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Letting Perceptions of Lovelessness Be Healed

I am surrounded by the Love of God.

Father, You stand before me and behind, beside me, in the place I see myself, and everywhere I go. ²You are in all the things I look upon, the sounds I hear, and every hand that reaches for my own. ³In You time disappears, and place becomes a meaningless belief. ⁴For what surrounds Your Son and keeps him safe is Love itself. ⁵There is no source but this, and nothing is that does not share its holiness; that stands beyond Your one creation, or without the Love which holds all things within itself. ⁶Father, Your Son is like Yourself. ⁷We come to You in Your Own Name today, to be at peace within Your everlasting Love.

My brothers, join with me in this today. ²This is salvation’s prayer. ³Must we not join in what will save the world, along with us? (A Course in Miracles, W-264. See also ACIM Lesson 264 Insights.)

No matter what we believe, we cannot lose the Love of God. We live in His Love. We may dream of living in a loveless world, but His Love is still with us, calling to us to awaken. We can answer His call today, in any moment.

We answer this call whenever we let our mind quiet and welcome the peace of God that is within. In peace, our mind is open to receive the loving corrections offered by the Holy Spirit.

Today let us join in our commitment to accept Love’s call to awaken. Whenever we recognize our peace is disturbed, we accept it as a reminder to pause and let our mind return to the peace of God within. Here we receive a vision that heals our perception of lovelessness and welcomes the return of God’s Love to our mind.

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Letting Go of Our Fake Identity

Let me remember that my goal is God.

All that is needful is to train our minds to overlook all little senseless aims, and to remember that our goal is God. ²His memory is hidden in our minds, obscured but by our pointless little goals which offer nothing, and do not exist. ³Shall we continue to allow God’s grace to shine in unawareness, while the toys and trinkets of the world are sought instead? ⁴God is our only goal, our only Love. ⁵We have no aim but to remember Him.

Our goal is but to follow in the way that leads to You. ²We have no goal but this. ³What could we want but to remember You? ⁴What could we seek but our Identity? (A Course in Miracles, W-258. See also ACIM Lesson 258 Insights.)

The ego has one goal: To replace God with its own image. It denies God’s Love and offers a special identity as a substitute for God’s creation of His one Son. This substitute has no life, only a dream in which the body is the central figure representing a special, separate identity. This is what we believe we are when we identify with the ego.

By the grace of God, we cannot obliterate our Self that is God’s Son. We can hide from our true Self and believe in dreams of a separate identity. But dreams are held in place only by the wish for specialness. They have no effect whatsoever on reality.

No matter what dreams have come into our mind, they do not change the Reality of our true Self. This Self is forever united with God. Beneath the images of dreams, the memory of God remains. It calls us to awaken and remember the Love that dreams have hidden from our awareness. This call is our only real goal. All we really want is to remember the Reality of Love. We want to remember God.

Today we welcome the vision of our true Self, which shows us we remain at Home in God’s Love. This vision shows us the Love that unites us with every brother. In this unity, we find the peace that is characteristic of Love’s oneness.

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Forgiving Perceptions of Differences

Let me perceive no differences today.

Father, You have one Son. ²And it is he that I would look upon today. ³He is Your one creation. ⁴Why should I perceive a thousand forms in what remains as one? ⁵Why should I give this one a thousand names, when only one suffices? ⁶For Your Son must bear Your Name, for You created him. ⁷Let me not see him as a stranger to his Father, nor as stranger to myself. ⁸For he is part of me and I of him, and we are part of You Who are our Source, eternally united in Your Love; eternally the holy Son of God.

We who are one would recognize this day the truth about ourselves. ²We would come home, and rest in unity. ³For there is peace, and nowhere else can peace be sought and found. (A Course in Miracles, W-262. See also ACIM Lesson 262 Insights.)

The perception of differences is the cause of all conflict. This perception denies the oneness of God’s Love. He created His Son one with Himself in this Love.

We perceive differences because we have accepted a false image of our identity. The core of this image is the body, which reports a world with images of differences. Everything that seems to live in this world is competing for nourishment to keep it alive. These perceptions see only limitations. But the Love of God knows no limits. Love is the same always and everywhere.

In every moment, we have the option to give precedence to the inner vision of our true Self, which sees only Love’s oneness. To choose this option, we need to forgive our choice to believe in differences. The choice to accept Love as It is, is the choice for peace and happiness.

Today we ask for the Holy Spirit’s help to see with the vision of our true Self. We want to remember that all is Love and nothing else is true. We want the peace of God. We accept the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive our false images and remember we are all united as God’s one Son.

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Seeing Love Through Forgiving Vision

Creation’s gentleness is all I see.

I have indeed misunderstood the world, because I laid my sins on it and saw them looking back at me. ²How fierce they seemed! ³And how deceived was I to think that what I feared was in the world, instead of in my mind alone. ⁴Today I see the world in the celestial gentleness with which creation shines. ⁵There is no fear in it. ⁶Let no appearance of my sins obscure the light of Heaven shining on the world. ⁷What is reflected there is in God’s Mind. ⁸The images I see reflect my thoughts. ⁹Yet is my mind at one with God’s. ¹⁰And so I can perceive creation’s gentleness.

In quiet would I look upon the world, which but reflects Your Thoughts, and mine as well. ²Let me remember that they are the same, and I will see creation’s gentleness. (A Course in Miracles, W-265. See also ACIM Lesson 265 Insights.)

