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Seeing Through Holy Spirit’s Eyes

Mary:
Today it is my opportunity to hand all seeing over to the Holy Spirit, my true, united Self in the Mind of God. The Holy Spirit knows there is nothing outside of this oneness. The Holy Spirit knows that the one Mind of Love That is in everyone is all that is true. The Holy Spirit would bring this to my attention as I am willing to step back and be open to true seeing.

My practice for today is to say frequently: “Holy Spirit, I am open to seeing through Your eyes right now. That is all I want to see. I am open to recognizing that only Love is real.”

Robert:
Since the body is itself an illusion, the body’s senses are only capable of perceiving illusion. To wake up from this dream, I need to choose to pay attention to the vision of the Holy Spirit in my mind. When my focus is on the Holy Spirit’s perception, I will hear and see the reflection of the oneness of God’s Love in this world.

In every moment I am choosing whether to give credence to the body’s perception or the Holy Spirit’s true perception. The body’s perception will always show me signs that I am separate. The Holy Spirit will always show me that I am one with all. It is only in this oneness that lasting peace and happiness are possible. So in every moment I choose between the chaos of separation and the certainty of changeless oneness.

Today I ask for the Holy Spirit’s help in seeing as He sees, hearing as He hears so that I may recognize the one loving Self that is in everyone and everything everywhere.

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Accept God’s Love and Trust

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Where is God’s Love? It is eternally safe in everyone’s mind, waiting for acceptance. Opening to the willingness to accept God’s Love is all the world is for.

Recognizing that illusions mean nothing is the means by which the barriers to knowing God’s Love are lifted. Your purpose for today is to accept the happiness that comes with letting the barriers to Love be lifted.

Open your heart today to the truth of Love’s Presence. Relax… and be willing to let illusions go… There are no separate bodies in truth. There are no special places nor special things. Let God’s Love replace the attraction to specialness. This is the way to happiness. This is the way to eternal peace and joy.

Holy Spirit to Robert:
When you choose separation and specialness, you will trust no one except yourself. Everything you perceive appears to be outside of you and therefore capable of harming you. Where there is perceived potential for harm, peace is impossible. When you choose specialness, you inevitably feel vulnerable to all those external images. Thus when you rely on your own planning for your protection, you will inevitably be fearful.

If you want peace, you must trust in the One Who knows you as your are, whole and complete in God’s Love. Let Him guide you in every moment and He will teach you that you are cared for and protected by the changeless Love of your Creator. Trust not in plans of your own making.

Step back and be willing to receive the plan of your holy Self. Here is trust justified, for your Self shares the strength of God. Step back from planning today and open your mind and heart to the lead of your inner Guide. Rest in the peace that comes with following the certainty of Love.

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Learning to See the Truth

Robert:
The truth in me is the Self that God created as His one Son. This same one Self is the truth in everyone and unites everyone as one. The image of a body with a personality and a name is a false image. If I believe in it, it blinds me to the truth of my one Self. I cannot believe in a separate image and know the oneness of my Self. The Course is telling me to let go of all belief in separate images, to not believe the images the body’s senses show me. As I learn to see with forgiving eyes, without judgment of any kind, I will see past the images of separation to the one Self that is the Love of God.

Today I pray for Holy Spirit’s help to see truly and recognize my Self in my brother. Thus will I learn that I am Love along with him.

Mary:
My job today is to pause frequently throughout the day and step back from my focus on the world, and let the Holy Spirit lead the way. This is how I am led to wake up from getting lost in the dream of separation. The more I am willing to accept Holy Spirit’s peace consistently through the day, the more I open the connection to the Holy Spirit, Who is always there as I am willing to be quiet and listen. This is my practice for today.

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Bringing Peace with Me

Mary:
This morning we were guided to read Lesson 245 of the Workbook of A Course in Miracles. This prayer stood out to me:

Your peace surrounds me, Father. Where I go, Your peace goes there with me. It sheds its light on everyone I meet. I bring it to the desolate and lonely and afraid. I give Your peace to those who suffer pain, or grieve for loss, or think they are bereft of hope and happiness. Send them to me, my Father. Let me bring Your peace with me. For I would save Your Son, as is Your Will, that I may come to recognize my Self. (W-pII.245.1:1-8)

My most important job today and every day is to accept the gift of peace that is always there for me and extend it to everyone I meet or even think of. What a wonderful opportunity I have today to give the blessings I receive. This is how I return to the remembrance of our one, united Self. And I give thanks.

Robert:
Today’s reading reminded me that to know I have the Love and peace of God, I must give It. That is how I recognize I have It. By Its nature, Love is constantly extending Itself. Since my Self is the Love of God, to know my Self I must offer only Love. If I think I see anything but Love, I have forgotten Who I am and am believing in a false self-concept. Forgiveness is the means to let go of all false self-concepts to clear away the barriers to Love. Today I have the happy purpose to look on every brother with Love, see the Love he is and learn of the Love I am. Oh happy day!

