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The Engine That Powers Our Awakening

Never approach the holy instant after you have tried to remove all fear and hatred from your mind. That is its function. Never attempt to overlook your guilt before you ask the Holy Spirit’s help. That is His function. Your part is only to offer Him a little willingness to let Him remove all fear and hatred, and to be forgiven. On your little faith, joined with His understanding, He will build your part in the Atonement and make sure that you fulfill it easily. And with Him, you will build a ladder planted in the solid rock of faith, and rising even to Heaven. Nor will you use it to ascend to Heaven alone. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.V.2. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The most important habit we need to have is to bring every apprehension or disturbance of our peace to the Holy Spirit with willingness to let Him undo it. It is impossible that we can undo fear and guilt alone.

The ego, the belief in the lie that we are alone, is an insane idea. Being insane, it has no reason so it is incapable of using its “reasoning” to undo any problem, any perception of fear or guilt. That is why we must be vigilant to watch for any disturbance and equally determined to bring every disturbance to the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit’s reason is founded in truth. When we are willing to receive His reasoning, falsity is recognized for what it is and easily let go. The truth of our oneness in Love freely flows in to take the place of the false ideas that are let go. Our little willingness to let the Holy Spirit do His job is the engine that powers our journey Home to remember God’s Love and claim it as our own. Today we will practice our willingness.

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Just See Innocence

“Earlier, I said that the Holy Spirit shares the goal of all good teachers, whose ultimate aim is to make themselves unnecessary by teaching their pupils all they know. The Holy Spirit wants only this, for sharing the Father’s Love for His Son, He seeks to remove all guilt from his mind that he may remember his Father in peace. Peace and guilt are antithetical, and the Father can be remembered only in peace. Love and guilt cannot coexist, and to accept one is to deny the other. Guilt hides Christ from your sight, for it is the denial of the blamelessness of God’s Son.” (A Course in Miracles, T-13.I.1. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Today we practice seeing innocence in everyone we meet or even think of. We remain vigilant to see innocence in everyone and everything, everywhere, for we want to remember our Father. We share Holy Spirit’s one goal today, that we return to our Father in peace. We bless and are blessed. When we just see innocence, we have removed the barrier to awareness of Love’s Presence.

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The Holiness of God Is in Everyone

I thank You, Father, knowing You will come to close each little gap that lies between the broken pieces of Your holy Son. Your Holiness, complete and perfect, lies in every one of them. And they are joined because what is in one is in them all. How holy is the smallest grain of sand, when it is recognized as being part of the completed picture of God’s Son! The forms the broken pieces seem to take mean nothing. For the whole is in each one. And every aspect of the Son of God is just the same as every other part. (A Course in Miracles, T-28.IV.9. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

The world seen through the body’s eyes presents only images of disconnected forms. It seems to prove that separation is real. Yet images of themselves have no substance nor meaning. To believe that images are real, we must make up a meaning to give each image. Yet this only masks the fact that the images are empty and have nothing to give.

Beyond these empty images lies the holiness of God, one and undivided, the same everywhere. The oneness of Love is all meaning. There is nothing else.

We are offered infinite, changeless Love in every instant. We need only be willing to set aside the empty images by letting go of the meaning we have given them. This is forgiveness.

We have been given the Holy Spirit in our mind to teach us that the forms that we thought were so important offer us nothing we really want. Then we freely let go of what is no longer wanted, making way for the unity of Love to fill the space vacated by letting go of the empty image. This is our purpose now. It is our journey Home to our place in the Love of God.

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Accepting the Holy Instant’s Gift

The holy instant in which you and your brother were united is but the messenger of love, sent from beyond forgiveness to remind you of all that lies beyond it. Yet it is through forgiveness that it will be remembered.

