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Letting Go of Our Mistaken Judgments

I judge all things as I would have them be.

Judgment was made to be a weapon used against the truth. ²It separates what it is being used against, and sets it off as if it were a thing apart. ³And then it makes of it what you would have it be. ⁴It judges what it cannot understand, because it cannot see totality and therefore judges falsely. ⁵Let us not use it today, but make a gift of it to Him Who has a different use for it. ⁶He will relieve us of the agony of all the judgments we have made against ourselves, and re-establish peace of mind by giving us God’s Judgment of His Son.

Father, we wait with open mind today, to hear Your Judgment of the Son You love. ²We do not know him, and we cannot judge. ³And so we let Your Love decide what he whom You created as Your Son must be. (A Course in Miracles, W-311. See also ACIM Lesson 311 Insights.)

The ego is a symbol of the wish for separation. It needs to perceive external images that it defines as different from itself. This is why the ego thrives on conflict. The perception of conflict justifies judgment.

Within the oneness of God’s Love, nothing external exists. There is nothing to judge. To experience this oneness, we need to disengage from the ego.

The Holy Spirit is always with us. If we are willing to accept His help, He will teach us to recognize that the ego’s wish for specialness can have no effect on our Reality as an extension of God’s Love. He will teach us to let go of all our judgments and help us to accept God’s one judgment that is wholly true: We remain eternally united with our Father in the oneness of His Love.

As we let go of our mistaken judgments, our vision becomes increasingly clear. We quickly dismiss the images that seem to portray separation, knowing they are meaningless. Instead, we see the Love that surrounds us and embraces us. We recognize everyone as part of the one Self we are as God’s one Son. We share our Father’s joy and peace.

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Choosing to Accept Love’s Blessings

³You always choose between your weakness and the strength of Christ in you. ⁴And what you choose is what you think is real. ⁵Simply by never using weakness to direct your actions, you have given it no power. ⁶And the light of Christ in you is given charge of everything you do. ⁷For you have brought your weakness unto Him, and He has given you His strength instead.

Trials are but lessons that you failed to learn presented once again, so where you made a faulty choice before you now can make a better one, and thus escape all pain that what you chose before has brought to you. ²In every difficulty, all distress, and each perplexity Christ calls to you and gently says, “My brother, choose again.” ³He would not leave one source of pain unhealed, nor any image left to veil the truth. ⁴He would remove all misery from you whom God created altar unto joy. ⁵He would not leave you comfortless, alone in dreams of hell, but would release your mind from everything that hides His face from you. ⁶His Holiness is yours because He is the only power that is real in you. ⁷His strength is yours because He is the Self that God created as His only Son.

The images you make cannot prevail against what God Himself would have you be. ²Be never fearful of temptation, then, but see it as it is; another chance to choose again, and let Christ’s strength prevail in every circumstance and every place you raised an image of yourself before. ³For what appears to hide the face of Christ is powerless before His majesty, and disappears before His holy sight. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.VIII.2:3–4:3. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The only meaningful purpose for our life on earth is to learn to choose Christ as our true Identity. That is the choice to accept the strength and Love of our Father as our own. We were created to share His joy.

Only in the ego’s dream of separation does it seem that we are weak and subject to all kinds of distress, loss and difficulty. The guilt and fear we feel are our calls for the Love that seems to be lacking. Properly perceived, they are reminders to choose again to accept the strength of Christ in us.

When we experience temptation, the ego’s response is to judge us and point out our failures. But the Holy Spirit sees it as an opportunity for us to forgive and let healing purify our minds of mistaken beliefs. We are grateful that every seeming challenge is an opportunity to choose to accept Love’s blessing.

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Letting Go of Our Limitations

Forgive, and you will see this differently.

²These are the words the Holy Spirit speaks in all your tribulations, all your pain, all suffering regardless of its form.

Shall we not learn to say these words when we are tempted to believe that pain is real, and death becomes our choice instead of life? ²Shall we not learn to say these words when we have understood their power to release all minds from bondage? ³These are words which give you power over all events that seem to have been given power over you.

How can you tell when you are seeing wrong, or someone else is failing to perceive the lesson he should learn? ²Does pain seem real in the perception? ³If it does, be sure the lesson is not learned. ⁴And there remains an unforgiveness hiding in the mind that sees the pain through eyes the mind directs.

God would not have you suffer thus. ²He would help you forgive yourself. ³His Son does not remember who he is. ⁴And God would have him not forget His Love, and all the gifts His Love brings with it. (A Course in Miracles, W-193.5:1-2;6:1-3;7:1–8:4. See also ACIM Lesson 193 Insights.)

Forgiveness seems hard only because we are not willing to give up our special identity. It feels like sacrifice is demanded of us. But the cost for keeping this fake identity is a ‘life’ of uncertainty, fear and guilt that ultimately ends in death. This is only a dream.

Our real life is the life we live in God. It is an eternal state of peace, joy and Love. This is the experience of our true Self, the extension of God’s changeless Love. Forgiveness makes ways for Love to flow through us in the continuous giving and receiving of Love’s blessings.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us forgive our beliefs in limitation. We want to remember we are united with all Creation in Love’s joyous blessings.

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Letting Love Lead Us Home

I follow in the way appointed me.

I have a special place to fill; a role for me alone. ²Salvation waits until I take this part as what I choose to do. ³Until I make this choice, I am the slave of time and human destiny. ⁴But when I willingly and gladly go the way my Father’s plan appointed me to go, then will I recognize salvation is already here, already given all my brothers and already mine as well.

