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Accepting a Touch of Heaven

No one remains in hell, for no one can abandon his Creator, nor affect His perfect, timeless and unchanging Love. ²You will find Heaven. ³Everything you seek but this will fall away. ⁴Yet not because it has been taken from you. ⁵It will go because you do not want it. ⁶You will reach the goal you really want as certainly as God created you in sinlessness.

⁵For several minutes watch your mind and see, although your eyes are closed, the senseless world you think is real. ⁶Review the thoughts as well which are compatible with such a world, and which you think are true. ⁷Then let them go, and sink below them to the holy place where they can enter not. ⁸There is a door beneath them in your mind, which you could not completely lock to hide what lies beyond.

Put out your hand, and see how easily the door swings open with your one intent to go beyond it. ²Angels light the way, so that all darkness vanishes, and you are standing in a light so bright and clear that you can understand all things you see.

You cannot fail today. ²There walks with you the Spirit Heaven sent you, that you might approach this door some day, and through His aid slip effortlessly past it, to the light. ³Today that day has come. (A Course in Miracles, W-131.5:1-6;11:5-8;13:1-2;14:1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 131 Insights.)

Today can be the day that we stand at the open door to Heaven. We can pass through that door, provided we bring no baggage from the past. Heaven is now. It has no past. To prepare ourselves to go through the door to Heaven, we must be willing to let go of our treasured past. All the things of the world we see are representations of our past remembrance. They are not real, but we drag them with us when we value any form in the world.

Even if we are not yet ready to wholly release the past, we can experience the touch of Heaven. Today’s exercise guides us to a peaceful place in our mind where we can, perhaps just for a moment, lay aside the things of the world. The Holy Spirit is there to support us and give us His strength to reinforce our willingness to accept What God has given us. His Love is ours now and forever. We come with open hands, free of the past to receive the Love that is ours now.

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Let Our Love Light Shine

The peace of God is shining in me now.

Why wait for Heaven? ²Those who seek the light are merely covering their eyes. ³The light is in them now. ⁴Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all. …⁷It is the only thing you bring with you from Him Who is your Source. ⁸It shines in you because it lights your home, and leads you back to where it came from and you are at home.”

This light can not be lost. …⁵It is not difficult to look within, for there all vision starts. ⁶There is no sight, be it of dreams or from a truer Source, that is not but the shadow of the seen through inward vision. ⁷There perception starts, and there it ends. ⁸It has no source but this.

The peace of God is shining in you now, and from your heart extends around the world. ²It pauses to caress each living thing, and leaves a blessing with it that remains forever and forever.

The peace of God can never be contained. ²Who recognizes it within himself must give it. ³And the means for giving it are in his understanding. ⁴He forgives because he recognized the truth in him. (A Course in Miracles, W-188.1:1-3,7-8;2:1,5-8;3:1-2;5:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 188 Insights.)

The Light of God’s peace shines in us now. It is a Light Whose brilliance never ends, though it can be blocked by shadows of denial. Today we choose to forgive the mistaken thoughts which deny the Light of Love we are.

Each time we forgive, our beacon of Light grows brighter, showing the way to those who seem to wander in darkness. As we join with our brothers, we light the way Home to the eternal presence of Love.

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Releasing the Past to Remember God’s Love

My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.

This idea is, of course, the reason why you see only the past. ²No one really sees anything. ³He sees only his thoughts projected outward. ⁴The mind’s preoccupation with the past is the cause of the misconception about time from which your seeing suffers. ⁵Your mind cannot grasp the present, which is the only time there is. ⁶It therefore cannot understand time, and cannot, in fact, understand anything.

The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. ²To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions. ³Very few have realized what is actually entailed in picturing the past or in anticipating the future. ⁴The mind is actually blank when it does this, because it is not really thinking about anything.

The purpose of the exercises for today is to begin to train your mind to recognize when it is not really thinking at all. ²While thoughtless ideas preoccupy your mind, the truth is blocked. ³Recognizing that your mind has been merely blank, rather than believing that it is filled with real ideas, is the first step to opening the way to vision. (A Course in Miracles, W-8.1–3. See also ACIM Lesson 8 Insights.)

