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Remember to Call for Holy Spirit’s Help

I need but call and You will answer me.

I am not asked to take salvation on the basis of an unsupported faith. ²For God has promised He will hear my call, and answer me Himself. ³Let me but learn from my experience that this is true, and faith in Him must surely come to me. ⁴This is the faith that will endure, and take me farther and still farther on the road that leads to Him. ⁵For thus I will be sure that He has not abandoned me and loves me still, awaiting but my call to give me all the help I need to come to Him.

Father, I thank You that Your promises will never fail in my experience, if I but test them out. ²Let me attempt therefore to try them, and to judge them not. ³Your Word is one with You. ⁴You give the means whereby conviction comes, and surety of Your abiding Love is gained at last. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 327. See also ACIM Lesson 327 Insights.)

God gave us His Voice to guide us on our return to our Home with Him in Heaven. But we must be willing to listen. That is the last thing the ego would want us to do. It bombards us with myriad distracting thoughts that keep us preoccupied with the thought system of separation.

We can break free from the ego’s imprisoning thoughts, but it takes vigilance and practice. We need to be vigilant to recognize fear-based thoughts and ask the Holy Spirit to heal them. This is a daily minute-by-minute practice. The more we recognize thoughts that disturb our peace and ask the Holy Spirit for His help to see the truth beyond the ego’s perceptions, the more peaceful our lives will be. We will increasingly experience the Love we are and the Love that joins us with every brother.

As we begin this practice, we may only occasionally remember to ask the Holy Spirit’s help. Each time we remember to accept His help teaches us that we can count on His answer to our call. Our confidence in His guidance grows. Success motivates willingness. We remember more and more frequently to ask for Holy Spirit’s guidance. It is worth the practice.

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Willingness to Learn from the Holy Spirit

It is your Father’s holy Will that you complete Himself, and that your Self shall be His sacred Son, forever pure as He, of love created and in love preserved, extending love, creating in its name, forever one with God and with your Self.

⁵God created One Who has the power to translate in form the wholly formless. ⁶What He makes are dreams, but of a kind so close to waking that the light of day already shines in them, and eyes already opening behold the joyful sights their offerings contain.

Forgiveness gently looks upon all things unknown in Heaven, sees them disappear, and leaves the world a clean and unmarked slate on which the Word of God can now replace the senseless symbols written there before. ²Forgiveness is the means by which the fear of death is overcome, because it holds no fierce attraction now and guilt is gone.

⁵Only forgiveness can relieve the mind of thinking that the body is its home. ⁶Only forgiveness can restore the peace that God intended for His holy Son. ⁷Only forgiveness can persuade the Son to look again upon his holiness. (A Course in Miracles, W-192.1:1;3:5-4:2;5:5-7A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 192, )

Forgiveness is the key to happiness and peace of mind. It sees past the images of the world—the forms that seem to come and go, bringing moments of pleasure that can quickly turn into fear and pain. Forgiveness reveals the changeless Love that unites us with every brother held safely in the mind of Love.

No matter how enticing the images of the world seem, they represent a barrier the ego conjures to hide the truth of Love’s presence. Love has no form. Being the denial of Love, the ego can offer only meaningless forms as a substitute for the truth. Our belief in them makes them seem real. Because of this investment in the ego, we need help from beyond this world to recognize the ego’s delusions for what they are.

The Holy Spirit is God’s Answer to our mistaken belief in separation. He communicates with us in forms we can understand to help us recognize the forms in the world stand for nothing in truth. We cannot learn this without His help. Our willingness to learn from the Holy Spirit is all that is needed for us to let Love step forward from behind the ego’s veil.

We welcome the Holy Spirit’s lessons by stepping back from our engagement in the world. We pause and focus on the peace of God within us. We relax and let peace grow stronger in our awareness. As we let peace fill our mind, the Holy Spirit speaks to us and offers His vision to see the presence of Love beyond the images of separation.

Today we practice attending to the Holy Spirit’s lessons.

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Reclaiming God’s Power and Glory

You can encounter only part of yourself because you are part of God, Who is everything. ²His power and glory are everywhere, and you cannot be excluded from them. ³The ego teaches that your strength is in you alone. ⁴The Holy Spirit teaches that all strength is in God and therefore in you. ⁵God wills no one suffer. ⁶He does not will anyone to suffer for a wrong decision, including you. ⁷That is why He has given you the means for undoing it. ⁸Through His power and glory all your wrong decisions are undone completely, releasing you and your brother from every imprisoning thought any part of the Sonship holds. ⁹Wrong decisions have no power, because they are not true. ¹⁰The imprisonment they seem to produce is no more true than they are.

