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Taking Our Fears to Holy Spirit for Healing

You must look upon your illusions and not keep them hidden, because they do not rest on their own foundation. ²In concealment they appear to do so, and thus they seem to be self-sustained. ³This is the fundamental illusion on which the others rest. ⁴For beneath them, and concealed as long as they are hidden, is the loving mind that thought it made them in anger. ⁵And the pain in this mind is so apparent, when it is uncovered, that its need of healing cannot be denied. ⁶Not all the tricks and games you offer it can heal it, for here is the real crucifixion of God’s Son.

And yet he is not crucified. ²Here is both his pain and his healing, for the Holy Spirit’s vision is merciful and His remedy is quick. ³Do not hide suffering from His sight, but bring it gladly to Him. ⁴Lay before His eternal sanity all your hurt, and let Him heal you. ⁵Do not leave any spot of pain hidden from His light, and search your mind carefully for any thoughts you may fear to uncover. ⁶For He will heal every little thought you have kept to hurt you and cleanse it of its littleness, restoring it to the magnitude of God.

Save [your brother] from his illusions that you may accept the magnitude of your Father in peace and joy. ²But exempt no one from your love, or you will be hiding a dark place in your mind where the Holy Spirit is not welcome. (A Course in Miracles, T-13.III.6–7;9:1-2. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

Beneath all our pain, physical or emotional, is our wish for specialness, supported by our belief that separation is real. This impossible dream is carefully hidden under the ego’s myriad forms that make the presence of Love invisible. Pain is impossible in Love’s oneness, where separation cannot exist.

We have so thoroughly convinced ourselves that our existence depends on separation manifested in the dream as a body, we need help to be set free. That Help is ever present in our mind, given us by our Creator.

The Holy Spirit sees how we have convinced ourselves that separation is real; but He knows it is not true. He is our best Friend Whom we can turn to in every instant for help. His Love is limitless. He does not judge, but offers only Love in response to our calls for Love. He will help us return to full awareness of the Love we are. But we must not hide any fearful thought, any wish for separation and specialness, from Him.

We believe we have harmed and been harmed. The Holy Spirit knows nothing has changed God’s one Son. He remains as he was created — Love and nothing else. When we fully accept the Love we are, keeping no fear hidden from our best Friend, we awaken in the Home of Love God holds for us.

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Awakening Gently in the Holy Spirit

⁶An instant offered to the Holy Spirit is offered to God on your behalf, and in that instant you will awaken gently in Him. ⁷In the blessed instant you will let go all your past learning, and the Holy Spirit will quickly offer you the whole lesson of peace.

…the instant of peace is eternal because it is without fear. ³It will come, being the lesson God gives you, through the Teacher He has appointed to translate time into eternity. ⁴Blessed is God’s Teacher, Whose joy it is to teach God’s holy Son his holiness. ⁵His joy is not contained in time. ⁶His teaching is for you because His joy is yours. ⁷Through Him you stand before God’s altar, where He gently translates hell into Heaven. ⁸For it is only in Heaven that God would have you be.

²You will receive very specific instructions as you go along. ³To learn to separate out this single second, and to experience it as timeless, is to begin to experience yourself as not separate. ⁴Fear not that you will not be given help in this. ⁵God’s Teacher and His lesson will support your strength. ⁶It is only your weakness that will depart from you in this practice, for it is the practice of the power of God in you. (T-15.II.1:6-7;2:2-8;6:2-6)

The power of God is in all of us as one unified Son of God. His power has not left us, but we have hidden it from our awareness by engaging in the ego thought system of separation.

We have been given the Holy Spirit to translate our belief in separation and time into the eternal timelessness of God’s Love. Our part is to be willing to offer our perceptions to the Holy Spirit. If we give this without reservation, the Holy Spirit will, in that instant, translate it into the eternity of God’s Love.

If we don’t experience this transformation, it is because we have not given that instant without reservation. The ego is terrified of peace. While we are still engaged with the ego, we will believe its fear is ours. But with the practice of giving our perceptions to the Holy Spirit, we will dismantle the ego’s dark veil and welcome the Light of Love that will dispel all fear.

Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s help.

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Freedom to Love as God Loves

God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him.

