Everything God wills is not only possible, but has already happened. And that is why the past has gone. It never happened in reality. Only in your mind, which thought it did, is [the past’s] undoing needful.
Prepare you now for the undoing of what never was. If you already understood the difference between truth and illusion, the Atonement would have no meaning. The holy instant, the holy relationship, the Holy Spirit’s teaching, and all the means by which salvation is accomplished, would have no purpose. For they are all but aspects of the plan to change your dreams of fear to happy dreams, from which you waken easily to knowledge. Put yourself not in charge of this, for you cannot distinguish between advance and retreat. Some of your greatest advances you have judged as failures, and some of your deepest retreats you have evaluated as success.
Never approach the holy instant after you have tried to remove all fear and hatred from your mind. That is [the holy instant’s] function. Never attempt to overlook your guilt before you ask the Holy Spirit’s help. That is His function. Your part is only to offer Him a little willingness to let Him remove all fear and hatred, and to be forgiven. On your little faith, joined with His understanding, He will build your part in the Atonement and make sure that you fulfill it easily. And with Him, you will build a ladder planted in the solid rock of faith, and rising even to Heaven. Nor will you use it to ascend to Heaven alone. (A Course in Miracles, T-18.IV.8:4-7;V.1-2.. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)
To move from the dream of fear and guilt to the happy dream requires only that we be willing to ask for and accept the Holy Spirit’s help. It is only this little willingness that is required of us. It is important that we not try to do more than this on our own. From our limited perception in the dream, we cannot know how to forgive. Forgiveness is the Holy Spirit’s function.
Our willingness to ask for His help opens our mind to the experience of forgiveness. Under His guidance we learn to see past our interpretations of appearances. We learn that there is only Love or a call for Love in every moment. The Holy Spirit will help us learn this. If there is a call for Love, He will guide us to respond with Love in the way that is most helpful for all concerned. The more we realize that we do not know what anything we perceive in the world means, the more willing we are to receive the Holy Spirit’s healing lessons that turn our dream of fear into a happy dream.
Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s guidance in everything we do or think. Thus we become part of the Atonement that heals the world.
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