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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.

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Accepting God’s Gifts

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Let today be a practice in letting yourself be carried. To practice this through the day, let go of trying to make anything “happen.” Instead of trying to make anything happen, practice stepping back and allowing yourself to be carried through it. Wait and listen for peaceful inner direction.

Open to an awareness of peace that is always present, waiting for your acceptance. Let peace guide you. Let peace carry you through each activity you encounter today. Be consciously aware that you are allowing peace to lead the way. Be consciously aware of no efforting on your part.

Be consciously aware that you are stepping back right now and permitting yourself to be led by your true Self. As ego opinions pop up, notice them and put them on Holy Spirit’s altar. If they are not true, they will disappear in God’s healing Light.

Let yourself feel the confidence that comes with your acceptance of being led by the Holy Spirit. Feel the softness and gentleness that comes with it. Let yourself feel the happiness and lack of stress as you allow yourself to be immersed in Holy Spirit’s constant gift of peace and sense of well being.

If any aspect of conflict shows up, quickly hand it over to the Holy Spirit’s healing Light and watch it dissolve in Holy Spirit’s sea of peace. Let yourself become aware of just how much you are being carried as you allow it through the day. Enjoy the gifts of peace and quiet inner happiness that come with allowing yourself to be carried through your day today.

This wonderful practice will motivate you to step back even more as your practice continues each day. With this continuous practice, you become more and more aware of how much constant help you have throughout the day. You feel that angels are surrounding you. Enjoy this important practice of letting yourself be carried today.

Robert:
A Course in Miracles tells us that Love is happiness. We are happy when we extend Love. And when we are happy, we automatically extend Love. Thus if I am not happy, I must be denying the Love that I am.

Unhappiness is a signal that there is a need to forgive. Unforgiveness is a denial of Love. While it may appear that there is a person, situation or event that needs to be forgiven, beneath those forms it is really just a need to forgive God for His unwillingness to give us specialness and thereby make us separate.

Sometimes it’s helpful to recognize a specific situation that we are judging or feeling guilty about so that we can offer that perception to the Holy Spirit. But there is much that we have denied and buried in unconsciousness that we may not realize what it is we are denying. Still we can offer that to the Holy Spirit for forgiveness as well. One way of doing this is to use the basic process of ho’oponopono — say to the Divine, “I’m sorry. I love you. Please forgive me. Thank you.” In this process it is not really the Divine we are asking to forgive us, for It has never judged us. We are really asking to forgive ourselves for denying our unity with God.

Recently I was aware of a perception of being slighted. I could consciously see that it was meaningless, yet my peace was disturbed. So I did this little process, repeating it several times until peace returned to my mind. Occasionally the thought would come back and I repeated the process until the thought no longer disturbed my peace.

This perceived slight was just an image representing the belief that I am separate from my brother. As I practice forgiving or letting go of the thought of separation, I no longer perceive situations that demonstrate separation. More and more the Love in my heart joins with the Love in all. Happiness fills my heart which overflows with gratitude. In this world forgiveness opens the door to God’s gift of Love and happiness.

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Simple, Uncomplicated Love

Mary:
This morning we were guided to read A Course in Miracles Workbook, Lesson 138: “Heaven is the decision I must make.” As I go to Spirit with this, it comes to me that Love is very simple and uncomplicated. Love is very uncluttered because it is pure with nothing added. I comes to me that if I want to be happy, the way to do this is to open my mind to Love’s healing Presence.

As I open my mind to Love, what was complicated before becomes simple and uncluttered. What is really unimportant falls away and the peace that comes with uncomplicated Love is increasingly felt. There is also a feeling of inner certainty and inner quiet that straightens out a path that appeared complex before. There is a very gentle feeling that underneath all the complexity of the world of separate bodies, all is well. What appeared hard before now seems very simple and easy and quiet.

Simple, uncomplicated Love. My focus for today is on accepting what is true. If truth be known, I do not need the ego’s complications. I do not need the efforting and tension that comes with its complicated images. Simple, uncomplicated Love. That is all I need today. As I practice accepting the peace that comes with this, what seemed complicated before disappears in Love’s soft healing Light. Today I let simple, uncomplicated Love light my way and I am grateful that It is always there, waiting for my acceptance.

Robert:
If I want to have a blessed day, all I need to do is bless. I bless by seeing with Christ’s vision. I do this by letting the Holy Spirit, my true Self, be my Interpreter in every moment. The one Self we share is Love and sees only Love. Today I dedicate to seeing with Christ’s vision of Love. Thus will I have the blessing of experiencing my oneness with all my brothers. Love’s blessing is now and forever.

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