Perception is not an attribute of God. ²His is the realm of knowledge. ³Yet He has created the Holy Spirit as the Mediator between perception and knowledge. ⁴Without this link with God, perception would have replaced knowledge forever in your mind. ⁵With this link with God, perception will become so changed and purified that it will lead to knowledge. ⁶That is its function as the Holy Spirit sees it. ⁷Therefore, that is its function in truth.

In God you cannot see. ²Perception has no function in God, and does not exist. ³Yet in salvation, which is the undoing of what never was, perception has a mighty purpose. ⁴Made by the Son of God for an unholy purpose, it must become the means for the restoration of his holiness to his awareness. ⁵Perception has no meaning. ⁶Yet does the Holy Spirit give it a meaning very close to God’s. ⁷Healed perception becomes the means by which the Son of God forgives his brother, and thus forgives himself.

You cannot see apart from God because you cannot be apart from God. ²Whatever you do you do in Him, because whatever you think, you think with His Mind. ³If vision is real, and it is real to the extent to which it shares the Holy Spirit’s purpose, then you cannot see apart from God. (A Course in Miracles, W-43.1–3. See also ACIM Lesson 43 Insights.)

Our real thoughts are the Thoughts we think with God — extensions of Love. But the thoughts we are aware of are just image making contained within the thought system of separation. These thoughts are built upon perception of form and simply propagate thoughts that support belief in separation.

These thoughts of separation fostered by the ego form a closed loop that imprisons us in an imaginary world of separation. Built upon this false premise, there is no reasoning that will open the door of this prison. Yet we hold the key in our mind, the Holy Spirit, that will open the door and set us free to join with God’s Will.

As we choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide instead of the ego, we will learn to see the presence of Love everywhere, for so It is. This healed perception awakens us from the dream of limitation to the awareness that we are Love in the Mind of Love. Today we call upon the Holy Spirit, asking for His true perception to replace our misperceptions, for we would be free to love as God loves.

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Taking Control of Our Thoughts

I rule my mind, which I alone must rule.

I have a kingdom I must rule. ²At times, it does not seem I am its king at all. ³It seems to triumph over me, and tell me what to think, and what to do and feel. ⁴And yet it has been given me to serve whatever purpose I perceive in it. ⁵My mind can only serve. ⁶Today I give its service to the Holy Spirit to employ as He sees fit. ⁷I thus direct my mind, which I alone can rule. ⁸And thus I set it free to do the Will of God.

Father, my mind is open to Your Thoughts, and closed today to every thought but Yours. ²I rule my mind, and offer it to You. ³Accept my gift, for it is Yours to me. (A Course in Miracles, W-236. See also ACIM Lesson 236 Insights.)

We are each solely in charge of the thoughts we accept in our mind. Our seeming presence in this world tells us that we have accepted the ego thought system in our mind. It seems that we do not have control of our thoughts.

This is because we have signed over control to the ego. But it is not a binding contract. We can let it go in any instant by choosing to put the Holy Spirit in charge of the thoughts we accept in our mind. This choice is between thoughts of death and the one Thought that is our real Life in God.

When we take control of our thoughts by accepting the Holy Spirit’s help, we free our minds from the ego’s frightening thoughts. Love replaces fear. Happiness replaces worry and sadness. Peace replaces chaos. For we are accepting the Will we share with God. We are accepting our inheritance.

Today we put the Holy Spirit in charge of our thoughts to reclaim the Life we live in God.

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The Path of Light That Leads to Joy

The ego does constant battle with the Holy Spirit on the fundamental question of what your function is. ²So does it do constant battle with the Holy Spirit about what your happiness is. ³It is not a two-way battle. ⁴The ego attacks and the Holy Spirit does not respond. ⁵He knows what your function is. ⁶He knows that it is your happiness.

…God has given you your function. ²We have seen that there are only two parts of your mind. ³One is ruled by the ego, and is made up of illusions. ⁴The other is the home of the Holy Spirit, where truth abides. ⁵There are no other guides but these to choose between, and no other outcomes possible as a result of your choice but the fear that the ego always engenders, and the love that the Holy Spirit always offers to replace it.

Thus, it must be that your function is established by God through His Voice, or is made by the ego which you have made to replace Him.

