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The Good News Is….

Dear Everyone,
The last couple of mornings, I was given these messages.
I am ever grateful that Spirit repeats and repeats His messages of Love, no matter how dense or stubborn my mind seems to be.
I know that is really is as simple as choosing again, for I have experienced the ‘change’ in all aspects of my “life” when I choose
to be happy, choose to keep a helpful/loving view of my world. Let me remember, let me remember!

Spirit: What is it the ego has really given you?
The good news is the Light is within you.
The “bad” news is you have to stop listening to the ego.

This is highly threatening to the ego system—for once you realize it’s un-reality and un-lovingness, you will not value it any longer. The value that you have given it
is solely in your mind. And it is only there that it needs to be undone.

I cannot help if you will not listen. I cannot go against your will. I cannot undo fear without your willingness to let go of it.

I am with you—and will never leave you. But the false mind thinks that it (and you) are alone because it chose to believe and make separation real. Separation is not real,
only a mad delusion from a sick mind. It is not this that you want. What is real cannot be threatened. What is unreal does not exist. Therein is the peace of God.

The Love that you Are has never changed. That Love is Real. What is Real cannot be changed. It is not threatened. Love is Real. What is Real is unchanged. You are Love.

The split mind has denied this truth. It tries to keep it’s illusions. It would not have you remember the truth. It tries to make any thing, any image, valuable to replace truth.
Do not accept it’s imitations as valuable.
Let go of the imitations and accept what I offer you. I offer truth, and hold it for you while you go from dream to dream. The dreams will not last.
You will wake. You will desire the truth, and peace and joy above all else. You are Love, guaranteed by God. Accept this now, and let the rest go.

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My Illusory Struggle

Dear Everyone,

I feel like I’ve been in a struggle with the false mind, mainly because I have been listening to it. I have given my self the illusion of immobility, weakness, and function failure. I have allowed resistance to replace the gentle Voice that speaks for truth. I have invited in the voice for doubt, incrimination, judgment, guilt and shame. It is the voice that thinks it knows, it thinks it has control, but is only illusion.

It is my choice of which voice I will listen to, which teacher I will follow. I see that I need to return to being the observer, to observe the thoughts that range through my mind. To observe the habitual thoughts that pretend to be helpful, the comfort zone thoughts that hide the fear based on the idea of separation.

I was reminded of how I had a different attitude when I was first diagnosed with “my condition.” That attitude was that everything happens for a purpose, that I had a purpose in accepting or making up the illness. That if I allowed, Holy Spirit would use this situation for the healing of minds. I remembered that I was a messenger for Love, no matter what the outer circumstances looked like.
I was willing to listen to the Voice for Love, and accept It’s council and direction. I was willing to accept the peace that comes with His Voice for Love. That is what is missing in this second experience, the attitude of gratitude.

Once more, I am willing to lay down the belief that I know what anything is for, what anything means in my daily experience. I remind my self, that I am not alone, that I have a true Companion Who abides with me, and will show me all that I need to “see” and supply all that I think I need in my dream. I remind my self that it is this judgment alone that I can depend on, and be guided by, and not my own judging.

❦Father, I deepen my resolve to be open and willing to abide with Holy Spirit’s guidance, all through the day and night.
I commit to listening to the Voice that you have given me. And so It Is.
Thank You very much.❦

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WB Lesson 10

Dear Everyone,
I am so grateful for Regina D. Akers following H.S. and writing “H.S. Interpretation of the New Testament.”

In reading Luke in NTI this morning, it was very helpful to learn just why “my thoughts do not mean anything.” My thoughts do not mean anything because I have given my meaning to them based on the “law of separateness.” Separateness or separation is not the truth, so those thoughts I have given meaning to from that idea, are not true, are therefore meaningless.

Before this, I had only theoretically connected the thoughts in my mind to the things I perceive in the outer world. It was helpful to be reminded that the <u>thoughts</u> in my mind,
I have given all meaning to. I then reviewed WB lesson 10, “My thoughts do not mean anything.”

