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Attraction to Guilt

Yesterday morning I posed a question to Spirit, and share the response that I received.
I trust that you will find some useful thought with your waking, as we go Home together.
Thanks for reading!

Here I am Father—- please tell me about the attraction to guilt.

Since the ego is the belief in separation, this belief brings with it fear and guilt. The only cause of guilt is the belief in something that never happened. The belief that you could be something other (different) from Love brings guilt. The ego survival depends on guilt. If you did not believe in guilt, there would be no thought of separation and vice versa; if you did not believe in separation there would be no guilt.

The seeming attraction to guilt, comes from the ego perspective. It wants guilt because that is the illusion that holds it together, seeming to give it reality. Yet to remove faith in either is the undoing of both. This tiny fragment of thought does not want you to learn/remember that there is no thing that causes guilt. Yet you have total domain over your dream, and what you ask for you receive. If you truly want freedom, then forgive yourself for the dream you made. Forgive the images, thoughts, beliefs that you dream. In forgiving what is unreal, what never happened, you welcome the truth. You open your mind and accept the light that shines within. You choose only the Light of Love as what is yours. You let go of childish games and meaningless toys.

Yet as long as you place value on the images in your dream, so you keep your self from Heaven and awareness of Love. When you accept Guidance from your True Self, Holy Spirit, you are willing to lay aside the meaningless toys and empty images. You are willing to stop being the author of your world, your story, your self.
The things that seem to attract you in the dream are simply distractions to inhibit your waking. When you prefer your story over the truth, you will not receive the truth, for you have chosen your story. But you can always choose again. There is no shame in changing your mind about what you want.

Everything in your dream is simply a back drop, like that on a stage or movie. Minds that perceive the world as tragic, chaotic, barbaric and disastrous, only mistake the backdrop for reality. Yet given to H.S. to interpret the mind learns that there is only good. With H.S. the perception of good is always available no matter what is in the backdrop.

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Let Me Be Still

In the latter half of Sept. I received these thoughts from Holy Spirit:

“I will be still and listen to the Truth.”

Any time that I experience a ‘woe is me’ feeling or decide to get sucked into the ego depression—-that is when (Now) I need ask for help from Spirit. I can look with Spirit and follow the beliefs (down the line) to the one belief that made the whole stack. I can ask Spirit to heal that belief Now and let it be gone.

If I try to do this looking on my own, I will be wrong, for my interpretation is based on a non-existent past.

Spirit works with healing my mind—-which may or may not appear in the physical world. Yet, as my mind is healed of separation thoughts, the world I think I see, will change accordingly. My projection will change; I will begin to recognize what is true and cease trying to make the false true. I will stop projecting my fear and guilt.
The illusory is false, always.
Love is real. Truth is true.

“God is with me—-I cannot be deceived.”

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My Only Goal

I share with you some of the thoughts that came to mind after reviewing ACIM Lesson 256.

“How long, O Son of God, will you maintain the game of sin?”
All my pretenses cannot change everlasting Love.

Lesson 256: “God is the only goal I have today.”
God is my goal; forgiveness is the means by which my mind returns to Him at last.

My only purpose is to lay forgiveness on all my dream images; to let go of my false definitions and to accept Christ’s complete perception of all I think I see.
———- I am as God created me. There is no body—- I am free.
I am Love and nothing else.
I have no goal except to hear Your Voice,
and to follow the way your sacred Word has pointed out to me.
Let me be still and listen to the Truth.

Spirit: The dream of pain and destruction is not necessary at all. This dream keeps the ego “alive”, but it is only an idea that separation could be real. Separation is maintained in fantasies from a mind that deceives itself.
(me: Self deception is not the goal I would keep.)

The dream of destruction is not necessary because you remain as God created you. Since you remain as Love created you, you are guiltless, sinless. You have never changed what Love created….... everlasting Love is changeless. What you have dreamed as happening never occurred at all. You are safe. You are innocent. You are Love. You are Home.

