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Stepping Back from Planning on My Own

Robert:  My only job is to accept my real will, which is the same as God’s Will. When I try to make plans on my own, I am rejecting God’s Will. As a result I am not in peace. Peace comes with accepting God’s Will as mine. When I try to “push the river,” I am adding my own agenda, making my own plan. It’s ironic that the plans I make, which are intended to make me happy or safe or bring me peace, really block my awareness from the safety and peace and happiness that is already mine.

Today my practice is to step back from planning on my own. As I step back I open my mind to the guidance of the Holy Spirit Whose only interest is my perfect peace and happiness.

Mary:  Whose hand am I holding right now? If I am trying to figure it out on my own, I have to admit that I am holding ego’s hand. When I am honest with myself, I then have the opportunity to choose once again. Am I really willing to take Holy Spirit’s Hand and be led and have no opinions of my own? How do I know if I am really stepping back?

I am really stepping back when I truly commit to allowing the peace of God to fill my mind. I am truly stepping back when I let go of my planning and just want the peace of God. When I truly let go, everything softens. The chatter stops. I just lay everything down. In this place of silence I can feel God’s peace. The problems of the world fall away and there is quiet. I listen and know that all is well. I know that I have everything I need.

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Experience God’s Joy

Holy Spirit to Mary:  You can experience God’s joy. The answer lies within and not without. Whose hand are you joining with right now? If you are joining with the Holy Spirit, you will feel Holy Spirit’s gifts of joy and peace and freedom. If instead you are joined with the ego, you will feel lack, limitation and frustration because you are lost in the ego’s dream of being separated from your Source.

The choice is yours every minute. Let yourself recognize this fact, that the choice is yours, every minute, for what you will experience.

The old habit of joining with the ego has been strong, but now you know that your true power lies in joining with the Holy Spirit. With this joining, you find peace—lasting peace. As you place your trust in choosing only this, your life experience becomes a grand adventure. Every moment now becomes an opportunity to let the Holy Spirit choose for you. You need do nothing. It is done for you. Focus only on choosing with the Holy Spirit. You will feel the difference and what you accept you will extend. This is your purpose. This is your only purpose.

Holy Spirit to Dorie:  Release yourself from the prison of fear, for my Love and joy are with you always. As you go through the day, replace all thoughts of fear with the reality of My joy. Accept nothing less than my perfect joy. Extend My Love to all.

Holy Spirit to Robert:  There is an image in my mind. It’s a caricature of a knight in shining armor holding his sword high, standing on a little mound. He thinks he is king of the mountain.

Holy Spirit is telling me to step out of that role. There is nothing to vanquish nor defend against. If I want to be king, I need only remember What I am. I am one with the King of Heaven, along with all my brothers.

My domain is Love that is all inclusive. It is a domain of joy and peace. That is my kingdom. To claim it I need only let go of the tiny mound and accept the grandeur of God’s gift. In the accepting, all my brothers are included, for it is a gift that I cannot claim alone. I am in great gratitude for the gift of Heaven.

Sharyn: Be happy and rejoice. I see the doors of a prison opening. A person is jumping out saying, “I’m free!”

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Hand Over the Reins

Robert: There is a line in A Course in Miracles that says, “Be vigilant only for God and His Kingdom.” For me right now this means paying close attention with the Holy Spirit to my thoughts. If I want to return to the Love and peace of God, I must break the habit of thinking on my own. I must break the habit of thinking that on my own I know what anything means.

Allowing that habit to continue simply leads me into chaos, because it is a habit of thinking that illusions having meaning. This is not what I really want. I really want the peace of God. I really want to remember the Love that created me that I am. I really want to remember that only Love is real and that all there is to see is Love.

To have what I really want, I need to be vigilant only for Love. Of myself I do not know what Love is or what it looks like. But the Holy Spirit in my mind is there to guide me and show me the reality of Love. Today I would walk and breathe with the Holy Spirit and together be vigilant only for Love. My heart leaps with joy and gratitude.

Holy Spirit to Mary:  Hand over the reins. Let your mind quiet and listen. Relax and soften. Remember that you do not know what anything means. Let every circumstance that comes up be another opportunity to step back and listen. Do not try to figure anything out on your own. Remember that you do not know, but the Holy Spirit in your mind does know what would be best for all concerned.

Practice stepping back in quiet listening today. You will know that you are truly stepping back when you feel deep peace. From that place of deep peace, you will be guided with certainty.

Holy Spirit to Sharyn:  Letting go of the stories you made up is simply forgiving yourself for what never was. Letting go is truly a process that must be done in order to see the Truth. The truth is you are a wholly loving, abundant daughter of God. His Will is your will. Let it be that way. When you come to Me for answers to all your questions, I will only answer what His Will is for you. God’s Will for you is perfect happiness. Accept that and know that always. Love is always the answer. Let go and let God.

