IV. The Holy Spirit’s Plan of Forgiveness, P 6
6 Follow the Holy Spirit’s teaching in forgiveness, then, because forgiveness is His function and He knows how to fulfill it perfectly. That is what I meant when I said that miracles are natural, and when they do not occur something has gone wrong. Miracles are merely the sign of your willingness to follow the Holy Spirit’s plan of salvation, recognizing that you do not understand what it is. His work is not your function, and unless you accept this you cannot learn what your function is.
Journal
When I think of living like this everything seems so simple. If I am experiencing anything except love, joy and peace then I am following the ego’s plan for salvation. Knowing this, I can choose again. I can choose to release the ego thoughts to the Holy Spirit and allow Him to do His work. He knows His function and will complete it if I don’t interfere, if I don’t try to do it myself.
The ego wants all functions for itself. This is what is happening when I think that I know what to do about a situation. When I got upset with a coworker, I knew that I wanted the situation resolved. I had thoughts about who was to blame. I had thoughts about letting my anger go even though the coworker was wrong, because being angry was not helping. I had thoughts of being guilty for my feelings, and then I would feel rage at the coworker.
The ego mind thinks this is helping. When I am looking at this from the ego mind, it seems like I must consider all angles of the situation, look closely at the story, deciding who is wrong and what I need to do about it to defend my position and protect myself. Sometimes I stumble over a useful idea and things seem to get better for awhile, but nothing is solved because the ego cannot heal. The best I can hope for is a temporary secession of conflict, knowing it will show up somewhere else, in some other form.
When I choose to release this to the Holy Spirit, the experience and the outcome is entirely different. I notice that I am angry and upset with my coworker. I realize that my thoughts about this situation are making me miserable and I show them to the Holy Spirit, asking Him to correct my thinking and heal my mind. He does this. Sometimes I stray back into the ego mind and pick up the problem again, but if I do, I just repeat the process with the Holy Spirit.
When I am looking at this situation with the Holy Spirit and handing it over to Him, it is all very simple and easy and the solution is permanent because a healing has occurred. All that I have to do is stay in my real mind and let Spirit complete His function. I have no part in that other than to not interfere.
I have noticed that not interfering is the only hard part for me. The ego mind wants to do the Holy Spirit’s job. It requires vigilance to be aware when I have strayed into a function that is not mine to fulfill. I remind myself that my job is to notice the ego thoughts, to realize I don’t want them and to release them to the Holy Spirit. Period. I am through. Now it is the Holy Spirit’s job to complete the forgiveness process.
What occurs when I do my part and stand back is a miracle. My mind is healed and from a healed mind, a healed world becomes manifest. If I follow this simple plan, doing only my part and allowing the Holy Spirit to do the rest, my life will be miraculous. The world’s laws will be meaningless as the miracle supersedes them. As I do this more and more, forgiveness becomes easier and more natural, and so does miraculous living.
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