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Forgiveness Is the Path to Happiness

How lovely is the world whose purpose is forgiveness of God’s Son! How free from fear, how filled with blessing and with happiness! (A Course in Miracles T-29.VI.6:1-2)

Forgiveness is the key to happiness. Each time we let the past go, let go of judgment or release a grievance, we make way for greater happiness. Anything in the world that seems offensive is simply a sign of unforgiveness. The daily practice of offering every perception to the Holy Spirit and asking for help to see as He sees is the path to happiness. It is how we let go of trying to be right so that we can be happy.

Our practice today is to hold this question in mind: “How would Holy Spirit see this?” Our day will be as happy as our willingness to accept His vision. There is no limit to the joy that is ours to see.

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Accepting Simple, Uncomplicated Love

Everyone’s true Identity is simple, uncomplicated Love. As we learn to see the essence of Love in everyone by asking to see as Holy Spirit sees, we are freed from the false thought system of separation. As we go to the Holy Spirit to let Him show us what is beyond our projections, we gradually lay the ego down. We see that it is not helpful to us, and brings only confusion, doubt and unhappiness.

We are ready to forgive or let go of these false ego ideas. We are willing to let the Light of truth in our minds gently lead us out of our illusions of separate bodies. We are willing to return to the truth of simple, uncomplicated Love. We are willing to remember that we are still as God created us. We are perfect Love and nothing else. As we accept our true Identity, we extend only the Love we are.

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Let Holy Spirit Guide in Each Moment

The ego mind thinks that it is the boss. It resists the suggestion to step back and follow because it fears loss of control. It is insulted by the implication that it knows nothing and does not know how to solve problems on its own. That is why our growing willingness to let Holy Spirit guide us each moment is so important.

The Holy Spirit is in our minds in each present moment, patiently waiting to guide us to freedom from the tyranny of the ego mind. Today’s practice is to go to Holy Spirit with “every apprehension, every care and every form of suffering.” (A Course in Miracles W-pI.193.13:4)

As we allow ourselves to recognize when we are not at peace and step back and follow, instead of thinking we know on our own, we make life easier for ourselves. We let the Holy Spirit remove the unconscious barriers we are placing before us on our journey Home. The Holy Spirit knows how to remove the barriers and smooth the pathway Home. Today our highest priority is to let Holy Spirit guide in each moment.

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Take All Suffering to Holy Spirit

You must look upon your illusions and not keep them hidden, because they do not rest on their own foundation.

Do not hide suffering from [Holy Spirit’s] sight, but bring it gladly to Him. Lay before His eternal sanity all your hurt, and let Him heal you. Do not leave any spot of pain hidden from His light, and search your mind carefully for any thoughts you may fear to uncover. For He will heal every little thought you have kept to hurt you and cleanse it of its littleness, restoring it to the magnitude of God. (A Course in Miracles T-13.III.6:1;7:3-6)

We are always looking at ego’s illusions through either the eyes of the ego or the eyes of the Holy Spirit. Our practice for today is to look at all our illusions, joined with the Holy Spirit. It is with our inner Teacher that we will learn to see the truth beyond the illusions of separation. This is our important practice for today.

Every day presents us with another set of lessons when we take every circumstance to the Holy Spirit to receive a healed perception. The Holy Spirit always takes us past our illusions to the eternal presence of Love That is always there. Our willingness to receive the truth frees us from the bondage of the ego’s illusions. Today is a wonderful opportunity to be lifted above the battleground to see that we remain in the safety of God’s Love.

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Let Go and Be Happy

If you would be a happy learner, you must give everything you have learned to the Holy Spirit, to be unlearned for you.

Each day, each hour and minute, even each second, you are deciding between the crucifixion and the resurrection; between the ego and the Holy Spirit. The ego is the choice for guilt; the Holy Spirit the choice for guiltlessness. The power of decision is all that is yours. What you can decide between is fixed, because there are no alternatives except truth and illusion. (A Course in Miracles T-14.II.6:1;III.4:1-4)

Today we would be happy. We let our willingness to follow Holy Spirit’s lead be strong. We step back from our habitual thoughts frequently today, and ask the Holy Spirit to show us the truth beyond the illusions that we perceive. We let the Holy Spirit show us the ever present Love beyond the symbols of specialness that show up in our world. As we do this we learn that only Love is there, and that illusions of differences are nothing. We can let go of the way we see the world and be happy.

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Do I Choose God’s World or the Ego’s World?

Heaven itself is reached with empty hands and open minds, which come with nothing to find everything and claim it as their own. We will attempt to reach this state today, with self-deception laid aside, and with an honest willingness to value but the truly valuable and the real.

Should you begin to let yourself collect some needless burdens, or believe you see some difficult decisions facing you, be quick to answer with this simple thought:

I will not value what is valueless, for what is valuable belongs to me.

(A Course in Miracles W-pI.133.13:1-2;14:2-3)

If we find ourselves tense about anything or worried about what the future may bring, these are helpful clues to let us know we have taken the reins ourselves. We have forgotten that “Heaven is reached with empty hands and open minds.” It is helpful for us today to practice noticing when we are collecting needless burdens and quickly hand them over to the Guide within That knows what is truly best in every situation.

Giving time for quiet listening to the Guide That can return us to the truth brings about a thought reversal and helps us remember that we are eternal Spirit, one with God’s World of peace and Love. In this place of quietness, the Holy Spirit brings us an awareness beyond the ego’s world to the formless Love we are eternally. The Holy Spirit brings us to a state of mind where we know we all are eternally safe and loved, no matter what appearances we may be seeing in the ego’s world of separate bodies. We let go of the valueless because we remember that we already have everything that is valuable.

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Following the Guide to Our Completion

Everyone in this world has experienced a sense of being incomplete, that something is missing. This is the inevitable effect of denying the Source of our completion. This world was made by the thought of separation to offer substitutes for our completion. We will never find completion in the world because substitutes are never the real thing.

To find completion, we need to look where it can be found. To do this we need to follow the Guide Who knows where it is. This Guide does not lead us to empty substitutes. It will always lead us past all seeming barriers to the full recognition that we remain complete in God’s Love. There is nothing else. This Guide leads us on a journey of awakening from the past, which is never here.

Each time we bring a thought from the past into our present awareness, our Guide will show us that it has no substance and cannot affect us. We need only be willing to be shown the truth. Today our practice is to hold our minds open to be shown the truth in each moment so that we may return to our completion, which was never lost.

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