The Holy Spirit cannot speak to an unwelcoming host, because He will not be heard. The Eternal Guest remains, but His Voice grows faint in alien company. He needs your protection, only because your care is a sign that you want Him. Think like Him ever so slightly, and the little spark becomes a blazing light that fills your mind so that He becomes your only Guest. Whenever you ask the ego to enter, you lessen His welcome. He will remain, but you have allied yourself against Him. Whatever journey you choose to take, He will go with you, waiting. You can safely trust His patience, for He cannot leave a part of God. Yet you need far more than patience.
You will never rest until you know your function and fulfill it, for only in this can your will and your Father’s be wholly joined. To have Him is to be like Him, and He has given Himself to you. You who have God must be as God, for His function became yours with His gift. Invite this knowledge back into your mind, and let nothing that obscures it enter. The Guest Whom God sent you will teach you how to do this, if you but recognize the little spark and are willing to let it grow. Your willingness need not be perfect, because His is. If you will merely offer Him a little place, He will lighten it so much that you will gladly let it be increased. And by this increase, you will begin to remember creation. (A Course in Miracles, T-11.II.5-6. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
In the same instant that God’s Son accepted the ego thought of separation, God gave us the Holy Spirit to help us know that we remain as God created us. The Holy Spirit is ever-present in our mind, no matter how far we seem to wander into the depths of belief that separation is real. We are unaware of the Holy Spirit’s presence only because we welcome the ego’s thought of separation in our mind. We are entertaining the ego as our guest in our mind. The attention we give the ego diminishes our awareness of the Holy Spirit. Only this attention gives the ego the appearance of reality. Being the denial of truth, the ego is not real and is therefore nothing.
As the Voice for God, the Holy Spirit’s function is to teach us that we remain unified with our Creator. We are still Love and nothing else. The changelessness of Love makes us invulnerable to harm. Whenever we give our attention to the Holy Spirit instead of the ego, we open the door to the Holy Spirit’s comfort. We welcome the Holy Spirit as our Guest instead of the ego. By choosing to accept the presence of the Holy Spirit in our mind, we demonstrate our willingness to learn that we are united with all in the Love of God.
Our prayer today: Holy Spirit, guide my thoughts today. For I would remember that I already have the eternal gift of God’s Love. I need nothing, for God has given me all of Himself. There is nothing else. In gratitude I accept His gift.
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