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The Choice to Remember We Are Love

This is my holy instant of release.

Father, it is today that I am free, because my will is Yours. ²I thought to make another will. ³Yet nothing that I thought apart from You exists. ⁴And I am free because I was mistaken, and did not affect my own reality at all by my illusions. ⁵Now I give them up, and lay them down before the feet of truth, to be removed forever from my mind. ⁶This is my holy instant of release. ⁷Father, I know my will is one with Yours.

And so today we find our glad return to Heaven, which we never really left. ²The Son of God this day lays down his dreams. ³The Son of God this day comes home again, released from sin and clad in holiness, with his right mind restored to him at last. (A Course in Miracles, W-227. See also ACIM Lesson 227 Insights.)

It was our choice to dream of specialness instead of living in the uniformity of Love. We have paid a steep price for this choice. It is not a price imposed by God. The feeling of lack, loss of Love, fear and guilt is solely of our own making.

In any moment we can make another choice. We need help with that choice because we have become so invested in the dream of specialness. We have that help now and in every moment. Our Creator gave us the Holy Spirit to speak to us of the truth that we never lost His blessing. With the help of the Holy Spirit, we can remember that we share God’s will for our happiness and peace.

Today we welcome His help to accept the oneness of our will with our Creator’s. We have the choice to be free and know that we are Love.

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We Live in the Safety of God’s Love

God is with me. I live and move in Him.

God is with me. ²He is my Source of life, the life within, the air I breathe, the food by which I am sustained, the water which renews and cleanses me. ³He is my home, wherein I live and move; the Spirit which directs my actions, offers me Its Thoughts, and guarantees my safety from all pain. ⁴He covers me with kindness and with care, and holds in love the Son He shines upon, who also shines on Him. ⁵How still is he who knows the truth of what He speaks today!

Father, we have no words except Your Name upon our lips and in our minds, as we come quietly into Your Presence now, and ask to rest with You in peace a while. (A Course in Miracles, W-222. See also ACIM Lesson 222 Insights.)

We live in God’s Love. His sure protection is with us always. He shares with us His strength, peace and joy.

The world we experience of conflict, competition, loss, guilt and fear is a dream that contradicts the Life we live in God. It is the ego dream that denies Love’s reality. It is not our life.

We can awaken to our real Life as we pause and step back to remember His Love and reclaim It as our own. As we let His Love grow stronger in our awareness, we bring His Light to the dream. We welcome His peace and the truth of the Life we live in God grows stronger. It wakens us gently from the ego’s dream. We remember we are safe in Love.

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Serving as Love’s Messengers

Peace to my mind. Let all my thoughts be still.

Father, I come to You today to seek the peace that You alone can give. ²I come in silence. ³In the quiet of my heart, the deep recesses of my mind, I wait and listen for Your Voice. ⁴My Father, speak to me today. ⁵I come to hear Your Voice in silence and in certainty and love, sure You will hear my call and answer me.

Now do we wait in quiet. ²God is here, because we wait together. ³I am sure that He will speak to you, and you will hear. ⁴Accept my confidence, for it is yours. ⁵Our minds are joined. ⁶We wait with one intent; to hear our Father’s answer to our call, to let our thoughts be still and find His peace, to hear Him speak to us of what we are, and to reveal ItHimself unto His Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-221. See also ACIM Lesson 221 Insights.)

It is always helpful to pause and rest in the peace of God. He gave us peace in our creation as His Son. Each time we pause to welcome His peace, we open our mind to receive the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love.

He helps us with Christ’s vision to see the Love that unites us with the truth in everyone. With this vision, conflict is dispelled. We feel the limitless support and strength God gives us.

We start the day taking a deep dive into the pool of God’s peace. We feel its quiet comfort. We know we are safe. We confident that we are guided. We trust that Love will lead us throughout the day.

As we go about our busy doings, we remember to frequently pause to touch the peace within. Thus we keep our mind open to the guidance of His Voice and serve as His messengers.

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Learning to Lay Down Our Defenses

⁶You make what you defend against, and by your own defense against it is it real and inescapable. ⁷Lay down your arms, and only then do you perceive it false.

The choice you make today is certain. ²For you look for the last time upon this bit of carven stone you made, and call it god no longer. …⁶And you return to a new world, unburdened by its weight; beheld not in its sightless eyes, but in the vision that your choice restored to you.

Now do your eyes belong to Christ, and He looks through them. ²Now your voice belongs to God and echoes His. ³And now your heart remains at peace forever.

Father, we are like You. ²No cruelty abides in us, for there is none in You. ³Your peace is ours. ⁴And we bless the world with what we have received from You alone. ⁵We choose again, and make our choice for all our brothers, knowing they are one with us. ⁶We bring them Your salvation as we have received it now. ⁷And we give thanks for them who render us complete. ⁸In them we see Your glory, and in them we find our peace. ⁹Holy are we because Your Holiness has set us free. ¹⁰And we give thanks. ¹¹Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-170.2:6-7;11:1-2,6;12:1-3;13. See also ACIM Lesson 170 Insights.)

The ego has subtle ways of defending its world. Frustration, irritation, impatience have the same effect as intense rage. They all depend on belief that we are separate from the “cause” of these emotions.

