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Opening the Door to Happiness

Unless I look upon what is not there, my present happiness is all I see. Eyes that begin to open see at last. And I would have Christ’s vision come to me this very day. What I perceive without God’s Own Correction for the sight I made is frightening and painful to behold. Yet I would not allow my mind to be deceived by the belief the dream I made is real an instant longer. This the day I seek my present happiness, and look on nothing else except the thing I seek.

With this resolve I come to You, and ask Your strength to hold me up today, while I but seek to do Your Will. You cannot fail to hear me, Father. What I ask have You already given me. And I am sure that I will see my happiness today. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 290, W-pII.290. See also ACIM Lesson 290 Insights.)

Unforgiveness is a barrier to awareness of Love’s presence; it is a barrier to happiness. If we look honestly at every situation, circumstance, relationship or thought that does not bring us perfect happiness, it is because we have judged against it. Somehow it is not acceptable and we want it to be different. This is unforgiveness. The body and the world we see through it are projections of this unforgiveness.

There is another world to see. It is seen through forgiving eyes, which do not judge against. Forgiveness releases our thoughts from dwelling upon the past. What remains is Love and nothing else. Forgiveness is the means that opens our hearts and minds to welcome the Love and joy our Creator has already given us for eternity.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to guide our vision to see past the images of guilt and fear that we may welcome God’s Love and joy.

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Letting Holy Spirit Heal All Our Perceptions

I am entitled to miracles [seeing as Holy Spirit sees]. I am entitled to miracles because I am under no laws but God’s. His laws release me from all grievances [thoughts of separation], and replace them with miracles. And I would accept the miracles in place of the grievances, which are but illusions that hide the miracles beyond. Now I would accept only what the laws of God entitle me to have, that I may use it on behalf of the function He has given me. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 189, W-pI.89.1. See also ACIM Lesson 89 Insights.)

We are all entitled to see the world through the Holy Spirit’s eyes because the Holy Spirit is always in our mind, waiting to show us the truth behind our illusions. As our willingness to listen to the Holy Spirit grows, the truth naturally shows up in our mind. Our willingness to see the world as Holy Spirit sees it helps not only us, but helps the healing of the world because our minds our joined in reality.

We dedicate today to joining with the Light in us to see everyone in this world differently… We accept that the Light has come… We see innocence beyond the guilt that the ego mind would see… We accept that beyond all the stories that the ego mind has made up is the truth that only God’s Love is eternally real… We accept that all our problems have been solved… The Holy Spirit brings this awareness to our minds if we let Him. This is our practice for today.

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Freedom from Pain and Guilt

Father, there is a vision which beholds all things as sinless, so that fear has gone, and where it was is love invited in. And love will come wherever it is asked. This vision is Your gift. The eyes of Christ look on a world forgiven. In His sight are all its sins forgiven, for He sees no sin in anything He looks upon. Now let His true perception come to me, that I may waken from the dream of sin and look within upon my sinlessness, which You have kept completely undefiled upon the altar to Your holy Son, the Self with which I would identify.

Let us today behold each other in the sight of Christ. How beautiful we are! How holy and how loving! Brother, come and join with me today. We save the world when we have joined. For in our vision it becomes as holy as the light in us. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 313, W-pII.313.1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 313 Insights.)

When we truly want the truth, it will be given us. We will open our minds to the Light and peace of the Holy Spirit, and we will receive a different way of seeing. We will see innocence where we once saw guilt. We will see Love where we once saw fear. We will know oneness where we once saw separation. We will be aware of Love’s Presence, which never fluctuates or changes into something else.

When we truly want freedom from the ego’s thoughts system, we will receive it. We will be vigilant for old thought systems brought forward from the past that carry the seeds of darkness, fear and guilt. We will consistently allow ourselves to be lifted up and rise above the ego’s battleground of projecting guilt and see past illusions of separation to the truth of Love’s eternal Oneness. This is our practice for today.

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Rest in the Assurance of God’s Love

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.

What seems to be the opposite of life is merely sleeping. When the mind elects to be what it is not, and to assume an alien power which it does not have, a foreign state it cannot enter, or a false condition not within its Source, it merely seems to go to sleep a while. It dreams of time; an interval in which what seems to happen never has occurred, the changes wrought are substanceless, and all events are nowhere. When the mind awakes, it but continues as it always was. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 167, W-pI.167.2;4:1;9. See also ACIM Lesson 167 Insights.)

