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Accept the Spirit of Peace

Robert:
The one Self that we all share is in a constant state of joyously extending Love. This Self is conflict free and totally at peace. This is our natural condition.

If we are not experiencing this, we must be believing that we are something other than this one Self. This is nothing more than an error to be corrected — a mistaken belief. All of us have observed that our beliefs can change. Any time we are convinced that a belief we held is mistaken, we instantly let it go.

Sometimes it seems to take more convincing to get us to let go of a belief, but this is only because of a strong investment in the belief, an unwillingness to let it go. Usually this unwillingness comes from a belief that changing would mean a loss of identity. Yet if we are hanging on to a mistaken identity that is limiting and produces feelings of lack, fear and guilt, do we really want to hang on to that mistaken belief?

A Course in Miracles helps me with my willingness by helping me see that my real Identity, which is automatically revealed when I let go of belief in a false identity, offers me everything I want. It offers me the joy of loving and the peace of God. What a happy exchange it is to let go of belief in a false identity and accept my Self as It is. Today I will practice seeing the Light of Love in everyone, for that is how I accept my Self.

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Today, pay attention to the Spirit of Peace in your mind, and let it extend in all your activities throughout the day. Focus on accepting the Spirit of Peace and let it lighten up every experience. This is your practice for today.

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Who Walks with Me?

Robert:
As we read in A Course in Miracles today, this stood out to me: “‘Who walks with me?’ This question should be asked a thousand times a day, till certainty has ended doubting and established peace.” (W-pI.156.8:1-2)

Remembering to ask this question helps bring me back to the recognition that no matter what I may be experiencing in the dream of separation, Love is always with me. This brings me comfort. I am never without the Love of God. Whenever I feel unhappy or fearful, I have forgotten Who walks with me. It is time to ask this question again and return my attention to the truth that I remain eternally wholly within God’s Love. Since His Love is changeless, when I remember that I am in Love, doubt fades away. The certainty of my safety brings me peace.

This same question, “Who walks with me?” can also be asked of anyone I meet or think of. If someone appears to be in distress, I can ask in my mind, “Who walks with you?” It reminds me that the certainty of Love is with everyone and that the experience and appearance of distress comes only from a mistaken idea of what I am. As I remember that everyone walks with God, not only am I comforted, but this thought brings comfort to all.

Today I will ask this question frequently and remember that I walk with the certainty of Love.

Mary:
Because God walks with me, my job is to step back and let Love lead the way. Practicing this brings me happiness and joy. That is why my practice for today is to step back again and again and again, and let Who walks with me lead me through this day.

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The Goal of Truth

Holy Spirit to Robert:
Remember how you felt when you fell in love — how your heart sang, you smiled a lot and the world seemed to be bright with possibilities. This experience may have been associated with one special person, but it is a foretaste of the experience of the Love of God. Remove the limitation that specialness imposes to let that Love be extended to all equally, and the joy and limitless possibilities are magnified a thousand times and a thousand times more.

In specialness, you think you are completed by that other special person. In truth, you are completed by accepting the Love you are. The only barrier to the full experience of the limitless flow of Love in you is the wish to keep it for yourself alone. That wish makes Love unknown to you. Let it go and you will know the Love you are and your joy will be complete. Your peace will be undisturbed. Let today be a day of letting the Holy Spirit help you release the barriers to Love and it will be a day of increasing joy and peace.

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Today, just practice letting go and letting God… Practice coming from a place of remembering that you do not know what anything is for… Practice not deciding anything on your own… Practice opening to peace and letting what comes from peace guide you… Practice receiving a constant flow of inspiration from the Holy Spirit…

Step back, let your mind still, and listen with an open mind… Do not bring the past with you. Just follow in the present moment… Let the Holy Spirit’s goal of awakening you from the dream be accomplished through you… Let the Holy Spirit show you your true Nature as Love and everyone’s true Nature as Love… Let the goal of truth guide your way today.

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Accepting Happiness

Mary:
In our reading in A Course in Miracles this morning, I was reminded that happiness is there in my mind, waiting for my acceptance. If I’m not feeling God’s peace and happiness, I must have a barrier that interferes with my awareness of what is already present. Today my focus is to be aware of how much happiness I am allowing myself to be aware of. Asking myself frequently, “How happy do I feel right now? Am I using an ‘outside’ circumstance as a reason for not being happy?” My opportunity for today is to recognize these false ideas and let them be removed by the Holy Spirit.

Happiness is my natural inheritance. It is part of my natural beingness, because right now I am one with all Love. And inherent in Love is peace and happiness. I can have a happy day if I am willing to accept what is true now. In truth, the dream of separation never was and only happiness is here now in the eternal present. I see today as a wonderful opportunity to accept the peace and happiness that is inherent in my true Identity now.

Robert:
Since Love does not condemn, judgment is the denial of Love. This is why forgiveness is the gateway to the return to the memory of Love. Today my practice is to turn over all my judgments to the Holy Spirit. He will help me let them go so that I can open to the peace and happiness that is my inheritance. I give thanks that Love placed in my mind the means to let go of the barriers to Love’s presence.

