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Vigilance for God

Robert:
I ask Holy Spirit to help me see as He sees. An image comes to mind. I see figures of light vaguely in the shape of bodies and all these light forms are joined by light. Occasionally there is one light form that seems to lose connection. Immediately the remaining light reaches out to reestablish the connection. No one is left disconnected.

As I watch, the forms of light become less and less distinct and there seems to be a song rising from the light, a hymn that carries the message of joy in the unity of Light. This glorious hymn fills the air and the Light becomes more uniform with less visible shapes. It is clear that the Light and the hymn are one and the same. Both carry the same message of innocence and joy and peace.

I see that any time I judge, I become unaware of this presence, though it is all around me. I want to consistently experience this profound joy and deep peace that come with the hymn of Light. All I need to do to have this experience is to let go of all judgment. Today is a day of practice being vigilant against judgment and for the joy of Light. I give thanks for this happy reminder.

Mary:
In our reading in A Course in Miracles this morning, the following was particularly helpful:

To follow the Holy Spirit’s guidance is to let yourself be absolved of guilt. It is the essence of the Atonement. It is the core of the curriculum. The imagined usurping of functions not your own is the basis of fear. The whole world you see reflects the illusion that you have done so, making fear inevitable. To return the function to the One to Whom it belongs is thus the escape from fear. And it is this that lets the memory of Love return to you. (ACIM M-29.3:3-9)

This reminds me that it is not my function to judge what anything means or is. My function is to refer all judgments to the Holy Spirit. It is important that I remember this all through the day. Having vigilance for only this is how I return Home. And for this Help I give thanks.

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Our Special Function

Robert:
Today we read the ACIM Text, Chapter 25, Section VI: The Special Function. It reminded me that I really have only one meaningful purpose while I seem to be in the world: To forgive, to see all appearances as the Holy Spirit sees.

To do this I must be willing to give up my own interpretations of all appearances and let Holy Spirit be my interpreter of everything. Thus any time that I recognize my peace is disturbed, I have been given a gift. I “open” the gift by turning over my interpretation to the Holy Spirit with a willingness to receive His interpretation in its place. This gift is always offered and depends only my willingness to receive it to experience it as mine. God’s Love is mine because it is given to everyone without exception.

So today is a day to practice accepting the gifts that are offered me in each moment by being vigilant for peace and willing to step aside from my own interpretations to make way for Holy Spirit’s vision to fill my mind.

Mary:
It is becoming clear as I continue to let the message of A Course in Miracles sink in deeper and deeper, that my job is to let the Holy Spirit show me the truth. In order to do this I must step back from what I think I know. I must pause and listen. I must want to see as Holy Spirit sees. I must want to return to the truth. It is this desire to let the veil of specialness be lifted that brings the eternal truth to me.

The Holy Spirit waits with infinite patience for my willingness. The Holy Spirit knows that the Christ is all there is to see. The Holy Spirit knows that no one has really made a separate self that is special and alone. The Holy Spirit does not believe in the ego’s stories of separate bodies that are born and die. The Holy Spirit knows that we are all Love’s extension, and I know this as I am willing to let the truth be returned to me. This is my only job today — to be open to awareness of Christ’s Oneness, which includes everyone.

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A Place of Real Safety

Mary:
This morning in our reading of A Course in Miracles, this is what stood out to me: “…reach down into your mind to a place of real safety. You will recognize that you have reached it if you feel a sense of deep peace, however briefly. Let go all the trivial things that churn and bubble on the surface of your mind, and reach down and below them to the Kingdom of Heaven. There is a place in you where there is perfect peace. There is a place in you where nothing is impossible. There is a place in you where the strength of God abides.” (W-pI.47.7)

This is my opportunity for today. I have a choice. I can hold on to all the fearful thoughts that pass through my mind, or I can choose to look at them with Holy Spirit and let them pass by. The world holds nothing that I want. The peace of God that is always there for me is not a little gift. The opportunity before me today is to accept the gift of God and feel the real strength in me. God is my strength. Vision is His gift. As I accept God’s gift, the veil is lifted and I see the world differently. Here there is joy. Here there is peace. Here there is God’s Light of unity.

