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Joining My True Self’s Function

Holy Spirit to Robert:
To let go of judgment is to release yourself from hell. In order to believe you can judge, you must first believe you are separate and consequently believe you are denied Love. This denial does not come from God; it is your denial. The hunger for Love that is the condition of this world is the effect of the refusal to accept God’s gift of Love. Love is everywhere, but it is not experienced because of Its denial. The experience of lovelessness is hell. It is based on a lie but because it is believed to be true, it is experienced as real.

My function in your mind is to help you with the one purpose that will set you free. This purpose is to forgive the world, let go of the past and come with wholly empty hands to the present moment. My function is to help you do this, but you must be willing to accept My help.

Practice today bringing all your thoughts to Me and let Me interpret on your behalf. Your thoughts of Love I will strengthen and join with you in extending. Your thoughts of fear and guilt I will shine on with the Love of God to show you they are based on nothing and can have no effect. Join with me today and let us look upon the world together. With your acceptance, we will see the real world, the forgiven world. And you will know the peace that is your reality.

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Today, let yourself be carried. Relax, choose peace and follow as you are led through inward vision. Place your trust in Love to show you the way and this will give you a peaceful and happy day.

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Thought Reversal

Mary:
As we read in A Course in MIracles this morning, it occurred to me how helpful the Course is in reversing the whole thought system of the ego. This complete thought reversal is necessary and this is what time is for now. The ego thought system is based on guilt and so it is guilt that must be undone by the Holy Spirit. In Text, Chapter 13, Introduction, it says:

For it is guilt that has obscured the Father to you, and it is guilt that has driven you insane. The acceptance of guilt into the mind of God’s Son was the beginning of the separation, as the acceptance of the Atonement is its end. …This world is a picture of the crucifixion of God’s Son. And until you realize that God’s Son cannot be crucified, this is the world you will see. Yet you will not realize this until you accept the eternal fact that God’s Son is not guilty. (T-13.Intro.1:7,2:1,4:1-3)

This complete thought reversal which the Course leads us to helps us understand that instead of separation, everyone still is part of God’s one Family of Universal Love. We learn that everyone is united in the one Mind of God. Everyone is totally innocent. The mad stories of guilt that are found in this world of separation in truth are nothing and nowhere.

It is the Holy Spirit Who resides in our mind eternally That frees us from the picture of the crucifixion of God’s Son. Today is a day of practice letting my inner Teacher show me the true innocence that lies in everyone. Herein lies my freedom and the freedom of the whole Sonship. Holding grievances is not what heals. Healing lies in the willingness to let the veil be lifted to see the face of Christ. This is my practice for today. And I give thanks.

Robert:
We read today that peace and guilt cannot coexist. So if I want to be at peace, I need to forgive. This tells me that any disturbance of my peace is a signal that there is unforgiveness in my mind. I am reacting to an appearance in the present based on a belief or experience I am bringing from the past. Without the past I would see nothing but the present and only Love is now.

To have peace I need to give my full attention to the only meaningful function in this world — to forgive, to let go of the past. ACIM is very clear that I need help with this. My part is to be willing to look at my fear thoughts and offer them to the Holy Spirit. His part is to shine the Light of truth on them. He will show me that what I thought justified guilt had no effect whatsoever. Without effect, there is no cause for guilt and I remain innocent as Love created me.

My practice today is to be mindful of my level of peace and to bring all disturbing thoughts to the Holy Spirit for His purification. Only joy can come of this.

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Receiving Inspiration

Robert:
To be in peace does not mean to be lackadaisical or enervated. It is through being in peace that I receive inspiration, which is energizing and joyful. When I am inspired, I am motivated by Love, the Source of inspiration. Love automatically extends, because that is Its nature. So when I allow myself to be inspired in peace, joy is magnified, because Love is extended.

Today I will be vigilant for peace so that I can receive Love’s inspiration and extend its joy. This inspiration can be expressed in many ways within the world of form. It may be a thought in my mind that sees a brother in a loving light. It may be a smile to someone I’ve never met as I pass by. It may be remembering that a loved one remains safe in God, even though their body seems to be experiencing some form of dysfunction. Or it may be working peacefully at my computer. As I focus on staying in a state of peace, I learn to do through inspiration and Love. This is how I learn of the Love that is my true Nature. It brings great joy.

Mary:
This morning the Holy Spirit gave me a phrase to use whenever I notice that I am not at peace. The phrase is: “God’s Love is changeless.” Remembering this brings me back to sanity. God’s Son cannot change how he was created and so the whole Sonship is still perfect Love. Nothing can happen to change God’s one Son — God’s whole family of Love.

Remembering “God’s Love is changeless” helps me distinguish between the real and the unreal. If what I am seeing is unreal, I need not take it so seriously; I can let it pass by. Letting false ideas pass by is how I wake up from the dream of separation.

The helpful thought, “God’s Love is changeless,” is like a purifying agent that lets me easily let go of what is not real and does not matter. I do not need to change or fix something that I remember is not real. This awareness returns me to peace. It returns me to the truth that only Love is real. This is being vigilant only for God and His Kingdom.

Today my practice is to remember all through the day that God’s Love is changeless. This helps me rise above to see the Love that is always there behind every form of separation.

