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Like a Little Child

Mary:
Today my job is to be like a little child and listen to my Father, my Source. I do not know what is in my best interest and so I need to stop and listen to my inner Teacher. This means being willing to let my mind quiet. I must be willing to let the peace of the Holy Spirit in and from there I can receive clear insight.

The peace I receive softens everything. I rest a while and simply receive the peace in silence… I realize I don’t have to figure anything out and that all that I really need is being provided… From this peaceful state of mind, my present happiness is all I am aware of. I am reminded to let go of the past and the future. I am reminded to focus on choosing peace and all the rest will take care of itself.

This is the powerful lesson the Holy Spirit provides when I am willing to listen: Everything is all right. You are safe in the Mind of God. You are in Heaven now. This is the eternal truth. You become aware of this truth when you are willing to become as a little child and open to eternal peace, Love and joy. Practice this today and every day. Let the past go. As you do this you are able to see the eternal present. This is your practice today.

Robert:
I see myself as a little child playing in a sandbox. I make roads and bridges and imaginary streams. I make streets and houses and I make sounds that imitate the sounds of cars and trucks moving along the roads. I become so involved in my sandbox play that I am completely unaware of anything outside the sandbox.

Then I hear a Voice calling, seemingly far off in the distance. As I become aware of it, I realize that it has been calling for a long time, but I was unaware of it while I was enthralled by my sandbox games. But there is something about this Voice that calls to me beyond the sound. It touches my heart and reminds me of another place which far outshines my little sandbox with indescribable joy and peace.

This Voice becomes more and more compelling, for it reminds me of certainty and safety, of Love beyond words. The attraction of the sandbox fades. The games I played there have lost their appeal. The appeal of this Voice has captured my full attention now. I am willing to let go of childish games and step out of the sandbox into the Light of Home, where I belong.

Here I experience immeasurable gratitude for an unending, unlimited flow of Love that flows into me and through me, extending out everywhere, blessing all always. The sandbox is a distant, faded memory, and now is gone completely. I have now returned to all I ever wanted. I have returned to my Self.

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Pay Attention to Your Thoughts

Holy Spirit to Robert:
Beware of the temptation to perceive yourself abandoned. God has not abandoned you. He could no more leave you than leave a part of Himself. You are part of Him and this will never change. Your belief that you have left God is the foundation for all perceived lack, loss and harm.

The thought that God could abandon you is simply a projection of your belief that you have abandoned Him. In truth you have not and cannot abandon God. But you can believe that you have, and make up an experience of being without God. This is experienced as terrifying because it seems as though you have lost your Life. Without God there is no Life. But the experience of lifelessness seems real to you because of your belief that you are separate from God. By God’s grace this could never be true. In this is your salvation.

It is time to give up childish dreams of isolation, loneliness and lifelessness. They do not bring you what you want. You want the peace of God. You want God’s Love. You want His joy. All these are already yours. No dream can bring you this. Dreams can offer only empty substitutes that cannot satisfy and only serve to deepen your despair.

Pay attention to your thoughts today. Do not tolerate any thought that is not peaceful, happy and loving. Offer any thought that does not have these attributes to Me. I will take it gladly. For each such thought you freely give to Me opens the door for the return God’s gift to you. That is My function. Yours is simply to offer Me each unforgiving thought, each dream fantasy of isolation and separation. What I return to you is a picture of peace, compassion and quiet joy. It is the real world that brings you to the gates of Heaven. Here God’s Love gently brings you Home to the unity of Love you never truly left. This is your heart’s desire. Let me bring you here today.

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Let go of your story. Let your mind be still. It helps to breathe deeply and relax your hold on the body… Let go… Let peace replace the tension you are still holding on to… Let yourself become aware that you are being showered with God’s peace. God’s peace is yours because you are in God’s river of peace… In truth, you are God’s peace… Accept the peace that you are… Let yourself become aware of the presence of peace residing in your mind… It has not left you, you have just replaced God’s Thoughts with ego thoughts… If you truly want to find the peace that is yours eternally, you will find it.

