365 Days of Love and Miracles with Arlene Geres

"There is no peace except the peace of God....Come home. You have not found your happiness in foreign places and in alien forms that have no meaning to you, though you sought to make them meaningful. The world is not where you belong. You are a stranger here. But it is given you the means whereby the world no longer seems to be a prison house or jail for anyone. 

Freedom is given you where you beheld but chains and iron doors. But you must change your mind about the purpose of the world, if you would find escape. You will be bound till all the world is seen by you as blessed, and everyone made free of your mistakes and honoured as he is.

....Peace is the bridge that everyone will cross, to leave this world behind. But peace begins within the world perceived as different, and leading from this fresh perception to the gate of Heaven and the way beyond....Let us not lose our way again today. We go to Heaven, and the path is straight....

We seek no further. We are close to home, and draw still nearer every time we say:
"There is no peace except the peace of God, and I am glad and thankful it is so."" (W200)

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Welcome to 365 Days of Love and Miracles with Arlene Geres. Each day, we will read and discuss a lesson from the workbook of A Course in Miracles. This programme has transformed my life, as it has for thousands of others all over the world. If you practice the principles, it will work for you as well.

Material from A Course in Miracles is used with permission by the copyright holder and publisher, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd #306 Novato, CA 94949, www.acim.org and [email protected], copyright ©1992, 1999, 2007.

"I am not a body. I am free....The mind can be made free when it no longer sees itself as in a body, firmly tied to it and sheltered by its presence....The mind that serves the Holy Spirit is unlimited forever, in all ways, beyond the laws of time and space, unbound by any preconceptions, and with strength and power to do whatever it is asked. Attack thoughts cannot enter such a mind, because it has been given to the Source of love, and fear can never enter in a mind that has attached itself to love.

...Cherish today's idea, and practice it today and every day. Make it a part of every practice period you take. There is no thought that will not gain thereby in power to help the world, and none which will not gain in added gifts to you as well. We sound the call of freedom round the world with this idea. 

...and Heaven offers thanks for the increase of joy your practice brings even to it. And God Himself extends His Love and happiness each time you say:

"I am not a body. I am free. I hear the voice that God has given me, and it is only this my mind obeys."" (W199)


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Welcome to 365 Days of Love and Miracles with Arlene Geres. Each day, we will read and discuss a lesson from the workbook of A Course in Miracles. This programme has transformed my life, as it has for thousands of others all over the world. If you practice the principles, it will work for you as well.

Material from A Course in Miracles is used with permission by the copyright holder and publisher, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd #306 Novato, CA 94949, www.acim.org and [email protected], copyright ©1992, 1999, 2007.

"Only my condemnation injures me...Condemn and you are made a prisoner. Forgive and you are freed. Such is the law that rules perception....Forgiveness is the only road that leads out of disaster, past all suffering, and finally away from death....
Do not forget today that there can be no form of suffering that fails to hide an unforgiving thought. Nor can there be a form of pain forgiveness cannot heal.
...Now is there silence all around the world. Now is there stillness where before there was a frantic rush of thoughts that made no sense.
... Now is the time for your deliverance. The time has come. The time has come today." (W198)

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Welcome to 365 Days of Love and Miracles with Arlene Geres. Each day, we will read and discuss a lesson from the workbook of A Course in Miracles. This programme has transformed my life, as it has for thousands of others all over the world. If you practice the principles, it will work for you as well.

Material from A Course in Miracles is used with permission by the copyright holder and publisher, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd #306 Novato, CA 94949, www.acim.org and [email protected], copyright ©1992, 1999, 2007.

"It can be but my gratitude I earn." (W197)
Yesterday, we learned that when we harm another through thought word or deed, we harm ourselves.  Today we learn; "Here is the second step we take to free your mind from the belief in outside forces pitted against your own.... You make attempts at kindness and forgiveness. Yet you turn them to attack again, unless you find external gratitude and lavish thanks...."
We think that our kindness and forgiveness must be received with gratitude and appreciation, or we turn around and attack the other in our minds and/or behaviour again. If we want to be truly free, we learn how to give love unconditionally. We forgive in appreciation for the lessons that we are learning through these experiences. We see the other as a messenger of God who has come to help us along in our spiritual growth. We are told that: "God blesses every gift you give to Him, and every gift is given Him, because it can be given only to yourself." Every single time that we give the gift of love and forgiveness, we are actually giving it to God. "Yet you will never realize His gifts are sure, eternal, changeless, limitless, forever giving out, extending love and adding to your never-ending joy while you forgive but to attack again....And with the end of this belief is fear forever over." (W 197) We forgive finally and truly. We refuse the ego's attempt to keep picking up the sword of resentment. We finally let go. We are free! We are filled with love, joy and peace. This is our inheritance. Let's go out and spread God's love everywhere we go today. I love you!

