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Remembering the Truth

Mary & Robert:
In our reading in A Course in Miracles this morning, we found this really helpful:

What but Christ’s vision would I use today, when it can offer me a day in which I see a world so like to Heaven that an ancient memory returns to me? Today I can forget the world I made. Today I can go past all fear, and be restored to love and holiness and peace. Today I am redeemed, and born anew into a world of mercy and of care; of loving kindness and the peace of God. …In gratitude and thankfulness we come, with empty hands and open hearts and minds, asking but what You give. (W-pII.306.1,2:2)

With all the fear generated by what appears to be going on in the world, we can be truly helpful by handing over the world’s fear stories to the Holy Spirt and opening to the fact that we remain as God created us, and that we are safe in the Love and peace of God. We do this by stepping back, taking time to tune in to the peace within and opening our minds to the Holy Spirit’s perception. This how we learn to recognize where our real safety lies. We dedicate this day to remembering the truth with the Holy Spirit.

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Opening to Happiness

Holy Spirit to Robert:
The ego is a perpetual pessimist. Driven by the maxim “seek and do not find,” it has no hope of ever finding happiness. The ego does not tell you that it is the denial of happiness. Instead it makes up myriad forms and tries to convince you that if you obtain these forms you will be happy. Yet each time you obtain any of these forms, you find you are not satisfied. The ego says, “Not to worry. Here’s another form to try for.” It may even encourage guilt by suggesting that you should have known better than to try for that other form. Seek not the ego’s counsel for what would make you happy. It does not know and can only offer you empty substitutes.

There is a Place in you That holds the Flame of happiness eternally. Turn to It to let It light your way to the Home where happiness is eternal and Love is without end. You cannot put out this Flame because Its Source is God. It is your Self, your true Identity, which cannot be altered. This Self recognizes the truth in you and in all your brothers. Its Light shows you clearly that all that is real is One and can never be divided nor lost.

Turn to this Light in you and let It show you the Light that is in all. When you look into this Light, you recognize that It has no end. There is nothing outside this Light. This Light is you, united with your Source. Here is peace and strength. Here is certainty and safety. Here is the joyous, radiating extension of the Light of Love. Here is Heaven, your Home. Accept It and know that It is yours. In your acceptance, you remember peace.

Holy Spirit to Mary:
To be truly helpful you need to relax and step back from the ego’s thoughts about what is true in this world. You must be willing to let go of all you think you know and learned from the past. Be as a little child that is willing to listen and be told. Listen in quiet. Let your mind be purified of all the ego’s false ideas. Be willing to receive the peace that replaces the fearful thoughts of the ego. Be willing to rest in the truth today. This is how to be truly helpful.

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God Goes with Us Wherever We Go

Mary:
It is helpful for me to remember that God goes with me wherever I go. It also means that God goes with everyone wherever they go. God is in everyone’s mind because in truth we are one mind. We are one in the Mind of God. The false mind is really nothing and nowhere. This helps me remain in peace and remember everyone’s innate holiness and safety.

Robert:
Today I read in one of the Workbook lessons of A Course in Miracles that Jesus understands what we think we see and the fears and guilt associated with it. But he knows it is not true. To me Jesus represents the Holy Spirit and my true Self because he fully remembered and accepted the truth of our unity in God. So this means that I always have within my mind the help I need to remember and accept this for myself.

I can learn to let go of all the false ideas that I have believed are true. I can learn to see as Christ sees. I can remember the truth of What I am. Jesus is an example of one who has remembered this and shows the way for me to remember. The Guide to remembering is in my mind. I connect with It by pausing for peace. Today is another happy day of practicing pausing for peace.

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Pause for Peace

Holy Spirit to Robert:
When you pause and allow yourself to move into quiet peace, you disconnect from the momentum of the ego that would carry you past the present into a future that repeats the past. Pausing for peace is an essential step in preparing you to receive inspiration in the present moment. The more you practice this the more you learn that what you remember from the past has taught you nothing about reality. Reality is now, changeless and eternal.

When you allow yourself to return to peace, you open your mind to receive My gentle lessons that show you the ever present Love and innocence that is the truth about you and everyone. This is the lesson that will return you to the experience of unspeakable joy and deep peace that is God’s gift to you. Pause frequently for peace today and today will be a lesson in remembering Who you are.

Mary:
Today is an opportunity to choose Holy Spirit’s lessons instead of the ego’s lessons. I open the door to learning Holy Spirit’s lessons when I consistently remember to pause for peace. Do I really want freedom from the ego thought system? Then I will follow through with pausing for peace all through the day.

This practice will return me to the truth. This practice will open the door to the awareness of Love’s Presence.

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Will I Accept the Truth Today?

Mary:
Will I accept the truth today? Am I a body in a world of other bodies, or am I eternal Spirit? Am I still as God created me, or have I really succeeded in changing my identity into something different from God and my brothers? Am I willing to accept the truth today? Am I willing to accept the truth about every brother?

