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Welcome Holy Spirit’s Vision

Mary:
Today I am willing to hold Holy Spirit’s Hand and follow, remembering I know nothing. I wait in quiet, knowing that what I ask for I will receive. I ask to see the truth. I ask to see through Holy Spirit’s eyes. That is all I want. That is all I need. As things come up, I hand them over for Holy Spirit’s transformed perception. This is how I rest in God today.

Holy Spirit to Robert:
Efforting is a sure sign that you are relying on your own “strength.” You are not letting yourself be carried but are attempting to control the images in your perception. This will never bring you peace.

Peace will come to your weary mind as you turn over your perceptions to the Holy Spirit and open to His interpretation. He will bring you back to the awareness of the present moment where you recognize that you are whole, perfect and safe in the Heart of God. As you remember this, you relax and welcome the Holy Spirit’s inspiration that guides you to the expression of Love in the world of perception.

Let yourself be carried today by the limitless Love of the Self you share with all.

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Love Offers Everything I Need

Robert:
My heart is filled with gratitude. In every moment, Love offers me everything I need. In another way it could be said the Universe of Love is mine. When I experience problems or limitations of any kind, I am simply denying the gift. The gift is always there, always offered.

It is not my prerogative to determine what the gift is. But I am free to deny it and thus be unaware of Its presence. Problems of any kind are simply symptoms of denial of the gift of Love. The problem is not “out there.” The problem is the denial in my mind that needs to be forgiven. Nothing more, nothing less. There is no out there. All appearances are simply a reflection of what I am holding in my mind, which is either Love or the denial of Love.

The denial of Love has no effect whatsoever on Love. The denial of Love is simply a false idea that can be let go. It is a fantasy, an hallucination. Being a fantasy, it has no substance although belief in the fantasy can give it the appearance of solidity in my experience. It is belief in the fantasy that must be undone.

If I want to experience the ever present, eternal gift of Love, I must give up the fantasies. This is what forgiveness does. I do not need to know how it happens. I only need to do the practice of turning over every thought and perception of limitation to the loving Self God created and ask for help to let it go (forgive it). Love does the rest. My gratitude accepts the gift that is returned to me when I turn over my thoughts.

I am truly blessed today because I have another day to practice letting go.

Mary:
Today when I still my mind and go to Spirit, I am very gently reminded that I am being carried. I am reminded that my real Self rests in God and that nothing can really happen to change God’s one Son. I am reminded that my hallucinations of separation mean nothing and that all is well.

I am encouraged to relax deeply and let go of all concerns, all worries and put them into God’s Hands, where they belong. I am reminded to choose the peace of my true Self rather than the uncertainty and conflict found in the ego mind. This putting the welcome mat out for peace opens the door for true inspiration. This is how I awaken to the truth. This is all I want. This is all I need.

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God’s Love Machine

Robert:
I’m just a Love machine. That’s what God created me to be. Love can only extend Love. I am Love’s extension and so all I can really do is extend Love.

I have made up myriad stories that seem to portray the “ability” to attack, to fear, to resent, to be weak and limited. But God did not create any of that. They’re just images fabricated out of nothing. They are not what I am. But belief in these images interferes with being the Love machine I was created to be. It does not stop the Love but it makes it invisible because I am choosing to see something else that is not really there.

When I believe in that something else, I cannot experience the joy of Love. That is why it is essential that I practice in every moment offering all my perceptions to the Holy Spirit and let Him clear away the dross of false images and return to me the Love that is really there.

This is my practice again today so that I can return to being God’s perpetual Love machine.

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Again practice letting yourself be carried. Pause and step back often. Let yourself become aware that you are resting in God. Let your true Self do all the “thinking.” Let everything else fall away. Let everything else be cleaned away. Relax and follow. The rest will be taken care of by the Light within you.

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Gentle Correction

Robert:
One of my principle triggers into defensiveness is when I perceive that someone believes I have not done my job “correctly.” I slip quickly into wanting to be right. It is not a happy feeling. From that perspective I want to make that other person believe that I am right.

This is clearly an ego script and it never satisfies. It only serves to reinforce the idea of lack and guilt. Actions from this mindset not only reinforce guilt in my mind but also attempt to place guilt (blame) on the other. This keeps the ego firmly in charge.

Since this scenario is entirely in my mind, the only way to stop the guilt game is to change my mind. Here is where forgiveness comes to the rescue. But this forgiveness cannot be a magnanimous gesture in which I demonstrate my superiority by overlooking the dastardly deed. I must come to the full recognition that nothing really happened to justify guilt. For this I need the help of the Holy Spirit.

