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We Have Help to Forgive Our Mistaken Beliefs

God’s answer is some form of peace. All pain is healed; all misery replaced with joy. All prison doors are opened. And all sin is understood as merely a mistake.

Father, today we will forgive Your world, and let creation be Your Own. ²We have misunderstood all things. ³But we have not made sinners of the holy Sons of God. ⁴What You created sinless so abides forever and forever. ⁵Such are we. ⁶And we rejoice to learn that we have made mistakes which have no real effects on us. ⁷Sin is impossible, and on this fact forgiveness rests upon a certain base more solid than the shadow world we see. ⁸Help us forgive, for we would be redeemed. ⁹Help us forgive, for we would be at peace. (A Course in Miracles, W-359. See also ACIM Lesson 359 Insights.)

All our unhappiness, our pain and fear, are the effect of unforgiveness. It is a result of our mistaken wish for specialness, for differences and conflicting images to be real. We are so engaged with making separation real that we need help to forgive the error.

We cannot forgive this mistaken wish on our own; we need help. God has provided all the help we need to forgive the shadow world we see and welcome the Reality of His Love. He gave us the Holy Spirit in our mind, Whom we can turn to in every moment. His function is to shine the Light of Love on all that we perceive to reveal our unbroken oneness with all our brothers and our Father.

Today we practice accepting the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive our mistaken beliefs.

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We Remain One in God’s Love

I choose the joy of God instead of pain.

²Pain is my own idea. ³It is not a Thought of God, but one I thought apart from Him and from His Will. ⁴His Will is joy, and only joy for His beloved Son. ⁵And that I choose, instead of what I made.

⁶I am not a body. ⁷I am free.
⁸For I am still as God created me. (A Course in Miracles, W-210.1. See also ACIM Lesson 210 Insights.)

Pain is an indication that we are suffering from an identity crisis. We are believing in a false identity that is separate from our Creator, the Source of joy and peace. This false identity denies the Will of our Father, Who shares His Will with all of His Creation.

The body is an image of separation. Our belief in the body as our identity makes us unaware of our unbreakable unity with the Love of our Father. Today we remind ourselves that we are not a body. We remain one with God in His Love.

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Remembering We Live in God’s Love

This space you see as setting off all things from one another is the means by which the world’s perception is achieved. ²You see something where nothing is, and see as well nothing where there is unity; a space between all things, between all things and you. ³Thus do you think that you have given life in separation. ⁴By this split you think you are established as a unity which functions with an independent will.

Such is the teaching of the world. ²It is a phase of learning everyone who comes must go through. ³But the sooner he perceives on what it rests, how questionable are its premises, how doubtful its results, the sooner does he question its effects. ⁴Learning that stops with what the world would teach stops short of meaning. ⁵In its proper place, it serves but as a starting point from which another kind of learning can begin, a new perception can be gained, and all the arbitrary names the world bestows can be withdrawn as they are raised to doubt.

Think not you made the world. ²Illusions, yes! ³But what is true in earth and Heaven is beyond your naming. ⁴When you call upon a brother, it is to his body that you make appeal. ⁵His true Identity is hidden from you by what you believe he really is.

⁵The Name of God is the inheritance He gave to those who chose the teaching of the world to take the place of Heaven. ⁶In our practicing, our purpose is to let our minds accept what God has given as the answer to the pitiful inheritance you made as fitting tribute to the Son He loves. (A Course in Miracles, W-184.2;7:1–8:5;12:5-6. See also ACIM Lesson 184 Insights.)

In the dream of separation we learn to function in a world differences. To be safe, we learn to protect ourselves from differences that seem to clash. But the protective mechanisms we learn hide the one Thought that would bring us perfect peace, supreme happiness and Love that unites with all that is real.

Today we remind ourselves frequently to accept our Father’s gift of all of His Love, and to extend His Love to all we meet or think of. Thus will we learn that we live in the Heaven of God’s Love.

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Seeing Our True Identity Reflected in Others

Truth answers every call we make to God, responding first with miracles, and then returning unto us to be itself.

Forgiveness, truth’s reflection, tells me how to offer miracles, and thus escape the prison house in which I think I live. ²Your holy Son is pointed out to me, first in my brother; then in me. ³Your Voice instructs me patiently to hear Your Word, and give as I receive. ⁴And as I look upon Your Son today, I hear Your Voice instructing me to find the way to You, as You appointed that the way shall be:

⁵Behold his sinlessness, and be you healed. (A Course in Miracles, W-357. See also ACIM Lesson 357 Insights.)

Everyone we meet or think about is a reflection of what we believe we are. If we see him as a body, it is because we believe we are a body, separate from all others. If we see him as Love, it is because we have accepted that we are Love. In every moment we decide what we want to perceive as real.

Everyone offers us an opportunity to help us remember our true Identity. When we let God’s Voice guide us past our judgments, we let the innocence of Love in a brother reflect back to us our own innocence as God’s Son. With this forgiveness, everyone becomes our teacher to learn that we are united with all in the Love of our Creator.

