Robert:
To paraphrase a Bible verse, this is the moment Love has made. I will rejoice and be happy in it. To be happy in this moment, I must relinquish all thoughts of the past. That means I must forgive, which is letting go of the past. When I am able to experience the moment without trying to interpret based on the past, it becomes a moment of joy and peace.
This is what I really want. Accepting this is accepting God’s gift to His Creation. I accept it by letting myself see all things through Christ’s forgiving eyes — seeing without the past. Today my prayer to the Self we share is: Help me see all things as they are in truth. And I will rejoice and be happy.
Mary:
A very helpful message in A Course in Miracles has been: “I could choose peace instead of this.” There are still many times when I get caught up in the “problems” of the world. My practice now is to pay attention to when this happens and realize that it does not make me happy. When I get caught up in perceiving problems, I usually feel tense and irritated at what appears to be going on outside me. I now see that this is just a mistake that can be corrected. To blame myself for making this mistake is just to compound the mistake. But the practice of stepping back and remembering I could choose peace instead of this is really a huge blessing.
Once I have remembered this, it becomes easier to relax a little and focus on opening my mind to accept Holy Spirit’s peace instead of the ego’s mistaken thoughts. As I allow peace to be felt more fully, it becomes easier to laugh at what I took so seriously before. With this comes the remembrance that we are all still safe in the one Mind of God. We have merely been pretending to be separate people with separate interests. It has never been true. Peace now reigns where there once was the false perception of separation.
This is my practice today and every day. This is forgiveness in action. This is how I can be truly helpful. The Course tells me that I bring peace to every mind through my forgiveness. And I am grateful that this is so.
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