When your peace is threatened or disturbed in any way, say to yourself:
I do not know what anything, including this, means. And so I do not know how to respond to it. And I will not use my own past learning as the light to guide me now.
By this refusal to attempt to teach yourself what you do not know, the Guide Whom God has given you will speak to you. He will take His rightful place in your awareness the instant you abandon it, and offer it to Him.
It is only because you think that you can run some little part, or deal with certain aspects of your life alone, that the guidance of the Holy Spirit is limited. Thus would you make Him undependable, and use this fancied undependability as an excuse for keeping certain dark lessons from Him. And by so limiting the guidance that you would accept, you are unable to depend on miracles to answer all your problems for you.
There are no dark lessons [the Holy Spirit] has not already lightened for you. The lessons you would teach yourself He has corrected already. They do not exist in His Mind at all. For the past binds Him not, and therefore binds not you. He does not see time as you do. And each miracle He offers you corrects your use of time, and makes it His. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.XI.6:6-11;8:4-6;9:6-11. See also ACIM Text Q & A.)
Our true Self is one with God, the Source of Light. The ego is the denial of our unity with God and therefore the denial of Light. When we choose to identify with the ego, we choose darkness. Thus the body and what we believe we experience through the body are just images made up to be “seen” in darkness. Nothing is really there.
Because we made up these images, we believe they are there. That belief makes correction of our errors on our own impossible. We need the Light of our true Self to shine away the images seen in darkness. The Holy Spirit holds that Light for us. We can turn to it in every moment by acknowledging that we do not know what anything means. We do not know how to resolve any problem on our own.
Our willingness to acknowledge this welcomes the Holy Spirit’s Light into our minds. It is only our unwillingness to give Him everything that makes the Holy Spirit’s guidance seem undependable. The solution to our uncertainty is to be willing to let the Holy Spirit resolve all our seeming problems. His Light will bring us perfect peace.
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