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Being Guided by Love to See Innocence

You who hold your brother’s hand also hold mine, for when you joined [in a holy relationship with] each other you were not alone. ²Do you believe that I would leave you in the darkness that you agreed to leave with me? ³In your [holy] relationship is this world’s light. ⁴And fear must disappear before you now. ⁵Be tempted not to snatch away the gift of faith you offered to your brother. ⁶You will succeed only in frightening yourself. ⁷The gift is given forever, for God Himself received it. ⁸You cannot take it back. ⁹You have accepted God. ¹⁰The holiness of your relationship is established in Heaven. ¹¹You do not understand what you accepted, but remember that your understanding is not necessary. ¹²All that was necessary was merely the wish to understand. ¹³That wish was the desire to be holy. ¹⁴The Will of God is granted you. ¹⁵For you desire the only thing you ever had, or ever were.

Each instant that we spend together will teach you that this goal is possible, and will strengthen your desire to reach it. ²And in your desire lies its accomplishment. ³Your desire is now in complete accord with all the power of the Holy Spirit’s Will. ⁴No little, faltering footsteps that you may take can separate your desire from His Will and from His strength. ⁵I hold your hand as surely as you agreed to take your brother’s. ⁶You will not separate, for I stand with you and walk with you in your advance to truth. ⁷And where we go we carry God with us. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.III.4–5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Relationships are holy when all judgments have been dismissed and only the innocence of Love is recognized. Forgiveness lets the Light show us the face of Christ in everyone. In the certainty of Love’s oneness, fear disappears. When we accept the truth in a brother, we accept him as God created him, along with ourselves. Together we are unified with our Father’s Will.

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Accepting God’s Gift of His Love

There is no end to all the peace and joy, and all the miracles that I will give, when I accept God’s Word. Why not today?

Why should I wait, my Father, for the joy You promised me? ²For You will keep Your Word You gave Your Son in exile. ³I am sure my treasure waits for me, and I need but reach out my hand to find it. ⁴Even now my fingers touch it. ⁵It is very close. ⁶I need not wait an instant more to be at peace forever. ⁷It is You I choose, and my Identity along with You. ⁸Your Son would be Himself, and know You as his Father and Creator, and his Love. (A Course in Miracles, W-355. See also ACIM Lesson 355 Insights.)

The peace of God can be found everywhere, anytime. We need only accept Reality as It is. God’s peace and Love are our true Identity. We are free to wake up from our dream of isolation and fear brought on by our wish for special status.

But we must be willing to set aside this futile wish and accept our Father’s gift of all of His Love, without limit. With this choice we will accept our part in the eternal extension of God’s peace, joy and Love.

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Fulfilling Our Purpose to Be Love

There are no laws but God’s. ²Dismiss all foolish magical beliefs today, and hold your mind in silent readiness to hear the Voice that speaks the truth to you. ³You will be listening to One Who says there is no loss under the laws of God. ⁴Payment is neither given nor received. ⁵Exchange cannot be made; there are no substitutes; and nothing is replaced by something else. ⁶God’s laws forever give and never take.

Hear Him Who tells you this, and realize how foolish are the “laws” you thought upheld the world you thought you saw. ²Then listen further. ³He will tell you more. ⁴About the Love your Father has for you. ⁵About the endless joy He offers you. ⁶About His yearning for His only Son, created as His channel for creation; denied to Him by his belief in hell.

Let us today open God’s channels to Him, and let His Will extend through us to Him. ²Thus is creation endlessly increased. ³His Voice will speak of this to us, as well as of the joys of Heaven which His laws keep limitless forever. (A Course in Miracles, W-76.9:1–11:3. See also ACIM Lesson 76 Insights.)

God created His Son as a channel for His Love. While in the dream it appears that His Sons (creations) are many, God sees them all as One. We are all included as His one Son.

As a channel of our Father’s Love, our only purpose to extend His Love. Today we practice letting the Love we are shine Its Light on our world. It will dispel the dark shadows of fear, hate and guilt that come from the mistaken wish for specialness. The Light of Love will reveal our unity with every brother as our Father’s one Son. With this practice we will bring blessings to the world and know we are blessed as limitless Love.

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How to Read References for
Quotes from A Course in Miracles

Below are example references to specific sentences using the notation of the Second & Third Editions of A Course in Miracles published by the Foundation for Inner Peace:

T-26.IV.4:7 = Text, Chapt. 26, Section IV, paragraph 4, sentence 7.

W-169.5:2 = Workbook, Lesson 169, paragraph 5, sentence 2.

W-pII.1.1:1 = Workbook, Part II, Question 1, paragraph 1, sentence 1.

M-13.3:2 = Manual for Teachers, Question 13, paragraph 3, sentence 2.

C-6.4:6 = Clarification of Terms, Term 6, paragraph 4, sentence 6
The above numbering system of the Second & Third Editions published by The Foundation for A Course in Miracles

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