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Accepting Holy Spirit’s Help to Forgive

A therapist does not heal; he lets healing be. He can point to darkness but he cannot bring light of himself, for light is not of him. Yet, being for him, [light] must also be for his patient. The Holy Spirit is the only Therapist. He makes healing clear in any situation in which He is the Guide. You can only let Him fulfill His function. He needs no help for this. He will tell you exactly what to do to help anyone He sends to you for help, and will speak to him through you if you do not interfere. Remember that you choose the guide for helping, and the wrong choice will not help. But remember also that the right one will. Trust Him, for help is His function, and He is of God. As you awaken other minds to the Holy Spirit through Him, and not yourself, you will understand that you are not obeying the laws of this world. But the laws you are obeying work. “The good is what works” is a sound though insufficient statement. Only the good can work. Nothing else works at all. (A Course in Miracles, T-9.V.8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

As long as we identify with the ego, we cannot heal ourselves. We need help. We need a Guide from outside the ego thought system to guide our healing. The Holy Spirit is always ready, willing and able to guide us to the healing that frees us from the ego’s lies and returns us to the full remembrance of the Self God created One with Him.

The fastest way for us to return to the Heaven of God’s Love is to diligently choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide, moment by moment. We start the day by dedicating it to letting Holy Spirit heal our misperceptions. Throughout the day, as we become aware of any disturbance of our peace, we pause and ask Him to help us perceive as He perceives.

As we welcome His guidance and apply it in our lives, we learn to forgive. Circumstances that once triggered fear, anger or guilt diminish. Lack of peace is dispelled more quickly and the Love, joy and peace of God bless our minds more and more. We teach healing through demonstrating our own healing by accepting Holy Spirit’s Help.

We dedicate today to this practice.

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Receiving and Giving All of God’s Gifts

A major learning goal this course has set is to reverse your view of giving, so you can receive. For giving has become a source of fear, and so you would avoid the only means by which you can receive. Accept God’s peace and joy, and you will learn a different way of looking at a gift. God’s gifts will never lessen when they are given away. They but increase thereby.

As Heaven’s peace and joy intensify when you accept them as God’s gift to you, so does the joy of your Creator grow when you accept His joy and peace as yours. True giving is creation. It extends the limitless to the unlimited, eternity to timelessness, and love unto itself. It adds to all that is complete already, not in simple terms of adding more, for that implies that it was less before. It adds by letting what cannot contain itself fulfill its aim of giving everything it has away, securing it forever for itself. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 105, W-pI.105.3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 105 Insights.)

In the ego thought system of separation, to give is to lose what is given. This belief makes us afraid to give because we believe we no longer have what we give away. The ego perceives only images which are limited by definition. Consequently it believes it loses the form it gives away. The most it can hope for is for the receiver to respond with a gift of equal or greater value. This expectation imposes a debt on the receiver which ego fears may not be paid in full. This is why ego-based giving always seems to entail risk of loss and carries guilt with it.

The only gifts we can truly give without limit are the gifts we receive from God. God knows no limits. He gives His Love, peace and joy eternally and without limit. The nature of these gifts is to extend themselves just as God extended them to His Son. To accept these gifts, we must extend them without limit. Without extending them, we cannot know we have His gifts of Love, joy and peace. Here is the key difference between the ego’s giving and the giving of God’s gifts. The ego limits its gifts. God’s gifts know no limits. He has given us all of Himself eternally.

Today we remind ourselves frequently, “God has given me all of Himself. All His Love, joy and peace are mine to give.” As we look upon a brother, we mentally say to our brother, “God has given you all of Himself. All His Love, joy and peace are yours.”

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