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Following Holy Spirit’s Lead In Every Moment

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Accept Holy Spirit’s patience. Stay in the present moment. Accept Holy Spirit’s gift of peace. Step back and follow.

Let peace be your one goal and you will naturally led in a way that is filled with joy and happiness. Know that God’s Will is your will. Give God’s Will a chance by keeping your mind open to following Holy Spirit’s lead. When you see your own opinions cropping up, step back and hand them over right away. Relax and soften frequently and put out the welcome mat to the Holy Spirit all through your day.

As soon as you notice tension cropping up, hand it over. Soften and relax, again and again and again. This constant practice will reap great rewards. Eternal rewards. Start now, in this present moment and practice it again and again until the habit is your automatic response. Let this be your constant focus.


Holy Spirit to Robert:
Heaven is now. There is no other place nor time. Forgiveness is letting go of the past. Forgiveness opens the door to now, where everything you are is safely held in God’s Love. Let go dear holy Son of God. Dreams of separation do not serve you. Let them go and welcome the Self Love created you to be. Accept the Self you are. Remember, all pain and suffering, fear and sorrow, lack and loss are only symptoms of a dream of being separate from your Self. Let them remind you to return to peace and open your heart and mind to the Holy Spirit’s loving vision. This vision will show you the resurrected Son of God. It will show you the Son as He was created to be and as you are.

Waste no more time in fruitless searches for satisfaction where it cannot be found. Let go and follow Holy Spirit’s lead to the Heaven that is your Home, now.

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Walk in Peace

Mary:
I accept the peace of God. I give time to resting in God’s peace. That is my little willingness — to join with God’s peace, melt into God’s peace. I willingly let all tension go. I take all thoughts to peace. Here I find my limitless Self. Here I remember that I am safe and that everyone is safe. Here I remember that in truth all dreams are harmless because they are merely dreams. Nothing has really happened to change the infinite Light that is eternal… infinite peace… infinite joy… all one Spirit of happiness and Love. There is nothing to do here… just enjoy the perfection, the happiness, the changeless Love… Here is my Home. Here is everyone’s Home. This is what is real.


Holy Spirit to Robert: 
Remember what you really want. You want the peace of God. You want to remember the Self that Love created. You have tricked yourself into believing that some form or circumstance or situation in the world will bring you comfort and happiness. But nothing in the world is worthy of you because nothing in the world is real.

Practice walking in peace today. Peace will show you the Light that lies beyond the empty images. In this Light is your strength. This Light is your Self. Only in the Light will you find completion, peace and satisfaction. Practice walking in peace today. With this practice, every moment becomes a means to awaken to your Self and to share the Light of your Self with all. As you walk in peace, every moment brings you to greater awareness of the Light you are and share.

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Walk Softly in the World

Holy Spirit to Robert: 
“Walk softly in the world” means don’t give credence to the images of the world. They are not real and can have no effect on the Son of God. As you walk softly, you are able to see past the images to the reality of the invulnerability and strength of the Love you are. In seeing this you recognize that Love is everywhere and only Love is real.

You do not need to defend against the images of the world. Your only need is to extend Love. Where there is the appearance of lack of Love, you offer Love. Where Love is offered, you join with It and extend It. This is natural to you, the Son of God. As you accept this you recognize that all the appearances of bodies and personalities are simply masks that seem to hide the Son of God Who is the one extension of God’s Love.

Walk softly today and let Love guide all your seeing. Love will show you all forms of doing that will help to bring awareness of Love’s presence everywhere.


Holy Spirit to Mary:
An important key to receiving a change in perception is to focus on relaxing and letting go, letting your mind receive the Light of truth, putting out the “welcome mat” for your inner Teacher in quiet. It does not matter how much time this takes. Your willingness to receive the truth is what matters.

During this time you may receive images of being showered with Light or peace. Taking the time to receive the peace and feeling it is very helpful. As peace takes over, you see that there is nothing more for you to do. You just receive. The strength of God does the rest. Your little part is to be open to receive.

The ego thoughts just naturally fall away as the Light grows stronger. The feeling that everything is all right and that you are safe gets stronger. You identify with this feeling of peace as Home. As the feeling of peace grows even stronger, you experience being free of stress and strain. You experience that the individual self identity dissolves in this peaceful Light. Nothing matters now but this Light of Love. You see that It is all that is real. You naturally receive and extend the Love and Light that you feel. It feels so effortless and natural.

You innately know that this is your function now — to open to Love’s presence and extend Love’s presence. This is how you heal. This is how you are healed. This is what time is for.

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Opening the Door to Peace

Robert: 
Peace cannot be found in the world. Peace can be experienced in the world, but it comes from within, not from a world outside. To find the peace that is inherent in What I am, I need to lift the veil of beliefs and self-concepts that hide it from my awareness. This is what forgiveness does.

I cannot let go of false beliefs without help from outside of the belief system I hold dear. I am grateful for the Voice for God in my mind That is there ready to teach me what is true and what is not. It is there to help me release what interferes with my experience of the Self that Love created.

Today I dedicate to practicing holding my heart and mind open to the Holy Spirit’s kind and patient teaching that leads me to the remembrance of the Love I am that joins me with all my brothers.


Mary:
When I open to the changeless Love of the one eternal Spirit of Love, I feel safe and patient. I know that everything is alright and that all is well. I feel at peace. When I forget this, I get caught up in the stories of suffering and loss, of guilt and death.

I can see the difference in how I feel with each state of mind. This motivates me to accelerate my willingness to consistently choose the peace that opens the door to the awareness of Love’s presence. As I let this habit become stronger, I am able to apply it to more and more situations. I am able to generalize accepting the truth of oneness instead of separation in more situations.

