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The Choice to Accept Happiness

…[God] wills the happiness His Son inherited of Him be undisturbed; eternal and forever gaining scope, eternally expanding in the joy of full creation, and eternally open and wholly limitless in Him

⁴God does not perceive at all. ⁵Yet it is He Who gives the means by which perception is made true and beautiful enough to let the light of Heaven shine upon it.

These are the lessons God would have you learn.… ⁵They are the same in fundamental content. ⁶It is this:

⁷Forgive, and you will see this differently.

“Certain it is that all distress does not appear to be but unforgiveness. ²Yet that is the content underneath the form. (A Course in Miracles, W-193.1:2;2:4-5;3:1,5–4:2. See also ACIM Lesson 193 Insights.)

Forgiveness is the key to happiness because it lets go of the barriers that stand against Love’s joy. The Love we are is hidden behind our judgments. We remain that Love but dream of a loveless world where differences and conflict appear to be real.

Today we choose to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to recognize the unreality of separation. As we accept His help, we will see a forgiven world. We will let the Light of Love be reflected to us in all that we see.

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The One Choice We Must Make

The Christ in you is very still. ²He knows where you are going, and He leads you there in gentleness and blessing all the way. ³His Love for God replaces all the fear you thought you saw within yourself.

⁶His perfect lack of specialness He offers you, that you may save all living things from death, receiving from each one the gift of life that your forgiveness offers to your Self. ⁷The sight of Christ is all there is to see. ⁸The song of Christ is all there is to hear. ⁹The hand of Christ is all there is to hold. ¹⁰There is no journey but to walk with Him.

You who would be content with specialness, and seek salvation in a war with love, consider this: The holy Lord of Heaven has Himself come down to you, to offer you your own completion. ²What is His is yours because in your completion is His Own. ³He Who willed not to be without His Son could never will that you be brotherless. ⁴And would He give a brother unto you except he be as perfect as yourself, and just as like to Him in holiness as you must be?

⁴He will exchange His certainty for all your doubts, if you agree that He is One with you, and that this Oneness is endless, timeless, and within your grasp because your hands are His. (A Course in Miracles, T-24.V.6:1-3;.7:6–8:4;9:4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Our forgiveness offers us the gift of Life. In the dream it seems that life has a beginning and an end. But our Self, created by God as His Son, lives eternally. It dwells in the timelessness of our Creator. We have but one simple choice to make: To accept the Self that God created one with Him or accept the ego’s image that denies God’s Creation. It is the choice between Life or the denial of Life.

Today we choose to hold the hand of Christ and let it guide us to see the presence of Love everywhere, for so it is. In the acceptance of Christ, we accept our Life as God’s Son. We accept peace that cannot be disturbed, joy beyond description and Love without limit. This is our focus for today.

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Remembering Our Identity Is Love

God’s Name is holy, but no holier than yours. ²To call upon His Name is but to call upon your own. ³A father gives his son his name, and thus identifies the son with him. ⁴His brothers share his name, and thus are they united in a bond to which they turn for their identity. ⁵Your Father’s Name reminds you who you are, even within a world that does not know; even though you have not remembered it.

Repeat the Name of God, and call upon your Self, Whose Name is His. ²Repeat His Name, and all the tiny, nameless things on earth slip into right perspective. ³Those who call upon the Name of God can not mistake the nameless for the Name, nor sin for grace, nor bodies for the holy Son of God. ⁴And should you join a brother as you sit with him in silence, and repeat God’s Name along with him within your quiet mind, you have established there an altar which reaches to God Himself and to His Son.

All little things are silent. ²Little sounds are soundless now. ³The little things of earth have disappeared. ⁴The universe consists of nothing but the Son of God, who calls upon his Father. ⁵And his Father’s Voice gives answer in his Father’s holy Name. ⁶In this eternal, still relationship, in which communication far transcends all words, and yet exceeds in depth and height whatever words could possibly convey, is peace eternal. ⁷In our Father’s Name, we would experience this peace today. ⁸And in His Name, it shall be given us. (A Course in Miracles, W-183.1;5;11. See also ACIM Lesson 183 Insights.)

Because our true Self is one with our Father, we share the same Identity. A call to our Father is a call to remember our Identity. As God is only Love, our Identity is only Love. To perceive anything but Love’s oneness is to perceive illusions.

A call to our Father is a request to remember the Love we are. We can practice looking on the world and reminding ourselves that beyond the forms we perceive is Love’s oneness. Nothing else is real. The remembrance of our Identity sets us free from the false limitations the ego assigns us with a bodily identity.

Today we let our minds sink into the quiet peace within. We remember our true Identity as Love and nothing else. With this remembrance Christ’s vision shows us a forgiven world. We recognize our unity with every brother and our Creator.

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Learning to Be a Conduit for God’s Love

The Thought of peace was given to God’s Son the instant that his mind had thought of war. ²There was no need for such a Thought before, for peace was given without opposite, and merely was. ³But when the mind is split there is a need of healing. ⁴So the Thought that has the power to heal the split became a part of every fragment of the mind that still was one, but failed to recognize its oneness. ⁵Now it did not know itself, and thought its own Identity was lost.

Salvation is undoing in the sense that it does nothing, failing to support the world of dreams and malice. ²Thus it lets illusions go. ³By not supporting them, it merely lets them quietly go down to dust. ⁴And what they hid is now revealed; an altar to the holy Name of God whereon His Word is written, with the gifts of your forgiveness laid before it, and the memory of God not far behind.

