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Love’s Reality Is Ever Present

²The world I see holds my fearful self-image in place, and guarantees its continuance. ³While I see the world as I see it now, truth cannot enter my awareness. ⁴I would let the door behind this world be opened for me, that I may look past it to the world that reflects the Love of God.

²Behind every image I have made, the truth remains unchanged. ³Behind every veil I have drawn across the face of love, its light remains undimmed. ⁴Beyond all my insane wishes is my will, united with the Will of my Father. ⁵God is still everywhere and in everything forever. ⁶And we who are part of Him will yet look past all appearances, and recognize the truth beyond them all.

²In my own mind, behind all my insane thoughts of separation and attack, is the knowledge that all is one forever. (A Course in Miracles, W-56.3:2-4;4:2-6;5:2. See also ACIM Lesson 56 Insights.)

Everything we experience as a body reinforces our belief that separation is real. It is this belief that must be undone for us to experience our reality as one in God’s Love. Only in His Love will we find deep and lasting peace, happiness and Love beyond description. Though we have convinced ourselves that separation is real, we still remain safe in God’s Love.

He has not and cannot abandon us because He created His Son one with Himself. Today we practice reminding ourselves that beyond the world we perceive through a body is the oneness of God’s Love. Here we are safe. Nothing exists that can disturb the peace that God shares with His Son. We remind ourselves frequently today that beyond all appearances the reality of Love is ever present.

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Seizing Our Opportunities to Heal

Perhaps it is not yet quite clear to you that each decision that you make is one between a grievance and a miracle. ²Each grievance stands like a dark shield of hate before the miracle it would conceal. ³And as you raise it up before your eyes, you will not see the miracle beyond. ⁴Yet all the while it waits for you in light, but you behold your grievances instead.

Today we go beyond the grievances, to look upon the miracle instead.

Then let us ask of Him Who knows this Son of God in his reality and truth, that we may look on him a different way, and see our savior shining in the light of true forgiveness, given unto us. ²We ask Him in the holy Name of God and of His Son, as holy as Himself:

³Let me behold my savior in this one You have appointed as the one for me to ask to lead me to the holy light in which he stands, that I may join with him.

⁴The body’s eyes are closed, and as you think of him who grieved you, let your mind be shown the light in him beyond your grievances.

God thanks you for these quiet times today in which you laid your images aside, and looked upon the miracle of love the Holy Spirit showed you in their place. (A Course in Miracles, W-78.1:1–2:1;7:1-4;9:1. See also ACIM Lesson 78 Insights.)

This process is how we let every brother be our savior. If we see the Love he is, we remember that we are Love. If we judge him in any way, he offers us another opportunity to let that judgment be released and see him as the Love he is.

The key to our healing and returning to our true Self is to accept the opportunity to let the judgment go. Every moment of every day offers us the opportunity to recognize that only Love is real. It is our choice whether or not we accept the opportunity.

Today is a good day to practice.

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Claiming Our Identity as Love

²Reality is never frightening. ³It is impossible that it could upset me. ⁴Reality brings only perfect peace. ⁵When I am upset, it is always because I have replaced reality with illusions I made up. ⁶The illusions are upsetting because I have given them reality, and thus regard reality as an illusion. ⁷Nothing in God’s creation is affected in any way by this confusion of mine. ⁸I am always upset by nothing.

²I see only my own thoughts, and my mind is preoccupied with the past. ³What, then, can I see as it is? ⁴Let me remember that I look on the past to prevent the present from dawning on my mind. ⁵Let me understand that I am trying to use time against God. ⁶Let me learn to give the past away, realizing that in so doing I am giving up nothing.

²I have no private thoughts. ³Yet it is only private thoughts of which I am aware. ⁴What can these thoughts mean? ⁵They do not exist, and so they mean nothing. ⁶Yet my mind is part of creation and part of its Creator. ⁷Would I not rather join the thinking of the universe than to obscure all that is really mine with my pitiful and meaningless “private” thoughts? (A Course in Miracles, W-52.1:2-8;3:2-6;5:2-7. See also ACIM Lesson 52 Insights.)

Feeling lack of peace is a sure sign that we are giving illusions credence in place of reality. God created us as Love, at one with Himself. Being one, there are no differences in Love. Conflict and loss are impossible, for Love is eternal. To identify with our true Self is to identify with Love.

Today as we perceive a world of conflict and loss, we remind ourselves that we are Love and nothing else, along with our Creator. We ask the Holy Spirit to help us set aside the illusions that interfere with the awareness of our true Identity. The peace of God is our Identity now. We choose to accept His help to forgive our mistaken beliefs. Thus we will claim our true Identity.

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Returning to the Serenity of Our True Self

Only an instant does this world endure.

This is a thought which can be used to say that death and sorrow are the certain lot of all who come here, for their joys are gone before they are possessed, or even grasped. ²Yet this is also the idea that lets no false perception keep us in its hold, nor represent more than a passing cloud upon a sky eternally serene. ³And it is this serenity we seek, unclouded, obvious and sure, today.

