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Claiming Our Identity as Love

²Reality is never frightening. ³It is impossible that it could upset me. ⁴Reality brings only perfect peace. ⁵When I am upset, it is always because I have replaced reality with illusions I made up. ⁶The illusions are upsetting because I have given them reality, and thus regard reality as an illusion. ⁷Nothing in God’s creation is affected in any way by this confusion of mine. ⁸I am always upset by nothing.

²I see only my own thoughts, and my mind is preoccupied with the past. ³What, then, can I see as it is? ⁴Let me remember that I look on the past to prevent the present from dawning on my mind. ⁵Let me understand that I am trying to use time against God. ⁶Let me learn to give the past away, realizing that in so doing I am giving up nothing.

²I have no private thoughts. ³Yet it is only private thoughts of which I am aware. ⁴What can these thoughts mean? ⁵They do not exist, and so they mean nothing. ⁶Yet my mind is part of creation and part of its Creator. ⁷Would I not rather join the thinking of the universe than to obscure all that is really mine with my pitiful and meaningless “private” thoughts? (A Course in Miracles, W-52.1:2-8;3:2-6;5:2-7. See also ACIM Lesson 52 Insights.)

Feeling lack of peace is a sure sign that we are giving illusions credence in place of reality. God created us as Love, at one with Himself. Being one, there are no differences in Love. Conflict and loss are impossible, for Love is eternal. To identify with our true Self is to identify with Love.

Today as we perceive a world of conflict and loss, we remind ourselves that we are Love and nothing else, along with our Creator. We ask the Holy Spirit to help us set aside the illusions that interfere with the awareness of our true Identity. The peace of God is our Identity now. We choose to accept His help to forgive our mistaken beliefs. Thus we will claim our true Identity.

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Returning to the Serenity of Our True Self

Only an instant does this world endure.

This is a thought which can be used to say that death and sorrow are the certain lot of all who come here, for their joys are gone before they are possessed, or even grasped. ²Yet this is also the idea that lets no false perception keep us in its hold, nor represent more than a passing cloud upon a sky eternally serene. ³And it is this serenity we seek, unclouded, obvious and sure, today.

We seek Your holy world today. ²For we, Your loving Sons, have lost our way a while. ³But we have listened to Your Voice, and learned exactly what to do to be restored to Heaven and our true Identity. ⁴And we give thanks today the world endures but for an instant. ⁵We would go beyond that tiny instant to eternity. (A Course in Miracles,W-300. See also ACIM Lesson 300 Insights.)

In our quest for serenity, we need to follow a guide who knows where it is. While we are invested in the ego thought system, we are choosing a guide that knows neither where it is nor what it is. By the grace of God, we have been given Guide in our mind Who knows God’s serenity. His mission is to guide us to find the only serenity that exists in truth.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us let go of our mistaken perceptions which disturb our innate serenity. We are willing to return to our Home where peace is eternal and Love extends forever.

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Remembering Our True Self Is Love

Now would I be as God created me.

Today I will accept the truth about myself. ²I will arise in glory, and allow the light in me to shine upon the world throughout the day. ³I bring the world the tidings of salvation which I hear as God my Father speaks to me. ⁴And I behold the world that Christ would have me see, aware it ends the bitter dream of death; aware it is my Father’s Call to me.

Christ is my eyes today, and He the ears that listen to the Voice for God today. ²Father, I come to You through Him Who is Your Son, and my true Self as well. ³Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-237. See also ACIM Lesson 237 Insights.)

As God’s creation, our true Self is Love and nothing else. We are not a body. We are not different from our Father or any brother in truth. This is the Self we are called to accept. With that acceptance comes peace and joy.

As we listen to God’s Voice, we are reminded that we share our one Self with every brother. In that sharing, we remember the Love we are. We remember Love, which does not judge nor condemn. It only gives the Love It is to extend God’s creation.

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Opening Our Mind to Love’s Presence

…[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;3:1,5-7;4:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 193 Insights.)

Perception is only needed when separation is accepted as real. This is why forgiving our perceptions is required to restore our awareness to the one Love we are. It is a very simple step. It only seems difficult because of the myriad forms the ego uses to hide the simple fact that perceptions are not real.

This is why all things are lessons God would have us learn. Every perception is used by the ego to support belief in separation. But perceptions can be given a different purpose. Offered to the Holy Spirit, perceptions become a means to forgive our investment in belief in separation.

Each perception forgiven opens our mind to receive the gift of Love God gave us in our creation as His one Son. As we forgive, the barrier to Love’s presence is weakened and Love’s Light is allowed to shine through.

Throughout today we remind ourselves that we can accept the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive our perceptions and see the presence of Love.

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Letting Love’s Oneness Replace Artificial Values

Perception is consistent. ²What you see reflects your thinking. ³And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see. ⁴Your values are determiners of this, for what you value you must want to see, believing what you see is really there. ⁵No one can see a world his mind has not accorded value. ⁶And no one can fail to look upon what he believes he wants.

