Mary:
In our reading this morning in A Course in Miracles, I found the following paragraph to be a particularly helpful antidote for the busyness and stress in the world that comes with the holiday season.
The miracle comes quietly into the mind that stops an instant and is still. It reaches gently from that time, and from the mind it healed in quiet then, to other minds to share its quietness. And they will join in doing nothing to prevent its radiant extension into the Mind Which caused all minds to be. Born out of sharing, there can be no pause in time to cause the miracle delay in hastening to all unquiet minds, and bringing them an instant stillness, when the memory of God returns to them. Their own remembering is quiet now, and what has come to take its place will not be wholly unremembered afterwards.
… The instant’s silence that His Son accepts gives welcome to eternity and Him, and lets Them enter where They would abide. For in that instant does the Son of God do nothing that would make himself afraid.” (T-28.I.11,12:5-6)
It is during this time of year that giving time to quietness is most helpful and needed. If I am to extend the miracle that comes with quietness, I must first accept if for myself. Because minds are joined, I am truly helpful when I am willing to focus on the truth instead of illusions of separation.
This is my purpose for today — to accept the miracle that comes with inviting the Holy Spirit’s quietness into my mind. Peace and a strong sense of well being and safety come with accepting Holy Spirit’s gift. What better gift can I extend to the world? Here is where I find joy and gratitude for Holy Spirit’s gift of remembering the truth in each present moment.
Robert:
Christ is a symbol of the Love that is the one Self we all share. This loving Self is constantly extending Love because that is Love’s nature. Since only Love is real, Love is extending Love to Itself. In Love, giving and receiving are the same. As we extend Love, we receive Love’s blessing. The joy of extending Love automatically inspires more extension. To celebrate Christ is to celebrate the eternal giving and receiving of Love.
The full acceptance of Love and Its eternal giving and receiving dissolves the ego because the ego is the denial of Love. The celebration of Christ, the celebration of eternal giving and receiving Love, terrifies the ego, for it recognizes this as its undoing. Recognizing this, the ego brings out its big defenses.
Being the idea of separation, the ego interprets Love in its own image. Thus the extension of Love becomes the giving of physical gifts, which are nothing more than empty images. It makes the giving of these empty images so important that many people put themselves into great stress trying to find and pay for the “right” image to “give.” This falls neatly into the ego’s plan to keep us seeking where nothing can be found and to reinforce guilt and fear so that we will not be still to receive the miracle of Love.
This is why it is especially important during this time to step back into quietness and welcome the Love of our true Self. When we do this, the Love we are will guide us in the perfect way to express Love in this world. This expression will inevitably bless both the giver and the receiver. It will not require any sacrifice or loss of the giver, and the receiver will experience the blessing of the unity of Love. This is how we celebrate Christ as Love would have us do.
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