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My Only Function

Hello Everyone!  After today’s review I received thoughts from Spirit, that are shared below.

WB lesson 83: [Not in ‘order’] If I would find happiness, I must learn to recognize what makes me happy. My happiness and my function are one. My only function is the one God gave me.

Spirit: You are not alone—and you are not defenseless. You remain exactly as Love created you. Only Love creates and only like Itself.              Do you want to come from Love? Or do you want to come from fear? The whole world you “see” is based on fear and therefore is not real. It is the illusion that rises from fear. You have put your faith in the illusion and have discarded truth. You mistakenly think that you need to protect your heart from pain. Yet your heart is in Love, IS protected and sustained with only Love.
You deny Love because you think you are Love’s opposite. There is nothing outside of Love, there is nothing but love in Love, there is only Love. What Love creates no other thought can put asunder.  Do you want to be right or happy? Why choose pain and isolation when Love is here NOW ? Give no home to fear or any form it takes; be not a slave to fear and the thoughts it appears in.

I am here to tell you of which choice brings fear or release. I will always direct you towards truth, towards Love. When you choose to forgive or see differently, I am here to show you your release. I am here to show you your perfect brother reflecting only love back to you. I am here to show you the truth beyond the illusion you mistake as real. Love is not threatened, It only continues in extending. Love is real and anything that is unlike Love does not exist.

In your dream, rather then trying to make things as you wish, why not give love to the pictures in your dream? Why not forgive the ideas behind the forms, the dream shadows? Why not accept all exactly as it is? Accepting things as they are, means that you have remembered that you do not know what anything is for, you have let go of the definition you made for it. You are willing to be shown what anything is for. In accepting things as they are, you release the judgment you would impose on a neutral or innocent image. You would follow Love’s Teacher, and see the harmlessness in all things, situations, circumstances. This is being kind to yourself. This is freeing your self from the burden of controlling everything in your world. “Let all things be as they are” supposes the innate innocence in every one and every form that appears in your dream.  You have only one function, you have the function that Love has given you.

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My Only Problem Has Been Solved

Hello Everyone,
Today I am very glad for today’s WB lesson, #80. It reminds me that I am under no laws but God’s; that I am part of perfect innocence, part of unending Love. I share with you thoughts that came to me before reading the lesson, and following the lesson.

I am not a body. I am as Spirit created me. The only thought that needs correcting is that separation is real. This idea has made the world I “see,” the bodies and other forms around the “me” I mistake for my self.

If I would simply give up the thought of separation, this thought would be healed. The Course teaches that Healing will wait until I no longer view it as a threat or curse. As long as I think that something outside of “me” can harm me, I have chosen illusion and rejected truth. As long as I think I can decide on my own, I will be in the illusion of fear. Thoughts leave not their source. My insane thoughts are in my mind, showing me the fear and hate I try to hide. It is only in my mind that healing and forgiveness can happen. The only problem that I seem to have, is the belief that I made my self apart from God/Love.

“Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved.”    “Let me recognize my problems have been solved.”
My only problem has been solved!          My only problem has been solved!  There is no separation——it is a false belief. There is no world occupied by separate bodies——my only problem has been solved. What seems as real around me is an illusion of guilt. The guilt is not real because the cause for it never happened. My only problem has been solved for I never departed from my Source. As Love created me, so I remain.  My only problem has been solved!

[Spirit]  Wait not one instant more—-Choose Love and you are free! Free from your dreaming, freed of mistaken beliefs. Follow Love, teach only love to learn that you are Love!    This is your part in God’s plan for saving you—-and your brothers.

Spirit recently brought my attention to a place in the text, pages 151-154, that I share below. I found it helpful for a shift in my perception.
“Communication ends separation.”
“Healing is the result of using the body solely for communication.”
“Help and healing are the normal expressions of a mind that is working through a body, but not in it.”  [My interpretation} By blocking it’s own extension beyond the body, the mind will induce illness by fostering separation. If the mind believes the body is its goal, it will distort its perception of the body. Perceiving the body as a separate entity can only foster illness, because it is not true. To use a medium of communication as a medium of attack is an obvious confusion in purpose.

Perception of the body can be unified only by one purpose. This releases the mind from the temptation to see the body in many lights——- giving it over entirely to the One Light. “Only if the mind extends to other minds and not arrest itself, can learning lead beyond the body and re-establish the power of the mind. The arrest is the cause of all illness, because only extension is the mind’s function. [To extend is to love.]                     
“There is no attack,but there is unlimited communication and therefore unlimited power and wholeness. The power of wholeness is extension. Do not arrest your thought in this world, and you will open your mind to creation in God.”

[Me] My only purpose here is to extend communication to other minds that think they are separate. The message to send is that they are without guilt (not one spot of guilt mars their perfect innocence). I forgive their illusions and thus release my illusions. To give and receive are the same.    I will not waste another moment by trying to make the ego’s plan for salvation work. Only God’s plan for salvation works. My brother is the holy Son of God, complete and healed and whole. He is my savior from my illusions. It is my will to forgive (love) and be happy. I choose to be happy!