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Welcome to 365 Days of Love and Miracles with Arlene Geres. Each day, we will read and discuss a lesson from the workbook of A Course in Miracles. This programme has transformed my life, as it has for thousands of others all over the world. If you practice the principles, it will work for you as well.

Material from A Course in Miracles is used with permission by the copyright holder and publisher, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd #306 Novato, CA 94949, www.acim.org and [email protected], copyright ©1992, 1999, 2007.

"It can be but myself I crucify...
When this is firmly understood and kept in awareness, you will not attempt to harm yourself, nor make your body slave to vengeance. You will not attack yourself, and you will realize that to attack another is but to attack yourself. You will be free of the insane belief that to attack a brother saves yourself. And will understand his safety is your own, and in his healing you are healed.

Today's idea is one step we take in leading from bondage to the state of perfect freedom...It is not time we need for this. It is but willingness. For what would seem to need a thousand years can easily be done in just one instant by the grace of God...The dreary, hopeless thought that you can make attacks on others and escape yourself has nailed you to the cross.

...Our next steps will be easy, if you take this one today. From there we ago ahead quite rapidly. For once you understand it is impossible that you be hurt except by your own thoughts, the fear of God must disappear.

...It is but you your mind can try to crucify. Yet your redemption, too, will come from you."

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Welcome to 365 Days of Love and Miracles with Arlene Geres. Each day, we will read and discuss a lesson from the workbook of A Course in Miracles. This programme has transformed my life, as it has for thousands of others all over the world. If you practice the principles, it will work for you as well.

Material from A Course in Miracles is used with permission by the copyright holder and publisher, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd #306 Novato, CA 94949, www.acim.org and [email protected], copyright ©1992, 1999, 2007.

"I place the future in the hands of God....Accept today's idea, and you have passed all anxiety, all pits of hell, all blackness of depression, thoughts of sin, and devastation brought about by guilt. Accept today's idea, and you have released the world from all imprisonment by loosening the heavy chains that locked the door to freedom on it. You are saved, and your salvation thus becomes the gift you give the world, because you have received.
...God holds your future as He holds your past and present....You are but asked to let the future go, and place it in God's Hands...Then is each instant which was slave to time transformed into a holy instant, when the light that was kept hidden in God's Son is freed to bless the world. Now is he free, and all his glory shines upon a world made free with him, to share his holiness.
...For he who has escaped all fear of future pain has found his way to present peace, and certainty of care the world can never threaten. ...Place, then, your future in the Hands of God. For thus you call the memory of Him to come again, replacing all your thoughts of sin and evil with the truth of love....Now we are saved indeed. For in God's Hands we rest untroubled, sure that only good can come to us."  (W194)

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Welcome to 365 Days of Love and Miracles with Arlene Geres. Each day, we will read and discuss a lesson from the workbook of A Course in Miracles. This programme has transformed my life, as it has for thousands of others all over the world. If you practice the principles, it will work for you as well.

Material from A Course in Miracles is used with permission by the copyright holder and publisher, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd #306 Novato, CA 94949, www.acim.org and [email protected], copyright ©1992, 1999, 2007.

"Love is the way I walk in gratitude....And gratitude can only be sincere if it be joined to love. We offer thanks to God our Father that in us all things will find their freedom....Therefore give thanks, but in sincerity. And let your gratitude make room for all who will escape with you; the sick, the weak, the needy and afraid, and those who mourn a seeming loss or feel apparent pain, who suffer cold or hunger, or who walk the way of hatred and the path of death. ...We thank our Father for one thing alone; that we are separate from no living thing, and therefore one with Him. ...We give thanks for every living thing, for otherwise we offer thanks for nothing, and we fail to recognize the gifts of God to us.
Then let our brothers lean their tired heads against our shoulders as they rest a while. We offer thanks for them. For if we can direct them to the peace that we would find, the way is opening at last to us. 
...Today we learn to think of gratitude in place of anger, malice and revenge. We have been given everything....Our gratitude will pave the way to Him, and shorten our learning time by more than you could ever dream of.  Gratitude goes hand in hand with love, and where one is the other must be found. ....For love can walk no road except the way of gratitude, and thus we go who walk the way to God. (W195)

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Welcome to 365 Days of Love and Miracles with Arlene Geres. Each day, we will read and discuss a lesson from the workbook of A Course in Miracles. This programme has transformed my life, as it has for thousands of others all over the world. If you practice the principles, it will work for you as well.

