The Holy Spirit cannot speak to an unwelcoming host, because He will not be heard. ²The Eternal Guest remains, but His Voice grows faint in alien company. ³He needs your protection, only because your care is a sign that you want Him. ⁴Think like Him ever so slightly, and the little spark becomes a blazing light that fills your mind so that He becomes your only Guest. ⁵Whenever you ask the ego to enter, you lessen His welcome. ⁶He will remain, but you have allied yourself against Him. ⁷Whatever journey you choose to take, He will go with you, waiting. ⁸You can safely trust His patience, for He cannot leave a part of God. ⁹Yet 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. ²To have Him is to be like Him, and He has given Himself to you. ³You who have God must be as God, for His function became yours with His gift. ⁴Invite this knowledge back into your mind, and let nothing that obscures it enter. ⁵The 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. ⁶Your willingness need not be perfect, because His is. ⁷If you will merely offer Him a little place, He will lighten it so much that you will gladly let it be increased. ⁸And by this increase, you will begin to remember creation. (A Course in Miracles, T-11.II.5:1–6:8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
God’s only function is to extend the Love He is. As His extension, our function is the same as His. Thus our only meaningful purpose of the world is to bring the Light of Love to it. God answered our mistaken wish for specialness with the Holy Spirit to help us learn that this wish could never make Reality.
As God’s Teacher, the Holy Spirit teaches us to recognize our mistaken beliefs bring us nothing that we really want. His Voice is ever present but it can be heard only when we are willing to listen.
The journey to willingness is unique for each of us in the world. It is determined by the beliefs in separation we have accepted as true. They are the cause of everything we experience in the world. The Holy Spirit helps us heal these mistaken beliefs. As we accept this healing, we let the Light of Love in us shine brighter in the world.
For some of us the journey involves addictions that control our lives. Others harbor fear and guilt from experiences they have had in their lives. Sooner or later, everyone reaches the point where they recognize there must be a better way.
This recognition is the turning point where we become willing to accept the Holy Spirit’s help. With each acceptance, our willingness grows for the increasing happiness and peace motivates us. We become less tolerant of the ego’s misguided perceptions. The Holy Spirit becomes our preferred companion to guide us on the way of awakening to Love.
Today we practice willingness to follow God’s Voice in our thoughts and actions.
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