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Make Way for Joy

Today we read the following in the Workbook of A Course in Miracles:

We will not judge today. We will receive but what is given us from judgment made beyond the world. Our practicing today becomes our gift of thankfulness for our release from blindness and from misery. All that we see will but increase our joy, because its holiness reflects our own. (W pI.164.7:1-4)

This reminds me that if I want to be happy, I need to let go of all my judgments. As I let them go I make way for judgment that comes from beyond this world — the Holy Spirit. This passage also tells me that while it’s possible to release the world in one all-inclusive choice to forgive, the Course clearly acknowledges that we need to practice.

It is through practice that we open to the experience of increased happiness. This added joy serves as a motivation to keep practicing. Forgiveness really does pay off with joy. With practice, we all will eventually come to the point of full forgiveness that releases us completely from the thought system of separation and we remember we are in Heaven now. Today is another happy day of practice.

In order to let go of judgment, I must be willing to let my mind quiet and be open to the healing perception of the Holy Spirit. I must be willing to let go and follow the thoughts that Holy Spirit brings me. I must be willing to receive the gift of peace that brings me past the world of separation and opens my mind to the real world of Love’s oneness. This is my practice for today.

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Accepting Christ’s Vision

Looking through the body’s eyes, the images of the world seem very real. It really seems like I need to eat and protect the body from the “elements.” It seems like there are other bodies in the world and events that seem to have an effect. The Course is not asking us to deny that we perceive these images. But we are being asked to remember that these images are meaningless. “My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world.”

Why is it helpful to remember that my meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world? I have observed that as I let go of judgments about the world I see, I am much less reactive to it. My peace is less frequently disturbed. I am more likely to offer love in my mind to a brother who seems to be distressed. I am less argumentative, more open to inspiration. In short I am much happier. Remembering that my meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world opens my mind to receive the blessing of God’s Love, the only true meaning.

Today I will practice remembering as I work at the computer or talk on the phone or prepare a package for the mail that my meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world and that beyond the images is Love and nothing else. And I know that Holy Spirit will help me see Christ’s vision of truth.

Remembering the importance of seeing with Christ’s vision reminds me of the two steps that are necessary to receive it: 1. I must remember that I do not know what anything means, including this. 2. I have within me the Spirit of Love That will show me all true meaning as I am willing to have a quiet, open mind. Today my practice is to return to that quiet place in my mind where all true answers lie. Here I receive Christ’s vision. Here I return to the truth that I never left Heaven. I at Home, safe in God, where everyone is.

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Accepting Peace

We received these insights when we went to Holy Spirit today:
Do you want peace? Then accept the peace that is given you. Any judgment is the denial of peace because it is the perception of conflict. This is why forgiveness is your salvation. When you lay down a judgment, you release a barrier that has held peace at bay.

You have thought that judgment would protect you. But instead, it has increased your fear and held guilt in place. Where guilt is, peace is hidden. Forgive, lay down your judgments, and peace will flow into your awareness, reminding you of your natural state.

Be vigilant for peace today. Use every situation as a means to release barriers to peace and to reinforce the blessing of peace given and received. Let this be your goal today.

To maintain the experience of peace throughout the day, ask yourself frequently, “In truth, what am I and where am I?” Asking this question and being open to receive the truth puts the Holy Spirit in charge of your day. It becomes a day of following your true Self’s lead instead of following the lead of the false ego mind.

This practice brings a sense of rest and peace so strong that it looks past all disturbances. So ask this question frequently that you may remember What you are and Where you are in truth.

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Let the Veil Be Lifted

My prayer today is to let the veil be lifted that I may be aware of the Light of Love That is always present beyond every form. The Holy Spirit brings this to my awareness as I am willing. This is why my willingness to receive Holy Spirit’s gift of vision is my focus for today.

An important part of my practice for today is to be willing is to take time out frequently to tune in to Holy Spirit’s peace and perception. Stepping back into peace and listening frequently to receive Holy Spirit’s gifts throughout the day is how I make way for the veil to be lifted. This is how I will experience a happy day of forgiveness and of peace.

There is an old song that frequently repeated the sentence, “I will follow you.” I will sing that to Holy Spirit today in my mind. The practice of following Holy Spirit is how I open my mind to let the veil of false beliefs be lifted. It is the way to happiness and peace. I will be happily singing to Holy Spirit all day today.

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Awareness of Ever Present Joy and Peace

My focus for today is to allow into my awareness the ever present joy and peace of God. This is what today is for — accepting God’s joy and peace and extending God’s joy and peace. I pray that I remember this helpful focus.

If I want to be at peace, I need to let go of all judgment. Judgment is the cause of all conflict in the world. I let go of judgment through forgiveness. Within the thought system of separation, forgiveness is impossible because separation is held in place by judgment. That is why I need to offer all my perceptions to the Holy Spirit Who sees all things as one. As I am willing to receive His kind and gentle instruction, I will learn to see has He sees and lay judgment aside.

Today my practice is to accept Holy Spirit’s instruction in the way of freedom and peace.

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Remembering the Peace of God

In A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 205 we read that, “Peace is my one goal; the aim of all my living here….” We all share this goal. How we think we can achieve this goal depends on which thought system we identify with.

If we are aligned with the ego thought system of belief in separation, then we will seek to organize the circumstances around us in a way that we think we will be safe and happy. We seek relationships, a place to live, a work environment, status, the “right” appearance that we think will help us feel safe and loved. Yet all this is based on arranging images that are not real and could never satisfy.

If we align with the Holy Spirit and the Thought of our oneness in God, the Holy Spirit shows us that images are meaningless. Our attention is focused on the Love that is everywhere while the images of the world are dismissed as offering us nothing.

With our attention on the Love that is everywhere, we welcome the peace of God because we are accepting the peace of our one Self. Being one, there is no conflict in this Self. We feel perfectly safe. Being Love, this Self that we are automatically extends Love without limit. In that extension of Love, we experience the Love we are.

Today I choose to give my attention to the loving vision of the Holy Spirit and learn that I truly am already in the peace of God.

My job today is to welcome God’s gift of peace and accept the quiet mind that comes with opening to God’s peace. In this quiet place I am reminded that I rest in God’s united Love eternally.

My true Identity is one With Love. This is my Home. This is where I belong. All this comes with giving the time to welcome God’s gift of peace. I am eternally grateful that peace is always there when I am willing to remember the peace of God.

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Seeking Love Where It Can Be Found

Everyone in this world is seeking for Love. This is because this world is the effect of denying the all encompassing oneness of our Creator’s Love. Because of this denial, we feel that we lack Love.

Efforts to be liked, to not offend, to gain value through status, possessions, relationships, etc., are all part of misdirected seeking to find Love. Consistent with the ego’s dictum, it is seeking where Love cannot be found. All this searching comes from the belief that we have lost the Love that we are. This is impossible in truth, but belief makes the false seem true.

My prayer today is to accept Holy Spirit’s help in letting go of the false beliefs that interfere with the awareness of Love’s presence in my mind. This is forgiveness. I am grateful for the Holy Spirit’s help to recognize false beliefs for the nothingness they are so that I can awaken to the Love I share with God.

Today I am guided again to practice as frequently as possible to pause for inspiration. This pause returns me to peace, gentleness and a sense of well being. A sense of trust and the feeling that everything is all right rises to the surface of my mind.

I can relax now and receive the guidance I need in each present moment. As I follow, I am guided to be of service in a way that is most truly helpful to the awakening of the Sonship. My job is to listen and receive.

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