VI. The Acceptance of Your Brother
1 How can you become increasingly aware of the Holy Spirit in you except by His effects? You cannot see Him with your eyes nor hear Him with your ears. How, then, can you perceive Him at all? If you inspire joy and others react to you with joy, even though you are not experiencing joy yourself there must be something in you that is capable of producing it. If it is in you and can produce joy, and if you see that it does produce joy in others, you must be dissociating it in yourself.
Journal
When I think of the Holy Spirit’s effects in me, I tend to think of a healed mind manifesting as a healed life. I notice that I feel better physically, and emotionally. I have less worry and less fear. I see that while I am aware of ego thoughts, I don’t believe them like I used to. I am more aware of any desire to run and hide, or to defend and attack, and not as interested in that as I used to be.
I was surprised when I read this paragraph because I did not think of it in terms of joy. I am aware of the Holy Spirit in me as I notice that I inspire joy, even if I am not experiencing joy. This phenomena must be produced by something, and it is clearly not me. The ego certainly does not produce joy in anyone, so it must be the Holy Spirit.
Do I see others reacting to me with joy? Yes, thinking of it, sometimes I do. I hope it happens a lot whether I notice or not. I have had times when I was absolutely not feeling joyful, but when called to minister, something within me responded in such a way as to inspire comfort and peace and joy. I wasn’t feeling those things when called, so where did the response come from? This is the way I know the Holy Spirit. I know Him from my experience of Him moving through me.
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