Living A Course in Miracles — A Practice That Will Return Us to Love

A Practice That Will Return Us to Love

No miracle can ever be denied to those who know that they are one with God. ²No thought of theirs but has the power to heal all forms of suffering in anyone, in times gone by and times as yet to come, as easily as in the ones who walk beside them now. ³Their thoughts are timeless, and apart from distance as apart from time.

We join in this awareness as we say that we are one with God. ²For in these words we say as well that we are saved and healed; that we can save and heal accordingly. ³We have accepted, and we now would give. ⁴For we would keep the gifts our Father gave. ⁵Today we would experience ourselves at one with Him, so that the world may share our recognition of reality. ⁶In our experience the world is freed. ⁷As we deny our separation from our Father, [the world] is healed along with us.

Peace be to you today. ²Secure your peace by practicing awareness you are one with your Creator, as He is with you. (W-124.6:1–8:2)

The ego tells us that believing we are one with God, our Creator, is arrogant. This is just its projection of the ego’s arrogance with its claim to have successfully separated from all of Creation.

Our reality is that we remain as God created us, eternally one with Him. We are part of the oneness of Love that encompasses all that is real. Today we practice reminding ourselves that we are one with our Creator. We share all His peace, joy and Love. This practice will lead us Home to our Reality as God’s Son.

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Remembering We Live in Love’s Oneness

Let me not be Your critic, Lord, today, and judge against You. ²Let me not attempt to interfere with Your creation, and distort it into sickly forms. ³Let me be willing to withdraw my wishes from its unity, and thus to let it be as You created it. ⁴For thus will I be able, too, to recognize my Self as You created me. ⁵In love was I created, and in love will I remain forever. ⁶What can frighten me, when I let all things be exactly as they are?

Let not our sight be blasphemous today, nor let our ears attend to lying tongues. ²Only reality is free of pain. ³Only reality is free of loss. ⁴Only reality is wholly safe. ⁵And it is only this we seek today. (A Course in Miracles, W-268.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 268 Insights.)

As long as we identify with the ego, we will not feel safe. We will experience pain and loss. This is the environment the ego builds in order to provide the appearance of differences which support the wish for specialness. It is a high price to pay to satisfy the insane wish to have more than everything.

Today we will remind ourselves that we were created by Love to be only Love. We dwell in Love’s oneness. We ask the Holy Spirit to heal the thoughts which foster fear and guilt. We welcome the vision that shows us the reality of Love that unites us with All That is. God’s Love is our real Home.

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Following Love’s Lead in the World

My heart is beating in the peace of God.

Surrounding me is all the life that God created in His Love. ²It calls to me in every heartbeat and in every breath; in every action and in every thought. ³Peace fills my heart, and floods my body with the purpose of forgiveness. ⁴Now my mind is healed, and all I need to save the world is given me. ⁵Each heartbeat brings me peace; each breath infuses me with strength. ⁶I am a messenger of God, directed by His Voice, sustained by Him in love, and held forever quiet and at peace within His loving Arms. ⁷Each heartbeat calls His Name, and every one is answered by His Voice, assuring me I am at home in Him.

Let me attend Your Answer, not my own. ²Father, my heart is beating in the peace the Heart of Love created. ³It is there and only there that I can be at home. (A Course in Miracles, W-267. See also ACIM Lesson 267 Insights.)

Do we want to be a purveyor of chaos or a messenger of God? We make that choice in every moment. As long as we identify with the ego, we reinforce the appearance of separation as real. Yet the world we perceive is nothing but hallucinations.

When we are willing to step back and welcome the Voice for God in our mind, we become messengers of His Love. Today we choose to listen to His Voice and let it guide us in all our thoughts and actions. Following His lead, we will be messengers of Love in the world.

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Opening to the Holy Spirit’s Lead

You are my goal, my Father. Only You.

Where would I go but Heaven? ²What could be a substitute for happiness? ³What gift could I prefer before the peace of God? ⁴What treasure would I seek and find and keep that can compare with my Identity? ⁵And would I rather live with fear than love?

You are my goal, my Father. ²What but You could I desire to have? ³What way but that which leads to You could I desire to walk? ⁴And what except the memory of You could signify to me the end of dreams and futile substitutions for the truth? ⁵You are my only goal. ⁶Your Son would be as You created him. ⁷What way but this could I expect to recognize my Self, and be at one with my Identity? (A Course in Miracles, W-287. See also ACIM Lesson 287 Insights.)

Our experience in this world is the result of our belief in a mistaken identity. This identity wanders alone in a wilderness of images that seem to threaten it or offer occasional moments of happiness. It searches for peace, but never finds a lasting quiet that cannot be disturbed.

