Mary: I have believed that I was a separate “identity” and now I am learning to let that “identity” go. I have bought into the idea of separation and now I am learning to return to the truth that only oneness is real. I am learning daily that the way to return to the truth is through choosing peace. As I open my mind to peace, I am led by the Holy Spirit to a changed perception of myself and the world that I have been believing in.
I am learning that the Holy Spirit is my constant Companion and I am learning to accept Its help more consistently. I place the welcome mat out for the Holy Spirit by being willing to open my mind to the Holy Spirit’s gift of peace. As I allow Holy Spirit’s peace to enter my mind, understanding comes with it. Peace dissolves all fearful thoughts. Peace clears out the cobwebs and brings with it the feeling of gentleness and safety. As peace is accepted, Christ vision replaces ego’s perceptions. What is eternal replaces the temporal. Love is. God is. There is nothing else.
I now know that being willing to accept peace and extend peace is how I awaken to the truth. Accepting peace is how I accept the Holy Spirit’s help. I must be willing to accept peace first. Everything else that the Holy Spirit brings comes from this one choice.
In Lesson 305 of A Course in Miracles we are told, “Who uses but Christ’s vision finds a peace so deep and quiet, undisturbable and wholly changeless, that the world contains no counterpart. Comparisons are still before this peace. And all the world departs in silence as this peace envelops it, and gently carries it to truth, no more to be the home of fear. For love has come, and healed the world by giving it Christ’s peace.
“Father, the peace of Christ is given us, because it is Your Will that we be saved. Help us today but to accept Your gift, and judge it not. For it has come to us to save us from our judgment on ourselves.”
Robert: One of the gifts that has come from following the guidance to move has been a lot of letting go of forms. We delivered many loads of ‘stuff’ to St. Vincent de Paul, gave many things to friends and loaded a trash bin with 3 1/2 tons of stuff that was no longer useful. It was amazing how much stuff we had hung onto, thinking it had value. This letting go of outer forms simultaneously symbolized letting go of mental attachments to ideas and beliefs that no longer serve. I am finding that I much more quickly recover from periods of disturbance because I have learned through this process to quickly let go of attachments.
When it became apparent that the property here in Wisconsin would not sell on the auction day, Mary and I went through a process of letting go of our disappointment. Clearly we had made an “appointment” in our minds that we expected to be kept. But that was a plan of our own making. So we went through a process of looking at possible scenarios that might develop. Each scenario was still an image in the illusion, but as we allowed ourselves to accept all the possible outcomes we could think of, our disturbance softened. We reached a point where we knew we could accept any outcome fully and in peace. Once again we remembered our safety is in God, not in any appearance in the world.
Now I find each day that I remain more consistently in peace and happiness. I feel more free and safe than I have ever felt. I know this is because I am more willing than ever to follow Holy Spirit’s lead. It is my own self-made plans that make me feel vulnerable and uncertain. So now I recognize uncertainty as just one more thought to hand over to Holy Spirit and open my mind to His vision. My heart is filled with gratitude that I walk in peace with a Mighty Companion Whose strength is mine.
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