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Joining in the Love of Our One Self

This is our prayer for today: Holy Spirit, guide our thoughts, our words, our hands, our feet today. We would follow only You today, knowing that You will guide us to perfect happiness. Guide our vision today that we may see the face of Christ in everyone. With You as our Guide, we will experience the joy of joining with everyone in the one Self we share. In this joining we will truly love and be loved. Thank you.

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Giving Time to Melt into Peace

One of the most important gifts I can give to myself is to take time out from all the activities of the world and open to Holy Spirit’s gift of peace. To the ego mind, this seems very unimportant and a waste of time. But to the Holy Spirit, there is nothing more important than this.

Opening to Holy Spirit’s peace is the same as letting go of all I think I know. Peace dissolves all thoughts of being separate and alone. Peace dissolves all thoughts of lack and vulnerability. Peace brings awareness of the truth and shines away what is not true.

Am I willing to receive all this by consistently giving time to the Holy Spirit all through the day? Am I willing to be a happy learner? If so, I will make room for Holy Spirit’s gift of peace. This is my practice for today.

The ego sees giving time to melt into peace as a major demand, even overwhelming. It warns, “You won’t have any time left to do anything. You will have to spend all your time in meditation.” This is how the ego defends its quest to seek and not find.

If I have allowed myself to get wrapped up in the frenzy of the world, I may need to take an extended period of time to quiet my mind and accept Holy Spirit’s gift of peace. But this is only because of a tentative willingness. But if I am willing to push through the weak willingness and truly open to Holy Spirit’s peace, the world is seen with the clarity of the Light of Love.

If I am vigilant to recognize any slight disturbance and quickly redirect my focus to accepting Holy Spirit’s peace, it can be received in the time it takes for one breath, if I am willing. With this practice, my doing in the world becomes highly productive, because all my doing is guided by the Holy Spirit. This is my practice for today.

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Individuality Is a Delusion. Oneness Is Real

My practice for today is to accept Love’s oneness as the only Reality. Through the body’s eyes it may look like separation is real, but my practice now is to keep my mind open to Love’s Reality. I let the Holy Spirit show me Love’s oneness behind every dream story of being separate and alone. I allow Holy Spirit to undo thoughts of separation throughout the day. This practice brings freedom. This practice brings peace and for this I give thanks.

In the quest for specialness, individuality is king. To maintain an individual identity, I must be different from everything else, a.k.a., be special. This quest makes awareness of Love impossible, because Love is one and has no differences.

Do I want to experience eternal, changeless Love, or do I want to continue the exhausting quest for specialness that never seems to satisfy? The only reason the quest for specialness seems to have value is because of the belief that specialness is a worthy substitute for Love. This can never be in truth.

I am learning that any time my peace is disturbed, it is because I believe my specialness, my individuality, is being threatened in some way. Thus when my peace is disturbed, I am giving myself a gift, an opportunity to bring the disturbing thought and feeling to the Holy Spirit and ask His help to see the truth beyond the disturbance. The Holy Spirit in my mind will help me let go of the false image that is threatened and accept the certain changelessness of the Love that is the truth of what I am. This is my practice for today.

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Receiving Holy Spirit’s Light in This Present Moment

Father, we were mistaken in the past, and choose to use the present to be free. Now do we leave the future in Your Hands, leaving behind our past mistakes, and sure that You will keep Your present promises, and guide the future in their holy light. (A Course in Miracles W-pII.314.2)

The way I receive the Light in the present moment is to leave a clean an open space for Holy Spirit’s Light of truth to enter. Receiving the truth takes my willingness to receive it. This willingness requires me to soften my hold on ego thoughts and relax deeply enough to receive Holy Spirit’s peace. Opening to peace is the same as putting the welcome mat out for Holy Spirit to shine away false perceptions.

Focusing on having an open mind to Holy Spirit’s true perception is all I want today. And what I really want in my heart of hearts is what I will receive. For this I give thanks.

Nothing in the present can disturb my peace because only Love is now. Any disturbance comes from overlaying the present with “memories” of the past. All these memories are false perceptions based on the false idea that separation is real and judgment is possible.

Love sees only oneness and therefore cannot judge. This is why Love is revealed when judgment is let go, when the past is forgiven. The Holy Spirit was given us to teach us how to judge truly, which means to recognize what is real and what is not real. This is why my practice today is to hold my mind in peace, open to the Holy Spirit’s Light to reveal the truth in the present moment. With this practice, my peace will not be disturbed.

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Let the Light of God Shine Through

In going to an inner place of quiet, this is the message I received: Let your doing today be led by the Light That is your true Nature. Let opening to the Light be your top priority. Rest in the Light. Let all thoughts of doubt and uncertainty that come up be healed by the Light. Let this be your practice for today.

To let myself be led by the Light, my practice for today is to focus on the center of peace within.

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How Would Love See This?

In our reading in A Course in Miracles this morning, it was emphasized that I cannot see the truth in my brother if I see him as a body. Seeing him as a body always involves judgment. Yet the truth in me and everything is Love. And Love cannot judge.

My practice today is to ask this question of all things: How would Love see this? From the vision that comes in response to that question, all my doing in the world will be Love’s reflection. This is how I loose the world from all I thought it was and make way to accept Reality as It is.

Love is simple and uncomplicated. Love is filled with peace and a quiet inner joy. Love shows me the truth beyond all illusions of bodies. This truth is what is real now. My practice today is to be open to receiving and extending the truth.

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Letting the Holy Spirit Define Everything

I have been used to letting the past define what I see now, or drawing on lessons in the past to decide what to do now. I am now learning to let this go. I am now learning a new way to allow all the false ideas that I have believed in to be undone by the Holy Spirit.

The way this is done is for me to practice allowing the Holy Spirit to define everything. I have thought that I knew what things mean, but now I am learning that these meanings were based on false premises. These false premises must be undone by my inner Teacher, the Holy Spirit. My job is to relax, allow Holy Spirit’s peace and follow Holy Spirit’s lead with every circumstance that comes up in my dream “life.”

Stepping back and allowing my mind to be transformed with every situation is my pathway Home. Only the Holy Spirit can undo the ego belief system. As I can consistently remember that I know nothing, it becomes easier to let go of control and accept the Light of true understanding, which comes from the Holy Spirit. As I am consistently willing to accept Holy Spirit’s healing perception, I will feel the peace, Love and happiness that comes with it.

By believing in the ego thought system, I have hypnotized myself into interpreting everything based on this thought system. To break free of this self-hypnosis, I need help from outside this thought system to break the hypnotic trance. The Holy Spirit is ever present in my mind to help me interrupt the trance. But I must be willing to open to the Holy Spirit’s help.

I do this by returning to the state of peace in my mind, which is where I can be aware of the Holy Spirit’s loving lessons. Today is another day to practice giving my attention to the quiet peace within instead of the chaos and conflict of the ego thought system. This is how I open my mind to accept the Holy Spirit’s definition of everything.

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