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We Are All Safe in God’s Loving Light

Robert:
There is a line in A Course in Miracles that says we are far too tolerant of mind wandering. As I look back at my thoughts during the day it is clear that my thoughts wander around the ego thought system a lot. Yet I am grateful that the Course’s training program has helped me become much quicker at recognizing that I have gotten off the path that leads to healing and awakening. I am not as tolerant of mindless thinking as I used to be.

Today I dedicate to the practice of mindfulness to recognize when my thoughts are engaged in separation thinking. With that recognition I also commit to offering these thoughts to Holy Spirit with willingness to receive His perception in place of my own. This is how I will learn to look past appearances and experience the happiness that comes with the recognition that I remain Love as Love created me.

Mary:
When I find myself once again getting wrapped up in the world I see, this sentence helps me step back enough to receive the truth: “You travel but in dreams, while safe at Home.” (ACIM T-13.VII.17:7)

I find that I need this reminder frequently because as I look through the body’s eyes, limitation and lack often appear very real. As I go to the Holy Spirit in quietness, the mind healing I need fills my mind with peace. The truth is we are all safe in God’s loving Light. We cannot leave God’s heavenly Mind. We can relax now. We have been given all of God, which is all there is in truth, and we cannot disinherit what God gives. It is always there as we become willing to open to the truth.

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The Purity of Love

Robert:
I remain as Love created me. I am not the image of myself that I have made that is separate, limited to a body. When I identify with this limited self-concept, I feel alone and weak, fearful and guilty, unworthy of Love. When I believe I am this self-concept, I am believing I have turned my back on Love.

A Course in Miracles is telling me that this is just a false idea. I have a Teacher in my mind Who is always ready to show me the truth of my Self. To receive this truth, I must be willing to let go of the concept of myself I have made. This seems hard to do because I have made this self-concept my identity through my belief. It seems that if I let go of this identity, there will be nothing left. I will disappear into nothingness. That is what the ego would have me believe.

But the truth is that if I let go of this false identity, what will be revealed is a Self so full of joy, so loving and so peaceful that it is beyond anything that can be experienced in the world of form. As I step back and let Holy Spirit guide me, I gradually learn that I really do want to remember that I am the Self that Love created, unchanged and unchangeable. I don’t have to keep making a limited self-image any more. I can step back and let Holy Spirit show me the purity of Love that I share with all my brothers.

Mary:
It is my opportunity today to focus on the purity of Love That is the only Reality of everyone that I see in this world, including myself. The purity of Love… I let the Holy Spirit show me again and again and again the purity of Love that is there to see as I am willing. This is my practice for today.

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I Don’t Have to Keep Doing This

Robert:
I had a dream last night in which I was with some other people looking at some bodies on the ground covered with blankets. I was starting to look for more bodies and then I thought to myself, “I don’t have to keep doing this.” That is when I woke up.

This was a very powerful message to me, reminding me that I don’t have to keep making a world of separation and death. The simple answer for every perceived problem is, “I don’t have to keep doing this.” The way I stop attempting to make the world real is to take these images and perceptions willingly to the Holy Spirit. Remembering, “I don’t have to keep doing this,” opens my mind to the Holy Spirit’s healing perception. With His help I forgive or let go of the mistaken beliefs that hold the seeming reality of the world in place.

As A Course in Miracles says: “Forgiveness removes only the untrue, lifting the shadows from the world and carrying it, safe and sure within its gentleness, to the bright world of new and clean perception. There is your purpose now. And it is there that peace awaits you.” (T-18.IX.14:3-5)

Mary:
When Robert told me about his dream, and the message, “I don’t have to keep doing this,” I really resonated with it. I told him, “Let’s practice this together in the way we perceive the world during each day.” This message was very clear that we don’t have to keep perceiving separation. We can lay all false perceptions down now, if we are willing. We can support each other in this holy purpose of letting go of the idea of separation in every circumstance.

As we are more willing join with every brother in this one purpose, the Light of truth shines through more clearly than ever. We don’t have to keep maintaining the separation game. We can forgive it and lay it down for good. The truth waits eagerly for our willingness to return to our innate Oneness. Our only true purpose is to practice this forgiveness today by remembering, “I don’t have to keep doing this.”

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Let the Truth Return to My Mind

Mary:
The past and the future or the eternal Present — which will I focus on? Remembering the reality of the eternal Present comes from the Holy Spirit. The stories of a past and future come from ego scripts and will always reflect the ego’s inherent belief in guilt, pain and lack. Which hand will I hold today? Do I want the experience of conflict and lack, or do I want to experience the peace and happiness of the eternal Present?

My function today is to let the past go and allow the Holy Spirit to lead me to the truth of our eternal Presence in the Mind of God. Looking through the body’s eyes, I am watching an old video that was made up to replace God’s eternal oneness. As I practice allowing the Holy Spirit to purify my mind of these false ideas today, I will once again see that these stories of separate minds are not true. Only the eternal Present is true. Only God’s eternal abundance in the Mind of Love is true. Letting the truth return is my practice for today.

