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Study of Text, C 14: V. The Circle of Atonement, P 4. 4-17-17

V. The Circle of Atonement, P 4
4 The inheritance of the Kingdom is the right of God’s Son, given him in his creation. Do not try to steal it from him, or you will ask for guilt and will experience it. Protect his purity from every thought that would steal it away and keep it from his sight. Bring innocence to light, in answer to the call of the Atonement. Never allow purity to remain hidden, but shine away the heavy veils of guilt within which the Son of God has hidden himself from his own sight.

Journal
Jesus says that the Kingdom is the right of God’s Son and admonishes us not to steal it from him. How could I do that? He gives us the answer to that. It is our thoughts that we must guard. I am careful of my thoughts, and when I notice thoughts of guilt or fear, I ask for the Atonement for them.

I am aware of attack thoughts and judgments very quickly these days, and when I am aware of them, I ask the Holy Spirit to purify my mind. In this way, I protect my purity and my brother’s innocence as well. The Sonship is all of us together, so I want to do my part in God’s plan for salvation that all of us be saved as one.

Protecting our innocence is simple once you get the hang of it. I started off watching my thoughts and releasing the ones I don’t think with God. Then I began to see the beliefs that sourced the thoughts, and I started releasing those beliefs, and soon I understood what it means that there are only one problem and one solution. There is nothing complicated about the process, but it did take time for me to accept that so much of what I valued was valueless.

Now, it seems to have become distilled into the desire to love. I just don’t want to hurt anyone, not myself or any other person. That desire not to harm is what motivates me to remain vigilant. Happiness is another strong motivator. Now that I have become happy more than I am stressed, I don’t have a lot of tolerance for unhappiness. I might express that as being peaceful because the effects are inseparable. I am happy when I am peaceful, and I am peaceful when I am happy. Guilt robs me of my peaceful happiness, so I don’t want it anymore.

This is not to say that I never have thoughts of guilt. I worked with those thoughts this morning as a matter of fact. I had some upsetting news yesterday about a loved one. I spent the rest of the day releasing thoughts and picking them back up. Probably we all do this sometimes. I was on a roller coaster ride of being at peace for awhile, then losing that peace as I returned to being anxious for my loved one.

This morning when I woke up, I awoke to the anxiety. As I lay there allowing the possible outcomes to run through my mind the anxiety increased. I decided to meditate on this and, hopefully, to let these thoughts be undone for me. I began with the simple statement, “Lord, here I am.” Then I told Him all about it.

As I spoke, I realized that there was a lot of guilt involved in this tale. I felt guilty,
and in turn, I had been spreading the guilt around. I had made so many people guilty for what was going on that it was ridiculous. Some of this I had been aware of, but a lot of it was unconscious. I was glad to see it come out into the light so I could choose to heal.

Then I told God that I don’t want to live like this. I don’t want to live in guilt and fear. I want to go back to love because that is where my happiness and my peace of mind are. I just want to love and be love, all the time. I knew that if I stayed in fear that it would appear as anger and I just don’t want to do that. I don’t want to hide our purity from any of us. Then I lay there quietly and allowed my mind to be soothed and restored to peace. I think this is the kind of thing that Jesus is asking us to do.

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