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No Force, No Effort

When Spirit asks me to choose again, it means to choose the Christ mind in me. The ego mind is only a fantasy, but if I put all my attention on its voice I think that it is real. The ego mind would maintain that it is real and the Christ mind is not. It hides its hatred beneath a face of innocence and bids me not to look within lest I find the “horror” there that I could not endure. Yet all the while I play the game of the ego mind, Holy Spirit waits in infinite patience until I choose for sanity, for Love, for peace.
I have allowed the ego mind and its world to take the place of my true mind and Heaven. (And this need not be.) I am learning that this is not happiness, it is not what I truly want.

My only function here is to give every thought to H. Spirit. My function is to give up all my false thoughts, so that truth is welcomed in my mind. I do not have to effort or force this, it is a gentle letting go, the continual practice of turning every thought over to my Inner Teacher/Guide, Who makes the correction and purifies the dark thought removing all that is false.

I choose again. I choose my holy mind, the Christ mind; that is my happiness, the truth in me.

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WB Lessons 71 & 72

WB lesson 71
Only God’s plan for happiness will work.

I have been given the method to gain the goal, but as long as I choose something else I will not be happy. When will I surrender my attempts of “getting” happiness? My methods have failed repeatably and will never succeed.

Letting go of all I think I know is the only way out of the fruitless attempts. What I have taught myself is only the opposite of truth. I never left Heaven, never harmed my Father or His Son, and only remain as Love created me.

WB lesson 72
Holding unhappiness is an attack on God’s plan for happiness.

Each unhappy thought insists that the body is real. Each forgiving thought shows me that dream images are not real.

¶9~~The light of truth is in us, where it was placed by God.
      To recognize the light of truth in us is to recognize ourselves as we are. To see our Self as separate from the body is to end the attack on God’s plan for salvation [happiness], and to accept it instead. And wherever His plan is accepted it is accomplished already.
(italics mine)

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Simple Choices

I am willing to let go my past decisions.
I am willing to see differently.
I am willing to receive the truth.

I remember I do not know what anything is for.
I remember my Guide will share with me all He knows for me.
I remember I am safe in the Mind of Love.

T.10.IV. ¶4, what stood out to me:

The Laws of God work only for your good, and there are no other laws beside His.
Everything that is not under them does not exist.
God’s laws will keep your mind at peace because peace is His Will, and His laws are established to uphold it [peace].    (italics mine)

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Past Dreaming, Undoing Now

Back in 2007, when I was first sick, I “knew” that I would recover, I’d be well again. I told myself that being incapacitated was not God’s Will for me. So when I relapsed, the ego system said, “You failed, where’s God’s Will now? You can’t believe in that story, look at what happened. Give it up—- it’s not worth the effort.”

I did stop the outer work of recovery, physical therapy. I also gave up mentally; the fragile trust that I had developed evaporated. This was another “confirmation” of rejection, of not being loved. The ego system had judged me and God, and it was “proving” that Spirit could not be trusted and I should not put my belief there. What a bleak and sad picture it made!

I am coming back to Spirit (it is only my dreaming that I seemed to have left). I‘m bringing my focus back to Spirit’s direction, seeking for witnesses for Love.

In my dream I pray:
Holy Spirit, shine Your Light into this dark story. I no longer want the spiritless to guide me. I want to see the Light, I want to know my holy Self. Let me feel Your presence with every step, let me remember only Love is here. I choose You, H. S., only You. T.Y.V.M.

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Ramblings in Mind

T.25.IX. 9.1
Let your “secret sins” be removed for you. Keep no little problems to solve by “yourself.”

WB 281
I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts.

There is no sin or evil in God, therefore none in me.
I remain as Love created me. I am His Son eternally.
I am perfect, compete and pure idea in the Mind of Love.
Perfect Love created m perfect.
Certain Love created me secure.
Innocent Love created me blameless.
Endless Love created me eternal.

WB 284  I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

“Loss is not loss when properly perceived. Pain is impossible. There is no grief with any cause at all. And suffering of any kind is nothing but a dream.”
What our Father gives cannot hurt, so grief and pain are impossible. Let me not fail to trust in Him.   
Let me accept only the joyous as His gifts, only the joyous as the truth.

What do I want?

It feels like I still hold the fears that I had from childhood. W.D.I.W?  I want to feel safe (secure) and loved. It is only my own thoughts that “hurt” me; prevent me from knowing my safety and love. I cease to give credit or credence to the ego system. It’s thoughts only show me an insane and meaningless world.
My false perceptions tell me that I’m not loved and not safe. False perceptions say that I can harm or attack, so that there is always threat of being attacked/harmed by “others” (outside world). My perception is sick and needs healing.

This healing correction does not come from me, yet comes to me at my invitation. I stop, step back, quiet my mind and allow a new perception to come to me (or mind). My wrong perceptions will fade and vanish as I give them to H. S. for correction. I asked for help and He has answered.

Dear Lord, help me give up the thoughts that hurt me. I surrender my foolish thoughts, the unhappy scared dream of loss and death.
I accept the truth in place of vain fantasies. Amen.

Do I want to believe I am a victim? Then the world will bring to me the witnesses for the sick perception. Do I want to believe that I’m imperfect, weak and undeserving? Then the world reflects the thoughts that support the false ideas. Do I really want this to be the truth? Am I not ready to give up my sick beliefs?

The body only reports what the mind sends to it. With false thoughts of separation, guilt and fear the body becomes “home” to insanity and illusion, pain and despair. This is not the home I really want.

Dear Lord, lead me out of illusions. Replace all sick and sad thoughts with truth of Love. Erase all errors and let me see the Light of perfect Love in all that I look on. Amen.

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