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My Own Past Learning

Hello All,
This morning I received these words of love:

In my dream, I can reflect the shining light of Love, and bring guiltlessness to every mind that thinks it is separate and alone. I give my thoughts and sight to Holy Spirit, that I may learn the truth, and accept my place in Love’s lesson. I give my eyes, my tongue, my ears, my feet and hands to Him, to use for the miracles He spreads in certainty. In remembering that I do not know what anything means,  and asking for understanding, I am always given what I need to know or do or say. While I dream of separation I do not know what anything means, for my self taught lessons have obscured Love’s meaning, All that I have taught myself does not give me peace or understanding. I am willing to lay it all down, give room for H.S. to answer my call, and accept His perfect perception that heals my sick mind.

I gladly lay down the false, the guilt laden, the loveless thoughts of the insane mind. I gladly learn that the false is false and only the Truth is true. I accept it is only Truth that I want … only H.S.’s correction that reminds me of my wholeness—holiness.

I remember to use these words when I have sacrificed my peace:
“I do not know what anything, including this, means. And so, I do not know how to respond to it. And I will not use my own past learning as the light to guide me now.”  [T14. XI. 6: 7-9]

I am the holy Will of God Himself. There is no “other” will than His.
There is no will to conflict with His all encompassing Love and Joy and Peace.
I remain as He created me, along with every brother that I perceive.  Amen.

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Choosing Happiness—Again

Hello Lights, the following are thoughts that came to mind this morning.

What do I want? I want the peace of God. To have peace, I must teach peace.

While I was seemingly immobilized with the paralysis, I was no longer banging my head into “what is.” I was not trying to change “reality” to my liking. I was accepting things just as they were…. no resisting, no squirming, no fighting, no worrying. In letting all things be as they were, I was trusting,
I was happy.  I knew that this “illness” was not God’s Will for me. I was looking for the witnesses that everything works together for good. I was seeing the witnesses for Love everywhere; being helpful.
I did not feel alone because I knew that H.S. was with me, and with others by guiding every thought, every person, every test, every outcome. Whatever is happening is working for good. Everything works together for good for my best interests.

As I looked at things and circumstances with “new eyes” I offered kind words, different thoughts to the people whose jobs involved “helping” others. By accepting God’s plan for salvation, I offered happiness (therein lies my peace) to others. I greeted the hospital staff with smiles, willingness, and gratitude. I found that being happy and extending light, was a gift to each person that was involved with my care-taking.

My “job” is to be happy—and extend happiness wherever, however it seems applicable. It is my part to turn every concern over to Holy Spirit, as it is not my job to try to make things work or to figure things out. There were some times when I was not at peace, not in joy. I would shortly realize that this was not the way I wanted to feel, that I had accepted the egoic outlook for some “outer” event. I would ask for H.S. help to see things differently or for correction in my thoughts. And because I was willing, I would receive the healing of His perfect perception. I felt blessed every day…. and learned that sharing joy is the true blessing; that love is extended in being happy.

I am currently practicing in letting go of old beliefs around being in a specific physical environment makes certain outcomes inevitable. When I returned home, I lost my focus on happiness, on my choosing to listen to the Voice for Love, on Holy Spirit’s insights. I lost focus as I allowed the old patterns of thought to follow suit, allowing the thread barren path of fearful thoughts to fill my moments. Everything became a struggle again; a sense of hopelessness evolved in me. I am learning that this need not be. Once again I am accepting the power of my choice. When I am not happy, that shows me that I have chosen wrongly. I choose again, having H.S. lead me, asking for correction, and opening my thoughts for healing, releasing the false thoughts of guilt. Choosing for Love is happiness, choosing for fear is unhappiness. Holiness is happiness.               

I share this last thought from Mary Gerard’s <u>The Mentor Within</u>©—“Being capable of tolerating unhappiness is the best way to push God away.”

Blessings and Happiness to All!

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Fear Is Not Where You Belong

Greetings all Light’s of God,

These are the thoughts I have received recently from Spirit—— Blessings to All.

Do you think you understand? What do you understand?

In your world, there is nothing to understand—for what part of make believe is there to know?
You can allow truth to return when you accept what you are— and forgive the dream you have made. Do not take your play seriously —for by that you make it real, but only to you. Do you judge a child that plays in an imaginary country with imagined allies or enemies? You recognize that his ‘play’ is just an exercise in ideas, in exploring other view points, other thoughts. You do not mistake his ‘play’ as real.

Yet you continue your exercise, your excursion into meaningless thoughts and mistake it for the real world. For all your pain, misery and guilt, would you not choose to admit that you could be wrong? That you could be wrong in choosing to keep habits that you thought would make you safe. One such habit but affirms your guilt and makes you feel more unworthy and anxious. It does not protect you.

