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Willingness to Return to Love

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Relax. Let go. Hand over the reins. Move in to a place of inner quiet and peace. This place of inner quiet is always there in your mind, welcoming you to rest a while with your inner Teacher. You go to this sacred place in your mind by letting go and welcoming peace and quiet. Let all of your concerns and worries be gently washed away. Be willing to let go. Just melt into God’s peace.

Here in this place of quiet, you relax more deeply and allow yourself to let go more fully… you just lay everything down. You let yourself feel that ocean of peace that comes from your one true Self… You are reminded that everyone is included in this one true Self. At the true Self level, everyone is extending peace to you and you are extending peace to everyone…

You feel held in Love’s soft embrace… and with this comes an awareness that this is true for everyone. Everyone is safe, just as you know that you are… With this comes a knowing that this is eternally true…

You see that all the barriers to the awareness of Love’s Presence are just like a thin veil. You have the choice to focus on the veil and the images that displayed on it or you can let the veil be lifted to know the safety of eternity again…

Let yourself practice letting the veil be lifted today. This is what forgiveness is. This is the willingness to return to Love. Truth is true and nothing else is true. You are learning to let the truth return to your awareness. There is nothing else.

Holy Spirit to Robert:
Remember to breathe today. Use this as a means to stay in peace. Let peace guide your way throughout the day. As you allow yourself to be in peace, you hold yourself open to Inspiration. Inspiration will always guide you in the way of peace and in the way of helpfulness to the Sonship. Inspiration will show you the eternal Love behind all appearances. Be in peace today and you will be inspired.

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Nothing but Love

Holy Spirit to Robert:
Love joins with Love. There is nothing else to join. Love sees only Love. There is nothing else to see. Love extends only Love. There is nothing else to give. Your Self, the truth about you, is only Love. If you believe you see anything but Love, you are believing in a concept of yourself that is not true.

While you seem to see through the body’s eyes, your function is to offer all the images you see to the Holy Spirit for His interpretation. Judge nothing on your own. Give no meaning to any image on your own. That is the Holy Spirit’s function, not yours. The more you practice making no decisions or interpretations on your own, the easier it will be for you to look past the images to the Love that is everywhere. With the Holy Spirit as your interpreter, every encounter will be a happy joining in Love.

Robert: Today I will make no decisions on my own. This is how I will have a joy-filled day.

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Today let yourself remember that you rest in God. Let yourself remember that you are immersed in God’s peace. Relax and let peace in. Let peace do its healing work of undoing the thoughts that are not true. Let go and let God.

As you practice this consistently, you see that this is all that matters. Hand over every concern that comes up to the Light. Let the Light heal your mind.

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An Ocean of Peace

Robert:
The ego is always in fear. This is because all ego perceptions are illusions and therefore inherently unstable. So the ego is constantly trying to make plans that it believes will protect it and make it happy. This need to plan interferes with my receptivity to the Holy Spirit’s plan that will lead me to true happiness and eternal, changeless Safety.

The habit of planning for safety is so engrained that I slip into it unconsciously many times a day. This is why it is so important to start each day with the dedication to be open to Holy Spirit’s plan and guidance. Yet it is also important to vigilantly monitor my level of peace. If I am not at peace, I am not following Holy Spirit’s plan. This means it’s time to step back, step aside and let Holy Spirit guide.

Returning to peace is essential to letting inspiration lead me in all my doing. The more I practice this, the more fulfilling and productive my day is, without effort. And so today I begin again with the dedication to keep my mind and heart open to the Holy Spirit’s gentle lead.

Mary:
This morning as many ideas are swirling around in my mind, I watch them and know that I must step back and let the Holy Spirit be my Guide. I must again remember that I know nothing on my own. I need not make decisions based on the past to make me safe.

I take time to open my mind and receive Holy Spirit’s peace. I go through a gradual process of letting everything go. I hand over the reigns to the Holy Spirit. The words come to me, “God is the strength in which I trust.” I soak a while in this remembering until there is only stillness. I let myself rest in God’s peace.

From this place of inner quietness comes a sense of inner security and safety, and knowing that everything is all right. I can let the fears come up. I look at them with Holy Spirit and see that they are shined away in Holy Spirit’s gentle, purifying Light. I am now in a place of no efforting. I feel transported to a beingness that is beyond this world. It feels like being in an ocean of peace. I realize that this is Home where I belong.

From this place of inner quiet, I look on the physical world anew. I see that there is nothing to worry about. The difference between the real and the unreal seems to be so clear in this place of inner quiet. What is truly important seems so clear as I let the barriers dissolve and become aware of the ocean of peace we are all immersed in.

From this place of peace it seems so unimportant to react to the figures in the dream. “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.” (A Course in Miracles, Text, Intro. 2:2-4) I feel so thankful right now that we all have the Holy Spirit right in our minds, ready and able to return us to our natural state, as we are willing.