Fear thoughts may come and go, but thank God I have the means by which to know that I am free. And every brother is free with me.

Robert:
The Course says that the Holy Spirit sees the illusions we see, but does not believe them. That is why He is my Teacher to learn not to believe what the body’s eyes show me. When all illusions are recognized for what they are, there is no cause for fear. There is no cause for guilt. There is no cause for anger. Without belief in illusions, there is perfect safety. This is what I want to recognize. I want to share Holy Spirit’s perception of all appearances. I want to share His certainty that I remain as God created me.

I still forget this during the day, but I have had glimpses of Holy Spirit’s vision. And the happiness and peace I experience in those glimpses motivates me to keep practicing. I want to see with forgiving eyes. I want to remember that I remain as God created me and have not left His presence.

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Seeing Through the Eyes of Christ

Holy Spirit to Robert:
Embrace the world, not as the body’s eyes see it, but through Christ’s vision, seen through the eyes of forgiveness. The forgiven world is a world of peace, for no thing as seen as an adversary. The forgiven world is a world of happiness because the barriers to the recognition of Love have been removed. Thus the forgiven world is easily embraced with an open heart because the recognition of your oneness with everything makes Love welcome. Your day can be like this. The world of Light is already given you.

Today hold My hand. Walk with Me and let Me show you What I see. Let Me show you the calls for Love behind the acts of fear. Let Me show you your calls for Love behind your judgments. Join with Me to answer these calls with the Love that is our own. Be quick to step back when any disturbance crosses your mind. Together we will see the Love it hid and Love will calm the waters and bring you back to peace. Walk with Me today.

Mary:
As I go into a place of quiet, it comes to me that today’s practice is to ask myself frequently, “Am I seeing through the eyes of Christ or through the eyes of ego? Am I seeing through they eyes of oneness or separation? What is this thought reinforcing, the truth or illusions?”

Asking these questions frequently helps me remember that forgiveness is my only goal. I need not make separation real. My happiness lies in returning to the awareness of Love’s presence.

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Seeing the Light in My Brother

Robert:
There is a Light in every brother. It is the Light of the one Son of God that we all share. But I cannot see this Light if I believe that my brother is a body. This is so important to remember that the ACIM Workbook has us practice for 20 days in a row, reminding ourselves, “I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.” This is a complete reversal of what the body’s eyes show us.

This is why it is so important that we reinforce in our minds the fact that we are not a body. Remembering this is the foundation of forgiveness. If my brother is not a body, then what a body does has nothing to do with my brother and I can let it go. The fact that I am experiencing myself as in a body and seeing other bodies demonstrates that I am believing in the ego thought system of separation. From that belief it is impossible to see the Light in my brother. I need help from beyond my beliefs. That is why it is essential that I ask the Holy Spirit to be my interpreter of everything I perceive in the world.

As I start the day, I ask the Holy Spirit to guide my seeing and interpret on my behalf. As frequently as I can remember during the day, I remind myself that I want to see as the Holy Spirit sees because I want the peace of God. And as I prepare to sleep at night, I once again ask the Holy Spirit to guide my seeing through the night. As my willingness grows, I remember more frequently and I experience more and more of the peace of God. And I give thanks.

Mary:
This morning we read A Course in Miracles, Chapter 13, Section VI: Finding the Present on pages 250-253. What stood out to me the most was the following:

There is a light that this world cannot give. Yet you can give it, as it was given you. And as you give it, it shines forth to call you from the world and follow it. For this light will attract you as nothing in this world can do. And you will lay aside the world and find another. This other world is bright with love which you have given it. And here will everything remind you of your Father and His holy Son. Light is unlimited, and spreads across this world in quiet joy. All those you brought with you will shine on you, and you will shine on them in gratitude because they brought you here. Your light will join with theirs in power so compelling, that it will draw the others out of darkness as you look on them. (T-13.VI.11)

This paragraph is so powerful that I am going to print it out and read it throughout the day. It defines very precisely how I can be truly helpful and how I wake up from the dream of separation. This is my practice today and every day.

