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Receive the Blessings of God’s Gifts

Holy Spirit to Mary:
With all the holiday activities, it is helpful to step back and remember Where you are in truth always. You and the whole Sonship are in Heaven now, dreaming of being on a distant shore, dreaming of being different from your Source.

Now is the time to step back, relax and let the peace of your true Self enter your heart and mind… Let peace seep into every corner…

Give time to letting go and letting this deep sense of peace take over… Let peace carry you to an awareness of Love’s Presence…

Let your inner Comforter take charge… Rest in His Love… Rest in His peace… Breathe the peace in as fully as you can… Let everything melt into God’s healing peace… Let this feeling of deep rest fill your awareness…

Now you need do nothing but accept the peace that is being offered you… Accept the gift and let it melt away everything that is not of God, your Source… Receive the gift that is beyond the world of change… receive the gift that never changes and is always there.

Give thanks that you are God’s Son… Give thanks that everyone is safe in God and has never left Heaven… Soak in this remembrance… Receive the blessings that come with accepting God’s gifts… Accept Heaven because it is yours today.

Holy Spirit to Robert:
I am the place of rest in you that goes with you wherever you go. I am the part of your mind that remembers your Source. Let Me be your guide in all your doing. I hold in your mind a single purpose that is shared with your Source. I hold the purpose that retains your unity with all that Is.

With Me as your Guide, all your doing serves this purpose, all your doing leads you toward true happiness. I will show you the truth beyond all appearances. Today let yourself rest in Me and I will guide your ways in forgiveness and gratitude. As one, we rest in the certainty and Love of God.

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Step Back and Follow

Robert:
The ego is constantly on the lookout for signs that confirm separation is real. It needs this confirmation to affirm that the ego is real and exists. And so it is always looking for situations, circumstances and images that confirm the “reality” of separation. It will interpret a facial expression as disapproval. It will interpret a lack of communication as disrespect.

The ego considers it a “win” when it is able to interpret what it perceives as an offense or even a confirmation of specialness. All that matters to the ego is that separation continues to be believed as real. Naturally with this as its focus, it ignores, disregards and denies anything that does not support separation.

Along with this always comes guilt. It is impossible to perceive someone as separate from yourself without guilt because with the belief that you have separated, you must believe you have harmed by somehow changing your brother and yourself. This goes on unconsciously but effects all your conscious interpretations. This is the attraction of guilt, the wish to make separation real. The effect of this wish can only be unhappiness because it is the denial of God’s gift of perfect happiness.

The antidote to all this is very simple. All we need do is forgive, let go of the images of separation. We need to look past images to the reality of the one Love that joins us in the unity of one Self. We cannot change our perception alone, but the presence of the Holy Spirit in our mind provides us the means to see anew. This seeing does not use the body’s eyes. The Holy Spirit’s seeing is through the Light of Love, which shines away the self-deceptive veil that seems to make separation real.

My prayer today: Holy Spirit, I open my heart and mind to You to receive Your gift of vision that I may see my brother, not as a body, but as Love, as the one Self we share, created by Love, eternally in Love. Guide my vision today that I may see as You see, Love as You Love.

Mary:
This is my prayer today: Holy Spirit, I give You the past and I give You the future. I need not decide anything on my own. I am willing to let go and be carried by Your healing, peaceful perception.

I have one focus today and that is to step back and follow You.  As I listen and pay attention to Your inner promptings, I will be brought to an awareness that I truly do rest in God eternally. Everyone truly is safe in the Mind of God and has never left. I leave my mind open to Your healing perception. Amen.

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The Spirit of Christmas

Mary:
This morning as we read A Course in Miracles, this sentence stood out to me: “The world I see holds my fearful self-image in place, and guarantees its continuance. While I see the world as I see it now, truth cannot enter my awareness. I would let the door behind this world be opened for me, that I may look past it to the world that reflects the Love of God.” (ACIM W-pI.56.3:1-4)

This is Christmas day, and what this paragraph is leading me to embodies the spirit of Christmas. The Holy Spirit is right there in my mind waiting to lift the veil that I might see the world that reflects the Love of God. Today it is my job to receive Holy Spirit’s wonderful gift of Christ’s Vision. As I receive this gift, I cannot help but extend it to others because the Love of God is all inclusive.

