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Willing to Follow

Mary:
In our reading of A Course in Miracles, this is what stands out in Workbook Lesson 69:

Try to remember that you are at last joining your will to God’s. Try to keep the thought clearly in mind that what you undertake with God must succeed. Then let the power of God work in you and through you, that His Will and yours be done.” (W-pI.69.8:4-6)

To let the power of God work in me and through me, I must become as a little child. I must let go of the reins. I ask Holy Spirit how to do this. The Holy Spirit reminds me to relax and let go of all body tension… Holy Spirit reminds me again and again and again to relax and let go of the past, to let go of thinking that I know anything… I need to continue to let go until there is a strong feeling of quietness… I must place all I think I know on God’s altar, where all that is not helpful disappears in the Light… I continue this process of letting go… I am reminded once again that it is not my job to make anything happen.

In this place of quietness there is a growing sense of peace… I am more willing to follow where peace leads me in my mind… I see that joining with God’s power lies in my willingness to accept God’s peace… I am aware that my job is to continue to accept God’s peace and follow where peace leads me all day today. As I practice this everything falls into place, with God’s Will leading the way… Easy does it…

Robert:
Every day I make plans. Every day I am reminded to let them go and follow Holy Spirit’s lead. It is interesting to observe how tenaciously I hang on to the belief that I can make meaningful plans on my own. I certainly have had plenty of demonstrations that my self-made plans do not get me what I really want. But in line with the ego’s motto, “seek and do not find,” I keep trying again to make some plan that I think will get me something I value.

Still I see progress. I more quickly recognize when I’m trying to take control and I more quickly step back. I still hold some areas back as ones that I am clearly more qualified to plan for. Of course I get the consequences of those plans and eventually get the message that I’m not as qualified as I think. These self-made attempts to plan and analyze to resolve problems simply delay my return to the happiness and peace that God has already given.

I am grateful that I have gotten a taste of the happiness and peace and Love that is within me when I am willing to set aside my little ideas of what I am and what the world is. I am grateful that I have the means in my mind to learn to see past the false images of the dream and see the reality of Love everywhere. I am grateful that as I forgive the past I move into the happy dream, where I see all images with forgiving eyes that let the Light of Love shine through. Today is another happy day of practice.

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Let Love Carry You

Holy Spirit to Robert:
Rest in My Love. Rest in My Love as you work at the computer. Rest in My Love as you go to the post office. Rest in My Love as you talk on the phone. Rest in My Love as you eat your meals. We walk together, you and I. Let My Love carry you through the day, remembering My Love is yours, for there is but One. Welcome Love and be happy.

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Let yourself be carried by Love today. Give time to receiving the gift of Love being extended to you… Give time to allowing Love to be extended through you… As you practice this, everything else disappears in Love’s Light.

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Forgiveness: The Key to Happiness

Robert:
I’m getting it: Forgiveness is the key to happiness. Forgiveness is how I let go of the battle against the world and the battle against God. Judgment and unhappiness go together. I think I’m getting it that I’d rather be happy than be right in my judgments.

A Course in Miracles is so infused with the importance of forgiveness that it seems a wonder that it has taken so long to recognize the beautiful treasure that forgiveness offers. But the Course acknowledges that we resist its message of forgiveness because we still hold out hope that the world still offers us something we want.

So I have been practicing forgiveness because that is what the Course told me to do. At first it was just on blind faith with little confidence that there would be any benefit, or that I could even truly forgive. But like it says in the introduction to the Workbook, you do not have to believe in what it is telling you. In fact you can actively resist it. Just do the exercises anyway.

I feel that now I am experiencing some of the payoff, the great blessing, that forgiveness offers. I’m recognizing that forgiveness offers me what I want more than anything in the world. My judgments still get triggered and I lose my sense of peace and happiness, but I am less and less willing to sit in that unhappiness. The need for forgiveness comes to mind quickly and I offer my disturbance to the Holy Spirit, asking His help to see as He sees. As I accept His vision, my happiness is restored.

I thank you Father for your gifts to me.

Mary:
As I get quiet and listen, I am reminded that there is only one Self. There is only one Mind. This same Mind belongs to everyone. We are one Self, joined in the Mind of God. Today my practice is to give time to returning to that Mind in quiet listening. What I experience is beyond words. Letting go of the little separated mind is all this day is for.

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Make Way for Peace

Mary:
In our reading of A Course in Miracles this morning, what stood out to me was prayer in Workbook Lesson 208:

I will be still and let the earth be still along with me. And in that stillness we will find the peace of God. It is within my heart, which witnesses to God Himself. (ACIM W-pI.208.1:2-4)

This prayer reminds me that the peace of God is in my heart right now. It reminds me that as I am willing to be still, I find the peace of God. Here is my salvation. Here is everything I want. Today is devoted to accepting the stillness that lies within my heart. This is how I put God first.

Robert:
This prayer reminds me that

the peace of God is already in me. I can’t “make” peace; peace is an attribute of God’s creation. But to know the peace that is already in me, I need to be willing to step back from the turmoil of the world. I need to rise above the battleground and disconnect from the thought system of separation. There is no peace there.

