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Accepting Heaven as Our Home

Christ’s vision is a miracle. It comes from far beyond itself, for it reflects eternal love and the rebirth of love which never dies, but has been kept obscure. Christ’s vision pictures Heaven, for it sees a world so like to Heaven that what God created perfect can be mirrored there. The darkened glass the world presents can show but twisted images in broken parts. The real world pictures Heaven’s innocence.

This is the Holy Spirit’s single gift; the treasure house to which you can appeal with perfect certainty for all the things that can contribute to your happiness.

Take from His storehouse, that its treasures may increase.

Behold the store of miracles set out for you to give. Are you not worth the gift, when God appointed it be given you? Judge not God’s Son, but follow in the way He has established. Christ has dreamed the dream of a forgiven world. It is His gift, whereby a sweet transition can be made from death to life; from hopelessness to hope. Let us an instant dream with Him. His dream awakens us to truth. His vision gives the means for a return to our unlost and everlasting sanctity in God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 159, W-pI.159.3;6:1;9:1;10. See also ACIM Lesson 159 Insights.)

Forgiveness is the key to happiness. Christ’s vision sees a forgiven world, so it sees a world of happiness and peace. As we practice asking Holy Spirit to help us see as He sees, to see with Christ’s vision, we experience a more peaceful, more loving and happier world. We recognize our brothers are one with us, and thus conflict fades away.

When we have forgiven completely with no reservations, we stand in the lawns of Heaven. We are ready to accept God’s welcome to return to His Home where we were created to be. We have accepted that we are Love, along with all that is real. There is nothing else. We have accepted Heaven as our Home.

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We Take Christ’s Hand and Let Him Lead

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

He knows that Love is in you now, and safely held in you by that same hand that holds your brother’s in your own. Christ’s hand holds all His brothers in Himself. He gives them vision for their sightless eyes, and sings to them of Heaven, that their ears may hear no more the sound of battle and of death. He reaches through them, holding out His hand, that everyone may bless all living things, and see their holiness.… The sight of Christ is all there is to see. The song of Christ is all there is to hear. The hand of Christ is all there is to hold. There is no journey but to walk with Him. (A Course in Miracles, T-24.V.6:1-3;7:1-4,7-10. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Forgiveness clears the way for us to recognize the Christ in our brothers and ourself. The face of Christ is the symbol of innocence. When we are judging, we cannot see innocence, neither in our brother nor ourself. Judgment makes our brother an adversary, a symbol of our own guilt we are trying to hide. Yet the judgment holds the guilt in place.

Forgiveness is the key to freedom, for it lets go of the barriers that prevent us from recognizing our innocence and the Love we are. Forgiveness frees us to be our Self, as God created It. Forgiveness lets us see our brother as our friend and join with us in our one Self.

Today we choose to hold Christ’s hand and let Him teach us to forgive and see the truth that only Love is real.

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Change Our Belief, Change the World

Every thought you have makes up some segment of the world you see. It is with your thoughts, then, that we must work, if your perception of the world is to be changed.

If the cause of the world you see is attack thoughts, you must learn that it is these thoughts which you do not want. There is no point in lamenting the world. There is no point in trying to change the world. It is incapable of change because it is merely an effect. But there is indeed a point in changing your thoughts about the world. Here you are changing the cause. The effect will change automatically.

The idea for today introduces the thought that you are not trapped in the world you see, because its cause can be changed. This change requires, first, that the cause be identified and then let go, so that it can be replaced. The first two steps in this process require your cooperation. The final one does not. Your images have already been replaced. By taking the first two steps, you will see that this is so. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 23, W-pI.23.1:4-2:7;5. See also ACIM Lesson 23 Insights.)

Believing we are a body is an attack thought because it is a denial of the oneness of Love, our true Identity. As long as we identify with this false image as what we are, we will feel weak and vulnerable, fearful and guilty. The world seems to be filled with forces that can harm us against which we need to defend. Yet all these images simply represent our belief that we are alone and separate.

The good news is that beliefs can be changed. We can let go our belief in being separate and let it be replaced by awareness of our oneness in Love. The practice of frequently, throughout the day, asking for the Holy Spirit’s help to see as He sees opens the door for a new way of seeing. We are willing to set aside our interpretations and let them be replaced. This is how we free ourselves from the experience of fear and guilt and open to the experience of Love and innocence already given us in our creation.

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Forgiveness Joins Your Mind with the Reality in You

In truth is innocence the only thing there is. Forgiveness stands between illusions and the truth; between the world you see and that which lies beyond; between the hell of guilt and Heaven’s gate.

Across this bridge, as powerful as love which laid its blessing on it, are all dreams of evil and of hatred and attack brought silently to truth. They are not kept to swell and bluster, and to terrify the foolish dreamer who believes in them. He has been gently wakened from his dream by understanding what he thought he saw was never there.