Hanging on to the past is an essential part of maintaining the ego. Our individual ego identity depends upon its history. Great effort is invested in hanging on to the past, including tracing family heritage, blood lines and the DNA of the body.

But the body itself is an image manifesting the belief in separation. Identifying with the body brings with it fear and guilt. The body is easily hurt and seems to be able to do things that hurt others. This further reinforces belief that separation is real and opposes the oneness of God’s Love.

The recognition that our minds are preoccupied with the past is an important step in the process of letting go of belief in separation. Forgiveness is the means to let go of our preoccupation with the past. The fact that the past is not real is the foundation of forgiveness. The ego defends against this fact with its image making. We need help from outside the thought system of separation to let go of our thoughts about the past and see beyond the images. That is the Holy Spirit’s function.

Today we practice monitoring our thoughts, remembering that the Holy Spirit is with us now. With the Holy Spirit in our mind we ask for His help to see the truth of Love’s oneness beyond our perceptions of differences. He will replace our misperceptions with true perception that reveals the Love that unites us with every brother and our Creator. We are one Self united with our Creator, at Home in peace and happiness.

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Accepting God’s Blessing

Joy

Joy is the inevitable result of gentleness. ²Gentleness means that fear is now impossible, and what could come to interfere with joy? ³The open hands of gentleness are always filled. ⁴The gentle have no pain. ⁵They cannot suffer. ⁶Why would they not be joyous? ⁷They are sure they are beloved and must be safe. ⁸Joy goes with gentleness as surely as grief attends attack. ⁹God’s teachers trust in Him. ¹⁰And they are sure His Teacher goes before them, making sure no harm can come to them. ¹¹They hold His gifts and follow in His way, because God’s Voice directs them in all things. ¹²Joy is their song of thanks. ¹³And Christ looks down on them in thanks as well. ¹⁴His need of them is just as great as theirs of Him. ¹⁵How joyous it is to share the purpose of salvation! (A Course in Miracles, M-4.V.)

Following the Holy Spirit’s lead is the path to joy because He directs us according to God’s Will. His Will for his Son is perfect happiness. This is an important clue that tells us whether we are accepting His Will as ours or not. If we are not supremely happy, we are in some way rejecting His gifts, which are ours now.

We accept God’s gifts when we are willing to share them equally without limit. In gratitude for His gifts today we freely share the limitless Love of God. We are blessed as we extend His blessing.

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The Holy Spirit’s Lessons in Love

Since you believe that you are separate, Heaven presents itself to you as separate, too. ²Not that it is in truth, but that the link that has been given you to join the truth may reach to you through what you understand. ³Father and Son and Holy Spirit are as One, as all your brothers join as one in truth. ⁴Christ and His Father never have been separate, and Christ abides within your understanding, in the part of you that shares His Father’s Will. ⁵The Holy Spirit links the other part—the tiny, mad desire to be separate, different and special—to the Christ, to make the oneness clear to what is really one. ⁶In this world this is not understood, but can be taught.

The Holy Spirit serves Christ’s purpose in your mind, so that the aim of specialness can be corrected where the error lies. ²Because His purpose still is one with both the Father and the Son, He knows the Will of God and what you really will. ³But this is understood by mind perceived as one, aware that it is one, and so experienced. ⁴It is the Holy Spirit’s function to teach you how this oneness is experienced, what you must do that it can be experienced, and where you should go to do it.

“⁵And [the Holy Spirit] must use all learning to transfer illusions to the truth, taking all false ideas of what you are, and leading you beyond them to the truth that is beyond them. (A Course in Miracles, T-25.I.5:1–6:4;7:5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Left to our own devices, we would have condemned ourselves to a loveless dream, which ends in death. God could not let this happen to His one Son, Who remains forever united with Him in the Mind of Love. His Answer to the insane wish for specialness is the Holy Spirit. This unbreakable Link saves us from our own condemnation that would leave us eternally searching for Love but unable to find it.

