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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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