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You Are Safe in God

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Remember you are safe in God and be happy. Let peace envelop all your thoughts. Let My gentleness and patience take over your mind. Let Me drive the bus. Let Me return your mind to the truth that you are still Love in the Mind of Love eternally. Let Me dissolve all fear thoughts of lack or loss. Let your mind return to God all through the day and you will know that happiness and peace are yours forever.


Holy Spirit to Robert:
Since the truth in you is changeless Love, harm or loss of any kind is impossible. You remain as Love created you eternally. Join with Me today as we remember the Love you are. Remember It by joining My vision to see the Love in all your brothers.

With this vision you will be certain of your safety and your harmlessness. Remember that I am your best Friend forever because I will never forget that you are changeless, eternal Love. Together we walk in perfect certainty, remembering that only Love is real.

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Letting My Mind Quiet

Robert:
Today we read in the Text of A Course in Miracles that the memory of God comes to the quiet mind because there is no conflict in God. It is interesting to observe how many of my thoughts are based in conflict — conflicting ideas, conflicting motives, conflicting images, conflicting beliefs and more. Any perception of form is inherently a thought of conflict. All forms are distinguished by differences between them.

Love, being formless, is conflict free. What is one cannot conflict with itself. When I see with the eyes of Love, I see everyone as one with me and so there is no conflict. When I identify anyone with a body, including myself, conflict is inevitable. I am seeing the limitless, formless Son of God as limited to a body.

The Course tells us not to mistake the body for the Son of God. If I am not in peace, then I must be believing that conflict is possible, which means that I am believing in an illusion of the Son of God, not in the reality of Love’s oneness. So today is another day to practice monitoring my level of peace. When I observe any disturbance, it is time to step back and ask the Holy Spirit to help me see with Love’s vision. This is how I forgive the past and accept Love as my reality now.


Mary:
I am seeing that letting my mind quiet is the key to happiness. My mind quiets only when I am willing to step back from the ego’s constant perception of differences. Taking time out from focusing on what the body’s eyes see and joining with the Holy Spirit, I am once again returned to the peaceful awareness that only Love is real. I need a lot of practice because it still seems far to easy to get lost in the images of separate bodies with separate interests.

Because of this, I recognize that I need to monitor all through the day where my mind is. Have I joined with the ego or the Holy Spirit in this moment? When I see that I have joined with the ego, my job is not to blame myself or make myself guilty, but rather to hand these ego thoughts over to the Holy Spirit to be transformed by the Light into true perception. Because I need the constant practice, today is another opportunity to let my mind be healed and brought to the quietness and peace of the Holy Spirit. As I let my mind quiet, I am returned to a sense of well being and happiness. And I give thanks.

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The Peace of God Is All I Want

Robert:
A Course in Miracles tells us that in quietness is every problem quietly resolved. It also tells us that the Holy Spirit’s solution is always one in which everyone gains and no one loses. However, if I want the solution to appear in a particular form, my judgment will keep me from recognizing the gain that is given me. I will not see the problem as resolved and will perceive gain as loss. Only the ego can perceive loss since the ego is the idea that separation and loss are possible.

If I am dissatisfied with the situation, the first step for me is to relax and open to the quiet peace of God within. In this quiet peace my mind is then open to see as Holy Spirit sees. This is how I let Holy Spirit lead the way. This is how I let my perception be transformed to see the real world instead of the dream of separation. The only judgment I need to accept is the Holy Spirit’s judgment that only Love is real.

Today I will practice keeping my attention on Holy Spirit’s vision. This is how I loose the world from all I thought it was.


Mary:
My practice for today is, “Right now, this very minute, I open to the peace of God.” To do this consistently, I must be willing to be open to recognizing what is real and what is unreal. I must be willing to let go of the belief in a world of separate bodies and separate minds. I must be willing to let go of the ego’s framework for making separation appear to be real. I must be willing to relax my hold on what I think the world is for.

Opening to the peace of God undoes all belief in the world. Opening to the peace of God erases the idea of a past and a future. It brings me to the truth that there is only changeless Love right now. The peace of God is all I want and all I need. And I give thanks.

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Seeing as Love Sees

Robert:
To be determined to see the world differently I must give precedence to my inner seeing with the Holy Spirit rather than the body’s image making. Being an illusion itself, the body can only make images of more illusions. This is hallucinating, not seeing. The world I seem to see through the body’s eyes is nothing more than an hallucination.

When I am disturbed by anything I see through the body’s eyes, I am clearly not recognizing that I am seeing hallucinations. I have given precedence to the body’s image making and I am believing the images are real. When I step back and give precedence to inner seeing with the Holy Spirit, the image making of the body recedes from my attention and the vision of Love comes forward. The Holy Spirit knows there is nothing to see but Love.

If I am not supremely happy and at peace, I must be believing that illusionary images are real and giving them precedence in my mind. This disturbance is a signal that it’s time to step back, relax and return my attention to the inner vision of my true Self. My true Self will always show me what is real. As I practice seeing reality in place of illusion, I am forgiving the world and I am forgiving myself. Today I will ask frequently to see as Love sees.


