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Freeing Ourselves to Be Love

My only function is the one God gave me.

²I have no function but the one God gave me. ³This recognition releases me from all conflict, because it means I cannot have conflicting goals. ⁴With one purpose only, I am always certain what to do, what to say and what to think. ⁵All doubt must disappear as I acknowledge that my only function is the one God gave me.

My happiness and my function are one.

²All things that come from God are one. ³They come from Oneness, and must be received as one. ⁴Fulfilling my function is my happiness because both come from the same Source. ⁵And I must learn to recognize what makes me happy, if I would find happiness. (A Course in Miracles, W-83.1;3. See also ACIM Lesson 83 Insights.)

Because God created His Son one with Himself, our function is the same as His — to extend and be Love. In this dream world, forgiveness is Love’s reflection. Whenever we forgive a perception of separation, we let Love flow freely, as is our Nature.

The ego is always on the lookout for opportunities to divide and separate. It thrives on conflict. On the other hand, our true Self sees only cause to extend Love. It joins with the Love that is everywhere. And it answers calls for Love with Love. As we fulfill this function, we are in peace and our hearts are filled with joy.

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Forgiveness Answers Our Calls for Love

Judgment and love are opposites. From one come all the sorrows of the world. But from the other comes the peace of God Himself.

Forgiveness looks on sinlessness alone, and judges not. ²Through this I come to You. ³Judgment will bind my eyes and make me blind. ⁴Yet love, reflected in forgiveness here, reminds me You have given me a way to find Your peace again. ⁵I am redeemed when I elect to follow in this way. ⁶You have not left me comfortless. ⁷I have within me both the memory of You, and One Who leads me to it. ⁸Father, I would hear Your Voice and find Your peace today. ⁹For I would love my own Identity, and find in It the memory of You. (A Course in Miracles, W-352. See also ACIM Lesson 352 Insights.)

Love does not judge nor condemn. It sees only Itself everywhere, and everything, for only Love is real.

We lost ourselves in a dream where Love is denied and fear reigns supreme. Yet the memory of God and all His Love remains with us still. It can never be lost because It is the memory of our true Self, united eternally with our Creator.

The chaos we see within the world is merely a call for the Love that is our true Self. In this dream, forgiveness is the way to open the door to the return of our memory that Love is our true Reality. Today we choose to answer our calls for Love by forgiving our misperceptions. In forgiveness, the memory of Love returns.

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Resolution for All Conflict

Forgiveness ends the dream of conflict here.

Conflict must be resolved. ²It cannot be evaded, set aside, denied, disguised, seen somewhere else, called by another name, or hidden by deceit of any kind, if it would be escaped. ³It must be seen exactly as it is, where it is thought to be, in the reality which has been given it, and with the purpose that the mind accorded it. ⁴For only then are its defenses lifted, and the truth can shine upon it as it disappears.

Father, forgiveness is the light You chose to shine away all conflict and all doubt, and light the way for our return to You. ²No light but this can end our evil dream. ³No light but this can save the world. ⁴For this alone will never fail in anything, being Your gift to Your beloved Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-333. See also ACIM Lesson 333 Insights.)

The ego tells us that the way to resolve conflict is to suppress it, sidestep it, avoid it, but never face the cause. This is because when we fully recognize the cause of all conflict and let it go, the ego would simply cease to seem to exist.

Here we have the only answer to all conflict. Forgiveness lets the cause of conflict be released. It opens the door to the free flow of Love. We can recognize conflict in our mind because it always disturbs our peace. The recognition of this disturbance alerts us to the need for forgiveness.

The practice of bringing all our disturbing perceptions to the Holy Spirit helps us shine the Light of forgiveness on misperception. He will bring true perception which sees the oneness of Love that joins us with all that is real. Forgiveness is the one defense that leads us Home as we recognize there is nothing we need to defend in truth.

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Joining the Eternal Flow of Love

I will receive whatever I request.

No one desires pain. ²But he can think that pain is pleasure. ³No one would avoid his happiness. ⁴But he can think that joy is painful, threatening and dangerous. ⁵Everyone will receive what he requests. ⁶But he can be confused indeed about the things he wants; the state he would attain. ⁷What can he then request that he would want when he receives it? ⁸He has asked for what will frighten him, and bring him suffering. ⁹Let us resolve today to ask for what we really want, and only this, that we may spend this day in fearlessness, without confusing pain with joy, or fear with love.

