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Accepting Our Future as Love

I place the future in the Hands of God.

Accept today’s idea, and you have passed all anxiety, all pits of hell, all blackness of depression, thoughts of sin, and devastation brought about by guilt. ²Accept today’s idea, and you have released the world from all imprisonment by loosening the heavy chains that locked the door to freedom on it. ³You are saved, and your salvation thus becomes the gift you give the world, because you have received.

In no one instant is depression felt, or pain experienced or loss perceived. ²In no one instant sorrow can be set upon a throne, and worshipped faithfully. ³In no one instant can one even die. ⁴And so each instant given unto God in passing, with the next one given Him already, is a time of your release from sadness, pain and even death itself.

Release the future. ²For the past is gone, and what is present, freed from its bequest of grief and misery, of pain and loss, becomes the instant in which time escapes the bondage of illusions where it runs its pitiless, inevitable course. ³Then is each instant which was slave to time transformed into a holy instant, when the light that was kept hidden in God’s Son is freed to bless the world. ⁴Now is he free, and all his glory shines upon a world made free with him, to share his holiness. (A Course in Miracles, W-194.2–3;5. See also ACIM Lesson 194 Insights.)

In the ego’s dream world, it seems that planning for the future is necessary for survival. Yet the ego’s ultimate goal is our death. If death of the body were real, it would be the ego’s confirmation that it has vanquished God. Yet this could never be true in reality, because only eternal Love is real.

God has given us a Guide Whose goal is to lead us to awaken to our real life in the changeless Love of God. The future is now. When we place our future in God’s Hands, we are accepting the peace and happiness that is ours now. We do not have to plan for this future. We need only accept Love’s oneness as our Identity now.

Today we practice turning over all our plans to the Holy Spirit. We welcome His loving inspiration that leads us Home to Love.

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Bringing Our Perceptions to Truth Sets Us Free

Truth answers every call we make to God, responding first with miracles, and then returning unto us to be itself.

Forgiveness, truth’s reflection, tells me how to offer miracles, and thus escape the prison house in which I think I live. ²Your holy Son is pointed out to me, first in my brother; then in me. ³Your Voice instructs me patiently to hear Your Word, and give as I receive. ⁴And as I look upon Your Son today, I hear Your Voice instructing me to find the way to You, as You appointed that the way shall be:

⁵“Behold his sinlessness, and be you healed.” (A Course in Miracles, W-357. See also ACIM Lesson 357 Insights.)

In the dream of separation, the world we see is a reflection of our beliefs about our own identity. Just as we cannot see our own face without looking in a mirror, we see what we believe is our identity reflected in the world.  This truth reflects the truth in our Self.

The practice of letting the Holy Spirit help us forgive our judgments of our perceptions helps us become aware of our own innocence. It lifts the veil so we can know our unity with every brother as God’s one Son. Today we practice forgiveness so that we can remember that we are Love and nothing else.

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Opening to Our Oneness in Love

…let us think about all things we saved to settle by ourselves, and kept apart from healing. ⁵Let us give them all to Him Who knows the way to look upon them so that they will disappear. ⁶Truth is His message; truth His teaching is. ⁷His are the lessons God would have us learn.

Each hour, spend a little time today, and in the days to come, in practicing the lesson in forgiveness in the form established for the day. ²And try to give it application to the happenings the hour brought, so that the next one is free of the one before. ³The chains of time are easily unloosened in this way. ⁴Let no one hour cast its shadow on the one that follows, and when that one goes, let everything that happened in its course go with it. ⁵Thus will you remain unbound, in peace eternal in the world of time.

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. ²To all that speaks of terror, answer thus:

³I will forgive, and this will disappear.

⁴To every apprehension, every care and every form of suffering, repeat these selfsame words. ⁵And 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. ⁶God will take this final step Himself. ⁷Do not deny the little steps He asks you take to Him. (A Course in Miracles, W-193.11:4–13:7. See also ACIM Lesson 193 Insights.)

The ego is arrogant. I tells us it has the answer to every problem, leading us on wild chases that, at best, lead to temporary solutions. In truth it has no answers because all it can offer is illusions.

The Holy Spirit offers the one solution that applies to every perceive problem, no matter the appearance. It prepares our mind to see past illusions to the reality of Love. Nothing else exists.

Forgiveness lets us dismiss illusions as meaningless and pass them by. Now we are open to the Light which reveals that we remain whole in the oneness of Love, eternally united with our Father.

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Accepting Our Identity as Eternal Spirit

Forgiveness is the only gift I give.

Forgiveness is the only gift I give, because it is the only gift I want. ²And everything I give I give myself. ³This is salvation’s simple formula. ⁴And I, who would be saved, would make it mine, to be the way I live within a world that needs salvation, and that will be saved as I accept Atonement for myself.

Father, how certain are Your ways; how sure their final outcome, and how faithfully is every step in my salvation set already, and accomplished by Your grace. ²Thanks be to You for Your eternal gifts, and thanks to You for my Identity. (A Course in Miracles, W-297. See also ACIM Lesson 297 Insights.)

