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Accepting Our One Self

Decide but to accept your rightful place as co-creator of the universe, and all you think you made will disappear. What rises to awareness then will be all that there ever was, eternally as it is now. And it will take the place of self-deceptions made but to usurp the altar to the Father and the Son.

Now do we join in glad acknowledgment that lies are false, and only truth is true. We think of truth alone as we arise, and spend five minutes practicing its ways, encouraging our frightened minds with this:

The power of decision is my own.
This day I will accept myself as what
my Father’s Will created me to be.

Then will we wait in silence, giving up all self-deceptions, as we humbly ask our Self that He reveal Himself to us. And He Who never left will come again to our awareness, grateful to restore His home to God, as it was meant to be.

In patience wait for Him throughout the day, and hourly invite Him with the words with which the day began, concluding it with this same invitation to your Self. God’s Voice will answer, for He speaks for you and for your Father. He will substitute the peace of God for all your frantic thoughts, the truth of God for self-deceptions, and God’s Son for your illusions of yourself. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 152, W-pI.152.8:-5;11-12. See also ACIM Lesson 152 Insights.)

To accept our Self as God created It to be is to accept that we are Love with all Its attributes. We must be loving, joyful, peaceful, innocent and kind. Since this is the reality of everyone, then the appearance of anything else — fear, guilt, anger or unworthiness — is false. This false appearance simply reflects a belief in being without Love, a belief in what is false.

As we let the Holy Spirit help us lay aside our false beliefs and mistaken self-image, we free ourselves to be as God created us.

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Forgiveness Is the End of Death

Teacher of God, your one assignment could be stated thus: Accept no compromise in which death plays a part.  Do not believe in cruelty, nor let attack conceal the truth from you. What seems to die has but been misperceived and carried to illusion. Now it becomes your task to let the illusion be carried to the truth. Be steadfast but in this; be not deceived by the “reality” of any changing form. Truth neither moves nor wavers nor sinks down to death and dissolution. And what is the end of death? Nothing but this; the realization that the Son of God is guiltless now and forever. Nothing but this. But do not let yourself forget it is not less than this. (A Course in Miracles, M-27.7)

Forgiveness is the core teaching of A Course in Miracles because total forgiveness is the end of the idea of death. All guilt is dependent upon belief in the reality of bodies and what they seem to do. The Course says in many ways that the Son of God is not a body. Our attachment to our identity as a body is an attachment to guilt. If we want to be free of fear and guilt, we must forgive, but not in the way ego directs.

True forgiveness can only be guided by the Holy Spirit from outside the thought system that makes the body real. The Holy Spirit sees us as Love created us — innocent and wholly loving. The Holy Spirit knows that we are not a body, for we remain as God created us. As we let the Holy Spirit show us the justification for forgiveness moment by moment, we learn to see past what bodies appear to do and see that only Love is real.

Today we practice letting Holy Spirit guide our perception all through the day that we may return to Love.

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Following God’s Messenger of Love

The Holy Spirit mediates between illusions and the truth. Since He must bridge the gap between reality and dreams, perception leads to knowledge through the grace that God has given Him, to be His gift to everyone who turns to Him for truth. Across the bridge that He provides are dreams all carried to the truth, to be dispelled before the light of knowledge. There are sights and sounds forever laid aside. And where they were perceived before, forgiveness has made possible perception’s tranquil end.

Accept your Father’s gift. It is a Call from Love to Love, that It be but Itself. The Holy Spirit is His gift, by which the quietness of Heaven is restored to God’s beloved Son. Would you refuse to take the function of completing God, when all He wills is that you be complete? (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 281, W-pII.7.1&5. See also ACIM Lesson 291 Insights.)

We already have the key to release from the hell of separation from Love. We have been letting the denial of Love be our guide. This has led to the experience of fear and guilt, conflict and loss.

But we can choose another Guide Whose function it is to teach us the truth that we remain unchanged in the Love of God, safe and whole. We need only consistently practice choosing the Guide to Truth as our Teacher, moment by moment. With this practice we will learn that we are eternally free and without limit. We are still Love and nothing else.

Today we practice letting the Messenger of Love guide all our doing through the day. This will be a giant step on the journey Home to Love.

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Remembering God’s Love Is Ours

Today’s idea [“I am spirit”] identifies you with your one Self. It accepts no split identity, nor tries to weave opposing factors into unity. It simply states the truth. Practice this truth today as often as you can, for it will bring your mind from conflict to the quiet fields of peace. No chill of fear can enter, for your mind has been absolved from madness, letting go illusions of a split identity.

We state again the truth about your Self [we are spirit], the holy Son of God Who rests in you; whose mind has been restored to sanity. You are the spirit lovingly endowed with all your Father’s Love and peace and joy. You are the spirit which completes Himself, and shares His function as Creator. He is with you always, as you are with Him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 97, W-pI.97.1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 97 Insights.)