Let peace take over… Surrender to peace… Let go and let God… Let God’s gifts come into your awareness… Let yourself remember that you are still as God created you. You have not changed God’s one Son. Dreams cannot change Reality. Let simple, uncomplicated Love replace thoughts of individuality and conflict. Let the truth return to your awareness… You are safe… you are innocent… you are loved… you are Home.

Let the Truth replace your dreams of separation and lack today and you will see that peace and happiness are always yours to have and extend to the whole Sonship.

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I Will Forgive and This will Disappear

Mary:
This morning we read Lessons 192 and 193 in A Course in Miracles. What was most helpful to me is:

Each hour spend a little time today, and in the days to come, in practicing the lesson in forgiveness in the form established for the day. And try to give it application to the happenings the hour brought, so that the next one is free of the one before. The chains of time are easily unloosened in this way. Let no one hour cast its shadow on the hour that follows, and when that one goes, let everything that happened in its course go with it. Thus will you remain unbound, in peace eternal in the world of time.

This is the lesson God would have you learn: There is a way to look on everything that lets it be to you another step to Him, and to salvation of the world. To all that speaks of terror, answer thus: I will forgive, and this will disappear. To every apprehension, every care and every form of suffering, repeat these selfsame words. And then you hold the key that opens Heaven’s gate, and brings the Love of God the Father down to earth at last, to raise it up to Heaven. God will take the final step Himself. Do not deny the little steps He asks you take to Him.” (W-pI.193.12-13)

This is just what I needed this morning to clear my thoughts of misperceptions. I still find it too easy to get lost in the dream and forget it is not God’s Will that separate bodies be real. Jesus gives me very clear direction to apply to all “happenings” each hour of this day. When I am making separation real, I am not forgiving the false idea of separation.

Applying “I will forgive and this will disappear” to each circumstance of the hour helps clear my mind and makes way for the return of peace. Do I want to stay lost in the dream or do I want to awaken to my one Reality in the Mind of God? “I will forgive and this will disappear” is my touchstone to bring me back from insanity once again. I do not need to make separation real. I do not need to continue denying the Life I live in God. Applying each hour “I will forgive and this will disappear” is the way to free myself from the prison I have made by believing in the ego’s false ideas.

Holy Spirit to Robert:
Seek not for certainty in the world. Illusions have no substance and no stability. Certainty can only be found in the changelessness of Love. Certainty can only be found in the one Self you share with all. Forgiveness is the means to let go of your investment in making illusions seem real. In the release of illusions, the certainty of your Self is revealed. Let go. Offer Me all your thoughts about the world. I will use them on your behalf to teach you the lesson God would have you learn: Only Love is real.

Walk with Me today, and it will be a happy day of learning that will lead you to the real world, the forgiven world.

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The Gift of Peace

Holy Spirit to Robert:
Rest in Me. Rest in Me. Rest in Me. Let go of all your planning for your safety and comfort. I bring God’s plan to you with the sole intent of bringing you to perfect happiness, perfect safety and perfect peace. This plan will work; yours will not. Lay down your defenses against an imagined future.

Join with Me and receive the only plan that will bring you Home to your Self. This is what you really want. Nothing else will content you. This gift I offer you in every moment. Accept it now and be you blessed.

Robert:
I see myself being given a gift-wrapped box. I accept it and hold it to my heart. I know what is inside. Yet I want to hold it for awhile as if to prepare myself to fully accept what has been given me. I hold it quietly, feeling its comfort. Now I untie the bow and take off the lid.

There is no form inside the box, but as the lid comes off, I feel a wave of profound peace flow over me. I rest in it. This is all I ever wanted. I have it now and I realize I have always had it. I choose to deny it no longer. I choose to welcome it. And I realize that to keep it I must share it.

