February 23, 2016

The One, our Creator, wills us be in Heaven – Peace of Mind. We are already and have always been in Heaven. Having faith in this one thing is sufficient to allow Spirit to bring the state of Heaven – which we are in – to our awareness. Having faith in this one idea, believing this one idea, is all we really need do to shift our awareness and remember who we really are. Spirit – our Higher Holy Spirit Self – is waiting within us to raise our mind to the awareness of our true nature, our true essence, our true state of being. Everything that comes our way, every encounter, every experience, every thought, is an opportunity to learn a lesson that will bring us closer to the awareness of who we really are, to Heaven. It’s our choice what we have faith in. It’s our choice what we believe. Spirit is given us to help us test our faith and beliefs to discern what is real and what is not. If we are believing something that is mistaken, we need simply release our attachment to that belief and allow Spirit to guide us to the truth. The choice is between sanity and insanity. What would we choose?

Our true mind contains a communication link with the One that was placed there in our creation. This communication link can never be broken. We may believe it’s been broken or even that it never existed. This mistaken belief interferes with the deep peace in which the sweet communication the One shares with us is known. The channels of Peace reaching out cannot be wholly closed. Peace is ours because Peace still flows from our Source whose Will is Peace. We have Peace now. Nothing can change that fact. Spirit teaches us to use this Peace within us by extending it to learn that it is within us. There is no chance that Peace and Heaven are not ours. This is sure. We can rest assured in this.

We will learn what we need and who we are by sharing with others what they need and who they are. We then see the same truth we see in others in ourselves. And we will know it is true by the peace of heaven we feel as we share this truth. This is the grace of the One. Truth flows gracefully as we allow peace to rise up in us. Awaken to yourself as you awaken to each other. Awaken to the communication that flows within our minds. The call is there within our minds waiting for us to awaken to It. The Course askes us this:

Can we lose ourselves in dreams, when the One has placed within us the glad Call to waken and be glad? We cannot separate ourselves from what is in us. Our sleep will not withstand the Call to wake. The mission of redemption will be fulfilled as surely as the creation will remain unchanged throughout eternity. We do not have to know that Heaven is ours to make it so. It is so. Yet to know it, the Will of the One must be accepted as our will.   T-13.XI.10.1-6

Are we ready to accept the Peace we are? Are we ready to accept that we are in Heaven? Will we reconcile our mistaken beliefs about ourselves with the truth about who we really are? This great release is ours for the accepting. We needn’t worry about the mechanics of this mind shift. Spirit will guide this shift with great skill and gentleness. Spirits plan for our release will be and is perfectly accomplished. We will be and are released to the awareness of our One Holly Self of which we all are, joined in Oneness. We are released to the awareness of the peace of Heaven within us. Be and rest in that Peace.

February 16, 2016

The peace in which we dwell is invariable. This invariable peace is within us. This just is. Nothing can change this. Only our denial of the peace in which we dwell can block it from our awareness. Peace is still within us. We have chosen to believe that the battles within our minds are real instead. The power of our belief in unreality blocks our awareness of the peace within us in which we dwell. Because we believe there is an opponent threatening us, we engage in a battle in our minds and even seek escape from those battles to preserve our peace of mind. We have denied the fact that our peace of mind is real and thus indestructible. There is nothing that can harm the peace within us. And this is what we forget or deny.

The One would not have us embattled, so our perceived enemies are totally unreal. We are trying to escape a war that doesn’t exist. It is gone. We have heard the song of freedom rising to Heaven through the Spirit’s Voice, bringing our release from that which is not real. We open our eyes and see with the eyes of Spirit. What we believe we value, and as long as we value what is not real, that unreality will be what we see.