Let us come daily to this holy place, and spend a while together. ²Here we share our final dream. ³It is a dream in which there is no sorrow, for it holds a hint of all the glory given us by God. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.2.2:1–4:3)

As we look at situations in the world today, what do we see? Do we see loss, a need to defend or protect? Does it bring fear or guilt into our mind? If this is how we see it, we are seeing it through the eyes of the ego.

But we can see the world differently. If we accept the Holy Spirit’s vision, we will see calls for Love. We will see opportunities to be conduits for God’s Love. As we let Love flow through us, we will experience God’s peace. We will experience the blessing that comes when we give the Love we receive.

God’s Love for us, His Son, is constant, unwavering and unlimited. To know we have It, we must accept It and give It. Today we dedicate to being God’s messengers of Love. Thus will we teach ourselves that we are Love along with all our brothers.

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Claiming Our Identity in God

I am God’s Son, complete and healed and whole, shining in the reflection of His Love. ²In me is His creation sanctified and guaranteed eternal life. ³In me is love perfected, fear impossible, and joy established without opposite. ⁴I am the holy home of God Himself. ⁵I am the Heaven where His Love resides. ⁶I am His holy Sinlessness Itself, for in my purity abides His Own.

Ours are the eyes through which Christ’s vision sees a world redeemed from every thought of sin. ²Ours are the ears that hear the Voice for God proclaim the world as sinless. ³Ours the minds that join together as we bless the world. ⁴And from the oneness that we have attained we call to all our brothers, asking them to share our peace and consummate our joy.

We are the holy messengers of God who speak for Him, and carrying His Word to everyone whom He has sent to us, we learn that it is written on our hearts. ²And thus our minds are changed about the aim for which we came, and which we seek to serve. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.14.1;4:1–5:2)

In the dream world of separation, . We accept this mission as we let the Holy Spirit be our Guide in all things. He gives the body a purpose different from what it was made to serve. Its new purpose is to be a medium of communication to give God’s messages of Love and peace to the world. It answers all the fear and guilt with Love.

As we let the Holy Spirit direct our thoughts and actions, we learn to see with Christ’s vision. We see the calls for Love in the fear and guilt portrayed in worldly situations. As we let Love be expressed through us, we learn that we are Love. This is how we become God’s hands and feet and voice in the world.

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Seeing Love’s Reflection in the World

Today I let Christ’s vision look upon all things for me and judge them not, but give each one a miracle of love instead.

So would I liberate all things I see, and give to them the freedom that I seek. ²For thus do I obey the law of love, and give what I would find and make my own. ³It will be given me, because I have chosen it as the gift I want to give. ⁴Father, Your gifts are mine. ⁵Each one that I accept gives me a miracle to give. ⁶And giving as I would receive, I learn Your healing miracles belong to me.

Our Father knows our needs. ²He gives us grace to meet them all. ³And so we trust in Him to send us miracles to bless the world, and heal our minds as we return to Him. (A Course in Miracles, W-349. See also ACIM Lesson 349 Insights.)

Christ’s vision brings forgiveness with It for all our perceptions. This world reflects what we believe about ourselves. When we believe we are a body, vulnerable and weak, we see a world of attack and loss. But when we forgive our mistaken beliefs, the world we see reflects the Love that is revealed by our forgiveness.

Today we ask for Christ’s vision to show us the Love we seek. With His vision, we will remember the Love we are. We see every moment as an opportunity to join in Love. In this joining, we find peace and happiness. We recognize our oneness with all of God’s Creation.

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Remembering We Live in God’s Love

Into His Presence would I enter now.

This is a day of silence and of trust. ²It is a special time of promise in your calendar of days. ³It is a time Heaven has set apart to shine upon, and cast a timeless light upon this day, when echoes of eternity are heard. ⁴This day is holy, for it ushers in a new experience; a different kind of feeling and awareness. ⁵You have spent long days and nights in celebrating death. ⁶Today you learn to feel the joy of life.

Today it will be given you to feel a touch of Heaven, though you will return to paths of learning. ²Yet you have come far enough along the way to alter time sufficiently to rise above its laws, and walk into eternity a while. ³This you will learn to do increasingly, as every lesson, faithfully rehearsed, brings you more swiftly to this holy place and leaves you, for a moment, to your Self.

³Nothing is needed but today’s idea to light your mind, and let it rest in still anticipation and in quiet joy, wherein you quickly leave the world behind.

From this day forth, your ministry takes on a genuine devotion, and a glow that travels from your fingertips to those you touch, and blesses those you look upon. ²A vision reaches everyone you meet, and everyone you think of, or who thinks of you. ³For your experience today will so transform your mind that it becomes the touchstone for the holy Thoughts of God. (A Course in Miracles, W-157.1;3;4:3–5:3. See also ACIM Lesson 157 Insights.)

The experience of God’s Love is always available to us. We are only unaware of It while we identify with a body and what we perceive through the body. The body is the ego’s central image it uses to make separation seem real. But we are not a body.

This recognition is the first step toward opening our mind to the presence of God. The practice of pausing to let our minds settle into the peace within opens the door to realizing we are always in God’s presence. As we let our mind be still, the Light of Love is welcome. We feel the peace of God. We know we are safe from this state of mind. We see every brother as united with us in the one Self that is God’s Son. We remember our unity in Love. No one is excluded.

Today will be a blessed day as we practice holding our mind open to the awareness that we are in God’s Presence now and forever.

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