I am guided to prepare a variety of gift boxes. Each appears to be a little different, but they all have the same content. I put all the boxes in a sack and carry it with me. With my heart overflowing with joy, I hand out the boxes and I see that the form of the box is just the form that is easily received. The more I give, the greater the joy overflowing. I realize there is an unlimited supply of boxes. My only job is to share them, and I am deeply grateful for the opportunity to share.

Mary:
Right now I ask myself, “How willing am I to accept the truth? Am I willing to accept the truth that I am still as God created me? Or do I still want to insist that my replacement for God’s Will is true?” If I am truly honest with myself, I will come to a place where I remember that separate bodies are not real, and that Love’s formless oneness is universally true. This is what letting go and letting God means. Either I will judge for myself what is true, or I will make no judgments on my own and accept what the Holy Spirit shows me is eternally true.

My path to accepting the truth is to open my mind to accept God’s Gift of peace and quiet inner joy. There are no expectations here, for this holy place in my mind is timeless, with no past or future. I just open my mind to accepting God’s peace and all that I truly need and want is given me. Today is a day of accepting God’s peace. Today is a day of quiet following, letting my mind rest in the truth of What I am and Where I am always. Today is a day of letting go and letting God be in charge.

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The Gentle Correction of Our Inner Teacher

Holy Spirit to Robert:
Worry is a form of thinking about the past. You are using memories of past experiences to make up a story about the future that is disturbing. You believe the story you made up so completely that your muscles tighten up in preparation to defend against this imagined future. The more you invest in fearful stories, the greater your preparation to defend against them.

Because there is really nothing there in the present to defend against, these defenses are taken out on the body. In the extreme, this leads to disease and even death. You do this to yourself based on nothing real. You do not need to do this.

In fact it is time to let go of made up stories. They do not serve you. Your investment in them stands as a barrier that keeps you from recognizing that you are eternally safe in the Love of God. Give Me your worries. Let Me take care of them. I will wash them clean of meaningless images and return to you what is kind and loving, what is real.

As you turn over these thoughts to Me, I will help you see that they have no meaning. In this recognition you will easily lay them down and the barriers to Love’s Presence will fade away. All I need to bring you indescribable happiness and comfort is your willingness to give me all your thoughts of the past. Your practice of this process starts with specific thoughts, specific fears, specific perceptions of guilt.

As you continue your practice, you will discover that what appeared to be release from a specific fear had far reaching effects that freed you and your brothers beyond what you can imagine. You will discover that situations which used to disturb you no longer affect your peace of mind. More and more you will walk in gratitude and peace. More and more will the face of Christ shine upon you as the Love in you recognizes the Love in all your brothers.

All this and more comes to you with the practice of willingly offering all your thoughts of fear and guilt to me. It is a gift you give yourself. Accept the gift.

Mary:
This morning when I went to the Holy Spirit and asked to see things through the eyes of Christ, this song came into my mind: Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.

The song doesn’t say “row your boat fearfully down the stream.” It says, “gently” and “merrily.” When I take the dream too seriously and forget that it is but a dream, I lose my sense of peace and quiet inner joy. This is why I need the gentle correction of my inner Teacher, for I have gotten lost in the dream scenarios once again. Thank goodness the Holy Spirit is right there to bring my mind back to the truth when I remember to ask for Its gentle correction.

When I look at the worrisome stories found currently in this worrisome world, I find it all too easy to get caught up in it. Our daily studies of A Course in Miracles really help me reorient my mind to what the truth really is. It is only then that I can relax enough to open my inner windows and doors to the Holy Spirit. As I am willing, the Holy Spirit gently shows me the truth beyond the dream. It is such a relief to know that the truth is constant and never changes. Everyone in all the stories of the world is safe in the Mind of God. Everyone is still as pure and innocent as God created them.

By the grace of God our dream scenarios could never be made real, no matter how hard we try to make them seem real. It is very necessary for me at this time to soak in this remembering. The peace that goes beyond all the stories of the world is felt very strongly. In this wonderful place of peace, I know the truth that nothing real can be threatened. And all the stories of separation are but hallucinations in my mind. I gladly hand them over. I gladly let them be removed.