I came up with my thoughts about: lupus, healing, tidiness, cleanliness, organization, laziness, lack of money, worthiness….. do not mean anything.
I am grateful that this idea (my thoughts do not mean anything) will help me let go of what I believe now.
It is my willingness to be healed (mind healing) that returns me to the truth. I Am one with Spirit. Spirit is One.

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Give Up Egoic Thoughts

Dear Everyone,

I am seeing that I still have many fears that need to be given to H. Spirit. I ask J. for help in strengthening my willingness to let go of all
that is not helpful to me, even when I do not know it!   I notice how rigid the ego is in thinking of unworthiness…. the only “action” to take is to                                           remember that the ego (and its thoughts) are not real and do not mean anything. 
I was reminded of Donna Marie Carey’s singing: ”  .....Bits and pieces are falling away ... Love will take away the fears in me…..Now, there’s nothing that I need to do…. But give up what I think is true.”

I had a realization the other night, that whatever the ego says—- it is not true. The egoic thoughts are meaningless, they are based on nothing.  The ego is no thing, it is no where. It is an illusion, a toy that I made up and then mistook for reality. Yes, it can appear very frightening, or strong or loathsome. It can appear as many things, because it does not know what it is. It changes constantly so that it (it thinks) cannot be ‘caught’ or identified. Yet I am learning that it is very simple to let go of what the ego “thinks.”

It is just a matter of my choice. I choose not to adhere to the egoic words that jump about my mind. I choose to see the meaninglessness in such words. When I notice a thought of unworthiness, I stop dragging it around with me all day, I give it up to H. Spirit. When I experience a thought of lack or sacrifice, I give it over to H. Spirit. I can tell when I have been successful in letting it go, for I have a feeling of peace, a sense of freeness of my being. Sometimes I even feel the warmth of Holy Spirit’s Love.
I learn to accept this as true.  And so it is.  T.Y.V.M.

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More Judging the Body

Dear Everyone, The following thoughts came to me the past couple of mornings.

As long as I condemn the body—I am making it real.
Glorifying or condemning it—- are the same (just like pleasure and pain) It is illusion.
It is trying to keep the darkness and adjusting it to the light. This tries to make the darkness real, in place of accepting the light as real and taking the dark to the light.                  I can never ever (ever, ever, ever) make illusions real.
By wanting to make illusions real, I must realize, somewhere in my mind, that my illusions are false and not justifiable in any form. Part of my mind knows that illusions are the childish playing of a thought that made itself god of the universe.

When I judge the body as inferior, (or defective) I’m mistaking my self as a body. My dream image is not what I am. This image is not the only thing that I “know.”                        I have the memory of my true Self in my mind, the Spirit that is whole, innocent, pure in every definition because I remain as Love created me.

“What I resist” has many connotations and gets reflected back to me in the dream.  What I resist I draw to me—- this is what attracts me to certain bodies in the insane attempt to redo my past, to “prove” my value to another body. If I loath some attribute or idea, the truth is I believe I have that quality in me. I hold guilt about that quality because I have mistaken some love-less thought as real and part of me.

Any thought that is without love, is meaningless—- but in my sick mind I do not recognize the truth. What I resist, I am fearful of and have rejected. I have tried to project what I fear, and it then appears to me as some form in the outside world.  But all the while it remains in my mind, pushed down to the unconscious. The way to get out of the vicious circle, is to invite Holy Spirit in and join with Him. I allow His sight and understanding to replace my projection; I allow the undoing of a love-less idea. Letting go of my ideas—is the letting go of fear, the meaningless thoughts that induce more fear and separation. My attempt to redo what never happened has kept a separation perception going. This misperception has given me guilt.

    Even though I can “see” this intellectually, on some days I find much resistence to asking H.S. in and allowing His healing perception to replace those love-less ideas. It seems that the sick ideas are all I want….. which is of course, the ego mind. No wonder, I need consistent practice with my true Guide, to remember the Truth about Love and my Self.

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