Our heart’s desire is to remember our true Identity. This will occur when we look past the forms of the world and recognize the true Identity of every brother as one with our own.

This means we give no credence to what any form seems to be or do. We are spirit, unlimited and eternal. We forgive our perceptions which seem to show us a world of conflicting differences. We welcome Christ’s vision which shows us a forgiven world. In gratitude we accept our Identity as Love.

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A Mind Healing Practice

To give and to receive are one in truth.

Vision depends upon today’s idea. ²The light is in it, for it reconciles all seeming opposites. ³And what is light except the resolution, born of peace, of all your conflicts and mistaken thoughts into one concept which is wholly true?

³To give is to receive. ⁴Today we will attempt to offer peace to everyone, and see how quickly peace returns to us. ⁵Light is tranquility, and in that peace is vision given us, and we can see.

So we begin the practice periods with the instruction for today, and say:

²To give and to receive are one in truth.
³I will receive what I am giving now.

⁴Then close your eyes, and for five minutes think of what you would hold out to everyone, to have it yours. ⁵You might, for instance, say:

⁶To everyone I offer quietness.
⁷To everyone I offer peace of mind.
⁸To everyone I offer gentleness.

Say each one slowly and then pause a while, expecting to receive the gift you gave. ²And it will come to you in the amount in which you gave it. (A Course in Miracles, W-108.1:1-3;7:3–9:2. See also ACIM Lesson 108 Insights.)

It may be helpful to begin this exercise by applying it to a friend or loved one. Allow yourself time to feel in yourself the gift you want to give, and this offer that gift to the one you chose. Allow time for you to see that gift fully given to your friend. Then become aware of how you feel as you give this gift. You will find you receive great blessing as you extend the blessing. It is a great demonstration that to give and receive is the same. With practice, we can learn to give blessings to those whom we consider adversaries.

This same principle applies in the ego’s dream of separation. Judging another is disturbing to our own peace of mind. This is why forgiveness is the key to peace and happiness. We may believe we are forgiving another, but in fact, we are forgiving ourself as we forgive another.

The practice of giving peace of mind to others can help us take great strides in our own mind healing. We learn the important principle of our unity with every brother and our Father. It is because of this unity that giving and receiving are one.

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Letting Our Troubled Mind Be Healed

There is nothing to fear.

The idea for today simply states a fact. ²It is not a fact to those who believe in illusions, but illusions are not facts. ³In truth there is nothing to fear. ⁴It is very easy to recognize this. ⁵But it is very difficult to recognize it for those who want illusions to be true.

…whenever possible …close your eyes and repeat the idea slowly to yourself several times. ⁵It is particularly important that you use the idea immediately, should anything disturb your peace of mind.

The presence of fear is a sure sign that you are trusting in your own strength. ²The awareness that there is nothing to fear shows that somewhere in your mind, though not necessarily in a place you recognize as yet, you have remembered God, and let His strength take the place of your weakness. ³The instant you are willing to do this there is indeed nothing to fear. (A Course in Miracles, W-48.1;2:4-5;3. See also ACIM Lesson 48 Insights.)

We have a reliable feedback system that lets us know when we need to pause to remind ourselves that the strength of God is always with us. Anything that disturbs our peace of mind is a signal to ask the Holy Spirit to help us remember that we live in the peace of God. His help is always available. We just need to accept it.

Reminding ourselves that “there is nothing to fear” helps calm our troubled mind. In quiet we welcome the Holy Spirit’s vision, which shows our strength and dispels illusions that we believed could cause us harm. We learn that they have no substance; they cannot have any real effect on our true Self.

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Clearing Our Mind to Live in Love

Today the peace of God envelops me, and I forget all things except His Love.

Father, I wake today with miracles correcting my perception of all things. ²And so begins the day I share with You as I will share eternity, for time has stepped aside today. ³I do not seek the things of time, and so I will not look upon them. ⁴What I seek today transcends all laws of time and things perceived in time. ⁵I would forget all things except Your Love. ⁶I would abide in You, and know no laws except Your law of love. ⁷And I would find the peace which You created for Your Son, forgetting all the foolish toys I made as I behold Your glory and my own.

And when the evening comes today, we will remember nothing but the peace of God. ²For we will learn today what peace is ours, when we forget all things except God’s Love. (A Course in Miracles, W-346. See also ACIM Lesson 346 Insights.)

Our real life is governed by God’s law of Love. His Love is universal, and contains no differences. Where there are no differences, there is no conflict and peace is invincible.

By choosing to believe we have separated from our Creator, we have made a world of differences where lack and loss seem real. We hold images in our memory that “confirm” this reality, which seems to repeat itself endlessly. These are the images we need to forget to clear our mind to accept our reality as Love and nothing else.

Throughout today we remind ourselves to let Love guide our thoughts. And we will learn to respond to every moment with Love.

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