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Would You Exchange Fear for Truth?

Dear Everyone,

Recently I was guided to read, ACIM, T. 11. VIII. ¶ 15:
” Would you not exchange your fears for truth, if the exchange is yours for the asking?
When you are afraid it is because you perceive something that is not there.
I bid you to look within and see the light that is there. The light is real, the image you made is not.
If you look with H.S. you will be less and less afraid to see the truth and less afraid to give up the false.
You still think that Truth or Love demands sacrifice. You will learn that only the false god asks for
sacrifice and a misguided thought is easily corrected without pain or loss.”
The following thoughts came to me from Holy Spirit.

You are where God would have you be. You are in Heaven, you are in His Mind, you are as He created you. And this has never changed.
You are where God would have you be. His Will is for you and is your will.
While you dream that you are apart from your Source, you experience dream feelings of loss and being incomplete. It seems very real to you, for you do not recognize that you are the dreamer. The Holy Spirit was given you and abides with you to show you that dreams can change. He will take your dreams of fear and exchange them for happy dreams of union, completion, peace and joy. He will make a dream of truth for you—and waking will no longer be feared. The happy dream will replace all false ideas and meaningless thoughts. His gentle, sure correction will lift you to see beyond clouds of guilt and shame, pain and blame.

All dreams, have an end. In the happy dream, you awake to reality of Love. You are a Thought of Love, whole, complete and eternal. You are forever safe, forever loved, forever Home.
What never happened can have no effects. So you will learn that your dream of isolation and terror had no effects. You will wake and remember the truth of What you are.

Put all your faith (belief) in the Love of God in you.
You were created in the image of Love and what God creates is eternal. As the world perceives change, it makes change either loss or gain. But remember this:
what changes is not eternal; it is not real.
Put all your faith in the Love of God within you.
Look at any of your beliefs and be honest with yourself. Is that belief based on Love? There will be no fear in you if you simply accept Love is real.
Is the belief based on the separation idea? Then guilt will bind you, misery will beguile you, and insanity will appear real. With the belief based on Love,
there is gentleness because of certainty that only truth is true; that Love holds all things and no illusion can replace Love.

If this word is real, then must God be insane.
God did not create you and then cast you out into a universe of guilt. The world is only a mad idea, a thought that came from the thought of division. It never happened, it was not done. The thought of pain and guilt was over the instant that it came. You are simply mesmerized by a picture, and will not let the memory go, so sure that if you do, God’s wrath will fall upon you.
God is not insane—and does not condemn His only creation. You are the Son He loves. He created you like Himself—and that is only Love. Love is All There Is, so that only Love is real. All else is illusion—a mad belief that any thing unlike Love could be made or exists now.  Nothing exists that is not like Love.

Only Love exists. Any loving thought you “have” is shared because it is not your thought alone. Being part of Love, God shares His thoughts with you. Your loving thoughts are His Thoughts. Such thoughts are real and will lead you Home. Loving thoughts are true and allow you to open your eyes and wake without fear. Loving thoughts are the only thing you truly desire—and all the you really give.

When the insane mind has you go on a meaningless search, remember that you really want loving thoughts. Ask for help from the One Who walks with you and be reassured.
The thing in form that appears to comfort you, is an idol that deceives you. Choose it not in place of the real gift. H.S. will remove every idol, in every form, that brings false gifts to you.
As you allow, H.S. removes every false thought that made the picture of division. As you allow His help, He wipes your fears away and reminds you of the truth.
Your mind is healed (along with thousands more) when you relinquish the quest for false love. The more you use right denial, the more the veil is lifted to your reality of Love.
When an idol you have made comes to tempt you, ask H.S. to help you see the false and remember it is not this that you want.
Ask that a real (loving) thought replace the idolatry. And give thanks that you are not alone and that all mistakes are easily undone by Him.
You are Love and nothing else. You have only one gift to give to all.

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Healing and Happiness

Dear Everyone, I was guided to read this section in ACIM. I reread paragraph 2, several times, slowly. (In following quotes, bold is mine; really stood out to me.)

TEACHING FOR TRUTH   Section V. The Circle of Atonement
T-14.V.2. Everyone has a special part to play in the Atonement, but the message given to each one is always
the same; God’s Son is guiltless. 2 Each one teaches the message differently, and learns it differently. 3 Yet until he teaches it and learns it, he will suffer the pain of dim awareness that his true function remains unfulfilled in him. 4 The burden of guilt is heavy, but God would not have you bound by it. 5 His plan for your awaking is as perfect as yours is fallible. 6 You know not what you do, but He Who knows is with you. 7 His gentleness is yours, and all the love you share with God He holds in trust for you. 8 He would teach you nothing except how to be happy.

This reminded me where J. talks about gladdening our selves.
T-4.IV.8. Have you really considered how many opportunities you have had to gladden yourself, and how many of them you have refused? 2 There is no limit to the power of a Son of God, but he can limit the expression of his power as much as he chooses. 3 Your mind and mine can unite in shining your ego away, releasing the strength of God into everything you think and do. 4 Do not settle for anything less than this, and refuse to accept anything but this as your goal. 5 Watch your mind carefully for any beliefs that hinder its
accomplishment, and step away from them.
HEALING AND WHOLENESS
T-5.in.1. To heal is to make happy. 2 I have told you to think how many opportunities you have had to gladden yourself, and how many you have refused. 3 This is the same as telling you that you have refused to heal yourself.

So, when I am not happy, I’m choosing not to be healed, not to be whole. The times I could gladden my self are the times when I look with H.S. and forgive what I “see.” When I see no differences and recognize by brother as he IS (Son of God/guiltless). Those are the moments of happiness. In those moments of Light, I let go of the past. I forget my past, and let go of the future too. I trust in the strength of God. Therefore, I choose to see my brother’s guiltlessness and to teach him that, so I learn it too.

I can make myself miserable (the martyr) or I can free myself from the chains of guilt. I need not make a self that needs “repentance.” I need only to accept the gift that God has given and only gives forever. I am blessed as His Son. My Father loves me and I love Him. I choose to forgive, again and again. I choose to recognize that in a dream there is no reality. Truth waits in my holy mind and I go there in peace. I forgive and therein is my peace. When I know peace is mine, I can share it ….. giving it away. Which is only giving to the one Self and to my Father.  (All I give is given to my self.)

I forgive my judgments. (Judgments are seen in fear.) I forgive my criticisms, guilt and tears. All come from a mind in fear.
As I forgive I learn there is no fear. I learn only Love is real. I learn Love is all I want. 
Dear H.S., help me strengthen my practicing of forgiveness. Help me in my commitment to release all unloving thoughts. Thank you. amen.

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