Power and glory belong to God alone. ²So do you. ³God gives whatever belongs to Him because He gives of Himself, and everything belongs to Him. ⁴Giving of yourself is the function He gave you. ⁵Fulfilling it perfectly will let you remember what you have of Him, and by this you will remember also what you are in Him. ⁶You cannot be powerless to do this, because this is your power. ⁷Glory is God’s gift to you, because that is what He is. ⁸See this glory everywhere to remember what you are. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.III.7:1–8:8. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

God created His Son by giving all of Himself. As His Son, our function is to give all of ourself as God gave to us. This is Love’s only function. Because only Love is real, this is the only function that exists.

When we align with the ego’s choice for separation, we have made a wrong decision. It has no effect on the truth of What we are. But it does result in a nightmare where we experience ourselves as powerless and at the mercy of outside forces that can bring us harm. This is not so.

Though we may feel lost in the dream, God’s glory remains in us. He gave His dreaming Son the Holy Spirit to teach us the truth that we are still Love as He created us. The Holy Spirit brings us Christ’s vision which shows us the Love that is in us and surrounds us. With this vision, we are certain of our safety in our unity with our brothers.

Today we welcome the Holy Spirit’s lessons in Christ’s vision, for we would reclaim God’s gift of His power and glory.

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The Certainty of Our Home in Heaven

⁵Learn that even the darkest nightmare that disturbs the mind of God’s sleeping Son holds no power over him. ⁶He will learn the lesson of awaking. ⁷God watches over him and light surrounds him.

Can God’s Son lose himself in dreams, when God has placed within him the glad Call to waken and be glad? ²He cannot separate himself from what is in him. ³His sleep will not withstand the Call to wake. ⁴The mission of redemption will be fulfilled as surely as the creation will remain unchanged throughout eternity. ⁵You do not have to know that Heaven is yours to make it so. ⁶It is so. ⁷Yet to know it, the Will of God must be accepted as your will.

The Holy Spirit will undo for you everything you have learned that teaches that what is not true must be reconciled with truth.

⁶You will be released, and you will not remember anything you made that was not created for you and by you in return. ⁷For how can you remember what was never true, or not remember what has always been? ⁸It is this reconciliation with truth, and only truth, in which the peace of Heaven lies. (A Course in Miracles, T-13.XI.9:5–11:1,6-8.. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

The ego loves to worry. It tells us it is important for our survival. We need to be prepared to protect ourselves from something that may harm us, like the common saying, “Waiting for the other shoe to drop.” It even seems that worrying about the wellbeing of our loved ones is the kind and helpful way to be supportive. All these fear thoughts are ego mechanisms to keep us locked into its dream of fear. We need not be caught in the ego’s trap.

We can be released from this fear by accepting the Holy Spirit’s help to undo our fruitless attempts to make this frightening dream real. God guarantees that His Son share His peace and happiness. He has given the Holy Spirit the function to undo the dream. We need only be willing to accept His help to teach us to recognize what is true and dismiss the false. He is the Call to awaken from the dream and remember the certainty that Heaven is our Home.

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Willingness to Be Happy

²Your vision, given you from far beyond all things within the world, looks back on them in a new light. ³And what you see becomes the healing and salvation of the world. ⁴The valuable and valueless are both perceived and recognized for what they are. ⁵And what is worthy of your love receives your love, while nothing to be feared remains.

We will not judge today. ²We will receive but what is given us from judgment made beyond the world. ³Our practicing today becomes our gift of thankfulness for our release from blindness and from misery. ⁴All that we see will but increase our joy, because its holiness reflects our own.

Open the curtain in your practicing by merely letting go all things you think you want. ²Your trifling treasures put away, and leave a clean and open space within your mind where Christ can come, and offer you the treasure of salvation. ³He has need of your most holy mind to save the world. ⁴Is not this purpose worthy to be yours? ⁵Is not Christ’s vision worthy to be sought above the world’s unsatisfying goals? (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 164, W-164.6:2–7:4;8:1-5. See also ACIM Lesson 164 Insights.)

