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Letting Holy Spirit Show the Way

A Course in Miracles tells us to ask of everything, “What is this for?” It’s important not to try to answer this question on our own. The ego can suggest some very plausible purposes for many things. But they are disguises for the ego’s primary goal to maintain guilt.

Asking this question interrupts the ego’s trance script so that we can turn to the Holy Spirit to receive His purpose in place of the ego’s. Applied this way, the question becomes a stepping stone to awakening. It becomes a means for undoing the illusion that the forms in this world have a meaning or value.

The Holy Spirit will always show us that the only real content is Love. It will show us that forgiveness, Love’s reflection in this world, is how we shift from following the ego’s purpose to following the Holy Spirit’s purpose.

Today I will practice asking of everything, “What is this for?” with a willingness to receive Holy Spirit’s answer.

Today is for the practice of stepping back and letting Holy Spirit show the way.

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The Strength of God Sees Past Appearances

It is God’s strength in you that is the light in which you see… Strength overlooks these things [weakness, lack] by seeing past appearances. It keeps its steady gaze upon the light that lies beyond [appearances]. …In darkness you perceive a self that is not there. Strength is the truth about you…. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.92.3:1,4:1-2,6-7)

My focus for today is to allow God’s strength in me to see past appearances to the truth. When thoughts of weakness and limitation come up, my job today is to hand these thoughts over to God’s strength in me that they may be undone. God’s strength is there when I am willing to accept it. Accepting God’s strength is my practice for today.

It is only when I believe I am weak that I think I need to protect myself. When I accept God’s strength in me, I know that there is nothing to defend against. Today I ask Holy Spirit to help me recognize thoughts of weakness and to help me see past these false appearances to the Light that is in me and everywhere. This practice makes today an opportunity to continue my journey to the Home where I belong.

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I Go to My Inner Place of Peace

From the center of peace within, I see a world filled with friends. Everyone is recognized as my brother, one with me, sharing the same Father. I feel perfectly safe because nothing is seen as outside of me. My heart is filled with joy because all my needs are met — I accept all of God’s Love; I need nothing else. From this place of peace I see only innocence and I remember Who I am.

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Receiving Holy Spirit’s Christ’s Vision

Nothing is more important than seeing with the eyes of Christ today. The truth is true and nothing else is true. Everyone that I see in this dream is in truth God’s perfect Love and nothing else.

Making this my highest priority is what today is for — receiving Holy Spirit’s Christ’s vision. Here I see that Christ’s vision is shared with everyone. Here I am able to see past the clouds of individuality to the oneness of God’s Love. And for this I give thanks.

Christ’s vision sees no one as a body. It sees that only Love is real and that everyone is that Love. Christ’s vision does not judge, for it sees with the eyes of Love which does not condemn. This is my practice for today.

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Peace First

The peace of God is everything I want. The peace of God is my one goal; the aim of all my living here, the end I seek, my purpose and my function and my life, while I abide where I am not at home. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.205.1:2-3)

Because peace is an attribute of Love, the practice of making peace my priority opens the door to welcome the experience of Love. It opens my mind to the Light that shows me that only Love is real. It shows me that all images that I perceive in the world of dreams have no substance and no effect. Only Love is real. With peace as my one goal, I am set firmly on the path Home, where my true Self resides and never left. This is how I make today the means to awaken to the truth of What I am.

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Remembering Our One Self

Separation is only the decision not to know yourself. This whole thought system is a carefully contrived learning experience, designed to lead away from truth and into fantasy. Yet for every learning that would hurt you, God offers you correction and complete escape from all its consequences. (A Course in Miracles T-16.V.15:3-5)

Today’s practice is to recognize when I am making the decision not to know myself. Recognizing it is the first step, and willingness to accept correction is the second step. I may forget What I am and Where I am in truth many times during the day, but a willingness to practice receiving a change of mind is what today is for. This correction shows me the innocence in my brother and myself, instead of the guilt that comes with believing in illusions of separation.

If I judge anything, I have decided not to know myself. I can only judge if I believe I am separate. Yet in truth, I am one with All That Is — Love. My practice today is to be mindful of thoughts of judgment and to offer them to the Truth in my mind, Which will replace the thought of separation with the loving Thought of oneness, the vision of Christ.

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Accepting Our Center of Peace

There is a center of peace within each of us that is our true Self. When we identify with the ego, we are unaware of this center of peace, but it is still there.

My practice for today is to focus on this center so that all my seeing and doing is guided by my true Self that does not believe in the images of the world. This is how I will be Love’s messenger today.

The Light of God we all are is remembered in this center of peace. In this state of mind there is clarity… there is calm… there is Love… Keeping an open channel to this peace-filled state of mind is my highest priority. Opening to peace and extending peace is what this day is for. And for this I give thanks.

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