Robert:
One of my principle triggers into defensiveness is when I perceive that someone believes I have not done my job “correctly.” I slip quickly into wanting to be right. It is not a happy feeling. From that perspective I want to make that other person believe that I am right.
This is clearly an ego script and it never satisfies. It only serves to reinforce the idea of lack and guilt. Actions from this mindset not only reinforce guilt in my mind but also attempt to place guilt (blame) on the other. This keeps the ego firmly in charge.
Since this scenario is entirely in my mind, the only way to stop the guilt game is to change my mind. Here is where forgiveness comes to the rescue. But this forgiveness cannot be a magnanimous gesture in which I demonstrate my superiority by overlooking the dastardly deed. I must come to the full recognition that nothing really happened to justify guilt. For this I need the help of the Holy Spirit.
And so in every moment it is important for me to practice putting all my thoughts of guilt and shame and blame into the loving Hands of the Holy Spirit. He will transform those thoughts. He will teach me how to see past the images to the reality of only Love. I need His help for this and I must be willing to accept His help. Only then will I find peace.
Today is another day of practice in turning over my thoughts to the Holy Spirit to receive His gentle correction.
Mary:
If I really want to wake up from the dream of separation, I must be willing to let go of the idea that there is a past and a future. This only makes the dream of separation seem more real. This is not waking up, but reinforcing the dream of being separated from my Source.
How willing am I today to wake up to the Holy Spirit’s vision of the eternal present? How willing am I today to let go of thinking I know anything? How willing am I to receive Holy Spirit’s gentle correction to what I think I am seeing through the body’s eyes?
Both A Course in Miracles and Ho’oponopono teach me to let go of the past. This is forgiveness and forgiveness is my only function here. My prayer today is that I remember my purpose to hand over everything I experience in the dream of separation to the Holy Spirit to be undone. This what today is for.
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