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Learn to Be Quiet

Mary: 
This morning what stood out to me with our reading of A Course in Miracles was: “Have you yet learned to stand aside and hear the Voice of Judgment in yourself? Or do you still attempt to take His role from Him? Learn to be quiet, for His Voice is heard in stillness. And His Judgment comes to all who stand aside in quiet listening, and wait for Him.” M-15.2:10-13

This is my practice now. If I am honest I have to acknowledge that I still do “attempt to take His role from Him.” I am observing that many times a day I still think I already know and go on automatic pilot, bringing what I learned from the past to the present. This is not what brings me happiness. So today I have another opportunity to practice the learning that comes from my true Self… learning to by quiet and listen for the truth. As I truly am willing, the truth will return to my awareness. I have only been blocking it off because I thought I already knew.

In my daily practice I am finding that if I focus on simply melting into peace, that peace comes. In particular I focus on relaxing the muscles around my eyes and jaw and shoulders and arms. An image of being showered with the healing Light of peace often comes to me as I do this. As I stick with this and don’t let my mind wander, the peace goes deeper and the feeling that everything is alright grows strong. Peace replaces the fearful thoughts I held before. Wholeness replaces separation. I feel deep gratitude and appreciation that nothing has happened to change God’s one Son. The truth is true and nothing else is true. I breathe deeply. Inspiration comes easily and I am guided in how to be truly helpful once again. This practice is my lesson now until I learn that this is all I want.

Robert:
I do not deserve anything in the world because nothing in the world is worthy of God’s Son. To value any form in the world is to devalue What I am. It is choosing emptiness in place of wholeness. It is choosing vulnerability in place of changelessness.

There is only one meaningful purpose for anything in the world and that is how it serves to express or reflect Love. Nothing else matters. The perception of some other value is simply a reminder to forgive, to let go of what is interfering with my experience of Love’s Presence.

Now I settle into Love’s warm embrace. I welcome It and feel It fill me with the certainty of changelessness. As I accept It fully, it overflows and I cannot help but offer that deep, kind, all embracing Love everywhere. As I let It flow through me, I experience It as mine. My heart is filled with gratitude for all my brothers who share this Love with me.

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I Will Make No Decision on My Own

Mary:
Early this morning I woke up with the communication (that included feelings and impressions) that God has a Warehouse and that everyone owns all of God’s Warehouse, whether they recognize it or not. God’s Warehouse is filled with His gifts of peace, happiness and all-inclusive Love.

I then saw myself as the decision maker with two warehouses to choose between. The ego’s warehouse was filled with glistening things (images), forms of uniqueness and specialness. It included special houses, special people, special times, special locations. I stood between these two warehouses as the decision maker and Holy Spirit was there with me.

The Holy Spirit said, “If you want true happiness, do not make decisions on your own. When you make decisions with Me, you are relinquishing the role of decision maker and letting yourself be carried. As you are willing to consistently step back and be carried, I always take you to God’s Warehouse where peace and joy are eternal.

“This is your job now — to let yourself be carried. You really do not want to make decisions on your own, because on your own your decisions are always mistaken. Let this be the theme of the rest of your ‘life’: I will make no decisions on my own. I let myself be carried to the truth.”

This little early morning time with Holy Spirit feels very significant to me. I see very clearly that if I feel happy, I am letting myself be carried. If I feel a lack of peace or impatient, I have once again tried to decide something on my own. My lesson is very simple. Today my practice is to let myself be carried by making no decisions on my own.

Robert:
If I value any form in the world, believing it has something I want, I will feel a sense of emptiness and incompletion. To value an image I must first have decided that something is missing in me that can be filled by this image. But being an image without substance, it cannot satisfy. Feeling incomplete is not a happy feeling.

I have a choice for how to remedy this feeling. I can choose to seek another image in the hope that perhaps it can fill the emptiness I feel. But it will never satisfy and will lead to an ongoing effort to seek and not find.

The other option is to withdraw belief that there is any value in form and let the Holy Spirit decide what has value on my behalf. The Holy Spirit will always decide for the completion of the Love of God. In Love I experience completion and joy. In Love I am grateful for all the Love that surrounds me. I see only Love. All sense of loss disappears.

Do I want to know my completion and experience perfect happiness? Then I must choose not to decide on my own, but to let the Holy Spirit guide every decision. His guidance will always lead me out of emptiness to the eternal completion of Love.

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Gratitude

Robert: 
I am grateful that the Love of God is changeless. I am grateful that this Love is what I am. I am grateful that even in my delusion of separation, there remains a connection to the reality of Love that cannot be broken. I am grateful for the call of Love that reaches through belief in isolation and lack of Love, reminding me of What I am. I am grateful that this call offers me the means for release from beliefs that seem to veil me in darkness. I am grateful that I can choose in every moment that Love be my Guide. Today I dedicate to choosing Love.

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Let yourself be open to Holy Spirit’s gift of peace. Practice receiving peace all through the day. Let receiving peace be your highest priority. When you forget, return to accepting peace. Accepting peace is your pathway to Heaven. When you truly accept peace, a knowing comes with it that all is well, no matter what dreams may appear.

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