Fear has made everything you think you see. ²All separation, all distinctions, and the multitude of differences you believe make up the world. ³They are not there. ⁴Love’s enemy has made them up. ⁵Yet love can have no enemy, and so they have no cause, no being and no consequence. ⁶They can be valued, but remain unreal.

It is impossible to see two worlds which have no overlap of any kind. ²Seek for the one; the other disappears. ³But one remains. ⁴They are the range of choice beyond which your decision cannot go. ⁵The real and the unreal are all there are to choose between, and nothing more than these.

⁵It is impossible to see two worlds. ⁶Let me accept the strength God offers me and see no value in this world, that I may find my freedom and deliverance.

God will be there. ²For you have called upon the great unfailing power which will take this giant step with you in gratitude. ³Nor will you fail to see His thanks expressed in tangible perception and in truth. (A Course in Miracles, W-130.1;4:1-6;5;8:5–9:3. See also ACIM Lesson 130 Insights.)

When we value a unique identity, we are unaware of the reality of Love’s oneness. Artificial values must conflict in order to define images of differences. These images block our awareness of Love’s Presence.

Aș we let go of these values we open to the peace and joy that is our true nature. Today we offer all our judgments to the Holy Spirit for His reinterpretation. He will show us the Light of Love beyond the appearances we have judged. In that Light we will remember the joy of being held eternally in the Love of God.

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Recognizing Our Unity in Love

The ego does constant battle with the Holy Spirit on the fundamental question of what your function is. ²So does it do constant battle with the Holy Spirit about what your happiness is. ³It is not a two-way battle. ⁴The ego attacks and the Holy Spirit does not respond. ⁵He knows what your function is. ⁶He knows that it is your happiness.

…God has given you your function. ²We have seen that there are only two parts of your mind. ³One is ruled by the ego, and is made up of illusions. ⁴The other is the home of the Holy Spirit, where truth abides. ⁵There are no other guides but these to choose between, and no other outcomes possible as a result of your choice but the fear that the ego always engenders, and the love that the Holy Spirit always offers to replace it.

Thus, it must be that your function is established by God through His Voice, or is made by the ego which you have made to replace Him.

You will listen to madness or hear the truth.

²My happiness and function are one, because God has given me both. (A Course in Miracles, W-66.2;7:1–8:1;10:1;11:2. See also ACIM Lesson 66 Insights.)

Everyone in the world is on a quest for happiness. Most seek for it where it cannot be found — in the illusion of forms and separation. In this illusion, having something we can call our own is what we believe will bring us happiness. Yet because these forms are not real, they never satisfy nor last. They only lead to disappointment in the end.

But we have another Guide Who knows our true function, which will bring us lasting happiness. This Guide lives in the part of our mind that knows only Love is real. The Holy Spirit will guide us to help us let go of our futile quest. As we pay attention to the Holy Spirit’s guidance, we learn that the happiness we seek is already ours.

Today we choose to seek happiness by following the Holy Spirit’s lead. He will show us the Love we are, reflected in everyone one we meet or think of. We will see that we are unified in God’s Love.

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Choosing the Holy Spirit’s Purpose

²I have judged everything I look upon, and it is this and only this I see. ³This is not vision. ⁴It is merely an illusion of reality, because my judgments have been made quite apart from reality. ⁵I am willing to recognize the lack of validity in my judgments, because I want to see. ⁶My judgments have hurt me, and I do not want to see according to them.

³What I see is the projection of my own errors of thought.

³What I call “my” thoughts are not my real thoughts. ⁴My real thoughts are the thoughts I think with God. ⁵I am not aware of them because I have made my thoughts to take their place. ⁶I am willing to recognize that my thoughts do not mean anything, and to let them go. ⁷I choose to have them be replaced by what they were intended to replace. ⁸My thoughts are meaningless, but all creation lies in the thoughts I think with God. (A Course in Miracles, W-51.2:2-6;3:3;4:3-8. See also ACIM Lesson 51 Insights.)

The ego’s purpose for the world we see is to reinforce our belief that we are separate bodies, separate individuals, with different interests. It shows us a world of vulnerability, conflict and loss.

The Holy Spirit uses what we see for a different purpose. As we are willing to bring our judgments to the Holy Spirit for His correction, He shows us how to let go of what we believe we are, as reflected in what we judge. With His help, we forgive our judgments and their dark veil is dispelled. It reveals the Light of Love that is ever present in our mind.

Each lesson in forgiveness lets the Thought of Love shine more brightly in our mind. The awareness that we are in the Heaven of God’s Love now grows stronger. Anxiety and fear are replaced by peace and happiness. Today we choose the Holy Spirit’s purpose by letting Him decide all things on our behalf.

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