Material from A Course in Miracles is used with permission by the copyright holder and publisher, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd #306 Novato, CA 94949, www.acim.org and [email protected], copyright ©1992, 1999, 2007.

"All things are lessons God would have me learn....Each lesson has a central thought, the same in all of them. The form alone is changed, with different circumstances and events; with different characters and different themes, apparent but not real. They are the same in fundamental content. It is this:
"Forgive, and you will see this differently."
...These are the words the Holy Spirit speaks in all your tribulations, all your pain, all suffering regardless of its form. These are the words with which temptation ends, and guilt, abandoned, is revered no more. These are the words which end the dream of sin, and rid the mind of fear. These are the words by which salvation comes to all the world.
...To every apprehension, every care and every form of suffering, repeat these self-same words. And then you hold the key that opens Heaven's gate, and brings the Love of God the Father down to earth at last, to raise it up to Heaven. God will take this final step Himself. Do not deny the little steps He asks you take to Him." (W193)

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Welcome to 365 Days of Love and Miracles with Arlene Geres. Each day, we will read and discuss a lesson from the workbook of A Course in Miracles. This programme has transformed my life, as it has for thousands of others all over the world. If you practice the principles, it will work for you as well.

Material from A Course in Miracles is used with permission by the copyright holder and publisher, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd #306 Novato, CA 94949, www.acim.org and [email protected], copyright ©1992, 1999, 2007.

"I have a function God would have me fill....It is your Father's holy Will that you complete Himself, and that your Self shall be His sacred Son, forever pure as He, of love created and in love preserved, extending love, creating in its name, forever one with God and with your Self. Yet what can such a function mean within a world of envy, hatred and attack?

...Forgiveness represents your function here....Forgiveness gently looks upon all things unknown in Heaven, sees them disappear, and leaves the world a clean and unmarked slate on which the Word of God can now replace the senseless symbols written there before...Forgiveness lets the body be perceived as what it is; a simple teaching aid, to be laid by when learning is complete...
Only forgiveness can restore the peace that God intended for His holy Son.

...Therefore, hold no one prisoner. Release instead of bind, for thus are you made free. The way is simple. Every time you feel a stab of anger, realize you hold a sword above your head. And it will fall or be averted as you choose to be condemned or free. Thus does each one who seems to tempt you to be angry represent your savior from the prison house of death. And so you owe him thanks instead of pain." (W192)

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Welcome to 365 Days of Love and Miracles with Arlene Geres. Each day, we will read and discuss a lesson from the workbook of A Course in Miracles. This programme has transformed my life, as it has for thousands of others all over the world. If you practice the principles, it will work for you as well.

Material from A Course in Miracles is used with permission by the copyright holder and publisher, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd #306 Novato, CA 94949, www.acim.org and [email protected], copyright ©1992, 1999, 2007.

"I am the holy Son of God Himself...Here is your declaration of release from bondage of the world. And here as well is all the world released. You do not see what you have done by giving to the world the role of jailer to the Son of God. What could it be but vicious and afraid, fearful of shadows, punitive and wild, lacking all reason, blind, insane with hate?
...But let today's idea find a place among your thoughts and you have risen far above the world, and all the worldly thoughts that hold it prisoner. ...One holy thought like this and you are free: You are the holy Son of God Himself. And with this holy thought you learn as well that you have freed the world ...
Be glad today how very easily is hell undone You need but tell yourself:
"I am the holy Son of God Himself. I cannot suffer, cannot be in pain; I cannot suffer loss, nor fail to do all that salvation asks."
And in that thought is everything you look on wholly changed." (W191)

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Welcome to 365 Days of Love and Miracles with Arlene Geres. Each day, we will read and discuss a lesson from the workbook of A Course in Miracles. This programme has transformed my life, as it has for thousands of others all over the world. If you practice the principles, it will work for you as well.

Material from A Course in Miracles is used with permission by the copyright holder and publisher, the Foundation for Inner Peace, 448 Ignacio Blvd #306 Novato, CA 94949, www.acim.org and [email protected], copyright ©1992, 1999, 2007.