When we identify with the ego, we see a frightening world. Conflict is all around us. It can surface in our relationships, in our work environment, politics or wars between nations. Along with this conflict comes guilt — assigned either to an external image or to ourselves in our mind. These perceptions keep the ego front and center in our thoughts.

Yet we can see a different world. When we are willing to identify with our true Self, the Love we are is recognized everywhere. We see our unity we with the truth in everyone. If there is a perception of guilt or attack, it is recognized as a call for Love. Our true Self’s response is to offer Love’s gentleness, kindness, helpfulness and compassion. We answer the call for Love with Love.

From this perspective, Love is front and center in our mind. Today we practice maintaining our connection to the center of peace within so that we see Love through our forgiving vision.

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Bringing Kindness and Peace to the World

My heart is beating in the peace of God.

Surrounding me is all the life that God created in His Love. ²It calls to me in every heartbeat and in every breath; in every action and in every thought. ³Peace fills my heart, and floods my body with the purpose of forgiveness. ⁴Now my mind is healed, and all I need to save the world is given me. ⁵Each heartbeat brings me peace; each breath infuses me with strength. ⁶I am a messenger of God, directed by His Voice, sustained by Him in love, and held forever quiet and at peace within His loving Arms. ⁷Each heartbeat calls His Name, and every one is answered by His Voice, assuring me I am at home in Him.

Let me attend Your Answer, not my own. ²Father, my heart is beating in the peace the Heart of Love created. ³It is there and only there that I can be at home. (A Course in Miracles, W-267. See also ACIM Lesson 267 Insights.)

Peace is our natural Home. The world we experience with a body is no more than a nightmare that can never be true. We are being lovingly called to awaken to the Love in which we live.

We start today by pausing to let our mind quiet. We focus on the center of peace within. We let ourselves rest in that peace. We feel its assurance that we are safe in the arms of our Creator. We allow time to let this peace grow stronger in our mind. As our mind becomes more still, we recognize the Love that joins us with all of Reality. We see our oneness with every brother. There is no distance between us; we are one and the same. In this recognition, we embrace our brothers and join with them in the peace that is our true Home.

Now we are ready to carry the message of Love into the dream of this world. We are ready to bring kindness and compassion, gentleness and Love to everyone we meet or think of. We forgive our mistaken judgments and join in the unity of Love that is our Home. And we give thanks.

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Remembering We Are Love and Nothing Else

Whatever suffers is not part of me.

I have disowned the truth. ²Now let me be as faithful in disowning falsity. ³Whatever suffers is not part of me. ⁴What grieves is not myself. ⁵What is in pain is but illusion in my mind. ⁶What dies was never living in reality, and did but mock the truth about myself. ⁷Now I disown self-concepts and deceits and lies about the holy Son of God. ⁸Now am I ready to accept him back as God created him, and as he is.

Father, my ancient love for You returns, and lets me love Your Son again as well. ²Father, I am as You created me. ³Now is Your Love remembered, and my own. ⁴Now do I understand that they are one. (A Course in Miracles, W-248. See also ACIM Lesson 248 Insights.)

We were not born to suffer and die. That is a false image we have accepted in place of our Identity as God’s Son — eternal Love and unchangeable. It is time to let go of our mistaken self-image.

Today can be a day of remembering the Love we are, which includes everyone. This memory will return to us if we are willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s vision in place of our misperceptions. As we are willing to walk with the Holy Spirit through the day, following His Guidance, we will learn to see past the false images to the radiant Love that is the truth of everyone everywhere. With this vision, we will see the Love we are.

We bring every thought that disturbs our peace of mind to the Holy Spirit for His interpretation. He will help us see that what disturbs our peace is not real. With that recognition, the presence of Love will fill our awareness. In gratitude we accept His help.

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Accepting a Future Bright with Love

God holds your future as He holds your past and present. ²They are one to Him, and so they should be one to you. ³Yet in this world, the temporal progression still seems real. ⁴And so you are not asked to understand the lack of sequence really found in time. ⁵You are but asked to let the future go, and place it in God’s Hands. ⁶And you will see by your experience that you have laid the past and present in His Hands as well, because the past will punish you no more, and future dread will now be meaningless.

What worry can beset the one who gives his future to the loving Hands of God? ²What can he suffer? ³What can cause him pain, or bring experience of loss to him? ⁴What can he fear? ⁵And what can he regard except with love? ⁶For he who has escaped all fear of future pain has found his way to present peace, and certainty of care the world can never threaten.

Place, then, your future in the Hands of God. ²For thus you call the memory of Him to come again, replacing all your thoughts of sin and evil with the truth of love.

²For in God’s Hands we rest untroubled, sure that only good can come to us. (A Course in Miracles, W-194.4;7:1-6;8:1-2;9:2. See also ACIM Lesson 194 Insights.)

God holds for us a pristine future, brightened by the Light of Love and filled with the certainty of peace and joy. This is our future when we place it in His Hands.

We release the past through forgiveness. Only in a loveless dream does there seem to be a past which could have an effect on the future. The ego uses time to tie the past to our projected future, where guilt and retribution are justified.

Today we call upon the Holy Spirit to help us release the past and make way for a future in God’s Hands, where only Love is real.

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