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I Am as God Created Me

Robert:
If I want to experience the boundless joy, deep peace and all encompassing Love of God, I need to do just one thing: I need to accept that I remain as God created me. Nothing more, nothing less.

All that stands between me and the acceptance of What I am is the wish for specialness. This wish is displayed before me in everything I perceive in the world. It is the cause of all image making because the only way that specialness can seem to be accomplished is through images that cover over the formlessness of Love. The appearance of disaster is just as much an effect of the wish for specialness as the appearance of circumstances that I deem desirable.

As I work with A Course in Miracles it is becoming more and more clear to me that no thing, no circumstance, will ever bring me lasting happiness. There is truly no value in the images of the world. The daily practice of asking Holy Spirit to be my interpreter of all things is teaching me to recognize what is valueless and what is valuable. As I recognize the valueless, I automatically let it go and no longer seek for it. Letting go of the valueless carries no sense of loss.

The more I am vigilant to receive Holy Spirit’s vision, the more I free myself from the barriers that interfere with remembering and accepting that I remain as God created me. Today is another happy day of vigilance.

Mary:
If I remain as God created me, then I am still God’s Love and nothing else. Because this is the truth about everyone in the world, everyone in this world is still God’s Love and nothing else.

If I believe that something else is true, then my mind needs purification. Purification happens naturally when I am willing to remember that on my own I know nothing. The idea that I could be on my own is pure insanity.

Today it is my opportunity to step back again and again and again from what I am seeing through the body’s eyes, which only show me separation. Today it is my opportunity to become as a little child and willingly receive the Light of truth. The Light of truth always shows me that I am still as God created, along with every brother. The Light of truth shows me we are one Self in eternal Love. My opportunity today is to relax, step back and let the Holy Spirit return me to my right mind, where I experience the peace of God. This is my salvation. This is where all lasting happiness is found.

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The Place of Inner Quiet

Mary:
Today as I open to that place of inner quiet, I am shown that my practice for today is to allow the veil be lifted, to see past separate minds to the one Mind of Love That is the truth in us all. To let the veil be lifted, I must allow in the inner calm of my inner Teacher. I must be willing to follow and not bring the stories of the past with me. I must remember I do not know and be willing to receive the mind purification that comes with willingness to receive the truth. I must be willing to not take the stories of the world so seriously.

As I practice this letting go of what I think I know, I am brought to a peace that is beyond this world and I see once again that only Love is there where I thought there was something else. This is my opportunity today to once again open to letting my mind be purified and brought to the truth. Only this brings me lasting happiness. And the happiness found in the Mind of our one united Self is all I want and all I need.

Holy Spirit to Robert:
Learn to let your true Self guide all your hearing and seeing. Your true Self knows you are not a body, a personality or individual, nor is anyone else. As you practice stepping back into the quiet peace of your true Self, judgment fades away and conflict goes with it. In that quiet place, you join with your Self see your brother as he is, free of the past and fully revealed in the present. This vision shows you What you are in truth, for your brother is one with you. Today practice stepping back and letting your Self lead the way.

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From Uncertainty to Certainty

Holy Spirit to Robert:
Uncertainty is a condition of the ego. Illusion can never be certain. Certainty can only be found in Reality, the changelessness of Love. When you feel uncertain, it is a sign that you are attempting to choose between illusions. You have convinced yourself that what you seem to be choosing between are real alternatives. But any time you are choosing between forms, you are attempting to choose between illusions, which is not a choice at all.

This is why the Course talks so much about learning to recognize illusions for what they are. This would not be a difficult lesson to learn if you had not convinced yourself that illusions offer you something you want. You do not really want illusions. This is a central idea the Course attempts to teach. It is a lesson you ultimately must and will learn. When you learn it depends upon your willingness to accept a better way, a way that will bring you lasting happiness in place of temporary highs.

As you go through your day today, remember A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 128, “This world I see holds nothing that I want.” Remind yourself of this many times throughout the day. It does not matter whether or not you believe this now. This practice will help you with every seeming decision in the world. It will help you step back from the importance you place on your decisions in the world. This opens the door of willingness to see it differently with My help. It gives Me an opportunity to show you a real Alternative to what you perceive, which will lead you to the experience of joy beyond anything this world has to offer.

Mary:
ACIM Workbook Lesson 129 tells me, “Beyond this world there is a world I want.” The Holy Spirit is leading us very gently to recognize that separation is not what we want. The happiness we are really seeking is found beyond this world — Love’s world of oneness. We are being led to our real Mind that is beyond the ego mind.

As we open to our real Mind, we feel a sense of calmness. We feel the calmness because there is no conflict in oneness. There is no conflict in eternity. There is only peace and true everlasting happiness.

My deepest desire today is to welcome the experience of calm and certainty that comes with joining with the Holy Spirit. In this healing state of mind, I am led in the moment in how to be truly helpful. And for this I give thanks.

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Remembering the Truth

Mary & Robert:
In our reading in A Course in Miracles this morning, we found this really helpful:

What but Christ’s vision would I use today, when it can offer me a day in which I see a world so like to Heaven that an ancient memory returns to me? Today I can forget the world I made. Today I can go past all fear, and be restored to love and holiness and peace. Today I am redeemed, and born anew into a world of mercy and of care; of loving kindness and the peace of God. …In gratitude and thankfulness we come, with empty hands and open hearts and minds, asking but what You give. (W-pII.306.1,2:2)

With all the fear generated by what appears to be going on in the world, we can be truly helpful by handing over the world’s fear stories to the Holy Spirt and opening to the fact that we remain as God created us, and that we are safe in the Love and peace of God. We do this by stepping back, taking time to tune in to the peace within and opening our minds to the Holy Spirit’s perception. This how we learn to recognize where our real safety lies. We dedicate this day to remembering the truth with the Holy Spirit.

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Opening to Happiness

Holy Spirit to Robert:
The ego is a perpetual pessimist. Driven by the maxim “seek and do not find,” it has no hope of ever finding happiness. The ego does not tell you that it is the denial of happiness. Instead it makes up myriad forms and tries to convince you that if you obtain these forms you will be happy. Yet each time you obtain any of these forms, you find you are not satisfied. The ego says, “Not to worry. Here’s another form to try for.” It may even encourage guilt by suggesting that you should have known better than to try for that other form. Seek not the ego’s counsel for what would make you happy. It does not know and can only offer you empty substitutes.

There is a Place in you That holds the Flame of happiness eternally. Turn to It to let It light your way to the Home where happiness is eternal and Love is without end. You cannot put out this Flame because Its Source is God. It is your Self, your true Identity, which cannot be altered. This Self recognizes the truth in you and in all your brothers. Its Light shows you clearly that all that is real is One and can never be divided nor lost.

Turn to this Light in you and let It show you the Light that is in all. When you look into this Light, you recognize that It has no end. There is nothing outside this Light. This Light is you, united with your Source. Here is peace and strength. Here is certainty and safety. Here is the joyous, radiating extension of the Light of Love. Here is Heaven, your Home. Accept It and know that It is yours. In your acceptance, you remember peace.

Holy Spirit to Mary:
To be truly helpful you need to relax and step back from the ego’s thoughts about what is true in this world. You must be willing to let go of all you think you know and learned from the past. Be as a little child that is willing to listen and be told. Listen in quiet. Let your mind be purified of all the ego’s false ideas. Be willing to receive the peace that replaces the fearful thoughts of the ego. Be willing to rest in the truth today. This is how to be truly helpful.

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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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