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Laughing at Fear Thoughts Through Forgiveness

Robert:
One of my favorite Workbook lessons is: “God goes with me wherever I go.” It offers comforting assurance that I cannot be without God. No matter where I go, His Love and strength are with me. It concludes with the wonderful reminder that, “You can indeed afford to laugh at fear thoughts, remembering that God goes with you wherever you go.” (W-pI.41.10)

I don’t think of myself as being fearful. Yet if I am honest, I have to acknowledge that there are many times in a day when I at least mentally make plans for the future, from thinking of things I might say to someone or wishing a situation would have a certain outcome, to making plans on my own for how I think the next Pathways of Light Center should look.

Only if there were some underlying fear that if I didn’t make some plans I wouldn’t be safe would there be a need to spend time planning for the future. In those moments I’m not laughing at fear thoughts. In some way I’m thinking that there may be something that could disturb my peace. All this really means is that in those moments I have forgotten that God is with me and will always be with me. With the strength of God within me there truly is nothing that can affect me.

So today I will remind myself frequently that God goes with me wherever I go and that with Him I am perfectly safe and perfectly loved and I can share that with everyone.

Mary:
Today forgiveness is my highest priority. Forgiveness means opening my mind to receive the miracle of truth from the Holy Spirit, instead of thinking thoughts on my own. In truth there is no division anywhere. Forgiveness allows the Light of the Holy Spirit to return to my mind. Forgiveness allows me to return Home to my Father. Forgiveness helps me remember I never left. Forgiveness removes the blocks to the awareness of Love’s presence in everyone and everywhere. Forgiveness is my only function here.

My job today is to ask frequently, “Whose hand am I holding right now, Holy Spirit’s or ego’s? What mind am I joining with, the false mind which thinks in terms of separation or the real Mind of Love?” Forgiveness returns me Home where I belong along with every brother. Because we are joined as one mind, we don’t go Home alone.

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Seeing as Holy Spirit Sees

Robert:
Today is an election day. Elections, politics and political parties are simply ego constructs. Yet the Course tells me that all things are lessons God would have me learn and that God’s lessons are miracles. Miracles occur when we allow ourselves to accept the vision of our true Self and see only innocence.

So I ask myself, “What is the election for?” If I am choosing someone because they agree with my political opinions, I am choosing from the ego’s perspective. But if I let Holy Spirit choose through me, He will always choose what is the most helpful to our shared awakening. As always, my job today is to follow Holy Spirit’s lead in every moment. That means I follow Holy Spirit whether or not to vote. Of myself I do not know. If I am led to vote, my job is again to let Holy Spirit choose through me.

The Holy Spirit’s choices through me teach me to reflect Love in this world in every moment and circumstance. All things are lessons God would have me learn.

Mary:
My job today is to be willing to see as Holy Spirit sees. My job today is to accept Holy Spirit’s gift of peace and awareness of oneness. My opportunity today is to recognize with every circumstance that nothing has happened to change God’s one Son. God’s Son has never left the Mind of God.

My opportunity today is to rise above and see the Love with every circumstance that I encounter in the dream. This is how I am gently brought by the Holy Spirit to awaken from the dream. Today I am to practice my willingness to remember that only Love is real in every situation.

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A Happy Day of Joining with Holy Spirit

Robert:
If I want to be happy, if I want to be at peace, there is only one thing to do: Let go of judgment. Judgment is based on the belief that separation is real. Each judgment reinforces and tightens the chains of separation. Without judgment the world would cease to seem to exist. The veil would be lifted and the oneness of Love would be experienced.

The practice of opening my mind to follow Holy Spirit’s lead in each moment shifts the “burden” of judgment from the limited ego mind to the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit knows what is real and what is not and so His only judgment is to acknowledge what is real. It is this judgment I would share, for it is the means of complete release from all illusion.

Today is another happy day of practicing stepping back and following Holy Spirit’s lead.

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Remember you are safe in the Mind of God today. Remember innocence — in your brother and yourself. Let yourself laugh with Holy Spirit and feel the joy and sense of well being the Holy Spirit brings. Let today be a happy day as you join with Holy Spirit.

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Remembering Limitless Love

Robert:
I want to remember that I am loved with limitless Love. I want to recognize that limitless Love everywhere and in everyone. I want to live in the joy of extending Love without limit.