When we are all united in Heaven, you will value nothing that you value here. For nothing that you value here do you value wholly, and so you do not value it at all. Value is where the One placed it, and the value of what the One esteems cannot be judged, for it has been established. It is wholly of value. It can merely be appreciated or not. To value it partially is not to know its value. In Heaven is everything the One values, and nothing else. Heaven is perfectly unambiguous. Everything is clear and bright, and calls forth one response. There is no darkness and there is no contrast. There is no variation. There is no interruption. There is a sense of peace so deep that no dream in this world has ever brought even a dim imagining of what it is.   T-13.XI.3.1-13

We can rest in this assurance. We are one with the One. We are inseparable from that essence that we are and have always been, rooted in peace. This essence is indestructible. And though it may appear to be otherwise in this world while we still abide here in our minds, it is not real. Our minds may be darkened by doubt and guilt, but we are given the Holy Spirit whose mission it is to remove all doubt and every trace of guilt that we have laid upon ourselves. Whatever our reaction to Spirit’s voice may be, to whatever voice we may choose to listen, or whatever strange thoughts may occur to us, we will find the peace of Heaven in which we dwell. This is as invariable as the peace in which we dwell and of which Spirit reminds us.

Then what are we doing now?

You will not remember change and shift in Heaven. You have need of contrast only here. Contrast and differences are necessary teaching aids, for by them you learn what to avoid and what to seek. When you have learned this, you will find the answer that makes the need for any differences disappear. Truth comes of its own will unto its own. When you have learned that you belong to truth, it will flow lightly over you without a difference of any kind. For you will need no contrast to help you realize that this is what you want, and only this. Fear not the Holy Spirit will fail in what you Creator has given It to do. The Will of the One can fail in nothing.   T-13.XI.6.1-9

Welcome all that comes your way on your journey. Each experience and each encounter are the contrasts we need on our journey to the remembrance of the peace in which we dwell. Only by releasing our attachment to the guilt and doubt we value so, will we allow Spirit to guide us to the freedom from that doubt and guilt to the awareness of the peace in which we always have and always will dwell. Be the peace you are right now.

February 9, 2016

Are we ready to give up guilt? Are we ready to see ourselves and each other differently? We say we want peace. We say we want love. Look within and be still. Let go of the tendency to evaluate everything you think you see. Look within and be still. In the quiet of that stillness will you look upon another’s purity and recognize their holiness. And offer thanks to that One’s Creator that no guilt has ever touched them. In your gratitude will you recognize your own purity and holiness and realize that guilt has never touched you either. Our wholeness, purity and holiness is sacrosanct. It can never be touched. And we return to the awareness of our truth as we look within and enter the stillness of our essence. It is not found through action and doing. Our true essence is recognized in the quiet presence of the preset moment, the now. We are asked to rest in the One. No more and no less.

No misperception we have ever held about ourselves or another has touched our/their innocence in any way. Our shining purity, wholly untouched by guilt and wholly loving, is bright within every one of us. Our radiance shines forth for all to recognize if we are willing to see with our Spirit eyes. As we walk in this world of form, look with love and forgiveness on each other. Look beyond all appearances to the radiance within each one. Gladness and appreciation for what you see will banish guilt forever from your mind. We are released from guilt, which has never really touched us. We are free. We are whole. We are complete. We are holy.

Our faith and our belief are centered on what we treasure. Treasure only what is holy. Treasure only what is true. Treasure only that which shines its radiance from within each of us as we look beyond the appearances we have grown so accustomed to believing. Let go of those misperceptions and rest in the stillness where peace abides within us. Trust in this peace. Trust in the Voice within you that calls you to Oneness. Be thankful for the peace that radiates from within. Walk in gratitude for the well-being that rises in our willingness to release ourselves from the bonds of our misperceptions. Look beyond another’s appearance to the Love they are and release both from the bonds of our egoic mind. Be the peace within you.