This is the true meaning of Christmas. So I am very grateful to receive this message and extend it by practicing it through the day. The more I am willing to practice letting the veil be lifted, the more I help myself and everyone awaken from the dream.

In the Christmas story of the birth of Christ, angels are singing, “Peace on earth, good will toward all men.” As I let the veil be lifted by receiving Holy Spirit’s gift, this is the world I will experience.

Have a blessed Christmas. Let’s together practice receiving the Holy Spirit’s gift of Christ’s Vision. What a wonderful, joyous way to celebrate Christmas.

Robert:
A Course in Miracles tells us that everything we see through the body’s eyes is a projection of our thoughts. If I see fear, anger, pain and suffering, it is simply reflecting my thoughts of separation. But I am always free to choose to align my thoughts with the Holy Spirit. Then I will see with Christ’s Vision, which shows me the Love in my brothers. I naturally join with this Love because Love always unifies, being one.

Love recognizes the appearance of lack of Love as simply a call for Love and automatically offers Love in response. Being formless, Love does not require words and actions to extend. Today I choose to align my thoughts with the Holy Spirit and join in Love with everyone I meet or think of. Love will guide me if there are words or actions to express this joining. Thus will I give in the spirit of Christmas.

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I Rest in God

Robert:
I rest in God. This is my mantra today. I rest in God. God’s Love and strength support me, no matter how much I get wrapped up in the images of the world. I rest in God. There is nothing else I need to remember. I rest in God. He is my comfort and my safety. It can be found nowhere else. I rest in God.

My heart is filled with gratitude as I remember, I rest in God. In God I have no needs, for everything that matters is given me. In God there can be no lack because God is all That is. No matter what appearances the body’s eyes show me, I can rest assured in the changelessness of God. In God’s changelessness is my invulnerability because I rest in God. As I look upon a brother and remember he rests in God with me, I recognize him as my Self, safe in the Heart of God. As I remember that I rest in God, all perceived problems dissolve and I remember that I am safe in eternal, changeless Love. And I give thanks.

Mary:
Yesterday we rented a smaller home about 60 miles north of where we are staying now. Space is tight, but we figured out how to get everything we need into the house and put the rest in storage. This way we will lower our monthly expenses and be close the property that we believe will become the next Pathways of Light facility. We will be able live in this rented home while finishing getting the new facility ready for us to move in.

Yesterday we did a lot of measuring and calculating how we could get the necessary equipment into the small house. This morning my mind is so filled with all the details around the move that inwardly I had to take time out and let it all go for a while. I need to give time to step back and give time to the Holy Spirit. This is a helpful time to remember that I rest in God and that everything that we truly need will be there as we need it. It is time to remember that in quiet is every problem quietly resolved. My job now is to give quiet time to the Holy Spirit to receive His inspiration and help me remember the truth.

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Soaking in God’s Peace

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Let go of efforting. Just relax. Know that your true Self is with you in your mind, always ready to guide you in a flow of peace. Keep your mind open to receiving peace… Make this your highest priority, rather than trying to solve problems on your own.

Breathe in peace… Let peace melt away every concern… Let yourself rest in God’s peace… Let yourself receive the full benefits of God’s gifts to you… Let everything else melt away… Just peace… Just the eternal present in God’s Love…

Give yourself time as often as you can to rest in God’s Love. This brings you to the awareness of Love’s Presence. This is not a little gift. It changes your whole perspective about everything in the world. It brings you back to the awareness of What you are and Where you are eternally. The trivial concerns of the world soften as you step back from it even just a little. Here you feel Holy Spirit’s calmness and confidence. Here you rise above the world to see the Love that is always there. Here you feel safe. Here is your strength. Here is your Home.

After this beautiful interval of soaking in God’s peace, you come back to the world with a new perspective. You have a strong knowing that the perfect circumstances are showing up as you need them to serve the Holy Spirit’s purpose of awakening from the dream. You give thanks that you have so much help in awakening from the dream of separation.

