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Accepting Holy Spirit’s Help

Robert:
I have lots of questions, most of which are about the future and what I should do to be prepared for it. Clearly these are ego based questions, yet it seems like it would really be helpful if I just had a hint. It’s like saying to the Holy Spirit, “Just throw me a scrap of information. I’ll take whatever you can give.” The problem is if Holy Spirit gave me that “scrap,” the ego would take that scrap and build an involved story around it to serve its purpose, which is always to reinforce the sense of separation. This is not what I really want. I really want the peace of God.

Now I bring this concern and insecurity about the future to the Holy Spirit. I lay it before Him and step back. What I laid before Him seemed like dark shadows, all tangled up like tangled fishing line. The Holy Spirit shines His Light on this tangled pile and it begins to fade. As it fades, I feel myself becoming more peaceful. There is no attempt to unravel the tangle because the tangle does not matter, being unreal. In the Light of truth, the tangle simply fades away.

I absorb the freedom and peace that flows through me now that the tangle is gone. I feel in my heart the certainty of the ever present Love that is my Self. I rest in that certainty… I know that there is nothing else I need. I know that even though the body’s eyes show me a world of forms and time, I can never be without Love. I can never be without everything I need.

The Holy Spirit walks with me in every moment and He reflects the eternal presence of Love to me in the form that will help me learn to recognize It in myself and everyone. This is all I really want. I am grateful that the Holy Spirit recognizes what will truly help me and offers it in every moment.

Today is another opportunity to practice laying all my questions, my concerns, my fears, my doubts, before the Light of truth. I am willing to let the Light of truth reveal what I truly want and need. Thus will I remember Love’s blessing.

Mary:
A Course in Miracles reminds me that there is only one problem and that is belief in a world of separate bodies. It also tells us that there is only one solution and that is forgiveness, which is letting go of that false belief in a world of separate bodies. So my only problem is believing in what my body’s eyes show me. My real job today is to let go, or forgive, trying to replace God’s oneness with images of separation.

The only way I can do this is to be humble and remember that everything I see in the world is false perception. It is only the Holy Spirit That can bring me true perception as I allow peace to return to my mind. True perception comes with it. It is the Holy Spirit That lifts the veil so that I can see that only Love is real.

When I think I have a problem. let me remember today that the only problem is holding on to belief in separation and the only solution is being willing to hand every perception over to the Holy Spirit to be undone. That is why it is so important that I remember that I know nothing on my own. That is why it is so important to let go of all I have valued before. The Holy Spirit’s values lead me out of this world and into the real world where only Love is real.

Am I willing to be truly humble today and remember that on my own I know nothing? This is my opportunity today to practice opening my mind to receive Holy Spirit’s peace. And with Holy Spirit’s peace comes true understanding of the difference between the real and the unreal. Love is. God is. There is nothing else. Here I find certainty. Here I find peace. Hallelujah!

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