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Seeking Love Where It Can Be Found

Everyone in this world is seeking for Love. This is because this world is the effect of denying the all encompassing oneness of our Creator’s Love. Because of this denial, we feel that we lack Love.

Efforts to be liked, to not offend, to gain value through status, possessions, relationships, etc., are all part of misdirected seeking to find Love. Consistent with the ego’s dictum, it is seeking where Love cannot be found. All this searching comes from the belief that we have lost the Love that we are. This is impossible in truth, but belief makes the false seem true.

My prayer today is to accept Holy Spirit’s help in letting go of the false beliefs that interfere with the awareness of Love’s presence in my mind. This is forgiveness. I am grateful for the Holy Spirit’s help to recognize false beliefs for the nothingness they are so that I can awaken to the Love I share with God.

Today I am guided again to practice as frequently as possible to pause for inspiration. This pause returns me to peace, gentleness and a sense of well being. A sense of trust and the feeling that everything is all right rises to the surface of my mind.

I can relax now and receive the guidance I need in each present moment. As I follow, I am guided to be of service in a way that is most truly helpful to the awakening of the Sonship. My job is to listen and receive.

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I Rest in God

I rest in God. Reminding myself of this helps me to step back when something seems to bother me or I am struggling to make something “work.” I rest in God. This thought brings rest to my mind when my peace has been disturbed. It reminds me that nothing in the world can have any affect on me in truth. It helps me recognize that if something disturbs my peace, it is only because I have temporarily forgotten that I rest in God.

Today I will remind myself often that I rest in God to help me hold my mind open to the gentle, loving lead of the Holy Spirit guiding me Home.

How can I be truly helpful? Receiving inspiration from the Holy Spirit always begins with my willingness to accept His gift of peace. As I am willing to do this, it is the Holy Spirit that shines away the false ideas that are not true. So today my practice is to consistently open, again and again, to Holy Spirit’s gift of peace. Receiving peace opens the door to extending peace to everyone I meet or even think of. From this holy place of peace, all that I need to know arises in my mind in the moment. This is my practice for today.

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Making the Choice for Heaven

God is simple. God is not complex. God is changeless and is not in a constant state of flux. God is All There is.

Everything in the world of time is in a constant state of change. Nothing stays the same. It is a world of separate interests and conflict. It is the opposite of God, our Source. It is the opposite of changeless Love. It is the opposite of oneness.

I make the decision of what I am willing to be aware of in every moment. Am I willing to be aware of Love’s constant state of changeless oneness? Or am I focusing on separate bodies with separate interests, different than my own?

This morning we read A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 138, “Heaven is the decision I must make.” Here I am reminded to allow my one true Self to be in charge of my perception. This requires that I step back from the ego’s constant chatter about what everything means. This requires that I open my mind to God’s peace and changeless awareness of oneness. This is my practice for today.

Today’s lesson reminded me that the unconscious mind is a key mechanism the ego uses to hide the choices I have made so that the illusion of separation seems real to me. It makes me unaware of the choices I make in every moment to see justification for guilt and fear.

By keeping those choices unconscious, the effects of those choices appear to be happening to me. I seem to be the victim of situations and events in the world because I am unaware of the choices I made that put me in those situations.

In many places the Course tells us that we must raise all our thoughts, all our fears, all our guilt, to the Light. In the Holy Spirit’s Light, what seemed to be insurmountable obstacles are seen as no more than wisps of smoke, easily passed by as I allow the Light to return to my awareness.

Today my practice is to be alert to any disturbance of my peace and bring it to the Light of Holy Spirit to receive His vision in place of my image making.

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Accepting the Love of God

Today my focus is on accepting the Love of God. The Love of God is all that there is in truth. And my job today is to accept the truth as it is.

I have believed that something else was there to see, and have suffered from my belief in the illusions of a world of separate bodies. I can be done with this if I so choose today.

This is why I have one focus: Accept the Love of God. This means that I must be willing to receive the truth. I must want the truth above all else. I must want to let go of what I think I made as Love’s replacement. I always get what I want in my heart of hearts. That is why I have just one focus today — to accept the Love of God.

Love is simple. Love is kind. Love is everywhere as I am willing to see the only true Reality.

