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Allowing the Experience of Peace

Choosing Holy Spirit instead of the ego is the same as choosing to accept Holy Spirit’s gift of peace. When I am willing to fully allow in the experience of peace, ego thoughts naturally fall away. The Light of the Holy Spirit’s peace shines away what is not true. Holy Spirit’s peace is very quiet and simple. The complexity of the ego disappears when Holy Spirit’s peace is truly accepted. Tension and doubt fall away. True inspiration is found in this peaceful state of mind. Anxiety and fear simply disappear and are replaced with an awareness that all is well.

Today I have another opportunity to practice opening up to and extending Holy Spirit’s gift of peace. This is what is important to me today. Making the experience of peace my highest priority is what is truly important. Valuing this practice above all else leads me to an awareness of What I am and Where I am in truth. What could be more important than this?


If I want the experience of peace, I must be willing to let go of the barriers to peace. Today I will be mindful of my thoughts and feelings and bring any thought or feeling that is not peaceful to the Holy Spirit. As I am willing to let it go, I make way for the experience of the gift of peace. This is my focus for today.

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Choosing the Way to Heaven

Today we read in A Course in Miracles:

How can you know whether you chose the stairs to Heaven or the way to hell? Quite easily. How do you feel? Is peace in your awareness? Are you certain which way you go? And are you sure the goal of Heaven can be reached? If not, you walk alone. Ask, then, your Friend to join with you, and give you certainty of where you go. (T-23.II.22:6-13)

This makes it very clear that peace is a condition of Heaven. As I am able to let go and accept the gift of peace that is within me, I walk toward Heaven. It does not require effort to be in Heaven. Yet I am so deeply entrenched in the ego thought system of separation that it does require effort to be vigilant for peace. The Course tells me that effort is needed until I realize Where I really am. In reality there is no effort at all needed to be in Heaven because that is where my Father wills me to be.

Today I choose to walk toward Heaven. For this purpose, my effort will be focused on vigilance for peace and taking any disturbance to the Holy Spirit for His help. He is the Friend Who always offers me the vision of truth that sets me free.


As I go through my day, there are times when I forget that I have a Friend to lead me in every situation. At these times I think I already know and seem to be on automatic pilot, deciding things on my own again.

As soon as I realize this I have found a helpful to way switch back to joining with my Friend. I stop and close my eyes. I see myself under a shower of Holy Spirit’s peace and Love. I stay there as long as needed, absorbing in the peace and allowing tension to fall away. I feel gratitude and appreciation that my Friend goes with me, and express a willingness to follow, not lead. I leave an empty space for Holy Spirit to fill. I remember that I do not know what anything means and open to receiving the truth. I return again to following where Love leads me. This is how I choose the way to Heaven. And for this I give thanks.

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Let Holy Spirit Interpret Everything

The early workbook lessons of A Course in Miracles emphasize that we do not know what anything means. I am seeing more and more how essential this idea is to the release from the hell of separation. Being my own interpreter of anything I perceive through the body’s eyes is simply the temptation to perceive myself as a body, separate and alone. In this perception, it is impossible to know the Love of God. It is impossible to feel safe.

But as I am willing to soften my insistence on being my own interpreter and relinquish all my interpretations to the Holy Spirit, I open the door to true vision, Christ’s vision. Holy Spirit will always show me the truth that lies beyond the veil of a concept of separation. As I am willing to receive it, Holy Spirit will show me the brilliant Light of Love that is my brother and myself.

With Holy Spirit as my interpreter, I will see the one Self of Love that I share with all. Here is peace that cannot be disturbed. Here is the safety of changelessness. This is everything I seek. Today my dedication is to be vigilant to let the Holy Spirit interpret everything on my behalf.


To become aware of the one Self we all share, I must practice stepping back from ego thoughts all through the day. I must be willing to practice looking at all my thoughts with Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit always shows me that Love is always there behind every form of separation, every separate identity. Accepting Holy Spirit’s interpretation is what today is for.

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Accepting the Eternal Present

This morning we were guided to read A Course in Miracles Text, Chapter 13, Section VI, “Finding the Present.” This section is very helpful to me right now because I still need help from the Holy Spirit to let go of the past and future. I have observed myself thinking about how the future “should” go or how I want something to happen in the future. Our reading this morning was very helpful because it helped me remember that the eternal present is the only time there is. It helped me remember there is no past or future.

