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Joining with Our Self

The strength in you will offer you the light, and guide your seeing so you do not dwell on idle shadows that the body’s eyes provide for self-deception. Strength and light unite in you, and where they meet, your Self stands ready to embrace you as Its Own. Such is the meeting place we try today to find and rest in, for the peace of God is where your Self, His Son, is waiting now to meet Itself again, and be as one. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.92.9)

Today is a day to join with the strength of God instead of the weakness of the ego. Now is the time to accept the truth of the one Self. Now is the time to accept the peace and contentment that fills my mind as I am willing to lay down the ego’s false perception. The time is always now to recognize Love’s oneness.

Judgment is the way I separate from my Self. If I think someone with different political views is an adversary, I am separating from my Self. It is not they who need to be corrected. It is my perception of being separate or different that needs correction.

As with every other perception of difference, I need to bring that perception to the Holy Spirit’s Light, which will shine through the appearance to show me the one Self we share in God. The appearance of difference comes solely from the belief that we are bodies. But the Light of Love shows me that I am not a body nor is anyone.

I am the Light and strength of God, the same as everyone. The Holy Spirit will help me see this if I am willing to welcome His Light. This is how I join with our one Self.

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The Key to Happiness

Through the practice of A Course in Miracles, it is becoming more and more clear to me that there is only one thing that will bring me happiness — forgiveness. Unhappiness or any disturbance to my peace is always the effect of judgment. The weather cannot change my mood unless I have a judgment about it. Relationships cannot upset me unless I have judgments about them. Circumstances or events can neither make me feel safe nor vulnerable unless I have a judgment about them.

True happiness, a sense of sure protection, certainty that I am loved, all come when I am willing to accept God’s gifts without judgment. Today is another happy day to practice letting Holy Spirit judge all things on my behalf. This is how I learn to forgive. This is how I accept God’s gift of perfect happiness.

Peace and happiness return when I am willing to allow the Holy Spirit to lift the veil of separation. Beyond the veil is our one true Self. Beyond the veil is what is eternally true. I am fooling myself when I focus on a world of differences and disunity.

Today my practice is to allow the Holy Spirit to lift this deception that I may be shown the Love of everyone’s true nature. In this holy place of accepting God’s peace, I remember that nothing could ever happen to change God’s one Son. And for this I am eternally grateful.

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Gratitude for God’s Love

God exempts no one from His Love. As Love’s extension, the Love that I am is shared with all, no exceptions. It is only when I am freely extending this Love that I am truly happy.

If I slip into old habits of judgment, I am attempting to limit Love. In that moment, Love becomes unknown to me because I have shut it off.

Today I will practice laying aside judgment to let the limitless flow of Love from my Source flow through me to all. This is how I will recognize the Love I am. It is the only way to accept God’s gift of perfect happiness.

Today is a day of gratitude. Today is a day to remember that nothing has happened to change God’s one Son because he remains as God created him. God’s one Son is continuous with his Father and this means that everyone I meet or think of today, in truth, is Love’s Extension right now. Today is a day of gratitude and remembering that only the Love we all are is real, now and forever. In gratitude I heal and am healed.

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Relax… and Let Love Lead…

Relax… and Let Love Lead…
Relax… Practice stepping back today and letting Love lead… Let yourself remember that you are Love and that everyone else is joined in the Love you are… Let yourself remember that you share one Mind — the Mind of God… Relax… and let the truth of Love’s Oneness return to your mind…

You experience quiet peace when you remember that you are held safely in the Love of God. His sure protection surrounds you with the changelessness of Heaven. To help you remember this today, see everyone that you meet or think of as with you in the sure protection of God’s Love. Within His Love there is no conflict. Nothing can disturb your peace.

As you remember that your brother is held in that same safety of Love, he becomes a dear friend, one with you, sharing the Love that is given everyone equally. With this practice you will have a blessed day.

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Valuing the Truth

There is a verse in the Bible which says, “This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.” Remembering that God did not create time, this message can be restated as, “God created the eternal present. Let us accept the eternal present and rejoice in God’s perfect happiness.”

All the turmoil, discord and unhappiness of the world is the effect of denying the eternal present — God’s gift of perfect happiness. The way to redirect my attention from the conflicts of the past is to focus on dwelling in the present peace within. This is my practice for today. This is how I will rejoice and be glad that I remain in God’s perfect happiness.

Let me not deny God today. Let me accept the truth instead of illusions. I will experience the truth when I value the truth more than illusions. I will see oneness more than division and separation.

I will experience happiness when I value God’s Love more than the ego’s substitute for love. My true Home lies not in specialness, but in remembering that everyone is the same Love and that there are no differences. Practicing this today is what will make it a happy day.

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Accepting the Memory of God

God’s memory is in our holy minds, which know their oneness and their unity with their Creator. Let our function be only to let this memory return, only to let God’s Will be done on earth, only to be restored to sanity, and to be but as God created us. (A Course in Miracles W-pII.11.4:5-6)

My practice for today is to allow the certainty of God’s all encompassing Love to return to my awareness. My practice for today is to step back again and again and again from the arrogance of ego thoughts and, instead, accept the truth of Love’s oneness. I would follow Holy Spirit and be willing to let go of ego’s barriers to Love today.

As Love’s creation, I have one function — to extend Love and nothing else. In the dream of separation, forgiveness is Love’s reflection. Forgiveness is letting go of judgment. That means I turn over all judgment to the Holy Spirit to judge on my behalf. His judgment is very simple — real or unreal.

From within the unreal dream, I have no basis to recognize what’s real, thus I have no basis for judgment. This is why the path for release and to return Home is to follow Holy Spirit’s judgment in each moment. Today my practice is to focus on the center of peace within and hold my mind open to Holy Spirit’s loving vision which will show me what is real and what is not.

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Listening to God’s Voice

It is quite possible to listen to God’s Voice all through the day without interrupting your regular activities in any way. The part of your mind in which truth abides is in constant communication with God, whether you are aware of it or not. …The part that is listening to the Voice for God, is calm, always at rest and wholly certain. It is really the only part there is. The other part is a wild illusion, frantic and distraught, but without reality of any kind. Try today not to listen to it. Try to identify with the part of your mind where stillness and peace reign forever. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.49.2:1-2,2:1-5)

My practice for today is to pay attention to which part I am listening to — the Voice for God or the false mind of the ego. My practice today is to identify with the part of my mind where stillness and peace reign forever. To do this I must be willing to invite in and welcome in the peace and quiet of the Voice for God. I must be willing to accept the formless and gentle beingness of my true Nature. I must be willing to open to the Voice for God and let it guide and inspire me all through the day.

I am grateful to know that though I am not aware of God’s Voice speaking to me, God still speaks to me all through the day. I can make myself unaware of it, but I can’t shut It off. This is good news because, if I made the barrier that makes me unaware of His Voice, I can let go of the barrier.

Forgiveness, letting go of judgment, is the way I let go of the barrier. This is why the practice of bringing everything that disturbs my peace to the Holy Spirit with willingness to accept His help to let it go is the way I reconnect with God’s Voice. It is the way I reconnect with Love. Today I dedicate to being vigilant for peace and letting the Holy Spirit be my Inspiration and my Guide.

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