And when the memory of God has come to you in the holy place of forgiveness you will remember nothing else [but God], and memory will be as useless as learning, for your only purpose will be creating [extending Love]. Yet this you cannot know until every perception has been cleansed and purified, and finally removed forever. Forgiveness removes only the untrue, lifting the shadows from the world and carrying it, safe and sure within its gentleness, to the bright world of new and clean perception. There is your purpose now. And it is there that peace awaits you. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.IX.13:3-14:5. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Through forgiveness we become a messenger of Love. In this time of gift-giving, let us give the most important gift of all. As we open to the memory of God in our minds, Love flows through and is extended to include every brother. As we allow this extension to flow through our mind consistently, our perceptions are cleansed and purified, and all that is untrue is removed from our minds.

We receive messages of Love and peace from the Christ Mind and see the Christ Mind in every brother. This is the implementation of the message, “peace on earth, good will toward all men.” This message we happily receive and give to every brother.

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Paying Attention to Holy Spirit’s Messages

…the world was meant to be a place where God could enter not, and where His Son could be apart from Him. Here was perception born, for knowledge could not cause such insane thoughts. But eyes deceive, and ears hear falsely.

As sight was made to lead away from truth, it can be redirected. Sounds become the call for God, and all perception can be given a new purpose by the One Whom God appointed Savior to the world. Follow His light, and see the world as He beholds it. Hear His Voice alone in all that speaks to you. And let Him give you peace and certainty, which you have thrown away, but Heaven has preserved for you in Him. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 241, W-pII.3.2:4-6;4. See also ACIM Lesson 241 Insights.)

The Holy Spirit is teaching us that the body is incapable of showing us the truth because the body itself is not true; it’s an illusion. We are being asked to shift our attention to our inner vision and hearing, which receives the messages the Holy Spirit has for us — the messages of truth. These messages cannot be received by the body, for they are given to us in our minds.

Because we believe in the idea of separation, our minds are confused about what is true and what is false. The Holy Spirit can shine His Light on our misperceptions so that we can take His bridge out of the false world and into the Light of God’s Love. Here is the absolute certainty of God’s changeless creation, where we can trust that only Love is real. We learn that the forms in the world are simply calls for Love and these calls are always answered by the Holy Spirit with Love.

Today we practice giving our attention to our inner vision and hearing so that we can recognize that Love is everywhere and we are eternally safe.

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Let Holy Spirit Light Your Path

The Holy Spirit asks of you but this; bring to Him every secret you have locked away from Him. Open every door to Him, and bid Him enter the darkness [fear and guilt] and lighten it away. At your request He enters gladly. He brings the light to darkness if you make the darkness open to Him. But what you hide He cannot look upon. He sees for you, and unless you look with Him He cannot see. The vision of Christ is not for Him alone, but for Him with you. Bring, therefore, all your dark and secret thoughts to Him, and look upon them with Him. He holds the light, and you the darkness. They cannot coexist when both of You together look on them. His judgment must prevail, and He will give it to you as you join your perception to His. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.VII.6. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)

Today we practice letting the Holy Spirit enter into every apprehension, every fear and every form of suffering we experience. Instead of giving meaning on our own to anything we encounter, we bid Him enter in and lighten it away. We put out the ‘welcome mat’ to Holy Spirit, instead of tenaciously holding on to our guilt and fear thoughts. We look at these thoughts with Him. As we are willing to join with His perception, we easily accept His judgment and true perception replaces our false beliefs. We see past fear thoughts to the reality of Love’s presence.

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We Live in God

I live in God. In Him I find my refuge and my strength. In Him is my Identity. In Him is everlasting peace. And only there will I remember Who I really am.

Let me not seek for idols. I would come, my Father, home to You today. I choose to be as You created me, and find the Son whom You created as my Self. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 261, W-pII.261.1:4-2:3). See also ACIM Lesson 261 Insights.

Today we practice remembering that we live in God. And we remember this for every brother because he is one with us in truth. God is the universal Spirit of Love That we all are. We would remember this truth today and free ourselves from the burdensome pain of the ego’s false beliefs. We imprison ourselves with these beliefs and today we would set ourselves free.

As we are willing to let go of what is not true, we see that we are not separate and alone. We see that we are not weak and vulnerable to outside forces. We are not in danger but safe in the one, united Mind of Love, eternally safe in God’s infinite peace and happiness. We would let this awareness of the truth return to our minds today. We would let ourselves remember that we all live in God eternally.

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