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Accepting True Value

Our prayer today:
Holy Spirit, help me to recognize what is truly valuable and what is valueless. With this recognition, forgiveness is natural because the valueless is easily laid down. With Your help, I will see the Light of Love everywhere because all value lies in Love. This is how I will bless the world and experience Love’s blessing.

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Am I Willing to Remember the Eternal?

You are at home in God, dreaming of exile but perfectly capable of awakening to reality. Is it your decision to do so?… When you remember, you will know that what you remember is eternal, and therefore now. (A Course in Miracles T-10.I.2:1-2, 3:7)

Today my focus is on being willing to awaken to Reality. When I am willing to remember the eternal, the Holy Spirit will respond by bringing the truth of Love’s eternal presence to my awareness. When I am willing to remember Reality, I will feel the peace and joy that are inherent in this choice. I don’t have to wait for future happiness — it is here now because Love is eternal. Today I am willing to be aware of eternal Love now. Another way to say this is that I am willing to be happy now.

I have observed that I get tense when I hear someone being judgmental or read a judgmental email. This is a sure sign that I am responding in kind with my own judgment. Peace and judgment do not go together. Judgment can only come from a sense of being without Love. It is a call for Love.

The answer to this is to remember the Love that is eternally present. My own tension is a reminder that I need to accept that I remain in God’s Love. When I remember, I will naturally offer Love to any appearance of judgment. This is how I remove the barriers to Love’s presence.

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Consistent Opening to Truth

You are the spirit lovingly endowed with all your Father’s Love and peace and joy. You are the spirit which completes Himself, and shares His function as Creator. He is with you always, as you are with Him.

Begin these happy exercises (5 min. each hr.) with the words the Holy Spirit speaks to you, and let them echo round the world through Him:

Spirit am I, a holy Son of God, free of all limits, safe and healed and whole, free to forgive, and free to save the world. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.97.2:2-4,7:1-2)

When I identify with Spirit, I feel perfectly safe, at peace and blessed by the flow of Love. From that place, I see only Love, only innocence. I see friends everywhere because I see only the one Self we share. It is a heavenly state of mind. This practice today will bring blessing beyond measure.

Today my practice is to give time to the Holy Spirit to remember the truth. I will set my watch to remind me to give five minutes of each hour. This practice will help remind me to open my mind to Holy Spirit’s inspiration more consistently throughout the day. This consistent practice will reinforce the habit of joining with the truth of Love’s Oneness. God’s Son is one and nothing else is real.

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Accepting God’s Grace

Grace is acceptance of the Love of God within a world of seeming hate and fear. By grace alone the hate and fear are gone, for grace presents a state so opposite to everything the world contains, that those whose minds are lighted by the gift of grace can not believe the world of fear is real. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.169.2)

This is my prayer today: Holy Spirit, today is for opening to and receiving Your gift of grace. All fear thoughts disappear as I step back and become willing to receive the blessings of Your gift of grace. I know that it all starts with my willingness to let You fill my mind with peace and the Love of God. As I do this, everything else disappears and I know that all is safe in the Mind of God, where I am at Home. Thank You for Your gift of grace. It is how my mind is healed as I am willing to accept Your gift.

The means for accepting the Love of God is forgiveness. As judgment is a defense against Love, forgiveness welcomes Love. Today my practice is to forgive by holding my mind open to the Holy Spirit’s interpretation in each moment. This is how I will see past my judgments to the truth of our oneness in Love.

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Bringing the Ego to God

Bringing illusion to truth, or the ego to God, is the Holy Spirit’s only function. Keep not your making from your Father, for hiding it has cost you knowledge of Him and of yourself. The knowledge is safe, but where is your safety apart from it? The making of time to take the place of timelessness lay in the decision to be not as you are. Thus truth was made past, and the present was dedicated to illusion. And the past, too, was changed and interposed between what always was and now. The past that you remember never was, and represents only the denial of what always was. (A Course in Miracles T-14.IX.1:4-10)

As we learn about the ego, it seems easy to make it into an adversary which we need to defend against. There is a difference between defensiveness and vigilance. We do need to be vigilant to identify when we are choosing the ego as our guide. If we recognize that we have been following the ego and try to fight it on our own, we simply reinforce the belief that the ego is real. This keeps us chained to a belief in what could never be true.

When we recognize that we have been following the ego, the next important step is to bring these thoughts to the Holy Spirit, the Truth in our minds. The Light of truth will make it clear that the ego is nothing more than an illusion. As we recognize this, the illusion is naturally and easily let go.

Today our practice is to be vigilant to recognize when we are following the ego and offer those thoughts to the Truth to be corrected. This is how we shift our allegiance from error to truth.

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Step Back and Follow

This is my prayer for today: Holy Spirit, I would decide nothing on my own. I will use today to practice stepping back and listening to Your perspective. I use today to let go of the future and let go of the past. In this present moment I will trust Your guidance. In this present moment I am willing to have my belief in separation be undone. I am willing to be reminded that there is no future and there is no past, only the eternal Now. In this moment I am willing to receive and extend the truth. This is my practice for today.

When I step back and let Holy Spirit lead the way, He always leads me to happiness and peace. Today is a happy day of practicing stepping back and letting Him lead the way.

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Valuing Truth Instead of Illusion

Every illusion you accept into your mind by judging it to be attainable removes your own sense of completion, and thus denies the Wholeness of your Father. Every fantasy, be it of love or hate, deprives you of knowledge for fantasies are the veil behind which truth is hidden. To lift the veil that seems so dark and heavy, it is only needful to value truth beyond all fantasy, and to be entirely unwilling to settle for illusion in place of truth. (A Course in Miracles T-16.IV.10:2-4)

Fantasies of separate bodies with separate minds are not true. Thinking they are is just a barrier to the awareness of Love’s presence. Today I would practice letting these barriers to Love be lifted by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit shows me the reality behind the illusions of individuality. Today I would step back and ask to see the truth behind every illusion. I would let my mind be healed today of all the barriers to Love I am still holding in my mind.

All judgments in this world are based on the belief that separate bodies with separate minds are real. These judgments are thus a defense against the reality of Love’s oneness. Forgiveness lays down the defense and welcomes the blessing of Love’s Presence. Today I ask the Voice within for help to recognize the judgments that keep the veil in place and to see past them to the Light of Love that is ever present.

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