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From the Unknown to the Known

Mary:
Today is a day to practice placing my trust in God, not in the world. Today is a day of opening my mind to the Holy Spirit for His perspective on everything. Today is a day for paying attention to Holy Spirit’s lead. Today is a day of accepting Holy Spirit’s peace and extending peace to the world. What a happy opportunity I have today!

Robert:
Only Reality is known. With acceptance of Reality, Love is known in all Its fullness, without limit and without end. This knowing cannot be expressed in words, yet it fills all that is. This knowing is certain because there is nothing outside of It.

The world of dreams is the rejection of Reality and thus it cannot be known. This is the world of the unknown. What is not known brings up fear because there is no certainty in the unknown. The ego has an answer for this. It fills the unknown with stories and images. In the dream of the unknown, we believe these stories because they seem to bring us a sense of security. Yet this security is tenuous and brings with it an underlying fear, because beneath the show of certainty is the recognition that the stories and images are based on nothing.

We need to beware of making up stories to fill “empty spaces.” The made up stories are substitutes for the certainty of Love. But because they are based on nothing, they never satisfy. They never make us really feel safe. They also serve as a decoy that diverts our attention from the real Source of certainty and safety.

The Holy Spirit is ever present in our minds, offering us the certainty of changeless Love. This is where we will find peace. This is where we will find safety. The temptation to make up stories to fill the unknown makes it seem difficult to trust in the Holy Spirit’s certainty. We naturally want to believe in what we made. Yet they were made based on a false idea and are incapable of bringing us what we truly want.

So if we really want to experience the peace of God, to know the peace of God, we must be vigilant in paying attention first and foremost to the Holy Spirit’s inspiration, to His gentle correction and loving guidance. To the world of the unknown, this vigilance is unsettling. But to the Self we are, this vigilance brings joy and peace because it leads us back to knowing the certainty of our Home.

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