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Anticipation

Holy Spirit to Robert:
Anticipation is a form of thinking about the future. It can be applied to the desirable and the undesirable. But because it is in time and not attending to now, it is illusion and does not serve you. It blocks your awareness of the quiet joy that is here now.

Be vigilant for thoughts of anticipation and offer them to the Holy Spirit, leaving them in His hands to wash them clean of empty images and return to you the Love that is all meaning. As you use this practice to let go of meaningless thoughts in time, you let go of the world — you forgive. It does not seem that anticipation is unforgiveness, but it is an attempt to make a world in time, independent of God. To know your Self in God, the world in time must be let go, for it stands between you and the awareness of changeless Love.

Let today be a day of practicing vigilance against anticipation and for the happy present.

Mary:
It often seems daunting to remember that there is no time — there is no past and there is no future. There is only the eternal present in the Mind of Love. But just because it seems daunting doesn’t mean that it is a lesson to be put off or delayed. This lesson is here for me now and the circumstances are putting this lesson right in my face. I know that every lesson that comes to me is there to help me see what is not truly helpful and, with Holy Spirit’s help, move past it to greater freedom.

The truth is only God is here now and forever. I can’t be outside of Heaven. My opportunity today is to accept the truth as true and not try to replace it with stories of a past or future. My opportunity today is to relax, step back and let the Holy Spirit carry me into the awareness of the eternal present. Here there is no anticipation, because there is no future and no past. Today is a perfect opportunity to allow my mind to be healed by the Holy Spirit, our one true Self. And I give thanks.

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