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Accepting the Truth Sets Us Free

Trusting your brothers is essential to establishing and holding up your faith in your ability to transcend doubt and lack of sure conviction in yourself. ²When you attack a brother, you proclaim that he is limited by what you have perceived in him. ³You do not look beyond his errors. ⁴Rather, they are magnified, becoming blocks to your awareness of the Self that lies beyond your own mistakes, and past his seeming sins as well as yours.

…if a brother’s sins occur to us, our narrowed focus will restrict our sight, and turn our eyes upon our own mistakes, which we will magnify and call our “sins.” ³So, for a little while, without regard to past or future, should such blocks arise we will transcend them with instructions to our minds to change their focus, as we say:

⁴It is not this that I would look upon.
⁵I trust my brothers, who are one with me.

…as our focus goes beyond mistakes, we will behold a wholly sinless world. ⁴When seeing [innocence] is all we want to see, when this is all we seek for in the name of true perception, are the eyes of Christ inevitably ours. ⁵And the Love He feels for us becomes our own as well. ⁶This will become the only thing we see reflected in the world and in ourselves. (A Course in Miracles, W-181.1;6:2-5;8:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 181 Insights.)

Every brother deserves our trust because he is part of our one true Self. He is not a body, nor are we. As an illusion, whatever any body does is not real. It has no effect on reality. Seeing what is trustworthy in our brother depends our willingness to forgive our mistaken belief that separate images are real.

Forgiveness opens our mind to Christ’s vision, which recognizes his innocence as Love and nothing else. It sees the unity we share with every brother. As we see his innocence, we recognize our own. Recognizing the truth in our brothers sets us free from our own denial of our true Self.

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Receiving the Blessing of Our Brother’s Love

Today we practice differently, and take a stand against our anger, that our fears may disappear and offer room to love. …³Here is the answer to temptation which can never fail to welcome in the Christ where fear and anger had prevailed before.

⁵The purpose of all seeing is to show you what you wish to see. ⁶All hearing but brings to your mind the sounds it wants to hear.

Thus were specifics made. ²And now it is specifics we must use in practicing. ³We give them to the Holy Spirit, that He may employ them for a purpose which is different from the one we gave to them. ⁴Yet He can use but what we made, to teach us from a different point of view, so we can see a different use in everything.

One brother is all brothers. ²Every mind contains all minds, for every mind is one.

⁶Ask this of [your brother], that he may set you free:

⁷Give me your blessing, holy Son of God. ⁸I would behold you with the eyes of Christ, and see my perfect sinlessness in you. (A Course in Miracles, W-161:1,3;2:5–4:2;11:6-8. See also ACIM Lesson 161 Insights.)

The body’s eyes and ears were made to perceive differences, which the ego mind interprets according to its wishes. But we are asked to give these tools to the Holy Spirit to be used for a different purpose.

The Christ Mind, our true Self, recognizes only the Love that is the truth in every brother. Instead of interpreting based on the ego’s wishes, the Christ Mind interprets all as one, for It only recognizes Love as real. When we recognize the Love that is our brother, we receive His blessings, for we see the Love in our true Self.

Asking our brother to give us his blessing is accepting the Love that unites us all as one. When we see with the eyes of Christ, we have let go of the ego’s wishes and accepted our Identity as universal Love.

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Remembering Love Is Our Reality

Let miracles replace all grievances.

²By this idea do I unite my will with the Holy Spirit’s, and perceive them as one. ³By this idea do I accept my release from hell. ⁴By this idea do I express my willingness to have all my illusions be replaced with truth, according to God’s plan for my salvation. ⁵I would make no exceptions and no substitutes. ⁶I want all of Heaven and only Heaven, as God wills me to have.

Useful specific forms for applying this idea would be:

²I would not hold this grievance apart from my salvation.
³Let our grievances be replaced by miracles, [name].
⁴Beyond this is the miracle by which all my grievances are replaced. (A Course in Miracles, W-89.3–4. See also ACIM Lesson 89 Insights.)

All our judgments are based on grievances. We have no real basis for any judgment because they are based on illusions. Only Love is real and there are no differences in Love.

The Holy Spirit’s purpose is to show us that we are Love and nothing else. His judgments are very simple. He sees them either as true, which is Love, or false, which is nothing.

Today we offer all our judgments to the Holy Spirit with willingness to receive His perception in their place. As we accept His replacements, we will recognize Love’s Reality. We will give up all credence we have given to the ego’s images. We will remember our Reality is Love and nothing else.

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Christ’s Vision Is the Holy Spirit’s Single Gift

Christ’s vision is a miracle. ²It comes from far beyond itself, for it reflects eternal love and the rebirth of love which never dies, but has been kept obscure. ³Christ’s vision pictures Heaven, for it sees a world so like to Heaven that what God created perfect can be mirrored there. ⁴The darkened glass the world presents can show but twisted images in broken parts. ⁵The real world pictures Heaven’s innocence.

Christ’s vision is the miracle in which all miracles are born. ²It is their source, remaining with each miracle you give, and yet remaining yours. ³It is the bond by which the giver and receiver are united in extension here on earth, as they are one in Heaven. ⁴Christ beholds no sin in anyone. ⁵And in His sight the sinless are as one. ⁶Their holiness was given by His Father and Himself.

Christ’s vision is the bridge between the worlds. ²And in its power can you safely trust to carry you from this world into one made holy by forgiveness.