You will experience the happy dream, as you follow the HS within, and forgive the images you thought you made. Forgive the thoughts you thought were real.
You can choose to ignore the Truth, but Truth is not altered by your choice.

(me) What I think is real is not real. What I think is true is not true. I need not fear….. for all my wrong thinking can be (and has been) corrected. There is no lapse when truth returns to my awareness.
I need only lay aside my defense against the Truth. Endless Love comes in endless ways. There is no love “outside.” Only Love is real.

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Trying to Find Happiness

Dear Reader,  I was going through last year’s journal, and came across this entry. This is another lesson that I would repeat and have Love’s memory return to an unclouded mind.

God’s Love is everywhere, how can I be afraid with His Love everywhere?
What can cause me to think or believe that I am not included in His Love?
Why would I choose to think that I could be excluded from the Love that is
always present, always eternal, forever with It’s creation?

God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
I am as Love created me. Thoughts leave not their Source.

If I follow the ego system, I will be in fear. I will think that God cannot be trusted and must be feared. I will not be open to the love that surrounds me, while I dream.
The ego tells me that I would be happy if I had another body close to me. Or maybe I should go back and finish the lesson that I started with that person. It always tells me that happiness lies in the future, never the present moment. Or happiness is some other place, not where I am in the moment.

I have mistaken happiness for many different forms in the dream. I have been led by the ego in it’s insane quests, desires, illusions, and plans. I need to learn (once and for all) that happiness is never in any form. Happiness is within me, for it is recognizing that I am whole, complete, and totally innocent. It is seeing with Holy Eyes, that I remain as Love created me. It is knowing that what Love creates cannot be changed. Happiness is accepting that truth is true, I did not create my self or my body. I cannot “be” something other then what Love created. That is impossible. What I have told myself over eons, does not change what Love created.

If I feel unhappy, it is because I am trying to “live” a lie.

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Forgiving the Dream

I had the opportunity to hear Jon Mundy speak on Saturday at Pathways of Light. I am glad that I attended. Hearing one speak of the Truth, helps me want to remember the truth myself; to give up the silly games I play of being an individual. And yet, to also forgive myself for
playing the game of separation, because God never condemned me the first place.

Forgiving myself is the reason I am “here” in a body. Forgiving myself is the freedom I receive
or recognize when I forgive someone in my dream. Forgiveness happens automatically when I realize that whatever seemed to happen, doesn’t matter. “What do you mean, it doesn’t matter?!?!” the ego screeches.

Does it matter what happens in a dream that you dream at night?
When you wake from any dream, be it pleasant or fear filled, you think: “oh, it was just a dream.” You think that is has no real effect in your life or on you.
Because I am the dreamer of my “world” I therefore set the props on the stage, I engage figures to act out the script I have written. And then I instantly forget that I am the producer and projector of this scene, or movie or soap opera. I have put every meaning to everything in this dream; I have chosen what is valuable and what is junk, what is treasure and what is trash. I have chosen who is worthy, lovable, innocent and who is hateful, unlovable, and guilty. And each plays their role accordingly. Each plays their role to perfection so that I may learn that only Love is real. That I may choose again and lay forgiveness on what I perceive. That I may seek Guidance from the One Who knows the Truth, and come to rest in His certainty.  And I surely learn that my dream or soap opera doesn’t matter, because Love sees only the love or the call for love in my dream plots.

What “matters” in my daily dream, is whether I choose to look with Spirit at the events and situations in my dream, or if I try to “fix” things on my own. Whether I accept the love that
Spirit brings forth or if I attempt to heal with the falsity of specialness.

I would rather be happy and accept the Love of Spirit, accept the grace that comes in forgiving. Then I know that what ever took place in my dream, doesn’t matter in eternity or Heaven. Heaven is where I really am, even though I pretend otherwise.

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