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Let Go of Belief in the Story

Mary:
Yesterday evening, we watched the move, “The Queen,” with Helen Mirren in the title role. Very early this morning, I woke up with that movie in my mind. Spirit was there with me as we reviewed the movie together. We saw that even though the queen had a life of wealth and privilege, her life was still a struggle. Her life was a disappointment and did not go the way she wanted it to.

Spirit gently reminded me that every life story, as long as we choose to believe in it, is a struggle. The only way out of the struggle is to forgive, or let my belief in the story go. Inside us all is the truth that we are all still joined in the one Mind of perfect Love. We have been given all of God and we cannot lose what we have been given. And because we are all one, we share the Mind of God as one. This means we all have it all; there is no lack of any kind. There is no guilt, and because we are eternal, there is no birth and no death.

I see now that the way out of every struggle is to hand it over, not to try to make it work out the way I want it to. The truth is that only Love is. Only God is. There is nothing else. The stories of separation into different identities are nowhere and nothing. We all share one Mind. As we are willing to let the awareness of Love’s eternal Presence return to our mind, we find peace. We find happiness. We find that we have All That is, because we share All That is with everyone. We share one universal Mind forever.

I am seeing now how important it is that I give up my belief in all the stories of separation and separate identities. This is the meaning of forgiveness. I don’t have to try to change the oneness of God. I can accept God’s gift of oneness instead of trying to replace it with separation. Accepting the truth is all I want and all I need to find everlasting happiness.

Robert:
To forgive the world I need to recognize that there is no value in it. I cannot look to the ego to learn this. The ego teaches only one lesson — that separation is real and guilt is justified. It is clear that I have learned the ego’s lesson well. But this lesson has not brought me peace nor happiness. In fact it has brought me the opposite.

To learn the lesson that will set me free I need to turn to the Light of Love within me and let It show me what is really there. The Light of Love will show me that no form has any value and It will teach me to see the Love that is everywhere. Like everyone, all I really want is Love. I have been mistaken about what Love is. But as I am willing to see with the Light of Love that is within me, I will learn to let go of the barriers to the awareness of Love’s Presence.

My prayer today is to let the strength of Love in me guide my seeing. This is how I will learn to recognize the valuelessness of the images of the world and see the Love that is the truth in every brother and in all things. I welcome this lesson today.

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