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Opening to the Holy Spirit’s Direction

God’s plan for salvation works simply because, by following His direction, you seek for salvation where it is. But if you are to succeed, as God promises you will, you must be willing to seek there only.

Ask Him very specifically:

What would You have me do?
Where would You have me go?
What would You have me say, and to whom?

Give Him full charge… and let Him tell you what needs to be done by you in His plan for your salvation. He will answer in proportion to your willingness to hear His Voice. Refuse not to hear. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 71, W-pI.71.5:1-2;9:2-8. See also ACIM Lesson 71 Insights.)

Because this world is the denial of our oneness with God, it seems that we are alone and must fend for ourselves to survive and find happiness. The Course is teaching us that there is no happiness or safety to be found in this dream of separation.

The ego thought system of separation is incapable of leading us to true safety and happiness. At best it can offer illusionary substitutes that give us moments of seeming happiness or safety. But these temporary substitutes cannot last because they are not real. The ego will always direct us to seek where we cannot find the happiness and peace we yearn for in our hearts.

Yet God has given us the answer to this call of our hearts. The Holy Spirit is always available to us. We need only ask for His help with willingness to receive His answer. God has promised that the answer will come very specifically in the form we need in the moment that will lead us back to our Home.

God’s Will for us is perfect happiness. When we ask the Holy Spirit for help with willingness, we are led lovingly and gently to true happiness and deep peace. We are accepting God’s Will as our will. We are accepting the joy and peace that is our inheritance, given us by our Creator.

Today we practice opening our minds and hearts to the Holy Spirit’s kind and gentle direction.

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Remembering the One Light We All Are

Beyond the body, beyond the sun and stars, past everything you see and yet somehow familiar, is an arc of golden light that stretches as you look into a great and shining circle. And all the circle fills with light before your eyes. The edges of the circle disappear, and what is in it is no longer contained at all. The light expands and covers everything, extending to infinity forever shining and with no break or limit anywhere. Within it everything is joined in perfect continuity. Nor is it possible to imagine that anything could be outside, for there is nowhere that this light is not.

This is the vision of the Son of God, whom you know well. Here is the sight of him who knows his Father. Here is the memory of what you are; a part of this, with all of it within, and joined to all as surely as all is joined in you. Accept the vision that can show you this, and not the body. (A Course in Miracles, T-21.I.8,9:1-4. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Today we practice seeing past bodies to remember the one Light we all are… We remember we are totally joined in the same Light of Love God created us to be… We let the veil of separation be lifted… We let ourselves feel the truth of Love’s oneness today…

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Seeing as Love Sees

If you send forth only the messengers the Holy Spirit gives you, wanting no messages but theirs, you will see fear no more. The world will be transformed before your sight, cleansed of all guilt and softly brushed with beauty. The world contains no fear that you laid not upon it. And none you cannot ask love’s messengers to remove from it, and see it still. The Holy Spirit has given you His messengers to send to your brother and return to you with what love sees. (A Course in Miracles, T-19.IV.A.15:1-5. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Love sees only Love or calls for Love. For every call for Love, the answer is Love. The Holy Spirit knows how to answer every call for Love in a way that is most helpful for everyone concerned. Today we give Holy Spirit welcome. Where He is welcomed, He is there already.

As we welcome Holy Spirit’s vision, we see the truth in our brothers and learn of the truth in ourselves. Fear and guilt fade away as we accept the innocence we share in truth. We see as Love sees.

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Today We Extend God’s Peace and Joy

God’s peace and joy are yours. Today we will accept them, knowing they belong to us. And we will try to understand these gifts increase as we receive them.

Accept God’s peace and joy, and you will learn a different way of looking at a gift. God’s gifts will never lessen when they are given away. They but increase thereby.

My brother, peace and joy I offer you,
That I may have God’s peace and joy as mine. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 105, W-pI.105.1:1-3;3:3-5;7:2. See also ACIM Lesson 105 Insights.)

True joy inspires an exuberance that motivates a desire to share it. This joy cannot be contained. Our exuberance is contagious as we share it. This joy resonates with the joy in others and is magnified.

