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I Will Step Back and Let Him Lead the Way.

Robert:
Whenever I have my own ideas, my own goals for what I think should happen and when, I am not at peace. My mind jumps in many directions trying to figure out things to do to make the goals happen. But these are exercises in futility because they are exercises of illusions playing with illusions.

I was reminded today by the lesson that tells me I do not perceive my own best interests. This being the case, I have no business trying to make anything happen. I really have only one business and that is to let myself be led by the Holy Spirit in my mind. When I step back and let Him lead the way, turning over my goals and wishes to Him, then I return to peace. I am relinquishing my investment in illusions and opening to the clear vision of Spirit.

All I really want is the peace of God. Today I reaffirm this one goal and commit to the practice that will let it happen — I will step back and let Him lead the way.

Mary:
This morning I go through a surrendering process of remembering that I know nothing. I see myself standing under Holy Spirit’s shower of Light, shower of peace… I breathe it in… I practice letting go of everything I think I know… Who do I think I am? Who do I think my brother is? I just let it all be washed away by the Holy Spirit’s healing Light… I just let it be washed away… I ask for the peace of God and open my mind to receive Holy Spirit’s gift of peace…

What comes to me as I continue accepting peace is that the life I appear to be living is just a story. It’s just a story. Very quietly, I am asked not to take it so seriously. I hand it all over to the Holy Spirit. As I truly do this it feels like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders. The heaviness is just a signal that I was taking the story too seriously once again. I was trying to solve things on my own.

Once again, I am shown that this does not work. This is not the answer. It is only the Holy Spirit that knows what is in my best interests and everyone’s best interests. It is only the Holy Spirit That knows how to lead us all out of the dream stories we are making up of being separate and alone.

The Holy Spirit reminds me once again to let go of the reins and let myself be carried. My job is to place my trust in the Holy Spirit and not myself alone. The truth is I rest in God along with everyone in the dream of separate bodies. Waking up from the dream is the one goal the Holy Spirit has for us. I wake up as I am willing to follow and let go of the past. It is through accepting the gift of peace that I can hear Holy Spirit’s inner direction. Accepting peace brings me what I really want and helps to lift the veil, showing me the truth about everyone. I will step back and let Him lead the way.

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Walking with Christ

Robert:
I choose to walk with Christ today. I choose to let His vision show me the Love that is my brother, show me the Love beyond all the images of the world. I choose to let the vision of Christ show me that only innocence is real. I choose to let Christ’s vision help me experience the unity of Love and the blessing Love gives in every moment.

To walk with Christ I must let go of all attempts to interpret anything on my own. My interpretations are always some form of judgment or evaluation based upon the past. Christ’s vision has no condemnation. It sees only what has always been — Love and nothing else. To see with Christ’s vision, I hold Christ’s Hand in my mind, remembering our oneness. The moment by moment practice of stepping back from the images of the world is how I hold my mind open to seeing the truth in place of the self-deception of images.

Today I choose to step back and let Him lead the way.

Mary:
With our reading of A Course in Miracles this morning, what stood out to me was: “The Christ in you is very still. He looks on what He loves, and knows it as Himself. And thus does He rejoice at what He sees, because He knows that it is one with Him and with His Father.” (ACIM T-24.V.1:1-3)

What will I identify with today, the Christ in me or the image of being a separate individual? What do I wish to see? What do I wish to experience? This is my opportunity today: To forgive the past images of individuality I have made up and, like the prodigal son, return to my Father’s Home. It is the Christ in me that returns me to my Home. The Christ in me is very still and so my opportunity today is to open my mind to the stillness that is eternally there. It is from this Source that I am brought to the awareness of Love’s Presence, which is everywhere at all times. This is my opportunity today.

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Come Often to Me

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Let go and let God… This means relax your hold on the body. Let your mind be quiet… Be open to receive God’s peace which automatically melts away any sense anxiety or fear… Just focus on allowing My gift of peace into your awareness… It has always been there but your barriers have not allowed you to be aware of it. Hand over everything; keep nothing… Relax into My gentle healing touch… Let go… Hand the reins over to Me…

Rest in My Love… Rest in my peace… Let everything melt away that is not of Me… Let your mind still… Let yourself be carried to an even deeper level of peace and quiet…

Know that this inner journey is safe and brings you only happiness… Rest in this inner quiet… You are being led from time into the eternal Present, the holy instant… Here the world falls away… Here you find the rest I bring, your inner Comforter…

Come often to Me and I will give you rest from the turmoil of the world… Here you are brought to an experience that is beyond words…

Holy Spirit to Robert:
If you want to have a happy day, do just one thing: Follow Me. My only purpose is to bring you God’s gift of perfect happiness. The gift is already yours. I am here to help you remove the barriers that shield it from your awareness. Step back in each moment today. Let My peace flow through you. Let My Love guide your vision.

