Robert:
Love is whole. Therefore It makes no demands and has no needs to make It complete. Love is happiness. If I think a certain event or circumstance will bring me happiness, then I must believe that I am not Love. This belief is the denial of God’s gift. It is the denial of His Will because God’s Will for me/us is perfect happiness.
When I let myself join with the Love in my heart, joy overflows and I feel a deep connection with all that Is. Gratitude fills my heart with a quiet joy. Yet when I think I need a certain event to happen for me to be happy, the joy fades, gratitude steps back and my peace is disturbed. This is not God’s Will for me. This disturbance can only come from denying God’s Will, from denying Love.
Thus to return to Love I need to offer this belief that I am somehow incomplete without this desired event or circumstance to the Holy Spirit. I need to ask His help to see past the form to the changeless Love that is always there. I need to ask and accept His help to let go of this mistaken belief. That is His purpose and that is how I free myself from limiting beliefs to return Home where Love would have me be.
Today I will continue to practice being mindful of when I place my happiness outside of me and offer these thoughts to the Holy Spirit for transformation. I will step back and let Him lead the way.
Mary:
In our reading of A Course in Miracles this morning, the idea that stood out to me the most is how wrong we are when we think the world of separation we have made could replace God’s oneness.
This reading helped remind me to be as a little child and remember that I know nothing when I think this world is real. It reminds me to step back again and again and yet again as I go through my day today.
It still seems very easy to think that I know something. In truth, all that I have learned of this world stems from false beliefs. The Course gently asks me, “Do I want to be right or happy?” When I stick to what I have learned from the past and think that separate bodies are real, I am trying to be right rather than happy.
Today, it is my opportunity to let go of all I think I know, all that I have learned from the past. Today it is my opportunity to practice stepping back and listening to the one Self Who knows the truth about me and everyone. Today is another day of practice in remembering that on my own I know nothing. When I remember this, I can relax and listen to the quiet inner Voice that will remind me of the truth if I will let Him.
My job today is to let go and let God. If I do this consistently, I will have a happy day.
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