In our reading in A Course in Miracles this morning, this is what stood out:
Bringing illusion to truth, or the ego to God, is the Holy Spirit’s only function.… Bringing the ego to God is but to bring error to truth, where it stands corrected because it is the opposite of what it meets. It is undone because the contradiction can no longer stand. How long can contradiction stand when its impossible nature is clearly revealed? What disappears in Light is not attacked. It merely vanished because it is not true. (T-14.IX.1:4,2:1-5)
Do I really want to keep illusions? They do not bring happiness, only the experience of conflict and limitation. When I am willing to take my ego thoughts and reactions to the Holy Spirit, they will be undone because they disappear in the Light of truth. Mountains become mole hills. What I feared before is seen as meaningless.
Today is for letting all my meaningless thoughts be undone by the Holy Spirit. Taking all my thoughts of worry and conflict to the Holy Spirit is the same as taking them to the Prince of Peace. When I am holding on to artificial values, I do not feel peaceful. It is only when I am willing to forgive or hand them over that these artificial values are replaced with the truth. Here I am shown my true eternal Identity. Here I am shown the true Identity of every brother. Here I experience the peace of God. This is all I want because this is all I need.
Guilt is always of the ego, never of God. It is the hook that pulls the past into the present, obscuring the present to keep us unaware of the Love and innocence that is now. Guilt appears in many forms within the ego’s dream, sometimes overtly, sometimes disguised. But it always carries with it a sense of being isolated because it is impossible to perceive guilt without perceiving separation.
But guilt is a choice because it is based on belief. Belief can change and will change if I am willing. I need only bring the beliefs that hold guilt in place to the truth of Love for guilt to be undone. If I perceive guilt in myself or anyone, if I am offended or disturbed by anything, it is time to take that to the truth in my mind — the Holy Spirit. If I am willing to receive the Holy Spirit’s gentle correction, I will learn that guilt is never justified because nothing has happened to change me from the Love I am. My practice today is to bring all these thoughts to the Holy Spirit with a mind open to His correction.
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