September 5, 2017
Ease up! Stop trying so hard. Little effort is required. The Course tells us again and again that we are expending way too much effort in achieving our desire. The Course teaches us that we need only set our desire for wholeness and healing and Spirit will lead us from there.
The holy instant is the result of your determination to be holy. It is the answer. The desire and the willingness to let it come precede its coming. You prepare your mind for it only to the extent of recognizing that you want it above all else. It is not necessary that you do more; indeed, it is necessary that you realize that you cannot do more. Do not attempt to give the Holy Spirit what It does not ask, or you will add the ego to Spirit and confuse the two. Spirit asks but little. It is Spirit Who adds the greatness and the might. Spirit joins with you to make the holy instant far greater than you can understand. It is your realization that you need do so little that enables Spirit to give so much. T-18.IV.1:1-10
We want to make this complicated. We have grown to believe that anything worthwhile must be worked hard for. This is simply untrue – it is an egoic belief that is wholly mistaken. We are what we desire to be, yet we have blocked the awareness of who we are from our awareness. Spirit’s purpose is to gently awaken us to the awareness of who we really are. We have the best of intentions. We want the best for ourselves. Yet we try to accomplish this for ourselves. We attempt to do it alone without the benefit of Spirit. What happens then is that our egoic thought system gets involved and twists the whole attempt to distract us from our goal. Spirit asks us for just a little willingness, a little willingness to rely on Spirit’s guidance. Trust your little willingness implicitly. Do not be distracted by the shadows that seem to appear along the way. The shadows are an egoic device to distract you from your goal which is so close. Spirit guides us to the holy instant. The miracle of the holy instant lies in our willingness to allow it to be what it is. It needs no embellishment, nor any bells and whistles. In our willingness lies our acceptance of ourselves as we are meant to be. Oneness.
Our barrier to our awareness is our belief that we are unworthy of such Oneness. We have convinced ourselves that we are unworthy of anything so wonderful. We feel ourselves unworthy of the Great Rays of light that emanate from us in the holy instant and so are afraid. Fear has no place in our wholeness. Our wholeness is limitless. The only thing lacking is our awareness of our true nature and our trust in who we really are. In the awareness of our Oneness we are never alone and we never do anything alone. Our minds are all joined with the Mind of Source as One Mind. This One Mind is all powerful and nothing can prevail against it. We are this limitlessness. And it comes to us in this holy instant.
The holy instant does not come from your little willingness alone. It is always the result of your small willingness combined with the unlimited power of Source’s Will. You have been wrong in thinking that it is needful to prepare yourself for Source. It is impossible to make arrogant preparations for holiness, and not believe that it is up to you to establish the conditions for peace. Source has established them. They do not wait upon your willingness for what they are. Your willingness is needed only to make it possible to teach you what they are. If you maintain you are unworthy of learning this, you are interfering with the lesson by believing that you must make the learner different. You did not make the learner, nor can you make them different. Would you first make a miracle yourself, and then expect one to be made for you? T-18.IV.4:1-10
Wait not one more moment. Lay aside all feelings of unworthiness and allow the holy instant to rise within you. Allow the awareness of worthiness and limitlessness to rise in your mind. As you do, peace and love will rise also, bringing you to the awareness of the Great Rays that shine around and within you to all the world. Rest in the light you are. It is worth your little willingness.
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