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God Goes with Us Wherever We Go

Mary:
It is helpful for me to remember that God goes with me wherever I go. It also means that God goes with everyone wherever they go. God is in everyone’s mind because in truth we are one mind. We are one in the Mind of God. The false mind is really nothing and nowhere. This helps me remain in peace and remember everyone’s innate holiness and safety.

Robert:
Today I read in one of the Workbook lessons of A Course in Miracles that Jesus understands what we think we see and the fears and guilt associated with it. But he knows it is not true. To me Jesus represents the Holy Spirit and my true Self because he fully remembered and accepted the truth of our unity in God. So this means that I always have within my mind the help I need to remember and accept this for myself.

I can learn to let go of all the false ideas that I have believed are true. I can learn to see as Christ sees. I can remember the truth of What I am. Jesus is an example of one who has remembered this and shows the way for me to remember. The Guide to remembering is in my mind. I connect with It by pausing for peace. Today is another happy day of practicing pausing for peace.

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Pause for Peace

Holy Spirit to Robert:
When you pause and allow yourself to move into quiet peace, you disconnect from the momentum of the ego that would carry you past the present into a future that repeats the past. Pausing for peace is an essential step in preparing you to receive inspiration in the present moment. The more you practice this the more you learn that what you remember from the past has taught you nothing about reality. Reality is now, changeless and eternal.

When you allow yourself to return to peace, you open your mind to receive My gentle lessons that show you the ever present Love and innocence that is the truth about you and everyone. This is the lesson that will return you to the experience of unspeakable joy and deep peace that is God’s gift to you. Pause frequently for peace today and today will be a lesson in remembering Who you are.

Mary:
Today is an opportunity to choose Holy Spirit’s lessons instead of the ego’s lessons. I open the door to learning Holy Spirit’s lessons when I consistently remember to pause for peace. Do I really want freedom from the ego thought system? Then I will follow through with pausing for peace all through the day.

This practice will return me to the truth. This practice will open the door to the awareness of Love’s Presence.

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Will I Accept the Truth Today?

Mary:
Will I accept the truth today? Am I a body in a world of other bodies, or am I eternal Spirit? Am I still as God created me, or have I really succeeded in changing my identity into something different from God and my brothers? Am I willing to accept the truth today? Am I willing to accept the truth about every brother?

This is the choice I have today — to join with illusions of individuality or accept that the whole Sonship is still as God created It. Am I at peace, or am I fearful? How can I be truly helpful in a world where there seems to so much disaster and pain?

As I go into a place of quiet and listen, I am reminded that I am changeless Love along with every brother in this world I see… I have been given God’s gift of peace and joy which I extend to everyone… I recognize that this is how I can be truly helpful — to recognize that everyone is still in Heaven, in God’s Mind of Perfect Love along with me.

In truth, God’s eternal abundance is for everyone. We cannot change our Identity as perfect Love. I am truly helpful when I am willing to remember the truth about everyone’s safety. Minds are joined and that is how I bless the world and receive the blessings that I extend. Giving the truth truly is receiving the truth. I forgive the world of all I thought it was and give thanks that we still are as God created us.

Robert:
I rest in God. I feel restless when I believe I am not in God. Since God has already met all my needs, If I believe I am separate from God, I feel a need to fill the void left by the denial of God’s abundance. When there is a sense of lack, there can be no rest. This is why when I am identified with the ego thought system there is a feeling that I must be doing something, or at least planning to do something. Believing I am separate from God, I do not trust that all my needs are met.

As I remind myself that I rest in God, I feel myself relaxing. I feel myself becoming more at peace. The need to be doing or planning something fades and I relax more. My mind becomes more open to the Holy Spirit’s inspiration which is not clouded by my belief that I must do something to fill what is lacking in me. With this open mind, I am inspired to do in ease, without effort. When I am aligned with the Holy Spirit’s purpose, all my doing flows naturally and I am energized by the flow of Love. Today I will focus on remembering that I rest in God and all my needs are met.

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Choose to Receive the Truth

Holy Spirit to Mary:
This world is a dream. What is real and of God is eternal. The world you live in is in a state of constant change — a world of danger and conflict. This world does not reflect your true Nature, your true Self. To find your true Self, learn to take frequent intervals when you hand over your stories of conflict and lack of Love and choose instead to receive the truth. You are then in a place of opening to receive the peace of your true Self.

Your true Self is constant and does not change. The false ideas fall away as the presence of your true Nature comes forward. Here there is quietness. Here there is peace. From here you extend peace, Love and joy to the whole Sonship. You are able to see past this world and feel the beingness of what is eternally true.

Give time today to rest in the truth. Give time today to listen and receive the awareness of what is true forever. It is worth giving it the time.

Robert:
Holding grievances blocks my awareness of Love’s Presence, because Love holds no grievances. Having an opinion or judgment about anything is a grievance. It is a statement that if a circumstance or situation where someone’s words or behavior were somehow different and more to my liking, I would be happy (a.k.a. saved). This is really saying that my happiness is out of my control. It depends on other people or outside circumstances. This is discouraging because it is clear that I have no control over these things “outside.”

