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The Vision That Brings Peace and Happiness

My present happiness is all I see.

Unless I look upon what is not there, my present happiness is all I see. ²Eyes that begin to open see at last. ³And I would have Christ’s vision come to me this very day. ⁴What I perceive without God’s Own Correction for the sight I made is frightening and painful to behold. ⁵Yet I would not allow my mind to be deceived by the belief the dream I made is real an instant longer. ⁶This the day I seek my present happiness, and look on nothing else except the thing I seek.

With this resolve I come to You, and ask Your strength to hold me up today, while I but seek to do Your Will. ²You cannot fail to hear me, Father. ³What I ask have You already given me. ⁴And I am sure that I will see my happiness today. (A Course in Miracles, W-290. See also ACIM Lesson 290 Insights.)

Christ’s vision is God’s correction for the body’s myopic vision which can only see illusions. Images of differences and division are replaced by the remembrance of our unity in the oneness of Love.

We experience only peace and happiness as we accept the strength of our Father’s Love to see past the illusions of the dream. In gratitude we accept His gifts as we forgive our mistaken wish for specialness.

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The Vision That Transforms Our World

All things are given you. ²God’s trust in you is limitless. ³He knows His Son. ⁴He gives without exception, holding nothing back that can contribute to your happiness. ⁵And yet, unless your will is one with His, His gifts are not received. ⁶But what would make you think there is another will than His?

Here is the paradox that underlies the making of the world. ²This world is not the Will of God, and so it is not real.

Yet in his lonely, senseless wanderings, God’s gifts go with him, all unknown to him. ²He cannot lose them. ³But he will not look at what is given him. ⁴He wanders on, aware of the futility he sees about him everywhere, perceiving how his little lot but dwindles, as he goes ahead to nowhere. ⁵Still he wanders on in misery and poverty, alone though God is with him, and a treasure his so great that everything the world contains is valueless before its magnitude.

³One walks with you Who gently answers all your fears with this one merciful reply, “It is not so.” ⁴He points to all the gifts you have each time the thought of poverty oppresses you, and speaks of His Companionship when you perceive yourself as lonely and afraid.

²Become the living proof of what Christ’s touch can offer everyone. ³God has entrusted all His gifts to you. ⁴Be witness in your happiness to how transformed the mind becomes which chooses to accept His gifts, and feel the touch of Christ. (A Course in Miracles, W-166.1:1–2:2;5;11:3-4;15:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 166 Insights.)

One thing is certain about everything the body’s eyes see — it is not so. Itself an illusion, the body can only ‘see’ illusions. It sees a veil cleverly constructed by the thought system of separation to hide the reality of the eternal Presence of our Father’s Love.

But One walks with us in our mind Who offers us vision beyond the body to see the reality of Love in which we live. He offers us Companionship which assures us that we are not alone and we are safe in the sure protection of our Father’s strength. Today we welcome His help to see our world transformed by Christ’s vision which shows us our eternal unity in God’s Love.

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Remembering the Strength of God in Us

³You always choose between your weakness and the strength of Christ in you. ⁴And what you choose is what you think is real. ⁵Simply by never using weakness to direct your actions, you have given it no power. ⁶And the light of Christ in you is given charge of everything you do. ⁷For you have brought your weakness unto Him, and He has given you His strength instead.

Trials are but lessons that you failed to learn presented once again, so where you made a faulty choice before you now can make a better one, and thus escape all pain that what you chose before has brought to you.

The images you make cannot prevail against what God Himself would have you be. ²Be never fearful of temptation, then, but see it as it is; another chance to choose again, and let Christ’s strength prevail in every circumstance and every place you raised an image of yourself before. ³For what appears to hide the face of Christ is powerless before His majesty, and disappears before His holy sight.

Learn, then, the happy habit of response to all temptation to perceive yourself as weak and miserable with these words:

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

⁵Thus is Christ’s strength invited to prevail, replacing all your weakness with the strength that comes from God and that can never fail. (A Course in Miracles, T-31.VIII.2:3–3:1;4:1-3;5:1-5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

God does not condemn. He knows that He created His Son eternally one with Himself. That is why we always have the option to change our belief about what we are. Beliefs do not change Reality. The ego is the belief that it is possible to be separate from our Father. It is the denial that God’s Love and strength are ours, without limit. While we identify with the ego, we will feel vulnerable to harm from ‘outside’ forces.

As we learn to accept the fact that we are God’s Son, our sense of vulnerability will fade. Our confidence in Christ’s strength in us will grow. We will feel the strength of our Father’s Love and join in Love’s extension to the world.

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