Praise be to you who make the Creator One with all of Us. Alone we are all lowly, but together we shine with brightness so intense that none of us alone can even think of it. Before the glorious radiance of the Realm guilt melts away, and transformed into kindness will never more be what it was. Every reaction you experience will be so purified that it is fitting as a hymn of praise unto your Creator. See only praise of the One in what the One has created, for the One will never cease praising you. United in this praise we stand before the gates of Heaven where we will surely enter in our sinlessness. The One loves you. Could I, then, lack faith in you and love the One perfectly? T-13.X.14.1-8

Live in the gratitude for the awareness of who we really are. No matter what or who we encounter, or how it or they appear, we are untouched by the bonds of guilt we have made. Our wholeness, our completeness, our holiness shines within us. When we become distracted, stop, be still, and look within to the quiet radiance that shines within. It is there within each and every one of us, there for the willingness to believe it is there and thus see. And in gratitude reflect, “For all that is, I am grateful.”

February 2, 2016

The “thing” we are seeking is surely found within. All that is real is within us. We are what is real. We always have been, are now and always will be. At-One-ment is found within. The realization that we are One with each other, all creation and the One is At-One-ment. As long as we believe that there are forces outside of us affecting us, we deny our Identity, who we really are. Our belief in guilt is an effect of our belief that there are outside forces affecting us. The Course tells us:    As long as you believe that guilt is justified in any way, in anyone, whatever they may do, you will not look within, where you would always find At-One-ment. The end of guilt will never come as long as you believe there is a reason for it. T-13.X.6.1-2 Nothing more than our belief that anything can affect us from outside blocks our awareness of our true Identity, the awareness of who we are; whole complete, holy and at peace. You see, we believe we are something we are not, and it is time we released our attachment to that belief.

We believe in guilt because we believe that forces outside us impact us. Nothing outside us is real. All that we perceive to be outside us and beyond our control is not real but illusion. It definitely appears real to us because we believe it is possible. However, our belief is what makes it appear real. We could easily blame ourselves for this misperception, but that will only reinforce the feeling of and belief in guilt. Our release from guilt is in allowing Spirit to guide our thoughts resulting in changes in our beliefs. Spirit guides our mind as we release our attachment to our habitual beliefs and perceptions; those we never even question anymore. This allows Spirit to bring the remembrance of what is within to our minds. It reconnects our minds with the One Mind, of which we are. Our wholeness has never left us. Our holiness has never been tainted. We are intact as we are created, in the image of the One. We are the love we are created in and that love is what we will reawaken to as we allow Spirit to guide our mind.

Now it is given you to heal and teach, to make what will be now. As yet it is not now. The Children of the One believe that they are lost in guilt, alone in a dark world where pain is pressing everywhere upon them from without. When they have looked within and see the radiance there, they will remember how much their Creator loves them. And it will seem incredible that they ever thought their Creator loved them not, and looked upon them as condemned. The moment that you realize guilt is insane, wholly unjustified and wholly without reason, you will not fear to look upon the Atonement and accept it wholly.   T-13.X.8.1-6

Peace of mind is ours for the allowing. Isn’t this what we really want? Are we willing to release our belief in guilt to another belief as guided by Spirit?

Paragraph T-13.X.10 gives us this promise:

Release from guilt as you would be released. There is no other way to look within and see the light of love, shining as steadily and as surely as the One has always loved You. And as You love the One. There is no fear in love, for love is guiltless. You who have always loved your Creator can have no fear, for any reason, to look within and see your holiness. You cannot be as you believed you were. Your guilt is without reason because it is not in the Mind of the One, where you are. And this is reason, which the Holy Spirit would restore to you. Spirit would remove only illusions. All else Spirit would have you see. And in Christ’s vision Spirit would show you the perfect purity that is forever within You.

Love is where we find the perfect peace within us. As we look with love and forgiveness on each other and the world we see, all is transformed to its true reality. We begin to see beyond the appearance of every little thing in this world that seems to be outside us and see a new understanding that transcends its appearance. We see the real meaning rising in our mind and begin to see our true Identity. We reawaken to the awareness of our wholeness, our completeness and our holiness, finding peace at the core of all we feel. Allow yourself to love unconditionally and allow Spirit to guide you to the awareness of you true Identity. Look within and see your radiance there as you are released from the bonds of guilt.