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Never Forget

I seem to believe that there is a struggle going on within my mind. It seems valid that I share this part of the Course that I recently read: “An ancient lesson is not overcome by the opposing of the new and old. It is not vanquished that the truth be known, nor fought against to lose to truth’s appeal. There is no battle that must be prepared; no time to be expended, and no plans that need be laid for bringing in the new. There IS an ancient battle being waged against the truth, but truth does not respond. Who could be hurt in such a war, unless he hurts himself? He has no enemy in truth. And can he be assailed by dreams?” (T31.II.1;1-7)
That part was more meaningful to me from the message that Spirit shared with me the day before I read the text and the day after.

[Day 1] Spirit: Never forget—-you are the light of the world.
Forgiveness is your function as the light of the world. Forgiveness gives you everything you want. Forgiveness is the escape from guilt, and the freedom from pain.
You are the light of the world. You really want the truth and nothing else. Make the choice to have peace and the truth is given you. Truth is given you now, yet without peace of mind you do not recognize it. The peace of God is in you NOW—-but you have put a veil across it, making it appear foreign and absent. When you forgive, you are letting the unreal thoughts go, uncovering the real thoughts you share in Love. This is all you really want in truth.

[Day 2] The desire you sometimes feel to help others—-covers the fear of unworthiness. The hidden guilt (made secret by the sick mind) has constructed your dream life, motivated the body’s actions, and made the error real. The underlying thought of such “help” was to atone, to make your self worthy and deserving of love.
What Love has made whole—-remains exactly as it was created. The thought that anything could exist apart from Love is merely ridiculous and laughable. The sick mind holds tightly to this idea for without it, this mind does not exist. The mind may make dreams about itself, yet these dreams can change in appearance by giving them another purpose.

The dream is given the purpose of healing. Your purpose becomes one with Christ’s purpose. Your only function is forgiving the world you think you see and live in. The forgiving dream is the happy dream. By forgiving the thoughts the sick mind seems to hold, you free your brother, you free your self,  you free your Father. You do not have a greater purpose than this.

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My Thougts Do Not Mean Anything

Hello Everyone, these are the ideas that Spirit has shared with me recently:

The past is nothing. The past is made of thoughts that I have chosen. My thoughts do not mean anything. The thoughts that seem to be in my mind are nothing; they hide my real thoughts from my awareness.

I have been mistaken and mistakes are ALL forgiven. I have tried to make my dream be everything to me, to replace the inclusiveness of Love. All I seem to see and be in my dream is just a memory that I replay again and again. This memory was made from an insane thought at which I forgot to laugh. Forgetting to laugh, a sick, sad belief occupied my mind.

There is no release in holding onto thoughts that are false. The selective thoughts I hold are false, but I can choose to let them be undone. My dream of guilt does not protect me, it does preoccupy my mind. I have attempted to make an insane thought be real. I chose not to remember that the insane thought was healed the instant that it occurred. One tiny mad idea has given me a thought system that I do not want—-a dream of grief, insanity, darkness and death.

My purity has not been breached, nor has Love’s perfection been corrupted. I mistake a memory for reality, I mistake guilt as being real. I deceive my self with the thoughts I made. I think I have taken truth and locked it away in a hidden corner of my mind. When I identify with a thought of separation, I think that truth will harm me. I am willing to give up the thoughts that hurt and accept the truth of What I am.

Real thoughts are the thoughts I share with God. Loving thoughts are real thoughts. Loving thoughts share the truth. They hold the attributes of gentleness, calmness, certainty, trust, acceptance, joy and happiness. My real thoughts are in my mind and I am willing to find them.

**I (hope) that I am beginning to understand that as I have a “good” sentence come to my mind, that Spirit then offers me the unhealed mind’s perspective of that sentence. That is helping me to recognize the many ways the unhealed mind appears to handle the circumstances of the dream.

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Walk In Spirit’s Shoes

The following words came to me today….which reminds me of the quote of walking in another’s shoes. If I walk in Spirit’s shoes, He lightens the load I have put on myself, because I “see” through His eyes, “hear” with His ears, “think” with His Mind—which is really my right-mind.

It is always my choice as to what I see.
Do I want to see a fear filled world of grievance and attack? The false thoughts of the wrong-mind will be represented to me. The witnesses to sin will be the companions I walk with. The mistaken choice I made that I am guilty brings the images of a world in misery, loss and despair.

Therefore, If I do not like the way I feel, I can choose once more. I determine if I choose peace or war. My holy mind knows nothing of conflict, spite and guilt. I choose to follow my Guardian of truth, to look past the images I have made. When I choose to see differently, the truth reveals itself in my awareness. When I choose to “see” with my Guardian, I find a world of joy, forgiveness and laughter. The world then is a place of innocence and pure loving thoughts. Everything is holy here because my choice has made it so.

When I remind my self of the choice I make, I can feel the change within the body as my mind changes its focus. I feel a lightness and a softening to the idea that my body is not real. There is gladness to accept that the images around me are only my thoughts reflected back to me. With lighter feeling, I no longer take or make everything serious. As I accept the truth I can laugh at every image I have made. Every image that I made up is but a joke to trick my self into believing that it (image) was real. I gladly accept the correction that my Guardian gives to me. His correction reminds me that what was never accomplished does not need to be “undone.”

What do I want to see?
Only the gifts that true vision has brought to me. A happy dream where forgiveness has set me and everyone free.

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