When I feel “badly” after noticing some ego thought popping up in my mind, even the slightest discomfort, is just more ego guilt. The ego trying to remind me that I am doing “it” wrong, because I am not following ACIM absolutely to the T. The ego’s only option is to keep guilt and fear going, otherwise its gig is up, its tactics are revealed, and its cover is blown.
Some days I fall right back into the groove of the ego stories, other days are “better” when I give up some false idea to Holy Spirit for correction.
Some days as I open to Spirit’s insight I receive thoughts like the following:
Fear is not here unless I bring it with me. It is this I do when I cling to my past. For the ego system uses the past to define its justification for pain, attack and guilt. Then it proclaims that the future must be like the past, and makes the future full of fear. Is this what I want to teach and learn?
Holy Spirit would show me that the only time there is is Now. He will take my mistaken picture of myself and the world, and turn it around. Only my sick thoughts hold the past and bring it to the present. These are not thoughts that help or heal. These are not thoughts that I would keep.
I offer my desire to see things differently to Holy Spirit. I give up my meaning and make room in my mind for the truth that He gives. The seeming injustices of my life will fall away when I recognize they are meaningless. I will recognize that nothing was “done to me.”
I make a choice, and if necessary, choose again and again. I choose to let my past go. I choose to let Spirit show me what is real, giving up what is unreal. My dream is not valuable, but with the Guidance from Spirit this dream can serve a new purpose. A purpose to undo the dream of fear, and let the dream of forgiveness blossom in minds that appear to sleep. I am willing to have a dream of forgiveness replace my loveless dreams. I am willing to see a happy dream.
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