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Listening to God’s Voice

It is quite possible to listen to God’s Voice all through the day without interrupting your regular activities in any way. The part of your mind in which truth abides is in constant communication with God, whether you are aware of it or not. …The part that is listening to the Voice for God, is calm, always at rest and wholly certain. It is really the only part there is. The other part is a wild illusion, frantic and distraught, but without reality of any kind. Try today not to listen to it. Try to identify with the part of your mind where stillness and peace reign forever. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.49.2:1-2,2:1-5)

My practice for today is to pay attention to which part I am listening to — the Voice for God or the false mind of the ego. My practice today is to identify with the part of my mind where stillness and peace reign forever. To do this I must be willing to invite in and welcome in the peace and quiet of the Voice for God. I must be willing to accept the formless and gentle beingness of my true Nature. I must be willing to open to the Voice for God and let it guide and inspire me all through the day.


I am grateful to know that though I am not aware of God’s Voice speaking to me, God still speaks to me all through the day. I can make myself unaware of it, but I can’t shut It off. This is good news because, if I made the barrier that makes me unaware of His Voice, I can let go of the barrier.

Forgiveness, letting go of judgment, is the way I let go of the barrier. This is why the practice of bringing everything that disturbs my peace to the Holy Spirit with willingness to accept His help to let it go is the way I reconnect with God’s Voice. It is the way I reconnect with Love. Today I dedicate to being vigilant for peace and letting the Holy Spirit be my Inspiration and my Guide.

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Which Guide Am I Choosing?

When you want only Love you will see nothing else. …You cannot really give anything but Love to anyone or anything, nor can you really receive anything but Love from them. If you think you have received anything else, it is because you have looked within and thought you saw the power to give something else within yourself. It was only this decision that determined what you found, for it was the decision for what you sought. (ACIM T-12.VII.8:1,9:4-6)

This message from A Course in Miracles really helps me understand that what I see is either a projection of the belief in separation or an extension of Love. When I see only Love, I am seeing through Christ’s vision. When I see guilt in something outside me, I can know that I have chosen the guidance of the ego. This feedback is very helpful to help me see the difference between how the ego sees and how the Holy Spirit sees.

It is only when I am able to see the barriers to Love for what they are that I become willing to let them go. What I see as the outside world is always a projection of what I behold within. Today my practice is involves recognizing which guide I am choosing. With every thought, am I seeing only Love? If not, I have forgotten that there is nothing else to see. I have a Teacher Who will help me with this all through the day. When I am willing to accept the guidance of this Teacher, I am blessed all through the day.


Mindfulness is a very powerful tool I can use for awakening. As I practice paying attention to how I feel, my level of peace, I get feedback that shows me which guide I am following in the moment. If my peace is disturbed in any way, then I am following the guide of separation. This still seems to be the guide I am prone to choose. But by using mindfulness, I can recognize when I have chosen the guide that leads away from peace and I can choose another Guide. When I choose the Guide given me by my Source, peace returns.

I have observed that when I’m working on a project, I can get into a “get it done” mindset. In this mode I am not at peace and I observe myself pushing to keep going or do just one more thing. But when, through mindfulness, I observe this mindset and step away, I open the door for inspiration.

Many times I have experienced that when I do step away, maybe until the next day or for some period of time, inspiration will come to me that is helpful for me to be more effective in what I am doing. I may have thought I didn’t have time to step away, but the inspiration saved more than the “lost” time. To me this is a reflection in the world that demonstrates to me the value of practicing following the Holy Spirit’s lead in every moment. Today is another happy day of practice.

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A Day of Quiet Listening

Let this day be a day of stillness and of quiet listening. Your Father wills you hear His Word today. He calls to you from deep within your mind where He abides. Hear Him today. No peace is possible until His Word is heard around the world; until your mind, in quiet listening, accepts the message that the world must hear to usher in the quiet time of peace.” (A Course in Miracles W-pI.125.1)

Even though this day may appear to be very filled with worldly things to do, is important that I give time for quiet listening to the Holy Spirit, my inner Teacher. The ego mind thinks that this is a waste of time. But it is the way Home. The only way I will receive Holy Spirit’s inspiration is through my willingness to give time for quiet listening.

The Holy Spirit is very patient and waits for my willingness. Now is the time for quiet listening to hear God’s plan and not my own. This is my true purpose. This is what today is for. This is how I am returned to the awareness of Love’s Oneness.


To quiet my mind means to let go of making any plans on my own. It means to let go of judgment. It means that I let my mind be open to inspiration from beyond the thought system of separation. This can be done in an instant when I am willing.

I have observed that the habit of thinking I know what anything means keeps my mind closed to inspiration. I may have some willingness to quiet my mind, but the old habit brings in interfering static that I need to be vigilant to recognize and set aside. Sometimes I do this quickly. Sometimes I grab hold of the static and let it carry me for awhile, until I realize I have again closed my mind to inspiration.

