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We Are Extensions of God’s Love

Grace is acceptance of the Love of God within a world of seeming hate and fear. ²By grace alone the hate and fear are gone, for grace presents a state so opposite to everything the world contains, that those whose minds are lighted by the gift of grace can not believe the world of fear is real.

Oneness is simply the idea God is. ²And in His Being, He encompasses all things. ³No mind holds anything but Him. ⁴We say “God is,” and then we cease to speak, for in that knowledge words are meaningless. ⁵There are no lips to speak them, and no part of mind sufficiently distinct to feel that it is now aware of something not itself. ⁶It has united with its Source. ⁷And like its Source Itself, it merely is.

³What is the face of Christ but his who went a moment into timelessness, and brought a clear reflection of the unity he felt an instant back to bless the world?

Be grateful to return, as you were glad to go an instant, and accept the gifts that grace provided you.

³By grace I live. ⁴By grace I am released.
⁵By grace I give. ⁶By grace I will release (A Course in Miracles, W-169.2;3;13:3;14:1;15:3-6. See also ACIM Lesson 169 Insights.)

The world we seem to live in appears very real. We seem to be surrounded by circumstances that justify fear and guilt. We believe we need to constantly focus on ways to protect ourselves.

But there is another way to look at the world. If we allow ourselves to step back a moment from the world we see with the body, and open our mind and heart to receive the Love of our Father, we can experience an instant of timelessness.

In that holy moment, we are certain of our safety and unity in the oneness of God’s Love. We can return to the world and see it through forgiving eyes. We know that nothing has ever changed our Identity as an extension of our Father’s Love.

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Opening to Receive God’s Gift of Love

Yet the essential thing is learning that you do not know. ²Knowledge is power, and all power is of God. ³You who have tried to keep power for yourself have “lost” it. ⁴You still have the power, but you have interposed so much between it and your awareness of it that you cannot use it. ⁵Everything you have taught yourself has made your power more and more obscure to you. …⁹Yet all that stands between you and the power of God in you is but your learning of the false, and of your attempts to undo the true.

⁵Learn of His happiness, which is yours. ⁶But to accomplish this, all your dark lessons must be brought willingly to truth, and joyously laid down by hands open to receive, not closed to take. ⁷Every dark lesson that you bring to Him Who teaches light He will accept from you, because you do not want it. ⁸And He will gladly exchange each one for the bright lesson He has learned for you. ⁹Never believe that any lesson you have learned apart from Him means anything.

You have one test, as sure as God, by which to recognize if what you learned is true. ²If you are wholly free of fear of any kind, and if all those who meet or even think of you share in your perfect peace, then you can be sure that you have learned God’s lesson, and not your own. ³Unless all this is true, there are dark lessons in your mind that hurt and hinder you, and everyone around you. ⁴The absence of perfect peace means but one thing: You think you do not will for God’s Son what his Father wills for him. ⁵Every dark lesson teaches this, in one form or another. ⁶And each bright lesson with which the Holy Spirit will replace the dark ones you do not accept, teaches you that you will with the Father and His Son. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.XI.1:1-5,9;4:5–5:6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

While we believe we are a body with a separate identity, we are dreaming we are in a fearful world that denies the Reality of God’s limitless eternal Love. It is an attempt to keep power for ourselves alone. But to know our real power, we must accept God’s Will, which is to share all that He is with all. Only in accepting His Gift of all of Himself can we experience His perfect peace and happiness.

If we are not in perfect peace, it is a sure sign that we are rejecting our Father’s Gifts. We need to recognize that we believing in a false idea of our identity. It is time to offer that false idea to Him, and open our heart and mind to receive His gift of universal Love for all that is.

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Choose to Let Love Lead the Way

Into His Presence would I enter now.

Your body will be sanctified today, its only purpose being now to bring the vision of what you experience this day to light the world. ²We cannot give experience like this directly. ³Yet it leaves a vision in our eyes which we can offer everyone, that he may come the sooner to the same experience in which the world is quietly forgot, and Heaven is remembered for a while.

As this experience increases and all goals but this become of little worth, the world to which you will return becomes a little closer to the end of time; a little more like Heaven in its ways; a little nearer its deliverance. ²And you who bring [the world] light will come to see the light more sure; the vision more distinct.

…the Holy One, the Giver of the happy dreams of life, Translator of perception into truth, the holy Guide to Heaven given you, has dreamed for you this journey which you make and start today, with the experience this day holds out to you to be your own.

“Into Christ’s Presence will we enter now, serenely unaware of everything except His shining face and perfect Love. (A Course in Miracles, W-157.6:1–7:2;8:2–9:1. See also ACIM Lesson 157 Insights.)

