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Happiness Comes with Forgiveness

Judgment and unhappiness always occur together. My prayer today: “Holy Spirit, help me to recognize when I am judging. Help me to release those judgments into your Hands. I am willing to let them go. With Your help, I will look past them to the Light of Love in my brothers, Whose Light will shine on me, reminding me that I am one with them in Love. This is how I will know happiness.

Happiness comes with forgiveness. If I observe that I am not feeling happy, my opportunity is to forgive or hand over the thoughts I am holding on to to the Holy Spirit for a thought reversal. This is how I am awakened from the dream of separation. This is how I am freed from the pain of judgment.

My practice for today is to observe the level of happiness I am allowing in the present moment. My practice for today is to hand over all unhappy thoughts to the Holy Spirit and allow my mind to be transformed. This is how I let go, open to the truth and let healing be.

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See the Love

A Course in Miracles tells us in many ways that if we want to be happy, we just need to accept our Self as Love created It. Joy is an attribute of Love. If I’m not experiencing perfect joy, I’m denying the Love that I am. The world is a depressing place because it is an image that makes the denial of Love seem real.  The antidote is quite simple: We just need to accept the Love we are.

My practice today is to join with Holy Spirit, our one Self, to see the Love everywhere. Joining is the key to seeing the Love, because Love is one and cannot be seen apart. Today I will affirm to myself, “See the Love.” This will remind me to join with Holy Spirit’s vision and remind me of the Love I am.

In order to see the Love, I must be willing to let go of my barriers to Love. I must be open to Holy Spirit’s thought reversal. I must be willing to have my thoughts be corrected. That is why today’s practice is devoted to maintaining vigilance to receive the Light of truth. That is all I want. That is all I need. This is how I see the Love.

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Choose Once Again

Today we read in the last section of the Text that we do not need to be afraid of temptation. Rather we simply need to see it as another opportunity to choose again. This attitude neutralizes the ego’s attempt to use temptation to foster more guilt. I don’t need to feel guilty because I relapsed into an old habit. Instead I can be grateful that I have another chance to choose differently. That’s what time is for now.

Each time I take the opportunity to choose differently, I weaken the old habits that keep me identified with separation. Today is another day to practice choosing peace instead of conflict, seeing innocence instead of guilt, extending Love instead of reacting with fear. What a great opportunity today is!

As I go through my day, it is helpful for me to remember that I am always choosing between joining either with the ego or the Holy Spirit, the false mind or the truth, separation or oneness. Once I recognize that I am choosing, it becomes easier to open my mind to the truth. I can tell if I am opening my mind to the truth by the level of peace I experience.

When I realize I have once again jumped into the false mind, instead of feeling guilty, I can see it as another opportunity to choose once again, this time with Holy Spirit. Looking at it this way, today becomes an awesome opportunity for experiencing God’s peace and happiness. What a wonderful practice I have before me today!

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Let Healing Be

Let healing be through you this very day. And as you rest in quiet, be prepared to give as you receive, to hold but what you give, and to receive the Word of God to take the place of all the foolish thoughts that ever were imagined. Now we come together to make well all that was sick, and offer blessing where there was attack. Nor will we let this function be forgot as every hour of the day slips by, remembering our purpose with this thought:

When I am healed I am not healed alone. And I would bless my brothers, for I would be healed with them, as they are healed with me. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.137.15)

My practice for today is to “let healing be.” As I go through the day, I can repeat these three words to remind me to open my mind and accept Holy Spirit’s healing thoughts and healing peace. This constant vigilance to be open to Holy Spirit will help me remember to accept peace all through the day. With peace comes a transformed perspective of what I think is happening in the world. My only job is to remember to let healing be.

Today we read in Lesson 136, “If you let your mind… make plans against uncertainties to come, you have again misplaced yourself, and made a bodily identity which will attack the body, for the mind is sick.” Making plans for the future seems to be a persistent temptation. I need to be vigilant for when I am making plans on my own.

In the dream world there does seem to be a future. The key is to place the future in God’s Hands and not try to plan for it on my own. As I remember to step back and follow, I can relax, remembering that God’s Will for me is perfect happiness. He has given me all that I need for this.

My job is to be willing to accept it. When I make plans on my own, I am actually building a barrier against God’s gift of strength and peace and eternal Love. I do not really want these barriers. As I practice stepping back from my plans and accept Holy Spirit’s plan, I let healing be.

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Accepting the Unity of Love

The decision to believe that I am in a body in a world of separation with a separate identity is the decision to not know my Self. The effect of this decision is to be fearful because it is the decision to believe I am without Love. Anything I perceive through the body’s senses is inevitably wrong because it is based on the belief of separation.

Today it is my practice to resign as interpreter and to open my mind to the Holy Spirit’s interpretation in every moment. The Holy Spirit knows that in truth, I am eternally complete, invulnerable and wholly loving, as is everyone. With Holy Spirit’s help I will lay down the judgments of separation and accept the unity of Love today.

I accept the unity of Love by following the lead of Love. As I practice, hour by hour, following Holy Spirit’s lead, I am easily led down a quiet path to peace. Love is simple and uncomplicated. As I let the barriers to Love be removed, I see that Love is all.

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Accepting Happiness

A Course in Miracles says that God’s Will for all of us is perfect happiness. So if I am experiencing anything other than perfect happiness, I must be denying God’s Will for me. Conflict, lack of peace, problems, all are indications that I am denying God’s Will for me. Since this world is the denial of God’s Will, these symptoms seem to be the norm. Yet what is truly normal for us as God’s Son, is perfect happiness, deep peace and Love without limit.

This is why it is important to be mindful of what I am feeling in each moment. If I am not feeling God’s Will, then I need help in letting go of my denial of It. I need to bring any sense of disturbance to God’s Answer — the Holy Spirit in my mind. If I do this with willingness, I will receive the Holy Spirit’s gentle correction that will show me the truth beyond the disturbing images that I thought were real. This is the Holy Spirit’s use for all situations in the world. In the Holy Spirit’s hands, every moment is an opportunity to release the past and remember the perfect happiness that is always now.

Today I will practice being mindful of what I am feeling and hold my mind open to the Holy Spirit’s reinterpretation, which will help me let go of the past and experience the blessing of now.

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Letting Holy Spirit Lead

Today we put Holy Spirit in charge of the dream… We accept Holy Spirit’s grace… We accept Holy Spirit’s peace… We accept Holy Spirit’s blessings…

Today we are willing to practice accepting Holy Spirit’s change of mind and let our thoughts be healed. We will practice letting Holy Spirit lead the way with everything we do today.

To let Holy Spirit lead the way, I need to step back from my interpretations of everything. This clears the way for me to receive Holy Spirit’s interpretation, which is always from the perspective of wholeness, unity and innocence. The part of my mind that believes separation is real also believes that punishment is justified for having “hurt” God.

Problems are a playing out of this perceived need for punishment. As I am willing to accept Holy Spirit’s perception, I see that I have done nothing to change God or His one Son. Harm is impossible. The need to have problems falls away because I see only innocence and remember that I remain innocent as God created me.

With Holy Spirit’s vision, all things, situations and circumstances are used on behalf of awakening to the certainty of Love and the holiness of God’s creation. It is this I would see today.

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