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The World Is a Defense Against Remembering Love

Mary:  I really relate to Myron’s posting about resistance to remembering the truth. It seems like I have so many excuses, so many things “happening” in my life that need attention. But the truth is the world is a defense against remembering Love and Love’s oneness.

Separation still seems so real and it only seems real because of my resistance to allowing the truth to return to my mind. In truth there is nothing but Love’s Oneness. There is no form. There is no world, there are no differences. There is no time. It’s all made up as a defense against God’s eternal Love. It seems like I have so many good excuses not to remember that only Love is there.

Forgiveness, or handing over all these thoughts that seem to be a steady flow to the Holy Spirit to be undone, in truth is my only function while I am still believing in dreams. Today is another opportunity for me to forgive or let go of my grip on the “reality” of these dreams. Only by handing all these thoughts over to the Holy Spirit and not deciding what anything means on my own will peace return to my mind.

There will still be things “to do,” but with Holy Spirit I won’t take this world so seriously. I will feel lighthearted and happy instead of heavyhearted and unsafe. I will experience peace instead of worrying about how all the details will be accomplished. As I am willing to go to the Holy Spirit with all things, not reserving some problems to solve on my own, I will be relieved of the heavy burden that comes with joining with the ego thoughts of separation. Again today, I have a choice. Do I want to be right or happy? Am I willing to join with the Holy Spirit all through the day? The level of peace I feel will let me know how much I am joining with Holy Spirit.

Robert:  Every cause has an effect. This is true in the oneness of Heaven as well as in the dream of separation. This week it appeared that the effects of someone else’s choices was affecting me. Immediately the ego interpreted that as me being a victim of someone else, bringing up defensiveness and irritation.

My job as part of the atonement is to follow Holy Spirit’s lead in everything. When I make judgments and interpretations about what a situation or someone’s behavior means on my own, I am not following Holy Spirit. My judgments interfere with my willingness to receive Holy Spirit’s guidance. When I align with the ego thought system, I want to correct someone else’s ways, point out their errors or get them out of my life like I would discard a used tissue. This is not a happy way to be and definitely not peaceful. From the perspective of the dream it seems like a balancing act between seeing past form and behavior to the reality of Love or enabling what appears to be destructive behavior.

In looking back at my life I see that I have made choices that brought me pain, fear or unhappiness. The Holy Spirit did not try to soften the pain, fear or unhappiness. They were simply the effect of my choices. These effects eventually motivated me to find a better way. So while I wallowed in ego driven choices, the Holy Spirit continued to see my innocence and know that in truth I had not changed my reality. The Holy Spirit did not give up on me but remained ever present, ready and willing to offer help when there was a willingness to receive it.

The Holy Spirit gives help that is truly helpful and it doesn’t always look the way I would like the help to look. I may have wanted to be happy while still making choices that denied the Love that I am. Were the Holy Spirit to have softened the unhappy consequences of my choices, I would have thought I could keep making ego driven choices and be happy. In Love, the Holy Spirit let the consequences be as they were so that I could learn that I did not want what I thought I valued. This brought me to willingness to let go of valuing what brought the unhappiness and learn from Holy Spirit where my true happiness lies.

This brings me back to the situation where I perceived someone’s choices being self-destructive. It is not my job to soften the consequences of anyone’s choices. It is my job to follow Holy Spirit’s guidance in every moment. To do this truly, I must clear my mind of all judgments. I must see neither guilt to be punished nor harm to be defended against. In other words, I must remove my barriers to Love and the Holy Spirit will guide me to be truly helpful. To the ego the guidance may appear to not be compassionate. But that is simply because the ego confuses sympathy with empathy. The ego always looks at form and disregards content.

It is not my concern what someone else thinks of my choices and decisions. It is my concern to be vigilant to remove all barriers to Love and let the Holy Spirit express through me in forms in this world that are truly helpful. So today is another day to practice vigilance for all judgments and offer them to the Holy Spirit. I am willing to open my mind to His Light so that the faulty basis for judgment can be illuminated and shined away. Then I can be truly helpful.

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