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God’s Will Is Ours

God did not create a meaningless world. How can a meaningless world exist if God did not create it? He is the Source of all meaning, and everything that is real is in His Mind. It is in my mind too, because He created it with me. Why should I continue to suffer from the effects of my own insane thoughts, when the perfection of creation is my home? Let me remember the power of my decision, and recognize where I really abide.

The fact that I see a world in which there is suffering and loss and death shows me that I am seeing only the representation of my insane thoughts, and am not allowing my real thoughts to cast their beneficent light on what I see. Yet God’s way is sure. The images I have made cannot prevail against Him because it is not my will that they do so. My will is His, and I will place no other gods before Him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 53, W-pI.53.4;5:4-7. See also ACIM Lesson 53 Insights.)

The chaos of the world we see demonstrates the insanity of the ego thought system. It confirms the world’s unreality. It seems real only because we have identified with the ego thought system, believing we want what it offers. Yet all we have ever gotten from this world is unreliability, fear and guilt. Sooner or later we all come to a point of thinking there must be a better way. Thankfully there is.

The better way is to turn our back on unreality and accept that we really want God’s gifts of changeless Love, perfect happiness and peace that cannot be disturbed. To claim these gifts, we simply need to give up the value we have given to the world that denies these gifts. The ego would tell us this is a sacrifice. But is it really a sacrifice to give up what is an illusion and has no value in exchange for the reality of God’s changeless Love and peace?

We really do share God’s Will for us. We really do want the joy He offers. We really do want to know the safety of God’s changeless Love. His Will is ours. This is all we really want.

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Welcoming God’s Gifts

Be in my mind, my Father, when I wake, and shine on me throughout the day today. Let every minute be a time in which I dwell with You. And let me not forget my hourly thanksgiving that You have remained with me, and always will be there to hear my call to You and answer me. As evening comes, let all my thoughts be still of You and of Your Love. And let me sleep sure of my safety, certain of Your care, and happily aware I am Your Son.

This is as every day should be. Today, practice the end of fear. Have faith in Him Who is your Father. Trust all things to Him. Let Him reveal all things to you, and be you undismayed because you are His Son. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 232, W-pII.232.1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 232 Insights.)

What do we really want? Do we want a sense of safety, protection, deep peace, joy beyond words and the certainty of changeless love? All this is already given us, it is already ours. We need only accept the gift to have it be our experience.

We experience the world of form only because we want something other than God’s gifts. We have convinced ourselves that things in the world are more valuable and desirable than God’s changeless Love. This belief has blinded us to the gifts that are already ours, leaving us in a constant condition of seeking and not finding Love.

But we can change our belief. We made a choice that made Love unknown to us. But we can make another choice. We need only welcome God’s Love again. It is still there; it never left. We want to remember that God is in our mind, now and forever. We want to remember that we are eternally held safe in our Father, where nothing can change the Love we are; where nothing is ever lost and where our perfect happiness is guaranteed.

Today we invite the memory of God to return.

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Accepting a Happy Day

There is no death because what God created shares His life. There is no death because an opposite to God does not exist. There is no death because the Father and the Son are One.

In this world, there appears to be a state that is life’s opposite. You call it death. Yet we have learned that the idea of death takes many forms. It is the one idea which underlies all feelings that are not supremely happy. It is the alarm to which you give response of any kind that is not perfect joy. All sorrow, loss, anxiety and suffering and pain, even a little sigh of weariness, a slight discomfort or the merest frown, acknowledge death. And thus deny you live.

Death is the thought that you are separate from your Creator. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 167, W-pI.167.1:5-2:7;4:1. See also ACIM Lesson 167 Insights.)

Only if we believe we are separate from Love, our Creator, does it seem possible to experience anything other than perfect Love and joy. Thus anything that seems to disturb our happiness and peace must come from the belief that we are disconnected from God.

Belief makes illusion seem real, but does not make it real in truth. This guarantees that there is an antidote for all pain, suffering, sadness, weariness or discomfort of any kind. We need to let go of the mistaken belief that we are separate from Love. As we let these symptoms of separation remind us that we need to turn to another Interpreter of what we perceive, we can reverse our journey into hell.

Forgiveness is the path to freedom. We forgive only by letting our perceptions be replaced by the Holy Spirit’s vision. His vision looks beyond all appearances in the world. If we are willing, we can let go of the fearful dream and let it be replaced by the happy dream that sees the innocence in every brother and ourselves.

Today we practice being mindful of our thoughts and bringing any disturbance to the Holy Spirit with willingness to see differently as we accept His vision. Our day will become a happy day of Love and peace.

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The Fast Track to Inner Peace

How can you tell when you are seeing wrong, or someone else is failing to perceive the lesson he should learn? Does pain seem real in the perception? If it does, be sure the lesson is not learned. And there remains an unforgiveness hiding in the mind that sees the pain through eyes the mind directs.

God would not have you suffer thus. He would help you forgive yourself.

This is the lesson God would have you learn: There is a way to look on everything that lets it be to you another step to Him, and to salvation of the world. To all that speaks of terror, answer thus:

I will forgive, and this will disappear.

