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Welcoming Holy Spirit’s Interpretation

Accept His Word for what you are, for He bears witness to your beautiful creation, and the Mind Whose Thought created your reality. …Let Him be Judge as well of everything that seems to happen to you in this world. His lessons will enable you to bridge the gap between illusions and the truth.

…He will reinterpret all you see, and all occurrences, each circumstance, and every happening that seems to touch on you in any way from His one frame of reference, wholly unified and sure. And you will see the love beyond the hate, the constancy in change, the pure in sin, and only Heaven’s blessing on the world. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.151.9:2,6-7;11:2-3)

The Course is teaching us to not to believe or give any meaning to anything the body’s senses show us. We are asked to resign as our own interpreter and let the Holy Spirit interpret all things on our behalf. This seems difficult to do in our daily life experience. We have conditioned ourselves well to instantly interpret everything in the world.

Yet this is only a habit which can be changed. What makes it seem difficult is simply unwillingness. It seems like loss of control to give up being the interpreter. But it is the ego that is seeking this control, not the truth of what we are.

We are being taught that withdrawing from our identification with the ego makes way for our true Will that we share with God to be in charge. It is making way for perfect happiness and Heaven’s blessing on the world.

Today our practice is to frequently remind ourselves that we want to see with Christ’s vision. We want to see past the images of the world and accept Holy Spirit’s interpretation. We want to remember our Self. We want to remember Love.

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Accepting Christ’s Vision Today

My Father, Christ has asked a gift of me, and one I give that it be given me. Help me to use the eyes of Christ today, and thus allow the Holy Spirit’s Love to bless all things which I may look upon, that His forgiving Love may rest on me. (A Course in Miracles W-pII.295.2)

Complexity is one of the ego’s principal mechanisms for making the world seem real. It makes problems appear to be impossible to resolve. On the other hand, Christ’s vision sees just one thing — changeless Love and nothing else. Nothing could be simpler, yet in this world it seems beyond reach.

But Christ vision will show us this simplicity, the oneness of Love that never changes, cannot be disturbed and extends eternally. Love is always there to see. As we give the gift of willingness to Christ in our minds, we are shown the Light of Love that dissolves the false images of the world. In this Light we see a forgiven world and we learn that we have been forgiven.

Today we offer Christ our willingness to see with His vision and accept His happy gift of forgiveness.

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Choosing the Guide to Love

We have seen that there are only two parts of your mind. One is ruled by the ego, and is made up of illusions. The other is the home of the Holy Spirit, where truth abides. There are no other guides but these to choose between, and no other outcomes possible as a result of your choice but the fear that the ego always engenders, and the love that the Holy Spirit always offers to replace it.” (A Course in Miracles W-pI.66.7:2-5)

If we want to find Love, we need to choose the Guide Who offers It. It is very helpful to pay attention through the day which guide we are choosing. Our mood will clearly show us. Love always brings happiness and peace, which is the result of choosing the Holy Spirit as our Guide. Fear or any lack of peace is always the result of choosing the ego as our guide.

Today our practice is to pay attention to whether our thoughts are bringing happiness and peace or fear or lack of peace. We will offer to the Holy Spirit in our minds those thoughts that do not bring happiness for help to see the truth beyond the disturbing false images. This is how we follow the Guide to Love. This is our purpose for today.

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We Have All the Help We Need

How light and easy is the step across the narrow boundaries of the world of fear when you have recognized Whose hand you hold! Within your hand is everything you need to walk with perfect confidence away from fear forever, and to go straight on, and quickly reach the gate of Heaven itself. For He Whose hand you hold was waiting but for you to join Him. Now that you have come, would He delay in showing you the way that He must walk with you? His blessing lies on you as surely as His Father’s Love rests upon Him. His gratitude to you is past your understanding, for you have enabled Him to rise from chains and go with you, together, to His Father’s house.” (A Course in Miracles T-30.V.8)

It is very helpful to remember that we hold Holy Spirit’s Hand all through the day. Giving time to receptive listening is a valuable practice indeed. As we practice receiving Holy Spirit’s Help, we realize that we have all the help we need. We realize that the Holy Spirit is right there in our mind, with every situation we encounter, helping us see truly. The Holy Spirit always brings us past fear thoughts to the pure Thought of joy.