When you succumb to the fears of ego mind, then you experience anxiety and any other number of forms of fear, which is lack of love. What you are really calling for is love—which the egoic mind is very defensive against. It does not want you to recognize or accept Love. Where does this leave you? The results are surely evident.  Do not confuse pain with freedom or guilt with love. If you no longer want confusion and denial, then give them (confusion and denial) to Holy Spirit. In His vision they do not exist; what is without Love has no meaning so it is not real. To move past illusions you must recognize they are useful only to an insane thought system. To move out of illusions you need only give your thoughts to the One whose purpose is to interpret for you. Give the sick thoughts and false purpose to Him; give your mind into His care and truth will be free to spread it’s wings and hold all the world.

Welcome truth exactly as it is. No adjustments, no alterations are needed for truth. When you give up the blocks to Love, you then are free and open to Truth. As fear is removed from your thoughts, you “see” that illusions are meaningless and there is no loss. As you learn to accept Holy Spirit’s
judgment, the false ideas are gently brushed aside and Truth gives you everything in all ways.

Love leads the way. Love leads us all to Home. Love is all there is.

Fear is not where you belong. You belong in Love.

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Hiding the Love of God or Not?

Hello Every Light of Love,
This day I began with reading in The Course. (Last numbers indicate paragraph.)

T. 17, §1:3 “When you maintain that there must be an order of difficulty in miracles, all you mean is that there are some things [thoughts] you would withhold from truth. You believe truth cannot deal with them only because you would keep them from truth.”
5: “When you try to bring truth to illusions, you are trying to make illusions real, and keep them by justifying your belief in them,  but give illusions to truth is to enable truth to teach you that illusions are unreal, and thus enable you to escape from them.
6: “Be willing then to give all you have held outside the truth to Him Who knows truth, and in Whom all is brought to truth. ……..Forget not this: when you become disturbed and lose your peace of mind because another is attempting to solve his problems through fantasy [illusion], you are refusing to forgive yourself for just this same attempt. 
And you are holding both of you away from truth and from salvation.” 
“As you forgive him, you restore to truth what was denied by both of you.”

3:20 p.m. (me): I set aside the willful voice of pain and accept the Love of God in me. I feel the Love of God within me now (perfect happiness].  5:05: “Constant suffering is a sure sign that you are fighting with your own [true] will. Give your daily activities over for God’s doing.”

Spirit:
Sara, you asked earlier to see what grievance you were holding, that you could not rest peacefully. A grievance is an attack on God’s plan for saving His Son, it is another attack on forgiveness. This grievance is the anger that part of mind feels towards the part that chose to accept this currant dream role. This is the insanity of egoic system, that it attacks itself, believing that it can attack you or your True Self. It believes that it can attack and has attacked. It believes there is no release, no forgiveness for its attack on Love, on Heaven, on Creation.

Since you have come to recognize there are 2 different belief systems in the mind, you also discern the split between the two. This is the explanation that you can presently understand. You will move into the understanding, that in truth, there is no split.
You wanted your mind to be healed, for false beliefs to be undone. This experience of the mind attacking the body, will reveal to you many of the meaningless beliefs you are ready to let go of. This is the “purpose” of, if you will, this experience.
You do not have to “plan” or prepare for release of any of the sick, unhappy thoughts. You are willing and ready to let them go. This is your only part: it is not your job to attempt what H.S. will do for you.
Be you glad, you have come far along your path and now are wiling to walk with Spirit on a joyous path. 

(me): Thank you very much for this explanation. I can accept peace again and know that I am perfectly happy. TYVM
I am at peace with myself, the world and everyone in it. I am safe forever.  All is well. TYG, I love You, God.

I had doubt and fears come to my mind about how this inner healing would be accepted by any other person.
This brought to my mind “The Mentor Within;” telling Mary Gerard: “You have nothing to prove to anyone; what is the worst that can happen? Look how healed you are when you let your Self be seen. All that happens is love.…”
If I still have pockets, corners where the fear of Love hides, they will will not last long. They will be taken to the truth and the H.S. will lovingly transform the fear to light.
If I have thoughts that I have to “prove” anything to my partner, that I have to convince him that the healing I feel within, is fact—- then I’m falling into a trap cunningly constructed by egoic system.               
I project my fear that this Inner Healing is rift with dangers, that the perfect happiness will alienate his affection for me.
Or that he will succumb to feeling more unworthy than he may now.

That last idea stems from my false thought that I would not be worthy of receiving the inner Guidance that I “saw” so many others had. That I would not ever be worthy to be a channel for perfect Love, and true happiness. I need <u>not</u> this idea!! It has been undone. I accept the truth of what I really am.  (And let my mind be wholly healed today). 
TYG, I Love You, God!

Please note; the italisized sentences in this entry are from Mary Gerard’s book, “The Mentor Within.”

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Happy Sunday Part II

Greetings to the One Light that is You,
This is the 2nd page of that happy Sunday of listening and remembering.

1:30 p.m.: Spirit:  It is impossible that God could/would change. What is eternal has no
Change—It merely IS.
God cannot be changed. You cannot change your Source—you have not changed God. God created you like Himself—so you cannot change your true Self. You remain as God created you, changeless as Himself.

The world, being a projection of fearful egoic thoughts, changes constantly. There is no certainty of outcome, no defined purpose of curriculum (unless it is to be insane) no light that does not blink and wither and disappear the instant that fear appears. The ever changing world represents the ambiguity of egoic plans.

