February 17, 2015
Healing is a lesson in understanding who we really are. And the more we practice this, the better teacher and learner we become. But first, we must decide to heal our mind. This is the first step in deciding what we really want. Spirit continually holds out an invitation to healing, but it is our choice to accept that invitation. Are we willing to invite healing into our mind? Though we have never left our true spiritual home, we have decided to block our awareness of that same spiritual home. In aligning our mind with an egoic thought system we made up, we have thought and believed we are separate from our Creator, our Source and eternity. The power of our creative mind makes this possible to appear real to our egoic mind. This appearance, though not possible in Reality, appears very real to us as long as we believe it to be possible and true. This is sickness of the mind, the misperception of who we are. We all have wants and desires. But if we truly look at the base element of what we want, we want peace, love, joy, happiness and wholeness. We may think we are seeking other things, but this is what it all really boils down to. In our misperception of ourselves and the world, we seek what we want outside of ourselves, not realizing that what we seek is already within us and has always been within us. Source, the One, knows us as we really are, and knows we are eternally whole. And yet, that One has provided us with a path to guide us back to the awareness of who we really are. Spirit is this guide, always with us and always extending that invitation to return every moment of our perceived separation. The choice for us is to extend an invitation to Spirit to guide us in changing our perception of who we think we are. It is an invitation to recognize the spark within us that is the light we are. Spirit cannot speak to an unwelcoming host, for the Voice will not be heard. So we must extend the invitation to welcome Spirit as a sign that we care and want to transform our mind and the awareness of who we really are. This is the little step, the little willingness we are asked to take to begin our transformation. And whatever journey we choose to take, Spirit goes with us waiting for us to extend that invitation. Invite the knowledge of the One, our Source, back into your mind, and let nothing enter that obscures that knowledge. Spirit, the Guest we have invited into our mind, will show us all we need to do this if we will simply recognize the spark within us and let it grow. Our willingness is the gateway to our freedom as we learn to soar again. Consider this:
Would you be hostage to the ego or host to the One? You will accept only whom you invite. You are free to determine who shall be your guest, and how long that guest shall remain with you. Yet this is not real freedom, for it still depends on how you see it. Spirit is there, although Spirit cannot help you without your invitation. And the ego is nothing, whether you invite it in or not. Real freedom depends on welcoming reality, and of your guests only Spirit is real. Know, then, Who abides with you merely by recognizing what is there already, and do not be satisfied with imaginary comforters, for the Comforter of the One is in you. ACIM T-11.II.7.1-8
Accept the Invitation to healing by extending an invitation to Spirit to help you recognize the light you are, for you are the light of the world.
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