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Finding Joy in Our True Identity

²I am as God created me. ³His Son can suffer nothing. ⁴And I am His Son.

⁴Deep in your mind the holy Christ in you is waiting your acknowledgment as you. ⁵And you are lost and do not know yourself while He is unacknowledged and unknown.

Seek Him today, and find Him. ²He will be your Savior from all idols you have made. ³For when you find Him, you will understand how worthless are your idols, and how false the images which you believed were you. ⁴Today we make a great advance to truth by letting idols go, and opening our hands and hearts and minds to God today.

We will remember Him throughout the day with thankful hearts and loving thoughts for all who meet with us today. ²For it is thus that we remember Him. ³And we will say, that we may be reminded of His Son, our holy Self, the Christ in each of us:

⁴I am as God created me.

⁵Let us declare this truth as often as we can. ⁶This is the Word of God that sets you free. ⁷This is the key that opens up the gate of Heaven, and that lets you enter in the peace of God and His eternity. (A Course in Miracles, W-110.6:2-4;9:4–11:7. See also ACIM Lesson 110 Insights.)

This practice is part of the Course’s plan to reverse our thoughts about our identity. As we acknowledge that we are as God created us, we are accepting that we are eternal Love, and nothing else. As we incorporate this message in our thoughts about ourselves, the false beliefs about our identity are let go.

Today we claim the Love that created us as our true Identity. We gratefully accept the peace that is an attribute of our Identity. Our hearts are filled with joy as we recognize our brothers are one with us in our shared Identity as God’s one Son.

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Accepting the Holy Spirit’s Lessons in Love

Do not be afraid of the ego. ²It depends on your mind, and as you made it by believing in it, so you can dispel it by withdrawing belief from it. ³Do not project the responsibility for your belief in it onto anyone else, or you will preserve the belief. ⁴When you are willing to accept sole responsibility for the ego’s existence you will have laid aside all anger and all attack, because they come from an attempt to project responsibility for your own errors. ⁵But having accepted the errors as yours, do not keep them. ⁶Give them over quickly to the Holy Spirit to be undone completely, so that all their effects will vanish from your mind and from the Sonship as a whole.

The Holy Spirit will teach you to perceive beyond your belief, because truth is beyond belief and His perception is true. ²The ego can be completely forgotten at any time, because it is a totally incredible belief, and no one can keep a belief he has judged to be unbelievable. ³The more you learn about the ego, the more you realize that it cannot be believed.

The whole purpose of this course is to teach you that the ego is unbelievable and will forever be unbelievable. (A Course in Miracles, T-7.VIII.5:1–6:3;7:1. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

What we believe determines what we see. What we are in truth, is wholly unaffected by our beliefs.  But if our beliefs deny the truth, we are unaware of our true Reality. The ego is the symbol of our beliefs. This is why it is important that we learn that none of the ego thought system is believable.

Having accepted the ego’s teachings, we need to open our mind to the lessons of a different Teacher. The first step in unlearning the ego’s lessons is to accept our responsibility for accepting these beliefs. The important next step is to return to the Holy Spirit with a mind receptive to His lessons which will undo the mistaken beliefs.

The Holy Spirit’s teachings are always lessons in Love. They show us our unbreakable connection with the Love of our Father and every brother. The Light of Love brings healing to the mind that believes in lovelessness.

As we learn to accept the Love we are, the fear and guilt brought by the ego’s beliefs fade away. All our searching in the world is motivated by the desire to return to Love. As we learn to follow the Holy Spirit’s lessons, we remember the Love which we never left in truth. We welcome the forgiven world in which we remember we are Love and nothing else.

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Lifting the Veil That Hides Love’s Presence

God is in everything I see because God is in my mind.

The idea for today is the springboard for vision. ²From this idea will the world open up before you, and you will look upon it and see in it what you have never seen before. ³Nor will what you saw before be even faintly visible to you.

Today we are trying to use a new kind of “projection.” ²We are not attempting to get rid of what we do not like by seeing it outside. ³Instead, we are trying to see in the world what is in our minds, and what we want to recognize is there. ⁴Thus, we are trying to join with what we see, rather than keeping it apart from us. ⁵That is the fundamental difference between vision and the way you see.

Real vision is not only unlimited by space and distance, but it does not depend on the body’s eyes at all. ²The mind is its only source. (A Course in Miracles, W-30.1–2;5:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 30 Insights.)

Today we focus on letting our mind show us the love that is the truth in every brother. We remind ourselves that he is not a body. Things the body seems to do and say are just representations of the belief in separation. We are not what we believe.

As we forgive the beliefs that deny the oneness of love, we lift the veil that has hidden love from our awareness. We see the love we are reflected back to us by our brothers. We recognize our true Self, which unites us with All That is.

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Finding Perfect Happiness Within

Just as God’s Son completes his Father, so your part in it completes your Father’s plan. ²Salvation must reverse the mad belief in separate thoughts and separate bodies, which lead separate lives and go their separate ways. ³One function shared by separate minds unites them in one purpose, for each one of them is equally essential to them all.

God’s Will for you is perfect happiness. ²Why should you choose to go against His Will? ³The part that He has saved for you to take in working out His plan is given you that you might be restored to what He wills. ⁴This part is as essential to His plan as to your happiness. ⁵Your joy must be complete to let His plan be understood by those to whom He sends you. ⁶They will see their function in your shining face, and hear God calling to them in your happy laugh.

…your part is to be happy. ⁴Only this is asked of you or anyone who wants to take his place among God’s messengers.

⁵Look deep within you, undismayed by all the little thoughts and foolish goals you pass as you ascend to meet the Christ in you.

