but their purpose now is always to be truly helpful.

Think of the joy that would fill our heart if we responded in each moment with helpfulness and kindness. Think of the healing we could bring to the world if we responded to appearances of attack with recognition of a call for help. Our natural response would always be to offer loving help. Our dreams become dreams that lead to waking, for they lead to remembering that only Love is real.

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Do Nothing but Accept God’s Gifts

The hush of Heaven holds my heart today.

Father, how still today! How quietly do all things fall in place! This is the day that has been chosen as the time in which I come to understand the lesson that there is no need that I do anything. In You is every choice already made. In You has every conflict been resolved. In You is everything I hope to find already given me. Your peace is mine. My heart is quiet, and my mind at rest. Your Love is Heaven, and Your Love is mine.

The stillness of today will give us hope that we have found the way, and travelled far along it to a wholly certain goal. Today we will not doubt the end which God Himself has promised us. We trust in Him, and in our Self, Who still is One with Him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 286, W-pII.286. See also ACIM Lesson 286 Insights.)

Most of us spend our days constantly striving. Our top priority is to do what we believe is necessary to survive. If we have any time left over, we look for something to do in the world that will make us happy or maybe a little more peaceful. Yet all this efforting simply keeps us unaware that we have already been given all that will make us truly happy and at peace. We do not need to do anything to earn or qualify for what has already been given us. We only need to accept the gift.

The world we see is the effect of denying God’s gift of all His Love. This very instant we can choose to stop this denial. This seems impossible because there are some things in the world we value more than God’s gifts. In particular, we believe we will lose the identity we have carefully crafted in the dream of separation. Yet what we will lose is truly nothing, for it is an illusion. What we will gain is everything, for it is all that is real. It is our real Identity in God.

To accept this glorious gift, we need to be taught to recognize the valuelessness of what we have treasured in the world. This is the Holy Spirit’s function. This is why we need to pause frequently to let the hush of Heaven come in to our heart. This is how we welcome the Holy Spirit’s kindly lessons in Love.

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Finding Our Way Home to Love

Would you know the Will of God for you? Ask it of me (Jesus) who knows it for you and you will find it. I will deny you nothing, as God denies me nothing. Ours is simply the journey back to God Who is our home. Whenever fear intrudes anywhere along the road to peace, it is because the ego has attempted to join the journey with us and cannot do so. Sensing defeat and angered by it, the ego regards itself as rejected and becomes retaliative. You are invulnerable to its retaliation because I am with you. On this journey you have chosen me as your companion instead of the ego. Do not attempt to hold on to both, or you will try to go in different directions and will lose the way.

The ego’s way is not mine, but it is also not yours. The Holy Spirit has one direction for all minds, and the one He taught me is yours. Let us not lose sight of His direction through illusions, for only illusions of another direction can obscure the one for which God’s Voice speaks in all of us. Never accord the ego the power to interfere with the journey. It has none, because the journey is the way to what is true. Leave all illusions behind, and reach beyond all attempts of the ego to hold you back. I go before you because I am beyond the ego. Reach, therefore, for my hand because you want to transcend the ego. My strength will never be wanting, and if you choose to share it you will do so. I give [my strength] willingly and gladly, because I need you as much as you need me. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.V.5-6. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Everyone in the world feels lost because we are not at Home. We are all searching to find our way back. If we follow the ego’s direction, we will not find our way because the ego does not want to find it. This is why we need to follow the part of our mind that remembers the truth.

Jesus symbolizes the part of our mind that has wholly accepted the truth and rejected the ego. When we accept Jesus’ help, we are accepting the help of our holy Mind. The Mind of our true Self is wholly united with the Mind of God and shares all of God’s strength. When we choose to take Jesus’ hand because we are willing to accept his help, we are choosing to join with the Mind of our one Self and the Mind of God. Thus we are choosing to accept the strength of God in us, which does not battle with the ego. The Mind that knows Its invincibility sees no need to defend or conquer.

Today we join with the Mind of our one Self by symbolically taking Jesus’ hand and accepting God’s strength as ours. By so doing we accept that our will is one with God’s Will. This is how we find peace and happiness, for that is God’s Will. This is how we find our way Home.

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