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Accepting Our True Inheritance

Heaven itself is reached with empty hands and open minds, which come with nothing to find everything and claim it as their own. We will attempt to reach this state today, with self-deception laid aside, and with an honest willingness to value but the truly valuable and the real. Our two extended practice periods of fifteen minutes each begin with this:

I will not value what is valueless, and only what has value do I seek, for only that do I desire to find.

And then receive what waits for everyone who reaches, unencumbered, to the gate of Heaven, which swings open as he comes. Should you begin to let yourself collect some needless burdens, or believe you see some difficult decisions facing you, be quick to answer with this simple thought:

I will not value what is valueless, for what is valuable belongs to me. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.133.13-14)

In every now moment, we have the opportunity to receive the gift of true perception from the Holy Spirit. To receive the gift we need to be willing to set aside the values we have given to the images in the world. We need to have a quiet, open mind. When we are willing, the Holy Spirit takes us past the stories of the world to show us our true inheritance.

In truth, we are pure Spirit That has been given all That is. God has shared all of Himself with us. We already have all Love. As we accept the Love we are, we naturally share it equally with everyone, because that is the nature of Love. When we stop valuing the valueless, we accept what we have been given and really are. We accept Love and extend only Love.

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Holy Spirit, How Would You See This?

The vision of Christ is the vision of forgiveness. It is what we see when we let go of our own judgments and let the Holy Spirit judge everything on our behalf. His judgment is very simple — He sees everything as either Love or a call for Love. There is nothing else to see because only Love is real.

Each time we lay down a judgment we take a step toward the full remembrance that we remain Love as Love created us. Each step brings us greater peace and joy, for these are Love’s attributes. Today our practice is to ask throughout the day, “Holy Spirit, how would you see this?” With our willingness to receive His answer we will experience the deep peace and quiet joy of remembering the Love we are.

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Remembering Our Eternal Innocence

Can you imagine what it means to have no cares, no worries, no anxieties, but merely to be perfectly calm and quiet all the time? Yet that is what time is for; to learn just that and nothing more. God’s Teacher cannot be satisfied with His teaching until it constitutes all your learning. He has not fulfilled His teaching function until you have become such a consistent learner that you learn only of Him. When this has happened, you will no longer need a teacher or time in which to learn.

Time is your friend, if you leave it to the Holy Spirit to use. He needs but very little to restore God’s whole power to you. He Who transcends time for you understands what time is for. Holiness lies not in time, but in eternity. (A Course in Miracles T-15.I.1;15:1-4)

As we are willing to give time to the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit leads us past the stories found in time to the changeless peace, Love and joy that is our eternal Reality in Love. In truth we are all the same eternal Spirit of Love. Love created us like Itself. In truth, we are not separate from Love, but Love’s eternal extension.

Our eternal beingness as Love is remembered as we are willing to give all the stories found in time to the Holy Spirit. His Light of truth undoes all the fearful stories of separation and guilt, and returns us to remembering the eternal innocence of our one Identity. As we are willing to give time to the Holy Spirit, awareness of peace replaces the worries, anxieties and conflicts found in the ego’s use of time. All this returns to us as we are willing to remember the eternal truth about ourselves and everyone.

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Being a Friend to the World

How can we be a true Friend? We let Holy Spirit guide our perceptions so that we perceive only the truth in our brothers. We see no brother as a body, but only God’s loving extension. If we become distracted by an appearance in the world, we let the Holy Spirit gently correct our misperception so that once again we see past the form to the truth of Love. This is true honesty. A true friend is always honest with his brother. To see a brother as a body is dishonest because it is accepting a deception in place of the truth of our oneness in Love.

As we walk through this day our practice is to let the Holy Spirit show us the truth behind all appearances. And if we get caught up in reacting to appearances, we quickly turn to the Voice for God within for His gentle correction. This is how we will be a Friend to the world.

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Remembering We Walk with God

Forget not once this journey is begun the end is certain. Doubt along the way will come and go and go to come again. Yet is the ending sure. No one can fail to do what God appointed him to do. When you forget, remember that you walk with Him and with His Word upon your heart. Who could despair when hope like this is his? Illusions of despair may seem to come, but learn how not to be deceived by them. Behind each one there is reality and there is God. Why would you wait for this and trade it for illusions, when His Love is but an instant farther on the road where all illusions end? The end is sure and guaranteed by God. Who stands before a lifeless image when a step away the Holy of the Holies opens up an ancient door that leads beyond the world? (A Course in Miracles C-Epilogue.1)

It is comforting to be reminded that we walk with God, no matter how much we may get wrapped up in the images of the world. We always remain united with our Creator, whether we are aware of it or not. The Holy Spirit is ever-present in our minds, ready to bring us back to this awareness, when we are willing.

Sometimes it takes coming to a painful turning point for us to become willing. But the Course is offering us a training program to help us with our willingness. Awakening will happen of itself when there is willingness to accept a new vision. Today we will practice opening to Holy Spirit’s vision by frequently stepping back and welcoming peace. In peace we are open to receive Holy Spirit’s gift of vision.

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Love Is the World’s Only Reality

If you would look upon love, which is the world’s reality, how could you do better than to recognize, in every defense against it, the underlying appeal for it? And how could you better learn of its reality than by answering the appeal for it by giving it? The Holy Spirit’s interpretation of fear does dispel it, for the awareness of truth cannot be denied. Thus does the Holy Spirit replace fear with love and translate error into truth. And thus will you learn of Him how to replace your dream of separation with the fact of unity. For the separation is only the denial of union, and correctly interpreted, attests to your eternal knowledge that union is true. (A Course in Miracles T-12.I.10)

We are reminded here that there is only Love or a call for Love. Today’s practice is to recognize all calls for Love by giving only Love. We do this by letting the Holy Spirit be our Interpreter in every moment. As we consistently pay attention to Holy Spirit’s interpretation of everything we think we see or experience, we are returned to the truth of our oneness in Love. We remember that only union is true.

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Letting Truth In

All that is asked of you is to make room for truth. You are not asked to make or do what lies beyond your understanding. All you are asked to do is let it in; only to stop your interference with what will happen of itself; simply to recognize again the presence of what you thought you gave away.

Be willing, for an instant, to leave your altars free of what you placed upon them, and what is really there you cannot fail to see. The holy instant is not an instant of creation, but of recognition. For recognition comes of vision and suspended judgment. Then only it is possible to look within and see what must be there, plainly in sight, and wholly independent of inference and judgment. Undoing is not your task, but it is up to you to welcome it or not. Faith and desire go hand in hand, for everyone believes in what he wants. (A Course in Miracles T-21.II.7:6-8;8)

Our insistence on believing what the body’s senses show us is real blocks awareness of the truth. Being an illusion, the body is incapable of recognizing truth. When we believe the body is real, we are believing in a false self-image. The Course is teaching us to redirect our attention to the Holy Spirit in our minds.

As we are willing to accept His vision, we see past all appearances in the world to the truth that only Love is real. It is this willingness to suspend judgment on our own and to be open to Holy Spirit’s lead that lets the truth in. Our practice today is to frequently pause, suspend our judgment and open to Holy Spirit’s inspiration.

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