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Welcoming the Love That Is Our Inheritance

God’s peace and joy are mine.

²Today I will accept God’s peace and joy, in glad exchange for all the substitutes that I have made for happiness and peace.

“Let me be still and listen to the truth.

²Let my own feeble voice be still, and let me hear the mighty Voice for Truth Itself assure me that I am God’s perfect Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-118.1–2. See also ACIM Lesson 118 Insights.)

If we want to experience the peace and joy that is our inheritance, we need to be willing to quiet our mind and listen to God’s Voice. It is ever present in our mind. Only our mistaken interest in the ego thought system makes us deaf to His Message.

God’s Voice always conveys His Love. But the ego is afraid of Love’s oneness, so it blocks out all thoughts of our true Self which accept that we remain Love as we were created.

Today we practice frequently pausing to welcome the Holy Spirit’s loving guidance. He will show us the Love that is the truth in every brother. And He will teach us to answer calls for Love with Love. This is how we will claim God’s gifts of peace and joy.

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Remembering Our Identity in God

The gift of Christ is all I seek today.

What but Christ’s vision would I use today, when it can offer me a day in which I see a world so like to Heaven that an ancient memory returns to me? ²Today I can forget the world I made. ³Today I can go past all fear, and be restored to love and holiness and peace. ⁴Today I am redeemed, and born anew into a world of mercy and of care; of loving kindness and the peace of God.

And so, our Father, we return to You, remembering we never went away; remembering Your holy gifts to us. ²In gratitude and thankfulness we come, with empty hands and open hearts and minds, asking but what You give. ³We cannot make an offering [illusion] sufficient for Your Son. ⁴But in Your Love the gift of Christ is his. (A Course in Miracles, W-306. See also ACIM Lesson 306 Insights.)

The key to finding the happiness and peace God wills for us is to lay down our mistaken wish to have an identity we can call our own. Our true Identity is shared with our Father. We remain united with God, no matter what dreams we may have.

Today we free ourselves from the dream of conflict and loss, fear and guilt. As we accept the Holy Spirit’s help to see with Christ’s vision, we overlook the world of form and accept the Love of God as our Identity. With this acceptance, fear and guilt disappear and we remember the joy and peace of our true Identity as God’s Son.

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Letting the Light Within Guide Our Doing

Who is the light of the world except God’s Son? ²This, then, is merely a statement of the truth about yourself. ³It is the opposite of a statement of pride, of arrogance, or of self-deception. ⁴It does not describe the self-concept you have made. ⁵It does not refer to any of the characteristics with which you have endowed your idols. ⁶It refers to you as you were created by God. ⁷It simply states the truth.

You will want to think about this idea as often as possible today. ²It is the perfect answer to all illusions, and therefore to all temptation. ³It brings all the images you have made about yourself to the truth, and helps you depart in peace, unburdened and certain of your purpose.

…begin with telling yourself:

³I am the light of the world. ⁴That is my only function. ⁵That is why I am here.

Today’s idea goes far beyond the ego’s petty views of what you are and what your purpose is. …⁵You are the light of the world. ⁶God has built His plan for the salvation of His Son on you. (A Course in Miracles, W-61.1;4;5:2-5;7:1,5-6. See also ACIM Lesson 61 Insights.)

Because our function is to be the Light of the world, we need to let the Light within be our Guide in all things. The practice of opening our mind to the Holy Spirit’s lead represents our willingness to be the Light of the world.

The Light is already in us, but we have hidden it behind a false image that separates us from Reality. The thought system that made that image denies the Light. So we must be willing to disregard all the “guidance” of the ego’s denial of our reality.

Today we dedicate to practicing opening our mind to the Light within to let It guide us to fulfill our function as the Light of the world.

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Forgiveness Leads Us Home to Love

Let us not fight our function. ²We did not establish it. ³It is not our idea. ⁴The means are given us by which it will be perfectly accomplished. ⁵All that we are asked to do is to accept our part in genuine humility, and not deny with self-deceiving arrogance that we are worthy. ⁶What is given us to do, we have the strength to do. ⁷Our minds are suited perfectly to take the part assigned to us by One Who knows us well.

³We will be certain only that He knows our strengths, our wisdom and our holiness. ⁴And if He deems us worthy, so we are.

Do as God’s Voice directs. ²And if It asks a thing of you which seems impossible, remember Who it is that asks, and who would make denial. ³Then consider this; which is more likely to be right? ⁴The Voice that speaks for the Creator of all things, Who knows all things exactly as they are, or a distorted image of yourself, confused, bewildered, inconsistent and unsure of everything? ⁵Let not its voice direct you. ⁶Hear instead a certain Voice, which tells you of a function given you by your Creator Who remembers you, and urges that you now remember Him.

⁴He has Thoughts which answer every need His Son perceives, although He sees them not. ⁵For Love must give, and what is given in His Name takes on the form most useful in a world of form.

⁵Salvation of the world depends on you who can forgive. ⁶Such is your function here. (A Course in Miracles, W-186.2;4:3-4;12;13:4-5;14:5-6. See also ACIM Lesson 186 Insights.)

