Daily Inspiration for Living A Course in Miracles

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Give Him Your Thoughts

Mary:
This is what stood out in our reading in A Course in Miracles this morning:

Give Him your thoughts, and He will give them back as miracles which joyously proclaim the wholeness and the happiness God wills His Son, as proof of His eternal Love. And as each thought is thus transformed, it takes on healing power from the Mind Which saw the truth in it, and failed to be deceived by what was falsely added. All threads of fantasy are gone. And what remains is unified into a perfect Thought that offers Its perfection everywhere.” (W-pI.151.14)

This short paragraph gives me the means for awakening — “Give Him your thoughts.” If I am sincere in my desire to awaken from the dream of separation, I will hand over what I think is true to the Holy Spirit to be purified. In the Holy Spirit’s hands, what is not true will be removed and disappear. Only what is true will remain. As I am willing to hand over my thoughts to the Holy Spirit, the little kingdom that I thought was mine alone will disappear in God’s healing Light. As the Holy Spirit removes all threads of fantasy, God’s perfect Love is all there is to see and hear and experience.

My practice for today is to let the Holy Spirit purify all the thoughts that come into my mind and show me the difference between the real and the unreal. This is a true miracle. Receiving Holy Spirit’s miracles of truth is my opportunity for today.

Robert:
It is time to resign as my own interpreter of the world. Who would hire an interpreter who does not know what anything means? I am grateful that I have within my mind an Interpreter Who knows what everything means. It is time to give Him the job.

Today is my opportunity to withdraw my misplaced loyalty to the clueless interpreter and focus my attention on the Interpreter Who will teach me the true meaning in everything. This is how I will learn the truth of What I am and What everyone Is. I will learn that only Love is real.

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A “Doing Meditation”

Mary:
In our reading in A Course in Miracles this morning, this prayer stood out:

Father, our Name is Yours. In It we are united with all living things, and You Who are their one Creator. What we made and call by many different names is but a shadow we have tried to cast across Your Own Reality. And we are glad and thankful we were wrong. All our mistakes we give to You, that we may be absolved from all effects our errors seemed to have. And we accept the truth You give, in place of every one of them. Your Name is our salvation and escape from what we made. Your Name unites us in the oneness which is our inheritance and peace. Amen. (W-pI.184.15)

My practice for today is to turn over my mistaken thoughts of individuality to the Holy Spirit and be open to receive the truth of Love’s oneness instead. This is how I let my belief in separation be replaced so that my barriers to Love are undone. Peace returns with this practice of forgiving dreams of separation. This is how I accept our one true Identity, one minute at a time. And I give thanks for the joy this practice gives me.

Robert:
When I have a lot of little details to do, it helps me to make a list. With this list, I stay more peaceful by letting Holy Spirit guide me with what to do and when. On my own, I can look at all the details and overwhelm myself. But when I step back and let Holy Spirit be my Guide, it becomes a “doing meditation.”

The doing becomes a means to practice remembering the Presence of the Holy Spirit, my true Self, the center of peace within. Instead of being a grind to get through the many details of the day, the experience becomes a blessing of remembering the quiet Love that is my true Nature. Today is a day to practice this “doing” meditation and remember that only Love is real.

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Accepting God’s Ocean of Love

Mary:
Everyone in the whole Sonship is an integral part of God’s one Ocean of Love. This Ocean is one and our opportunity now is to awaken to Love’s oneness. Letting this awareness return brings us peace, joy and a deep sense of well being.

Today I am given another opportunity to step back and move into the awareness of God’s one Ocean of Love, which includes everyone. In this quiet place of oneness, there is no tension, no fear and no lack of any kind. Giving time to letting the truth return brings with it the gift of true perception. In this quiet place my mind is cleansed of ego’s false ideas and I see that all is well and everyone is safe in God’s one Ocean of Love. My practice for today is to frequently allow awareness of God’s Love to heal my mind.

Robert:
In our reading of A Course in Miracles today, I was reminded that there is a quiet center within where I am at peace. This quiet center of peace is always with me. I can use it as my anchor to help me remember that Love is always with me, the peace of God is always with me. This quiet center is my Self that remains united with my Creator. The more I am willing to go to this quiet center within, the more I can bring this quietness with me for all the doings on which I am sent. This is my practice for today.

