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Following God’s Plan

Ask [God] 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. The very fact that you are doing the exercises proves that you have some willingness to listen. This is enough to establish your claim to God’s answer. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.71.9:2-10. See also ACIM Lesson 71 Insights.)

Happiness flows through us as we follow God’s plan for our salvation. Opening our minds to the peace and joy within brings inspiration in how to be truly helpful to ourselves, everyone around us and the world. As we take all our doubts and fears to the Holy Spirit within, we are gently led to our natural function of extending Love.

As we a open to our inner Inspiration in how to extend Love, we heal and are healed. We have great gratitude that we have so much help every step of the way. All this comes as we devote our day to following God’s plan.

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Healing Is Seeing Beyond Appearances

Appearances deceive, but can be changed. Reality is changeless. It does not deceive at all, and if you fail to see beyond appearances you are deceived. For everything you see will change, and yet you thought it real before, and now you think it real again. Reality is thus reduced to form, and capable of change. Reality is changeless. It is this that makes it real, and keeps it separate from all appearances. [Reality] must transcend all form to be itself. It cannot change. (A Course in Miracles, T-30.VIII.1. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The Course gives us a clear and easy benchmark to learn what is real and what is illusion. Reality is changeless. Whatever changes is always illusion. The body itself is constantly changing and therefore must not be our reality. What the changing body’s eyes show us is also constantly changing. Thus what we see in the world through the body’s eyes cannot be real.

Accepting this idea shakes the foundation of the world. Nothing in the world can be counted on for stability. The world is inherently unstable and therefore is not real. Recognizing this can be frightening until we realize that our reality is changeless, totally stable. We can count on the strength and certainty of our reality.

Yet if we believe that the world is real, we are unaware of the certainty that we remain changeless Love, as Love created us. We need to redirect our attention from focusing on the changing forms of the world to opening our minds to the vision of the Holy Spirit, which will always show us our changeless, loving foundation. This changelessness is always visible through our inner vision, the vision of our True Self.

We ask the Holy Spirit today to guide our vision. We open our minds to our Spiritual sight, with willingness to be shown the changeless Love that is ever present. With this Vision, we feel at peace because we see the reality that only Love is real.

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Accepting Holy Spirit’s Gift of Freedom

Freedom comes as I let the Holy Spirit judge all things for me. The ego has judged all things as separate and alone. The ego’s judgment tries to place its guilt outside itself. That is why it needs an ‘outside.’ On the other hand, the Holy Spirit sees all as one. The Holy Spirit shows me there is no outside. There is no guilt. When I hold hands with the Holy Spirit, all I see is innocence.

There is only one Christ Mind that is real. The Holy Spirit reminds me of the unreality of separation. The Holy Spirit shows me the meaninglessness of a world of separation. It is only when I am willing to go to the Holy Spirit that I will receive the Holy Spirit’s judgment. The Holy Spirit shows me the difference between the real and the unreal, and through this I find freedom from the bondage of the ego thought system of separation.

Today is a day of letting the Holy Spirit judge for me. Today I would practice refraining from judging on my own. Today I would practice holding Holy Spirit’s hand and receiving Christ’s vision. Today I would take one more step towards accepting the freedom that is mine. (Excerpt from ACIM Workbook Daily Lesson 311 Insights.)

It is very helpful to realize that I am accepting freedom when I step back and ask the Holy Spirit to judge all things for me. I am not loosing independence. I am gaining all freedom as I go to Holy Spirit with every fear, with every concern. The truth is I never could be independent of God. Everyone in the world — every Son of God — is still one with God.

We cannot change reality, no matter what images of being alone and separate we imagine to be real. We thought we gained freedom for ourselves by trying to be independent of God. But all we have done is lay a heavy burden of fear, guilt and punishment on ourselves. We are now learning to step back and allow the Holy Spirit to free us by removing all traces of this heavy burden. The Holy Spirit brings us true freedom as we follow His wise and loving guidance.

That is why my only goal is to let Holy Spirit judge everything for me today. I need to be taught the difference between the real and the unreal, truth and illusion. I need to be taught to see past the illusions of separation to the eternal truth that we still are one in God’s Love. This is how I am freed from the ego’s guilt to accept the Holy Spirit’s gift of Love’s oneness.

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The Journey to Joy

Every moment is an opportunity. The ego sees it as an opportunity to get more or defend what it thinks it has. The Holy Spirit sees it as an opportunity to give Love and receive Its blessing. The ego’s approach guarantees guilt and conflict. The Holy Spirit’s approach guarantees joy and peace. We always choose between these two paths.

When we choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide, every moment is used as a stepping stone that leads us closer and closer to the experience of Heaven, where we belong in truth. As we choose to walk with the Holy Spirit, we are led to recognize the seeming barriers to Love as illusions. When illusions are recognized, they are easily laid down and the path to Love becomes lit with God’s joy. We choose this journey today.

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I Will Step Back and Let Him Lead the Way

This is the way salvation works. As you step back, the Light in you steps forward and encompasses the world. …In lightness and in laughter is sin gone, because its quaint absurdity is seen.

“Who walks with me?” This question should be asked a thousand times a day, till certainty has ended doubting and established peace. Today let doubting cease. God speaks for you in answering your question with these words:

I walk with God in perfect holiness. I light the world, I light my mind and all the minds which God created one with me. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.156.6:1-2,4;8:1-6. See also ACIM Lesson 156 Insights.)

When we walk with God in His perfect holiness, we see only innocence everywhere. There is nothing else to see. Guilt disappears as we accept God’s holiness, our true Self, in us. Fear disappears, for we no longer project guilt on the world. The vision of a forgiven world, where only innocence is seen, is a happy dream indeed for it welcomes God’s gift of perfect happiness.

As we let the Light of holiness shine through our minds today, we bless the world by seeing that Light everywhere. That blessing is reflected back to us and we accept God’s joy as ours.

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God’s Gifts of Peace & Joy Belong to Us Today

His are the gifts that are within us now, for they are timeless. And we need not wait to have them. They belong to us today.

Therefore, we choose to have them now, and know, in choosing them in place of what we made, we but unite our will with what God wills, and recognize the same as being one.

[We] lay aside the conflicts of the world that offer other gifts and other goals made of illusions, witnessed to by them, and sought for only in a world of dreams.

All this we lay aside, and seek instead that which is truly ours, as we ask to recognize what God has given us. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.104.2:4-6;3:1,4;4:1. See also ACIM Lesson 104 Insights.)

Imagine what today and every day would be like as you accept the peace and joy God has given you eternally… Better yet, imagine what the next hour will be like as you let God’s peace and joy fill your mind… You let God’s peace and joy carry you through this sacred hour…

You let the holy thoughts that come with these sacred gifts come into your mind… You join as one with God’s peace and joy… You remember that God’s gifts of peace and joy belong to you today.

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I Hear Holy Spirit’s Call

The Holy Spirit is calling me to peace. The Holy Spirit is calling me to joy. I answer by stilling my mind and listening.

I am brought to the eternal now. I receive Universal Inspiration in a form that is best for me now. I feel the Holy Spirit lighting up my mind and healing all my thoughts of separation.

My awareness of our oneness is growing. I feel the Holy Spirit’s joy overflowing as I continue to follow Holy Spirit’s lead. I am led to accepting and sharing oneness in God’s Love. (Poster from Pathways of Light course 912: Accepting Holy Spirit’s Help)

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