We are called today to lay down our defenses. This starts with willingness to step back from our defenses and ask the Holy Spirit to help us let them go. With our willingness to be helped, we are given Christ’s vision which shows us the reality of Love’s oneness and the unreality of perceived differences.

With His help, we recognize the one Self we share as God’s Son. We accept His sure correction that helps us remember that we remain in the changelessness of God’s Love.

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Letting the Holy Spirit Judge on Our Behalf

⁵It is not our part to judge our worth, nor can we know what role is best for us; what we can do within a larger plan we cannot see in its entirety. ⁶Our part is cast in Heaven, not in hell.

Whatever your appointed role may be, it was selected by the Voice for God, Whose function is to speak for you as well. ²Seeing your strengths exactly as they are, and equally aware of where they can be best applied, for what, to whom and when, He chooses and accepts your part for you.

It is through His ability to hear one Voice which is His Own that you become aware at last there is one Voice in you. ²And that one Voice appoints your function, and relays it to you, giving you the strength to understand it, do what it entails, and to succeed in everything you do that is related to it. ³God has joined His Son in this, and thus His Son becomes His messenger of unity with Him.

²It is this Voice which speaks of laws the world does not obey; which promises salvation from all sin, with guilt abolished in the mind that God created sinless. ³Now this mind becomes aware again of Who created it, and of His lasting union with itself. ⁴So is its Self the one reality in which its will and that of God are joined. (A Course in Miracles, W-154.1:5-6;2:1-2;3;4:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 154 Insights.)

Judgment is a principle tool in the ego’s bag of tricks. It is used to reinforce beliefs that separation is real. It is also used to disown guilt and project it. The ego does not take responsibility for the illusions it makes. It realizes that if the source of guilt and fear were recognized, it would quickly be dismissed as meaningless because it is not real.

Today we are called to turn over all judgment to the Holy Spirit. Its judgments are simple and definitive. It simply recognizes what is real and dismisses the unreal. When we let the Holy Spirit judge all things on our behalf, we will learn to see the unity of Love that is everywhere and let illusions of separation be dispelled. This is our journey of awakening to Love.

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Remembering What We Are

You are one Self, united and secure in light and joy and peace. ²You are God’s Son, one Self, with one Creator and one goal; to bring awareness of this oneness to all minds, that true creation may extend the allness and the unity of God. ³You are one Self, complete and healed and whole, with power to lift the veil of darkness from the world, and let the light in you come through to teach the world the truth about yourself.

You are one Self, in perfect harmony with all there is, and all that there will be. ²You are one Self, the holy Son of God, united with your brothers in that Self; united with your Father in His Will. ³Feel this one Self in you, and let It shine away all your illusions and your doubts. ⁴This is your Self, the Son of God Himself, sinless as Its Creator, with His strength within you and His Love forever yours. ⁵You are one Self, and it is given you to feel this Self within you, and to cast all your illusions out of the one Mind that is this Self, the holy truth in you.”

²To everyone you meet today, be sure to give the promise of today’s idea and tell him this:

³You are one Self with me, united with our Creator in this Self. ⁴I honor you because of What I am, and What He is, Who loves us both as One. (A Course in Miracles, W-95.12:1–13:5;15:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 95 Insights.)

Here is a great summary that defines our true Self. It is worth reading this several times. Let it soak into your awareness. Feel the peace and joy that comes with it. It reminds us of What we are in truth.

As you soak in the feeling of this one Self, united with our Creator, carry this feeling with you through the day. As you think about or look upon a brother, remind yourself by telling him mentally that together we are one Self, the holy Son of God, joined in His perfect Love.

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Accepting God’s Will as Ours

There is no will but God’s.

The idea for today can be regarded as the central thought toward which all our exercises are directed. ²God’s is the only Will. ³When you have recognized this, you have recognized that your will is His. ⁴The belief that conflict is possible has gone. ⁵Peace has replaced the strange idea that you are torn by conflicting goals. ⁶As an expression of the Will of God, you have no goal but His.

There is great peace in today’s idea…. ²The idea itself is wholly true. ³Therefore it cannot give rise to illusions. ⁴Without illusions conflict is impossible.”

²There is no will but God’s. ³I cannot be in conflict.

…related thoughts…:

⁵I am at peace.
⁶Nothing can disturb me. ⁷My will is God’s.
⁸My will and God’s are one.
⁹God wills peace for His Son.

Joy characterizes peace. ²By this experience [of joy] will you recognize that you have reached it. (A Course in Miracles, W-74.1:1–2:4;3:2–9;6:1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 74 Insights.)

The ego is terrified of God’s Will. Because the ego is the idea of sacrifice, which it demands of others for it to have more, It tells us God demands sacrifice of us. This is classic ego projection.

In truth, God’s Will for us, His extension, is perfect happiness and peace. We share His Will because we are one with what He is. The ego can only offer us conflict, unhappiness and fear. It tries to convince us that the specialness it offers is worth the price. Yet can conflict be worth more than peace? Can a sense of deep loss and sadness be worth more than indescribable joy?

Today we are practicing recognizing the Will we share with God. The affirmations help us recognize the effect of accepting our will as the same as His. Today we move toward recognizing that joy and peace abide in us.

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