This is my practice today and every day. Do I want to continue with the ego’s false stories and feel the pain and stress that goes with it? Or do I want to accept the awareness of my true Self and the peace and understanding that goes with this? My true Self is always there ready to bring me the awareness of Love’s presence as I am willing. My practice today is to relax and follow Holy Spirit’s lead.

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The Only Real Need

Mary:
This morning we read from A Course in Miracles:

The Holy Spirit leads me unto Christ, and where else would I go? What need have I but to awake in Him?

Then follow Him in joy, with faith that He will lead you safely through all dangers to your peace of mind this world may set before you. Kneel not before the altars to sacrifice, and seek not what you will surely lose. Content yourself with what you will as surely keep, and be not restless, for you undertake a quiet journey to the peace of God, where He would have you be in quietness. (T-13.VII.14:2-3, 15:1-3)

What stood out to me the most is, “What need have I but to awake in Him?” In this world it seems like I have so many other needs that demand my attention other than awakening in Him. But in truth this is my only real need.

When I join with the ego thought system, the needs or problems are very effective distractions that encourage me to think that all these other things are more important than waking up to my true Self. But here I am reminded that the reverse is true. Waking up from the dream is all important. That is why it is so important for me to return to the humility of remembering that of myself I know nothing. As I am willing to practice stepping back and listening rather than deciding on my own what is important, I will return again to peace.

The Light of peace has a way of dissolving ego thoughts and showing me how meaningless they are. What seemed a mountain now becomes a mole hill. I return again to remembering that I am safe, no matter what problems appear to show up in the dream. As I choose one more time to accept peace, I am filled with the awareness that nothing has really happened to change God’s one Son. I am reminded that separation is not real and that only Love is real. My conflicted mind is quieted as I once again choose peace to lead me away from fear and again return to the quietness of truth.


Robert:
What stood out to me in this paragraph from ACIM was, “Seek not what you will surely lose.” Earlier in this section we were told that everything we make in the world begins to decay as soon as it is made. There is nothing in this world that is eternal. So if I value any form in the world, I am seeking what I will surely lose.

When I redirect my value to giving and receiving Love, I am valuing the eternal. As I practice stepping back into peace and opening my mind and heart to the Holy Spirit’s teaching, I learn to recognize the valuelessness of form and easily lay it down.

Sometimes some forms seem especially important. They seem to be essential to my survival. But that very statement indicates that I believe I am vulnerable and capable of loss. This is another misplaced value, for what God created me to be is invulnerable and eternal. Love is changeless.

Through the forgiveness process of letting go of the false beliefs about what I am, I return to Love. This process is what time is for now. There is no greater value for time than to use it, with the help of the Holy Spirit, to heal my mind.

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Forgive the World, Forgive Yourself and Return Home

Forgive the World, Forgive Yourself and Return Home

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Today practice staying in the present moment. Practice welcoming Love in the present moment. As soon as you notice thoughts about the past or the future, hand those those thoughts to Me. I will shine a Light on them and return you to the peace and joy of the present moment. In truth you always reside in eternity, not in time. Time is over and in your heart of hearts you want to return to this awareness.

Be kind to yourself today. Welcome peace and let peace lead the way. Let go of efforting or trying to make things go the way you want. Let go and let God. Let go of control and let yourself be carried today. As you welcome peace, you are led to the quietness of God. You are led Home.


Holy Spirit to Robert:
Seek not to make the world you see your home. It can never satisfy you. Whenever you try to organize events and circumstances to meet what you believe would make you happy, you are trying to make this world your home. You will fail in this attempt because illusion can never be your home.

Your Home is Love. You have never really left your Home, but when you seek to make the world your home, your real Home becomes hidden to you. Instead of knowing the safety and peace of your Home, you have experienced the vulnerability and conflict of the world of separation you made up. Let it go. Forgive the world for what it has never accomplished. Forgive yourself for believing that you could leave your Home.

Your Father has never condemned you and waits with open arms of Love to welcome you Home. Forgive yourself, forgive the world and return to the peace and happiness of the Home where you belong and have never truly left.

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Step Back and Let Love Lead the Way

Holy Spirit to Robert:
Awakening requires only a willingness to accept the truth and let go of what is not true. The only reason you do not experience Heaven now is that there are still some illusions you still prefer over the truth. You are not asked to sacrifice illusions you hold dear. But if you want to experience lasting happiness, perfect peace and limitless Love, you must be willing to bring your illusions to Me and let Me show you what is valuable and what is not.

My Love for you is without limit. We are joined in that Love and so I could never bring pain to you. I will gently teach you what is valueless. When you recognize an illusion has no value, you freely let it go with no sense of sacrifice. You will experience pain, sometimes denied and well hidden, whenever you value the nothingness of illusion in place of the infinity of God’s Love. It is this pain that eventually becomes intolerable and brings about a willingness, an openness to find a better way. Thus even pain becomes a gift you give yourself when you use it to turn away from self deception and open your mind to the truth of Love.

Practice today stepping back and letting Love lead the way.


Mary:
Today it is my job to step back and let my inner Comforter lead the way. Today it is my job to receive His peace. In accepting His peace, my mind is transformed.

The meaningless fearful ideas of the ego are shined away as I am willing to receive the gift of peace. Tension melts away and I feel the truth of the statement, “Health is inner peace.” As I truly am willing to accept inner peace, my priorities are shifted. My willingness to remember that I am eternal Spirit in God’s ocean of peace returns. I remember that all is well. I am safe, I am innocent, I am loved, I am Home. I let this remembering be my guide today.

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