VI. The Vision of Christ, P 2
2 The Holy Spirit is your strength because He knows nothing but the spirit as you. He is perfectly aware that you do not know yourself, and perfectly aware of how to teach you to remember what you are. Because He loves you, He will gladly teach you what He loves, for He wills to share it. Remembering you always, He cannot let you forget your worth. For the Father never ceases to remind Him of His Son, and He never ceases to remind His Son of the Father. God is in your memory because of Him. You chose to forget your Father but you do not really want to do so, and therefore you can decide otherwise. As it was my decision, so is it yours.
Journal
In Lesson 70 Jesus says we are our own salvation and nothing outside us saves us. The Holy Spirit is not outside us. He is part of us, in our mind to help us remember the truth of our nature, and with us forever to protect our holy mind. He is the memory of God and the memory of us, what we are as part of God. He knows we have forgotten our Self, but He only knows us as we are.
God is the source of the Holy Spirit’s knowing and the Holy Spirit is the source of our knowing. We chose forgetfulness, but through the Holy Spirit we will choose awakening to the truth. Jesus has done this already, and so it is done for us as we are all one. All that is left is for us to accept our awakening.
Jesus gave us A Course in Miracles to help us understand that there is nothing in the illusion worth keeping, that we want to wake up from this dream, that it is safe to do so, and that we can do so. All we have to do is follow his simple instructions and as our mind heals, we naturally change our minds and choose God. There is nothing we need do to be what we are, and we have unlimited help to do what must be undone in order to remember our Divinity.
It seems so simple to do this work and so inevitable that I will awaken, I wonder how it is that I keep returning my mind to my ego story. I see I must still believe it has some value to me. I was reading something I wrote awhile back and laughed because it made clear why I think I need the ego. Here is what I said.
“All along I have a true will, the will I share with God. It sits alongside the small personal will that I have been listening to. I can reclaim my true will by simply desiring to do so. Sometimes I think that I have done this, and I feel such joy and peace you wouldn’t believe. I cannot imagine why I ever wanted a separate will.
Then I return to my separate made-up self and again I am enthralled with the idea that I need it. I think I need to defend myself against a co-worker and I cannot use God’s Will to attack so I pick up my little self will again. Or I think that I need to look different, or I need more money, or I believe I am guilty, and God’s Will does not recognize any of this as true, so I turn to the little will. It brings me proof that I am right to be afraid and offers me lifetimes of advice that has never met a single one of these needs.”
Ha ha! Why do I keep falling for this? Well, today is a new day, a clean slate. I am willing to look at whatever shows up in my mind that I still believe and think I need. Holy Spirit, I ask for your constant guidance today. Look with me at all these silly thoughts and correct them for me. I want only the truth. I want no defense, no attack, no guilt to remain in my mind. I want to feel safe and to feel loved. May I be always attuned to your loving and protective presence. Thank you.
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