I. The Two Uses of Time, P 9
9 This lesson takes no time. For what is time without a past and future? It has taken time to misguide you so completely, but it takes no time at all to be what you are. Begin to practice the Holy Spirit’s use of time as a teaching aid to happiness and peace. Take this very instant, now, and think of it as all there is of time. Nothing can reach you here out of the past, and it is here that you are completely absolved, completely free and wholly without condemnation. From this holy instant wherein holiness was born again you will go forth in time without fear, and with no sense of change with time.
Journal
Right now as I sit here in front of my computer reading this paragraph it is 11:30 at night. I thought I was going to sleep, but that didn’t happen so I got up to do this instead. I had stayed in bed for thirty minutes but I disliked just laying there so I noticed the thoughts in my mind. I had thoughts that I needed to go to sleep and that I have to be up for a student in the morning. I noticed thoughts that I would be tired and not clear headed. But I am learning that these thoughts are not true.
This has been happening a lot lately and I am fine with it. I wake up with no trouble and I enjoy my day. I have observed that thought without belief has no power to do anything. I questioned the thoughts that how much sleep I get determines my day and saw that they were not true. And now I am free of it unless I choose to believe it again. If I start thinking about how I reacted to sleeplessness in the past, or if I start worrying about tomorrow, then I won’t be doing so well.
This applies to everything. Sometimes I will remember a time when I said the wrong thing and I will feel guilty and maybe embarrassed thinking about it. The mind is in the past. Perhaps I will start to worry that I will do that again and then I will feel even worse. The mind is in the future. But if I notice this and stop a moment to ask the Holy Spirit for a different way to see, then it all turns around.
I am reminded that I am innocent and I forgive myself for thinking otherwise. In that moment, I am absolved, free, and wholly without condemnation. As long as I stay in the moment, this state will remain constant. It is only when I let my mind stray to the past or the future that I perceive problems, regret for the past and worry for the future.
Right now, life is good. I am enjoying this moment and when I realize it is time to go to sleep, I can continue in this good moment, and that is what I want to do. I have started making it a habit to ask the Holy Spirit what to do when I am not at peace. I tell Him that I am not sure what the problem is, or if I know what the problem is I might ask him how to deal with it. He is my constant Companion, my Friend and my Helper. I ask in complete confidence that the answer will bring me back to the holy instant where I want to live my life.
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