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Stepping Back

Mary:
This morning as I go into the place of inner quiet, once again I am invited to let go and let God. This means to forgive the world of all I ever thought it was. This means to watch the ego chatter with the Holy Spirit and allow the Holy Spirit to show me its unsubstantial nature. This means allowing the Holy Spirit to show me the difference between the meaningless and the meaningful. This means stepping back and allowing the Holy Spirit to replace all unforgiving thoughts with the peace of God. This means to forget all I think I have learned from the past and allowing the Holy Spirit to lead in the present moment.

Right now this is very helpful to me because we are in the process of moving and my mind jumps around to a million things that need to be done. I can do this with the ego or I can do this with the Holy Spirit. I can tell which I am choosing by the level of peace I feel. Am I willing to remember where I truly reside? The Holy Spirit is always there as I am willing to accept His help.

This is my opportunity — to follow and remember that I know nothing on my own. I must be as a little child and hold my Father’s Hand, which leads me out of my belief in separate bodies and into the awareness that only Love is real. What an opportunity I have today to awaken from the dream of separation!

Robert:
The Course tells us to beware of the temptation to perceive ourselves as unfairly treated. It also makes it clear that there is no world “out there.” Everything I perceive is a projection from my own mind. If I perceive that I have been cheated, the first ego response is to assign guilt to the “cheater.” But being a good Course student, I remember that what I perceive is my projection. Immediately the ego shifts into plan B: Begin analyzing myself for what I may have done to bring this on so that it can properly assign blame to me. The ego doesn’t care whether the blame is directed toward someone else or toward myself so long as blame is deemed justified and guilt held firmly in place.

But there is a difference between responsibility and blame. Blame is always justification for guilt in the ego thought system. But since nothing has happened to change God’s Creation, there is no real justification for guilt. I do not need to understand the deeply hidden thoughts and beliefs that manifest as images of lack, loss, fear and attack. I do need to recognize the need to take every perception to the Holy Spirit and let Him pass judgment. His judgment is never between guilt and innocence; it’s always between real and unreal. What’s unreal is nothing. What’s real is innocent. It is Love. It is All That Is.

So the simple process of offering any perception that disturbs my peace to the Holy Spirit and asking His help to forgive my interpretation and to see as He sees frees me from the past. It frees me to experience the present as Love and nothing else.

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