There is only one thing that stands between what I seem to experience now and the limitless experience of Love: Holding grievances (judgments) of any kind. And so I ask the Holy Spirit’s help to recognize that all grievances are baseless in reality and therefore have no foundation nor truth. I want to see with Christ’s forgiving vision because I want to remember God’s joyous gift of perfect Love.

Mary:
Right now my prayer is to accept Holy Spirit’s peace… As I truly ask for peace, I do receive it… The healing Light of peace lifts the fearful cloud of ego thoughts and helps me remember that I am still as God created me… I remember that this is true for every brother, for we are one and not separate…

Everyone is immersed in the truth of God’s Love and is still safe as God created him… Through the eyes of peace I see that nothing has happened to change God’s one Son… Truth is true and nothing else is true… God is but Love and therefore so is His one united Son.

Love is. God is. Accepting God’s peace brings with it the awareness that only Love is real. This awareness is the powerful and healing gift that accepting Holy Spirit’s peace brings.

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Using the Dream for the Purpose of Awakening

Robert:
As I write this, it seems that I am in a world of form. I seem to be in a body, looking out upon a world of earth and sky, bodies and buildings. I understand that this is a dream, yet the challenge seems to be to step back from the dream and let the Holy Spirit take the lead. In today’s reading of A Course in Miracles, this prayer stood out to me, “Let me, then, use this dream to help Your plan that we awaken from all dreams we made.” (W-pII.294.2:3)

This helps clarify my focus as I go through the day. All my doing is dedicated to helping God’s plan for our awakening. This is all that really matters. It does not mean that I need to deny the fact that I appear to be in a body in a world of form. But it gives a holy purpose to every form and every activity because I use it for the one function that leads out of the dream. That’s all I really want. I want to forgive the world. I want to forgive myself. I want to forgive God and accept His joyful gift of changeless Love. This is my prayer today: Let me use this dream to help God’s plan of awakening.

Mary:
The Light of God is shining in me now. It is my opportunity today to accept that Light and extend it to all. Light recognizes only Light. My opportunity today is to see the Light in everyone I encounter or even think of. My practice is to let the truth return to my mind today. With the truth comes peace and simple, uncomplicated Love. I choose to receive the truth of Love’s oneness today.

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See the Light in Every Brother and Recognize Your Self

See the Light in Every Brother and Recognize Your Self
Mary:
Today is another day of practice stepping back and letting Him lead the way. As I open my mind to Holy Spirit’s inspiration through the day, I am reminded that I, along with every brother, am safe in Heaven right now. I am quietly reminded to accept God’s peace and extend it to the world. I am quietly reminded to see the Light in every brother. This practice brings me a very fulfilling and happy day.

Holy Spirit to Robert:
All forms of judgment, be they outwardly expressed or held in your mind, are grievances against God, your Source. They are mechanisms for maintaining the perception that you are separate from God. Remember that how you perceive a brother is how your perceive your Creator. This is why it is essential that you learn to recognize the forms of judgment you use against your brothers, for they stand between you and the recognition of your Self as Love created It. Judgment serves the ego. Forgiveness and release serves your Self and the entire Sonship.

Practice today joining with the Holy Spirit to see your brother with Christ’s vision. This is how you will learn to recognize your Self.

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What am I to do today?

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

When brothers join in purpose in the world of fear, they stand already at the edge of the real world. Perhaps they still look back, and think they see an idol that they want. Yet has their path been surely set away from idols toward reality. For when they joined their hands, it was Christ’s hand they took, and they will look on Him Whose hand they hold. The face of Christ is looked upon before the Father is remembered. For He must be unremembered till His Son has reached beyond forgiveness to the Love of God. Yet is the Love of Christ accepted first. And then will come the knowledge They are one. (T-30.V.7)

It is my opportunity today to join with every brother I see or even think of, and see the face of Christ. When I am willing to recognize the Love of Christ That is in everyone, I find happiness. This is my purpose — to see past all forms of separation to the one Love of Christ That is all there really is to see. Forgiveness is my function here. Joining with every brother to see the truth brings me the happiness that I want.

Robert:
At its core, there is really only one answer to the question, “What am I to do today?” My only purpose in the world is to forgive. So every situation, every interaction, every encounter has that one purpose. Today and every day I am to forgive every appearance, every thought based on separation. I do this by choosing Holy Spirit as my Guide and Interpreter in each moment. I have everything I need to forgive the world and see the face of Christ.

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