Living A Course in Miracles — Remembering Our Safety in God’s Love

Remembering Our Safety in God’s Love

I am surrounded by the Love of God.

Father, You stand before me and behind, beside me, in the place I see myself, and everywhere I go. ²You are in all the things I look upon, the sounds I hear, and every hand that reaches for my own. ³In You time disappears, and place becomes a meaningless belief. ⁴For what surrounds Your Son and keeps him safe is Love itself. ⁵There is no source but this, and nothing is that does not share its holiness; that stands beyond Your one creation, or without the Love which holds all things within itself. ⁶Father, Your Son is like Yourself. ⁷We come to You in Your Own Name today, to be at peace within Your everlasting Love.

My brothers, join with me in this today. ²This is salvation’s prayer. ³Must we not join in what will save the world, along with us? (A Course in Miracles, W-264. See also ACIM Lesson 264 Insights.)

We can deny Love, hide from it, and believe we have broken it into little pieces, but we cannot change the reality that Love is one, changeless and eternal. Nothing but Love is real. Love is our real life, forever untouched by hallucinations of separation.

Today we acknowledge that Love is our Source. It is the Home in which we live. We ask that Love be our guide in all our doing. We ask the Holy Spirit to heal our fear-based thoughts. We want to remember the comfort and safety of our Creator’s all-encompassing embrace.

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Welcoming the Love That Unites Us

I merely follow, for I would not lead.

“Father, You are the One Who gave the plan for my salvation to me. ²You have set the way I am to go, the role to take, and every step in my appointed path. ³I cannot lose the way. ⁴I can but choose to wander off a while, and then return. ⁵Your loving Voice will always call me back, and guide my feet aright. ⁶My brothers all can follow in the way I lead them. ⁷Yet I merely follow in the way to You, as You direct me and would have me go.

So let us follow One Who knows the way. ²We need not tarry, and we cannot stray except an instant from His loving Hand. ³We walk together, for we follow Him. ⁴And it is He Who makes the ending sure, and guarantees a safe returning home. (A Course in Miracles, W-324. See also ACIM Lesson 324 Insights.)

The ego is the wish to take control of our ‘life’ experience. It is saying to our Father, “I want to do it my way.” It is a rebellion against the authority of our Creator.

Yet our Creator’s Will for His creation is perfect peace and joy in the oneness of Love. This is our Reality. Rebellion against Reality can only occur in dreams. When we are engaged in a dream, our belief makes it seem very real. But when we wake up from the dream, it is clear that nothing really happened in the reality.

We have been given a Guide Whose mission is to lovingly lead us out of the dream. This Guide knows the truth of what we are and disregards our vain imaginings as meaningless. When we are willing to follow His lead, we will learn to recognize the Reality of Love in which we live. Our focus shifts to Christ’s vision, which forgives the world which we have dreamt and welcomes the Love that joins us all together as one.

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Returning to the Promised Land of Love

The Holy Spirit is described as the remaining Communication Link between God and His separated Sons. ²In order to fulfill this special function the Holy Spirit has assumed a dual function. ³He knows because He is part of God; He perceives because He was sent to save humanity. ⁴He is the great correction principle; the bringer of true perception, the inherent power of the vision of Christ. ⁵He is the light in which the forgiven world is perceived; in which the face of Christ alone is seen. ⁶He never forgets the Creator or His creation. ⁷He never forgets the Son of God. ⁸He never forgets you. ⁹And He brings the Love of your Father to you in an eternal shining that will never be obliterated because God has put it there.

The Holy Spirit abides in the part of your mind that is part of the Christ Mind. ²He represents your Self and your Creator, Who are One. ³He speaks for God and also for you, being joined with Both. ⁴And therefore it is He Who proves Them One. ⁵He seems to be a Voice, for in that form He speaks God’s Word to you. ⁶He seems to be a Guide through a far country, for you need that form of help. ⁷He seems to be whatever meets the needs you think you have. ⁸But He is not deceived when you perceive your self entrapped in needs you do not have. ⁹It is from these He would deliver you. ¹⁰It is from these that He would make you safe. (A Course in Miracles, C-6.3:1–4:10)

The wish for specialness is the wish for differences. Differences conflict and can seem to lose value or be harmed. Anger, fear and guilt are inevitable in this environment. But such an environment could never occur in the oneness of God’s Love. Thus any death or destruction that seems to occur could never be real.

Into this environment that we accepted as real, our Creator has sent the Holy Spirit as the bridge of return to the reality of His Love. The Holy Spirit can see our mistaken perceptions but does not recognize them as real. Thus He can be a Guide to lead us out of our chosen world of perceived differences into the promised land of God’s Love. He can lead us out of our belief lovelessness and bring us Home to the reality of our oneness in the Love of God.

Today we choose to step back from our perceptions and welcome the Holy Spirit’s gift of true perception. We want to remember that we are Love, and nothing else.

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The Decision to Accept Peace and Joy

I see all things as I would have them be.

Perception follows judgment. ²Having judged, we therefore see what we would look upon. ³For sight can merely serve to offer us what we would have. ⁴It is impossible to overlook what we would see, and fail to see what we have chosen to behold. ⁵How surely, therefore, must the real world come to greet the holy sight of anyone who takes the Holy Spirit’s purpose as his goal for seeing. ⁶And he cannot fail to look upon what Christ would have him see, and share Christ’s Love for what he looks upon.

