Freedom must be impossible as long as you perceive a body as yourself. The body is a limit. Who would seek for freedom in a body looks for it where it can not be found. The mind can be made free when it no longer sees itself as in a body, firmly tied to it and sheltered by its presence. If this were the truth, the mind were vulnerable indeed!
The mind that serves the Holy Spirit is unlimited forever, in all ways, beyond the laws of time and space, unbound by any preconceptions, and with strength and power to do whatever it is asked. Attack thoughts cannot enter such a mind, because it has been given to the Source of love, and fear can never enter in a mind that has attached itself to love. It rests in God. And who can be afraid who lives in Innocence, and only loves?
God Himself extends His Love and happiness each time you say:
I am not a body. I am free. I hear the Voice that God has given me, and it is only this my mind obeys. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 199, W-pI.199.1-2;8:6-9. See also ACIM Lesson 199 Insights.)
The Holy Spirit is the Voice of Love. Its sole function is to teach us to be the Love we were created to be. The body was made by the ego to hide from the oneness of Love. When we identify with the body, we are unaware of Love.
Though the body was made as a limit on Love, the Holy Spirit can use it to teach only Love. What we teach we learn. To learn the Holy Spirit’s lesson of freedom to be Love, we must identify with the Holy Spirit as our Guide instead of the ego and the body. As we identify with the part of our mind where the Holy Spirit resides, we see with His vision. The body becomes irrelevant without the Holy Spirit’s function to express Love.
When we join with the Holy Spirit, our experience in the world becomes joyful and peaceful, for these are attributes of Love. Today let us join with the Holy Spirit in the single function of extending Love, for we would share Love’s joy and peace with everyone.
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