Thankfully, A Course in Miracles tells me that the world I see is simply a projection of my beliefs and I can change my beliefs. I change my beliefs by offering all my perceptions to the Holy Spirit with an open mind, willing to receive His loving correction. This is how I clear away the blocks to the joyful awareness of Love’s eternal presence. This is my practice for today.

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Accepting Inspiration

Holy Spirit to Robert:
You experience a sense of efforting because you believe there is something that is resisting you. This is the effect of believing that you are separate. In oneness there is no “other” that can offer resistance. So a sense of efforting is a sure sign that you are engaged in the ego thought system of separation.

Become aware of when you are efforting and use it as a reminder to step back, allow yourself to return to peace, and open your mind to the Holy Spirit’s vision. As you do this, you will be inspired not only to recognize that there is no “other,” but also to see new actions or words within the world that will release the sense of effort. This morning you experienced this.

You had been looking for an instruction manual. You diligently looked in the likely places where it might be and then the unlikely places but did not find it. This morning you thought you had an idea of a place you hadn’t looked. But as you started to take steps to go to that place, your eyes fell upon the manual under a stack of papers within arms reach. It was there during all the time you were searching elsewhere.

The difference between all your efforts to find it before and today was that this time you were relaxed and your mind was open to be inspired to look where it could be found. Before, you were following the ego’s maxim of seek and do not find. Today, in that moment, you let go of what you thought the past taught you and accepted inspiration in the present moment. It was a lesson in learning the value of letting go of the past.

This can be your moment-by-moment experience every day. Just keep practicing letting go of effort, letting go of the past and opening to inspiration now.

Mary:
This morning as I go into a place of quiet, the words come to mind: “God goes with me wherever I go.” This means that the Holy Spirit’s inspiration is always with me every moment. I am reminded to go to that place of inner inspiration all through the day as I go through my daily activities. I am reminded not to reserve inspiration for just certain circumstances, certain situations. I am encouraged not to ignore inspiration in situations where I think I know what to do.

Today it is my opportunity to broaden my willingness to accept inspiration in every situation. I am encouraged to step back and listen more and more. This is my practice for today.

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Choose Peace

Holy Spirit to Robert:
Let peace lead the way today. Monitor your level of peace and, as soon as you recognize a sense of disturbance, step back and allow yourself to settle into peace again. As you stay in peace, you keep the door open to the inspiration of your true Self. This will always lead you to release from self-imposed limitation and increased acceptance of your limitlessness.

Love created you limitless, being Itself limitless. The full acceptance of this is your return to Heaven. Your practice of letting peace lead the way will take you great strides toward the freedom of Heaven. Have a peace-filled day.

Mary:
If there ever was a powerful tool that is truly helpful in every situation, it is the consistent practice of choosing peace. Remembering, “I could choose peace instead of this,” brings me back to connecting with my true Source of strength — the Holy Spirit in my mind. Just like an airplane makes constant corrections as it flies to its destination, I need constant correction as I go through my day.

The Holy Spirit’s use of time is to remove the barriers to Love’s Presence. Choosing peace and allowing peace to fill my mind brings a beautiful correction in how I perceive each circumstance as I go through the day.

The Holy Spirit knows how to lead me Home; I don’t. So I need the constant application of peace, the healing antidote to every form of tension or conflict. This is why my practice for today is to consistently step back and choose peace again and again, all through the day. This is how I allow the Holy Spirit to lead me Home. And I give thanks.

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Letting the Holy Spirit Be My Interpreter

Robert:
The A Course in Miracles tells us to ask of everything, “What is this for?” The ego’s purpose for everything that I perceive is to make separation appear real and to reinforce guilt. The Holy Spirit’s purpose for everything is to help us awaken to the truth that we remain Love as Love created us. In every moment we do ask this question. The key is whether are we paying attention to the ego’s answer or the Holy Spirit’s.

The way I keep my attention on aligning with the Holy Spirit’s purpose is to stay in peace. In peace I am receptive to Holy Spirit’s interpretation in the present moment.

Today my practice is to be mindful of my level of peace. And if I observe any disturbance, to step back into peace. As I do this and open my mind to Holy Spirit’s inspiration, my doing will be in the service of Holy Spirit’s purpose. And my experience of peace and happiness will be magnified.

Mary:
Today it is my opportunity to remember that I rest in God. And because I am one with every brother, everyone rests in God with me.

Everyone is still as God created them, no matter what it looks like in the ego’s world of separate bodies. Everyone is joined in the one Christ Mind, where they reside eternally. There is on life and that is the life we live in God.

My opportunity today is to have an open mind to receive Holy Spirit’s interpretation of everything I see in this world. Today is another opportunity to allow my mind to be healed of all the false ideas that clutter up my mind. If I see anything that disturbs me, it is another opportunity to hand it over to the Holy Spirit to receive a correction in my perception. This is how I wake up from the dream. This is how the awareness of What I am and Where I am returns. And I give thanks for another day of practice in forgiving the world for all I thought it was.

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