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The Hard Way or the Easy Way

In every moment we choose between the hard way and the easy way. The hard way is choosing the ego’s way, which is the denial of our true Nature. It takes constant vigilance to deny What we are in truth and make believe that we are something else. Yet we have taught ourselves to do this automatically. Because we have taught ourselves so thoroughly, it seems to be the easy choice to make.

The other choice, the only real choice, is to accept our Self as the Love we are. It takes no effort to be What we were created to be. But it takes great vigilance to interrupt the habit of denying What we are. Thus it seems that to accept the Truth is the hard way, but it’s only the need for vigilance against the habit of denial that requires our willingness and our constant attention.

Today our practice is to pay attention, moment by moment, to the Inspiration of our true Self, the Holy Spirit in our mind. With this practice, we will make the choice that leads to the easy, gentle, happy flow of Love.

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Accepting Love’s Kindness, Gentleness and Patience

Love’s kindness, gentleness and patience are attributes of the Son of God. Collectively we are the Son of God and naturally share these attributes. If we do not experience being Love, then we have denied the truth of What we are and accepted a false image of ourselves in Its place. This false image is the ego thought system of separation.

To return to our natural attributes as God’s Son, we need to seek out all the false images, the fear, the guilt, that hide the truth from our awareness. As we become aware of these false ideas, we need to bring them to the Holy Spirit Who, with kindness, gentleness and patience, will help us release the false images and lift the veil that hides Love from our awareness.

Each time we experience defensiveness, we have an opportunity to heal our minds from the illusion of being alone and separate and to accept that we remain Love as Love created us. This is the practice of forgiveness. This is how we accept Love’s kindness, gentleness and patience. This is our practice for today.

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Trust in Holy Spirit’s Plan

We will be told everything we need to know whenever we need to know it. Our job is to give the Holy Spirit the time to listen and receive. Our job is to have a consistent habit of choosing peace over conflict, choosing Love instead of fear, opening to Holy Spirit’s perspective instead of deciding anything on our own. As we consistently step back and open to the Light of Truth, we can be certain that Inspiration is there every moment as we need it.

Peace, Love and joy are ever present, waiting for our acceptance. Because we are one in the Mind of God, we cannot disinherit the gifts of God. We can hide them from our awareness, but we cannot lose them. As soon as we are willing to open up to the Holy Spirit’s Help, the barriers to the awareness of Love’s Presence are dissolved for us because we are welcoming the Light into our mind. With this practice, our trust in Holy Spirit’s plan grows.

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Accepting the Flow of God’s Plan for Us

Would you rather experience the effort and struggle of rowing your boat upstream against the flow? Or would you rather experience the joy of gently going with the flow and letting the flow carry you without effort? When you choose to identify yourself as a body with a separate identity and private thoughts, you are choosing to struggle upstream. When you choose to accept the guidance of your Inner Teacher, you are guided with the flow and to accept your true Identity.

Today we choose to let the flow of Spirit guide us gently down the stream of Love. We practice paying attention to Love’s lead each moment. We hold our mind open, free of our own plans, to make way to receive the Holy Spirit’s joyful plans that lead us to fulfilling our true purpose. We are willing to accept His plan, remembering that Holy Spirit brings us the happiness that comes with fulfilling God’s plan for us. This is our dedication today.

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God Is Always in Our Mind

Today we are willing to remember that God is in our mind… Today we are willing to remember that peace resides in the deeper levels of our mind… Along with peace, reside joy and happiness… Today we are willing to go to this holy place in our mind and receive the blessings therein… Today we rejoice in the fact that we carry these wonderful blessings with us wherever we go and always have the opportunity to extend them to the world…

Because God is always in our mind, God goes with us wherever we go. God’s Thoughts are always there to heal the false ideas that come up for healing. We can remember that we are always blessed and our opportunity is always to extend the blessing to everyone, because we are one.

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Accepting God’s Gift of Happiness

Happiness and fulfillment walk hand in hand. Happiness comes when we fulfill our life purpose, given us by God. God’s Will for us is perfect happiness. Our life will be filled with joy when we accept God’s Will as ours.

To this the ego clamors nervously, “Don’t go there. You’ll have to sacrifice everything.” In truth accepting God’s Will as ours comes with letting go of the nothingness of ego’s values, which makes way to receive God’s gift of everything. The idea of sacrifice is the foundation of the ego. To make an identity we call our own, we have to “sacrifice” our unity with Love. With this sacrifice, lasting happiness is impossible. We can only make temporary circumstances with seemingly pleasing images. But because they are illusions, they never last and we must continue to search for happiness and fulfillment where it cannot be found — in the dream of illusions. At some point we all come to the realization that there must be a better way.

Today we will step back from our self-made goals in a self-made dream. We would listen to the Voice that speaks for the Truth in us and let It guide us in the way of lasting happiness. We would accept the Will of God as our own, remembering that it is the will to be perfectly happy, to love and be loved, to rest in the sure and quiet Presence of our Source. Today we would step back and let Him lead the way.

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We Choose Peace

Today we choose to be aware of our level of peace… Peace of mind is not a little gift. Today we practice accepting the Holy Spirit’s gift of peace…

The Holy Spirit is constantly in our mind, waiting to give us the gift of peace every moment. We accept Holy Spirit’s peace now and extend it to everyone we meet or even think of. We let peace carry us to deeper levels of insight and understanding. In peace, we recognize we are united as one Mind. We happily follow the lead of peace today, and we give thanks.

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