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Peace First

Our prayer for today is to open to and receive Holy Spirit’s peace… In this holy place of receiving Holy Spirit’s peace, the Light of understanding comes with it… We are able to remember that we are safe, we are innocent, we are loved, we are Home…

We follow peace as it leads us in each now moment… We are gentle with ourselves and others… We take fear thoughts to the Holy Spirit to receive a correction in our perception…

We gratefully allow the Holy Spirit’s gift of true perception to undo our belief in being separate from Love’s Presence… As we continue throughout the day to choose peace first, we are filled with gratitude for the gifts peace brings with it.

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Accepting Help from Beyond the Dream

Every day seems to be filled with decisions to make — what to say, what to do, where to go, what to buy, what to believe. The world was made to be complex to make it seem real. It seems to be that there are many influences from outside of us that can affect us.

The Course is telling us that we are the dreamer of the dream. The seeming complexity is coming from our own mind based on the belief that we have succeeded in separating from our brothers and our Source. We are told that this is not true. We remain at one with our Source as we were created.

In the dream it seems inconceivable that all the things that appear to happen are coming from our mind, but that is because of the self deception that is built into the dream. The fact that we are the dreamer is good news. It returns the power to change the dream back to us.

The first step in awakening is the recognition that we are the cause of what we experience in the dream. The next step is to ask for Help from beyond the dream to help us change our dream. This Help will teach us how to forgive ourselves and the external forces that seem to work against us by showing us their unreality.

The dream can never show us the truth because of what it is. But if we are willing to turn to the Help that is the Voice for Truth, we are guided to a gentler dream of forgiveness, which clears the way for the Light of Love to shine through. This dream of forgiveness is peaceful and happy. When our forgiveness is complete, it is a simple, joyous step to Heaven, where we are truly at Home.

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Reconnecting with the Thoughts We Share with God

My real thoughts are in my mind. I would like to find them.

…go past all the unreal thoughts that cover the truth in your mind, and reach to the eternal.

Under all the senseless thoughts and mad ideas with which you have cluttered up your mind are the thoughts that you thought with God in the beginning. They are there in your mind now, completely unchanged. They will always be in your mind, exactly as they always were. Everything you have thought since then will change, but the Foundation on which it rests is wholly changeless.

Here is your mind joined with the Mind of God. Here are your thoughts one with His.” (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.45.6:4-6;7:1-4;8:2-3)

Because God is but Love, His thoughts are only Love and so are our real thoughts only Love. There can be no separation from God’s Love because It is One.

The thoughts we seem to think in the dream of separation are not our real thoughts. But our real thoughts of Love are still with us. As we forgive or let go of our thoughts of separation in the dream, our loving thoughts come forward to bless the world.

In each moment we have the opportunity to bless the world by letting go of our false ideas with the Holy Spirit’s help. Each time we let ourselves forgive and see with forgiving eyes, we move closer to the full experience of the real world, the forgiven world. We move closer to reconnecting with the thoughts we share with God.

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Listening to Holy Spirit

Be very still an instant. Come without all thought of what you ever learned before, and put aside all images you made. The old will fall away before the new without your opposition or intent. There will be no attack upon the things you thought were precious and in need of care. There will be no assault upon your wish to hear a call that never has been made. Nothing will hurt you in this holy place, to which you come to listen silently and learn the truth of what you really want. No more than this will you be asked to learn. But as you hear it, you will understand you need but come away without the thoughts you did not want, and that were never true. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.II.8.)

Today is a day of quiet listening. We have an inner Teacher Who will guide us if we are willing to be receptive and listen. Here we learn what every situation is for. Here we learn true forgiveness. Here we learn to look past the images of separation that the ego shows us to the truth of Love’s eternal oneness.

As we listen in quiet, our inner Teacher gives us a new way to see the world. He helps us move past the clouds of illusion and gently guides us in Love’s gentle ways. Whatever we really need and are ready for in that moment the Holy Spirit shares with us.

We let our minds be healed today as we give time to listening to Holy Spirit.

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You Are as God Created You

We will remember Him throughout the day with thankful hearts and loving thoughts for all who meet with us today. For it is thus that we remember Him. And we will say, that we may be reminded of His Son, our holy Self, the Christ in each of us:

I am as God created me.

Let us declare this truth as often as we can. This is the Word of God that sets you free. This is the key that opens up the gate of Heaven, and that lets you enter in the peace of God and His eternity. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.110.11)

Everyone we meet today offers us an opportunity to remember our Self. As we remember to greet them with thankful hearts and loving thoughts, saying to ourselves, “You are as God created you. I am as God created me,” we remember our Self. This practice will make this a day of joy and gratitude. Everyone we meet or think of will be recognized as our brother in the Love of God.

In this state of mind, we will receive Holy Spirit’s inspiration in how to be most helpful in every moment, using time for our shared awakening. We remember that this is what time is for, and we give thanks for a day filled with opportunities to heal.

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Accepting Holy Spirit’s Gentle, Forgiving Dream

You are the dreamer of the world of dreams. No other cause it has, nor ever will. Nothing more fearful than an idle dream has terrified God’s Son, and made him think that he has lost his innocence, denied his Father, and made war upon himself. …God willed he waken gently and with joy, and gave him means to waken without fear.

Accept the dream He gave instead of yours. It is not difficult to change a dream when once the dreamer has been recognized. Rest in the Holy Spirit, and allow His gentle dreams to take the place of those you dreamed in terror and in fear of death. (A Course in Miracles, T-27.VII.13:1-3,5;14:1-3)

Judgment is hazardous to our health. Judgment denies the Source of health — the Love and peace of God. Judgment proclaims our isolation and makes the world appear to be outside of us. And judgment maintains guilt in our mind, keeping us imprisoned in a self-made world of fear.

This need not be. If we are willing to let Holy Spirit take over the role of judge, He will clear from our minds all the mistaken perceptions that hold guilt in place. With His help, we will forgive ourselves and our brothers for the perceived errors that seemed to justify attack and defense. As we accept Holy Spirit’s help, dreams of judgment are replaced by gentle, forgiving dreams, which let the Love of God shine through. Forgiving dreams lift the veil that hides the Love we are from our awareness.

Our practice today is to let Holy Spirit judge all things on our behalf. His simple judgment will teach us what is true and what is false, so that we may easily lay down the false.

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Forgiveness — Letting Go of Guilt

The attraction of guilt produces fear of love, for love would never look on guilt at all. It is the nature of love to look upon only the truth, for there it sees itself, with which it would unite in holy union and completion. As love must look past fear, so must fear see love not. For love contains the end of guilt, as surely as fear depends on it. Love is attracted only to love. Overlooking guilt completely, it sees no fear. Being wholly without attack, it could not be afraid. Fear is attracted to what love sees not, and each believes that what the other looks upon does not exist. Fear looks on guilt with just the same devotion that love looks on itself. (A Course in Miracles, T-19.IV.A.10:1-9)

Love is ever present in our hearts and minds. We are unaware of Love when we harbor guilt. This guilt is inevitable when we see ourselves as separate and alone, because that perception comes from the belief that we have separated ourselves from Love, our Source.

Love is closer than our hand. We recognize Its presence when we forgive, let go of guilt. The daily, moment by moment practice of bringing all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit with willingness to see as He sees is how we remove the barriers of fear that hide the eternal Presence of Love. Love is always there to be experienced now.

The practice of forgiving is a practice that returns us to the happiness and peace that the Love of God offers us. If we want to be happy, if we want to experience God’s Love, if we want to feel safe and at peace, the practice of forgiveness will bring all of these to our awareness. Today is another happy day of practice.

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