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Accepting God’s Gift of Peace

Robert:
When I allow myself to settle into peace, I feel safe and I recognize the truth in everyone as my Friend. I am comforted by the confidence that I am carried in God’s Love. There is no concern about the future and the past is a faded image in my mind. I feel the steadfastness of God’s Love.

This state of mind is available to me in every moment. I receive it when I am willing to join with my true Self — the extension of God’s Love. Disturbance of any kind is simply a signal to step back and return to peace. Today is another day to practice this.

Mary:
The practice of stepping back and accepting God’s gift of peace opens the door to the awareness of Love’s presence. Receiving peace is the catalyst that lifts the veil of the ego’s false ideas and clears the air of fear thoughts. Peace is all I want and all I need. This simplifies everything.

The statement from A Course in Miracles, “I could choose peace instead of this,” is a very helpful reminder when I get lost in believing in differences. This habit is so helpful and returns my mind to sanity. In truth there is nothing but Love and accepting peace is the path by which the Holy Spirit once again returns me to the truth.

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Relax and Let the Truth Return

Robert:
My heart is filled with gratitude. I am grateful that my inner Teacher has infinite patience and will never give up on me. I’m grateful that there is a part of my mind that does not buy any of the dream that seems so engaging. I am grateful that I always have a loving Friend ready to help when I am willing to accept it. I am grateful that I have the help I need to let go of the images that have seemed so real, so threatening and so immovable.

I am grateful that my Self will always provide a plan that leads to my release from the sense of separation that makes loss and lack seem real. I always have within me the means to loose the world from all I thought it was and awaken to the certainty, peace and joy of the eternal Love that is my Home. My heart is filled with gratitude.

Mary:
The stories of the world are so complex and filled with guilt and suffering. I am grateful that I have the means right in my mind that releases me from these stories. These stories seem endless if I grab on to them and hold them dear. The good news is that I have a Teacher That resides right in my mind that lifts me up and frees me from these complex and sorry stories.

The way to connect with this powerful inner Teacher is to be willing to relax my hold on the stories. If I think I already know what’s what, I will not be open to the thought reversal that my inner Teacher brings. To let go of thinking that I know anything, I have learned that taking time to relax deeply is very important. The Holy Spirit is always waiting to heal my mistaken thoughts.

I open the door to the Holy Spirit’s insight when I am willing to relax and let go of the ego’s constant chatter. I have found that the practice of relaxing all the muscles in my body helps. I also focus on accepting the healing peace that Holy Spirit brings to my conflicted mind. Taking the time to accept Holy Spirit’s gift of peace is the key to letting my mind be healed. The inner transformation that comes frees my mind from believing in the stories.

What I thought was a problem before is seen as meaningless. The mountain becomes a mole hill and is easily passed by. Grievances disappear in the the powerful Light of the Holy Spirit’s peace. I am able to see past time to the eternal truth. The veil is lifted so that I can see past the stories to the truth. The saying in the introduction to A Course in Miracles, “Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.” becomes a powerful experience rather than just words.

The Holy Spirit can then show me the unsubstantial nature of the clouds that reflect the ego’s meaningless stories of separation. What is meaningless is not a threat. What is meaningful is everything. And only God’s eternal oneness as Love is meaningful. And for this healing thought reversal, I give thanks.

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You Are Safe in God

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Remember you are safe in God and be happy. Let peace envelop all your thoughts. Let My gentleness and patience take over your mind. Let Me drive the bus. Let Me return your mind to the truth that you are still Love in the Mind of Love eternally. Let Me dissolve all fear thoughts of lack or loss. Let your mind return to God all through the day and you will know that happiness and peace are yours forever.

Holy Spirit to Robert:
Since the truth in you is changeless Love, harm or loss of any kind is impossible. You remain as Love created you eternally. Join with Me today as we remember the Love you are. Remember It by joining My vision to see the Love in all your brothers.

With this vision you will be certain of your safety and your harmlessness. Remember that I am your best Friend forever because I will never forget that you are changeless, eternal Love. Together we walk in perfect certainty, remembering that only Love is real.

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Letting My Mind Quiet

Robert:
Today we read in the Text of A Course in Miracles that the memory of God comes to the quiet mind because there is no conflict in God. It is interesting to observe how many of my thoughts are based in conflict — conflicting ideas, conflicting motives, conflicting images, conflicting beliefs and more. Any perception of form is inherently a thought of conflict. All forms are distinguished by differences between them.

Love, being formless, is conflict free. What is one cannot conflict with itself. When I see with the eyes of Love, I see everyone as one with me and so there is no conflict. When I identify anyone with a body, including myself, conflict is inevitable. I am seeing the limitless, formless Son of God as limited to a body.

The Course tells us not to mistake the body for the Son of God. If I am not in peace, then I must be believing that conflict is possible, which means that I am believing in an illusion of the Son of God, not in the reality of Love’s oneness. So today is another day to practice monitoring my level of peace. When I observe any disturbance, it is time to step back and ask the Holy Spirit to help me see with Love’s vision. This is how I forgive the past and accept Love as my reality now.

