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Seeing a Forgiven World

My holy Self abides in you, God’s Son.

Father, You gave me all Your Sons, to be my saviors and my counselors in sight; the bearers of Your holy Voice to me. ²In them are You reflected, and in them does Christ look back upon me from my Self. ³Let not Your Son forget Your holy Name. ⁴Let not Your Son forget his holy Source. ⁵Let not Your Son forget his Name is Yours.

This day we enter into Paradise, calling upon God’s Name and on our own, acknowledging our Self in each of us; united in the holy Love of God. ²How many saviors God has given us! ³How can we lose the way to Him, when He has filled the world with those who point to Him, and given us the sight to look on them? (A Course in Miracles, W-266. See also ACIM Lesson 266 Insights.)

The body is the ego’s substitute for our true Identity as God’s Son. We think the body is our reality as long as we identify with the ego thought system of separation. The body is an obstacle that blocks our awareness of our one Self that is united with every brother.

The perception of other bodies can reinforce our belief in separation, or serve as a gift which reflects back to us our mistaken beliefs. They blind us to the Love that unites us in the oneness of God. They are our saviors when we let the Holy Spirit help us forgive our reflected projections. With forgiveness comes Christ’s vision, which sees a forgiven world in the unity of Love.

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Hastening Our Journey to Freedom

Let me not be Your critic, Lord, today, and judge against You. ²Let me not attempt to interfere with Your creation, and distort it into sickly forms. ³Let me be willing to withdraw my wishes from its unity, and thus to let it be as You created it. ⁴For thus will I be able, too, to recognize my Self as You created me. ⁵In love was I created, and in love will I remain forever. ⁶What can frighten me, when I let all things be exactly as they are?

Let not our sight be blasphemous today, nor let our ears attend to lying tongues. ²Only reality is free of pain. ³Only reality is free of loss. ⁴Only reality is wholly safe. ⁵And it is only this we seek today. (A Course in Miracles, W-268.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 268 Insights.)

Our safety lies in the fact that God created us one with Himself. Nothing exists outside the Love that He is. Only Love is real, so nothing exists that can affect His Love.

Beliefs make perception of reality. Thus hallucinations can seem very real and very threatening. But belief does not make reality. It can only make illusions. All things that seem to threaten us are only showing us our mistaken beliefs. The path to freedom from vulnerability of lack and loss is forgiveness of what makes the perceptions.

Our Creator has given us His Voice to guide us on the path to freedom from mistaken beliefs. We hear His Voice when we pause and welcome the peace that It offers. Today we hasten our journey to freedom by frequently pausing to welcome Holy Spirit in our mind. His answers to our fears remind us that we remain one with our Creator, perfectly safe in the oneness of His Love.

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Willingness to Accept God’s Love

When you made visible what is not true, what is true became invisible to you. ²Yet it cannot be invisible in itself, for the Holy Spirit sees it with perfect clarity. ³It is invisible to you because you are looking at something else. ⁴Yet it is no more up to you to decide what is visible and what is invisible, than it is up to you to decide what reality is. ⁵What can be seen is what the Holy Spirit sees. ⁶The definition of reality is God’s, not yours.

Because of your Father’s Love you can never forget Him, for no one can forget what God Himself placed in his memory. ²You can deny it, but you cannot lose it. ³A Voice will answer every question you ask, and a vision will correct the perception of everything you see. ⁴For what you have made invisible is the only truth, and what you have not heard is the only Answer. ⁵God would reunite you with yourself, and did not abandon you in your distress. ⁶You are waiting only for Him, and do not know it. ⁷Yet His memory shines in your mind and cannot be obliterated. ⁸It is no more past than future, being forever always.

…the memory of God can dawn only in a mind that chooses to remember, and that has relinquished the insane desire to control reality. (A Course in Miracles, T-12.VIII.3:1-6;4;5:3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

To truly know reality, we must relinquish the wish to control it. The ego calls this surrender. But it is really the choice for truth over illusion. The memory of God’s Love has stayed with us through all the conflict and chaos the ego has introduced in its wish to have something to keep as its own.

The quest to acquire could only occur in a mind that believes it has less than everything. Yet God gave all of Himself, which is all that is real, when He created us as His Son. When we are willing to consider that we do not know what our perceptions mean, we become open to the memory of the eternal Love that is ours now and forever.

The willingness to accept Holy Spirit’s loving correction for our misperceptions opens the veil to welcome the brilliant Light of Love that is our true environment. We offer this willingness to the Holy Spirit today.

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Giving Today to Love

Today belongs to love. Let me not fear.

Father, today I would let all things be as You created them, and give Your Son the honor due his sinlessness; the love of brother to his brother and his Friend. ²Through this I am redeemed. ³Through this as well the truth will enter where illusions were, light will replace all darkness, and Your Son will know he is as You created him.

A special blessing comes to us today, from Him Who is our Father. ²Give this day to Him, and there will be no fear today, because the day is given unto love. (A Course in Miracles, W-274. See also ACIM Lesson 274 Insights.)

