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Go to Your Inner Holy Place

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Keep it simple. Go to your inner holy place. Be receptive. Remember that you know nothing. Receive a change of mind. That means letting go of what you now believe is true. Listen and receive. Let the Holy Spirit do the work. Allow the healing to occur in your mind. Relax, let go and let God. This is your inner work. Practice allowing healing to occur in your mind now.

Holy Spirit to Sharyn: Today as you go through your day, remembering to see the face of Christ in everyone’s face as you look at them is all that is important. Seeing the Love they are and extending your Love to them is the only reason you are there. Your part in God’s plan for salvation is seeing the face of Christ in everyone, for when you see that face it is impossible to judge or condemn. Extending Love to others can be done in many ways, whether it is just a smile, a hug or simply a silent “bless you.” Blessing others is blessing God. When you see others through the eyes of Christ as Jesus would see them you are not seeing separation. You are seeing Love.

Holy Spirit to Robert:
Today is the day to remember that Love is in everything you see because only Love is real. Accept the Love and extend the Love. By this you will bless and be blessed. You know the Love you are by recognizing the Love everywhere. Have a blessed day.

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Receiving Peace

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Go with the flow in the moment. Watch your mind for wandering thoughts that stray into the past or future. Remember that the Holy Spirit is in your mind right this minute, extending peace to you. Instead of the past or the future, focus on receiving peace in the present moment. Inherent in receiving peace is extending peace.

Allow yourself to recognize the essence of peace in everyone. In this place of peace will come an automatic knowing of how to be truly helpful as we all awaken to the truth.

Holy Spirit to Robert:
As God’s extension of Love, you have but one function — to extend Love. Let the Holy Spirit show you the Love in everything, everywhere. And you will be blessed by everything you look upon.

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A Box of Chocolates

Robert:
The line from the movie, Forrest Gump, came to mind, “Life is like a box of chocolates.” We can perceive the future as unknown and be afraid because of the uncertainty. Or we can allow ourselves to stay in peace and let Inspiration guide us through each “chocolate” experience. No matter what is in the center of the chocolate, Inspiration will always guide us to use it on behalf of healing and awakening.

Today I choose to stay in peace and let each “chocolate” experience be a blessing that extends to all.

Mary:
Our experience with the many A Course in Miracles students here in St. Louis is a joy. We have seen many old friends and met new friends. Mary Lenihan’s workshop is truly inspiring to me. As Holy Spirit spoke through her, the peace and ease and gentleness of our one true Self was so evident. The session ended with a rousing song led by Donna Marie Carey. She had us all up and moving, singing as we gave and received Love to all our brothers and sisters in the room.

This morning as I go to Spirit, I am reminded to practice connecting with the peace in everyone and that this is how I experience God’s peace myself. This is a day of going with the flow, being carried by the Holy Spirit.

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Stay Connected with Peace

Mary:
Today we are flying to St. Louis. Missouri to attend Rev. Mary Lenihan’s workshop, “Inspired to Be Truly Helpful.” With all the flight arrangements I know it will be a very active day.

As I go to Spirit this morning in quiet, it comes to me that my job is to accept peace and extend peace. In the world it may look like I am walking through airports, flying to St. Louis, etc. But inside, I have been given clear direction in how to be helpful to myself and to my brother, and that is to stay connected with the peace of God. This is my practice today.

We will give you updates on our experience as we have time.

Robert:
Today we read A Course in Miracles Workbook lesson 188: “The peace of God is shining in me now.” It reminded me that the Light of God is in me, as it has always been. I need only be willing to look within to the Light that is God’s extension to remember His gift of peace. What I choose to see within is what will be reflected back to me as I look upon the world.

This is why forgiveness is so important. Unforgiving thoughts block me from awareness of the Light within and so I look upon a world darkened by guilt and fear. Forgiveness lets me see the Light that I am and so I see a world of Light. All my brothers reflect back to me the Light I see within.

Today I will practice opening to the Light within and seeing Its reflection everywhere.

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Mr. Clean

Robert:
Waking up seems hard to do only because I have so diligently buried the guilt and fear that come with believing I am separate and alone. The ego would have me believe that I must figure out how to wake up; I must analyze and dissect my thoughts and feelings ad infinitum. This is an ego trick to keep me within the closed loop of ego thinking.

The ego is incapable of finding its way out of its self-created box. This is why forgiveness is not my job. Willingness to accept forgiveness is my job. This means I must be willing to offer all my thoughts, all my interpretations in every moment to the Holy Spirit with an open mind, willing to receive His interpretation.

