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Accepting Love’s Gentleness and Patience

Mary:
This morning I was guided to return to the poster that comes with course 914: The Power of Gentleness and Patience that I keep nearby to remind me when I forget. It is so helpful to me and I want to share it with you:

My Prayer of Accepting Love’s Gentleness and Patience

Love, I surrender to Your gentle and patient care.
I let go of my perceptions of a past.
I let go of my perceptions of a future.
I accept only Your eternal Loving Presence.

I have no need to plan for my safety.
My needs are provided for continuously
in Your gentle and patient care.

I let go of all I thought the world was.
I let go of what I thought my brothers were.
I give back to You all I thought was mine alone.

I accept Love’s gentleness and patience by giving
Love’s gentleness and patience to the whole Sonship.

Robert:
The ego believes its safety lies in form. It tells me that if I have a good plan for the future, I will be safe. It tells me that if I acquire certain things and avoid other things, I’ll be safe. Yet because these forms are illusions, they are always subject to change. Either the forms themselves will change or they will not bring the effect of safety that I sought. The ego has an answer for this: Find some other form. Thus it keeps its primary goal of seek and do not find in play. No safety can ever be found in the ego thought system because it is the denial of the certainty of changeless Love.

In moments of right-mindedness, I feel the all encompassing presence of Love. I feel safe in Its changelessness. I feel blessed by Love’s flow through me as it joins with all my brothers. I am certain that all my needs are met. But I toggle between this alive and peaceful feeling and the uncertainty and vulnerability that comes when I think I am a body in a world where everything seems a potential threat. The idea of changeless Love seems like a meaningless fantasy that could not possibly protect me from the dangers of the world.

I am grateful now that I know that I have the means in my mind to let go of this fearful image of myself and remember Who I really am. I remember the right-minded moments when I recognized the safety and certainty of Love reflected in the world. This motivates me to practice offering all my fearful thoughts, all my attempts at planning for my safety, to the Holy Spirit in quiet. As I am truly willing to receive His answer, all my perceived problems are quietly resolved. And so today is another day of happy practice of turning my thoughts over to the Holy Spirit and following His lead.

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