Robert:
What do I want to see? What do I want to be real? These are the same question. Do I want a world of separate bodies that are vulnerable and must inevitably die? Do I want a world where happiness depends on fleeting images and temporary relationships that never last? Or do I want a world that is changeless, eternally loving and safe, where happiness is constant and peace is eternal? This is reality, but it escapes my awareness when I deny it in favor of a world of images I make up that seem to separate me from my Source. It all comes down to what I think has value.
I seem to be in this dream of a world because I thought it had something I wanted. I am learning that the appearance of value was simply smoke and mirrors, a sleight of hand that denies What I am and makes the joy of Love invisible to me. This illusion of a world can never bring me the happiness and Love I seek.
To return to what I really want I must practice questioning every value I see in the world. I need to take every perception to the Holy Spirit in my mind with a willingness to see it anew. When I am willing, the Holy Spirit will return my perception to me washed clean of false ideas and shining in the reality of Love. The Light of Love will show me the Light that is everywhere to be recognized. This is what I really want. This is how I will awaken. Today is another day of practice bringing all my perceptions to the Holy Spirit that I may see as He sees.
Mary:
What is today for? Today is another opportunity to forgive the world for all I thought it was. In A Course in Miracles Text, Chapter 9, Section IV we are told, “To forgive is to overlook. Look, then, beyond error and do not let your perception rest upon it, for you will believe what your perception holds. Accept as true only what your brother is, if you would know yourself. Perceive what he is not and you cannot know what you are, because you see him falsely. Remember always that your Identity is shared, and that Its sharing is Its reality.” (T-9.IV.1:2-6)
My brother is still as God created him. My brother is the one Christ Mind Which we all share. I have an opportunity today to practice overlooking illusions and allowing the truth to be shown to me by the Holy Spirit. If I am willing to be honest, the Light of God is all there is to see. I choose to see the truth in every brother today. I choose to practice overlooking illusions in order to see the truth about every brother today.
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