No one can doubt the ego’s skill in building up false cases. Nor can anyone doubt your willingness to listen until you choose not to accept anything except truth. When you lay the ego aside, it will be gone. The Holy Spirit’s Voice is as loud as your willingness to listen. It cannot be louder without violating your freedom of choice, which the Holy Spirit seeks to restore, never to undermine.
The Holy Spirit teaches you to use your body only to reach your brothers, so He can teach His message through you. This will heal them and therefore heal you. Everything used in accordance with its function as the Holy Spirit sees it cannot be sick. Everything used otherwise is. Do not allow the body to be a mirror of a split mind. Do not let it be an image of your own perception of littleness. Do not let it reflect your decision to attack. Health is seen as the natural state of everything when interpretation is left to the Holy Spirit, Who perceives no attack on anything. Health is the result of relinquishing all attempts to use the body lovelessly. Health is the beginning of the proper perspective on life under the guidance of the one Teacher Who knows what life is, being the Voice for Life Itself. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.VIII.8:4-9:10. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
When we believe we are a body, we are identifying with an image of littleness and limitation. We are identifying with the ego. We need to let go of believing we are this mistaken identity. Healing comes when we accept that we are the one Self God created us to be.
To free ourselves from the limited identity we have accepted, we need to be willing to listen to the Voice of the Holy Spirit. We believe what we perceive is true. The Holy Spirit recognizes what we perceive but does not believe our interpretation of it. Thus He can teach us to reinterpret our perceptions through His vision of the truth. With His help, we will exercise our freedom of choice and choose to accept the eternal Love we were given in our Creation. We will claim Love’s strength as our own and let go of the limited little self-image the ego made.
Today we practice opening our mind to receive the Holy Spirit’s perception throughout the day. We frequently pause and ask the Holy Spirit, “How would you see this situation? What is your interpretation of this perception?” The more we remember to ask these questions and accept His answers, the happier, more loving and peaceful our day will be.
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