September 12, 2017
We have programmed ourselves to prepare, prepare, prepare. To seek some more and prepare again. We think we need to make ourselves worthy of what the One has to offer us. We believe that the One will not even look at us until we are thoroughly cleansed and purged of all “sin”. Even while we are seeking and preparing and cleansing ourselves, we fail to see and understand that we are already what we seek to be, let alone worthy of it. We are created by the One in Their image and one with Them. It is impossible for us to be anything other than the One who creates us. Yet we firmly believe we are something outside and separate from the One. Our problem is merely a problem of awareness of Self.
Rather than seek to prepare yourself for the One, try to think thus:
“I who am host to the One am worthy of Them.
The One Who established Their dwelling place in me created it as They would have it be.
It is not needful that I make it ready for Them, but only that I do not interfere with Their plan to restore to me my own awareness of my readiness, which is eternal.
I need add nothing to Their plan.
But to receive it, I must be willing not to substitute my own in place of it.”
T-18.IV.5:8-13
To think we need to prepare ourselves for what we already are must be insane. It certainly makes a lot of unnecessary work that does nothing but run us in circles around who we really are. We are eternally what we seek to be. We are as the One creates us and nothing less. The idea we are anything less is surely insanity. Relax and look within to the Higher Holy Spirit Self we truly are.
And that is all. Add nothing more. Add more, and we will merely take away the little that is asked of us. We are worthy. Our fear of being worthy is one of the greatest blocks we have made to the awareness of who we really are. Let go of that fear, for it does not serve us. In fact, let go of everything, all doubts, fear, and guilt. None of that serves us one bit. It is our choice to let go of all that blocks us from the awareness of who we really are. It is only fear that we will add, if we prepare ourselves for love. The preparation for the holy instant belongs to the One Who gives it. It is this that makes the holy instant so easy and so natural.
Forget not that it has been your decision to make everything that is natural and easy for you impossible. If you believe the holy instant is difficult for you, it is because you have become the arbiter of what is possible, and remain unwilling to give place to One Who knows. The whole belief in orders of difficulty in miracles is centered on this. Everything the One wills is not only possible, but has already happened. And that is why the past has gone. It never happened in reality. Only in your mind, which thought it did, is its undoing needful. T-18.IV.8:1-7
The holy instant is our natural state of being. Let yourself rest into the holy instant and recognize the real you in that moment. It is always there within us, even when we fall out of awareness and forget who we really are. Let the desire to prepare yourself for something you already are be the reminder that you already are what you think you need to prepare yourself to be. In essence, just be. Be the You you are.
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