As God’s unified Son, we all were created to bring the Light of His Love to the world. But to fulfill our given purpose, we need to forgive our mistaken wish for specialness. Our identification with the false idea that we are a separate identity denies the truth of our unbroken unity with our Creator.

Today we can make a different choice. We can choose to let our true Self guide our vision. It will show us that only God’s Love is real. It will show us our unity with the truth in everyone. With this choice we will share the vision that brings Light to unify all minds in the oneness of God’s Love. Today we practice stepping back to let Love lead the way.

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Freedom to Be Love’s Extension

I am spirit.

²I am the Son of God. ³No body can contain my spirit, nor impose on me a limitation God created not.

I will accept my part in God’s plan for salvation.

²What can my function be but to accept the Word of God, Who has created me for what I am and will forever be? (A Course in Miracles, W-114.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 114 Insights.)

Our seemingly unique identity as a body is solely a construct of the wish for specialness. It is not God’s creation because separation is not His Will. We are spirit, free to extend our Father’s Love without limit while remaining eternally one with Him. The body is a limit we have accepted in order to have special status. It is an image, made by the ego, to hide the Self that is God’s Son.

Our Father has not forgotten us. He has offered us a plan that will set us free to return to our natural loving Self. We have been given the Holy Spirit to help us forgive our mistaken beliefs and remember the Love that keeps us forever safe. As we forgive, or let go of, our mistaken beliefs, we are free to remember the Love we were created to be.

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Awakening to the Life We Live in Love

You who believed that God’s Last Judgment would condemn the world to hell along with you, accept this holy truth: God’s Judgment is the gift of the Correction He bestowed on all your errors, freeing you from them, and all effects they ever seemed to have. ²To fear God’s saving grace is but to fear complete release from suffering, return to peace, security and happiness, and union with your own Identity.

²Be not afraid of love. ³For it alone can heal all sorrow, wipe away all tears, and gently waken from his dream of pain the Son whom God acknowledges as His. ⁴Be not afraid of this. ⁵Salvation asks you give [love] welcome. ⁶And the world awaits your glad acceptance, which will set it free. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.10.3;4:2-6)

Only the ego condemns. Death is the final price the ego demands of those who accept it as their god.

Love does not condemn. It only extends Itself without limit, giving life to all Creation. Love is our heritage. It can never be lost. Salvation comes as we forgive our mistaken wish for specialness and welcome Love’s unity. We are grateful for God’s grace, which frees us from dreams of fear and death to awaken to His all encompassing eternal Love.

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Recognizing the Truth in Everyone

I am under no laws but God’s.

²Here is the perfect statement of my freedom. ³I am under no laws but God’s. ⁴I am constantly tempted to make up other laws and give them power over me. ⁵I suffer only because of my belief in them. ⁶They have no real effect on me at all. ⁷I am perfectly free of the effects of all laws save God’s. ⁸And His are the laws of freedom.

For specific forms in applying this idea, these would be useful:

²My perception of this shows me I believe in laws that do not exist.
³I see only the laws of God at work in this.
⁴Let me allow God’s laws to work in this, and not my own. (A Course in Miracles, W-88.3–4. See also ACIM Lesson 88 Insights.)

God is Love and nothing else. His creation is all that is real. His Creation is the extension of His Love, eternally at one with Himself. His law is that Love is one and the same throughout Creation. It cannot be divided into separate, different parts.

As God’s Creation, we are one with Him and share all of His attributes. If we experience anything but His peace and joy, we are believing in an impossible idea that we have separated from our Source.

Today we ask the Love that we are to Guide our perceptions. It will show us our unity with the truth in everyone. And where fear or guilt arise, we let Love heal the misperceptions and return us to recognition that we remain Love as Love created us.

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Remembering Our Home in Love

I will there be light.

²I will use the power of my will today. ³It is not my will to grope about in darkness, fearful of shadows and afraid of things unseen and unreal. ⁴Light shall be my guide today. ⁵I will follow it where it leads me, and I will look only on what it shows me. ⁶This day I will experience the peace of true perception.

²This cannot hide the light I will to see.
³You stand with me in light, [name].
⁴In the light this will look different. (A Course in Miracles, W-87.1;2:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 87 Insights.)

The will to see the light is the will to see the Love that unites us with all that is real. Because Love is all of reality, the truth in everyone stands with us in Its Light.

Today we choose Love to be our Guide in all our doings. Following Its direction, we will recognize our safety in Love’s Presence as we see past the false images of separation. We are grateful for the peace that comes with remembering the Love that is our true Home.

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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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