The key to accepting the indescribable joy God has given His Son is letting go of all things we think we want. There is nothing in the world that can offer anything remotely joyful compared to God’s gifts. Only the ego wants anything in the world. It offers myriad substitutes for God’s gifts as a defense to protect the false identity it has made. Acceptance of God’s gifts means the end of the ego.

The only interference that stands between us and the perfect happiness given by God is our fantasies that anything in the world has value. Today we remind ourselves, “I do not know what anything means. I ask Holy Spirit to judge all things on my behalf to help me recognize the meaningful and disregard the meaningless. I am willing to let go of my judgments and accept the Will of God as my own. I am willing to be happy.”

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Make Way for Love to Guide

Knowledge is not the motivation for learning this course. ²Peace is. ³This is the prerequisite for knowledge only because those who are in conflict are not peaceful, and peace is the condition of knowledge because it is the condition of the Kingdom. ⁴Knowledge can be restored only when you meet its conditions.

…the ego has no power to distract you unless you give it the power to do so. ²The ego’s voice is an hallucination. ³You cannot expect it to say “I am not real.” ⁴Yet you are not asked to dispel your hallucinations alone. ⁵You are merely asked to evaluate them in terms of their results to you. ⁶If you do not want [the hallucinations] on the basis of loss of peace, they will be removed from your mind for you.

Your past learning must have taught you the wrong things, simply because it has not made you happy. ²On this basis alone its value should be questioned.

²You cannot learn simultaneously from two teachers who are in total disagreement about everything. ³Their joint curriculum presents an impossible learning task. ⁴They are teaching you entirely different things in entirely different ways, which might be possible except that both are teaching you about yourself. ⁵Your reality is unaffected by both, but if you listen to both, your mind will be split about what your reality is. (A Course in Miracles, T-8.I.1:1-4;2:1-6;4:1-2;6:2-5. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

In every moment we choose which teacher we would listen to. One teaches Love in an environment of perfect peace. The other denies Love and teaches hate and conflict.

This world is the effect of choosing to deny the oneness of Love. Lasting peace is impossible here. Though our experience in this world shows us that we have chosen the wrong teacher, we have not lost the Teacher God gave us in response to our mistaken choice.

The Holy Spirit is always in our mind, no matter how engaged we are in the ego’s dream. We can choose to pay attention to the ego by choosing peace. We step back from our engagement with the conflicts of the world. We rise above the battleground as we let the peace of God come forward. Peace is the nature of our true Self.

As we let peace step forward, the Holy Spirit’s guidance will teach us how to see beyond the world’s conflict. He will teach us to recognize they have no substance in truth so we can let them go. Our life becomes more peaceful as we let the Love of our true Self direct our thoughts and actions.

We choose peace today to make way for Love to guide our ways and awaken us to our Home in Love.

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In Peace God’s Voice Is Clear

If you will lay aside the ego’s voice, however loudly it may seem to call; if you will not accept its petty gifts that give you nothing that you really want; if you will listen with an open mind, that has not told you what salvation is; then you will hear the mighty Voice of truth, quiet in power, strong in stillness, and completely certain in Its messages.

Listen, and hear your Father speak to you through His appointed Voice, which silences the thunder of the meaningless, and shows the way to peace to those who cannot see. ²Be still today and listen to the truth.

Be not afraid today to circumvent the voices of the world. ²Walk lightly past their meaningless persuasion. ³Hear them not. ⁴Be still today and listen to the truth. ⁵Go past all things which do not speak of Him Who holds your happiness within His Hand, held out to you in welcome and in love. ⁶Hear only Him today, and do not wait to reach Him longer. ⁷Hear one Voice today. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 106, W-106.1:1–2:2;3. See also ACIM Lesson 106 Insights.)

Behind all the things we think we want in the world is our call to return to Love. The answer to this call cannot be found in the world. It only offers the ego’s empty substitutes for Love that shine with the glitter of specialness. They seem to satisfy temporarily but soon fade, for the ego’s offerings are illusions that have no substance.

All we really want is to remember the Love God has already given us. Being still is the means to connect with this Love. Let the peace of God within rise to the surface and bless our mind. In this peace God’s Voice is clear. It leads us to recognize the presence of Love in which we live.

Today we practice stilling our mind to welcome the peace of God and let His Voice speak to us of the Life we live in God.

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