Your present trust in [the Holy Spirit] is the defense that promises a future undisturbed, without a trace of sorrow, and with joy that constantly increases, as this life becomes a holy instant, set in time, but heeding only immortality. Let no defenses but your present trust direct the future, and this life becomes a meaningful encounter with the truth that only your defenses would conceal.
Without defenses, you become a light which Heaven gratefully acknowledges to be its own. And it will lead you on in ways appointed for your happiness according to the ancient plan, begun when time was born.
We will be sure that everything we need is given us for our accomplishment of this today. We make no plans for how it will be done, but realize that our defenselessness is all that is required for the truth to dawn upon our minds with certainty.
For you can not conceive of all the happiness that comes to you without your [self-initiated plans]. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 135,W-pI.135.19;20:1-2;26:2. See also ACIM Lesson 135 Insights.)
When we try to make plans on our own, we call upon our experience and learning from the past as a guide to make plans that will help us have a happy and safe future. It is based on the idea that the past will repeat itself. It leaves no room for the present, which is where our true Self resides in the peace of God. Thus our self-initiated plans block us from receiving God’s gift of joy and Love that is eternally present now. These self-initiated plans are defenses against the Truth.
But we have a Guide Whose function is to lead us to the certainty of changeless Love and joy beyond description in the world. His purpose is to use our dreams for the purpose of healing the part of our mind that believes in a self separated from Love’s oneness. The Holy Spirit recognizes the illusions we believe are real but knows they are not true. He uses the illusions we believe in for the purpose of healing our mind instead of the ego’s purpose to hide from Love.
In the dream of time, plans are needed. But if we would free ourselves from the limitations of the dream, we must hold our minds open to the Holy Spirit’s plans in each moment. The more we practice asking for and accepting Holy Spirit’s plan day by day, the happier our life in the world is. We are led lovingly to remember our true Self, which is eternally present in the Heaven of God’s Love.
Today we practice pausing to receive Holy Spirit’s inspiration that we would remember the certainty of Heaven is ours.
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