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Reconnecting with Our One Self

Our hourly five-minute practicing will be a search for Him within your mind. Salvation comes from this one Self through Him Who is the Bridge between your mind and It. Wait patiently, and let Him speak to you about your Self, and what your mind can do, restored to It and free to serve Its Will.

…Restored in strength, it will again flow out from spirit to the spirit in all things created by the Spirit as Itself. Your mind will bless all things. Confusion done, you are restored, for you have found your Self. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.96.8:2-4;10:3-5)

Our one Self is always there, waiting for our return. Our practice for today is to give time hourly to reconnecting with our Self through “Him Who is the Bridge.” We open our minds by pausing for peace. We wait patiently, open to receive His gifts of Love and joy. We want only to receive and extend His Will. We want only to serve God’s Will and let His blessing be extended through us.

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Forgiveness Is Our Only Purpose

The real world is the state of mind in which the only purpose of the world is seen to be forgiveness. Fear is not its goal, for the escape from guilt becomes its aim. The value of forgiveness is perceived and takes the place of idols, which are sought no longer, for their “gifts” are not held dear. No rules are idly set, and no demands are made of anyone or anything to twist and fit into the dream of fear. Instead, there is a wish to understand all things created as they really are. And it is recognized that all things must be first forgiven, and then understood. (A Course in Miracles T-30.V.1)

We forgive when we recognize that the object of our judgment is meaningless and purposeless. In truth, no form in the world has any purpose or meaning. The ego gives forms the purpose of being a shield to “protect” against the oneness of Love. But we are not the ego and we do not need to accept the ego’s purpose as our own. We have deceived ourselves by accepting the ego’s purpose, but we can learn to recognize that purpose is not our will and that our real purpose is to let go of the ego to make way for our return to Love.

Only Love is understandable because only Love is real. As we let the Holy Spirit help us recognize the mistaken purpose we have given the forms of the world, we can easily let them go. As those barriers of self-deception are laid down, we recognize that our will is one with God’s Will. Our will is to be Love and extend Love. Forgiveness returns this to our awareness and we give thanks.

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From Conflict to Peace

Peace is the state where love abides, and seeks to share itself. Conflict and peace are opposites. Where one abides the other cannot be; where either goes the other disappears. So is the memory of God obscured in minds that have become illusions’ battleground. Yet far beyond this senseless war it shines, ready to be remembered when you side with peace. (A Course in Miracles T-23.I.12:5-9)

To remember God we must be willing to accept peace. Because God is peace, conflict interferes with our awareness that we remain in God, safely in His peace. But here we are told that conflict is illusion. Because God is one, two “entities” that conflict with each other cannot exist.

Yet it seems that the world we perceive through the body’s eyes is in constant conflict. This can mean only one thing: The world is an illusion, and all the conflicts it seems to contain are illusions. Illusions are maintained through belief. This is good news because we can always change what we believe. The moment we withdraw belief in an illusion, it disappears.

We are blessed with an inner Teacher Who can teach us to recognize illusions for what they are. The moment we recognize an illusion as illusion, it fades away. Our practice today is to open our minds to the Holy Spirit’s loving lessons in truth so we can to let go of the illusions that obscure God’s gift of peace that is our own. With His help, we will experience increasing peace today.

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