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Learning the Lesson of Oneness

Forget not, when you feel the need arise to be defensive about anything, you have identified yourself with an illusion. And therefore feel that you are weak because you are alone. This is the cost of all illusions. Not one but rests on the belief that you are separate. Not one that does not seem to stand, heavy and solid and immovable, between you and your brother. And not one that truth cannot pass over lightly, and so easily that you must be convinced, in spite of what you thought it was, that it is nothing. If you forgive your brother, this must happen. For it is your unwillingness to overlook what seems to stand between you and your brother that makes it look impenetrable, and defends the illusion of its immovability.” (A Course in Miracles T-22.V.6)

If we feel defensive it is because we feel weak and alone. This is the inevitable effect of believing we are separate. We believe there is something external that we must defend against. This is the fundamental error of the ego. The underlying sense of vulnerability keeps us constantly on the alert for signs of danger that must be defended against. This is not a happy state of mind.

Amazingly this “vulnerability” is entirely in our imagination because our oneness in God never changes. We have become so invested in our made up story of being separate identities that we cannot find our way out on our own. But through our inner Teacher, we have the means to lay down the story so that once again see that we remain perfectly safe in Love’s changeless oneness that we share with everyone.

The Holy Spirit is ever ready to help us let go of the interference that hides the beneficent Light of our brothers from our awareness. With His help we will learn the lesson of oneness and remember the joy of Heaven.

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You Are Spirit

Today’s idea identifies you with your one Self. It accepts no split identity, nor tries to weave opposing factors into unity. It simply states the truth. Practice this truth today as often as you can, for it will bring your mind from conflict to the quiet fields of peace. No chill of fear can enter, for your mind has been absolved from madness, letting go illusions of a split identity.

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.97.1,7:2)

As we accept that we are Spirit, we let go of the barriers that interfere with receiving Holy Spirit’s inspiration and guidance. When we accept that we are Spirit, we accept that we are one with the Holy Spirit, and communication with our true Self is natural and automatic. Because Spirit is one, It is eternally at peace, so we experience that peace by accepting that we are Spirit. All judgment, fear and guilt are simply the denial of our true Identity, the denial that we are Spirit.

This is our prayer today: “We choose to walk with You today, Holy Spirit. Hold our hands and guide us in Your way of seeing so that we may recognize what is truly valuable and what is nothing, an illusion. We would be channels of Your blessing as we see with You that only Love is there.”

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Letting Love Return to Our Awareness

I gladly make the “sacrifice” of fear — Here is the only “sacrifice” You ask of Your beloved Son; You ask him to give up all suffering, all sense of loss and sadness, all anxiety and doubt, and freely let Your Love come streaming in to his awareness, healing him of pain, and giving him Your Own eternal joy. Such is the “sacrifice” You ask of me, and one I gladly make; the only “cost” of restoration of Your memory to me, for the salvation of the world.

And as we pay the debt we owe to truth,—a debt that merely is the letting go of self-deceptions and of images we worshipped falsely—truth returns to us in wholeness and in joy. We are deceived no longer. Love has now returned to our awareness. And we are at peace again, for fear has gone and only love remains. (A Course in Miracles W-pII.323)

Today we practice stepping back and watching ego thoughts with Holy Spirit as they pass by. As we watch we let go of the images we have worshipped falsely with the help of our inner Teacher. With Holy Spirit, we practice not getting caught by these images. We give the Holy Spirit a chance to restore to us the awareness of Love’s presence. We give the Holy Spirit an opening to return us to the state of peace where we belong.

Joined with the Holy Spirit, we return to our only function of receiving Love and extending Love. We are now willing to let go of fear and experience our freedom to extend and be Love in the one Mind of Love.

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