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Seeing with the Light of Love

Mary:
This is what stood out to me in our reading of A Course in Miracles today: “Now it becomes your task to let illusion be carried to the truth. Be steadfast but in this; be not deceived by the ‘reality’ of any changing form.” (M-27.7:4-5)

Because awakening from the dream is my only true goal, my practice for today and every day is to be open to the Holy Spirit’s gift of seeing past the world of separate bodies to the truth of God’s oneness. This is how every circumstance I encounter becomes another opportunity to see the world differently. This is how I allow the Holy Spirit to awaken me from the dream of separation.

My practice today is to frequently check in with whose hand am I holding right now — right now am I believing in a world of separate bodies or am I seeing past the dream to the truth that we are all still the same Light in the Mind of God? With Holy Spirit as my Guide, this is how I let illusion be carried to the truth. Here I see that no one is outside this one Light of Love.

Robert:
All I really want is the peace of God. The wish for something else is what makes a world of separation and specialness, guilt and fear. If I consider honestly what the world I see offers, there is nothing there that can bring me the peace of God. Nothing in the world can bring me lasting happiness.

Since nothing I see in the world is real, all I need to do is let go of these false images and the peace of God will come forth. It was always there, being God’s eternal gift. Nothing more than an imaginary veil hid the peace of God from me. My past learning has been invested in making those images real.

Now I choose a different Teacher. I make that choice when I choose to let Him interpret every image I see. With my inner Teacher’s help, I will learn to see the Light of Love everywhere. The body will continue to show me images, but seen in the Light of Love, they will be recognized as having no substance, and therefore, they will not interfere with my experience of the peace of God.

Today is another day of practice in holding up every image to the Light of Love to see as Holy Spirit sees.

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Give Him Your Thoughts

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

Give Him your thoughts, and He will give them back as miracles which joyously proclaim the wholeness and the happiness God wills His Son, as proof of His eternal Love. And as each thought is thus transformed, it takes on healing power from the Mind Which saw the truth in it, and failed to be deceived by what was falsely added. All threads of fantasy are gone. And what remains is unified into a perfect Thought that offers Its perfection everywhere.” (W-pI.151.14)

This short paragraph gives me the means for awakening — “Give Him your thoughts.” If I am sincere in my desire to awaken from the dream of separation, I will hand over what I think is true to the Holy Spirit to be purified. In the Holy Spirit’s hands, what is not true will be removed and disappear. Only what is true will remain. As I am willing to hand over my thoughts to the Holy Spirit, the little kingdom that I thought was mine alone will disappear in God’s healing Light. As the Holy Spirit removes all threads of fantasy, God’s perfect Love is all there is to see and hear and experience.

My practice for today is to let the Holy Spirit purify all the thoughts that come into my mind and show me the difference between the real and the unreal. This is a true miracle. Receiving Holy Spirit’s miracles of truth is my opportunity for today.

Robert:
It is time to resign as my own interpreter of the world. Who would hire an interpreter who does not know what anything means? I am grateful that I have within my mind an Interpreter Who knows what everything means. It is time to give Him the job.

Today is my opportunity to withdraw my misplaced loyalty to the clueless interpreter and focus my attention on the Interpreter Who will teach me the true meaning in everything. This is how I will learn the truth of What I am and What everyone Is. I will learn that only Love is real.

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A “Doing Meditation”

Mary:
In our reading in A Course in Miracles this morning, this prayer stood out:

Father, our Name is Yours. In It we are united with all living things, and You Who are their one Creator. What we made and call by many different names is but a shadow we have tried to cast across Your Own Reality. And we are glad and thankful we were wrong. All our mistakes we give to You, that we may be absolved from all effects our errors seemed to have. And we accept the truth You give, in place of every one of them. Your Name is our salvation and escape from what we made. Your Name unites us in the oneness which is our inheritance and peace. Amen. (W-pI.184.15)

My practice for today is to turn over my mistaken thoughts of individuality to the Holy Spirit and be open to receive the truth of Love’s oneness instead. This is how I let my belief in separation be replaced so that my barriers to Love are undone. Peace returns with this practice of forgiving dreams of separation. This is how I accept our one true Identity, one minute at a time. And I give thanks for the joy this practice gives me.

Robert:
When I have a lot of little details to do, it helps me to make a list. With this list, I stay more peaceful by letting Holy Spirit guide me with what to do and when. On my own, I can look at all the details and overwhelm myself. But when I step back and let Holy Spirit be my Guide, it becomes a “doing meditation.”

The doing becomes a means to practice remembering the Presence of the Holy Spirit, my true Self, the center of peace within. Instead of being a grind to get through the many details of the day, the experience becomes a blessing of remembering the quiet Love that is my true Nature. Today is a day to practice this “doing” meditation and remember that only Love is real.

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