But when I am willing to step back and let go, I make way for the peace that is always there to shine forth. So any time I notice that I am not at peace, it is time for me to step back, let go and rise above the battleground. It is not my battle and I no longer need to make it mine. I need only clear the way and peace will come of itself. So today I will practice stepping back and letting go to make way for peace, make way for God’s blessing.

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Accepting Love’s Gentleness and Patience

Mary:
This morning I was guided to return to the poster that comes with course 914: The Power of Gentleness and Patience that I keep nearby to remind me when I forget. It is so helpful to me and I want to share it with you:

My Prayer of Accepting Love’s Gentleness and Patience

Love, I surrender to Your gentle and patient care.
I let go of my perceptions of a past.
I let go of my perceptions of a future.
I accept only Your eternal Loving Presence.

I have no need to plan for my safety.
My needs are provided for continuously
in Your gentle and patient care.

I let go of all I thought the world was.
I let go of what I thought my brothers were.
I give back to You all I thought was mine alone.

I accept Love’s gentleness and patience by giving
Love’s gentleness and patience to the whole Sonship.

Robert:
The ego believes its safety lies in form. It tells me that if I have a good plan for the future, I will be safe. It tells me that if I acquire certain things and avoid other things, I’ll be safe. Yet because these forms are illusions, they are always subject to change. Either the forms themselves will change or they will not bring the effect of safety that I sought. The ego has an answer for this: Find some other form. Thus it keeps its primary goal of seek and do not find in play. No safety can ever be found in the ego thought system because it is the denial of the certainty of changeless Love.

In moments of right-mindedness, I feel the all encompassing presence of Love. I feel safe in Its changelessness. I feel blessed by Love’s flow through me as it joins with all my brothers. I am certain that all my needs are met. But I toggle between this alive and peaceful feeling and the uncertainty and vulnerability that comes when I think I am a body in a world where everything seems a potential threat. The idea of changeless Love seems like a meaningless fantasy that could not possibly protect me from the dangers of the world.

I am grateful now that I know that I have the means in my mind to let go of this fearful image of myself and remember Who I really am. I remember the right-minded moments when I recognized the safety and certainty of Love reflected in the world. This motivates me to practice offering all my fearful thoughts, all my attempts at planning for my safety, to the Holy Spirit in quiet. As I am truly willing to receive His answer, all my perceived problems are quietly resolved. And so today is another day of happy practice of turning my thoughts over to the Holy Spirit and following His lead.

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Remembering We Are Love

Mary:
In this morning’s reading in A Course in Miracles, the key phrase that is helpful to my awakening is, “God is but Love, and therefore so am I.” Today my function is to experience this, not only to take in the words, but to allow the feeling of this truth to come through. As I open to the experience of being only Love, there is a powerful knowing that everyone is now the same Love that I am. There are no differences in Love. This universal Love is the truth about us all right now because Love is eternal and changeless.

Today as I observe all the stories going on in this world of separation, I see that I can very quietly remember the truth about us all. I can remember that we are all share in God’s universal Love. This remembering helps all the stories of guilt and danger to fade — all the stories of oil spills and conflict — they are simply reflections of the false belief that we could be separate from God.

The laughing Buddha comes to mind as I practice opening to the truth that we are all God’s Love eternally and none of the scary stories are true. We are all still safe as God created us. Our Father has made a heavenly Home for us and we are willing to cease our mind wanderings. God is but Love, and so is God’s one Son — and this includes everyone; no one is left behind, no one is forgotten. Today I am willing to experience this truth. This is my top priority.

Robert:
All I really want is to remember Who I am. Today I can take steps that will lead me closer to this goal. Today I will practice being mindful of my thoughts and feelings and looking at all of them with the Holy Spirit. He will help me sort the true from the false. He will help me see the Love beyond the images of the world. He will help me see the Love that I am. So today I will step back and let Him lead the way.

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Let My Mind Be Healed Today

Robert:
I am reminded of the words from a song: “Love is something if you give it away, you’ll end up having more.” Love is a gift that keeps on giving. Each time I let the Love in my heart extend, I feel blessed. When I see the Love in a brother, I feel blessed. This is why forgiveness is the key to happiness. When I let go of perception of offense by a brother, the barrier to Love is removed and I see the Love that is always there. And I feel blessed.

Holy Spirit, guide my vision today. Help me see the Love that you see. Help me let go of false perceptions that interfere with this recognition of eternal Love. For today I would learn of your lesson of Love that I may remember Who I am.

Mary:
This morning as I go into a place of quiet, I am reminded to forgive the dream of separation… to let it go. Attachment to the dream of separation is really attachment to nothing. In truth I am not a separate self. I am not alone and different. In truth I am united with every brother in the Mind of Love. In truth, the one Mind of Love is all we are or ever can be.

My job now is to let go of taking illusions seriously. This brings me the great blessing of inner peace and joy. The truth is true and nothing else is true. My only goal is to be open to receive the truth from the Holy Spirit today.

Love is. God is. Nothing else is real. I wake up as I willingly let what is not real pass by. I no longer desire to be lost in illusions of separation and differences. Holy Spirit, I let my mind be healed today. That is what today is for and I give thanks.

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