Mary:
I am seeing that letting my mind quiet is the key to happiness. My mind quiets only when I am willing to step back from the ego’s constant perception of differences. Taking time out from focusing on what the body’s eyes see and joining with the Holy Spirit, I am once again returned to the peaceful awareness that only Love is real. I need a lot of practice because it still seems far to easy to get lost in the images of separate bodies with separate interests.

Because of this, I recognize that I need to monitor all through the day where my mind is. Have I joined with the ego or the Holy Spirit in this moment? When I see that I have joined with the ego, my job is not to blame myself or make myself guilty, but rather to hand these ego thoughts over to the Holy Spirit to be transformed by the Light into true perception. Because I need the constant practice, today is another opportunity to let my mind be healed and brought to the quietness and peace of the Holy Spirit. As I let my mind quiet, I am returned to a sense of well being and happiness. And I give thanks.

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The Peace of God Is All I Want

Robert:
A Course in Miracles tells us that in quietness is every problem quietly resolved. It also tells us that the Holy Spirit’s solution is always one in which everyone gains and no one loses. However, if I want the solution to appear in a particular form, my judgment will keep me from recognizing the gain that is given me. I will not see the problem as resolved and will perceive gain as loss. Only the ego can perceive loss since the ego is the idea that separation and loss are possible.

If I am dissatisfied with the situation, the first step for me is to relax and open to the quiet peace of God within. In this quiet peace my mind is then open to see as Holy Spirit sees. This is how I let Holy Spirit lead the way. This is how I let my perception be transformed to see the real world instead of the dream of separation. The only judgment I need to accept is the Holy Spirit’s judgment that only Love is real.

Today I will practice keeping my attention on Holy Spirit’s vision. This is how I loose the world from all I thought it was.

Mary:
My practice for today is, “Right now, this very minute, I open to the peace of God.” To do this consistently, I must be willing to be open to recognizing what is real and what is unreal. I must be willing to let go of the belief in a world of separate bodies and separate minds. I must be willing to let go of the ego’s framework for making separation appear to be real. I must be willing to relax my hold on what I think the world is for.

Opening to the peace of God undoes all belief in the world. Opening to the peace of God erases the idea of a past and a future. It brings me to the truth that there is only changeless Love right now. The peace of God is all I want and all I need. And I give thanks.

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Seeing as Love Sees

Robert:
To be determined to see the world differently I must give precedence to my inner seeing with the Holy Spirit rather than the body’s image making. Being an illusion itself, the body can only make images of more illusions. This is hallucinating, not seeing. The world I seem to see through the body’s eyes is nothing more than an hallucination.

When I am disturbed by anything I see through the body’s eyes, I am clearly not recognizing that I am seeing hallucinations. I have given precedence to the body’s image making and I am believing the images are real. When I step back and give precedence to inner seeing with the Holy Spirit, the image making of the body recedes from my attention and the vision of Love comes forward. The Holy Spirit knows there is nothing to see but Love.

If I am not supremely happy and at peace, I must be believing that illusionary images are real and giving them precedence in my mind. This disturbance is a signal that it’s time to step back, relax and return my attention to the inner vision of my true Self. My true Self will always show me what is real. As I practice seeing reality in place of illusion, I am forgiving the world and I am forgiving myself. Today I will ask frequently to see as Love sees.

Mary:
This practice of asking to see as Love sees lifts the veil so that I can see the truth behind illusions. Asking myself frequently today, “How does Love see this?” will jog my mind and help me remember to step back from what I am seeing and return to being willing to remember that we are all immersed in God’s ocean of peace and Love forever.

I can relax now. I can receive Holy Spirit’s gift of peace right now. It only takes my willingness to receive peace and extend peace to let the veil be lifted. And I give thanks.

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Learning True Perception

Mary:
This morning we were guided to read A Course in Miracles Text, Chapter 11, Section VIII. The Problem and the Answer. Paragraph 10 stood out to me:

In the real world there is no sickness, for there is no separation and no division. Only loving thoughts are recognized, and because no one is without your help, the Help of God goes with you everywhere. As you become willing to accept this Help by asking for It, you will give It because you want It. Nothing will be beyond your healing power, because nothing will be denied your simple request. What problems will not disappear in the presence of God’s Answer? Ask, then, to learn of the reality of your brother, because this is what you will perceive in him, and you will see your beauty reflected in his.

My practice for today is to accept the Help of God by asking for It. I need this constant reminder to step back and ask for the real solution, instead of thinking I know on my own. I must not think that I understand what I perceive, because if I do I will forget that I do not know. My practice today is to step back and let Him interpret everything I see. And I give thanks.

Robert:
A key idea for me from today’s reading is that anything I interpret on my own is a self-deception. This is because believing that I am on my own is a self-deception. I have taught myself to believe this and I have taught myself wrongly. It is time to turn to the Teacher within, Who teaches the truth. The more I am willing to let the Holy Spirit be my interpreter of every perception, the happier I will be.

Because the Holy Spirit knows that only Love is real, He will teach me to not value the valueless forms of the world. As I let go of what I have valued in the world, the sense of incompletion and lack in the world will be replaced by the joy of wholeness and Love. This is all I really want. Through the practice of stepping back and being willing to be taught true perception, I will learn where true value lies. This is my practice today.

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