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When the Veil of Separation Is Dispelled, Love Is Revealed

In order to understand the teaching-learning plan of salvation, it is necessary to grasp the concept of time that the course sets forth. Atonement corrects illusions, not truth. Therefore, it corrects what never was. Further, the plan for this correction was established and completed simultaneously, for the Will of God is entirely apart from time. So is all reality, being of Him. The instant the idea of separation entered the mind of God’s Son, in that same instant was God’s Answer given. In time this happened very long ago. In reality it never happened at all.

The world of time is the world of illusion. What happened long ago seems to be happening now. Choices made long since appear to be open; yet to be made. What has been learned and understood and long ago passed by is looked upon as a new thought, a fresh idea, a different approach. Because your will is free you can accept what has already happened at any time you choose, and only then will you realize that it was always there. As the course emphasizes, you are not free to choose the curriculum, or even the form in which you will learn it. You are free, however, to decide when you want to learn it. And as you accept it, it is already learned.” (M-2.2-3)

Time is the ego’s mechanism to hide the present from our awareness. Because Reality is eternal, It is always present in the now moment. The ego uses time to overlay the present with “memories” of the past. But these memories are illusions of images of separation, which were never real and cannot be real now. Even concerns about the future are built upon images from the past.

Yet behind the ego’s images of separation remains our true Self, radiating the Light of Love without limit and forever. It is the same Light of Love that God has given His Son, for this Self remains eternally united with God. We lift the veil that hides our Self from our awareness by forgiving our belief in the images of separation.

To help us forgive, the Holy Spirit was given us to transform our misperceptions. As His Light reveals the Love beyond the forms projected on the veil of separation, the veil is dispelled. The magnificent radiance of the Self of every brother joins with our own and we remember we are truly Love and nothing else. We find peace and perfect happiness here.

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Healing Our Mind with Christ’s Vision

Do not, then, be deceived in your brother, and see only his loving thoughts as his reality, for by denying that his mind is split you will heal yours. Accept him as his Father accepts him and heal him unto Christ, for Christ is his healing and yours. Christ is the Son of God Who is in no way separate from His Father, Whose every thought is as loving as the Thought of His Father by which He was created. Be not deceived in God’s Son, for thereby you must be deceived in yourself.

In the real world there is no sickness, for there is no separation and no division. Only loving thoughts are recognized, and because no one is without your help, the Help of God goes with you everywhere. As you become willing to accept this Help by asking for It, you will give It because you want It. …Ask, then, to learn of the reality of your brother, because this is what you will perceive in him, and you will see your beauty reflected in his.

Do not accept your brother’s variable perception of himself for his split mind is yours, and you will not accept your healing without his. For you share the real world as you share Heaven, and his healing is yours. To love yourself is to heal yourself, and you cannot perceive part of you as sick and achieve your goal. Brother, we heal together as we live together and love together. (A Course in Miracles, T-11.VIII.9:2-5;10:1-3,6;11:1-4. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

What we experience as a body is not reality. What we see a brother do, hear him say, or what appears to happen to his body or our own, is not real. To heal our mind we need to learn to see the Christ in everyone.

The vision of Christ is in our mind; it cannot be seen with the body’s eyes. As we are willing to forgive our attachment to the body as our identity, we open to Christ’s vision in our mind. With this vision we see the true Self of our brother, which is our own true Self. This Self is the Christ, God’s extension of His Love.

Today we ask for Christ’s vision to see the Reality of Love in everything. As we accept this Reality, our mind is healed for it remembers its unity in the Mind of Love. With this remembering the world is seen anew through the eyes of Love.

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Love Lights the Way to Our True Treasure

…be glad to give some time to God today, and understand there is no better use for time than this.

Open your mind and rest. The world that seems to hold you prisoner can be escaped by anyone who does not hold it dear. Withdraw all value you have placed upon [the world’s] meager offerings and senseless gifts, and let the gift of God replace them all.

