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Letting Love Be

Today I learn the law of love; that what I give my brother is my gift to me.

This is Your law, my Father, not my own. ²I have not understood what giving means, and thought to save what I desired for myself alone. ³And as I looked upon the treasure that I thought I had, I found an empty place where nothing ever was or is or will be. ⁴Who can share a dream? ⁵And what can an illusion offer me? ⁶Yet he whom I forgive will give me gifts beyond the worth of anything on earth. ⁷Let my forgiven brothers fill my store with Heaven’s treasures, which alone are real. ⁸Thus is the law of love fulfilled. ⁹And thus Your Son arises and returns to You.

“How near we are to one another, as we go to God. ²How near is He to us. ³How close the ending of the dream of sin, and the redemption of the Son of God.” (A Course in Miracles, W-344. See also ACIM Lesson 344 Insights.)

Today we pause to let the Light of Love fill our minds. We let It shine away the dark corners or thoughts of separation and specialness that seemed to block the flow of Love. As we let the Light in, we return to our true Nature. We experience the joy of participating in the eternal flow of Love to Love. We feel Love’s blessing and we share It with all our brothers. 

We are grateful for the Holy Spirit in our mind Who guides us in the way of Love. With His help, we step back and let Love be.

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Accepting We Are as God Created Us

Eternal holiness abides in me.

My holiness is far beyond my own ability to understand or know. ²Yet God, my Father, Who created it, acknowledges my holiness as His. ³Our Will, together, understands it. ⁴And Our Will, together, knows that it is so.

Father, my holiness is not of me. ²It is not mine to be destroyed by sin. ³It is not mine to suffer from attack. ⁴Illusions can obscure it, but can not put out its radiance, nor dim its light. ⁵It stands forever perfect and untouched. ⁶In it are all things healed, for they remain as You created them. ⁷And I can know my holiness. ⁸For Holiness Itself created me, and I can know my Source because it is Your Will that You be known. (A Course in Miracles, W-299. See also ACIM Lesson 299 Insights.)

Belief can make illusions seem real. We always respond to what we believe is real. If we believe we are separate, we will see a world of conflict, competition and chaos. But this belief denies the reality that we were created in Love’s oneness. In oneness conflict is impossible. There is no change and peace cannot be disturbed.

This describes our true Home, which is the Heaven of God’s Love. We can awaken to this Home by taking all our perceptions of conflict and chaos to the Holy Spirit for His interpretation. His vision will show us the truth of Love’s oneness beyond the appearances of differences. With His vision, we remember we are Love and nothing else.

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The Lessons God Would Have Us Learn

Fear is not justified in any form.

Fear is deception. ²It attests that you have seen yourself as you could never be, and therefore look upon a world which is impossible. ³Not one thing in this world is true. ⁴It does not matter what the form in which it may appear. ⁵It witnesses but to your own illusions of yourself. ⁶Let us not be deceived today. ⁷We are the Sons of God. ⁸There is no fear in us, for we are each a part of Love Itself.

How foolish are our fears! ²Would You allow Your Son to suffer? ³Give us faith today to recognize Your Son, and set him free. ⁴Let us forgive him in Your Name, that we may understand his holiness, and feel the love for him which is Your Own as well. (A Course in Miracles, W-240. See also ACIM Lesson 240 Insights.)

The world we perceive as a body is a reflection of what we believe about ourselves. If we react to these perceptions as if they are real, we deceive ourselves into believing the body is our reality. This is why the Course tells us “All things are lessons God would have us learn.”

If we let the Holy Spirit interpret our perceptions for us, we will learn to look past our perceptions to the one truth that never changes: Only Love is real.

As we practice asking Holy Spirit to interpret our perceptions on our behalf, we learn that we are Love and nothing else. We are safe. We are kind. Our experience brings us joy as we join with the Love that is all around us and learn It is in us. Fear diminishes, for we know that we are safe eternally in God’s Love.

We dedicate today to accepting the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Love.

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The Gift That Extends to Eternity

²He needs our voice that He may speak through us. ³He needs our hands to hold His messages, and carry them to those whom He appoints. ⁴He needs our feet to bring us where He wills, that those who wait in misery may be at last delivered. ⁵And He needs our will united with His Own, that we may be the true receivers of the gifts He gives.