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. (A Course in Miracles, W-159.3:1–5:2;6:1. See also ACIM Lesson 159 Insights.)

Christ’s vision comes with welcoming our true Self. Our true Self knows that we are one with all Reality, for we live in Love. Love knows no differences. It sees only Itself, for that is all that is real. Our yearning to find Love is our yearning to remember our true Identity.

This Identity has been blocked from our awareness by the wish to be unique and have something we can call our own. Love is given equally to all and does not respond to the wish for specialness. When we are willing to forgive that wish and call upon Christ’s vision to see truly, the ego’s false images are dispelled. We remember that we are one with all Reality in our Father’s Love.

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Giving Ourselves the Gift of Forgiveness

This instant is the only time there is.

I have conceived of time in such a way that I defeat my aim. ²If I elect to reach past time to timelessness, I must change my perception of what time is for. ³Time’s purpose cannot be to keep the past and future one. ⁴The only interval in which I can be saved from time is now. ⁵For in this instant has forgiveness come to set me free. ⁶The birth of Christ is now, without a past or future. ⁷He has come to give His present blessing to the world, restoring it to timelessness and love. ⁸And love is ever-present, here and now.

Thanks for this instant, Father. ²It is now I am redeemed. ³This instant is the time You have appointed for Your Son’s release, and for salvation of the world in him. (A Course in Miracles, W-308. See also ACIM Lesson 308 Insights.)

Forgiveness is always about letting go of the past. Since the past does not exist except in memories in the mind, forgiveness lets go of illusions which were never real. They cannot exist in the present moment.

As we practice letting the Holy Spirit help us be aware of what is real and present now, we welcome the holy instant. In this instant we recognize that only Love is real. We see its unifying bond that keeps us eternally connected to our Creator and all His creations. In this instant of forgiveness, we experience the peace and joy that is our natural state. We see a forgiven world, wholly loving and free of guilt and fear.

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Asking of Holy Spirit, “What Is This For?”

The beautiful relationship you have with all your brothers is a part of you because it is a part of God Himself.

Either there is a gap between you and your brother, or you are as one. ²There is no in between, no other choice, and no allegiance to be split between the two. …[the body] can be seen as not your home, but merely as an aid to help you reach the home where God abides.

With this as purpose is the body healed. ²It is not used to witness to the dream of separation and disease. ³Nor is it idly blamed for what it did not do. ⁴It serves to help the healing of God’s Son, and for this purpose it cannot be sick. ⁵It will not join a purpose not your own, and you have chosen that it not be sick. ⁶All miracles are based upon this choice, and given you the instant it is made. ⁷No forms of sickness are immune, because the choice cannot be made in terms of form. ⁸The choice of sickness seems to be of form, yet it is one, as is its opposite. ⁹And you are sick or well, accordingly.

…the body can be seen as what it is, and neither less nor more in worth than the extent to which it can be used to liberate God’s Son unto his home. ⁸And with this holy purpose is it made a home of holiness a little while, because it shares your Father’s Will with you. (A Course in Miracles, T-28.VII.2:1;3:1-2,6;4;7:7-8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

What is this for? We must ask this question of Holy Spirit for all our perceptions. Our own answer would misinterpret everything as long as we identify with the ego. This is because the ego’s purpose for everything is to maintain our wish to be separate from our Creator. It denies God’s eternal union with all His creation.

The Holy Spirit sees a different purpose for all our perceptions. He sees them all as teaching aids to help us recognize them as reflections of our beliefs about ourselves that need to be forgiven. As we let Him answer this important question, we will learn to choose to see past form to the Light of Love that surrounds us. We will learn that we are free of the body’s limitations. His purpose sets us free to accept the eternal Love that is God’s Will for us.

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Accepting the Touch of Christ

All things are given you. ²God’s trust in you is limitless. ³He knows His Son. ⁴He gives without exception, holding nothing back that can contribute to your happiness. ⁵And yet, unless your will is one with His, His gifts are not received. ⁶But what would make you think there is another will than His?

Here is the paradox that underlies the making of the world. ²This world is not the Will of God, and so it is not real.

Yet in his lonely, senseless wanderings, God’s gifts go with him, all unknown to him. ²He cannot lose them. ³But he will not look at what is given him. ⁴He wanders on, aware of the futility he sees about him everywhere, perceiving how his little lot but dwindles, as he goes ahead to nowhere. ⁵Still he wanders on in misery and poverty, alone though God is with him, and a treasure his so great that everything the world contains is valueless before its magnitude.

³One walks with you Who gently answers all your fears with this one merciful reply, “It is not so.” ⁴He points to all the gifts you have each time the thought of poverty oppresses you, and speaks of His Companionship when you perceive yourself as lonely and afraid.”

²Become the living proof of what Christ’s touch can offer everyone. ³God has entrusted all His gifts to you. ⁴Be witness in your happiness to how transformed the mind becomes which chooses to accept His gifts, and feel the touch of Christ. (A Course in Miracles, W-166.1:1–2:2;5;1:3-4;15:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 166 Insights.)

We are never alone. Loneliness is a sign of misidentification with the ego. The ego is the choice to be separate, limited and alone. It is the denial of God’s gifts of all His Love, peace and joy.

When we forgive our mistaken beliefs, the illusion of a world of ephemeral images that never last fades into the background. As we forgive the world of all we thought it was, the vision of Christ shows us the unity of Love. We see nothing that disturbs our peace of mind, We joyously accept our oneness with our brothers. We experience the blessings of living in God’s Love.

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