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Study of Text, Chapter 11: III. From Darkness to Light, P 1. 9-3-15

III. From Darkness to Light P 1

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Right now I am feeling anxious because I have to talk to a customer about a mistake I made. I want to do it right this moment and I know the reason I am in such a hurry is that I feel guilty and afraid, and I want to make everything right. This is always the ego solution to everything I think is wrong. I hate how I feel, so the ego says I need to do something to make it right. I must find the right words to make up for my error and the sooner the better.

The Holy Spirit, on the other hand, is gently nudging me in another direction. The situation is not the problem. The problem is the ego interpretation of the situation. The ego says I am wrong and guilty and in trouble. The Holy Spirit says that the problem is that I believe I am this story and that I am endangered at every turn.

He says that the story of Myron making a mistake is the effect of the belief in my mind that I am separated from God and so am vulnerable. It is the effect of believing the thought that life is not fair and that guilt is an endless, awful burden that is mine to carry. So fixing the story isn’t going to help. I will still be left with these mistaken thoughts that will simply make more stories of disaster.

Other than the thoughts in my mind about the mistake I made and what I must do to correct it, nothing has happened in regard to this situation. I am hurting myself with each fear thought I entertain. I am moving myself further and further from the Light that is in my mind. The Holy Spirit will comfort me and guide me if I turn to Him. But to turn to Him, I must turn from the ego.

I cannot be at peace if I try to listen to both voices. They speak different languages, they turn in different directions. Trying to walk both paths at the same time keeps me in conflict and conflict is painful. I am suffering, but it is suffering I brought on myself. It will stop the moment I choose. I will choose God, Who has never led me astray and never failed me.

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Study of Text, Chapter 11: II: The Invitation to Healing, P 7. 9-2-15

II. The Invitation to Healing, P 7

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There is only one kind of healing, the healing of the mind. From a healed mind, a healed world is reflected. The only way to heal the mind is to invite the Holy Spirit to look with us on what is not healed and to undo what we see there. In joining with the Holy Spirit, we join with God, and we know our Oneness.

This is our function, our only function and the only way we are going to Awaken and achieve peace. The Holy Spirit waits with us as we make this decision. As we call to Him, He steps forward and lights our way. When we look to the ego for comfort and guidance, the Holy Spirit steps back. He must do this because He cannot override our will.

What we discover is that the ego is not a comfort and guides us deeper into nowhere. Eventually we must return to our true Guide because no one will choose darkness forever. The way this has unfolded in my life and probably in most lives, is that I don’t make this choice only once, but over and over. Each time I make the choice for God, the ego gets smaller and less substantial in my mind, and the choice for God is easier to make.

Let us not be satisfied with imaginary comforters, for the Comforter of God is in us.

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Study of Text, Chapter 11: II: The Invitation to Healing, P 6. 9-1-15

II. The Invitation to Healing, P 6
6 You will never rest until you know your function and fulfil it, for only in this can your will and your Father’s be wholly joined. To have Him is to be like Him, and He has given Himself to you. You who have God must be as God, for His function became yours with His gift. Invite this knowledge back into your mind, and let nothing that obscures it enter. The Guest Whom God sent you will teach you how to do this, if you but recognize the little spark and are willing to let it grow. Your willingness need not be perfect, because His is. If you will merely offer Him a little place, He will lighten it so much that you will gladly let it be increased. And by this increase, you will begin to remember creation.

Journal
I am as God is, and this is my nature in truth, though not so much in the illusion. Here I seem to be something else altogether, something weak and fragile, guilty and afraid. But as I give my attention to that spark in my mind, the light grows and I see more clearly. My Guest knows what I am and knows how to awaken me to this glorious truth. All I have to do is invite His help and make Him welcome through my attention to Him.

Thank you, God, that my willingness does not have to be perfect. His willingness is perfect and it will increase mine. Here is the sentence that encourages me greatly this day.

Invite this knowledge back into your mind, and let nothing that obscures it enter.

I invite the knowledge of what my function is, and who I am. I invite healing of all that is not God, and I invite the Holy Spirit to use this vessel for His work. I make this invitation real and useful as I let nothing that obscures it enter my mind. I do this every day, all through the day, as I stay vigilant for obscuring thoughts and beliefs and readily give them to the Holy Spirit that they be purified.

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Study of Text, Chapter 11: II: The Invitation to Healing, P 5. 9-1-15

II. The Invitation to Healing, P 5
5 The Holy Spirit cannot speak to an unwelcoming host, because He will not be heard. The Eternal Guest remains, but His Voice grows faint in alien company. He needs your protection, only because your care is a sign that you want Him. Think like Him ever so slightly, and the little spark becomes a blazing light that fills your mind so that He becomes your only Guest. Whenever you ask the ego to enter, you lessen His welcome. He will remain, but you have allied yourself against Him. Whatever journey you choose to take, He will go with you, waiting. You can safely trust His patience, for He cannot leave a part of God. Yet you need far more than patience.

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The Holy Spirit is always with me and always will be because He cannot abandon a part of God. What He needs from me in order to help me is my welcome. I must want His help. Otherwise all He can do is wait patiently for me to realize I do want that help. But as Jesus says, I need more than His patience. I need His active participation in my Awakening.

I do welcome the Holy Spirit, and I open my mind and heart to Him. I ask for His help, His guidance, His healing. But I must protect His place in my mind through continuing to desire His help. It is still too easy for me to turn to the ego for answers, so I must be vigilant in noticing whom I ask for help. When I look to the ego for guidance, I have lessened the Holy Spirit’s welcome and so, while He remains with me, He cannot help me.

I want to Awaken and the Holy Spirit will help me to do this, and it will occur much more easily if I do not block His help. This is not hard; it just requires practice and dedication to my purpose. I have gotten pretty good at catching the mind’s tendency to return to judgment and to lose itself in illusions. I have gotten pretty good at changing my mind. Now I continue my practice until I have mastered this decision. 

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