He will be there. ²You are essential to His plan. ³You are His messenger today. ⁴And you must find what He would have you give. (A Course in Miracles, W-100.1–2;7:3-4;8:5;10:1-4. See also ACIM Lesson 100 Insights.)

Any mood that is less than perfect happiness is a sign that we are believing we are separate from our Creator. This belief veils our true Identity as God’s Son. What we see on the veil is a projection of what we believe we are.

With the help of the Holy Spirit, we can look past the veil and find the Love and joy that remains eternally in our mind. As we forgive our mistaken beliefs, our natural joy radiates to the world bringing God’s message that we remain safe in His Love. Today we let our true Self bring peace and happiness to the world.

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Willingness to Accept the Holy Spirit’s Light

You have been told to bring the darkness to the light, and guilt to holiness. ²And you have also been told that error must be corrected at its source. ³Therefore, it is the tiny part of yourself, the little thought that seems split off and separate, the Holy Spirit needs.

The body will remain guilt’s messenger, and will act as it directs as long as you believe that guilt is real. ²For the reality of guilt is the illusion that seems to make it heavy and opaque, impenetrable, and a real foundation for the ego’s thought system. ³Its thinness and transparency are not apparent until you see the light behind it. ⁴And then you see it as a fragile veil before the light.

This world of light, this circle of brightness is the real world, where guilt meets with forgiveness. ²Here the world outside is seen anew, without the shadow of guilt upon it. ³Here are you forgiven, for here you have forgiven everyone. ⁴Here is the new perception, where everything is bright and shining with innocence, washed in the waters of forgiveness, and cleansed of every evil thought you laid upon it. ⁵Here there is no attack upon the Son of God, and you are welcome. ⁶Here is your innocence, waiting to clothe you and protect you, and make you ready for the final step in the journey inward. ⁷Here are the dark and heavy garments of guilt laid by, and gently replaced by purity and love. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.IX.1:1-3;5;9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

We have so thoroughly taught ourselves that we are separate and alone, disconnected from our Creator and everything that is, that we need help to unlearn this self-deceptive lesson. This Help is the Holy Spirit, given us by our Creator to bridge the seeming gap between our Reality and our beliefs about our identity.

If we are willing to bring all our perceptions to Him and let Him shine the Light of Love on them, our dark thoughts of isolation and guilt will be dispelled by His Light. The Holy Spirit cannot help us without our willingness. Our willingness is the key that lets Him set us free to remember that we are Love and nothing else. Love is whole and complete in Itself. It can neither harm nor be harmed, being wholly innocent.

As we accept Love as our Identity, guilt is gone and we experience the joy of uniting with our Father and all our brothers. Today we offer our mistaken thoughts to the Holy Spirit with gratitude, and we accept His revelation of the Gift that was given us in our Creation.

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How to Have a Peaceful, Joyful Day

My holiness blesses the world.

This idea contains the first glimmerings of your true function in the world, or why you are here. ²Your purpose is to see the world through your own holiness. ³Thus are you and the world blessed together. ⁴No one loses; nothing is taken away from anyone; everyone gains through your holy vision. ⁵It signifies the end of sacrifice because it offers everyone his full due. ⁶And he is entitled to everything because it is his birthright as a Son of God.”

⁵Yet is his wholeness restored to his awareness through your vision. ⁶Your holiness blesses him by asking nothing of him. ⁷Those who see themselves as whole make no demands.

Your holiness is the salvation of the world. ²It lets you teach the world that it is one with you, not by preaching to it, not by telling it anything, but merely by your quiet recognition that in your holiness are all things blessed along with you.

…close your eyes and apply the idea to any person who occurs to you, using his name and saying:

⁶My holiness blesses you, [name].

…³It is essential to use the idea if anyone seems to cause an adverse reaction in you. ⁴Offer him the blessing of your holiness immediately, that you may learn to keep it in your own awareness. (A Course in Miracles, W-37.1;2:5–3:2;4:5-6;6:3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 37 Insights.)

When we look at the world through the body’s eyes, we are seeing through the ego’s filter. It only allows us to see its illusions of separation. We need to learn to see the world with the vision of holiness. This is how we bless the world.

Holiness sees only Itself because it is whole and all encompassing. It is the Reality we share with God. Holiness does not see the unreal — the ego’s illusions of separate identities. We bless the world by being true to our Self. This is our only calling in the world that has meaning.

Today will be a day of peace and happiness to the degree that we see our holiness in all things.

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Accepting Our True Identity

Why would you not be overjoyed to be assured that all the evil that you think you did was never done, that all your sins are nothing, that you are as pure and holy as you were created, and that light and joy and peace abide in you? ²Your image of yourself cannot withstand the Will of God. ³You think that this is death, but it is life. ⁴You think you are destroyed, but you are saved.

The self you made is not the Son of God. ²Therefore, this self does not exist at all. ³And anything it seems to do and think means nothing. ⁴It is neither bad nor good. ⁵It is unreal, and nothing more than that.

Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God. ²Over and over this must be repeated, until it is accepted. ³It is true. ⁴Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God. ⁵Nothing can touch it, or change what God created as eternal. ⁶The self you made, evil and full of sin, is meaningless. ⁷Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God, and light and joy and peace abide in you.

²Should you be tempted to become angry with someone, tell him silently:

³Light and joy and peace abide in you.
⁴Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God. (W-93.4:1–5:5;6;11:2-4)

We need to let go of the false image we have made of ourselves. It is the source of all our pain, guilt and fear. This imagined false image only seems to exist because of our belief in it.

Yet it has no effect whatsoever on our true Self, created by God. It is our true Self in which Light and joy and peace abide. This is the Self that is Love and nothing else, eternally.

Today’s affirmations help us remember our true Identity. As we accept this fact, the false self image fades and disappears into the nothingness from which it came. We are grateful for this loving reminder.

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