Perception of loss or lack of any kind indicates that there is a belief in death or separation from God’s oneness. But the Course is telling us that we, the Son of God, can never be separate from our Creator. We are God’s Thought. And thoughts cannot leave their Source. We are forever united in the Thought of Love.

Yet we can imagine we are separate and experience the sense of loss and lack that this imagined state induces. While we are engaged in this imagined scenario, the Presence of Love is all around, yet unknown to us. This is the thought of death.

But an imagined condition is just a false image that could never be true. No matter how horrific or terrorizing the images our imagination generates, they cannot alter the Reality that we remain united in Love with our Creator. We remain eternally safe, eternally loved and loving, eternally innocent, eternally at Home in the Mind of God.

Today let us rest in the assurance that this is so.

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Seeing What Our Creator Loves with Charity

What can it be but universal blessing to look on what your Father loves with charity? Extension of forgiveness is the Holy Spirit’s function. Leave this to Him. Let your concern be only that you give to Him that which can be extended. Save no dark secrets that He cannot use, but offer Him the tiny gifts He can extend forever. He will take each one and make of it a potent force for peace. He will withhold no blessing from it, nor limit it in any way. He will join to it all the power that God has given Him, to make each little gift of love a source of healing for everyone. Each little gift you offer to your brother lights up the world. Be not concerned with darkness; look away from it and toward your brother. And let the darkness be dispelled by Him Who knows the light, and lays it gently in each quiet smile of faith and confidence with which you bless your brother. (A Course in Miracles, T-22.VI.9. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Each of us has an important role to play in God’s plan for salvation of the world. We do not need to shout glory from the mountain tops. We need only bring each unforgiving thought, no matter how seemingly insignificant, to the Holy Spirit in our mind with willingness to receive His gentle correction.

Correction is not our job. Any attempt to correct ourselves, to try to “reason” ourselves to forgive, is simply an ego attempt to interfere with our healing and release. We just need to do our job: Turn over each unforgiving thought. The Holy Spirit will do the rest. Our little, separated ego minds cannot fathom the unlimited scope of the blessing that extends each time we offer an unforgiving thought to Holy Spirit.

Today we will be vigilant for every unforgiving thought that disturbs our peace. And we will offer it in humility and gratitude to the Holy Spirit, with willingness to receive His gift in return. This is how we bless the world and bless ourselves.

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Seeing the Spirit of Love Everywhere

Leave all decisions to the One Who speaks for God, and for your function as He knows it. So will He teach you to remove the awful burden you have laid upon yourself by loving not the Son of God, and trying to teach him guilt instead of love.”

When you have learned how to decide with God, all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing. There is no effort, and you will be led as gently as if you were being carried down a quiet path in summer. Only your own volition seems to make deciding hard. The Holy Spirit will not delay in answering your every question what to do. He knows. And He will tell you, and then do it for you. You who are tired will find this more restful than sleep. For you can bring your guilt into sleeping, but not into this. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.IV.5:4-5;6:1-8. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The Holy Spirit shows us how to see every brother and every form in the world if we are open to His way of seeing. The Holy Spirit sees past ego images of differences and separation to the pure, unaltered Spirit of Love that is eternally everywhere.

What a happy experience we have as we practice letting Holy Spirit show us how to see every brother as he really is in eternity. The Holy Spirit is happy to show us what is true behind all illusions of separation. We choose with Holy Spirit today.

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We Are Grateful Love Is Eternal

God has cared for us, and calls us Son. Can there be more than this?

Our gratitude will pave the way to Him, and shorten our learning time by more than you could ever dream of. Gratitude goes hand in hand with love, and where one is the other must be found. For gratitude is but an aspect of the Love which is the Source of all creation. God gives thanks to you, His Son, for being what you are; His Own completion and the Source of love, along with Him. Your gratitude to Him is one with His to you. For love can walk no road except the way of gratitude, and thus we go who walk the way to God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 195, W-pI.195.9:5-10:6. See also ACIM Lesson 195 Insights.)

God has given us all of What He Is. God is all Love and therefore we all are all Love. God is. Love is. This is the truth for all eternity.

We are so filled with gratitude that this is true and cannot be changed. For all eternity, we are safe… we are innocent… we are loved… we are Home. In truth there can be no loss; there can be no death; there can be no sorrow and no pain. We remain one with God and nothing can change that. We give thanks that this is so. Love is the way we walk in gratitude.

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