When you are still an instant, when the world recedes from you, when valueless ideas cease to have value in your restless mind, then will you hear His Voice. So poignantly He calls to you that you will not resist Him longer. In that instant He will take you to His home, and you will stay with Him in perfect stillness, silent and at peace, beyond all words, untouched by fear and doubt, sublimely certain that you are at home. (A Course in Miracles, W-pI.182.8)
All we really want is the Love of God. We already have It but don’t know It because we are valuing a wish to be separate with our own unique identity. We are trying to be what we could never be in truth. We cannot know Love while we believe we are separate.
The world we perceive is an outward picture of an inner wish to be special. This picture stands between us and the awareness of the Love we are. The way to see past this interference is to let the Holy Spirit be our Interpreter in every moment. While we insist on the meaning that we give to what we see, we are not open to the Holy Spirit’s interpretation.
As the early workbook lesson teaches us, we do not know what anything means. Reminding ourselves of this frequently helps us loosen the values we give to the valueless images of the world. It opens our minds to receive the Holy Spirit’s interpretation in place of the interpretations we have made based on our mistaken values.
Today our practice is to ask of everything, “What is this for?” With an open mind, we let the Holy Spirit teach us what is valuable and what is not. This clears the way for us to recognize that we already have the Love we seek.
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