September 19, 2017
Ask yourself if the world you see is the world you want. What do you think about the world around you? How do you perceive it? Is there a sense of love and peace, even joy within your mind as you gaze upon the world? Or, does the way you see the world fill you with fear, anxiety, guilt or even hatred? What we feel when we gaze upon the world gives us a clue to the condition of our thinking at any moment. We are either thinking with our One Mind, rooted in Oneness and our Source, or we are thinking with our egoic mind, rooted in our belief in separation. We can choose to be in the freedom and abundance of Oneness or the captivity and limitation of separation. Perhaps we even feel “safe” as we perceive in separation.
Yet, even so, we do not know real safety and freedom from the perspective of separation and the egoic thought system. This is what the Course calls our waking dream. The dream full of uncertainty we call our human life and the world we seem to live in. Perhaps we would prefer a happier dream? The holy instant can bring us to just that happy dream.
Never approach the holy instant after you have tried to remove all fear and hatred from your mind. That is its function. Never attempt to overlook your guilt before you ask the Holy Spirit’s help. That is Spirit’s function. Your part is only to offer Spirit a little willingness to let Spirit remove all fear and hatred, and to be forgiven. On your little faith, joined with Spirit’s understanding, Spirit will build your part in the At-One-mint and make sure that you fulfill it easily. And with Spirit, you will build a ladder planted in the solid rock of faith, and rising even to Heaven. Nor will you use it to ascend to Heaven alone. T-18. V.2:1-8
Heaven on earth is ours for the asking, for even a little willingness. No great effort is needed. Great effort does nothing but get in the way. Letting go, releasing our minds, even getting out of the way is the little we need do to allow Spirit to raise our awareness in the holy instant to the freedom of our natural state of being. Wholeness, completeness, freedom, love and peace are all the conditions of our natural being, our divine essence in Oneness. We do not awaken to this alone, but hand in hand with each other and Spirit, recognizing we are all One. As we walk in Heaven, even as we are still in this world, we walk in this happy dream guided by Spirit, our Higher Holy Spirit Self. We walk with Love in our hearts and minds remembering the divine beings we are.
Our holy relationship is reborn and blessed in every holy instant we do not arrange and thousands will rise to Heaven with us as we allow our relationship to be transformed by Spirit in that holy instant. We need do nothing more than release that iron grip we hold on our perceptions to soar into the freedom of the holy instant and the awareness of who we really are.
It is no dream to love another as yourself. Nor is your holy relationship a dream. All that remains of dreams within it is that it is still a special relationship. Yet it is very useful to the Holy Spirit, Who has a special function here. It will become the happy dream through which Spirit can spread joy to thousands on thousands who believe that love is fear, not happiness. Let Spirit fulfill the function that Spirit gave to your relationship by accepting it for you, and nothing will be wanting that would make of it what Spirit would have it be. T-18.V.5:1-6
If at any time your holy relationship seems to be threatened, remember how deep your indebtedness is to the other and how much gratitude is due the other, and be glad that you can pay your debt by bringing happiness to both of you. Remember this, and say:
I desire this holy instant for myself, that I may share it with another, whom I love.
It is not possible that I offer to the Holy Spirit, that Its blessing may descend on us, and keep us both in peace. T-18.V.7:3-6can have it without them, or they without me.
Yet it is wholly possible for us to share it now.
And so I choose this instant as the one to offer to the Holy Spirit, that Its blessing may descend on us, and keep us both in peace. T-18.V.7:3-6
Relax and be willing, even just a little willing, to transform your special relationship into the holy relationship it is in the holy instant. As we do so we allow ourselves to step into the awareness of our divine nature in Oneness with all of Creation. Let this be so now.
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