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There Is No Place But Home

Robert:
There is no place like Home. This statement from the Wizard of Oz could be more accurately phrased: There is no place but Home. This world, the land of Oz, is a fantasy fabricated in our minds, a dream that could never be real. It does not really exist. Learning this is the equivalent of clicking our heals to escape from the dream. All we need to do is learn what is real and what is not. The good news is that we have eternally present in our minds the Teacher Who will help us recognize what is real. But we must be willing to be taught.

The first step in this is to accept the possibility that our interpretations may be wrong. This is a step toward the willingness that opens our mind to the truth. Today I am willing to accept that my interpretations might be wrong. I am willing to let the curtain be pulled back so that I may recognize illusions for what they are and receive the Holy Spirit’s interpretation that leads me to truth. Today I would remember there is no place but Home.

Mary:
Today we are going to attend a seminar on Internet communications. I ask Holy Spirit to lead me through this day so that I am paying attention to what Holy Spirit wants me to learn. I realize that I am in Holy Spirit’s school, but many times I forget and wander into ego’s dead end streets. So I ask Holy Spirit what would help to keep me connected all through the day.

The answer that arises in my mind is to consistently remember to choose peace all through the day. Choosing peace realigns my mind to accept Holy Spirit’s inner direction. It stimulates moving into a more relaxed state, open to Holy Spirit’s inner promptings. So my willingness to consistently choose peace all through the day is like my lifeline to inner inspiration. Choosing peace consistently through the day helps me remember that I am being carried by Holy Spirit’s plan of awakening.

I am led to awakening from the dream as I am receptive and willing to be taught what is most truly helpful in any moment. As I accept this state of mind, I feel enveloped in deep peace, fully cared for and safe in the Mind of God. I experience a gentleness and can easily recognize the gentle peace that resides in everyone’s mind, whether they are paying attention to it or not.

So today may look like we are going to a conference about the Internet on the outside. But on the inside I am attending Holy Spirit’s conference on enhancing the practice of receiving and extending God’s universal peace. I can’t think of anything more important than this. What an opportunity I have today!

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Let Inspiration Guide

Robert:
This weekend, at her “Inspired to Be Truly Helpful” workshop, Rev. Mary Lenihan introduced the thought: “Step back. Step aside. Let Inspiration guide.” This simple focus is the key to living in Light. Light and peace go together. This simple practice clears the way for Inspiration in every moment. This is my practice today.

Mary:
This morning, many ideas were swirling in my mind. At Mary Lenihans workshop we met or heard about 2 key people who could possibly play an important part in our new venture in Florida. This morning when I go to the Holy Spirit, I am asked to surrender all of my ideas to God. Put them on God’s Altar. What is useful will stay and what is not truly helpful will disappear in the Light.

In this inner place of peace and quietness, I am gently reminded again that as we all allow Holy Spirit’s plan to unfold, moment by moment, we are brought to an awareness of the truth that we are one Light and there is no distance between us. The Holy Spirit knows all the connections that need to be made in the dream. My job is to continuously step back and follow where peace leads me, moment by moment. My job is to let go and let God all through this day. I am reminded, “The memory of God comes to the quiet mind.” (A Course in Miracles, T-23.I.1:1)

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Go to Your Inner Holy Place

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Keep it simple. Go to your inner holy place. Be receptive. Remember that you know nothing. Receive a change of mind. That means letting go of what you now believe is true. Listen and receive. Let the Holy Spirit do the work. Allow the healing to occur in your mind. Relax, let go and let God. This is your inner work. Practice allowing healing to occur in your mind now.

Holy Spirit to Sharyn: Today as you go through your day, remembering to see the face of Christ in everyone’s face as you look at them is all that is important. Seeing the Love they are and extending your Love to them is the only reason you are there. Your part in God’s plan for salvation is seeing the face of Christ in everyone, for when you see that face it is impossible to judge or condemn. Extending Love to others can be done in many ways, whether it is just a smile, a hug or simply a silent “bless you.” Blessing others is blessing God. When you see others through the eyes of Christ as Jesus would see them you are not seeing separation. You are seeing Love.

Holy Spirit to Robert:
Today is the day to remember that Love is in everything you see because only Love is real. Accept the Love and extend the Love. By this you will bless and be blessed. You know the Love you are by recognizing the Love everywhere. Have a blessed day.

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Receiving Peace

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Go with the flow in the moment. Watch your mind for wandering thoughts that stray into the past or future. Remember that the Holy Spirit is in your mind right this minute, extending peace to you. Instead of the past or the future, focus on receiving peace in the present moment. Inherent in receiving peace is extending peace.

Allow yourself to recognize the essence of peace in everyone. In this place of peace will come an automatic knowing of how to be truly helpful as we all awaken to the truth.

Holy Spirit to Robert:
As God’s extension of Love, you have but one function — to extend Love. Let the Holy Spirit show you the Love in everything, everywhere. And you will be blessed by everything you look upon.

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