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Willingness to Accept the Holy Spirit’s Lead.

⁴The Holy Spirit leads as steadily to Heaven as the ego drives to hell. ⁵For the Holy Spirit, Who knows only the present, uses it to undo the fear by which the ego would make the present useless. ⁶There is no escape from fear in the ego’s use of time. ⁷For time, according to its teaching, is nothing but a teaching device for compounding guilt until it becomes all-encompassing, demanding vengeance forever.

The Holy Spirit would undo all of this _now._ ²Fear is not of the present, but only of the past and future, which do not exist. ³There is no fear in the present when each instant stands clear and separated from the past, without its shadow reaching out into the future. ⁴Each instant is a clean, untarnished birth, in which the Son of God emerges from the past into the present. ⁵And the present extends forever. ⁶It is so beautiful and so clean and free of guilt that nothing but happiness is there. ⁷No darkness is remembered, and immortality and joy are now.

⁵Take this very instant, now, and think of it as all there is of time. ⁶Nothing can reach you here out of the past, and it is here that you are completely absolved, completely free and wholly without condemnation. ⁷From this holy instant wherein holiness was born again you will go forth in time without fear, and with no sense of change with time. (A Course in Miracles, T-15.I.7:4–8:7;9:5-7. See also ACIM Text Made Simple.)

In every moment we choose between the ego’s use of time and the Holy Spirit’s. The ego uses time to keep us locked into a past that does not exist now. It builds stories in our mind about an imagined future from ‘memories’ of past events.

Without these memories, the present moment would be experienced as it is — free of all guilt and fear, filled with our Father’s eternal Love. This is where the Holy Spirit leads us. All He needs is our willingness to follow His lead to return us to the happiness and peace of Heaven.

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