A healed mind is relieved of the belief that it must plan, although it cannot know the outcome which is best, the means by which it is achieved, nor how to recognize the problem that the plan is made to solve. [The mind] must misuse the body in its plans until it recognizes this is so. But when [the mind] has accepted [it need not plan is] true, then is it healed, and lets the body go.
Enslavement of the body to the plans the unhealed mind sets up to save itself must make the body sick. It is not free to be the means of helping in a plan which far exceeds [the body’s] own protection, and which needs its service for a little while. In this capacity is health assured. For everything the mind employs for this will function flawlessly, and with the strength that has been given it and cannot fail.
The mind engaged in planning for itself is occupied in setting up control of future happenings. It does not think that it will be provided for, unless it makes its own provisions. Time becomes a future emphasis, to be controlled by learning and experience obtained from past events and previous beliefs. It overlooks the present, for it rests on the idea the past has taught enough to let the mind direct its future course.
The mind that plans is thus refusing to allow for change. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 135, W-pI.135.12-13;15:1-16:1. See also ACIM Lesson 135 Insights.)
One of the early workbook lessons reminds us that we do not know what anything means. Thus any plans we make must be based on a false premises and illusions. Because the things we see are illusions and therefore meaningless, we assign them meaning to give ourselves some sense of security. But this practice has a consequence — any change that may seem to occur in the illusions we have given meaning threatens our sense of safety.
We carefully make plans to protect against change. Yet no matter how carefully we plan on our own, things can come up that we have not planned for and therefore further threaten us. These plans spiral deeper and deeper into cycles of attack and defense. On our own, we cannot free ourselves from this spiral because all our defenses simply reinforce our fear and the perceived threat leads to more defenses and more fear.
The key to release from this spiral is to disengage our identity from the ego and let the Holy Spirit do our planning for us. The Holy Spirit will always guide us to recognize what we thought was a threat has no substance because it is not real. He replaces this perception with the vision of Love’s eternal presence. He offers us the safety of Love’s changelessness in place of the vulnerability of illusions.
Today we let our minds be healed by practicing letting Holy Spirit plan all things on our behalf. Here we will find the safety that brings with it peace of mind.
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