To every apprehension, every care and every form of suffering, repeat these selfsame words. …Do not deny the little steps He asks you take to Him. (W-pI.193.7:1-8:2;13:1-4,7)

We have been given the fast track to inner peace. It’s not complicated. But it does require consistent, moment by moment vigilance and willingness. We need to be vigilant not to let one disturbing thought remain in our mind without forgiveness.

Every apprehension, care and form of suffering needs to be forgiven. That means these thoughts need to be taken to the Holy Spirit with willingness to receive His loving correction. Every disturbance to our peace is a perception that needs correction by the Holy Spirit. Dedication to this practice will bring us to perfect peace in the Heaven of God’s Love.

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We Are the Means to Extend God’s Love

Perception is a choice of what you want yourself to be; the world you want to live in, and the state in which you think your mind will be content and satisfied. It chooses where you think your safety lies, at your decision. It reveals yourself to you as you would have you be. …Perception is a part of what it is your purpose to behold, for means and end are never separate. And thus you learn what seems to have a life apart has none.

You are the means for God; not separate, nor with a life apart from His. His Life is manifest in you who are His Son. Each aspect of Himself is framed in holiness and perfect purity, in love celestial and so complete it wishes only that it may release all that it looks upon unto itself. Its radiance shines through each body that it looks upon, and brushes all its darkness into light merely by looking past [the body] to the Light. The veil is lifted through its gentleness, and nothing hides the face of Christ from its beholders. You and your brother stand before Him now, to let Him draw aside the veil that seems to keep you separate and apart. (A Course in Miracles, T-25.I.3:1-3,5-6;4:1-6. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Perception requires a perceiver and an object perceived. Thus it is a mechanism of separation. But under the Holy Spirit’s direction, perception can be used as a means to look past the ego’s image making to see the face of Christ.

The face of Christ is a symbol of the holiness of God’s Son, wholly innocent and perfectly loving. It represents the truth in every brother. This perception can only be seen without the judgment of the ego. It is seen with the judgment of the Holy Spirit, which judges against the unreal and accepts only the reality of Love.

The practice of forgiveness disregards the ego’s judgment and accepts the Holy Spirit’s judgment in its place. Through forgiveness our perception is purified so that only the face of Christ is seen. When perception is wholly purified, it is no longer needed for we have accepted the oneness of Love. This is how we extend God’s Love.

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Bringing Healing to the World

I feel the Love of God within me now.
The Love of God is what created me. The Love of God is
everything I am. The Love of God proclaimed me as His
Son. The Love of God within me sets me free.

I choose the joy of God instead of pain.
Pain is my own idea. It is not a Thought of God, but one I
thought apart from Him and from His Will. His Will is joy,
and only joy for His beloved Son. And that I choose, instead
of what I made.

I have a function God would have me fill.
I seek the function that would set me free from all the vain
illusions of the world. Only the function God has given me
can offer freedom. Only this I seek, and only this will I
accept as mine. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 209, W-pI.209.1:1-5;210.1:1-5;212.1:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 209 Insights.)

When we look at events and behavior of people in the world, it doesn’t seem that there is much love to be seen. We see a lot more fear, anger, guilt, loss, chaos and lack of Love. This is because the body’s eyes can only see the images the ego made to hide the eternal Presence of Love.

We have a function given us by our Creator to see past the false images to the reality of Love. The ego cannot show us this. Our job is to turn away from the ego to the Voice for God within, with willingness to be guided to see truly. As we do this, we bring healing to our brothers and the world. Simultaneously we bring healing to ourselves, for pain is not a part of Love. When we accept the Love we are, there can be no pain, no loss, no guilt, nothing to fear.

Today we would accept the function we have been given by our Source.

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Being Willing to Receive Christ’s Vision

Grace is acceptance of the Love of God within a world of seeming hate and fear. By grace alone the hate and fear are gone, for grace presents a state so opposite to everything the world contains, that those whose minds are lighted by the gift of grace can not believe the world of fear is real.

…an open mind can hear the Call to waken. It is not shut tight against God’s Voice. It has become aware that there are things it does not know, and thus is ready to accept a state completely different from experience with which it is familiarly at home. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 169, W-pI.169.2:1-2;3:4-6. See also ACIM Lesson 169 Insights.)

Our experience as a body in a world of form is not our natural state. It is the projection of an aspect of our mind that want separation to be real. This aspect projects images of separation and believes it is real, though it is based entirely on belief in an idea that could never be true. As long as we are attached to this false idea and want it to be true, we are trapped in a dream that keeps the Love of God out of our awareness.

By God’s grace we have the Means to let go of belief in what could never be true. The Holy Spirit is ever present in our minds, ready to show us the truth that lies beyond the false images. But we need to be willing to ask for His help and accept His loving correction. This is how we forgive. This is how we let go of the dream. This is how we remove the barriers to Love and return to our natural state in Love’s Oneness.

Today we would remember that we do not know what anything means and we are willing to receive Christ’s vision of truth.

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