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Learning We Are Not Alone

Mary:
Holy Spirit, I am willing to be quiet and listen… I am willing to relax all I think I know and let go of tension… I give welcome to your peace and feeling of well-being… I give welcome to a correction in the way I perceive this world I see through the body’s eyes…

I let my mind quiet… I let the veil be lifted to see that the face of Christ is truly everywhere… I let myself be carried to the truth of Love’s oneness… I let myself be carried to the truth that nothing has happened to change God’s one Son…

From this place of opening to the truth, I can laugh at fear thoughts instead of taking them on as if they were real… I soak in the truth that all roads in the world of form are equally unreal… Now trusting in God’s World becomes easier… I see that Reality is simple and uncomplicated… I can relax now and let myself be carried by the truth… There is deep gratitude as I carry this remembrance into my day…

Robert:
The temptation to make decisions on my own seems to be very strong. I slip into it many times a day. I have observed that whenever I do this, I am not at peace. Somewhere in my mind I have decided that there is something I must defend against and I need to make plans to protect myself. This could only come from the part of my mind that identifies with the ego and believes it is separate from Love.

The key word here is “believes.” Beliefs can change. Beliefs change perception but not reality. The moment that I let go of belief that I am separate, the temptation to make decisions on my own disappears because I no longer perceive that I am on my own. The practice of stepping back and letting Holy Spirit guide all my decisions is how I learn that I am not on my own. What I believe is not set in stone and can be changed. I can learn that there is nothing in the world I really want.

Letting Holy Spirit guide all my decisions, including what store to go to to find shelving, becomes a lesson in which I learn that I am not alone. It’s about changing my beliefs. It’s not about the store or the shelving. It’s about the learning that I remain united with my Source. And it may also be about an opportunity for a holy encounter with someone I have never met before.

Today is another joyful day of practicing making no decisions on my own.

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Remember the Light in You

Holy Spirit to Robert:
All your defenses, all your attempts to make plans for your safety and happiness, all your judgments stem from your belief that you are a body. The body is the ego’s central figure in a scheme to usurp God’s Creation and have dominion over a world of its making.

When you choose to identify with the body, you choose death over Life. You choose loss over wholeness. You choose fear over Love. You choose against your Source and thus you choose guilt. This is why it is essential that you learn the Holy Spirit’s lesson that you are not a body. You are free. You remain as Love created you. The body has nothing to do with What you are.

Step back… Step back… Step back… Open your mind and heart to the Light of Love… It shines in you eternally… Let yourself see Its reflection in all you look upon…. The reflection of this Light is not seen with the body’s eyes. It is seen through forgiving vision, the vision of Christ.

Remember the Light in you. It is eternal and it is always there for you to see. This is your Identity, not the image of a body. Let yourself remember that you are the Light of the world and the world will shine on you in love and peace.

Mary:
Remembering that I am not a body and that in truth I am free is my focus for today. Stepping back frequently throughout the day and letting my true Self correct all the thoughts in my mind is what my real job is today. It may look like I have many things to do today. But my only real job is to step back and follow Holy Spirit’s lead. This is how I will know that I am not a body, I am free. I truly am still as God created me. Remembering this is my opportunity today, and I give thanks.

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From Frustration to Peace

Robert:
I am seeing that the ego is the wish to control. It is what the Course means when it says that the ego is the wish to usurp God. The ego is the maker of the dream, the world I see. Separation is inherent in making a world different from God’s Heaven. It is impossible for the ego’s world to be included in Heaven because it is the denial of God, the wish to wrest control from God. Only through illusions could this dream seem to be accomplished.

To the degree that I identify with the ego, I experience the wish to control and I get frustrated when I seem to be unable to control the world — a machine doesn’t work the way I want it to, computer software malfunctions, events don’t happen when I think they should — all these can trigger frustration. Frustration is simply a symptom of a wish to control and therefore a denial of my unity with God.

It is impossible to be frustrated with what never changes, unless I think I want something else. It is the wish for something other than the eternal Love of God that set up the frustrating world of separation. So the presence of frustration can be seen as a signal that I have chosen against God and if I want to be happy, I need to make another choice. Since God’s Will for me is perfect happiness, the other choice is clearly to choose God, my Creator, my Source.

Today if I experience anything other than peace, I will remind myself, “God is my Source. His Will for me is perfect happiness. I am willing to accept His Will as mine and I am willing to accept His Help.”

Mary:
Inspiration from Spirit comes only when I remember to choose peace. My practice today is to remember to step back frequently and choose peace. As I am willing to do this, inspiration comes naturally. My willingness to choose peace is all that is important. This is my focus for today.

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Returning to My True Home

Mary:
From our reading today in A Course in Miracles, this stood out to me:

Be innocent of judgment, unaware of any thoughts of evil or of good that ever crossed your mind of anyone. Now do you know him not. But you are free to learn of him, and learn of him anew. Now is he born again to you, and you are born again to him, without the past that sentenced him to die, and you with him. Now is he free to live as you are free, because an ancient learning passed away and left a place for truth to be reborn. (T-31.I.13)

Today is a day of practice in opening to the truth. It takes constant vigilance because as I watch my thoughts, I see how often I bring the past into the present. Letting go of this habit is of primary importance as I walk along the road to truth with the Holy Spirit as my Guide. Watching the meaning that I give to things with Holy Spirit really helps me see the barriers to Love that I put up so often.