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Who Walks with Me?

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Ask to see innocence and it will be shown to you… Ask to see the single Light of the Sonship in everyone, and it will be there for you to see… Your desire to see only the truth brings the truth to your mind…

You heal as you are willing to be healed. Relax, step back and let the truth flow through your mind. Because we are all connected, as you receive the truth it extends through the whole Sonship. There is only one united Self, and that one Self resides in the one Mind of God. See that your only purpose now is to allow the truth to return. With this one intent, you heal and you are healed.

Robert:
Today we read in A Course in Miracles, “‘Who walks with me?’ This question should be asked a thousand times a day, till certainty has ended doubting and established peace.” (W-pI.156.8:1-2)

In my heart there is no doubt that Love walks with me, for Love is my Self. If I don’t experience the Presence of Love and I don’t see Love everywhere, then I am believing in a false image of myself that denies Love’s presence. Love is still there, but denial makes me unaware of It. By frequently asking the question, “Who walks with me?” I give the knowing of my heart the opportunity to be acknowledged and accepted. With that acceptance, the recognition that Who walks with me also walks with everyone brings me peace and happiness.

Today I will ask that transforming question throughout the day so that I may remember Who I am.

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Forgiveness Brings Happiness

Robert:
Today we read in A Course in Miracles that Love is happiness. Since my true Self is Love, my true Self is happiness. So if I am not experiencing supreme happiness, I have put up a barrier to Love. The barrier is dissolved through forgiveness, letting go of the past. Since I really do want to be happy, my practice today is to bring all thoughts that are not loving, peaceful and happy to the Holy Spirit with a willingness to receive His gentle correction. Only this will bring me happiness.

Mary:
As I go to Spirit, I am reminded to place the future in the Hands of God. This means that it is not my job to decide what the future should look like. In truth there is no future, only the eternal presence of Love in the Mind of God.

I can relax now because I am only in the Mind of God, along with all my brothers, no matter what my dream story looks like. Handing over the future to the Holy Spirit helps me relax and go with the flow in the present moment. The practice of remembering to accept Holy Spirit’s peace helps me stay in flow of Love. This is my practice for today.

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Welcome Love in Quietness

Mary:
In our reading this morning in A Course in Miracles, I found the following paragraph to be a particularly helpful antidote for the busyness and stress in the world that comes with the holiday season.

The miracle comes quietly into the mind that stops an instant and is still. It reaches gently from that time, and from the mind it healed in quiet then, to other minds to share its quietness. And they will join in doing nothing to prevent its radiant extension into the Mind Which caused all minds to be. Born out of sharing, there can be no pause in time to cause the miracle delay in hastening to all unquiet minds, and bringing them an instant stillness, when the memory of God returns to them. Their own remembering is quiet now, and what has come to take its place will not be wholly unremembered afterwards.

… The instant’s silence that His Son accepts gives welcome to eternity and Him, and lets Them enter where They would abide. For in that instant does the Son of God do nothing that would make himself afraid.” (T-28.I.11,12:5-6)

It is during this time of year that giving time to quietness is most helpful and needed. If I am to extend the miracle that comes with quietness, I must first accept if for myself. Because minds are joined, I am truly helpful when I am willing to focus on the truth instead of illusions of separation.

This is my purpose for today — to accept the miracle that comes with inviting the Holy Spirit’s quietness into my mind. Peace and a strong sense of well being and safety come with accepting Holy Spirit’s gift. What better gift can I extend to the world? Here is where I find joy and gratitude for Holy Spirit’s gift of remembering the truth in each present moment.

Robert:
Christ is a symbol of the Love that is the one Self we all share. This loving Self is constantly extending Love because that is Love’s nature. Since only Love is real, Love is extending Love to Itself. In Love, giving and receiving are the same. As we extend Love, we receive Love’s blessing. The joy of extending Love automatically inspires more extension. To celebrate Christ is to celebrate the eternal giving and receiving of Love.

The full acceptance of Love and Its eternal giving and receiving dissolves the ego because the ego is the denial of Love. The celebration of Christ, the celebration of eternal giving and receiving Love, terrifies the ego, for it recognizes this as its undoing. Recognizing this, the ego brings out its big defenses.

Being the idea of separation, the ego interprets Love in its own image. Thus the extension of Love becomes the giving of physical gifts, which are nothing more than empty images. It makes the giving of these empty images so important that many people put themselves into great stress trying to find and pay for the “right” image to “give.” This falls neatly into the ego’s plan to keep us seeking where nothing can be found and to reinforce guilt and fear so that we will not be still to receive the miracle of Love.

This is why it is especially important during this time to step back into quietness and welcome the Love of our true Self. When we do this, the Love we are will guide us in the perfect way to express Love in this world. This expression will inevitably bless both the giver and the receiver. It will not require any sacrifice or loss of the giver, and the receiver will experience the blessing of the unity of Love. This is how we celebrate Christ as Love would have us do.

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