Mary:
This practice of asking to see as Love sees lifts the veil so that I can see the truth behind illusions. Asking myself frequently today, “How does Love see this?” will jog my mind and help me remember to step back from what I am seeing and return to being willing to remember that we are all immersed in God’s ocean of peace and Love forever.

I can relax now. I can receive Holy Spirit’s gift of peace right now. It only takes my willingness to receive peace and extend peace to let the veil be lifted. And I give thanks.

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Learning True Perception

Mary:
This morning we were guided to read A Course in Miracles Text, Chapter 11, Section VIII. The Problem and the Answer. Paragraph 10 stood out to me:

In the real world there is no sickness, for there is no separation and no division. Only loving thoughts are recognized, and because no one is without your help, the Help of God goes with you everywhere. As you become willing to accept this Help by asking for It, you will give It because you want It. Nothing will be beyond your healing power, because nothing will be denied your simple request. What problems will not disappear in the presence of God’s Answer? Ask, then, to learn of the reality of your brother, because this is what you will perceive in him, and you will see your beauty reflected in his.

My practice for today is to accept the Help of God by asking for It. I need this constant reminder to step back and ask for the real solution, instead of thinking I know on my own. I must not think that I understand what I perceive, because if I do I will forget that I do not know. My practice today is to step back and let Him interpret everything I see. And I give thanks.


Robert:
A key idea for me from today’s reading is that anything I interpret on my own is a self-deception. This is because believing that I am on my own is a self-deception. I have taught myself to believe this and I have taught myself wrongly. It is time to turn to the Teacher within, Who teaches the truth. The more I am willing to let the Holy Spirit be my interpreter of every perception, the happier I will be.

Because the Holy Spirit knows that only Love is real, He will teach me to not value the valueless forms of the world. As I let go of what I have valued in the world, the sense of incompletion and lack in the world will be replaced by the joy of wholeness and Love. This is all I really want. Through the practice of stepping back and being willing to be taught true perception, I will learn where true value lies. This is my practice today.

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Choosing Changeless Love

Robert:
The Self, created by Love, shares Its limitlessness and changelessness with all. Any form is by definition a limit. Forms have a beginning and an end and so they cannot contain Love, Which is limitless. To value any form is to choose an empty form in place of the reality of Love. This choice is inevitably depressing because an empty shell is unworthy of the Self Love created. Choosing nothing thus devalues the Self.

To return to the full joy of being Love, receiving and extending Love, I need to let go of giving any value to any form in the world. There is no form in the world that offers the completion that Love offers. Today I ask the Holy Spirit to help me see the Love beyond all forms in the world. The body’s eyes will still show me images of form, but the inner vision I receive from Holy Spirit will show me the Love that completes me in the oneness of God’s Love. As I choose this inner seeing, I become a channel of that Love to everyone I see or think of as well as those I am unaware of in the world. As that Love flows through me, I am blessed, for It reminds me that I remain in the oneness of changeless Love.


Mary:
Today is a day to relax and listen to the Holy Spirit. Today is a day to practice stepping back often and open to the promptings of the Holy Spirit. This is my practice for today.

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God, being Love, is also happiness.

Mary:
This morning we were guided to read “The Two Pictures” in A Course in Miracles Text, Chapter 17. The first paragraph stood out to me:

God established His relationship with you to make you happy, and nothing you do that does not share His purpose can be real. The purpose God ascribed to anything is its only function. Because of His reason for creating His relationship with you, the function of relationships became forever ‘to make happy.’ And nothing else. To fulfill this function [to make happy] you relate to your creations as God to His. Nothing God created is apart from happiness, and nothing God created but would extend happiness as its Creator did. Whatever does not fulfill this function cannot be real. (17.IV.1)

In Lesson 103, Jesus reminds us that happiness is an attribute of Love. If I am not happy, it is a reminder to me that I have put up a barrier against awareness of Love’s Presence in my mind — I have joined with an ego thought that is afraid of Love.

This gives me an important clue that I need to once again step back and remember that my meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world. Separation could never replace Love’s oneness. If I truly want to be happy, I need to let go of the ego’s defense against the truth. I can once again open to letting my mind be healed by the Holy Spirit. I can let the Holy Spirit show me the difference between the real and the unreal. I can once again be as a little child that is open to my Father. I can let go and let God. I can let my mind be returned to happiness.

This is my practice for today. “God, being Love, is also happiness.” I can pay attention to when I am joining with unhappy thoughts and let them be replaced with the help of the Holy Spirit in my mind. Oh happy day!


Robert:
Accepting that my function is to make happy does not mean that my job is to behave in a way that will make someone be happy with me. This is a mistake of focusing on form instead of content. Happiness cannot be found in form because form is the ego’s substitute for reality. Form is not real and can never be real.

Since happiness is an attribute of Love, to make happy is to Love. I make happy by joining with my brother in Love beyond all form. It is as I accept the oneness of Love that I make way for happiness. The nature of Love is to extend Itself and therefore to extend happiness. As I let go of focusing on form (separation) the joy of Love rushes in to fill the “space” that had stood as a barrier against Love. Forgiveness makes way for happiness.

Today I ask the Holy Spirit to help me recognize the barriers I have put up against Love and let them go.

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