I have no purpose for today except to look upon a liberated world, set free from all the judgments I have made. ²Father, this is Your Will for me today, and therefore it must be my goal as well. (A Course in Miracles, W-312. See also ACIM Lesson 312 Insights.)

As long as we believe the body is our identity, we are judging against the Reality of God’s Love. We have denied Love’s oneness. It is a judgment against God. This judgment has no effect on Reality, but it makes Reality unknown to us. This is why we need to relinquish all our judgments.

We need to turn over all our judgments to the Holy Spirit. With His help we can learn to accept what He judges as true and let go of any other perception. Only Love is true and real. As we let Holy Spirit’s judgment replace our own, we welcome the Reality of our oneness in Love with our Father and every brother. This is our release into the perfect peace and joy of God’s Love.

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Accepting God’s Gift of Perfect Peace

³God’s peace can never come where anger is, for anger must deny that peace exists. ⁴Who sees anger as justified in any way or any circumstance proclaims that peace is meaningless, and must believe that it cannot exist. ⁵In this condition, peace cannot be found. ⁶Therefore, forgiveness is the necessary condition for finding the peace of God. ⁷More than this, given forgiveness there must be peace.

…Is conflict what you want, or is God’s peace the better choice? ⁷Which gives you more? ⁸A tranquil mind is not a little gift.

⁷Forgive the world, and you will understand that everything that God created cannot have an end, and nothing He did not create is real.

⁶Now is the mighty Will of God Himself His gift to you. …⁹The Will of God is One and all there is. ¹⁰This is your heritage. …¹²God’s peace is the condition for His Will. ¹³Attain His peace, and you remember Him. (A Course in Miracles, M-20.3:3-7;4:6-8;5:7;6:6,9-10,12-13)

Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves. It is actually an acceptance of the gift God’s gave when He created His Son. It makes way for us to remember the peace that is our natural state as God’s Son. We need not wait for this gift.

The ego sends us on myriad quests in the search for peace. But peace is never the ego’s goal. It thrives on conflict, so all the ego’s searches are intended to keep us from finding the peace we seek. The best it can offer are temporary moments that seem to be peaceful. But they do not last.

In our mind we have a Guide Who knows the way that truly leads to peace. This Guide not only leads us in the direction of success, It helps us heal our mind of mistaken beliefs which lead us astray. Today we choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide and Helper to find the peace that will help us remember we are God’s Son, and His will for us is perfect peace.

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Remembering We Never Walk Alone

Forget not once this journey is begun the end is certain. ²Doubt along the way will come and go and go to come again. ³Yet is the ending sure. ⁴No one can fail to do what God appointed him to do. ⁵When you forget, remember that you walk with Him and with His Word upon your heart. ⁶Who could despair when hope like this is his? ⁷Illusions of despair may seem to come, but learn how not to be deceived by them. ⁸Behind each one there is reality and there is God. ⁹Why would you wait for this and trade it for illusions, when His Love is but an instant farther on the road where all illusions end? ¹⁰The end is sure and guaranteed by God.

You are a stranger here. ²But you belong to Him Who loves you as He loves Himself. ³Ask but my help to roll the stone away, and it is done according to His Will. ⁴We have begun the journey. ⁵Long ago the end was written in the stars and set into the Heavens with a shining Ray that held it safe within eternity and through all time as well. ⁶And holds it still; unchanged, unchanging and unchangeable.

³Now we are sure we do not walk alone. ⁴For God is here, and with Him all our brothers. ⁵Now we know that we will never lose the way again. (A Course in Miracles, C-ep.1:1-10;2;4:3-5)

We have deceived ourselves into believing that we are alone and vulnerable. We have help within our means to awaken to the certainty of our safety in the oneness of God’s Love — guaranteed.

Today we remind ourselves that our Father loves us without limit or conditions. We ask for Help from the Source of all Reality to remember our Identity remains one with our Father and every brother. We can never be alone in the changelessness of our Home in the Heaven of God’s Love.

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Returning to the Love We Are

The world you see is an illusion of a world.

The body’s eyes are therefore not the means by which the real world can be seen, for the illusions that they look upon must lead to more illusions of reality. ²And so they do. ³For everything they see not only will not last, but lends itself to thoughts of sin and guilt. ⁴While everything that God created is forever without sin and therefore is forever without guilt.

²The one correction possible for false perception must be true perception. ³It will not endure. ⁴But for the time it lasts it comes to heal. ⁵For true perception is a remedy with many names. ⁶Forgiveness, salvation, Atonement, true perception, all are one. ⁷They are the one beginning, with the end to lead to Oneness far beyond themselves.

O my brothers, if you only knew the peace that will envelop you and hold you safe and pure and lovely in the Mind of God, you could but rush to meet Him where His altar is. ²Hallowed your Name and His, for they are joined here in this holy place. ³Here He leans down to lift you up to Him, out of illusions into holiness; out of the world and to eternity; out of all fear and given back to love. (A Course in Miracles, C-4.1:1;2;3:2-7;8)

We have accepted an identity as a body, which is not real. Separate from other bodies and the world, it is incapable of recognizing the reality of Love’s oneness. We need a means to awaken from this mistaken identity. True perception is the way to return to awareness of our true Identity.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit, our true Self, to help us let go of our mistaken belief in a false identity. We want to see the Light of Love that unites us with every brother and our Father. We want to remember the peace that is our natural state. We want to return to Love.

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