Today I have another opportunity to let go of judgment — deciding what anything means on my own. The Holy Spirit is right there in my mind waiting to correct my mistaken perceptions. The truth is there is nothing anywhere but Love. It is when I think I see something else that I need a change of mind. The opportunity I have today is to let my mind be transformed by the Holy Spirit. And I give thanks.

Robert:
Today I was reminded of my experience as a young child playing in my sandbox. I would get into a zone, a concentrated focus of playing that I was building roads and bridges, driving vehicles and making “engine sounds” as I made believe I was in this little world I was making. I was barely aware of there being anything outside the sandbox. It became my world. When my mother called me to dinner from just 30 feet away, she had to yell loudly to get my attention, for I had nearly tuned out the outer world completely.

This is a great metaphor for the experience of being in this world. God and the Holy Spirit are almost completely shut out. God’s Voice calls to me from nearer than my heart, yet seems distant and barely noticed because I have given my full attention to a fantasy world I am playing in. Just as I could step out of the sandbox and out of that fantasy to return home for dinner, it is possible to step out of the dream of separation, but this time to return to my Home in Heaven. I just need to be willing to loosen my attention on the dream and open my mind to the Holy Spirit’s call.

Today I will practice stepping out of the “sandbox” and refocusing my attention on the Holy Spirit’s dream of awakening that will lead me back to my true Home.

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Being Open to Love’s Correction

Robert:
I have had glimpses of what it is like to see with forgiving eyes, the eyes of Christ. In these moments I feel great joy and love and peace. My heart overflows with gratitude so that the Love I feel extends to all, without limit. These holy instants inspire me to continue practicing forgiveness. Forgiveness clears the way for the only experience I really want. Nothing but the full experience of God’s Love will ever truly content me. Attempts to find happiness anywhere else simply delay the experience.

To make way for the experience of limitless Love, my practice today is to walk with the Self that remembers Love and let It be my Interpreter of all things. Love needs no interpretation but in a thought system that is a defense against Love, the images it presents can be reinterpreted by the one Self to clear the way to the full remembrance of What is real. It is this correction I seek today.

Mary:
It is my job today to pay attention to the guidance of my inner Teacher and let all my perceptions be corrected. If I think I already know, I will not be open for correction. So my opportunity today is to pay attention to where I think I already know and be willing to hand these perspectives to the Holy Spirit to be corrected.

This is how my mind is healed. This is how I wake up from the dream. This is where I find peace instead of conflict. My focus today is on letting my mind be healed by noticing when I am choosing something other than a peaceful state of mind. Correction of my mistaken perceptions is all this day is really for. And I give thanks.

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Keeping an Open Mind

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Let go and let God. You do this by relaxing your hold on the world and opening to a different perspective… This openness to your inner Teacher brings with it a feeling of gentleness… kindness… and patience… It brings a feeling of calmness… and sense of well being… You remember that in truth everything is all right… You remember that you are safe along with all your brothers… and that nothing has happened to change God’s one Son… Instead of anxiety or sense of lack, there is a quietness… All this comes as you are willing to let go and let God. Practice this today.

Holy Spirit to Robert:
Remember Who you are. You, along with all your brothers, are God’s Son, and therefore share all of God’s attributes. You have all of God’s Love, all of His peace, all of His joy. You share the innocence of God’s perfect Love. Every brother is the same as you, for what is joined cannot be different.

If you believe you are something else, separate from the one Son that is God’s creation, you will perceive yourself as guilty, weak and alone. But this is not what you are; it is just a false image that could never be true. Remember this about every appearance of another and remember it about yourself. Belief in a false idea does not make it real. It only makes it seem real. Let go of the belief and the seeming reality disappears.

The moment-by-moment practice of bringing all your perceptions to the Holy Spirit for His help to see truly is how you let go of mistaken beliefs that hide reality from your awareness. Let Holy Spirit be your Guide in every moment today. Keep your mind open to His vision and it will be a joyous day indeed.

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Forgiveness Brings Happiness

Robert:
To paraphrase a Bible verse, this is the moment Love has made. I will rejoice and be happy in it. To be happy in this moment, I must relinquish all thoughts of the past. That means I must forgive, which is letting go of the past. When I am able to experience the moment without trying to interpret based on the past, it becomes a moment of joy and peace.

This is what I really want. Accepting this is accepting God’s gift to His Creation. I accept it by letting myself see all things through Christ’s forgiving eyes — seeing without the past. Today my prayer to the Self we share is: Help me see all things as they are in truth. And I will rejoice and be happy.

Mary:
A very helpful message in A Course in Miracles has been: “I could choose peace instead of this.” There are still many times when I get caught up in the “problems” of the world. My practice now is to pay attention to when this happens and realize that it does not make me happy. When I get caught up in perceiving problems, I usually feel tense and irritated at what appears to be going on outside me. I now see that this is just a mistake that can be corrected. To blame myself for making this mistake is just to compound the mistake. But the practice of stepping back and remembering I could choose peace instead of this is really a huge blessing.

Once I have remembered this, it becomes easier to relax a little and focus on opening my mind to accept Holy Spirit’s peace instead of the ego’s mistaken thoughts. As I allow peace to be felt more fully, it becomes easier to laugh at what I took so seriously before. With this comes the remembrance that we are all still safe in the one Mind of God. We have merely been pretending to be separate people with separate interests. It has never been true. Peace now reigns where there once was the false perception of separation.

This is my practice today and every day. This is forgiveness in action. This is how I can be truly helpful. The Course tells me that I bring peace to every mind through my forgiveness. And I am grateful that this is so.

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