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Defenses Against Truth

These thoughts came to mind this morning——

Sickness is a defense against the truth. What do I want to be the truth?

If I want individuality—then I do not really want the truth. If I choose again, and want union and Oneness then will I “see” truth beyond the illusions of my dream.

Sickness is a defense against the truth. I cannot be healed while I am afraid of the truth. I do not recognize my wholeness while I hold thoughts of division. What seems fearful to me is really escape from belief in separation. This belief is where the ego idea “lives.” The ego idea wants division, wants duality, wants fear and guilt, so that the belief of separation is maintained. While I listen to the teacher based on fear I will experience insane dreams, nightmares of being alone, attacked, unloved and unsaved. What is based on fear is not real, for it was not created in Love.

Why should I accept the false in place of truth, in place of Love? Why should I sleep in dreams of terror, when I have a Guide Whose way is wholly certain and untainted?  Why not let fear thoughts be undone? While in my dream, I can play god—I can maintain that I MADE myself and pretend there is no loving Father Who has given me everything. Is it really my only desire to remain asleep and ruler in my dream world??
Why not let fear thoughts be undone? Why not accept the gentle truth of what I am, along with every brother? What seems to be fearful and threatening, is what the sick mind perceives. What seems to see and touch and hear with the body is not real. What is real cannot be threatened. What is unreal does not exist. Love cannot be threatened nor destroyed nor altered.

As I continue to take and leave every thought, every whim, every fragment of separate thinking with Holy Spirit, I will be released. My True Self shines bright, waiting in perfect certainty of my “return.” Which, to me, is the clearing of darkness from my mind, the healing of the sick mind. For I remain as Love created me. I am eternal Love and this has never changed.

I was Guided to read ACIM Text. 22. V .
It begins: “How does one overcome illusions?”

Thank You, Holy Spirit!

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Only My Thoughts

These thoughts came to mind this morning.

What can it be that causes me anxiety?
Only my thoughts.
What can it be that causes me fear and guilt?
Only my thoughts.
What can it be that causes the world I seem to see?
Only my thoughts.

My thoughts are powerful, they are either loving or fearful. There is no in-between,
it always one or the other. All the thoughts of which I am aware are fear based thoughts…..How can this be, when I seem to experience “good” events in my life? The ego system is very skilled at manipulating images, so that whatever illusion I’m involved with can appear to be “good” or “happy.”
The Course teaches me there is no hierarchy in illusions.

If I truly want witnesses of Love, I must let Love be in my awareness. I must practice giving my thoughts or mind to Holy Spirit. I am not the “victim” of the ego thought. There are no victims anywhere.

If I continue to “wait” without playing my part, without practicing forgiveness, I won’t waken from my dream. What has been employed before no longer works now. To leave the dream just to move into a different dream, does not awaken the mind. Forgiveness is the one dream that undoes all the rest. Forgiveness let illusions go, in place of cherishing them. With forgiveness I will come to learn that illusions are all the same. Forgiveness removes the blocks in my mind to Loves’s Presence.

Thank you, Holy Spirit!

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Daily Lesson

After today’s lesson, “My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world,” I received these words:

Q: how can I apply this to my daily life?

A: Without exception I can apply this idea to every thought and every image I make. The thoughts that seem to analyze and compare, to make judgments of right and wrong, are just the type of thoughts that I need reminding that they are meaningless.

Insight from Spirit:
You need nothing in this world—for what can be valued in a dream?
You have need of nothing—truly—because you remain as Creator created you. Thoughts leave not their source—so you have not left your Source, but dream of separation, vengeance and death. Sara, you can lay all this down; you need not carry it with you an instant longer. What you want to be “real”—will you see in your dream. Dreams are undone the instant you no longer value sin—or separation.
What you value you make real to you.

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His Love Prevails

These thoughts came to me after I read this morning’s lesson.

There is no world. There is no sin. There is no body. I was mistaken. The Voice of Love is all I choose to hear and to follow.
The thought of separation was instantly given the Thought of another Voice. I was given the way to truth the instant I dreamed of sin.

I have not left the Father that I love and that loves me. I am His Son and
all He has is mine. There is only one Will, only one life and that we share.

I cannot question the perfection of God"s Creation. Love is whole, complete; without differences in any way. There is nothing outside of God"s Will, nothing outside of Love. I will be still and listen to the truth.
God"s Creation is forever One. His Creation is eternal, being in His Mind. There is no other mind apart from His. There is only God"s Love. Only His Creation. Only His perfect Word—-written on my heart.
His Truth, His Love, His Life are the same. They prevail in all dreams, in all ways.
His Love prevails because there is nothing else!
There is no body. There is no world. There is no sin.   

(And I am soooo thankful that this is so!)

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Remember the Truth

I recently viewed Tom and Linda Carpenter’s workshop that was recorded at the 2005 ACIM Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. I am truly grateful to those presenters and the “crew” that recorded workshops at that event. After reading WB Lesson 353, these thoughts came to me.

Everything in my dream is there by my choice, my election. In my dream, I have sought for love and acceptance, thinking they were denied to me. I made the dream as I chose, making up illusions to replace Heaven, choosing the idea of separation as the truth. Yet the idea of separation is insane and has no meaning. In my insane dream, it appears as real. I need only to choose again and it will be gone. As I choose Holy Spirit to decide for me, the truth will fill my mind.

The truth of What I am and Who created me has NEVER changed. There is no opposite to truth. There is no will that opposes Love. I am waking from my dream of betrayal and fear. There is a sure way out of dreams—-that is to apply forgiveness to everything I “see.” There is no distance between truth and love. Through forgiveness I return to knowing that nothing ever happened, that there really is nothing “out there” to forgive. There are no differences, no contrasts, no conflicts. Through forgiving I accept the Oneness of Love that I never left.

Father, I know You are with me because I abide in You. Let me then hear only Your Voice, see only innocence, and remember the truth. Father, I thank You for Your gifts to me.  And So It Is.

Trusting that your Inner Guidance shines the truth for you at this season and
all through the new year.  Miracles, Peace and Joy!

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