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Accepting God’s Voice

Mary:
In our reading this morning in A Course in Miracles, this paragraph stood out to me:

Listen in deep silence. Be very still and open your mind. Go past all the raucous shrieks and sick imaginings that cover your real thoughts and obscure your eternal link with God. Sink deep into the peace that waits for you beyond the frantic, riotous thoughts and sights and sounds of this insane world. You do not live here. We are trying to reach your real home. We are trying to reach the place where you are truly welcome. We are trying to reach God. (W-pI.49.4)

These are very clear directions in how to help me move past thoughts of separation to the real thoughts we share with God. It emphasizes that I need to be quiet. It emphasizes that I need to have an open mind. It also instructs me to go past all the thoughts which stem from the belief in separation.

I must be willing to sink deep into the peace that awaits me. As I am willing, peace carries me gently past all worldly thoughts. Peace carries me to my real Home. It is here that I find my real strength. It is here that I am awakened to my true Nature, which includes the whole Sonship — God’s whole family of Love. This is my practice for today.

Robert:
This lesson assures me that “God’s Voice speaks to me all through the day.” There is never a time when God’s Voice is not present and communicating with me in my mind. When I am not aware of this communication, it is only because I have blocked it from my awareness by focusing my attention on the images of the world of separation. God’s Voice is always there, whether or not I am aware of It.

This lesson also assures me that the part of my mind that is aware of this Voice is a place of deep peace. To return to awareness of this Voice I only need to go to this deep peace in my mind. It’s always there. I just need to be willing to sink past the things of the world that I have given attention. As I give attention to peace, the guidance of this Voice comes to the front and leads me to my real Home.

My practice today is to frequently go to that place of peace in my mind. This is all I really want.

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Dependence on God

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Placing your trust in God is allowing yourself to be totally dependent on God. To be totally dependent on God is to give God your total attention. You are quiet and open to God’s gift of peace. You are open to your inner Teacher’s inspiration and guidance. You willingly give time to serving Love’s one purpose — to extend Love equally to all of Itself.

You are learning that opening to receiving God’s Love and extending God’s Love is a full-time job. This is what brings you joy and a sense of deep happiness and well-being. You freely give all the Love that you have, because you know there is no lack of Love. Accepting and giving Love’s abundance is your full-time focus. Nothing else matters. Accepting this truth is your opportunity today. Enjoying What you are and Where you are is your opportunity today. It is your gift to receive and extend.

Robert:
If I completely trusted God, I would feel perfectly safe because I would know that I am supported by the Source of all strength and limitless Love. I would need nothing else.

The fact that I don’t feel that safety is a sure indication that I am trusting in my own strength because I am denying my Source of strength. Having denied the Source of strength, a sense of vulnerability and weakness is inevitable. The ego is the idea of independence, being separate, and therefore perceives dependence on God as weakness. This is typical of perception, which always sees itself reflected back to it.

The way back to the complete assurance of my wholeness and invulnerability is to let go of belief in being separate. I do this whenever I remember to step back and welcome my inner Teacher’s vision in place of the ego’s projections. Today as I practice doing this, I continue on my journey of awakening to my wholeness in Love.

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Let Yourself Be Carried

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Let yourself be carried today. That means you need make no decisions on your own. It means you need not make any judgments on your own or decide what anything means on your own. The idea of being on your own is just a false idea that is not true.

You are still as God created you. This means formless Love is What you are eternally. Formless Love knows only formless Love. Today let yourself be carried and know the truth that only formless Love is What you are and What everyone is. This is what it means to let yourself be carried.

Robert:
We are frequently reminded that we are being carried and that we need to let ourselves be carried. This is because there is a long established habit of believing that we are on our own, which is the denial that we are being carried — that we remain in the Heart of God. We are being encouraged to kick the habit.

Like any addiction, the habit of believing we are on our own has destructive consequences. It brings with it fear, pain and guilt. But the good news is there is a better way. And being reminded to let ourselves be carried is pointing us in the direction of the better way. We just need to take one day at a time, one moment at a time, to remember that we remain as Love created us and let Love carry us.

And so today I will practice remembering that I am being carried. If I fall off the wagon, I will pick myself up, dust off the guilt and remind myself again that I remain Love as Love created me and I am carried in that Love.

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Staying Anchored in Quiet

Mary and Robert:
During our time of quiet this morning, Holy Spirit brought in the idea to allow periods of quiet several times a day to step back from the activity of the world. It is like going to a little quiet cove where the waters are still and the wind is calm.

Spirit reminded us to anchor there a little while and rest in the stillness. In that stillness we receive inspiration. It gives time for purification from any false ideas that need to be corrected. Allowing time for this frequently throughout the day keeps our ship well tuned for the Holy Spirit’s purpose.

We found this to be very helpful because we are getting ready for our trip to San Francisco and there are a lot of details that need to be taken care of in the world. Spirit brought this idea to us to help us stay consistently connected. Frequently taking time to be still allows us to stay on track so that we let ourselves be carried instead of trying to act on our own. Stepping back frequently is a powerful habit that we want to implement more fully as a standard daily practice.

We see great power in this practice. We are very grateful that we are being shown, step by step, how to walk through the dream story in peace. We want to stay aligned with Holy Spirit’s plan to be truly helpful. Moving into Holy Spirit’s cove of quietness is a way to keep our ship on course.

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