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Letting Go of What I Think I Know

Robert:
In today’s reading in A Course in Miracles, these sentences stood out to me: “Your function here is only to decide against deciding what you want, in recognition that you do not know. Leave all decisions to the One Who speaks for God, and for your function as He knows it.” (T-14.IV.5:2,4)

It is interesting to observe how easily I am tempted to make plans and decide what I need to do to accomplish what I think needs to happen. Clearly all of this effort is based on making decisions on my own about what I want and how to get it. Yet as I was reminded yesterday, I really don’t know what anything means. So these decisions must be based on fantasy. Plans based on fantasy can never bring a sense of certainty and peace.

If I want the peace and certainty of God, I must let go of making plans on my own. I must be willing to follow the One Who speaks for God. Not only does this relieve me of the burden of making decisions based on incomplete and faulty information, but it will always lead me to the remembrance of my place in Heaven. It leads me to the recognition of my guiltlessness, which meets the necessary condition for knowing my oneness with my Creator. This is no small thing. It is all I really want. Today is another happy day of practice in stepping back and following Holy Spirit’s lead.

Mary:
Today is another day of practicing forgiving or letting go of what I think I know. The stories of separate bodies are not what God created and so they are not real. My continuing to make them seem real is just resistance to knowing what my Father knows.

Today is a day of stepping back and listening to my inner Teacher. As I am willing to let my mind quiet of all the senseless musings of the ego mind, I give the Holy Spirit a chance to return me to the truth. Opening my mind to the thoughts of the Holy Spirit is what today is for.

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