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Living Is To Be Happy

As I woke the other morning, these thoughts were given to me:
To live is to be happy. To be happy is to heal, to heal is to forgive, to forgive is your purpose.

Fill your purpose, and you will be happy, free, and open for the truth. When you practice forgiving you give room for the truth, which is all around you. Allowing truth to return to your awareness gives you all that you could want or think you need. You were created as everything, so there is no lack in you, no lack is possible anywhere. Yet in your dream you have chosen to deny what you are, what your brother is, and Who your Father is. This need not be, it can be undone in an instant.

Your only purpose is to be happy—-therefore you let go of all that is unlike Love,
all that is untrue.
You forgive yourself for your dream, and welcome Love where It has always been. Peace is yours; you can always share peace. You take the Light with you, as Love created you, so that you can share the Light to help other minds remember that they are Light with you.

Accept forgiveness for yourself—-this is all that you need do. In practicing forgiveness you learn that you are forgiven. Have no doubt that this is completed. Your journey is over. You are at Home.

Each time that you think that you are unworthy, give that thought to Holy Spirit. If you truly want to heal, then it is for you to give every thought that condemns you to Holy Spirit for His judgment. He knows truly, and undoes all that is not true in your mind. Give up your imaginings, your stories. Never have they been true, and so they never were created. “You are the Son of God, complete and healed and whole, shining in the perfection of His Love.”          Amen.

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The Movie-Dream

To me, this journal entry reflects the willingness to see things differently, and the gift that is received and given.

Me: Holy Spirit, how can I look at or feel the things that I’ve hidden, so that I can give them to you? The ego feels very threatened in this.
Spirit: “That is the belief that you are not lovable, not accepted as you are right now.” 
Me: I would like to let this belief go, now and forever. Please help me in this. I want to recognize and release those thoughts that block my awareness of Love, I want to remember Love.

Spirit: “When you are the dreamer of the dream but do not realize it, then everything that happens seems to come from"outside” of you. You seem to have no control over the circumstance or others. Yet you are the dreamer. In your mind you have made a world, filled it with bodies and billions of stories. And then you have forgotten that you made up the dream, and all the actors in it.
If you are the dreamer, then nothing can be “done” to you. Nothing can happen without your wish for it to be.

“When you took your journey from one state to another, you had no plan, no idea what would happen, yet you felt loved and guided. It was the choice in your mind that made it seem to be a positive step forward. It was your choice to “see” it as a wholly helpful move, for this was the wish you held. You also thought that by making a physical move, that you could leave your past behind, and the roles that others seemed to have placed you in…..but it was only you that put “you” into certain roles or identities. It is you that have made the world what it seems to be…. and you can learn that it is not so.”

Two days after this dialog with Spirit, I had a sleeping dream in which I was given the idea that I am ALL the actors that I see in my waking dream. I am the projector and dreamer of the movie I seem to be involved in. My delusional mind has made up all other players, and acts out those roles, and instantly forgets that it has done so. All the actors simply show me my hidden thoughts that need correction, or they reflect the Love that I am behind all the masks and denial I have made. Every time I am able to look beyond the mask of an actor, I can choose to forgive the thought that made him/her. I cannot find my way out of the dream/movie without direction from One who sees what is true and what is false. I can depend on this Inner Director to guide me, as He gives me only truth. I let the false go, as easily as dropping a robe from my shoulders. I can let go of the false as I recognize that this movie has never brought me peace, joy or love. When I look with my Director, I see with eyes of Love, that gives me unlimited vision.
I am forever grateful for this Director Who holds the truth for me and helps me see beyond the movie/dream!

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God’s Will

This is the message that Spirit shared with me this morning.

“A part of the mind pleads to make this world real. It wrangles, negotiates, manipulates, threatens and “dies” to make it’s illusion real. This is what keeps you prisoner; what prevents you from recognizing true Life. This is madness, in the persistence of “seeing” what is not there.

“In fantasy you would destroy the truth in you, and it has never happened in reality. Your holiness remains complete, your perfect purity is undefiled. Your true Self loves It’s Father
as the Father loves His one Creation. You are His Creation and that guarantees your safety, your sanctity, your life.
Your life has never been apart from Him; you are one with your Source—and this alone keeps you safe. But in a deluded mind, this you do not see.”

Me: Later in the day I read in Chapter 7, Sec. VIII, the Unbelievable Belief; about the ego and it’s projection, and the law of extension. And in Sec. X, the Confusion of Pain and Joy. This fit so perfectly for me at this time. These are a few of the sentences that stood out to me in section X:

“You believe that doing the opposite of God’s Will can be better for you. You also believe that it is possible to do the opposite of God’s Will. Therefore, you believe that an impossible choice is open to you, and one which is both fearful and desirable.

“The Holy Spirit is perfectly trustworthy, as you are. God Himself trusts you, and therefore your trustworthiness is beyond question. 
His Will is not an idle wish, and your identification with His Will is not optional, since it is What you are.

“If you are God’s Will and do not accept His Will, you are denying joy. The miracle is therefore a lesson in what joy is. Being a lesson in sharing it is a lesson in love, which is joy.”

If you haven’t read chapter 7 recently I reccomend it or simply take your Course and ask H.S. to direct where it would be most helpful for you to read.

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Behind the Anger

Recently I was open to another perspective and these thoughts were given to me.

WB lesson 320: “My Father gives all power unto me.”
“Your Will can do all things in me, and then extend to
all the world as well thru me.
There is no limit on your Will. And so all power has been given to Your Son.”

It is my choice to give up all thoughts that hurt.

When I feel anger at a partner or a friend, I can look to see what the belief is behind that anger. When I feel annoyance at someone, that reflects my belief that I don’t walk my talk (as that is what I perceive that person is doing or not doing). I listen to the insane unreal voice of lack in my head. When I let go of belief in lack that I perceive in my brother, I let go of my lack belief too. After all, I’m seeing my projection of the thought of lack. I’m looking at my own belief in loss and scarcity. Any fear I project onto a brother is always the thought I have about myself.

It is impossible to share lies—-my made-up story stays in my mind (thoughts leave not their source). What I attempt to get rid of—-just morphs into another fear, and is not gone as the ego would llike me to believe. I can invite Holy Spirit to correct my error/lie. I can give the thought of lack to Him, for that is His purpose. He cannot take thoughts from me—-but in my willingness to let them go, He does His part. I have been wrong and can be glad that I’m mistaken, for correction is with me. Insane thoughts have no meaning and do not protect me.
Let me not delay my release from hell!

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Fear to Listen

I felt I was having difficulty in being still and hearing Spirit’s Voice speak to me. I asked why I seemed to be afraid of hearing.

Spirit: My child, you fear to listen because you think that you will fail in doing what I ask.
But all that is asked of you is to only not decide on your own. Only to take whatever hurts you to H. Spirit for correction. This correction will not hurt you at all. His purpose is only to heal.

In not deciding by your self, you will remember the truth. You will be unburdened by the darkenss and the chains that you made. It is only your thoughts that can give you pain. Only your unreal thoughts that block you from uncovering your inner Light. Stop hiding your thoughts, but allow them to rise to the surface. In your looking at them, you can choose to give them to Holy Spirit that is your true Teacher. His sight is ever gentle and his healing for you is certain. What you give to Him is undone forever. This is not loss—it is freedom. You will know again that all is given to all.

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