The ego’s thoughts always bring fear and limitation. As we consistently take these thoughts to the Holy Spirit, what is not true disappears and the fulness of God’s Love remains for us to receive and extend. It is powerful to remember we always have all the Help we need.

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Healing Artificial Values

You are as God created you. Today honor your Self. Let graven images you made to be the Son of God instead of what he is be worshipped not today. Deep in your mind the holy Christ in you is waiting your acknowledgment as you. And you are lost and do not know yourself while He is unacknowledged and unknown.

Seek Him today, and find Him. He will be your Savior from all idols you have made. For when you find Him, you will understand how worthless are your idols, and how false the images which you believed were you. Today we make a great advance to truth by letting idols go, and opening our hands and hearts and minds to God today. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.110.9-10)

Because only Love is real, our value lies in the Love we are. The images of the world are substitutes for Love and interfere with our awareness of our real value. To accept the thought that we are as God created us is to accept our real value. To do this we must let go of the artificial values that make us think the images of the world are real. The Holy Spirit is ever present in our minds, offering us the lessons we need to help us undo our attachment to valueless images so that we can return to the awareness of our infinite value in the Mind of God. There is no substitute.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit to help us see the real value — the Love — beyond what we experience in the world of form. As we join with Him, all our doing is motivated by Love and the joy of joining. Our brothers are recognized as one with us in the Self that is the Son of God. Everyone is our Friend, so we are at peace — free of conflict. We walk in gratitude in the way of Love.

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Accepting the Serenity of God’s Changeless Love

As God created you, you must remain unchangeable, with transitory states by definition false. And that includes all shifts in feeling, alterations in conditions of the body and the mind; in all awareness and in all response.

The power of decision is our own. And we accept of Him that which we are, and humbly recognize the Son of God. To recognize God’s Son implies as well that all self-concepts have been laid aside, and recognized as false. Their arrogance has been perceived. And in humility the radiance of God’s Son, his gentleness, his perfect sinlessness, his Father’s Love, his right to Heaven and release from hell, are joyously accepted as our own. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.152.5:1-2;10)

Today our practice is to be willing to let the veil be lifted. The truth is we all remain as God created us. As we practice accepting every brother as he truly is, we are shown the radiant light of Love that is really there. As we practice this consistently, we feel God’s peace in the serenity of His changeless Love. We rest content in the changeless certainty of our one Self, which we share with everyone and that is ever present.

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You Are the Means for God

It cannot be that it is hard to do the task that Christ appointed you to do, since it is He Who does it. And in the doing of it will you learn the body merely seems to be the means to do it. For the Mind is His. And so it must be yours. His Holiness directs the body through the mind at one with Him.

You are the means for God; not separate, nor with a life apart from His. His life is manifest in you who are His Son. Each aspect of Himself is framed in holiness and perfect purity, in love celestial and so complete it wishes only that it may release all that it looks upon unto itself. Its radiance shines through each body that it looks upon, and brushes all its darkness into light merely by looking past it to the light. The veil is lifted through its gentleness, and nothing hides the face of Christ from its beholders. You and your brother stand before Him now, to let Him draw aside the veil that seems to keep you separate and apart. (A Course in Miracles T-25.I.1:1-5;4)

Today we will practice letting ourselves be carried by the Christ Mind. Today we will step back and follow, letting the Light in our mind lead the way. We welcome the Christ Mind, remembering that This is our true Identity. We want to see the Christ Mind in every brother and, because we are open to the truth, It is there to see. This is our true purpose. We let our true Self work through us today. Thus do we become the means for Love’s extension to our brothers and we learn that we are one.

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