Robert:
Time is one of the ego’s principal mechanisms for making separation appear real. The past seems to be out of reach, yet we put great effort into remembering the past. We try to memorize facts and experiences. Because we have made the past so important, we put a lot of effort and energy into creating monuments to the past. We fill photo albums and scrapbooks and shelves with images and trinkets to help us remember the past. We put stone monuments in the ground with the hope that they will provide a lasting link between the past and the future. We research into the past for the genealogy of the body in an attempt to link ourselves to the past and thereby establish that we have a meaningful existence now.
Because the ego has no meaning, it tries to establish meaning based on the past. Then it tries to use the past to give meaning to an unknown future. We try to plan for a future that is not here, but the only resource we have to plan for the future is the past, which is also not here. Thus we use imaginary “memories” or images from the past to build images in an imaginary future. The present is totally ignored. In fact the present is denied because, in the present, we would find the reality of Love and recognize the ego is nothing.
We see here how the ego would hide the simplicity of oneness now with the complexity of past and future woven out of illusions. Of ourselves we cannot find our way out of this complex and confusing world of time and space we have made.
By the grace of God we have the means in our mind to reach beyond the little self image we have made to the strength and vision of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit sees the complex dreams we have made but does not believe them. Thus He can provide a bridge that we can understand that gently and lovingly leads us out of our self-made prison into the freedom of the Light of Love.
This is my prayer today: Holy Spirit, help me to see as You see. I offer You my thoughts, my images, with willingness for You to use them on behalf of awakening to Love. Guide me in all my doing. I cannot awaken on my own, but with You all things are possible. Thank You for Your gifts of strength and peace and loving guidance. Amen.
Mary:
I begin today by putting out the welcome mat to the Holy Spirit. I am willing to remember that I know nothing on my own. I am willing to relax and accept Holy Spirit’s gift of peace. I am willing to let myself be carried. The Holy Spirit knows the big picture and will bring whatever we need in the moment to fulfill His plan of awakening. All I have to do is to remember once again to choose peace, be quiet and listen. This is my practice today.
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