²Think also about the many forms the illusion of your function has taken in your mind, and the many ways in which you tried to find salvation under the ego’s guidance. …⁸Yet the ego is the only alternative to the Holy Spirit’s Voice.

You will listen to madness or hear the truth. (A Course in Miracles, W-66.2;7:1-8:1;9:2,8;10:1. See also ACIM Lesson 66 Insights.)

The ego offers many illusions to distract us from realizing the price we pay for wanting specialness. The ego has nothing real to offer and so its offerings are nothing. But by accepting the ego’s offerings, we become unaware of all that is real. We sacrifice everything to gain nothing of real value.

But by the grace of God, we are not left without help to escape from the ego-made world. The Holy Spirit can communicate to us through the confusion we have accepted by our wish for specialness. His message is that our true happiness is our reality. Our only function is to share the Love we are and this sharing brings indescribable joy.

Right now, in this instant, we can choose to follow the Holy Spirit’s lead. We need only to follow the path of Light He offers us. It leads us Home.

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Putting Holy Spirit in Charge of Our Life

⁴The very fact that the Will of God, which is what you are, is perceived as fearful, demonstrates that you are afraid of what you are. ⁵It is not, then, the Will of God of which you are afraid, but yours.

Your will is not the ego’s, and that is why the ego is against you. ²What seems to be the fear of God is really the fear of your own reality.

⁵You have set up this strange situation so that it is impossible to escape from it without a Guide Who does know what your reality is. ⁶The purpose of this Guide is merely to remind you of what you want.

²When I said that the Holy Spirit’s function is to sort out the true from the false in your mind, I meant that He has the power to look into what you have hidden and recognize the Will of God there. ³His recognition of this Will can make it real to you because He is in your mind, and therefore He is your reality.

⁷Reality is the only safety. ⁸Your will is your salvation because it is the same as God’s. ⁹The separation is nothing more than the belief that it is different. (A Course in Miracles, T-9.I.1:4–2:2;3:5-6;4:2-3;7:7-9. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The Holy Spirit is literally our lifeline. He is our eternal connection with the Source of all Life. There is no Life except the Life we live in God.

What we think of as life is a dream which we populate with myriad figures and images over which we seem to have no control. Yet these appearances are projections from our split mind. They represent what we believe we are. But belief does not make reality; it makes a substitute for reality which stands as a barrier to awareness of the Reality we live in God.

Our belief makes the dream seem out of our control. But we can change our belief with the help of the Holy Spirit. When our belief changes, the dream changes. As we accept the Holy Spirit’s guidance our dream progresses from fearful toward happy and loving. When we have fully accepted the Love that God Wills for us, we stand at the gate of Heaven, where God welcomes us Home. We accelerate this journey by vigilantly paying attention to His guidance.

 

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Choosing the Path to Joy

A happy outcome to all things is sure.

God’s promises make no exceptions. ²And He guarantees that only joy can be the final outcome found for everything. ³Yet it is up to us when this is reached; how long we let an alien will appear to be opposing His. ⁴And while we think this will is real, we will not find the end He has appointed as the outcome of all problems we perceive, all trials we see, and every situation that we meet. ⁵Yet is the ending certain. ⁶For God’s Will is done in earth and Heaven. ⁷We will seek and we will find according to His Will, which guarantees that our will is done.

We thank You, Father, for Your guarantee of only happy outcomes in the end. ²Help us not interfere, and so delay the happy endings You have promised us for every problem that we can perceive; for every trial we think we still must meet. (A Course in Miracles, W-292. See also ACIM Lesson 292 Insights.)

A Course in Miracles offers us a path to joy. It is very simple and straightforward. We need to let go of our wish for specialness, to be separate and different. God created His Son joyous because His Son remains one with Him. He shares all of His joy.

The ego is the wish to define joy as specialness. But specialness has a price. To be special requires that one have more than another. If this were true, guilt would be justified. For specialness to occur, sacrifice is required for one to have more than another. In effect, the wish for specialness is the denial of true happiness.

Today we choose to follow the Guide to joy. As we are willing to offer our perceptions to the Holy Spirit for His gentle correction, we will see Love’s presence beyond the separate images of the world. And joy is an attribute of Love. The appeal of Love will inspire us to lay down the mistaken wish for specialness. We choose the path to joy today.

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