God has given us a Guide Who knows our true Identity. His purpose is to help us awaken to the memory of our eternal connection with our Father. He leads us to our Home in the oneness of our Father’s Love. He reminds us of our true Self as God’s Son. Today we open our minds to Holy Spirit’s lead.

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Overlooking the Past to See Love’s Presence

Let me forget my brother’s past today.

This is the thought that leads the way to You, and brings me to my goal. ²I cannot come to You without my brother. ³And to know my Source, I first must recognize what You created one with me. ⁴My brother’s is the hand that leads me on the way to You. ⁵His sins are in the past along with mine, and I am saved because the past is gone. ⁶Let me not cherish it within my heart, or I will lose the way to walk to You. ⁷My brother is my savior. ⁸Let me not attack the savior You have given me. ⁹But let me honor him who bears Your Name, and so remember that It is my own.

Forgive me, then, today. ²And you will know you have forgiven me if you behold your brother in the light of holiness. ³He cannot be less holy than can I, and you can not be holier than he. (A Course in Miracles, W-288. See also ACIM Lesson 288 Insights.)

All our judgments are based on thoughts about the past. In Love’s oneness there is no past. Only the eternal present exists. When we judge anyone, we are really judging our projections from our past on them. What we see in others is a reflection of what we believe we are.

Whether it appears to be the past of a brother or our own past, it is the same illusion based on the false belief that separation is real. Forgiveness frees us from our mistaken beliefs. It sets us free to see the unity of Love that joins us with everyone as God’s one Son, forever united with our Father. Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us see the reality of Love in all our brothers.

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The Practice That Awakens Us to Love

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

Loss is not loss when properly perceived. ²Pain is impossible. ³There is no grief with any cause at all. ⁴And suffering of any kind is nothing but a dream. ⁵This is the truth, at first to be but said and then repeated many times; and next to be accepted as but partly true, with many reservations. ⁶Then to be considered seriously more and more, and finally accepted as the truth. ⁷I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. ⁸And I would go beyond these words today, and past all reservations, and arrive at full acceptance of the truth in them.

Father, what You have given cannot hurt, so grief and pain must be impossible. ²Let me not fail to trust in You today, accepting but the joyous as Your gifts; accepting but the joyous as the truth. (A Course in Miracles, W-284. See also ACIM Lesson 284 Insights.)

God’s Will for us is the perfect peace and indescribable joy that come with the eternal gift of His limitless Love. If we experience anything but His Love, it is because we have chosen to believe that we have separated from our Creator. This can only seem to be true in dreams.

We have the means to let go of our mistaken beliefs and accept God’s gift. It seems to take time to achieve this change of mind only because we thoroughly convinced ourselves that we are an identity separate from God. We take the first step by affirming that we are worthy of God’s Love. With practice, the truth of our Self as God’s Son begins to be more fully accepted. As we persist with this practice we will awaken to the fact that we remain at Home in the Heaven of God’s Love.

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Being a Messenger of Life

Death is a thought that takes on many forms, often unrecognized. ²It may appear as sadness, fear, anxiety or doubt; as anger, faithlessness and lack of trust; concern for bodies, envy, and all forms in which the wish to be as you are not may come to tempt you. ³All such thoughts are but reflections of the worshipping of death as savior and as giver of release.

⁵There is no death, and we renounce it now in every form, for their salvation and our own as well. ⁶God made not death. ⁷Whatever form it takes must therefore be illusion. ⁸This the stand we take today. ⁹And it is given us to look past death, and see the life beyond.

Our Father, bless our eyes today. ²We are Your messengers, and we would look upon the glorious reflection of Your Love which shines in everything. ³We live and move in You alone. ⁴We are not separate from Your eternal life. ⁵There is no death, for death is not Your Will. ⁶And we abide where You have placed us, in the life we share with You and with all living things, to be like You and part of You forever. ⁷We accept Your Thoughts as ours, and our will is one with Yours eternally. ⁸Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-163.1;8:5–9:8) See also ACIM Lesson 163 Insights.

If our peace of mind is disturbed at any time, it is because we have accepted the belief that we are separate from our Creator, our Source of Life. We live in God’s Love. There is no other reality but His Love. It is only our belief that we are excluded from His Reality that leads to our perception of pain, loss, fear and guilt. This perception has no foundation except in dreams.

We choose Life in place of death when we choose to accept our unbroken connection with our Father. Today we would be messengers of Life by expressing Love’s oneness to all our brothers. We live in Love.

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