Day 32
X. Open-Mindedness
1 The centrality of open-mindedness, perhaps the last of the attributes the teacher of God acquires, is easily understood when its relation to forgiveness is recognized. Open-mindedness comes with lack of judgment. As judgment shuts the mind against God’s Teacher, so open-mindedness invites Him to come in. As condemnation judges the Son of God as evil, so open-mindedness permits him to be judged by the Voice for God on His behalf. As the projection of guilt upon him would send him to hell, so open-mindedness lets Christ’s image be extended to him. Only the open-minded can be at peace, for they alone see reason for it.
Me: Holy Spirit, I still close my mind to your help sometimes, but I have a strong willingness to stay open. What would you have me know?
Holy Spirit: Think for a moment about yesterday.
Me: I began by asking You to help me let go of all that keeps me faithless. As I thought about one area of my life I am afraid to release, I noticed myself contracting around the fear of my request. I could see how silly I was being, and yet the fear felt so real. Even though it made no sense to me, I was afraid to let go.
Holy Spirit: What were the thoughts in your mind?
Me: I have been fully willing to turn over my life to You to use as would be helpful to the awakening. But then I think, “What if I am asked to quit my job and walk away from my family?” And when I think of this, I cry. I think that I committed to let my grandson live with me while he finishes college and I think that he is not emotionally ready to live alone even if he could afford to. He hasn’t yet learned to deal with stress and even small things upset him to the point that it becomes hard for him to function. He needs me right now and I would feel awful to leave him.
I also feel pretty awful as I write this because I seem to be saying that I don’t trust You to care about my grandson. I don’t trust You to take care of him and love him as much as I do. I feel foolish and guilty.
Holy Spirit: The thoughts you have just written down are the ego thoughts in your mind. When you listen to and believe these thoughts you close your mind to Me. Sweet child, I see your fear, but I know that it is groundless. It is like a wound that you guard against My healing because you are afraid if you let Me touch it, I will hurt you. I assure you that his is not the case.
You want this healing. As much as you want to guard against My help, you also want My help. This is not the only time you have set up blocks to total surrender, and yet you come to Me often, asking Me to help you remove these obstructions. This is your true will, and the voices of confusion, while compelling in their fear mongering, are not what you really want to listen to.
Imagine your mind opening gently, like a rose bud opening to the sun. Imagine the warmth of the sun’s rays healing this sore spot in the center of you. Absorb the healing light. There is nothing to fear from the light.
My Voice is the Voice you want to hear, dear one. When you hear the other voices, the ones that call you to defend yourself from Me, recognize that this is not your voice; it is the ego voice and listening to it is like closing the door on your Self and on the light.
Turn your attention away from the those thoughts, and turn it to Me. You may have to do this often, but it will always be simple. Don’t feed the fearful thoughts by giving them your attention. Don’t judge the sense of them. Don’t try to figure out which may be true. Don’t follow the thoughts while they weave stories of woe. Just recognize they are not the thoughts you think with God. They are not your thoughts. Return your mind to Me. As often as it takes. And I will always be here waiting for your return.
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