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How to Find Peace in the World

My sinless brother is my guide to peace. My sinful brother is my guide to pain. And which I choose to see I will behold.

Who is my brother but Your holy Son? ²And if I see him sinful I proclaim myself a sinner, not a Son of God; alone and friendless in a fearful world. ³Yet this perception is a choice I make, and can relinquish. ⁴I can also see my brother sinless, as Your holy Son. ⁵And with this choice I see my sinlessness, my everlasting Comforter and Friend beside me, and my way secure and clear. ⁶Choose, then, for me, my Father, through Your Voice. ⁷For He alone gives judgment in Your Name. (A Course in Miracles, W-351. See also ACIM Lesson 351 Insights.)

Today can be a happy day if we choose to see our brother as the Love he is. As we see him, we see ourselves. The Love we are in truth is eternally united with every brother as God’s one Son.

We have the opportunity throughout this day to let God’s Voice teach us to see the truth of Love beyond appearances. This is how we bring healing to the world. This is how our mind is healed of mistaken beliefs that show us conflict instead of unity. This is how we find peace.

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Forgiveness Welcomes God’s Love

Miracles mirror God’s eternal Love. To offer them is to remember Him, and through His memory to save the world.

What we forgive becomes a part of us, as we perceive ourselves. ²The Son of God incorporates all things within himself as You created him. ³Your memory depends on his forgiveness. ⁴What he is, is unaffected by his thoughts. ⁵But what he looks upon is their direct result. ⁶Therefore, my Father, I would turn to You. ⁷Only Your memory will set me free. ⁸And only my forgiveness teaches me to let Your memory return to me, and give it to the world in thankfulness.

And as we gather miracles from Him, we will indeed be grateful. ²For as we remember Him, His Son will be restored to us in the reality of Love. (A Course in Miracles, W-350. See also ACIM Lesson 350 Insights.)

We need to forgive the beliefs that are a defense against Love’s oneness. Forgiveness unites us with Love. In reality, there is nothing to forgive. In the dream of denial, forgiveness is Love’s mirror. While we believe we are a body, we focus on perception of what seems to be external. When we forgive, the Love that is our brother is reflected back to us.

Forgiveness is a way of saying: “I accept God’s gift of Love.” This acceptance returns the memory of God to our mind. Today we welcome His Love and let the Holy Spirit help us overlook the false barriers to see the Love that is everywhere. In Love we find peace and joy.

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The Choice to Listen to God’s Voice

A sense of separation from God is the only lack you really need correct. ²This sense of separation would never have arisen if you had not distorted your perception of truth, and had thus perceived yourself as lacking.

The real purpose of this world is to use it to correct your unbelief. ²You can never control the effects of fear yourself, because you made fear, and you believe in what you made.

³In sorting out the false from the true, the miracle proceeds along these lines:

⁴Perfect love casts out fear.
⁵If fear exists, then there is not perfect love.

⁶But:

⁷Only perfect love exists.
⁸If there is fear, it produces a state that does not exist.

⁹Believe this and you will be free. ¹⁰Only God can establish this solution, and this faith is His gift. (T-1.VI.2:1-2;4:1-2;5:3-10)

There is nothing to fear because only Love is real. Our only function in this world is to forgive the mistaken belief that we have succeeded in separating from Love. This world is the effect of insisting on being special. With this demand came the dream of a world of conflict, differences, lack and loss. Love is universal and eternal; one and the same throughout. There is no place for differences, lack or loss in God’s Love.

He has given us His Voice to help us recognize the fallacy of our belief in separation. As we learn His lessons, our perceptions of differences fade in importance. The brilliant Light of Love grows stronger in our mind. We choose to listen to His Voice today.

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Forgiving What Disturbs Our Peace

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.

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;3. See also ACIM Lesson 48 Insights.)

Our world seems to be filled with reasons to fear. But in the Light of God’s Love, every reason disappears into the nothingness from which it came. We let that Light shine by forgiving our mistaken belief that we are separate and have lost our connection to God’s Love.

We can be grateful today, that our beliefs can be changed. We have the power of God available to us through His Voice to help us forgive these false beliefs. Today, with each recognition that our peace is disturbed, we welcome the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive whatever disturbed our peace. We are grateful for God’s gift of all of His Love, which is now and forever.

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Celebrating Our Inheritance of God’s Love

I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts.

Father, Your Son is perfect. ²When I think that I am hurt in any way, it is because I have forgotten who I am, and that I am as You created me. ³Your Thoughts can only bring me happiness. ⁴If ever I am sad or hurt or ill, I have forgotten what You think, and put my little meaningless ideas in place of where Your Thoughts belong, and where they are. ⁵I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts. ⁶The Thoughts I think with You can only bless. ⁷The Thoughts I think with You alone are true.

I will not hurt myself today. ²For I am far beyond all pain. ³My Father placed me safe in Heaven, watching over me. ⁴And I would not attack the Son He loves, for what He loves is also mine to love. (A Course in Miracles, W-281. See also ACIM Lesson 281 Insights.)

It is time to give away our inheritance. God has given us all His Love. We acknowledge that we have It by giving It away. This is the law of Love. It is impossible to lose the only real thing we can give — Love.

We celebrate today by accepting the Holy Spirit’s help to let go of our misperceptions and see the presence of Love in which we live.

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Forgiveness Welcomes Love

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.)

Every perception depends upon the belief that we are separate from all that is around us. Perception requires an external image seen as separate from the observer. This is the ego’s world.

But when we forgive our perceptions, we open the door that welcomes the Love which is our Identity. Our very life exists only in the oneness of God’s Love. When we let go of belief in an external world, we welcome God’s Love. Our forgiveness blesses the appearance that is forgiven as it blesses ourselves.

Forgiveness brings with it the acceptance of God’s gift of His Identity, which is Love and nothing else. Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive our mistaken perceptions. As we forgive, we become messengers of Love.

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Forgiveness Lets Our Light Shine

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

Loss is not loss when properly perceived. ²Pain is impossible. ³There is no grief with any cause at all. ⁴And suffering of any kind is nothing but a dream. ⁵This is the truth, at first to be but said and then repeated many times; and next to be accepted as but partly true, with many reservations. ⁶Then to be considered seriously more and more, and finally accepted as the truth. ⁷I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. ⁸And I would go beyond these words today, and past all reservations, and arrive at full acceptance of the truth in them.

Father, what You have given cannot hurt, so grief and pain must be impossible. ²Let me not fail to trust in You today, accepting but the joyous as Your gifts; accepting but the joyous as the truth. (A Course in Miracles, W-284. See also ACIM Lesson 284 Insights.)

The ego uses guilt as a motivator. Because of guilt, we try to fix our misperceptions by doing something that will correct the thing we believe we did wrong. Yet all this is based on illusion. Our true Self is Love and nothing else. Love can only extend Love. It finds great joy in extending Itself to embrace all with Love. This is the Identity we must accept to remember the joy that is God’s gift.

This acceptance seems difficult because we have so much invested in the ego thought system. We try to acknowledge that we are Love but we seem to fall short. The ego tells us we have failed. It is important to be gentle with ourselves. Love does not condemn.

The process of accepting the truth that we are Love in the dream takes time. This lesson acknowledges the process. Remembering this helps us dismiss the guilt the ego offers. Our function is to remember by forgiving our identification with the ego. With our forgiveness, our identity as Love shines brightly.

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