Father, this is Your day. ²It is a day in which I would do nothing by myself, but hear Your Voice in everything I do; requesting only what You offer me, accepting only Thoughts You share with me. (A Course in Miracles, W-339. See also ACIM Lesson 339 Insights.)

The wish for specialness, a unique identity, is a demand for what could never be real. Only the Love of God is real. His Love is given freely without exceptions or differences to all.

Our identification with the wish for specialness has made us uncertain and confused about what we want. We ask for what our Father cannot give. So we make up a story of differences that conflict, compete and make a world of chaos. Projection makes it seem we have nothing to do with what we experience from an outside world.

We are being called to change our allegiance from the ego, which divides, to our Creator, Who unifies. As we commit to listening to His Voice, we will learn to let go of our mistaken wishes and join with the eternal flow of Love.

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Accepting Heaven’s Harmony

I gladly make the “sacrifice” of fear.

Here is the only “sacrifice” You ask of Your beloved Son; You ask him to give up all suffering, all sense of loss and sadness, all anxiety and doubt, and freely let Your Love come streaming in to his awareness, healing him of pain, and giving him Your Own eternal joy. ²Such is the “sacrifice” You ask of me, and one I gladly make; the only “cost” of restoration of Your memory to me, for the salvation of the world.

And as we pay the debt we owe to truth,—a debt that merely is the letting go of self-deceptions and of images we worshipped falsely—truth returns to us in wholeness and in joy. ²We are deceived no longer. ³Love has now returned to our awareness. ⁴And we are at peace again, for fear has gone and only love remains. (A Course in Miracles, W-323. See also ACIM Lesson 323 Insights.)

Every day in the world there seems to be constant stream of causes for fear, sadness and a sense of loss. Meanwhile there is another steady streaming Source that offers a constant flow of peace, happiness and Love. We connect with this stream by forgiving our judgments about the world.

Forgiveness lets God’s constant feed of His Love return to our awareness. We remember our unity with all our brothers in the oneness of Love. Our hearts are filled with joy as we freely give the Love we receive. We dwell in Heaven’s harmony.

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Giving and Receiving Blessings

My holiness shines bright and clear today.

Today I wake with joy, expecting but the happy things of God to come to me. ²I ask but them to come, and realize my invitation will be answered by the thoughts to which it has been sent by me. ³And I will ask for only joyous things the instant I accept my holiness. ⁴For what would be the use of pain to me, what purpose would my suffering fulfill, and how would grief and loss avail me if insanity departs from me today, and I accept my holiness instead?

Father, my holiness is Yours. ²Let me rejoice in it, and through forgiveness be restored to sanity. ³Your Son is still as You created him. ⁴My holiness is part of me, and also part of You. ⁵And what can alter Holiness Itself? (A Course in Miracles, W-285. See also ACIM Lesson 285 Insights.)

The Light of Love radiates from us when we accept Christ’s vision. As we see with forgiving eyes, appearances of differences and separation fade away. We see Love’s Light reflected back to us as we remember our unbreakable unity with our Creator.

Love puts a smile on our face and generosity in our hearts as we freely give the blessings we receive. This experience is within reach. We need only bring all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit to help us see with the eyes of Love. Blessings are ours to give and receive, now and forever.

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Letting Love Be

Today I learn the law of love; that what I give my brother is my gift to me.

This is Your law, my Father, not my own. ²I have not understood what giving means, and thought to save what I desired for myself alone. ³And as I looked upon the treasure that I thought I had, I found an empty place where nothing ever was or is or will be. ⁴Who can share a dream? ⁵And what can an illusion offer me? ⁶Yet he whom I forgive will give me gifts beyond the worth of anything on earth. ⁷Let my forgiven brothers fill my store with Heaven’s treasures, which alone are real. ⁸Thus is the law of love fulfilled. ⁹And thus Your Son arises and returns to You.

“How near we are to one another, as we go to God. ²How near is He to us. ³How close the ending of the dream of sin, and the redemption of the Son of God.” (A Course in Miracles, W-344. See also ACIM Lesson 344 Insights.)

Today we pause to let the Light of Love fill our minds. We let It shine away the dark corners or thoughts of separation and specialness that seemed to block the flow of Love. As we let the Light in, we return to our true Nature. We experience the joy of participating in the eternal flow of Love to Love. We feel Love’s blessing and we share It with all our brothers. 

We are grateful for the Holy Spirit in our mind Who guides us in the way of Love. With His help, we step back and let Love be.

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