We seek Your holy world today. ²For we, Your loving Sons, have lost our way a while. ³But we have listened to Your Voice, and learned exactly what to do to be restored to Heaven and our true Identity. ⁴And we give thanks today the world endures but for an instant. ⁵We would go beyond that tiny instant to eternity. (A Course in Miracles,W-300. See also ACIM Lesson 300 Insights.)

In our quest for serenity, we need to follow a guide who knows where it is. While we are invested in the ego thought system, we are choosing a guide that knows neither where it is nor what it is. By the grace of God, we have been given Guide in our mind Who knows God’s serenity. His mission is to guide us to find the only serenity that exists in truth.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us let go of our mistaken perceptions which disturb our innate serenity. We are willing to return to our Home where peace is eternal and Love extends forever.

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Remembering Our True Self Is Love

Now would I be as God created me.

Today I will accept the truth about myself. ²I will arise in glory, and allow the light in me to shine upon the world throughout the day. ³I bring the world the tidings of salvation which I hear as God my Father speaks to me. ⁴And I behold the world that Christ would have me see, aware it ends the bitter dream of death; aware it is my Father’s Call to me.

Christ is my eyes today, and He the ears that listen to the Voice for God today. ²Father, I come to You through Him Who is Your Son, and my true Self as well. ³Amen. (A Course in Miracles, W-237. See also ACIM Lesson 237 Insights.)

As God’s creation, our true Self is Love and nothing else. We are not a body. We are not different from our Father or any brother in truth. This is the Self we are called to accept. With that acceptance comes peace and joy.

As we listen to God’s Voice, we are reminded that we share our one Self with every brother. In that sharing, we remember the Love we are. We remember Love, which does not judge nor condemn. It only gives the Love It is to extend God’s creation.

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Opening Our Mind to Love’s Presence

…[God] wills the happiness His Son inherited of Him be undisturbed; eternal and forever gaining scope, eternally expanding in the joy of full creation, and eternally open and wholly limitless in Him.

⁴God does not perceive at all. ⁵Yet it is He Who gives the means by which perception is made true and beautiful enough to let the light of Heaven shine upon it.

These are the lessons God would have you learn. …⁵They are the same in fundamental content. ⁶It is this:

⁷Forgive, and you will see this differently.

Certain it is that all distress does not appear to be but unforgiveness. ²Yet that is the content underneath the form. (A Course in Miracles, W-193.1:2;2:4-5;3:1,5-7;4:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 193 Insights.)

Perception is only needed when separation is accepted as real. This is why forgiving our perceptions is required to restore our awareness to the one Love we are. It is a very simple step. It only seems difficult because of the myriad forms the ego uses to hide the simple fact that perceptions are not real.

This is why all things are lessons God would have us learn. Every perception is used by the ego to support belief in separation. But perceptions can be given a different purpose. Offered to the Holy Spirit, perceptions become a means to forgive our investment in belief in separation.

Each perception forgiven opens our mind to receive the gift of Love God gave us in our creation as His one Son. As we forgive, the barrier to Love’s presence is weakened and Love’s Light is allowed to shine through.

Throughout today we remind ourselves that we can accept the Holy Spirit’s help to forgive our perceptions and see the presence of Love.

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Letting Love’s Oneness Replace Artificial Values

Perception is consistent. ²What you see reflects your thinking. ³And your thinking but reflects your choice of what you want to see. ⁴Your values are determiners of this, for what you value you must want to see, believing what you see is really there. ⁵No one can see a world his mind has not accorded value. ⁶And no one can fail to look upon what he believes he wants.

Fear has made everything you think you see. ²All separation, all distinctions, and the multitude of differences you believe make up the world. ³They are not there. ⁴Love’s enemy has made them up. ⁵Yet love can have no enemy, and so they have no cause, no being and no consequence. ⁶They can be valued, but remain unreal.

It is impossible to see two worlds which have no overlap of any kind. ²Seek for the one; the other disappears. ³But one remains. ⁴They are the range of choice beyond which your decision cannot go. ⁵The real and the unreal are all there are to choose between, and nothing more than these.

⁵It is impossible to see two worlds. ⁶Let me accept the strength God offers me and see no value in this world, that I may find my freedom and deliverance.

God will be there. ²For you have called upon the great unfailing power which will take this giant step with you in gratitude. ³Nor will you fail to see His thanks expressed in tangible perception and in truth. (A Course in Miracles, W-130.1;4:1-6;5;8:5–9:3. See also ACIM Lesson 130 Insights.)

When we value a unique identity, we are unaware of the reality of Love’s oneness. Artificial values must conflict in order to define images of differences. These images block our awareness of Love’s Presence.

Aș we let go of these values we open to the peace and joy that is our true nature. Today we offer all our judgments to the Holy Spirit for His reinterpretation. He will show us the Light of Love beyond the appearances we have judged. In that Light we will remember the joy of being held eternally in the Love of God.

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