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Connecting with Our Inner Light

Very quietly now, with your eyes closed, try to let go of all the content that generally occupies your consciousness. Think of your mind as a vast circle, surrounded by a layer of heavy, dark clouds. You can see only the clouds because you seem to be standing outside the circle and quite apart from it.

From where you stand, you can see no reason to believe there is a brilliant light hidden by the clouds. The clouds seem to be the only reality. They seem to be all there is to see. Therefore, you do not attempt to go through them and past them, which is the only way in which you would be really convinced of their lack of substance. We will make this attempt today.

After you have thought about the importance of what you are trying to do for yourself and the world, try to settle down in perfect stillness, remembering only how much you want to reach the light in you today,–now! Determine to go past the clouds. Reach out and touch them in your mind. Brush them aside with your hand; feel them resting on your cheeks and forehead and eyelids as you go through them. Go on; clouds cannot stop you.

If you are doing the exercises properly, you will begin to feel a sense of being lifted up and carried ahead. Your little effort and small determination call on the power of the universe to help you, and God Himself will raise you from darkness into light. You are in accord with His Will. You cannot fail because your will is His.

Have confidence in your Father today, and be certain that He has heard you and answered you. You may not recognize His answer yet, but you can indeed be sure that it is given you and you will yet receive it. Try, as you attempt to go through the clouds to the light, to hold this confidence in your mind. Try to remember that you are at last joining your will to God’s. Try to keep the thought clearly in mind that what you undertake with God must succeed. Then let the power of God work in you and through you, that His Will and yours be done. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 69, W-pI.69.4-8. See also ACIM Lesson 69 Insights.)

This is a powerful guided meditation to help us connect with the Light of our true Self. The Light is in us hidden only by our grievances, our judgments about the world we experience. With this process we learn that these grievances have no real substance and we can easily move past them. As we connect with our inner Light, we illuminate the minds of our brothers and ourselves. There can be no greater gift we can give.

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Resting in the Holy Spirit’s Peace

You are the dreamer of the world of dreams. No other cause it has, nor ever will. Nothing more fearful than an idle dream has terrified God’s Son, and made him think that he has lost his innocence, denied his Father, and made war upon himself.

Rest in the Holy Spirit, and allow His gentle dreams to take the place of those you dreamed in terror and in fear of death. He brings forgiving dreams, in which the choice is not who is the murderer and who shall be the victim. In the dreams He brings there is no murder and there is no death. The dream of guilt is fading from your sight, although your eyes are closed. A smile has come to lighten up your sleeping face. The sleep is peaceful now, for these are happy dreams.

Dream softly of your sinless brother, who unites with you in holy innocence. And from this dream the Lord of Heaven will Himself awaken His beloved Son. Dream of your brother’s kindnesses instead of dwelling in your dreams on his mistakes. Select his thoughtfulness to dream about instead of counting up the hurts he gave. Forgive him his illusions, and give thanks to him for all the helpfulness he gave. And do not brush aside his many gifts because he is not perfect in your dreams. (A Course in Miracles, T-27.VII.13:1-3;14:3-15:6. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

There is a rest available to us that surpasses anything the world has to offer. It is always with us, waiting only on our willingness to accept it. We rest in the Holy Spirit when we are willing to accept His guidance in all that we think and do. The Holy Spirit will show us the peace beyond the chaotic appearances of the world.

As we let the Holy Spirit show us the loving truth in our brothers, we learn of it in ourselves. And as this Love becomes more clear to us through our forgiveness, peace becomes our natural state. Today we accept the Holy Spirit’s help that we may rest in His peace.

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Remembering Our One Self

You are one Self, united and secure in light and joy and peace. You are God’s Son, one Self, with one Creator and one goal; to bring awareness of this oneness to all minds, that true creation may extend the allness and the unity of God. You are one Self, complete and healed and whole, with power to lift the veil of darkness from the world, and let the light in you come through to teach the world the truth about yourself.

You are one Self, in perfect harmony with all there is, and all that there will be. You are one Self, the holy Son of God, united with your brothers in that Self; united with your Father in His Will. Feel this one Self in you, and let It shine away all your illusions and your doubts. This is your Self, the Son of God Himself, sinless as Its Creator, with His strength within you and His Love forever yours. You are one Self, and it is given you to feel this Self within you, and to cast all your illusions out of the one Mind that is this Self, the holy truth in you. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 95, W-pI.95.12-13. See also ACIM Lesson 95 Insights.)

The Course reminds us many times that we are not a body and remain as God created us. Here what God created us to be is thoroughly described. Our natural state as we were created is joy and peace, constantly extending Love. All of God’s strength is ours, never limited. We lack nothing, for we have been given all that is real.

This sense of limitation, weakness, vulnerability and uncertainty we experience in the world is only because we identify with a false idea of what we are. This false idea is a denial of what we were created to be. Fortunately the choice to believe in a false idea can be reversed. We have been given a Voice from our Creator That calls to us unceasingly to remind us of the truth of what we are.

Today we practice listening to that Voice, for we would remember the Love and joy and peace of our one Self. We would remember What God created us to be.

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