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Holy Spirit, Take the Wheel

Letting Holy Spirit take the wheel is always the best policy. It puts in charge the Presence That has the vision, not only to see the road in front, but also what has gone by and is yet to come. I need nothing more than that.

My job is to get over myself and any thinking that I have any clue from the past how to make plans for the future. The part of my mind that thinks it has a clue is addicted to making plans to feel secure. Yet these plans are based upon a perception of the past that has no substance and therefore cannot make a plan that can successfully make me truly safe.

My job today is to accept Holy Spirit’s lead and let go of any idea of having a separate will that is in opposition to the Holy Spirit’s, a.k.a. God’s Will. This makes sense when I remember that God’s Will for me is perfect happiness. This is all I really want. So today is another day to practice following the lead that will take me to the perfect happiness that is my inheritance.

Today my practice is enhanced by allowing my mind to be emptied of all I think I know about what is best for me or best for anyone else. Giving time to quiet openness to God’s Will is how I am led with quiet certainty. This is my practice for today.

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We Share One Life

Father, our Name is Yours. In It we are united with all living things, and You Who are their one Creator. What we made and call by many different names is but a shadow we have tried to cast across Your Own reality. And we are glad and thankful we were wrong. All our mistakes we give to You, that we may be absolved from all effects our errors seemed to have. And we accept the truth You give, in place of every one of them. Your Name is our salvation and escape from what we made. Your Name unites us in the oneness which is our inheritance and peace. Amen. (A Course in Miracles W-pI.184.15)

Today is a day for remembering that we all share equally in the one Mind of God. In truth there are no differences. My job today is to hand over all my belief in differences to the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit That undoes all illusions.

I cannot do this on my own. I need not keep these mistaken thoughts of separate identities. My freedom lies in not keeping them, but handing them over for a complete thought reversal. This is what brings me happiness. This is what brings me peace. And I give thanks.

It’s interesting to observe that some of my judgments seem to bring comfort. For example, if I hear someone expressing political views I agree with, I will listen. But if someone is expressing political views I disagree with, I’ll tune them out or switch channels.

In my quest to heal my mind, I am more likely to recognize the disturbance I feel by opposing political views and bring that disturbance to the Holy Spirit for help in seeing as Love sees. This is helpful, but it’s not enough.

I am less inclined to bring my judgments about agreeable political views to the Holy Spirit to ask for help in seeing as Love sees. Yet if I am singling out one view over another, I am still choosing separation’s perception of differences over the oneness that Love sees. If I truly want to awaken from the dream of separation, I must hold back no judgment from Love’s gentle correction.

My function is to see everyone as Love’s extension whether or not I agree with their political views. So today is another day to practice bringing all my perceptions to the Holy Spirit for help in seeing as Love sees.

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Make Way for Happiness

When I allow myself to rest in God, I accept perfect happiness. God’s Will for me is perfect happiness. When I look for something in the world to make me happy, for circumstances to be to my liking or anyone to behave the way I think they should, I am denying God’s Will for me. I’m choosing fantasy over truth. Sometimes this choice may bring me something I think I want and I may think I am happy because of it. But because it is a fantasy, it can never last.

My true happiness comes from within because the Love of God is in me. It cannot be found outside because there is nothing outside. Today I will be mindful of when I am looking outside of me for satisfaction or happiness. When I recognize this I will bring that thought to the Holy Spirit and ask His help to see the truth beyond the mistaken idea. This is how I will let go of the grievances that come with thinking I have not found happiness in the world. This is how I make way for the perfect happiness that is God’s Will for me.

I make way for happiness when I am willing to open to the Holy Spirit’s blessings in the present moment. The Holy Spirit is always there waiting to bring me out of the illusions of separation to the truth. Each present moment is another opportunity to accept help from the Holy Spirit. This is my practice for today.

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Opening to Love’s Blessing

God is. Love is. There is nothing else. This is the lesson I came to learn. This is why my practice is to learn that I know nothing on my own. This is why my practice is to become as a little child with a mind open to be taught. This why I must let go of the past and let the Holy Spirit replace these false images with the truth. God is. Love is. This is my mantra for today — to remember again and again throughout the day.

I dedicate all my doing today to the service of Love’s expression. This is how I will learn that Love is everywhere and everything. This is how I will learn of the Oneness I share with my Creator. This is how I will accept Love’s blessing.

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Complete Protection Surrounds You

This morning I am guided to give time to melting into God’s peace… Here I let go of everything I think I know… I give time to let ego thoughts be gently washed away…

Here I give time to rest in the truth… Here there is quiet… Here there is Love… Here I receive the experience of knowing that complete protection surrounds me… Here I become aware of the many blessings that come with accepting peace…

As I am willing to give time to remembering that I am always safe in God’s Love, I allow the Holy Spirit to do Its healing work. It is always there when I willing to receive Holy Spirit’s healing peace. And for this I give thanks.

Holy Spirit, help me to see every brother through Your vision. With Your help, I will remember that everyone remains Love as Love created them. I ask Your help to release judgments that block this vision from my awareness. The vision that Love shows me reminds me that I am fully protected by the strength of Love and that there is no other strength. With Your help, this I what I will see today.

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Forgiveness Offers Everything

Anything that disturbs my peace is reflecting back to me my belief in guilt and separation. Loss of peace is a call for forgiveness, for letting go of judgment. The sooner I am willing to bring any disturbing thought or perception to the Holy Spirit for His gentle correction, the sooner I will return to peace and quiet joy that is my natural state as God’s Son.

Today I will practice mindfulness and bring every disturbance to the Source of truth in me to receive the gentle correction that leads me Home.

Forgiveness offers me rest from the conflict and turmoil of the world. Today forgiveness offers me all that I want. Forgiveness offers all that I need.

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Finding Certainty

It’s interesting to observe that I feel unsettled when I don’t have an idea of what the future will bring. This unsettled feeling comes from believing that I must have a plan and it’s up to me to make it. In this mindset, I have excluded Holy Spirit, my true Self. By this exclusion, I have cut myself off from the only Source of stability, from the changeless and eternal.

But the Holy Spirit has never left my mind. It is always present, ready to guide me back to certainty and peace. Holy Spirit, I bring my uncertainty to You and ask Your help to see past it to the certainty You know. I am willing to accept Your Gift. I am willing to see as You see and accept Your purpose for the world. With Your help, I will loose the world from all I thought it was and I will rest in Your gentle peace. In gratitude I receive.

In order to receive Holy Spirit’s gifts, I must be willing to receive the peace that goes beyond this world. I dedicate today to receiving Holy Spirit’s gift of peace. And what I receive I give, for giving and receiving are the same. This is how I can be truly helpful.

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