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Heaven Is Here and Now

Mary:
In our reading of A Course in Miracles this morning, this is what stood out to me: “The emphasis of this course always remains the same;—it is at this moment that complete salvation is offered you, and it is at this moment that you can accept it. This is still your one responsibility. Atonement might be equated with total escape from the past and total lack of interest in the future. Heaven is here. There is nowhere else. Heaven is now. There is no other time.” (M-24.6:1-7)

This really shows me where I have work to do. I am definitely not there yet when it comes to a total lack of interest in the future. Very often I still find myself future oriented, which means that I still have a lot of inner healing to do. My job now is to take it one day at time and open my mind to the truth that complete salvation is offered me right here and now. It all depends on my willingness to receive the truth in the present moment.

My willingness has grown over the years, but obviously I am still getting lessons in accepting the truth right now. That is what this day is for — opening my mind to the truth. And it is available to me right now, this very moment, if I will accept it. I am finding that accepting it comes, not through efforting, but from a melting in, a relaxing, a letting go of what is not true. Then what is true just quietly shows up. Heaven is here as soon as I am willing to become aware of Its presence. It’s been there all along. I was just too busy holding on to my struggles with the world to become aware of It.

Today is another day of lab time. I am willing to observe my thoughts another day and take them to the Holy Spirit to be undone. I am willing to practice accepting the truth that Heaven is here. There is nowhere else. Heaven is now. There is no other time.

Robert:
When I am in the present moment, joy fills my heart. Love overflows and embraces everyone and everything. There is a deep sense of undisturbable calm. The instant that I think about the future its as if that heavenly feeling never existed. In that thought of the future I have stepped out of the timelessness of now and into the separated world of time. The two states are mutually exclusive. Hell is in the past and future. Heaven is now.

In the dream of time and space, focusing on now seems highly impractical. Indeed it seems terrifying because the need to defend against an uncertain future is so intense. But this perceived need is based on false premises. It is based on the belief in the reality of time and space, of separation. I am grateful that in my mind my loving Creator has placed the means to bridge the seeming chasm between the belief in separation and the reality of timeless oneness.

Because of this Presence in my mind, it is possible to be focused on the present moment in complete safety because this inner Teacher sees the dream but does not believe it, and knows the dreamer is not the dream. Thus my inner Teacher will always lead me step by step, present moment by present moment, into a “future” free of the past. This Teacher will lead me back to the Heaven of now.

Today, right now, I dedicate to holding my focus in the present and letting my inner Teacher take care of the future.

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