Vigilance to recognize and set aside these distracting thoughts is key to holding my mind open to the inspired vision of Holy Spirit that will lead me Home. Today is a day for vigilance.

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Above the Battleground

My practice for today is to rise above to see the Love. Only what is eternal is true. The rest is dreams of separation which are untrue. It is only when I am willing to step back from the dream of separate bodies that I am brought to the truth that only Love could ever be true. Love’s Oneness is always there for me to see as I am willing to open up to see the eternal truth in everyone.

Today I have another opportunity to practice receiving the thought reversal that the Holy Spirit brings to me when I am willing. The Holy Spirit helps me rise above to see the Love. Here there is peace. Here there is lasting happiness. And I give thanks.


Whenever I choose to judge, everything is a battleground. It can appear in many forms, from as simple as being frustrated by a typo to as seemingly complex as trying to resolve the US government budget crisis. Judgment always brings conflict with it. Happiness cannot be found in conflict. This is why A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 121 tells us, “Forgiveness is the key to happiness.”

Forgiveness means letting go of judgment. Forgiveness is how I rise above the battleground and can see that the appearance of conflict is based on false images. I cannot rise above the battleground without Help from beyond the battleground. I am grateful that I have been given the gift of the Teacher within Who helps me rise above the judgment, see its meaninglessness, and let it go.

Today I choose to get into the Holy Spirit’s hot air balloon of forgiveness, and let it lift me up into the quiet peace of my true Self. From here I can see the Light of Love in everyone and everything.

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The Great Awakening

This is what stood out to us in our reading this morning:

Say then to your brother:
I give you to the Holy Spirit as part of myself. I know that you will be released, unless I want to use you to imprison myself. In the name of my freedom I choose your release, because I recognize that we will be released together. …Accept the holy instant as this year is born, and take your place, so long left unfulfilled in the Great Awakening. …And let all your relationships be made holy for you. (T-15.XI.10:4-7,10,12)

My practice for today is to participate in the Great Awakening by letting all my relationships be made holy for me. My job is to step back in peace all through the day and let the Holy Spirit show me the holiness of every brother I meet or even think of. This is how I choose my release because I recognize that we will be released together. Seeing holiness (the Christ) is all I need today.


I participate in the Great Awakening by letting the Light of Love show me the truth in each moment. To do this, I need to be vigilant for peace and set aside my judgments and beliefs about everything I think I see. The body’s eyes and everything it sees were made as a barrier to obscure what the Light of Love reveals. As I strengthen my focus on the vision Love shows me, the images of the world fade into the background. This is my practice today.

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Let Love Guide

“Love always leads to Love.” (A Course in Miracles T-13.VI.10:4) If I want to know that I am Love, I need to extend the Love I am given by my Source. I need to let Love be my Guide in every moment. If I forget and choose the ego thought of separation as my guide, it does not change Love at all. It only makes me unaware of It. In any moment I can choose Love as my Guide again, and see the Love that I am reflected back to me.

So my prayer today is to let Love be my Guide, moment by moment. The extent that I am willing to do this determines how much I will experience peace and happiness, safety and the certainty that I am at Home in Love. I am grateful that the certainty of Love is changeless. And I am willing to let It be my Guide today.


My practice for today is to step back and allow the awareness of Love’s Presence to return to me. Love is eternally present in my mind, waiting for my acceptance. My job is to relax and be open to the truth about everyone, right now. Only Love is there.

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Lighten Up

In this world there will always be differences and competing forces, vying for attention. There will always be problems, one after the other, to divert our attention from the Light we all truly are.

This morning I awoke with the words, “lighten up,” and with these words came the peace and gentleness that led me to see the Light beyond the forms of this world. To be happy I must be willing to lighten up, to not take the differences I see in this world so seriously. When I am willing to lighten up, I find the same Light of Love behind every form of differences. I find the same peace, the same constant joy. When I am willing to lighten up, all the forms the ego may take simply do not matter. When I am willing to lighten up, what seemed to be a problem before now is seen with clarity.

When I am willing, the eternal Light of truth is always there to see. When I am willing, I can see the constancy of Love. I see that Love never changes. What do I want to see today? As I am willing to step back from ego thoughts and lighten up, the Holy Spirit carries me past all forms of differences to the eternal and constant state of Love which is always there to see. And I give thanks.


There are several ways to interpret “lighten up.” It can mean to lay down the heavy burden of fear and guilt that comes with belief in separation. It can also mean to bring Light into the darkened place where Light has been denied to shine away the shadows of false images and reveal the truth of ever present, changeless Love. It can mean remembering to laugh at the insane idea that there could be more than everything. All of these are helpful to remind me that all I really want is to be changeless Love as God created me. Today is a good day to practice ‘lightening up.’

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