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No Fear to Hide In

Dear Companions,

I have been remiss on putting enties in my journal. The latest fly in the honey, was that the password for the DSL got corrupted, so the system would not recoginze our computer. This entry comes from my journal of 2001. Thank you for your patience, and I thank H.S. for miracles!

In my dream experience the ego mind wanted a different house, a newer house; it wanted the clutter and collections of papers gone, the kitchen kept neat and clean. The ego mind wanted to ‘know’ that it would be taken care of, since I did not ever totally support myself. (Is there some thing that prevents me from learning this now?) The “payoff” to being weak is that someone will take care of me—-at what cost? I feel guilty (because I’m using them) I feel worthless, less than. I feel hopeless, that I’ll never change.
Dear Jesus, why am I so afraid of being happy? With being successful? With joining the oneness of Christ? Why do I seem to choose depression, poverty, uncertainty and anger, resentment and pain? Is it really all from identifying with my ego mind??

Spirit: Yes Sara, it is that simple, that direct. Pain always comes from the separated self. It is the belief that you are weak, vulnerable, without support, without love. It instills those thoughts so you will not abandon its premise, though its premise is totally false.
Why keep giving energy to what is false? Because it also holds the solid belief that if you have the pain, then the rage of God will be lessened; if you “pay now” for your defiance against God, then you’ll have leniency later on….... Don’t buy this either, Sara! God can never punish—nor condemn. He knows only of Oneness, that you are part of Him and never have left.

Your part is to accept mind healing, which means taking all fear thoughts to Love for correct interpretation. You have been mistaken all of your life, be glad this is so. It is not an insult,
just fact. And you can now choose to learn the truth of what you are. That is accepting correction for all your interpretations. They have missed the mark in every circumstance. (Even your interpretation that you have broken your computer thru negligence is mistaken.) That is the ego using guilt to keep you immersed in the dream of lack and separation.

You are a loving Spirit of God. When you give all thoughts and all events over to Love,
only love is the certain outcome. There is no need at any point or place or event,
to accept self punishment, or lack. There is no sacrifice or deprivation in Love.
Keep practicing on giving everything over to Love. That is all I ask: keep practicing, reminding yourself that you have no answers, and you do not know. When you do not know, you accept help, and correct direction from Love, to help you remain aware of Love.
You will find it very natural. This is your vocation—-working on changing your mind is the most important work you can do, it is the most meaningful work for you.
You are blessed, Child of God—-you are blessed each instant that you return to Love.

Why would you choose not to listen to H.S.? Because you might “learn” that you are Love, you might remember truth. If you remembered that you are Love and nothing else, the ego mind would be no more. No more important, self-made, part of God yet separate from God.
The illusion would cease to have foundation if you accepted the words that the Voice for Love offers you.

You can choose to hide from God, yet it will only be in your imagination.
For there is no place where God/Love is not and there is no fear to hide in.

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Sins Are Mistakes (WB lesson 134)

Today’s lesson was: Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.

The first sentence in ¶ 4 stood out to me:
“Because you think your sins are real, you look on pardon as deception.”

Then Spirit continued with:
Your “sins” are only mistakes—-mistakes are illusions. Mistaken thoughts make a world that in itself is meaningless. Accept only that there have been mistakes, poor choices, unguided thinking, and wrong perception—-they are all the same. There is no sin! There is no sin because you have not left your Source. The idea of separation was corrected the instant it was made. The dream of separation is only a dream. It is the dream you can wake from. Is it not more fearful to remain in a nightmare than to wake from it?

Forgiveness is real only in the sense that it undoes all false perceptions; it undoes illusion.
Thus will it undo the idea of separation. Hide no thought from the gift of forgiveness.
Forgiveness can be “done” any where and any moment. It is your choice for real or unreal.
Your choice to be happy (real) or right (unreal). Surely you have noticed by now how being right has never brought peace, happiness or love to you or anyone.

Forgiveness undoes the belief that your definition or meaning of anything has truth.
Forgiveness is the way to truth.
Forgiveness brings the experience of love to your awareness.
Forgiveness releases the false.
Forgiveness offers everything you want.