Call to your Father, certain that His Voice will answer. He Himself has promised this. And He Himself will place a spark of truth within your mind wherever you give up a false belief, a dark illusion of your own reality and what love means. He will shine through your idle thoughts today, and help you under­stand the truth of love. In loving gentleness He will abide with you, as you allow His Voice to teach love’s meaning to your clean and open mind. And He will bless the lesson with His Love.

We will remember [all our brothers] throughout the day, because we cannot leave a part of us outside our love if we would know our Self. (W-pI.127.7:2;8:2-4;9;12:1)

The world we live in seems to be all that is real. Yet it is only a dream that seems real only because of our belief in it. It is no more real than a dream we have when we are sleeping at night. These dreams can be very vivid and can lead to increased heart rate and fear stimulated by the images in the dream. Yet when we awaken from these dreams, we awaken only to the ego’s dream of separation where the oneness of Love is denied.

We can awaken from this dream by withdrawing the value we give to our identity as a body and to things in the world we believe will bring us happiness and safety. The Course is teaching us that what we perceive in the world are empty images with no meaning of their own. It is only the value we give these illusionary images that seem to give them meaning. In every now moment, we can withdraw the value we have mistakenly given to these images.

To help us recognize the reality of Love that has been hidden by these ego based images, God gave us His Voice to bring His Light to enlighten our dream. Each time we pause to relax into the peace of God within, we welcome His Love. Here we find the only lasting and true value, God’s Love.

Today we dedicate to practicing stepping back and letting Love light the way to our true treasure — God’s gift of Love.

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Choosing a Better Way

You are my goal, my Father. Only You.

Where would I go but Heaven? What could be a substitute for happiness? What gift could I prefer before the peace of God? What treasure would I seek and find and keep that can compare with my Identity? And would I rather live with fear than love?

You are my goal, my Father. What but You could I desire to have? What way but that which leads to You could I desire to walk? And what except the memory of You could signify to me the end of dreams and futile substitutions for the truth? You are my only goal. Your Son would be as You created him. What way but this could I expect to recognize my Self, and be at one with my Identity? (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 287, W-pII.287. See also ACIM Lesson 287 Insights.)

The goal of remembering our Identity in God is the goal for happiness, because God’s Will for His Son is perfect happiness. When we identify with the little self image the ego offers, our goal is unhappiness because it is the denial of our unity with God. The best the ego can offer is empty images that seem to offer temporary happiness. But because these images are not real, we soon realize that the seeming happiness they brought is based on nothing.

The ego’s answer for this dissatisfaction, which comes with this realization, is to send us on a fruitless search for some form it tries to convince us will make us happy. None of these empty images can offer us anything but the pain of loss and guilt. Eventually everyone comes to the point of no longer tolerating this pain. This is a turning point that sets us on a search for a better way.

A Course in Miracles offers us a better way. It offers us a means to forgive ourselves for choosing a false identity in place of the Identity God gave us in creating us as His Son. Beyond the image of a body is our true Self, united with all as God’s one Son.

Today let’s join together in choosing a better way, a way that leads to eternal happiness, peace that cannot be disturbed and the blessing of God’s eternal Love. Let’s choose to let the Holy Spirit help us forgive our vain imaginings and remember God.

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Choosing Our True Identity

Eternal holiness abides in me.

My holiness is far beyond my own ability to understand or know. Yet God, my Father, Who created it, acknowledges my holiness as His. Our Will, together, understands it. And Our Will, together, knows that it is so.

Father, my holiness is not of me. It is not mine to be destroyed by sin. It is not mine to suffer from attack. Illusions can obscure it, but can not put out its radiance, nor dim its light. It stands forever perfect and untouched. In it are all things healed, for they remain as You created them. And I can know my holiness. For Holiness Itself created me, and I can know my Source because it is Your Will that You be known. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 299, W-pII.299. See also ACIM Lesson 299 Insights.)

The Course emphasizes repeatedly that our true Self is as holy as God because It is one with God. But in the world we don’t seem to be holy. We experience sadness, loneliness, guilt, fear, frustration, anger and loss. This experience does not come from our true Self.

