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How to Have a Happy Journey to Peace

Before you make any decisions for yourself, remember that you have decided against your function in Heaven, and then consider carefully whether you want to make decisions here. Your function here is only to decide against deciding what you want, in recognition that you do not know. How, then, can you decide what you should do? Leave all decisions to the One Who speaks for God, and for your function as He knows it. So will He teach you to remove the awful burden you have laid upon yourself by loving not the Son of God, and trying to teach him guilt instead of love.

When you have learned how to decide with God, all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing. There is no effort, and you will be led as gently as if you were being carried down a quiet path in summer. Only your own volition seems to make deciding hard. The Holy Spirit will not delay in answering your every question what to do. He knows. And He will tell you, and then do it for you.

God can communicate only to the Holy Spirit in your mind, because only He shares the knowledge of what you are with God. And only the Holy Spirit can answer God for you, for only He knows what God is. Everything else that you have placed within your mind cannot exist, for what is not in communication with the Mind of God has never been. Communication with God is life. Nothing without it is at all. (A Course in Miracles, T-14.IV.5:1-5;6:1-6;10:3-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The ego is arrogant. It is the belief that it can successfully make a world that excludes God. When we believe we are a body, an image made by the ego, we are participating in the ego’s arrogance. As the source of all problems, the ego tells us it knows how to solve problems. But the source of a problem by definition does not know how to solve it. As long as we participate in this charade, we will experience a constant stream of problems made to “prove” the ego has successfully denied God.

The way out of this conundrum is to humbly accept that we do not know how to solve any problem as long as we identify with the ego. The Holy Spirit, Who has not been hoodwinked by the ego, knows the solution to every perceived problem we experience. We access His solutions by first acknowledging that we do not know what to say, do or think. Then we open to the Holy Spirit’s inspiration by letting ourselves relax and welcome God’s peace.

When we keep an open mind, the Holy Spirit will inspire us with a solution in which everyone is blessed. The form the inspiration takes will be given us in a way that we can understand and accept. It may be simply a change in our perception that helps us to see it differently and recognize the presence of Love. Or we may be inspired to say or do something that helps extend Love into the situation. It may even be inspiration that helps us fix a machine or a computer. The solution always leads to increased peace of mind. It is always in some way truly helpful.

Let us join together today in letting the Holy Spirit guide all our decisions. It will be a happy journey toward peace.

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