²I 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. ²They are the message sent to us today from our Creator. ³Now we demonstrate how they have changed our minds about ourselves, and what our function is. ⁴For 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. (A Course in Miracles, W-154.11:2-5;13:2-14:4. See also ACIM Lesson 154 Insights.)

Accepting the role of minister of God is a gift we give ourselves. It means we accept His Love and share It with the world. We accept His strength and are confident that we are safe in His Love. We bless as we are blessed. We give as we receive. It is a life of joy, peace and gratitude.

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Awakening to Joy and Peace

There is no conflict, for my will is Yours.

How foolish, Father, to believe Your Son could cause himself to suffer! ²Could he make a plan for his damnation, and be left without a certain way to his release? ³You love me, Father. ⁴You could never leave me desolate, to die within a world of pain and cruelty. ⁵How could I think that Love has left Itself? ⁶There is no will except the Will of Love. ⁷Fear is a dream, and has no will that can conflict with Yours. ⁸Conflict is sleep, and peace awakening. ⁹Death is illusion; life, eternal truth. ¹⁰There is no opposition to Your Will. ¹¹There is no conflict, for my will is Yours.

Forgiveness shows us that God’s Will is One, and that we share it. ²Let us look upon the holy sights forgiveness shows today, that we may find the peace of God. ³Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-331. See also ACIM Lesson 331 Insights.)

The god of the ego condemns us to death and hell. Because the ego denies Love, its hell is the absence of Love.

But God is Love and Love does not condemn. It maintains eternal unity with Itself which is freely extended to His Son. His Son is loved eternally. And we are all His Son. We are grateful that we remain as God created us, whole and complete. We have been given the Holy Spirit to help us release ourselves from our mistaken identification with the ego.

Only in dreams can Love seem to be absent. As we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to reinterpret our perceptions in the dream, we awaken to the Love we are. We awaken to joy and peace.

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Freedom to Be Loved and Loving

Father, my freedom is in You alone.

I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is, nor where to look to find it. ²Father, I have searched in vain until I heard Your Voice directing me. ³Now I would guide myself no more. ⁴For I have neither made nor understood the way to find my freedom. ⁵But I trust in You. ⁶You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your holy Son will not be lost to me. ⁷Your Voice directs me, and the way to You is opening and clear to me at last. ⁸Father, my freedom is in You alone. ⁹Father, it is my will that I return.

Today we answer for the world, which will be freed along with us. ²How glad are we to find our freedom through the certain way our Father has established. ³And how sure is all the world’s salvation, when we learn our freedom can be found in God alone. (A Course in Miracles, W-321. See also ACIM Lesson 321 Insights.)

Fear, anger and guilt are emotions that come with choosing the ego as our guide. It is oblivious to the reality of Love because it denies it really exists. So it makes a world based on illusions that seem to make our vulnerability real. It is time to fire the ego as our director. It does not have our best interests in mind.

We have a Guide given us by our Creator Who knows that we share all the Love of God. By choosing this Guide, we are led on a path that dispels the darkness of ego thoughts and shines Its Light on the truth that we are Love and nothing else. It sets us free to be the Self God created one with Himself. It frees us to be at peace and share the joy of extending Love, freely received and freely given.

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Learning to Identify with the Love We Are

Let me not see myself as limited.

Let me behold the Son of God today, and witness to his glory. ²Let me not try to obscure the holy light in him, and see his strength diminished and reduced to frailty; nor perceive the lacks in him with which I would attack his sovereignty.

He is Your Son, my Father. ²And today I would behold his gentleness instead of my illusions. ³He is what I am, and as I see him so I see myself. ⁴Today I would see truly, that this day I may at last identify with him. (A Course in Miracles, W-250. See also ACIM Lesson 250 Insights.)

What we believe we are is what we believe our brothers are. If we identify with the ego thought system, we will see ourselves and our brothers as subject to the ego’s limitations. These limitations keep us in fear and guilt. They generate a need for defense and competition, all in the quest for specialness.

It is time to lay down our mistaken identification with limitations. As His Son, all God’s Love and strength are ours. He has set no limits on what He gives. We can change our identification by being willing to offer all our perceptions to the Holy Spirit for reinterpretation.

He will show us the strength and Love of our brothers. He will teach us that we share that strength and Love. With this practice we will remember the Love we are. We will know that we are invulnerable because nothing can change the Love that is our true Self.

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