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Now Is the Time to Join with Love

There is no escape from fear in the ego’s use of time. For time, according to its teaching, is nothing but a teaching device for compounding guilt until it becomes all-encompassing, demanding vengeance forever.

The Holy Spirit would undo all of this now. Fear is not of the present, but only of the past and future, which do not exist. There is no fear in the present when each instant stands clear and separated from the past, without its shadow reaching out into the future. Each instant is a clean, untarnished birth, in which the Son of God emerges from the past into the present. And the present extends forever. It is so beautiful and so clean and free of guilt that nothing but happiness is there. No darkness is remembered, and immortality and joy are now.

Begin to practice the Holy Spirit’s use of time as a teaching aid to happiness and peace. Take this very instant, now, and think of it as all there is of time. Nothing can reach you here out of the past, and it is here that you are completely absolved, completely free and wholly without condemnation. From this holy instant wherein holiness was born again you will go forth in time without fear, and with no sense of change with time. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.I.7:6-8:7;9:4-7. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

In every instant we choose between guilt and innocence, hell and Heaven. There is no in-between, though we may vacillate between identifying with our true Self or with the image the ego has made as our identity. With the Holy Spirit’s help we can train ourselves to identify with our true Self. Our true Self is always present, now, but it is hidden while we bring the ego’s images of the past and overlay them on the present.

Pause for a moment and notice the thoughts that pass through your mind. If you are honest with yourself, you will see that these thoughts are always based on the past. While we identify with the ego, we will always perceive the present based on our memories of the past. Our true Self’s only memory is of the eternal, changeless Love of God.

The Holy Spirit was given us to teach us to identify with our true Self. In each now moment we can choose the Holy Spirit as our Teacher. He will teach us how to let go of the past and all its fear and guilt. As we accept the Holy Spirit’s lessons, we free ourselves to experience now in the brilliant Light of Love, free of the ego’s dark shadows of hate and guilt. Now is the time to join with the true Self we share with all our brothers.

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