Mary:
This morning we read the first section of A Course in Miracles Text, Chapter 28: “The Present Memory.” Here we are reminded that the Holy Spirit remembers our true Cause for us when we forget. And because the Holy Spirit is always there in our mind, our memory of God is always present in our mind, waiting in stillness for us to return to Present Memory.
Jesus tells us, “What you remember never was. It came from causelessness which you confused with cause. It can deserve but laughter, when you learn you have remembered consequences that were causeless and can never be effects. The miracle reminds you of a Cause forever present, perfectly untouched by time and interference. Never changed from what It is and you are Its effect, as changeless and as perfect as Itself.” (T-28.I.9:1-6)
True Cause is God, our Father. Here we are seeing that, through the Holy Spirit, our Father never leaves us. We are still safe in our Father. We did not leave Home. We merely dreamed we had a separate life of our own for a while. We, the one Son, are coming to the time when we are willing to remember true Cause and return to our Source. We know the way is made through our willingness to join with the Holy Spirit Whose purpose is to return us to Present Memory. “The stillness speaks in gentle sounds of love the Son of God remembers from before his own remembering came in between the present and the past, to shut them [the gentle sounds of love] out.” (13:6)
How wonderful it is that we are coming to the time of being willing to let the Holy Spirit lift the veil. How wonderful it is that we are at the time of joining with the Holy Spirit in happy laughter. As we are willing, it is done for us, and the memory of God returns. We give thanks that this time is now.
Robert:
There is no time to worry. There is no time to hurry. There is no time. Time was made as a mechanism to make separation appear real. Without time, there is only now. And now there is only Love.
This makes it very simple. To remember Love, I need only forget time. Time is the veil that hides the present from my awareness. It is in time that I harbor guilt and fear. It is time to stop giving “safe harbor” to fear and guilt. Because fear and guilt can only be harbored in time, and in truth there is no time, fear and guilt have no foundation. They are causeless and therefore do not exist in truth.
To this the ego responds “but remember when you hurt that person.” The key words in this statement are “remember when.” This reveals that the ego is using memory to drag along the past, to hang on to time.
But the Holy Spirit will use memory to remember the present, if I am willing. Thus the Holy Spirit uses memory to restore me to the experience of Love. In every moment I have the choice between the ego’s use of memory, which holds separation as real, or the Holy Spirit’s use of memory, which shows us that only oneness is real.
The more I am willing to let the Holy Spirit be my interpreter in every moment, the more I will be reminded of the happy present in Love.
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