Forgiveness is the means to accept the Love of God. God’s Love is ever present, but judgment makes me unaware of it. As I forgive and let go of substitutes for God’s Love, I see His Love everywhere. I see the radiant Light of Love in my brother shining back to me.

The images of the world fade in importance as the magnificence of Love is accepted. The world was made as a defense against Love. As I forgive, I let go of this defense. And once again I remember the quiet joy of the Self I share with all in Love.

My prayer today is to accept the Holy Spirit’s help in letting go of the barriers to acceptance of God’s Love.

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Let My Mind Be Healed

This morning we worked with A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 137. This really stood out:

We will remember, as the hour strikes, our function is to let our minds be healed, that we may carry healing to the world, exchanging curse for blessing, pain for joy, and separation for the peace of God. (W-pI.137.13:1)

Here it is very clear that my only real purpose for today is to let my mind be healed. This requires that I pay attention to the thoughts that I am holding on to in my mind. Am I feeling blessed, joyful and filled with the peace of God? If not, I need to remember again that my function is to let my mind be healed.

The thoughts I hold in my mind are the cause of my experience. If I don’t like the effect, I must return to the cause — the thoughts I am joining with. My only function today is to hand over every thought that is not filled with blessing, joy and peace to the Holy Spirit to let my mind be healed.

I am eternally safe in the Presence of God. It is impossible to leave His Presence in truth. But I can imagine that I am somewhere else and will consequently experience a sense of loss, emptiness, lack of love and dispiritedness. To return to the joy of God’s Presence, I simply need to let go of trying to be somewhere else. I am grateful that the Holy Spirit remains in my mind to help me let go of false imaginings and remember that I remain safe in the Heart of God.

My practice for today is to be vigilant for the peace of God by offering every thought that seems to bring something else to the Holy Spirit in my mind. This is how I let go of the thoughts that God would not have me think and join with God’s eternal Thought of Love.

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Let Go and Let God

In a place of quietness this morning, this is what came in to my mind:

Opening to the idea of letting go and letting God brings with it the awareness of that which is beyond this world. The practice of letting go and letting God brings with it the awareness of eternity — what is eternally true about you and every brother you see in the dream.

Time is just a made up idea. Everything found in a world of time is false — an illusion. It is not true. There is only changeless eternity. The Love you are is What is eternal. This is true about you right now. You are God’s Love right now. Let yourself soak in this awareness… You are God’s Love right now… and nothing else is real… And what is true about you is true about everyone you see in this world because eternal Love is one and encompasses all that is. There is nothing else.

As you go through your day, let yourself remember the truth that you are eternal Love That can never change. Let yourself remember the truth that everyone you think of or talk to today is this same eternal Love… This practice will bring you happiness and peace and joy!

When I opened my mind to inspiration, this is what came to me: Let peace lead the way today. Be mindful of your level of peace. When you notice a sense of efforting or any other disturbance of your peace, pause and do what it takes to return your mind to peace.

By letting peace lead the way, you let yourself be taught of the constant care that is eternally given you. You learn that you are not alone and separate, but joined with all Love. What greater lesson is there than this? Be in peace today.

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Present Trust

In our reading in A Course in Miracles this morning, this is what stood out:

Your present trust in Him is the defense that promises a future undisturbed, without a trace of sorrow, and with joy that constantly increases, as this life becomes a holy instant, set in time, but heeding only immortality. Let no defenses but your present trust direct the future, and this life becomes a meaningful encounter with the truth that only your defenses would conceal. (W-pI.135.19)

This brings to mind “God is the strength in which I trust.” I need this reminder often. Otherwise I can get lost in thoughts of vulnerability and feeling I need to make plans on my own for my defense and safety.

Placing my trust in my true Self is how I am led Home. It is what brings me peace and joy. Trusting in God’s plan and not my own is the cornerstone for returning to the awareness of my true Identity. My practice for today is to focus on my present trust in Him. And for this constant reminder I give thanks.

With trust comes the recognition that I’m being carried by the Love of God. When I identify with a separate self-identity, trust goes out the window and I feel weak and vulnerable, in need of defense.

To come back to trust, it is important that I pause and do whatever I need to do to welcome peace again into my awareness. It may be as simple as taking a breath and relaxing. But if I am emotionally involved in the appearance of the moment, I may need to do more to set that aside and let peace return to my awareness. As I return to peace, trust comes with it and I remember that I am carried by the Love of God.

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