Our true Self remains Love as God created us, His Son. There is nothing our true Self needs to forgive, for It remains eternally united with God’s Love.

But while we believe we are in a world of bodies and myriad forms, we do need to forgive. We need to forgive the mistaken beliefs that made up a world of shifting forms and changing circumstances where uncertainty is ever present. Fear is an underlying emotion with guilt beside it. The joy and peace of Love seem far off and difficult to experience.

Forgiveness of the beliefs that make this world of perception is the means to let Love return to our awareness. This is our function today and every day. It is the path that leads us Home to full remembrance that we remain as God created us — Love and nothing else.

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Finding the Love We Seek

You have so little faith in yourself because you are unwilling to accept the fact that perfect love is in you. ²And so you seek without for what you cannot find without. ³I offer you my perfect faith in you, in place of all your doubts. ⁴But forget not that my faith must be as perfect in all your brothers as it is in you, or it would be a limited gift to you. ⁵In the holy instant we share our faith in God’s Son because we recognize, together, that he is wholly worthy of it, and in our appreciation of his worth we cannot doubt his holiness. ⁶And so we love him.”

³In the holy instant you recognize the idea of love in you, and unite this idea with the Mind that thought it, and could not relinquish it. ⁴By holding it within itself, there is no loss. ⁵The holy instant thus becomes a lesson in how to hold all of your brothers in your mind, experiencing not loss but completion. ⁶From this it follows you can only give. ⁷And this is love, for this alone is natural under the laws of God.

¹⁰For in the holy instant you will recognize the only need the Sons of God share equally, and by this recognition you will join with me in offering what is needed. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.VI.2;5:3-7;6:10. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Fear is a sure sign that we are denying the Love that is our true Identity. Because of that denial, we cannot see the Love that is the Identity of everyone. We dream we are in a world where conflict is the norm. We need to be constantly alert to protect ourselves from harm and loss. We feel a lack of love that drives us on a constant search to find something or someone that offers some form of relief from our distress.

We already have the answer to our need. It is in our mind now. The Love we seek is eternally present in our mind. The Holy Spirit is always ready to help us let go of the misperceptions that come belief that we are separate and alone.

Today we practice offering every perception that disturbs our peace and happiness to Him for His reinterpretation. As we accept His help, we will learn that the Love we seek is already ours. We will see that this Love unites us with the Love that is the true Identity of everyone, including ourselves.

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Identifying with Love Brings Happiness

I share God’s Will for happiness for me.

You do not want to suffer. ²You may think it buys you something, and may still believe a little that it buys you what you want.

⁶Be you free today to join the happy Will of God.

²Here is your home, and here your safety is. ³Here is your peace, and here there is no fear. ⁴Here is salvation. ⁵Here is rest at last.

Begin… with this acceptance of God’s Will for you:

²I share God’s Will for happiness for me, and I accept it as my function now.

Be happy, for your only function here is happiness. …pause frequently today, to tell yourself that you have now accepted happiness as your one function. ⁴And be sure that you are joining with God’s Will in doing this. (A Course in Miracles, W-102.1:1-2;2:6;3:2–4:2;5:1,3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 102 Insights.)

To know that we are Love and nothing else is to be happy. We were created by Love and as Love’s extension, happiness is an attribute of Love.

Any discomfort, suffering or disturbance to our peace is a sign that we are rejecting the Love that created us. We have a mistaken belief that identifying with a body that is vulnerable to outside forces offers something we want.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us identify with Love and offer It to the world.

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Seeing Love’s Presence in the World

God is my life. I have no life but His.

I was mistaken when I thought I lived apart from God, a separate entity that moved in isolation, unattached, and housed within a body. ²Now I know my life is God’s, I have no other home, and I do not exist apart from Him. ³He has no Thoughts that are not part of me, and I have none but those which are of Him.

Our Father, let us see the face of Christ instead of our mistakes. ²For we who are Your holy Son are sinless. ³We would look upon our sinlessness, for guilt proclaims that we are not Your Son. ⁴And we would not forget You longer. ⁵We are lonely here, and long for Heaven, where we are at home. ⁶Today we would return. ⁷Our Name is Yours, and we acknowledge that we are Your Son. (A Course in Miracles, W-223. See also ACIM Lesson 223 Insights.)

The face of Christ is a symbol of what we see with the vision of our true Self. This Self is God’s Son, wholly loving and innocent of any thoughts of harm. This is what we were created to be as God’s extension of Himself. And this is what we remain eternally.

It is a mistake to believe we are a body, existing in a world of other bodies. This belief imprisons us in a limited form that cannot know the joy that is ours in the oneness of God’s Love. It denies our real life which remains safe in the Mind of God. But we are free to change our beliefs and accept the life God shares with us.

The Holy Spirit is given us to help us awaken to our true Identity in the Mind of Love. Today we remind ourselves that on our own we do not know what anything means. We rely on the Holy Spirit to show us the presence of Love beneath all appearances in this world.

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