No matter how deeply we have enmeshed ourselves with the ego’s thought system of separation, the Holy Spirit is always available to us. His purpose is to teach us to look beyond the veil that belief in separation makes. We can call upon Him in every moment to help us see the truth of Love’s presence everywhere. That is His purpose and He performs it perfectly according to God’s Will.

We want to remember the Love we are. This is our heart’s desire. Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love which show us that we dwell in Love eternally, now and forever. In gratitude we accept His lessons.

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Letting Love’s Light Fill Our Mind

Creation’s gentleness is all I see.

I have indeed misunderstood the world, because I laid my sins [thoughts of separation] on it and saw them looking back at me. ²How fierce they seemed! ³And how deceived was I to think that what I feared was in the world, instead of in my mind alone. ⁴Today I see the world in the celestial gentleness with which creation shines. ⁵There is no fear in it. ⁶Let no appearance of my sins obscure the light of Heaven shining on the world. ⁷What is reflected there is in God’s Mind. ⁸The images I see reflect my thoughts. ⁹Yet is my mind at one with God’s. ¹⁰And so I can perceive creation’s gentleness.

In quiet would I look upon the world, which but reflects Your Thoughts, and mine as well. ²Let me remember that they are the same, and I will see creation’s gentleness. (A Course in Miracles, W-265. See also ACIM Lesson 265 Insights.)

Specialness is the core wish behind all the myriad forms in the world. This wish spawns the appearance of differences, which could only occur in a dream of separate forms. The seeming solidity of an outside world of form makes its “reality” very convincing. It makes us feel unable to control our experience. Our fear seems justified. We believe we are a victim of this outside world, but it represents what we wish to be real.

But the Course is teaching us that the source of this apparent outside world is our thoughts, which can be changed. No one can change them for us, but with the help of the Holy Spirit, we can learn to see past the projected appearances of the world to the eternal presence of Love.

Our true Self knows only the innocence and unity of Love. We have not left this Self. The Mind of our true Self is united with the Mind of God. With the help of the Holy Spirit, we can lay down the mistaken beliefs that have hidden our true Self from our awareness.

Today we call on the vision of our true Self to show us the unity of Love that joins us with every brother.

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Joining the Eternal Giving and Receiving of Love

What makes this world seem real except your own denial of the truth that lies beyond? ²What but your thoughts of misery and death obscure the perfect happiness and the eternal life your Father wills for you? ³And what could hide what cannot be concealed except illusion? ⁴What could keep from you what you already have except your choice to see it not, denying it is there?

The Thought of God created you. ²It left you not, nor have you ever been apart from it an instant. ³It belongs to you. ⁴By it you live. ⁵It is your Source of life, holding you one with it, and everything is one with you because it left you not. ⁶The Thought of God protects you, cares for you, makes soft your resting place and smooth your way, lighting your mind with happiness and love. ⁷Eternity and everlasting life shine in your mind, because the Thought of God has left you not, and still abides with you.

Who would deny his safety and his peace, his joy, his healing and his peace of mind, his quiet rest, his calm awakening, if he but recognized where they abide?

We count on God, and not upon ourselves, to give us certainty. ²And in His Name we practice as His Word directs we do. ³His sureness lies beyond our every doubt. ⁴His Love remains beyond our every fear. ⁵The Thought of Him is still beyond all dreams and in our minds, according to His Will. (A Course in Miracles, W-165.1:1–3:1;8. See also ACIM Lesson 165 Insights.)

While we are engaged in dreaming, we are oblivious to everything outside the dream. This is why the dream of separation we believe in seems so real. By the grace of God, beliefs can change. We have not permanently broken our unity in the Love of God. God calls to us gently and lovingly in every instant to awaken and receive the gifts He wills for us.

Now is the time to listen. We pause and welcome the gift of peace in which the message of God’s Love can be heard. All the power of God supports this choice because His Will is that we have all that He has given. Happiness is ours to be accepted. His Love is already ours. The moment we are willing to accept His gifts, we will know that we are loved, Love and loving. In gratitude we join in the eternal giving and receiving of His Love.

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