It is the Holy Spirit’s function to judge, not mine. The Holy Spirit’s judgment is very simple: It’s either real or not real. When my mind is open, the Holy Spirit can teach me what is unreal. What I recognize as unreal I will automatically let go, without effort. I do not need to know all the unconscious “memories” I am carrying with me. They will fade away as I practice letting Holy Spirit be my interpreter in every moment. The Holy Spirit knows the past is gone and therefore meaningless. As I let the Holy Spirit interpret for me, I will learn the past is gone and can have no effect in the present.

Today I will practice again keeping my mind open to the Holy Spirit’s interpretation in every moment.

Mary:
The following prayer from Lesson 291 shows me how I can be truly helpful in this dream to help Holy Spirit’s plan of awakening to the truth:

This day my mind is quiet, to receive the Thoughts You offer me. And I accept what comes from You, instead of from myself. I do not know the way to You. But You are wholly certain. Father, guide Your Son along the quiet path that leads to You. Let my forgiveness be complete, and let the memory of You return to me. (A Course in Miracles, W-pII.291.2

What is coming to me again and again in many different ways is that there is no ‘outside world.’ There is no ‘past’ nor ‘future.’ There is only Love right now, which is eternal. The thoughts that come from the ego mind are just junk thoughts. I do not need to hold on to them and believe in them. My job now is simply to hand them over as they come up and let them be cleaned away by the Holy Spirit. By letting my mind be cleaned of false ideas, the way is made to receive Holy Spirit’s clear direction, Holy Spirit’s peace and happiness.

Today is another day of letting my mind be cleaned. A picture comes into my mind of Mr. Clean being the Holy Spirit. I ask Mr. Clean to wash away every thought that comes up that is not Love. And He smiles happily at my request because He is perfectly equipped for the task.

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The Peace Pool

Robert:
There is an image in my mind of a large, clear container filled with what appears to be clear water, like a sea aquarium. There is nothing in the container but this clear liquid.

The thought comes to me to take my disturbing thoughts and put them in this liquid. So I put my questions about the future in the container. An amazing thing happens. The liquid starts to bubble, like carbonated water. The bubbles coming out of the liquid are bubbles of peace. I just keep bringing everything that comes to mind and putting it in this pool. It continues to effervesce peace.

I put every judgment that comes to mind in the pool and more peace bubbles up. I put people with different political views in the pool and peace bubbles up. I put people with similar political views in the pool and peace bubbles up. It’s clear that if I put any image from the world in this pool, it will disappear and peace will bubble up. All that remains is peace.

Today, I will practice bringing all images to this peace pool to let peace be everywhere, always.

Mary:
I really appreciate Robert’s image of the peace pool. I have often used the image of putting things on God’s Altar, where everything I put there is transformed into God’s Light. I so appreciate the Holy Spirit giving us these images that help with letting go or forgiving the dream.

I am again reminded that there is nothing outside my mind. Everything I see in the outer world is a projection that I am real-izing. Putting things in the peace pool or on God’s Altar are very helpful to aid me in undoing my belief in the dream of separation. As I let my perceptions of separation be undone, peace returns. Now the undoing of my belief in the dream of separation is what time is for. Today I will practice putting everything I see with the body’s eyes in God’s peace pool. The feeling of peace grows stronger even as I think of doing this all through the day.

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Clearing the Way for Inspiration

Robert:
What do I want? My answer to that question determines what I experience. If I want to be unique and special, to manipulate my experience so that it appears that I alone am in control, then the world of separation will seem real to me. If I want only Love, if I want only the quiet joy of unity, then I will experience Love.

I have been deeply invested in wanting individuality. I am learning, though, that this does not give me what I really want. In the transition from that mistaken investment into the experience of oneness, it seems as though I toggle back and forth between buying the “reality” of the images of the world hook, line and sinker, and having glimpses of the quiet joy of unity in Love.

The key is not to condemn myself from buying the false images but rather to use each moment for practice in affirming my intension to join with Love. To all things I can say, “I love you” to the Divine Love that is beyond the image. As I focus on the Divinity, the image has less and less value. As its importance fades, the images the body’s eyes show me have less and less effect on my certainty of my safety in Love.

Today I will practice joining with the Love in all things. I love you.

Mary:
Today I will practice remembering that I know nothing. Today I will practice being open-minded instead of closed-minded by thinking I already know what is true.

Today I will practice choosing peace, which brings the open-mindedness that is so important to clearing the way for Holy Spirit’s inspiration. Today is for letting go and letting God.

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