Here, in this sacred place of truth, I know that God’s Son is safe because he still remains as God created him. This feeling of safety is beyond all words. I give thanks.

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The Only Meaning Behind All Form

Robert:
Today we read the section, “The Truth behind Illusions” in the Text of A Course in Miracles. What stood out to me was, “They [illusions, the ego] must be neither cherished nor attacked, but merely looked upon as children’s toys without a single meaning of their own. See one [meaning] in them and you will see them all. See none in them and they will touch you not.” (T-30.IV.4:9-11)

This is a very simple, clear prescription to lead me out of the dream and back to the Home which I never truly left. There is nothing in this world of value to me. If I cherish any form, the whole world appears real. If I defend against or attack any form, the world seems very real. But when I see no meaning in any form of the world, I am free. No form attracts me nor threatens me.

The way is cleared for me to remember Where I am and What I am. All I need do to let go of the world is decide that I do not want whatever any form seems to offer me. All I really want is the Love of God, because all I really want is to be my Self. They are the same. It is my will to be Love and nothing else.

I have a long list of forms in the world that I think would comfort me or make me happy or safe. But this list is just a list of meaningless forms. Happiness and comfort and safety are already mine in the Love of God. All I need to do is recognize the meaninglessness of all forms and I will experience certainty and joy and peace beyond anything imaginable in the world. Today I will practice keeping my mind and heart open to the Love that is the only meaning behind all form.

Mary:
Today gives me another opportunity to practice choosing to accept God’s peace. Today I will practice stepping back and following Holy Spirit’s lead. In truth I am at Home in the Mind of God. I open my mind to accept the truth today.

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Practice Stepping Back

Mary:
This morning we were led to read Review V in the Workbook for Students. This message from Jesus stood out to me: “I take the journey with you. For I share your doubts and fears a little while, that you may come to me who recognize the road by which all fears and doubts are overcome. We walk together. I must understand uncertainty and pain, although I know they have no meaning. Yet a savior must remain with those he teaches, seeing what they see, but still retaining in his mind the way that led him out, and now will lead you out with him. God’s Son is crucified until you walk along the road with me.” (W-pI.V.6:1-6, p. 330)

This message reminds me that I am not alone with the challenges I seem to face within this world of time and separate bodies. Our true Self remains within us all, willing to remind us of what is true. If I am willing, I will be led out of this false world I have made. I will be led out of the prison house I have built for myself.

As I am willing to let go and let God, as I am willing to relax and melt into God’s peace, I am brought to a new awareness. I am brought to a place of inner serenity and trust that is not of the world. As I put my true Self in charge of my mind, the past and the future disappear and there is only the eternal now. Here I remember that I am safe, I am innocent, I am Love, I am Home. Here there is nothing to defend against, nothing to worry about, for here there is no danger and no loss. Chicken Little’s false stories that the sky is falling can still be heard, but they are now seen as meaningless fear thoughts that drone on and on because that is all the ego knows to do. It is clear the the ego thought system is not what we all are. The truth about us all is that we are still the one Light of God and nothing else.

My only function now is to be willing with every situation to practice stepping back and letting my inner teacher lead me out of dream to the truth of Where and What we all are always. Peace and Love and joy remain constant. As I let go and let God, I receive the experience that only this is true.

Robert:
Nothing in this world can bring me lasting comfort. Nothing in this world can make me safe. Nothing in this world can bring me peace. Nothing in this world can complete me. Yet I can be comforted. I can be at peace and know I am safe in this world. I can be fulfilled because comfort and safety and peace are attributes of what I am as Love’s extension. I am complete because I could never truly disconnect from Love’s wholeness.

Thus it is my Self that is all I really want. To find this Self I need only remove the made up barriers of denial that seem to stand between me and what I am. This is what forgiveness is for. Forgiveness is simply letting go of belief that I am anything but Love. Through forgiveness I remember: “God is but Love, and therefore so am I.”

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