Today's idea identifies you with your One Self. It accepts no split identity,
nor tries to weave opposing factors into unity. It simply states the truth.
Practice this truth today as often as you can, for it will bring your mind from
conflict to the quiet fields of peace. No chill of fear can enter, for your mind
has been absolved from madness, letting go illusions of a split identity.
We state again the truth about your Self, the holy Son of God Who rests in you
whose mind has been restored to sanity. You are the Spirit lovingly endowed with
all your Father's love and peace and joy. You are the Spirit Which completes
Himself, and shares His Function as Creator. He is with you always, as you are
with Him.
Today we try to bring reality still closer to your mind. Each time you practice,
awareness is brought a little nearer at least; sometimes a thousand years or
more are saved. The minutes which you give are multiplied over and over, for the
miracle makes use of time but is not ruled by it. Salvation is a miracle, the
first and last; the first that is the last, for it is one.
You are the Spirit in Whose Mind abides the miracle in which all time stands
still; the miracle in which a minute spent in using these ideas becomes a time
which has no length and which has no end. Give, then, these minutes willingly,
and count on Him Who promised to lay timelessness beside them. He will offer all
His strength to every little effort which you make.
Give Him the minutes which He needs today to help you understand with Him you
are the Spirit that abides in Him, and Which calls through His Voice to every
living thing; offers His sight to everyone who asks; replaces error with the
simple truth.
The Holy Spirit will be glad to take five minutes of each hour from your hands,
and carry them around this aching world where pain and misery appear to rule. He
will not overlook one open mind that will accept the healing gift they bring,
and He will lay them everywhere He knows they will be welcome. And they will
increase in healing power each time someone accepts them as his thoughts, and
uses them to heal.
Thus will your gift to Him be multiplied a thousand-fold and tens of thousands
more. And when it is returned to you, it will surpass in might the little gift
you gave as much as does the radiance of the sun outshine the tiny gleam a
firefly makes an uncertain moment, and goes out. The steady brilliance of this
light remains, and leads you out of darkness, nor will you be able to forget the
way again.
Begin these happy exercises with the words the Holy Spirit speaks to you, and let them echo round the world through Him:
"Spirit am I, a holy Son of God,
free of all limits, safe and healed and whole,
free to forgive, and free to save the world."
Expressed through you, the Holy Spirit will accept this gift which you received of Him, increase its power and give it back to you.
Offer each practice period today gladly to
Him. And He will speak to you, reminding you that you are Spirit, one with Him
and God, your brothers and your Self. Listen for His assurance every time you
speak the words He offers you today, and let Him tell your mind that they are
true.
Use them against temptation, and escape its sorry consequences if you yield to
the belief that you are something else. The Holy Spirit gives you peace today.
Receive His words, and offer them to Him.
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