Thus will you learn to see as I see and recognize your Self. You will see your Self in everyone as you allow My vision to be your guide in every moment. In your Self is the joy of God. Let Me lead you Home in each moment today. Together we will have a happy day.

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God Is the Strength in Which I Trust

Mary:
This morning as I go to Spirit, the first thought that comes to me is, “God is the strength in which I trust” (from A Course in Miracles). This helped straighten my mind because before I was finding myself thinking about all the details of moving, including where to put the trash can in the small kitchen that we are moving to.

God is the strength in which I trust reminds me once again to take all things to Him instead of trying to figure things out on my own. This is my practice today: Letting “God is the strength in which I trust” be my response to every worldly concern the ego mind comes up with. As I say, “God is the strength in which I trust,” repeatedly there comes with it a feeling of softness, a feeling of gentleness, a feeling of inner comfort. “God is the strength in which I trust” brings with a feeling of peace and quiet that stills the ego’s constant chatter.

I have an important job to do today and that is to place my trust in God instead of the ego’s problem-solving schemes. I just have one thing to remember today, again and again: “God is the strength in which I trust.”

Robert:
Today we read A Course in Miracles Workbook lesson 152, “The power of decision is my own.” This lesson makes it explicitly clear that everything I experience in the world is the effect of my decision. To the ego this is a radical thought that brings up fear because the ego equates responsibility with guilt. But ACIM makes it clear that the perception of separation in any form is not cause for guilt, but simply an indication of a need for correction. It also makes it clear that correction is not punishment but a change of mind.

We each carry in our minds the great Corrector, the Holy Spirit, that is ready and willing to offer us the correction we need. We need only be willing to bring our thoughts and beliefs to the great Corrector to receive the clear vision that shows us the truth and shines away the false. I am grateful that, no matter how many times I revert back to making decisions on my own, the Holy Spirit patiently waits for my willingness to let Him decide on my behalf. His decisions are always loving and always lead me toward the full recognition of the Self that I am, along with all my brothers.

Today is another gift, an opportunity to practice following Holy Spirit’s lead. With this practice I will learn to see a world forgiven, a world that reflects the changeless Love of God.

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Hand Over All Disturbances

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Relax deeply… let everything fall away… behind all the stories of the world is the one Light, the one Love that is eternally real… Let yourself identify with this limitless Light, this limitless Love…

Be with It… Allow yourself to feel Its peace… Hand over everything that comes up for healing to this peaceful Light… Let It melt away all sense of tension, all sense of worry, all sense of time… Be with It… Take all your illusions to It to be undone…

Know that this is the real you, your true Self. Soak and rest in Its healing Light… Be as a little child and receive Its guidance, Its correction of your perceptions…

Notice if you are holding on to anything and, once you notice it, hand it over to the One Who knows what to do with it…

Welcome the Light of truth, of your beingness as changeless Love, as changeless peace… Give yourself over to Its healing Light… Focus only on this. Listen and receive…

Give thanks…  Repeat this often during your day.

Holy Spirit to Robert:
Remember that only Love is real. If you perceive anything but Love, you are perceiving a false image that is not really there. Since nothing but Love is there, the perception of something else must be coming from your mind. It is a reflection of a mistaken belief of what you are. Nothing more. Nothing less. This means that you have the power to change what you perceive. Change the cause, the belief, and your perception will change.

The Holy Spirit is God’s gift to you who believe you are not His Son. This Gift is given you to provide the means to change your belief. Having made the belief and identified with it, you cannot change it on your own. Bring all your perceptions to the Holy Spirit. His gentle correction will help you change the belief behind the perception and the false perceptions will quietly fade away into the nothingness from which they came.

Be vigilant for peace today. Bring any and every disturbance to the Holy Spirit for His gentle correction. Thus will you clear away to full remembrance of What and Where you are.

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Being a Carrier of Peace

Robert:
It’s been a little over two years since we were guided to move the Pathways of Light Center to Florida. At this moment the original property in Kiel, Wisconsin, is still for sale and Mary and I are still living in a rented home in Florida while we wait for Holy Spirit’s plan to unfold. In retrospect I can see how the process has been carefully orchestrated by the Holy Spirit.