6:30 p.m.; [I had been watching a repeat of “60 Minutes” where they were discussing the pharmaceutical policies in the U.S.]
Me: “I am never upset for the reason I think.” 
I am upset because I think I have attacked G.
When I attack anything “outside” such as the pharmaceutical companies, I am blaming God for the folly of competition and greed. (The belief is that I am competitive and greedy).  In fact, I am only attacking myself. The pharmaceutical companies are part of me, they are only in the sick mind. Egoic system tries to project the guilt onto those companies. Which thought of guilt do I hide by projecting it out? H.S. I am willing to see and give this erroneous thought You. TYVM.
7:30 p.m.: I can generalize this projection even more—- What is the guilt thought I’ve hurled onto the profit seeking corporate America; mega manufacturers and industries?
What do I believe about my competitiveness? What do I believe about being greedy?

Spirit: In the egoic system, being greedy is the same (or reverse side) as being needy. The egoic logic is that you need something that would fill the lack. The belief that you are needy blocks the awareness of truth—that you have been given everything. It blocks the awareness that you are whole, complete, in total Union with Creator and creation. It blocks awareness that you are Spirit, the Loving Thought in the Mind of Creator. If you remain as Love created you, it is impossible that you are either needy or greedy.

The egoic thought has brought up many images that would change the forms in your dream to make living “easier, convenient, productive,” but you need do nothing to make change occur for your good. Give all such thoughts to H.S.  and return your mind to peace. In your “doing” you but forget the truth and it seems to make the neediness real to you.

On the back side of this coin, if you are greedy, this attempts to make you guilty of selfishness. In the human condition, the mind always looks to protect itself first—it thinks it is a body. If a person erroneously thinks that he is being altruistic or helpful or generous or kind, he is fooling himself. The motivation behind such actions is that he does not want to feel guilt—that would come up if he were to be selfish.  When he is able to see that his hidden motivation is to protect himself from guilt and pain and death, he comes nearer to letting go of the false need, false belief. He can still act generous, giving, helpful or kind, but he will have taken a step back from the insane belief that he can be selfish or guilty of anything. He will not equate his action with being worthy or unworthy. He will eventually come to see the person he helps is neither worthy or unworthy of help.

If you believe that you are selfish, that belief can manifest in neediness or greediness. Turn the belief of selfishness over to H.S. You thought you could be selfish in attacking and deserting God. You can look at all the images the sick mind made about selfishness, in your currant dream, but this is not necessary. You will recognize any other form of temptation that would judge you as “selfish.” Simply turn the idea of selfishness over to your Holy Self and it is undone.

(Me) When I want to listen (to Spirit) sometimes sleep takes my mind. What is this about?
Spirit: I said once that you would not be hurled into Heaven—such an idea caused fear in the little mind. Now, in your acceptance of forgiveness, the egoic system attempts another strategy to keep you from remembering truth and happiness. (in the form of sleepiness)
It fears truth, it fears perfect happiness, it fears what it does not know and cannot control in the dream. You now are not judging these little attempts to hide the truth. By not judging them, you do not make them “real.”

(Me) I am so grateful for the healing shift I received this morning. I want always to remember that I am perfectly happy.

Spirit: As Phil said, “There is no reason not to be happy.” There is no “cause” for unhappiness. The only Cause is God and only effects of Love can be experienced.
When you attempt to find a passage in a book, you are forgetting Who you are. You are tempted to make something look “right” in your estimation. This is not helpful. Step back, fall into trust and then open to the symbol that is waiting for you. Do not try to establish the means, simply use them.   
Remember that All is in perfect order. You need not worry or have control over anything. You are with me, and All is Well.

Do you remember, while in S.D., I told you that I would never leave you or have you suffer needlessly?
(me): I remember laying on the table, waiting for the ultra sound on my leg artery; I remember J. talking to me. I remember the fear surrounding finances for paying the bill.

Spirit: I said I would never leave you and you accepted this. When that new experience came to you, you were able to trust in what you did not see with body eyes. Now you are recognizing that there is no fear or loss in laying down the ego defenses. There is no loss or death in laying aside the egoic thought system. This is relinquishing a belief system that no longer serves you. You will be relinquishing daily, the worldly, society, family, expectations you put on from the egoic mind.

What you have loved without fear attached, remains as it always was. Your Holy Self holds all memory of loving thoughts.
What you seemed to love but had fear instead, came from nothing and so is undone.
What never was or happened can have no effects.                               
Follow the way of Love and there is no fear, no planning, no efforting.
All falls into place because there is only One Will—there is no opposition anywhere.

Friends may have resistance to your change of mind, but do not be concerned. Remember that the sick mind is healed already. What appears as separate and unhealed is another projection of ego thought/fear. While you remember to see only their sinlessness, only their Light, only the truth of them, so will they accept remembrance of their holy Selves. Allow them to walk the path that returns them Home. When you are healed, you extend healing through Holy Spirit.
Rest now with me. You are free.

 

 

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