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Love Is the Only Power

Holy Spirit to Robert:  Love is the only power. This simple thought is all you need hold in your mind to experience the peace of Heaven. Love is the only power. This simple thought reminds you of your strength. It reminds you of What you are. Love is the only power. Hold this thought in your mind as you look upon all the images in the world. This thought will show you What is real and what is not. With this thought in mind you walk in peace, joined with your brother in perfect harmony.

Holy Spirit to Mary:  The power of Love is simple and uncomplicated. Complication is only of the ego. Eternal oneness is uncomplicated. It is unchanging. It is where your safety lies. Love is the only power. Let yourself remember this today.

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What Is My Purpose?

Mary:  What is my one purpose? My one purpose is to be willing to let my mind be healed by the Holy Spirit.

This means my mind needs to be open and not closed to the Holy Spirit. When I think I already know, my mind is not open. I am constantly receiving a lesson in humility and letting go of what I think I know. One way to increase my openness to the Holy Spirit is to relax and let go of trying to figure anything out. The word soften is often very helpful in starting the process of letting go and letting God. As I soften more and more, the Holy Spirit has the opportunity to take over. Often just taking a deep breath and asking for the truth reminds me of my true purpose.

In truth, I do not want separation. I want oneness. The Course tells me often that I always get what I want in my heart of hearts. Each day is for practicing letting go of the past and the future and opening my mind to receive the truth that I am eternal Spirit and only eternal Spirit.

As I open to Love, I find again that Love sees only Love. Love knows only Love. Any mind wandering outside of this truth is merely illusion. Remembering this brings me a deep sense of peace, well being and safety. Nothing has happened to change God’s one Son. Remembering this is what I really want. My one purpose is to accept the truth.

Robert:  A Course in Miracles tells us that, like perception, memory is selective. I have observed that the vast majority of the memories that float into my mind about past situations, events or interactions with others have guilt associated with them. Considering that the ego’s purpose for the past is to maintain guilt, this is not surprising.

In every moment I have a choice whether or not to believe my “memories” of the past. They are really just images I made up and I’ve convinced myself that they are real. But the good news is I don’t have to believe it any more. I don’t have to believe my thoughts. In fact, it is my job to question the reality of every thought. It is not my job to decide what is real and not real. But it is my job to not automatically on my own decide what anything means.

It is my job to offer all my thoughts to the Holy Spirit for His clarification and interpretation. The old, automatic pilot program is obsolete and does not serve me. It is my job now to establish a new program that automatically asks the Holy Spirit to be my interpreter in every moment. Today I would interpret nothing on my own.

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Let the Veil Be Lifted and See Only Love

Holy Spirit to Mary:  Let your practice be today to let the veil be lifted. The veil of separation is not what you want to look upon and believe in. Step back and in quietness ask the Holy Spirit to lift the veil of separation so that you can see truly.

You cannot lift the veil on your own. That is why you must relax and allow the Holy Spirit to do it for you. The Holy Spirit only needs your willingness to hand everything over that you think is real. Surrender your opinions over to Him. He will show you that all the images within the realm of separation are really meaningless and nothing at all. Instead of the turmoil and churning, there is quiet. There is peace. There is simple, uncomplicated Love, a Love That has always been and always will be.

When the veil has been lifted, you see that there has been no change and no differences. You are safe and everyone is safe in God’s Love. In God’s quiet stillness lies true happiness, true peace, true joy that never ends. Let yourself choose God today.

Robert:  Today I would see as Love sees. Love does not condemn and thus it sees only innocence. Love sees no differences for Love sees only Love. Nothing else is real. Love is all inclusive because It is One. When Love guides my seeing, I feel perfectly safe. I see no opposition, no conflict, nothing that disturbs my peace. When I see with Love’s vision, my heart is filled with gratitude, for I know that I dwell in Love and can never be without it.

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The Safety of Love

Holy Spirit to Mary:  Remember that you are safe and that everyone is safe. You are not vulnerable weak and alone. In truth, all is joined as one united beingness of Love that is our one Identity. Let yourself soak in this remembering as you go through your day today. You are safe. Everyone is safe. Anything else is a lie and needs to be forgiven.

Take all thoughts of danger to the Holy Spirit for it to be undone. False ideas are just mistaken thoughts and nothing more. They are not true. Eternal safety is guaranteed by God. You can awaken from the dream of fear. Let go of all your false ideas of lack and vulnerability and you will know that this is true.

Let peace arise in your mind and erase all false ideas. Peace is within you. Let Holy Spirit’s gift of peace enter to every darkened corner of your mind. All it needs is your little willingness.

Robert:  Last night I had a dream in which I was about to be attacked and I was thinking about how to defend myself. Then I remembered the thought I received the night before that all fear is nothing next to the power of Love.

I started repeating that thought to myself and I woke up gently from the dream. It was a wonderful demonstration of how to awaken from the dream of the world. All I need to remember is that all fear is nothing compared to the power of Love.

Today I will focus on remembering the power of Love in all my doing. I will remember the power of Love is with me as I perceive situations and events. I walk in the power and Light of Love. Here is my safety and my Reality. All I really want is to remember Love.

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