It comes from identifying with the ego’s image of a little self, separate from God. It is a false image made to make separation from Love seem real. We identify with this image because we believe it offers us the specialness, the uniqueness, that allows us to claim to have something no one else has. This is the ego’s desire which it seeks to make real to the point of the appearance of death.

We do not have to accept this image as what we are. Our experiences in the world show us that we have chosen this self-image. But it is a choice we can change. We make this choice by forgiving ourselves for choosing against the Love of God. This choice had no effect on God’s eternal Will for His Son be forever united with Him. When we change this choice by letting go of the wish for separation — forgiving — we clear the way to accepting our true Self.

Today we practice choosing to forgive by letting the Holy Spirit help us see with Christ’s vision. As we accept this vision, the Light of Love dispels the guilt and shines away the fear. The veil of ego illusions lifts and reveals the presence of changeless Love everywhere.

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Answering God’s Call to Love

Step back in faith and let truth lead the way. You know not where you go. But One Who knows goes with you. Let Him lead you with the rest.

We walk to God. The truth that walks before us now is one with Him, and leads us to where He has always been. What way but this could be a path that you would choose instead?

Forget not He has placed His Hand in yours, and given you your brothers in His trust that you are worthy of His trust in you. He cannot be deceived. His trust has made your pathway certain and your goal secure. You will not fail your brothers nor your Self.

And now He asks but that you think of Him a while each day, that He may speak to you and tell you of His Love, reminding you how great His trust; how limitless His Love. In your Name and His Own, which are the same, we practice gladly with this thought today:

I will step back and let Him lead the way,
For I would walk along the road to Him.
(W-pI.155.10:3-6;12:5-7;13:4-14:3)

If we want to find peace of mind, we need to stop being a know-it-all. The ego always speaks first, trying to assert that it has the right interpretation of what everything we see means. It must do this to keep us from recognizing that everything we see in the world is illusion. As long as we accept the ego’s meanings, illusions seem real.

To find peace of mind, we must step back from the interpretations of the ego to open our minds to the truth. Our true Self knows that we remain united in Love with our Creator. Only Love is real. Nothing exists outside of Love.

God has given His hand to guide us in the way of awakening. His Will for us is that we remain in Him in perfect peace, supreme happiness and Love without end. This is the truth our heart seeks to remember. God calls us to come Home to Him for our shelter, our strength and our peace.

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Being God’s Messenger in the World

Would you receive the messages of God? For thus do you become His messenger. You are appointed now. And yet you wait to give the messages you have received. And so you do not know that they are yours, and do not recognize them. No one can receive and understand he has received until he gives. For in the giving is his own acceptance of what he received.

[God] needs our voice that He may speak through us. He needs our hands to hold His messages, and carry them to those whom He appoints. He needs our feet to bring us where He wills, that those who wait in misery may be at last delivered. And He needs our will united with His Own, that we may be the true receivers of the gifts He gives.

I am among the ministers of God, and I am grateful that I have the means by which to recognize that I am free.

The world recedes as we light up our minds, and realize these holy words are true. They are the message sent to us today from our Creator. Now we demonstrate how they have changed our minds about ourselves, and what our function is. For as we prove that we accept no will we do not share, our many gifts from our Creator will spring to our sight and leap into our hands, and we will recognize what we received. (W-pI.154.8;11:2-5;13:2;14)

Because God is Love, all His messages are messages of Love. When we accept His messages, our minds are lit by the Light of Love. The Light of Love shows us the presence of Love everywhere. It dispels the darkness of the ego’s loveless thoughts and perceptions of separation.

We carry His messages of Love to the world by letting Love guide our way. Our thoughts bless those we think of. We express Love in the world through kindness and helpfulness. Judgment is laid aside as the Light of Love shows us the Love in every brother. This Light helps us recognize calls for Love and we naturally respond with Love.

Today we welcome and accept God’s Love by expressing His Love in the world with thoughts that bless and actions of kindness and helpfulness. Thus we serve as messengers of God.

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