Father, Your way is what I choose today. ²Where it would lead me do I choose to go; what it would have me do I choose to do. ³Your way is certain, and the end secure. ⁴The memory of You awaits me there. ⁵And all my sorrows end in Your embrace, which You have promised to Your Son, who thought mistakenly that he had wandered from the sure protection of Your loving Arms. (A Course in Miracles, W-317. See also ACIM Lesson 317 Insights.)

The choice to go our appointed way is the choice to be happy and live in peace. The ego asks for sacrifice, but not our Father. But when we identify with the ego, we project the belief in sacrifice on God. So we believe that dedicating our life to following our Father’s lead would require sacrificing things we value. But this is only the result of misplaced values.

Today we choose to value Reality. We choose to let Love guide us in all our thoughts and actions. We will recognize the Love we share with everyone. We will recognize calls for Love and joyfully answer with Love’s embrace. We are grateful that Love leads us Home to the Heaven of God’s Love.

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Remembering We Are Love and Nothing Else

Use all the little names and symbols which delineate the world of darkness. ²Yet accept them not as your reality. ³The Holy Spirit uses all of them, but He does not forget creation has one Name, one meaning, and a single Source which unifies all things within Itself. ⁴Use all the names the world bestows on them but for convenience, yet do not forget they share the Name of God along with you.

Father, our Name is Yours. ²In It we are united with all living things, and You Who are their one Creator. ³What we made and call by many different names is but a shadow we have tried to cast across Your Own reality. ⁴And we are glad and thankful we were wrong. ⁵All our mistakes we give to You, that we may be absolved from all effects our errors seemed to have. ⁶And we accept the truth You give, in place of every one of them. ⁷Your Name is our salvation and escape from what we made. ⁸Your Name unites us in the oneness which is our inheritance and peace. ⁹Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-184.11;15. See also ACIM Lesson 184 Insights.)

When we identify with the ego, the wish for specialness, we deny our the Identity we share with God. This misidentification has made a dream of myriad forms that represent the differences we value in our quest for specialness. They hide our eternal unity in the oneness of our Father’s Love.

To awaken us from this dream, the Holy Spirit uses the labels we value, but knows they have no meaning. When we accept His help, he teaches us to see the one Meaning behind all the forms of differences. With His help we will learn to forgive our mistaken beliefs and recognize we remain one with our Creator and share His Identity. We are Love, and nothing else. And we give thanks.

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Recognizing the Light That Unites Us

Why wait for Heaven? ²Those who seek the light are merely covering their eyes. ³The light is in them now. ⁴Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all. ⁵Light is not of the world, yet you who bear the light in you are alien here as well. ⁶The light came with you from your native home, and stayed with you because it is your own. ⁷It is the only thing you bring with you from Him Who is your Source. ⁸It shines in you because it lights your home, and leads you back to where it came from and you are at home.

⁵It is not difficult to look within, for there all vision starts. ⁶There is no sight, be it of dreams or from a truer Source, that is not but the shadow of the seen through inward vision. ⁷There perception starts, and there it ends. ⁸It has no source but this.

The peace of God is shining in you now, and from your heart extends around the world. ²It pauses to caress each living thing, and leaves a blessing with it that remains forever and forever.

The peace of God can never be contained. ²Who recognizes it within himself must give it. ³And the means for giving it are in his understanding. ⁴He forgives because he recognized the truth in him. (A Course in Miracles, W-188.1;2:5–3:2;5:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 188 Insights.)

We are the Light of the world because we are an extension of the Love that created us. The Light of Love in us shines without limit. As we recognize this, the Light we are illumines our world. We see that only Love is real and we look upon a world of innocence. We see no justification for judgment, only the holiness of all Creation.

Today we pause to remember the Light within by welcoming the peace of God. Peace is our natural state. We are grateful that we have the means to see past images of separation to see the Light which unites us in the universe of Love.

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Acknowledging Our Source of Strength

If you are trusting in your own strength, you have every reason to be apprehensive, anxious and fearful. ²What can you predict or control? ³What is there in you that can be counted on? ⁴What would give you the ability to be aware of all the facets of any problem, and to resolve them in such a way that only good can come of it? ⁵What is there in you that gives you the recognition of the right solution, and the guarantee that it will be accomplished?

Of yourself you can do none of these things.

God is your safety in every circumstance. ²His Voice speaks for Him in all situations and in every aspect of all situations, telling you exactly what to do to call upon His strength and His protection.

³It is not by trusting yourself that you will gain confidence. ⁴But the strength of God in you is successful in all things.

The recognition of your own frailty is a necessary step in the correction of your errors… (A Course in Miracles, W-47.1:1–2:1;3:1-2;5:3–6:1. See also ACIM Lesson 47 Insights.)

God is the Source of all our strength. But if we believe that we are separate from Him, we will feel that we must rely on the semblance of strength that our body and intellect seem to offer. Yet this “self” reliance fails to provide consistent safety. We are not able to resolve problems in a way that is beneficial to all.

It is time to acknowledge that of ourselves, we can do nothing. It is time to claim our inheritance by accepting that God is our strength and safety. He has given us His Voice to guide us past the self deception of isolation to recognize the strength of Love within us.

It calls to us to remember that we remain joined with our Father and all His strength. Today we pause to let the peace of God embrace us and fill us with the certainty that all our needs are met.

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