Robert:
My heart is filled with joy as I recognize the day as another opportunity to see Love everywhere. The Love that I am automatically joins with all Love, for that is Love’s nature. My job is to disregard all seeming interferences that appear to block the awareness of Love’s presence. Love is always present, being eternal and changeless. No matter what wild imaginings I may believe, they cannot change the eternal Presence of Love.

So today is another day to practice looking past appearances and letting the Holy Spirit show me that appearances have no substance, while Love is all that matters. It is this I want today. As I accept it, joy fills my heart.

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Willing to Awaken

Robert:
Time is one of the ego’s principal mechanisms for making separation appear real. The past seems to be out of reach, yet we put great effort into remembering the past. We try to memorize facts and experiences. Because we have made the past so important, we put a lot of effort and energy into creating monuments to the past. We fill photo albums and scrapbooks and shelves with images and trinkets to help us remember the past. We put stone monuments in the ground with the hope that they will provide a lasting link between the past and the future. We research into the past for the genealogy of the body in an attempt to link ourselves to the past and thereby establish that we have a meaningful existence now.

Because the ego has no meaning, it tries to establish meaning based on the past. Then it tries to use the past to give meaning to an unknown future. We try to plan for a future that is not here, but the only resource we have to plan for the future is the past, which is also not here. Thus we use imaginary “memories” or images from the past to build images in an imaginary future. The present is totally ignored. In fact the present is denied because, in the present, we would find the reality of Love and recognize the ego is nothing.

We see here how the ego would hide the simplicity of oneness now with the complexity of past and future woven out of illusions. Of ourselves we cannot find our way out of this complex and confusing world of time and space we have made.

By the grace of God we have the means in our mind to reach beyond the little self image we have made to the strength and vision of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit sees the complex dreams we have made but does not believe them. Thus He can provide a bridge that we can understand that gently and lovingly leads us out of our self-made prison into the freedom of the Light of Love.

This is my prayer today: Holy Spirit, help me to see as You see. I offer You my thoughts, my images, with willingness for You to use them on behalf of awakening to Love. Guide me in all my doing. I cannot awaken on my own, but with You all things are possible. Thank You for Your gifts of strength and peace and loving guidance. Amen.

Mary:
I begin today by putting out the welcome mat to the Holy Spirit. I am willing to remember that I know nothing on my own. I am willing to relax and accept Holy Spirit’s gift of peace. I am willing to let myself be carried. The Holy Spirit knows the big picture and will bring whatever we need in the moment to fulfill His plan of awakening. All I have to do is to remember once again to choose peace, be quiet and listen. This is my practice today.

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The Vision of Christ

Mary:
This is my prayer for today: Heal my mind, my Father. Let all my thoughts be still. Let me not bring the past to the present. I am as a little child, willing to be led. I do not know the way, but You do. I am willing to be quiet and listen. I am willing to let go of what I think I know and be led to the truth of my true Identity in You. And now I simply soften, relax and welcome your peace…

As I am willing, You carry me to a different state of mind, where all is seen as One. Differences dissolve and are seen as meaningless. Your effortless peace and Love replace all the uncertainty and confusion that seemed so real before. As I give welcome to peace, the veil is lifted and there is now only a calm reassurance of Love’s Presence, Which is everywhere.

It is here that everyone in the dream of separation resides, whether we realize it or not. We are safe at Home in God and this is what the vision of Christ brings to us. This is the true meaning of Christmas. What a wonderful way to celebrate Christmas — to give welcome to the truth that we are all the same in the one Christ Mind. What better gift could I give to everyone but to give welcome to the truth in my mind, which I share with everyone.

Robert:
Symptoms of dis-spiritedness: Fatigue, confusion, uncertainty, fear, sadness, sickness, depression, loneliness, lack and loss — pretty much the condition of the physical world. Symptoms of being in Spirit: Supreme happiness; a quiet peace that cannot be disturbed; a sense of safety and certainty; a sense of overflowing Love that is welcomed and extended without condition nor limit.

When I identify with an image of myself, I am denying Spirit and experience the symptoms of dis-spiritedness. All I need do to return to Spirit is to be willing to let go of identifying with a false image. I need only be willing to accept Spirit, to accept my Self. The symptoms I experience clearly demonstrate whether I am denying or accepting Spirit. Today I will be vigilant for Spirit. I want the peace of God and so I would accept His gift.

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