Forgiveness must be practiced, for the world cannot perceive its meaning, nor provide a guide to teach you its beneficence. There is no thought in all the world that leads to any understanding of the laws [forgiveness] follows, nor the Thought that it reflects. It is as alien to the world as is your own reality. And yet [forgiveness] joins your mind with the reality in you. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 134, W-pI.134.10:3-11:3;13. See also ACIM Lesson 134 Insights.)

The ego is incapable of forgiving. Forgiveness comes from understanding that is beyond the domain of the ego. The Truth in our minds sees beyond the ego to the loving innocence that is the reality of our Home. With the help of the Holy Spirit in our minds, forgiveness bridges the seeming gap between the ego’s thought system of sin, guilt and fear and the reality of Love’s innocence in Heaven.

We are accustomed to thinking with the ego thought system. And so we must be taught how to think with the Truth in us. As we practice remembering that of ourselves we do not know what anything means and offer our perceptions to the Holy Spirit with willingness to receive His vision, we awaken from the dream of separation. Forgiveness is the means to return to Heaven, our true Home. Today we practice letting the Holy Spirit show us what everything means.

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A Lesson in Love

To give is to receive. Today we will attempt to offer peace to everyone, and see how quickly peace returns to us. Light is tranquility, and in that peace is vision given us, and we can see.

To give and to receive are one in truth.
I will receive what I am giving now.…

To everyone I offer quietness.
To everyone I offer peace of mind.
To everyone I offer gentleness. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 108, W-pI.108.7:3-5;8:2-3,6-8. See also ACIM Lesson 108 Insights.)

We cannot judge and offer peace at the same time. Judgment is the denial of peace, for judgment divides and therefore is an attack on the oneness of God’s Creation.

The gift of peace is already in us in the part of our minds that knows our oneness with all that is real. To offer the gift of peace, we must lay aside any thought of judgment, for it interferes with our awareness that we already have peace. The practice of offering peace to our brother helps us to open our minds to the recognition of our unity with our brothers.

In the beginning of our practice, we may not be able to offer peace without reservations. So our gift of peace is limited and it is returned to us with the same limitation. But as we continue to practice offering peace to a brother, we experience a lessening of our reservations. More and more we are willing to offer peace fully. This means our willingness to let go of judgments is increasing as we learn Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love.

Our practice today of offering peace to every brother is a practice of receiving peace as well.

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Seeing as Holy Spirit Sees

By [letting miracles replace all grievances] I unite my will with the Holy Spirit’s, and perceive them as one. By this idea do I accept my release from hell. By this idea do I express my willingness to have all my illusions be replaced with truth, according to God’s plan for my salvation. I would make no exceptions and no substitutes. I want all of Heaven and only Heaven, as God wills me to have.” (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 89, W-pI.89.3. See also ACIM Lesson 89 Insights.)

The Holy Spirit makes only one judgment: He sees only innocence. Grievances block this vision. Grievances block the awareness of God’s peace and joy. Grievances block the Love that is given us and that we would give as God’s Son.

Insisting that we are a separate identity, housed in a body in a world of separation is a grievance against the oneness of Love. Yet this is a made up image, which can be undone. We undo the images of grievances by bringing each to the Holy Spirit with willingness to let Him replace them with miracles. He will give us His vision of innocence. As we accept it, we see the Love that is always present. We see our brothers one with us in the Heaven that is our true Home. We free ourselves from identifying with a false self image and accept the one Self God created as our Identity.

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We Accept God’s Gift of Peace

There is a peace that Christ bestows on us. Who uses but Christ’s vision finds a peace so deep and quiet, undisturbable and wholly changeless, that the world contains no counterpart. Comparisons are still before this peace. And all the world departs in silence as this peace envelops it, and gently carries it to truth, no more to be the home of fear. For love has come, and healed the world by giving it Christ’s peace.

Father, the peace of Christ is given us, because it is Your Will that we be saved. Help us today but to accept Your gift, and judge it not. For it has come to us to save us from our judgment on ourselves. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 305, W-pII.305. See also ACIM Lesson 305 Insights.)

We have judged ourselves to be different from our Father. We have judged ourselves to be different and alone. We are now finding out out that we have been mistaken and the thoughts we think with God alone are true.

God sees us as one with Him. God sees that we are joined and not separate nor different. In God there is only Wholeness, with no division of any kind. As we accept our true beingness as one with all of God’s Love, peace comes with it. We easily see past illusions to the ever present Love That is everywhere.

Today we welcome God’s peace and Love… We rest in the ever present beingness of peace and extend it to every brother we encounter or even think of… This acceptance of God’s peace opens the door to Holy Spirit’s inspiration all through the day… For this we are eternally grateful.

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