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Resolving Problems

Robert:
Yesterday I read a quote from A Course in Miracles, “Trust will resolve all problems now.” This is not telling me to trust in my own strength. The Course says that if I trust in my own strength, I will have every reason to be apprehensive and fearful, because I have no strength apart from God. It is trust in Love, my Source, that will resolve all problems. There is no conflict in Love, so it is impossible for Love to have problems.

This reminds me again that my function is to let go of the barriers to Love, which are really forms of lack of trust. I let go of barriers to Love by letting go of the past, by forgiving. This is how I will open the way to see the face of Christ in all things. It is a process of learning to disregard the images my body’s senses show me and give all my regard to the vision of Love my true Self sees. This is my practice for today.

Mary:
ACIM reminds me, “In quietness is every problem quietly resolved.” Today it is my opportunity to open to the peace and quiet of the Holy Spirit to receive a change in perception. This is what time is for. This is my practice for today.

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Let Peace Lead the Way Today

Holy Spirit to Robert:
Walk with Me today… Hold My hand by giving peace priority in your mind today… Where peace is, there I am…

As we walk together, I will guide you in the way of gentleness and Love. Your doing in the world will extend the Love and peace that you are. Being a place of symbols, your expression of Love will be in symbols. It does not matter if others consciously recognize the Love that is behind the symbols. The truth in them will recognize the truth in your offering. This is how your gift of Love is magnified a thousand times, and a thousand times again.

Walk with Me today… and together we will give the gift of Love that is What we are. There is nothing else to give.

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Let your doing in the world be led by peace… Let yourself remember that you are in God’s ocean of peace… Let peace fill your mind and extend to everyone in your dream of separate bodies… Let peace fill your heart and all your doing will reflect that peace… This is how to be truly helpful.

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We Are All Safe in God’s Loving Light

Robert:
There is a line in A Course in Miracles that says we are far too tolerant of mind wandering. As I look back at my thoughts during the day it is clear that my thoughts wander around the ego thought system a lot. Yet I am grateful that the Course’s training program has helped me become much quicker at recognizing that I have gotten off the path that leads to healing and awakening. I am not as tolerant of mindless thinking as I used to be.

Today I dedicate to the practice of mindfulness to recognize when my thoughts are engaged in separation thinking. With that recognition I also commit to offering these thoughts to Holy Spirit with willingness to receive His perception in place of my own. This is how I will learn to look past appearances and experience the happiness that comes with the recognition that I remain Love as Love created me.

Mary:
When I find myself once again getting wrapped up in the world I see, this sentence helps me step back enough to receive the truth: “You travel but in dreams, while safe at Home.” (ACIM T-13.VII.17:7)

I find that I need this reminder frequently because as I look through the body’s eyes, limitation and lack often appear very real. As I go to the Holy Spirit in quietness, the mind healing I need fills my mind with peace. The truth is we are all safe in God’s loving Light. We cannot leave God’s heavenly Mind. We can relax now. We have been given all of God, which is all there is in truth, and we cannot disinherit what God gives. It is always there as we become willing to open to the truth.

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The Purity of Love

Robert:
I remain as Love created me. I am not the image of myself that I have made that is separate, limited to a body. When I identify with this limited self-concept, I feel alone and weak, fearful and guilty, unworthy of Love. When I believe I am this self-concept, I am believing I have turned my back on Love.

A Course in Miracles is telling me that this is just a false idea. I have a Teacher in my mind Who is always ready to show me the truth of my Self. To receive this truth, I must be willing to let go of the concept of myself I have made. This seems hard to do because I have made this self-concept my identity through my belief. It seems that if I let go of this identity, there will be nothing left. I will disappear into nothingness. That is what the ego would have me believe.

But the truth is that if I let go of this false identity, what will be revealed is a Self so full of joy, so loving and so peaceful that it is beyond anything that can be experienced in the world of form. As I step back and let Holy Spirit guide me, I gradually learn that I really do want to remember that I am the Self that Love created, unchanged and unchangeable. I don’t have to keep making a limited self-image any more. I can step back and let Holy Spirit show me the purity of Love that I share with all my brothers.

Mary:
It is my opportunity today to focus on the purity of Love That is the only Reality of everyone that I see in this world, including myself. The purity of Love… I let the Holy Spirit show me again and again and again the purity of Love that is there to see as I am willing. This is my practice for today.

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