And so in every moment it is important for me to practice putting all my thoughts of guilt and shame and blame into the loving Hands of the Holy Spirit. He will transform those thoughts. He will teach me how to see past the images to the reality of only Love. I need His help for this and I must be willing to accept His help. Only then will I find peace.

Today is another day of practice in turning over my thoughts to the Holy Spirit to receive His gentle correction.

Mary:
If I really want to wake up from the dream of separation, I must be willing to let go of the idea that there is a past and a future. This only makes the dream of separation seem more real. This is not waking up, but reinforcing the dream of being separated from my Source.

How willing am I today to wake up to the Holy Spirit’s vision of the eternal present? How willing am I today to let go of thinking I know anything? How willing am I to receive Holy Spirit’s gentle correction to what I think I am seeing through the body’s eyes?

Both A Course in Miracles and Ho’oponopono teach me to let go of the past. This is forgiveness and forgiveness is my only function here. My prayer today is that I remember my purpose to hand over everything I experience in the dream of separation to the Holy Spirit to be undone. This what today is for.

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Gratitude and Gentleness

Robert:
Every day my gratitude grows. There is so much to be grateful for: The whole universe of God’s Love. It’s always been there but I have not allowed myself to recognize It. Bringing the past to the present makes the Love of God imperceptible. Its been there all along, but I wasn’t aware of it.

My gratitude is growing through my practice of forgiveness that lets go of interference from the past. Forgiveness is a precious gift I give myself, with Holy Spirit’s help. My part of the gift is the willingness to turn over my thoughts of the past to the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit’s gift is the transformation and clearing of the erroneous beliefs and returning to me only the Love that is real.

I am grateful for the help provided by A Course in Miracles and the Spirit of Love in my mind that has gently, persistently, with a singleness of purpose, guided me to the recognition of the one Self we all share. I cannot say with certainty that as yet I have a full conscious experience of that one Self, but I can say with certainty that I experience the presence of Love more and more every day. Thank you God. I love you God.

Mary:
When I go to Spirit this morning, what comes is the word “gentleness,” and the feeling of gentleness comes with it. In this feeling of gentleness, there is a knowing that everything is alright. There is a feeling of patience and trust. There is a sense of caring and compassion.

In this gentle wordless communication from Spirit, there is a calling to come Home. The feeling that goes with this is that, as I respond to the call, I receive the gift of profound peace and the knowing that all our needs are met forever.

This message from Spirit goes beyond words. It carries with it the feeling of inner comfort, inner strength and certainty, and inner peace. It also carries with it the knowing that nothing else really matters than answering this call to return Home.

I know that today is about answering this call and giving my attention to letting myself be carried Home by the Holy Spirit.

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Freedom from Conflict

Robert: 
My prayer of gratitude: Thank you Father, my Creator and my Source. My heart is filled with joy for Your gift to me. Your gift is all I need; I have no other need. I join with You in sharing this gift and in this sharing my joy is magnified a thousand times and a thousand times again. There is no limit to the joy of sharing Your gift, for You are limitless, and therefore so am I. Thank You, Father, for Your gift. I honor You and my Self by sharing it. Thank You.

Mary:
In our reading this morning, this is what stood out to me:

The miracle comes quietly into the mind that stops an instant and is still. It reaches gently from that quiet time, and from the mind it healed in quiet then, to other minds to share its quietness. And they will join in doing nothing to prevent its radiant extension back into the Mind Which caused all minds to be. Born out of sharing, there can be no pause in time to cause the miracle delay in hastening to all unquiet minds, and bringing them an instant’s stillness, when the memory of God returns to them. …The instant’s silence that His Son accepts gives welcome to eternity and Him, and lets Them enter where They would abide. For in that instant does the Son of God do nothing that would make himself afraid. (T-28.I.11:1-4, 12:5-6)

This reminds me how important it is for my healing to find the time to stop an instant and be still. Allowing this quiet time makes room for the Holy Spirit, my true Self. If I do not make room for my true Self, how can It be heard over the incessant noise of the ego? If I want the memory of God to return to my mind, then today I will be willing to get off the ego’s merry-go-round and in quietness, accept the miracle that my true Self holds out to me. The peace I feel as I practice this is not a little gift. It paves the way to freedom from conflict.

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Follow the Way of Love

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Today go with the flow that forgiveness offers you. Choose to follow Holy Spirit each moment. Then go with the flow. Just follow where the Light leads you. The Light leads you to your innate happiness. Relax and let yourself be carried by the Light of Love today.

Holy Spirit to Robert:
Joy and Love are inseparable. When you follow the Light of Love, you follow the way of joy. In truth there is no other way. The appearance of alternatives is simply a false image to be let go. That is why forgiveness leads you to the way of joy. Face this day with an open heart, free of the past and it will be a happy day indeed.

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