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Empty Hands and an Open Heart

Mary:  On page 32 of the Manual for Teachers in A Course in Miracles, Jesus tells us, “Awareness of dreaming is the real function of God’s teachers.” It also tells us, “Unity alone is not a thing of dreams. And it is this God’s teachers acknowledge as behind the dream, beyond all seeming and yet surely theirs.”

This section is very helpful to me when I lose awareness that the dream is just a dream and nothing more. I notice that when I take the dream too seriously, I can get tense and fearful. I can get wrapped up in thinking that harm could be real. This is why nurturing the habit of stepping back and allowing the Holy Spirit to take the lead is so important.

The dream does seem so real at times. I still have work to do because I still can be drawn into having opinions, which just draws me deeper into believing the dream is real. One of the most helpful things for me is, when I notice that I am tense, to just take a deep breath and relax. Just doing this helps the next step, which is an inner call for a change of mind by the Holy Spirit. Once I open to the Holy Spirit, the rest is done for me.

I cannot undo my belief in the dream. It is impossible. It is only the Holy Spirit, our one true Self, that brings Light into the false perceptions and shows me that there is nothing to fear. These false perceptions fall away easily because the Holy Spirit shows me their nothingness. Together we have a little chuckle that I once again got caught by taking the dream seriously. This is why it is so important that I allow awareness of dreaming to be applied to every situation I encounter.

Dreaming is not a sin. It is just a mistaken thought that I no longer need. I can relax now. The whole Sonship is safe in unity right now. Thank God that the truth is true and nothing else is true.

Holy Spirit to Robert: The ego seeks to preserve itself by planning for the future. It attempts to build an illusion of safety with plans that seem to prepare for the future. Sometimes it seems like these plans are attempts to make a future different from the past. Yet because these plans are built upon beliefs and “remembered” experiences from the past, these future plans are simply the past dressed in different images. The ego’s real wish is that the future be like the past, maintaining the illusion of separation is real.

Robert: This is why it is essential that I not attempt to make any plans on my own. It is essential that I remember that of myself I do not know what anything means or what it is for. I need to come to the Holy Spirit with empty hands and an open heart to receive direction for what to do, where to go, what to say and to whom. That direction will always be some form of expression of Love in the world and thus will always be a blessing to me.

I dedicate today to be another day of practice in stepping back and letting Spirit take the lead.

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