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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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Observe Your Thoughts

Robert:
As I mindfully observe my thoughts, I see how quickly and automatically I make judgments about appearances. What could these judgments be based upon but the past? All the meaning I give the images I see in the present must be based on past learning. In themselves images have no meaning. This judgment process drags the past with me and makes the reality of the present moment invisible to me. My awareness is limited to the images the body’s senses present to me so that the reality of the present is made invisible. This is why forgiveness is the core message of the Course. I cannot see the reality of the present until I forgive or let go of the past.

My prayer today is to accept the Holy Spirit’s help to lay aside the past in each moment and see with His vision. This is how I will learn to recognize the Love that is ever present. This is how I will learn to see my brother as God created Him and recognize my Self.

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Observe your thoughts… Are these thoughts coming from Holy Spirit or ego? If they are not reflecting the truth of your oneness in Love, choose once again, this time with the Holy Spirit… Let yourself feel peace replacing what you thought before… Go with the flow of peace…

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I Am as God Created Me

Robert:
If I want to experience the boundless joy, deep peace and all encompassing Love of God, I need to do just one thing: I need to accept that I remain as God created me. Nothing more, nothing less.

All that stands between me and the acceptance of What I am is the wish for specialness. This wish is displayed before me in everything I perceive in the world. It is the cause of all image making because the only way that specialness can seem to be accomplished is through images that cover over the formlessness of Love. The appearance of disaster is just as much an effect of the wish for specialness as the appearance of circumstances that I deem desirable.

As I work with A Course in Miracles it is becoming more and more clear to me that no thing, no circumstance, will ever bring me lasting happiness. There is truly no value in the images of the world. The daily practice of asking Holy Spirit to be my interpreter of all things is teaching me to recognize what is valueless and what is valuable. As I recognize the valueless, I automatically let it go and no longer seek for it. Letting go of the valueless carries no sense of loss.

The more I am vigilant to receive Holy Spirit’s vision, the more I free myself from the barriers that interfere with remembering and accepting that I remain as God created me. Today is another happy day of vigilance.

Mary:
If I remain as God created me, then I am still God’s Love and nothing else. Because this is the truth about everyone in the world, everyone in this world is still God’s Love and nothing else.

If I believe that something else is true, then my mind needs purification. Purification happens naturally when I am willing to remember that on my own I know nothing. The idea that I could be on my own is pure insanity.

Today it is my opportunity to step back again and again and again from what I am seeing through the body’s eyes, which only show me separation. Today it is my opportunity to become as a little child and willingly receive the Light of truth. The Light of truth always shows me that I am still as God created, along with every brother. The Light of truth shows me we are one Self in eternal Love. My opportunity today is to relax, step back and let the Holy Spirit return me to my right mind, where I experience the peace of God. This is my salvation. This is where all lasting happiness is found.

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The Place of Inner Quiet

Mary:
Today as I open to that place of inner quiet, I am shown that my practice for today is to allow the veil be lifted, to see past separate minds to the one Mind of Love That is the truth in us all. To let the veil be lifted, I must allow in the inner calm of my inner Teacher. I must be willing to follow and not bring the stories of the past with me. I must remember I do not know and be willing to receive the mind purification that comes with willingness to receive the truth. I must be willing to not take the stories of the world so seriously.

As I practice this letting go of what I think I know, I am brought to a peace that is beyond this world and I see once again that only Love is there where I thought there was something else. This is my opportunity today to once again open to letting my mind be purified and brought to the truth. Only this brings me lasting happiness. And the happiness found in the Mind of our one united Self is all I want and all I need.

Holy Spirit to Robert:
Learn to let your true Self guide all your hearing and seeing. Your true Self knows you are not a body, a personality or individual, nor is anyone else. As you practice stepping back into the quiet peace of your true Self, judgment fades away and conflict goes with it. In that quiet place, you join with your Self see your brother as he is, free of the past and fully revealed in the present. This vision shows you What you are in truth, for your brother is one with you. Today practice stepping back and letting your Self lead the way.

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From Uncertainty to Certainty

Holy Spirit to Robert:
Uncertainty is a condition of the ego. Illusion can never be certain. Certainty can only be found in Reality, the changelessness of Love. When you feel uncertain, it is a sign that you are attempting to choose between illusions. You have convinced yourself that what you seem to be choosing between are real alternatives. But any time you are choosing between forms, you are attempting to choose between illusions, which is not a choice at all.