As I am willing to be aware of the eternal present. I see what is true now about every brother, including myself. In this section we are told, “God’s Son is still as loving as his Father. Continuous with his Father, he has no past apart from Him. So he has never ceased to be his Father’s witness and his own.” (T-13.VI.13:5-7) Seeking and finding the eternal present is my practice for today.


My dedication today is to let Love be my guide in every moment. Since Love does not condemn, this means letting go of all judgment. I am willing to let Holy Spirit judge all things on my behalf. His judgment will lead me to the eternal present where I recognize that only Love is real.

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Only Love is Real

This is what stood out in our reading of A Course in Miracles  this morning:

The real world was given you by God in loving exchange for the world you made and the world you see. Only take it from the hand of Christ and look upon it. Its reality will make everything else invisible, for beholding it is total perception. And as you look upon it you will remember that it was always so. Nothingness will become invisible, for you will at last have seen truly. (T-12.VIII.8:1-5)

Very early this morning, the thought that kept coming to me was, “Only Love is real.” Remembering this is my practice today. My opportunity for today is to consistently ask that the veil of separation be lifted so that I am able to see reality behind the illusions of separation. It is such a blessing to see the truth behind illusions. I see that I am blessed. And when I am willing to see the truth, that blessing extends and I know that Love is sharing one Identity. Letting the truth return to my mind is what time is for.


In every moment I make the choice between being right and happy. I am free to believe that my judgments about the world I see are right, but in that judgment, lasting happiness is impossible. I am also free to accept the gift of Love given me by my Creator and in that Love is perfect happiness beyond belief.

Do I want to be right or happy? That question is offered me in every moment. I choose happiness by relinquishing the role of judge. ACIM tells me that judgement is not my function. Judgment is the Holy Spirit’s function. (See T-12.VII.12:5-6) So when I let Holy Spirit fulfill His function in my mind without interference, I will see only Love, for only Love is real.

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There Is Nothing to Fear

This is what came to us when we opened to Spirit’s inspiration.

God’s Son is Love’s extension now and forever. God’s Son still is in God and of God. God’s Son, as an extension of God, is eternal and cannot be changed. This is why there is nothing to fear and why God’s Son, which includes everyone, is still safe. Illusions will fall away, but What the one Son is never changes. This is our real foundation for trust. Trusting in the ego’s plan for salvation will always lead to doubt, fear, pain and eventually death.

This is why placing every problem in God’s Hands instead of trying to solve it on our own is the only answer that will resolve every problem. We are being invited to let go of control and let our one, true Self take over. This willingness to surrender control returns us to the knowledge that we are still as God created us. We are still safe in the Mind of Love — we are still Love and nothing else.

As we are willing to go through this process of letting our minds be returned to the truth, we see that there is nothing to fear because everyone is still totally safe in the Mind of God. Everyone is still pure Love and nothing else. We can relax now and be willing to be led in every situation that arises from the ego thought system.


Fearlessness comes with the acceptance of What you are. Judgment is the denial of What you are because to judge you must believe you are separate. This is why forgiveness is how you accept your Self. Because your Self is eternally at peace, any disturbance of your peace is a sure sign that you believe you are not your Self. This is what must be forgiven, or let go.

Be vigilant for peace. Bring every disturbance to the Holy Spirit in your mind with willingness to receive His vision in place of your image making. This is how you will return to the full experience of your fearless Self.

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Rise Above to See the Love

This is what came to us as we stepped back and listened to the Voice for healing.

Let yourself be carried on God’s shoulders. He knows you aren’t heavy, you are not a burden. You are His Son, whom He loves without limit and to whom He gives everything That He is.

Let Him lift you high above the crowd of mistaken thoughts of separation. On His shoulders, you are lifted above the shadows of fear and guilt where the Light of Love shines eternally. This is where you belong; this is where He created you to be. When you let yourself be carried above the battleground, you see clearly there is nothing to fear. All your needs are met. You see the face of Christ in everyone and remember that you are joined with them in God’s changeless Love. In this changelessness you are at peace. You remember Who you are.


You let yourself be lifted up as you consistently step back from deciding on your own and listen for the Voice of Truth. Your receptivity and willingness is what plugs you into the thoughts you think with God. As you are willing, you are lifted up to see everything differently. As you are lifted up you see that only Love is there. Only Love is everywhere.

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