Accept this gift—-the means by which you are released.
It is the means by which you wake from the dream.

Me: Thank you Holy Spirit!

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Peace and Joy

I received these words after reading WB lesson 105…..(Spirit calls my name as Sara).

God’s peace and joy are mine.

Gods gifts are eternal. They are given without compromise, without limit, without end. When you give peace and joy to a brother it gives you recognition of what is his inheritance. God gives equally to all. By giving peace and joy you recognize that His gifts are yours as well as your brothers.

Sara, if God’s peace and joy are yours, what does this tell you?
The little mind denies that these gifts are yours NOW. It uses the world it has made to witness the “fact” that you do not have God’s gifts.
Yet you can choose to deny the false idea. Because God’s peace and joy are yours, this must mean you are innocent, guiltless; are not a body, not an ego, not a separated self.

You need only accept the fact that you are as Love created you, and all else
is seen with true Vision, that reveals the truth in everything. It reveals the living behind the veils of fantasy. To know the truth, you must want truth above all the fantasies that were made to take the place of truth. That does take willingness. H.S. is ever present with you, to hold your hand, whisper gently in your mind, and supply the strength that only Love gives, to walk away from dreams and fantasies that no longer serve you.

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With Spirit

The little mind believes that it has attacked its Source, has made a world and life apart from All That Is. This is a fabrication built on the mistaken idea that it could be possible to be split from its Creator, from Love. The little mind has forgotten the truth—and that only truth is true. Its belief in its sad little story has covered over the beauty and light of the real mind, that remains forever with its Source.

The little mind identifies so strongly with all the is unlike Love. It believes that to identify with Love, is to lose “everything” even its little life. Though it sees a fearful story wherever it goes,
it tries to paint loveliness over the dark and hateful scenes. It tries to mask fear with a picture of happiness. It tries to make worldly goals the epitome of worth and happiness. Yet in never understands why it remains fearful and unsure, feeling isolated and obscure, unloved and unwanted. It tries to hide its guilt in a dream filled with values that are meaningless to Love.

As you choose, so will you “see.” When you choose a hallucination, so will it appear to you, seemly solid or real. When you choose for Love, so will It becomes evident in your “world.”
Love is never gone, nor dispersed. When you choose for Love, you are willing to drop the barriers to awareness of Love. You are Willing with Love, and you are being your natural state. Love is your natural state of being. When you try to be anything other than Love, you find yourself in conflict, pain and despair. Therefore, be kind, be loving and you will be happy, in peace, in Love, whole and complete.

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What is Salvation?

As I listened during today’s lesson: “Holding grievances is an attack on God’s plan for salvation.
“What is salvation, Father? Tell me, that I may understand,” this is what I “heard.”

Spirit: Salvation is to be freed from illusions, from insane plans for survival, from investment in false dreams.
Salvation is love. When you accept the Presence of Love, the false falls away. In Love’s Presence, there is no cause (for guilt/fear) and no need for illusion or lies.

Salvation is the healing of a mind made mad. It is accepting the truth and nothing added to the truth. The impossible stories that mind thought up, vanish in the light of Love.

The idols that you have dreamed to protect the body are nothing. The body is nothing for is is not real. Only the eternal is real. As God’s Son you are real, Love created you like Itself. Choose to release the dream you have made. Choose to release the idols that you thought would protect you.
Release the belief that you can be harmed, and have harmed others. Love can never harm. Love only extends, gives Itself. Love gives love to all.

Do not be chained to the past—-the past is gone. It is a fantasy of mind insane with pain of guilt. The past is nothing, for it was “made” from nothing. It has no value, it holds no treasure. It’s purpose in the ego mind is to distort the now, making the future like the past.

To me, Spirit tells ideas so simply. Only the insane mind thinks such ideas are lies, made to trap and kill. Letting go of what is not real cannot be fearful. Holy Spirit is the only one that undoes the false thoughts I have made. He reveals to me what is Real. Holy Spirit is the only one that can shine the light that I may recognize the truth, the love that is in my mind, that I am One with.

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