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Welcoming Holy Spirit’s Guidance

This is not a course in the play of ideas, but in their practical application. Nothing could be more specific than to be told that if you ask you will receive. The Holy Spirit will answer every specific problem, as long as you believe that problems are specific. His answer is both many and one, as long as you believe that the One is many. You may be of afraid of His specificity, for fear of what you think it will demand of you. Yet only by asking will you learn that nothing of God demands anything of you. God gives; He does not take. When you refuse to ask, it is because you believe that asking is taking rather than sharing.

The Holy Spirit will give you only what is yours, and will take nothing in return. For what is yours is everything, and you share it with God. That is its reality. (A Course in Miracles, T-11.VIII.5:3-6:3. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The Course makes it very clear that the Holy Spirit will guide us very specifically in all things. We don’t seem to be able to receive this Guidance only because we are afraid of the answer. It is helpful to remember that at the core of the ego thought system is the belief in sacrifice, scarcity and loss. The ego is the idea of separating (sacrificing) from the Source of all that is Real in order to build a kingdom of its own. Since only Love is real, the ego’s kingdom is loveless. It’s not a happy state of mind.

We are afraid of the Holy Spirit’s guidance because we are afraid we would have to sacrifice the loveless kingdom we have made. So we need to be taught to recognize that the kingdom we have made has no value and is not real. It is nothing. As we learn this, the guidance of the Holy Spirit is welcomed. When we accept the Holy Spirit’s guidance we are exchanging nothing for everything. It could be said that nothing is taken from us and everything is given us.

The early lesson that tells us we do not know what anything means helps open our minds to learn where real meaning lies. It opens our minds to the Holy Spirit’s lesson that only Love is real. The specific guidance the Holy Spirit gives always has the underlying lesson that only Love is real and always answers every call for Love with Love. In our hearts this is all we really want.

Today we open our hearts and minds to the Holy Spirit’s guidance, moment by moment.

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