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What Is My Purpose?

Mary:  What is my one purpose? My one purpose is to be willing to let my mind be healed by the Holy Spirit.

This means my mind needs to be open and not closed to the Holy Spirit. When I think I already know, my mind is not open. I am constantly receiving a lesson in humility and letting go of what I think I know. One way to increase my openness to the Holy Spirit is to relax and let go of trying to figure anything out. The word soften is often very helpful in starting the process of letting go and letting God. As I soften more and more, the Holy Spirit has the opportunity to take over. Often just taking a deep breath and asking for the truth reminds me of my true purpose.

In truth, I do not want separation. I want oneness. The Course tells me often that I always get what I want in my heart of hearts. Each day is for practicing letting go of the past and the future and opening my mind to receive the truth that I am eternal Spirit and only eternal Spirit.

As I open to Love, I find again that Love sees only Love. Love knows only Love. Any mind wandering outside of this truth is merely illusion. Remembering this brings me a deep sense of peace, well being and safety. Nothing has happened to change God’s one Son. Remembering this is what I really want. My one purpose is to accept the truth.

Robert:  A Course in Miracles tells us that, like perception, memory is selective. I have observed that the vast majority of the memories that float into my mind about past situations, events or interactions with others have guilt associated with them. Considering that the ego’s purpose for the past is to maintain guilt, this is not surprising.

In every moment I have a choice whether or not to believe my “memories” of the past. They are really just images I made up and I’ve convinced myself that they are real. But the good news is I don’t have to believe it any more. I don’t have to believe my thoughts. In fact, it is my job to question the reality of every thought. It is not my job to decide what is real and not real. But it is my job to not automatically on my own decide what anything means.

It is my job to offer all my thoughts to the Holy Spirit for His clarification and interpretation. The old, automatic pilot program is obsolete and does not serve me. It is my job now to establish a new program that automatically asks the Holy Spirit to be my interpreter in every moment. Today I would interpret nothing on my own.

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