Robert:
The Holy Spirit always leads me to peace. It is His guidance I choose to follow today. As I follow with an open mind, I see the Holy Spirit’s purpose applied to all things in the world. His purpose is always to show me that only Love is real. With this as His purpose, He shows me the Love that is everywhere and the calls for Love from those who may be perceiving themselves as lacking, including myself.

Today I walk in quietness with a Friend Whose gentle hand points to the path that leads me Home.

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Let Go of What You Think You Know

Holy Spirit to Mary:
There is only one Mind and That is the Mind of God, the one Mind of Love. The idea of separate minds is not the truth. This is what you are in the process of learning now. As you become more willing to open to the truth, you return to awareness that there is only one Mind. This one Mind is shared equally with all.

Your willingness to let go of what you think you know is the key to your happiness. Letting this go is what time is for. Use time now to give over all the false ideas based on the idea of separate minds. Using time in this way brings you freedom from self-imposed limitation. It brings you peace of mind. This is what time is for — to return to the truth that everyone is joined in the one Mind of God.

Robert:
If I remain as God created me (see ACIM Workbook Lesson 110), then I remain as innocent as Love and as eternal as God Himself. There is no cause for fear and death does not exist. This is certainly the opposite of the appearances of the world. Of course! The world is an image made by the attempt to be the opposite of God — to be separate. It is an attempt to be what I could never be in truth.

I am grateful that I could not hoodwink God into believing my stories. This is His grace — His unwillingness to change and therefore His unwillingness to let His Creations be changed. This is great news because it means that I can return to the eternal peace and quiet joy of my Creator. I simply need to let go of believing in the story I made up that is not true.

God’s peace is mine to remember and accept. His Love is What I am and what everyone is. This memory remains in my mind to be called upon to lead me back to the Self that God created.

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I Place the Future in the Hands of God

I Place the Future in the Hands of God
Mary:
In our reading in A Course in Miracles this morning, this is what stood out:

Christ’s hand holds all His brothers in Himself. He gives them vision for their sightless eyes, and sings to them of Heaven, that their ears may hear no more the sound of battle and of death. He reaches through them, holding out His hand, that everyone may bless all living things, and see their holiness. And He rejoices that these sights are yours, to look upon with Him and share His joy. …The sight of Christ is all there is to see. The song of Christ is all there is to hear. The hand of Christ is all there is to hold. There is no journey but to walk with Him. (T-24.V.7:2-5, 7-10)

This important message from Jesus guides my practice for today. With willingness and quietness, my true purpose today is to open to Christ’s vision and see through His eyes. Christ sees us as one shining Light. It is my opportunity to accept this truth today. This is how I share His joy and peace.

Robert:
The ego is terrified of peace. It cannot stand the sound of silence. It rushes in to fill the “void” with stories it makes up about anything and everything. These stories are based on past “learning” so that the peaceful present is covered over with stories of conflict from the past. No matter how pleasant the story seems to be, because its based on images of differences, it must be a story of conflict, a.k.a. specialness.

It was interesting to observe what went on in my mind when I received information about an unexpected possibility. Immediately I observed myself making up stories about where this possibility might lead and what effects it might have. Since these were thoughts about the future, they were nothing but fantasy. But the ego is uncomfortable with accepting the present without trying to take control of where it might lead.

Placing the future in the Hands of God is terrorizing to the ego because it would mean its end. This is why development of trust in the supremely benevolent guidance of the Voice for God, my true Self, is essential for release from the dream of separation and acceptance of God’s gifts. Today I will remind myself to place the future in the Hands of God.

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Accepting His Presence

Mary:
In our reading in A Course in Miracles this morning, this is stood out to me:

Into His Presence would I enter now. …This is a day of silence and of trust. It is a special time of promise in your calendar of days. It is a time Heaven has set apart to shine upon, and cast a timeless light upon this day, when echoes of eternity are heard. …Today it will be given you to feel a touch of Heaven, though you will return to paths of learning. Yet you have come far enough along the way to alter time sufficiently to rise above its laws, and walk into eternity a while. …He will direct your practicing today, for what you ask for now is what He wills. …Into Christ’s Presence will we enter now, serenely unaware of everything except His shining face and perfect Love. (W-pI.157.1:1-3,3:1-2,4:1,9:1)

I am being reminded that it is given me to feel a touch of Heaven as I allow the Holy Spirit to direct my practicing today. In order to hear and feel Holy Spirit’s gifts of peace and inner joy, I must allow today to be a day of quiet receptivity and of trust. I must be willing to enter into His Presence now and feel the blessings of eternity.

Robert:
As I go through the day, driving in traffic, walking through a busy store, answering the phone, working on projects, how do I allow the day to be a day of inner quiet? I need to remember that the place of quiet is in me. It is my Self, my true Nature. Because this Self is one and sees only oneness, it sees no conflict. It is always at peace.

ACIM is leading me to strengthen my awareness of this Self where peace abides. As my practice leads me to identify more with this Self, the appearance of activity in the outer world becomes less distracting. These images are still seen and I still interact with them through the body. But I am more open to seeing with the vision of this eternal Presence so the images of the world have little effect on the peace I feel.

As I continue to practice applying the Course, the scale tips more and more to the side of peace. I remember more and more the peace I am and I offer it more and more freely to the world. Together we walk to Heaven.

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