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The End of Fear

Mary:
This morning in our reading of A Course in Miracles, we found very clear instructions for our practice for today:

Today, practice the end of fear. Have faith in Him Who is your Father. Trust all things to Him. Let Him reveal all things to you, and be you undismayed because you are His Son. (W-pII.232.2:2-5)

To let Him reveal all things to me today, I need to step back from the ego’s thoughts of separation. I need to allow the Source of all Love to be in my mind all through the day. If I find that I gotten lost in dreams of separation again, I will merely practice stepping back once again. I choose to remember Heaven. And Heaven is right there within my mind, waiting for my return. Today I practice strengthening my “willingness muscles.” I begin by opening my mind to the peace of my Father. This is how I let Him reveal all things to me today.

Robert:
What stood out to me in our reading today was, “Father, I give you all my thoughts today. I would have none of mine. In place of them, give me Your Own.” (W-pII.233.1:1-3) In other lessons the Course tells me that my only real thoughts are the thoughts I think with God. So this prayer is a prayer to accept Reality as it is, without made up images and stories of separation, guilt and fear. In truth, this is what all of us really want.

I really do want release from all thoughts of fear and guilt. I really do want to remember God’s Love. That’s all any of us really want, no matter what our behavior is in the world. It is helpful for me to remember that whenever I judge another’s behavior, it is simply an attempt to project the guilt within me that lies hidden beneath all attempts to make separation appear real.

The good news is that God knows I never succeeded in truly separating and has insured that His Spark of memory still remains in my mind, reminding me that I remain as God created me. Today I will practice giving all my thoughts to God. I really don’t want any of my thoughts because they are simply denials of God’s Love, no matter how appealing they may seem to be. I am grateful that I need only be willing to receive God’s thoughts. In that willingness the veil that seemed to separate me is lifted. Then I see that Love is everywhere and there is nowhere else — I remain safe in the certainty of Love.

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Willing to Follow

Mary:
In our reading of A Course in Miracles, this is what stands out in Workbook Lesson 69:

Try to remember that you are at last joining your will to God’s. Try to keep the thought clearly in mind that what you undertake with God must succeed. Then let the power of God work in you and through you, that His Will and yours be done.” (W-pI.69.8:4-6)

To let the power of God work in me and through me, I must become as a little child. I must let go of the reins. I ask Holy Spirit how to do this. The Holy Spirit reminds me to relax and let go of all body tension… Holy Spirit reminds me again and again and again to relax and let go of the past, to let go of thinking that I know anything… I need to continue to let go until there is a strong feeling of quietness… I must place all I think I know on God’s altar, where all that is not helpful disappears in the Light… I continue this process of letting go… I am reminded once again that it is not my job to make anything happen.

In this place of quietness there is a growing sense of peace… I am more willing to follow where peace leads me in my mind… I see that joining with God’s power lies in my willingness to accept God’s peace… I am aware that my job is to continue to accept God’s peace and follow where peace leads me all day today. As I practice this everything falls into place, with God’s Will leading the way… Easy does it…

Robert:
Every day I make plans. Every day I am reminded to let them go and follow Holy Spirit’s lead. It is interesting to observe how tenaciously I hang on to the belief that I can make meaningful plans on my own. I certainly have had plenty of demonstrations that my self-made plans do not get me what I really want. But in line with the ego’s motto, “seek and do not find,” I keep trying again to make some plan that I think will get me something I value.

Still I see progress. I more quickly recognize when I’m trying to take control and I more quickly step back. I still hold some areas back as ones that I am clearly more qualified to plan for. Of course I get the consequences of those plans and eventually get the message that I’m not as qualified as I think. These self-made attempts to plan and analyze to resolve problems simply delay my return to the happiness and peace that God has already given.

I am grateful that I have gotten a taste of the happiness and peace and Love that is within me when I am willing to set aside my little ideas of what I am and what the world is. I am grateful that I have the means in my mind to learn to see past the false images of the dream and see the reality of Love everywhere. I am grateful that as I forgive the past I move into the happy dream, where I see all images with forgiving eyes that let the Light of Love shine through. Today is another happy day of practice.

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