Deep peace inspires a quiet sharing. It carries a deep calm that flows in front of us, stilling the disturbances that appear in the world. This peace is so strong that it, too, cannot be contained. It resonates with the peace in others, joining with it and strengthening it.

As we share the joy and peace of God, it energizes and strengthens the joy and peace in our brothers, who reflect it back to us. The gifts of peace and joy are thus continuously magnified as we share them. We are blessed as we extend God’s peace and joy today.

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Taking Responsibility for Our Experience

I am responsible for what I see.
I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide
upon the goal I would achieve.
And everything that seems to happen to me
I ask for, and receive as I have asked.

Deceive yourself no longer that you are helpless in the face of what is done to you. Acknowledge but that you have been mistaken, and all effects of your mistakes will disappear.

It is impossible the Son of God be merely driven by events outside of him. It is impossible that happenings that come to him were not his choice. His power of decision is the determiner of every situation in which he seems to find himself by chance or accident. No accident nor chance is possible within the universe as God created it, outside of which is nothing. Suffer, and you decided sin was your goal. Be happy, and you gave the power of decision to Him Who must decide for God for you. (A Course in Miracles, T-21.II.2:3-7;3:1-6. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

We are given a very clear map with well defined sign posts that tell us which directions lead to pain and suffering and which lead to peace and joy. It is also made clear that we always are choosing between these two options. No one does it for us.

Because of our unconscious denial, it seems that things happen to us that we did not ask for. But that denial is simply an ego mechanism to maintain the illusion that we are separate and alone.

It is good news to learn that we are making the choice in every moment that brings us every experience. Learning this frees us from the prison of the ego thought system. We are now free to choose the direction that leads to joy and peace. That choice is made easier because all we need do is ask the Holy Spirit to choose for Love on our behalf. As we are able to ask without reservation, we experience a world of Love and freedom, safety and happiness. The shadows of fear fade away and the Light of Love enlightens our world.

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Only God’s Love Is Real

Christ’s vision has one law. It does not look upon a body, and mistake it for the Son whom God created. It beholds a light beyond the body; an idea beyond what can be touched, a purity undimmed by errors, pitiful mistakes, and fearful thoughts of guilt from dreams of sin. It sees no separation. And it looks on everyone, on every circumstance, all happenings and all events, without the slightest fading of the light it sees.

This lesson is not difficult to learn, if you remember in your brother you but see yourself. If he be lost in sin, so must you be; if you see light in him, your sins have been forgiven by yourself. Each brother whom you meet today provides another chance to let Christ’s vision shine on you, and offer you the peace of God. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 158, W-pI.158.7,10:3-5. See also ACIM Lesson 158 Insights.)

Today we practice beholding the Light beyond all bodies, beyond all differences, beyond all form. We practice seeing every brother as the same Love God is… As we practice this we are able to remember that we are the same Love as God… As we practice this, differences disappear and we are able to see Love’s innocence in everyone… As we practice seeing only innocence, we experience God’s peace… We remember that no one in reality can harm or be harmed, because only God’s Love is real… And what is not real is harmless…

Through Christ’s vision we wake up from the ego’s mind set of separation and differences… We remember that only God’s Love is real…

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Freedom from Fear

To follow the Holy Spirit’s guidance is to let yourself be absolved of guilt. It is the essence of the Atonement. It is the core of the curriculum. The imagined usurping of functions not your own is the basis of fear. The whole world you see reflects the illusion that you have done so, making fear inevitable. To return the function to the One to Whom it belongs is thus the escape from fear. And it is this that lets the memory of love return to you. (A Course in Miracles, M-29.3:3-9)

We practice today referring decisions to the Holy Spirit with increasing frequency. We refrain from making decisions on our own and instead open our minds to receive Holy Spirit’s guidance.

We open our minds to receive the Holy Spirit’s gifts of peace and Love… We know we will be guided by Love…

With Holy Spirit’s guidance, we become aware that we are being carried… Inspiration comes in spontaneously… Our one goal is to be truly helpful and we receive the wisdom we need as we need it through the day… Our confidence grows with consistent practice… Our desire is great to follow only Holy Spirit’s plan… We remember to ask all things of the Holy Spirit, knowing we receive as we have asked. And we are grateful for all the help we receive.

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