There have been times when impatience and frustration have been in my mind. But this only comes up when I am invested in my own plan and I want Holy Spirit to shape up and make it happen. That is the opposite of what this is for. In the Holy Spirit’s hands, all events and circumstances are teaching opportunities to fulfill His singular purpose: To help us remember that we were created as Love and nothing else. As this lesson is learned, the awareness that all my needs are met because Love is complete becomes clearer and clearer.

My job is to learn to stop relying on the limited perception of the body and the consequent inevitably mistaken interpretations that I attempt to make with such limited information. If I want peace, I need to let go of all my interpretations and let the Holy Spirit interpret on my behalf. This year has been a magnificent opportunity to practice stepping back and following Holy Spirit’s lead.

I can tell I am better at doing this than I was a year ago because my peace is disturbed less often; I am quicker to release disturbances and return to peace. My resolution for the coming year is to continue this practice. I want nothing but the peace of God. I want nothing but to serve the Holy Spirit’s plan to bring this peace wherever I go and in whatever I think. It is my desire to be a carrier of peace.

Mary:
Here in this world of separate bodies, we are starting a new year. As I go to the Holy Spirit, I am reminded that only eternity is real. I am reminded that what is eternal is changeless and always true.

I am very gently and quietly invited to open my mind to the awareness of the eternal truth. This is where my only true Home resides. I am invited to let the veil of time be lifted and here I feel the peace of the Holy Spirit, my inner Guide. I am encouraged to follow this Guidance every day until I no longer believe in any differences. As I let my belief in differences go, I see that everything is eternally the same. The Christ Spirit that is everywhere never changes.

My job now is to let all my false beliefs in time and differences be undone by the one Self that we all share. I am gently encouraged by my inner Comforter that I can let go of belief in differences. I can be taught as I more consistently remember that I do not know what anything that I see with my body’s eyes means.

As I become more open minded, the false beliefs in bodies and separation from oneness are undone. This is my job this year and every year until I fully realize there is no time with shifts and changes. There is only the eternal present. Here I find peace. Here is my service to the awakening because I am joined with every brother as one mind. We are one Light. There is no distance between us. And I am thankful that this is so.

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God’s Will for Us Is Perfect Happiness

Robert:
Love is whole. Therefore It makes no demands and has no needs to make It complete. Love is happiness. If I think a certain event or circumstance will bring me happiness, then I must believe that I am not Love. This belief is the denial of God’s gift. It is the denial of His Will because God’s Will for me/us is perfect happiness.

When I let myself join with the Love in my heart, joy overflows and I feel a deep connection with all that Is. Gratitude fills my heart with a quiet joy. Yet when I think I need a certain event to happen for me to be happy, the joy fades, gratitude steps back and my peace is disturbed. This is not God’s Will for me. This disturbance can only come from denying God’s Will, from denying Love.

Thus to return to Love I need to offer this belief that I am somehow incomplete without this desired event or circumstance to the Holy Spirit. I need to ask His help to see past the form to the changeless Love that is always there. I need to ask and accept His help to let go of this mistaken belief. That is His purpose and that is how I free myself from limiting beliefs to return Home where Love would have me be.

Today I will continue to practice being mindful of when I place my happiness outside of me and offer these thoughts to the Holy Spirit for transformation. I will step back and let Him lead the way.

Mary:
In our reading of A Course in Miracles this morning, the idea that stood out to me the most is how wrong we are when we think the world of separation we have made could replace God’s oneness.

This reading helped remind me to be as a little child and remember that I know nothing when I think this world is real. It reminds me to step back again and again and yet again as I go through my day today.

It still seems very easy to think that I know something. In truth, all that I have learned of this world stems from false beliefs. The Course gently asks me, “Do I want to be right or happy?” When I stick to what I have learned from the past and think that separate bodies are real, I am trying to be right rather than happy.

Today, it is my opportunity to let go of all I think I know, all that I have learned from the past. Today it is my opportunity to practice stepping back and listening to the one Self Who knows the truth about me and everyone. Today is another day of practice in remembering that on my own I know nothing. When I remember this, I can relax and listen to the quiet inner Voice that will remind me of the truth if I will let Him.

My job today is to let go and let God. If I do this consistently, I will have a happy day.

© 2009, Pathways of Light. http://www.pathwaysoflight.org
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