It is impossible to be without God’s Love except in fantasies of separation. Even when we seem to be lost in dreams of isolation and lovelessness, God’s Love remains in us and around us. Only a false belief stands as a fragile veil between us and the certainty of God’s Love.

This veil is brushed aside as we accept our reality as Spirit. Spirit is one; it cannot be attacked nor divided. The Spirit we are is united with all our brothers. We are never alone; we are never without Love. As we remind ourselves often today that we are Spirit, we part the veil and remember God’s Love is ours.

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Bringing Happiness to the World

Be happy, for your only function here is happiness. You have no need to be less loving to God’s Son than He Whose Love created him as loving as Himself. …pause frequently today, to tell yourself that you have now accepted happiness as your one function. And be sure that you are joining with God’s Will in doing this.

Happiness is an attribute of love. It cannot be apart from [love]. Nor can [happiness] be experienced where love is not. Love has no limits, being everywhere. And therefore joy is everywhere as well.

God, being Love, is also happiness.
And it is happiness I seek today.
I cannot fail, because I seek the truth. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 102 & 103,  W-pI.102.5;103.1:1-5;3:5-7. See also ACIM Lesson 102 & 103 Insights.)

The practice of letting Love be our Guide in all that we do is the practice of being happy. Asking the question, “What would Love do?” is asking for direction to bring happiness to the world. To be happy, we need only be loving.

Judgment, guilt and fear are barriers to the awareness of Love. These attitudes are based on the belief that we have succeeded in separating from Love. This is impossible because only Love is real. It is only belief that makes separation seem to be real.

The presence of fear and guilt is a sure sign that a false belief needs to be corrected. When we ask, “What would Love do?” we ask for the correction of false beliefs that deny Love. As we accept Love’s corrections, we find happiness and bring it to the world.

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Returning Home to Love

All things are given you. God’s trust in you is limitless. He knows His Son. He gives without exception, holding nothing back that can contribute to your happiness. And yet, unless your will is one with His, His gifts are not received.

God’s Will does not oppose. It merely is. It is not God you have imprisoned in your plan to lose your Self. He does not know about a plan so alien to His Will. There was a need He did not understand, to which He gave an Answer. That is all. And you who have this Answer given you have need no more of anything but this.

Become the living proof of what Christ’s touch can offer everyone. God has entrusted all His gifts to you. Be witness in your happiness to how transformed the mind becomes which chooses to accept His gifts, and feel the touch of Christ. Such is your mission now. For God entrusts the giving of His gifts to all who have received them. He has shared His joy with you. And now you go to share it with the world. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 166, W-pI.166.1:1-5;10:1-7;15:2-8. See also ACIM Lesson 166 Insights.)

God has given us everything that will make us truly happy. He holds nothing back. We had the thought that maybe there was something else that would make us happy. This is the ego thought that has led us on a wild chase to find something God did not give us that would make us happy. Since God (Love) is all that is real, the ego’s quest must fail; there is nothing else but God’s gift of happiness.

Recognizing that we have chosen to pursue an impossible fantasy, God gave us the Answer to lead us out of the fantasy as soon as we are willing to give up our denial of His gifts. This Answer, the Holy Spirit, is always on alert, ready to answer our call for help to find a better way. He holds God’s plan for us to lead us back to His gifts of perfect happiness and changeless Love. We just need to place the call with willingness to accept His answer.

As we learn to accept these gifts, the joy we feel in our hearts naturally compels us to share the gifts with all our brothers. Our joy is complete and we know we are at Home in the Heart of our Creator.

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Bringing Peace and Good Will to the World

The sign of Christmas is a star, a light in darkness. See [the Light] not outside of yourself, but shining in the Heaven within, and accept it as the sign the time of Christ has come. …And you need but invite Him in Who is there already, by recognizing that His Host is One. And no thought alien to His Oneness can abide with Him there. Love must be total to give Him welcome, for the Presence of holiness creates the holiness that surrounds it.

This Christmas, give the Holy Spirit everything that would hurt you. Let yourself be healed completely, that you may join with Him in healing, and let us celebrate our release together, by releasing everyone with us. Leave nothing behind, for release is total, and when you have accepted [release] with me, you will give it with me. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.XI.2:1-2,7-8;3:1-3. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The time of Christ is the time of peace and good will, for these are attributes of Love. It is impossible to bring peace and good will to the world if we harbor fear and guilt within.

We let the time of Christ be now by bringing all our guilt and fear to the Holy Spirit within and accepting His healing Love. As we accept Christ’s loving vision, we see innocence where we saw guilt, we see peace where we saw fear and conflict. We give release as we accept release. We bring peace and good will to the world.

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