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Pause for Inspiration

As I observe how much I forget to practice the inspiration I receive in our morning sessions as I go through the day, I see that there is more resistance to awakening than I realize. The excuse I use is that I get busy doing the projects of the day. But if I am honest with myself, I could easily pause for a few seconds or a minute to refocus my attention on my practice without interfering with accomplishing the projects I need to get done during the day.

A Course in Miracles acknowledges this resistance. But it also cautions us not to use missed practices as an excuse to stop practicing all together. All I need to do is continue to practice again as soon as I remember. I see that this does work.

I have been practicing with ACIM for quite a few years. I do see that I do practice more, even though it is inconsistent. I also see that in my daily life experience I am more peaceful, loving and happy than I was before I started practicing. The practice is working!

I like the benefit and so I will not use the apparent failure to practice at times as an excuse to give up. Rather I am encouraged by the changed experience of life to continue every day to practice listening and applying the lessons from Spirit and A Course in Miracles in my daily life. I have great gratitude that I have the means to forgive the world and forgive myself and to return Home to Love.

As I go to that place of quiet, I hear the words, “Pause for inspiration throughout the day.” This is a gentle reminder, helping me see that I need to step back more frequently throughout the day.

I cannot hear the inspiration unless I pause to listen. The busy ego’s world, which attempts to demonstrate that separation is real, can fill up my mind, leaving no space for Holly Spirit if I let it. I am being reminded this morning to give more time to the Holy Spirit throughout the day. Pause for inspiration.

I am going to write little post-it notes and put them around the house to help me remember more frequently to open up to Holy Spirit’s healing perspective. Doing this lightens and brightens my day. I choose to have a happy day with Holy Spirit’s help in my mind. Thank you Holy Spirit. In gratitude I heal.

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Accepting Love’s Changeless Oneness

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

You have been called, together with your brother, to the most holy function this world contains. It is the only one that has no limits, and reaches out to every broken fragment of the Sonship with healing and uniting comfort. This is offered you, in your holy relationship. Accept it here, and you will give as you have accepted. The peace of God is given you with the glowing purpose in which you join with your brother. The holy light that brought you and him together must extend, as you accepted it. (T-18.I.13)

This reminds me that my holy purpose is to accept and extend the fact that we all are the same Love of God. This means I am joined with every brother, for we are one. Accepting my true purpose of returning to oneness brings me the peace and joy and comfort that I really want.

Right in my mind is the Light of Truth that returns me to remembering Love’s oneness. Opening to this healing Light is my purpose for today. This is how my mind is healed. This is how I extend healing as I join with the truth of our oneness with every brother.

Holy Spirit to Robert:
You believe you are an image — a body, a personality, a separate self, alone, with private thoughts. This self-image is vulnerable and easily disturbed by anything that would seem to raise the image to question. Because you think this self-image is you, you believe you must protect it carefully.

You think that any change in this image would change you because you believe you changed yourself when you made this image. It is not true, but your belief in the image makes you think you need to be constantly vigilant lest anything disturb this image. You have so strongly identified with this image that you believe the loss of it would be your death.

This is the condition of everyone who walks the world, believing they are a body with a separate mind looking out at other bodies. It is not true. You remain safely within the strength and love of God, unchanged and unchangeable. This self-image is simply a false construct that will disappear the moment you are willing to accept God’s gift of all His Love. He offers It still, unaffected by your denial of It. He has never withdrawn His Love. It is yours for the accepting. All you need do is let go of the image you have made of yourself and God’s all encompassing Love will flood your awareness and your joy will be complete.

You can take a giant step forward to this recognition by reminding yourself frequently today, “God is but Love and therefore so am I.”

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Accepting Holy Spirit’s Kind and Gentle Help

Mary:
This morning as I go into a place of quiet, I am reminded that the Holy Spirit is always there in my mind, waiting to heal my perception. It is encouraging to remember that Help is always there if I feel frustrated or impatient with any situation. Help is always there if I am not feeling at peace.

To access this Help, it takes my willingness to step back and relax… It takes my willingness give the time to allow His peace to fill my mind… It takes my willingness to let go of what I think I know… to let go and let God. This is my practice for today — to accept Holy Spirit’s help all through the day.

Robert:
Today my practice is to let every situation be used on behalf of awakening. To do this it is important that I be vigilant for peace that my mind may be open to Holy Spirit’s kind and gentle lessons. This is how I will loose the world from all I thought it was.

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Let Love Extend Through Me

Robert:
There is really only one thing for me to do today: Let Love extend through me. The forms this may take in the dream may appear to be many. It may look like forgiving software that does not do what I want it to do. It may look like letting go of an opinion that a situation is not to my liking. It may look like releasing a judgment about someone’s words, behavior or appearance. In truth these are all the same, for they all remove the barrier that interferes with Love’s extension.

Today I ask Love’s guidance to help me see past appearances and let Love freely extend through me. This is how I will remember Who I am.

Mary:
Today is a day to remember that the whole Sonship remains in Heaven where It was created. The whole Sonship is eternal Love because It has not separated from Its Source. Today is a day to remember that this is true and nothing else is true.

The separate bodies, the separate lives, the separate times and places — all these are but wandering in dreams while safe at Home. This is what I choose to remember today. In A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 131 I am reminded, “Today I seek and find all that I want. My single purpose offers it to me. No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth.” (W-pI.131.15:5-7) I can remember that everyone has never left Heaven. Everyone is still as God created them. It is this I choose to remember today.

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Let Go and Let God

Mary:
This morning after our reading and quiet listening, what came to me was, “Let go and let God.” This reminds me to relax and follow in each present moment. This reminds me to keep my mind open to Holy Spirit’s inspiration all through the day. This reminds me to step back consistently and ask to see as Holy Spirit sees.

Holy Spirit’s world of Love is there as I am willing to receive. From this inner place I am more easily able to see the Christ instead of bodies separate from me. I give thanks that this is available whenever I am willing.

Robert:
This is my prayer today: Let all my doing serve awakening. Guide my seeing that I may see with the eyes of Love. Guide my doing that I may extend Love and be truly helpful. Help me look beyond all form to the real meaning and true value in everything.

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Remembering and Accepting Peace

Robert:
Judgment always brings conflict with it. Forgiveness always brings peace with it. If I want to be at peace, I need to be willing to let go of all my judgments and opinions that I have carried with me from the past. As I am willing to give all my judgments and opinions to the Holy Spirit and let them go, I leave an open space into which the vision of Christ can flow. This is my practice for today.

Mary:
A helpful way to practice handing over all my opinions based on the past is to remember the sentence, “I could choose peace instead of this.” Saying this frequently to myself all throughout the day opens the door to accepting the peace of the Holy Spirit, which is always there for me. Accepting the peace of my true Self changes my experience in the present moment. It helps me see with Holy Spirit’s vision. This is my practice for today.

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Let Peace Lead the Way

Mary:
This is my focus for today: Holy Spirit, today I open to Your peace… Receiving Your peace and extending Your peace is what today is for… I willingly follow where peace leads with no agenda of my own… Today I dedicate to peace.

Robert:
My true Self remains as God created It. This will never change because my Self shares God’s changelessness. The peace of this Self can never be disturbed. It remains at the center of my Being, no matter what illusions I may hold that interfere with my awareness of It.

The way to remember this Self is to rise above the seeming conflicts and “reality” of the world. I let myself return to peace. From this place of peace it is clear what is true and what is false, what is meaningful or meaningless. I will step back and let peace lead the way today.

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