The myriad appearances of conflict in the world today seem to justify fear and guilt. Today we are given an opportunity to see the world differently. Our true Self sees only Love or a call for Love. There is only the appearance of conflict where there is a belief that lack of Love is possible. This belief is the call for Love that needs to be answered. 

Giving this day to Love means we are committed to answering calls for Love with Love. We let Love guide us in all our thoughts and actions. The Light of Love shows us that appearances of conflict are based on false beliefs. It reveals the oneness of Love beyond the appearance of differences.

Today we choose to identify with the Love that is our true Self. We let It guide all our thoughts and actions. Images of conflict will fade in Its Light. We feel the comfort and certainty that unites us in the Love that remains our true Identity.

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Remembering the Stillness of Love’s Presence

Now do we come to Him 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.

⁵Sit silently and wait upon your Father. ⁶He has willed to come to you when you have recognized it is your will He do so.

²We have found the way He chose for us, and made the choice to follow it as He would have us go. ³His Hand has held us up. ⁴His Thoughts have lit the darkness of our minds. ⁵His Love has called to us unceasingly since time began.

…we need only call to God, and all temptations disappear. ³Instead of words, we need but feel His Love. ⁴Instead of prayers, we need but call His Name. ⁵Instead of judging, we need but be still and let all things be healed. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.in.4:1;5:5-6;8:1-5;10:2-5)

The ego keeps our mind cluttered with thoughts that distract us from the stillness of God’s Love. Though ego thoughts seem to be ending, they are all illusions which can be dispelled. We can call upon God’s Voice to help us let go of our addiction to the ego. We do this by our willingness to let our mind be still, to pause and focus on the center of peace within.

In the stillness, we remember His Love. We experience His comfort and strength. We are content to rest in His Love. The certainty of His eternal presence comforts our troubled mind. We feel safe, loved and loving. We awaken to our true Home in the Love of God.

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Remembering Love Is Our Home

God is my refuge and security.

I will identify with what I think is refuge and security. ²I will behold myself where I perceive my strength, and think I live within the citadel where I am safe and cannot be attacked. ³Let me today seek not security in danger, nor attempt to find my peace in murderous attack. ⁴I live in God. ⁵In Him I find my refuge and my strength. ⁶In Him is my Identity. ⁷In Him is everlasting peace. ⁸And only there will I remember Who I really am.

Let me not seek for idols. ²I would come, my Father, home to You today. ³I choose to be as You created me, and find the Son whom You created as my Self. (A Course in Miracles, W-261. See also ACIM Lesson 261 Insights.)

Everyone has a place to go where they can find peace and a sense of safety that cannot be disturbed. This place is always with them, no matter what they do or where the body seems to be. This place is in our mind, the Mind we share with God. This is the Home of our true Self, the Son of God. This place is held safe for us within the Mind of God.

Today, and every day, we can reach this place by letting our mind be quiet and welcoming the peace of God. We have been given the Holy Spirit to help us remember this place is our true Home. As we welcome peace, the Holy Spirit’s vision shows us that all of Reality is Love.

Every brother is one with us in this Love. In the certainty of this oneness, there is no need to attack for defend — only to join in Love and extend It without limit, as It has been given us. We are grateful to remember Love is our Home.

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The Path from Fear to Love

This course is not beyond immediate learning, unless you believe that what God wills takes time. ²And this means only that you would rather delay the recognition that His Will is so. ³The holy instant is this instant and every instant. ⁴The one you want it to be it is. ⁵The one you would not have it be is lost to you. ⁶You must decide when it is. ⁷Delay it not. ⁸For beyond the past and future, where you will not find it, it stands in shimmering readiness for your acceptance. ⁹Yet you cannot bring it into glad awareness while you do not want it, for it holds the whole release from littleness.

Your practice must therefore rest upon your willingness to let all littleness go. ²The instant in which magnitude dawns upon you is but as far away as your desire for it. ³As long as you desire it not and cherish littleness instead, by so much is it far from you. ⁴By so much as you want it will you bring it nearer. ⁵Think not that you can find salvation in your own way and have it. ⁶Give over every plan you have made for your salvation in exchange for God’s. ⁷His will content you, and nothing else can bring you peace. ⁸For peace is of God, and no one beside Him.

The necessary condition for the holy instant does not require that you have no thoughts that are not pure. ²But it does require that you have none that you would keep. (A Course in Miracles,T-15.IV.1–2;9:1-2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The choice to maintain a unique and separate identity is the choice for littleness. To accept the fact that we are God’s one Son is to accept His magnitude as ours. Only acceptance of this can bring us peace and happiness. God has a plan that will lead us to the full realization that we are Love and nothing else.

The Holy Spirit in our minds is the communication link between the majesty of God and our dream of littleness and isolation. As we are willing to attend to His guidance, we will be led gently down a path of kindness and Love.

This path leads to the vision that shows every brother as one with us, with no distance between us and no differences. As we let go of our images of separation, limitless Love will fill our heart. Hate, fear and guilt will be dispelled. We will joyfully join with every brother. Together we bring Love to the world.

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