This is the choice I have today — to join with illusions of individuality or accept that the whole Sonship is still as God created It. Am I at peace, or am I fearful? How can I be truly helpful in a world where there seems to so much disaster and pain?

As I go into a place of quiet and listen, I am reminded that I am changeless Love along with every brother in this world I see… I have been given God’s gift of peace and joy which I extend to everyone… I recognize that this is how I can be truly helpful — to recognize that everyone is still in Heaven, in God’s Mind of Perfect Love along with me.

In truth, God’s eternal abundance is for everyone. We cannot change our Identity as perfect Love. I am truly helpful when I am willing to remember the truth about everyone’s safety. Minds are joined and that is how I bless the world and receive the blessings that I extend. Giving the truth truly is receiving the truth. I forgive the world of all I thought it was and give thanks that we still are as God created us.

Robert:
I rest in God. I feel restless when I believe I am not in God. Since God has already met all my needs, If I believe I am separate from God, I feel a need to fill the void left by the denial of God’s abundance. When there is a sense of lack, there can be no rest. This is why when I am identified with the ego thought system there is a feeling that I must be doing something, or at least planning to do something. Believing I am separate from God, I do not trust that all my needs are met.

As I remind myself that I rest in God, I feel myself relaxing. I feel myself becoming more at peace. The need to be doing or planning something fades and I relax more. My mind becomes more open to the Holy Spirit’s inspiration which is not clouded by my belief that I must do something to fill what is lacking in me. With this open mind, I am inspired to do in ease, without effort. When I am aligned with the Holy Spirit’s purpose, all my doing flows naturally and I am energized by the flow of Love. Today I will focus on remembering that I rest in God and all my needs are met.

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Choose to Receive the Truth

Holy Spirit to Mary:
This world is a dream. What is real and of God is eternal. The world you live in is in a state of constant change — a world of danger and conflict. This world does not reflect your true Nature, your true Self. To find your true Self, learn to take frequent intervals when you hand over your stories of conflict and lack of Love and choose instead to receive the truth. You are then in a place of opening to receive the peace of your true Self.

Your true Self is constant and does not change. The false ideas fall away as the presence of your true Nature comes forward. Here there is quietness. Here there is peace. From here you extend peace, Love and joy to the whole Sonship. You are able to see past this world and feel the beingness of what is eternally true.

Give time today to rest in the truth. Give time today to listen and receive the awareness of what is true forever. It is worth giving it the time.

Robert:
Holding grievances blocks my awareness of Love’s Presence, because Love holds no grievances. Having an opinion or judgment about anything is a grievance. It is a statement that if a circumstance or situation where someone’s words or behavior were somehow different and more to my liking, I would be happy (a.k.a. saved). This is really saying that my happiness is out of my control. It depends on other people or outside circumstances. This is discouraging because it is clear that I have no control over these things “outside.”

Thankfully, A Course in Miracles tells me that the world I see is simply a projection of my beliefs and I can change my beliefs. I change my beliefs by offering all my perceptions to the Holy Spirit with an open mind, willing to receive His loving correction. This is how I clear away the blocks to the joyful awareness of Love’s eternal presence. This is my practice for today.

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Accepting Inspiration

Holy Spirit to Robert:
You experience a sense of efforting because you believe there is something that is resisting you. This is the effect of believing that you are separate. In oneness there is no “other” that can offer resistance. So a sense of efforting is a sure sign that you are engaged in the ego thought system of separation.

Become aware of when you are efforting and use it as a reminder to step back, allow yourself to return to peace, and open your mind to the Holy Spirit’s vision. As you do this, you will be inspired not only to recognize that there is no “other,” but also to see new actions or words within the world that will release the sense of effort. This morning you experienced this.

You had been looking for an instruction manual. You diligently looked in the likely places where it might be and then the unlikely places but did not find it. This morning you thought you had an idea of a place you hadn’t looked. But as you started to take steps to go to that place, your eyes fell upon the manual under a stack of papers within arms reach. It was there during all the time you were searching elsewhere.

The difference between all your efforts to find it before and today was that this time you were relaxed and your mind was open to be inspired to look where it could be found. Before, you were following the ego’s maxim of seek and do not find. Today, in that moment, you let go of what you thought the past taught you and accepted inspiration in the present moment. It was a lesson in learning the value of letting go of the past.

This can be your moment-by-moment experience every day. Just keep practicing letting go of effort, letting go of the past and opening to inspiration now.

Mary:
This morning as I go into a place of quiet, the words come to mind: “God goes with me wherever I go.” This means that the Holy Spirit’s inspiration is always with me every moment. I am reminded to go to that place of inner inspiration all through the day as I go through my daily activities. I am reminded not to reserve inspiration for just certain circumstances, certain situations. I am encouraged not to ignore inspiration in situations where I think I know what to do.

Today it is my opportunity to broaden my willingness to accept inspiration in every situation. I am encouraged to step back and listen more and more. This is my practice for today.

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