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Love Is Everywhere

Wherever I go, there I am. If I think I am a separate individual identity, no matter how many different outer circumstances I try to put myself in, I bring that ego identity with me. But the same holds true of my true Identity — It is always with me. When I identify with my true Self, I recognize that there is nothing outside. The one Self we all share is everywhere, and There I am.

As I practice holding my mind open to Christ’s vision, I will experience the happiness and peace of the one Self we all share. This is my focus for today.

The ego mind, which thinks in terms of separate identities, is not my real Mind. This ego mind just represents the choice to be separate from Love’s oneness. Today my practice is to be vigilant to hand over all false thinking to my inner Teacher, Who helps me see past these false thoughts to the truth that eternal Love is everywhere. Eternal Love is Reality. I am willing to receive the peace and joy that comes with this practice today.

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Dedication to Truth

My focus for today is to accept the truth of Love’s wholeness instead of illusions of separation. My focus for today is to open to the Holy Spirit’s guidance regarding every situation. When I am willing, the Holy Spirit lifts the veil of illusions and shows me Love’s Wholeness behind every circumstance. Letting Holy Spirit show me the wholeness that lies beyond every image of separation is what today is for. To recognize wholeness, I must be dedicated to seeing only the truth. Here there is peace. Here there is joy.

The practice of letting the Holy Spirit judge all things on my behalf is how I am absolved of guilt. My practice today is to step out of the role of judge and make way for Holy Spirit to judge on my behalf. His judgment will teach me that only Love is real; guilt is impossible.

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Willingness to Accept Christ’s Vision

As I read A Course in Miracles, I’m getting it more and more clearly that the body’s eyes are incapable of showing me the truth. The body was made out of the denial of truth. It is incapable of perceiving the truth. Because I seem to be in a body, experiencing the world through its senses, it’s very tempting to believe its messages.

The Course is not asking me to deny that I have these temptations. But it is encouraging me to bring these temptations to the Holy Spirit in my mind with a willingness to be shown what they truly are. The Holy Spirit is there to show me what is really there through Christ’s vision. The eyes of Christ see the truth beyond the images of the world. They are forgiving eyes that have let the past go.

The path to freedom and happiness is to redirect my attention from the messages of the body to the vision of Christ, which is the vision of our true Self. This is the way to happiness. This is how I clear the way for the Light of Love to shine through and show me that Love is everywhere to be seen. There is nothing else to see. Today is another happy day of practice in letting the vision of Christ replace the image making of the ego.

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Joining in the Love of Our One Self

This is our prayer for today: Holy Spirit, guide our thoughts, our words, our hands, our feet today. We would follow only You today, knowing that You will guide us to perfect happiness. Guide our vision today that we may see the face of Christ in everyone. With You as our Guide, we will experience the joy of joining with everyone in the one Self we share. In this joining we will truly love and be loved. Thank you.

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Giving Time to Melt into Peace

One of the most important gifts I can give to myself is to take time out from all the activities of the world and open to Holy Spirit’s gift of peace. To the ego mind, this seems very unimportant and a waste of time. But to the Holy Spirit, there is nothing more important than this.

Opening to Holy Spirit’s peace is the same as letting go of all I think I know. Peace dissolves all thoughts of being separate and alone. Peace dissolves all thoughts of lack and vulnerability. Peace brings awareness of the truth and shines away what is not true.

Am I willing to receive all this by consistently giving time to the Holy Spirit all through the day? Am I willing to be a happy learner? If so, I will make room for Holy Spirit’s gift of peace. This is my practice for today.

The ego sees giving time to melt into peace as a major demand, even overwhelming. It warns, “You won’t have any time left to do anything. You will have to spend all your time in meditation.” This is how the ego defends its quest to seek and not find.

If I have allowed myself to get wrapped up in the frenzy of the world, I may need to take an extended period of time to quiet my mind and accept Holy Spirit’s gift of peace. But this is only because of a tentative willingness. But if I am willing to push through the weak willingness and truly open to Holy Spirit’s peace, the world is seen with the clarity of the Light of Love.

If I am vigilant to recognize any slight disturbance and quickly redirect my focus to accepting Holy Spirit’s peace, it can be received in the time it takes for one breath, if I am willing. With this practice, my doing in the world becomes highly productive, because all my doing is guided by the Holy Spirit. This is my practice for today.

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Individuality Is a Delusion. Oneness Is Real

My practice for today is to accept Love’s oneness as the only Reality. Through the body’s eyes it may look like separation is real, but my practice now is to keep my mind open to Love’s Reality. I let the Holy Spirit show me Love’s oneness behind every dream story of being separate and alone. I allow Holy Spirit to undo thoughts of separation throughout the day. This practice brings freedom. This practice brings peace and for this I give thanks.

In the quest for specialness, individuality is king. To maintain an individual identity, I must be different from everything else, a.k.a., be special. This quest makes awareness of Love impossible, because Love is one and has no differences.

Do I want to experience eternal, changeless Love, or do I want to continue the exhausting quest for specialness that never seems to satisfy? The only reason the quest for specialness seems to have value is because of the belief that specialness is a worthy substitute for Love. This can never be in truth.

I am learning that any time my peace is disturbed, it is because I believe my specialness, my individuality, is being threatened in some way. Thus when my peace is disturbed, I am giving myself a gift, an opportunity to bring the disturbing thought and feeling to the Holy Spirit and ask His help to see the truth beyond the disturbance. The Holy Spirit in my mind will help me let go of the false image that is threatened and accept the certain changelessness of the Love that is the truth of what I am. This is my practice for today.

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Receiving Holy Spirit’s Light in This Present Moment

Father, we were mistaken in the past, and choose to use the present to be free. Now do we leave the future in Your Hands, leaving behind our past mistakes, and sure that You will keep Your present promises, and guide the future in their holy light. (A Course in Miracles W-pII.314.2)

The way I receive the Light in the present moment is to leave a clean an open space for Holy Spirit’s Light of truth to enter. Receiving the truth takes my willingness to receive it. This willingness requires me to soften my hold on ego thoughts and relax deeply enough to receive Holy Spirit’s peace. Opening to peace is the same as putting the welcome mat out for Holy Spirit to shine away false perceptions.

Focusing on having an open mind to Holy Spirit’s true perception is all I want today. And what I really want in my heart of hearts is what I will receive. For this I give thanks.

Nothing in the present can disturb my peace because only Love is now. Any disturbance comes from overlaying the present with “memories” of the past. All these memories are false perceptions based on the false idea that separation is real and judgment is possible.

Love sees only oneness and therefore cannot judge. This is why Love is revealed when judgment is let go, when the past is forgiven. The Holy Spirit was given us to teach us how to judge truly, which means to recognize what is real and what is not real. This is why my practice today is to hold my mind in peace, open to the Holy Spirit’s Light to reveal the truth in the present moment. With this practice, my peace will not be disturbed.

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