This is why the Course talks so much about learning to recognize illusions for what they are. This would not be a difficult lesson to learn if you had not convinced yourself that illusions offer you something you want. You do not really want illusions. This is a central idea the Course attempts to teach. It is a lesson you ultimately must and will learn. When you learn it depends upon your willingness to accept a better way, a way that will bring you lasting happiness in place of temporary highs.

As you go through your day today, remember A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 128, “This world I see holds nothing that I want.” Remind yourself of this many times throughout the day. It does not matter whether or not you believe this now. This practice will help you with every seeming decision in the world. It will help you step back from the importance you place on your decisions in the world. This opens the door of willingness to see it differently with My help. It gives Me an opportunity to show you a real Alternative to what you perceive, which will lead you to the experience of joy beyond anything this world has to offer.

Mary:
ACIM Workbook Lesson 129 tells me, “Beyond this world there is a world I want.” The Holy Spirit is leading us very gently to recognize that separation is not what we want. The happiness we are really seeking is found beyond this world — Love’s world of oneness. We are being led to our real Mind that is beyond the ego mind.

As we open to our real Mind, we feel a sense of calmness. We feel the calmness because there is no conflict in oneness. There is no conflict in eternity. There is only peace and true everlasting happiness.

My deepest desire today is to welcome the experience of calm and certainty that comes with joining with the Holy Spirit. In this healing state of mind, I am led in the moment in how to be truly helpful. And for this I give thanks.

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Remembering the Truth

Mary & Robert:
In our reading in A Course in Miracles this morning, we found this really helpful:

What but Christ’s vision would I use today, when it can offer me a day in which I see a world so like to Heaven that an ancient memory returns to me? Today I can forget the world I made. Today I can go past all fear, and be restored to love and holiness and peace. Today I am redeemed, and born anew into a world of mercy and of care; of loving kindness and the peace of God. …In gratitude and thankfulness we come, with empty hands and open hearts and minds, asking but what You give. (W-pII.306.1,2:2)

With all the fear generated by what appears to be going on in the world, we can be truly helpful by handing over the world’s fear stories to the Holy Spirt and opening to the fact that we remain as God created us, and that we are safe in the Love and peace of God. We do this by stepping back, taking time to tune in to the peace within and opening our minds to the Holy Spirit’s perception. This how we learn to recognize where our real safety lies. We dedicate this day to remembering the truth with the Holy Spirit.

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Opening to Happiness

Holy Spirit to Robert:
The ego is a perpetual pessimist. Driven by the maxim “seek and do not find,” it has no hope of ever finding happiness. The ego does not tell you that it is the denial of happiness. Instead it makes up myriad forms and tries to convince you that if you obtain these forms you will be happy. Yet each time you obtain any of these forms, you find you are not satisfied. The ego says, “Not to worry. Here’s another form to try for.” It may even encourage guilt by suggesting that you should have known better than to try for that other form. Seek not the ego’s counsel for what would make you happy. It does not know and can only offer you empty substitutes.

There is a Place in you That holds the Flame of happiness eternally. Turn to It to let It light your way to the Home where happiness is eternal and Love is without end. You cannot put out this Flame because Its Source is God. It is your Self, your true Identity, which cannot be altered. This Self recognizes the truth in you and in all your brothers. Its Light shows you clearly that all that is real is One and can never be divided nor lost.

Turn to this Light in you and let It show you the Light that is in all. When you look into this Light, you recognize that It has no end. There is nothing outside this Light. This Light is you, united with your Source. Here is peace and strength. Here is certainty and safety. Here is the joyous, radiating extension of the Light of Love. Here is Heaven, your Home. Accept It and know that It is yours. In your acceptance, you remember peace.

Holy Spirit to Mary:
To be truly helpful you need to relax and step back from the ego’s thoughts about what is true in this world. You must be willing to let go of all you think you know and learned from the past. Be as a little child that is willing to listen and be told. Listen in quiet. Let your mind be purified of all the ego’s false ideas. Be willing to receive the peace that replaces the fearful thoughts of the ego. Be willing to rest in the truth today. This is how to be truly helpful.

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