The light is here to lighten everything. Your heavy sense of control makes things feel heavy. The heavy sense of control is not real, but it is your signal to stop and reorient toward what is real. With the light in charge you do not feel resistance, but you are grateful for flow. When you impose your heavy sense of control, the only happiness you allow is ego’s fake happiness. To keep a phantom of your separate self in charge of anything blocks out true happiness. Meanwhile, while you are addicted to the sense of control ego provides, you believe ego’s lie that the only way to be safe and provided for is to follow ego’s guidance.
When we insist on particular things in time and space, we say, “I know how peace is going to come to me, and this is how.” The only peace that can come from this is a temporary fake peace, a peace substitute. This substitute for peace vanishes easily when anything the ego says you don’t like enters your experience. Then the ego says you must enter attack mode to avoid this threat to the fake peace, to make it go away by taking action in some way.
Stay still. Stay here, in mind. Notice what the ego is telling you, very particularly. Find one thought. It is a thought you have believed again and again. And now be brave enough to turn toward another thought. A lesson in A Course in Miracles is “Truth will correct all errors in my mind.” Sit here, in the presence of truth, and allow truth to set right everything in your mind. Allow truth to be the cause of what you see and experience in time and space. You don’t have to know or suggest any details. Just allow. Practice allowing, and it becomes natural for you. Want nothing more than to see what is real in everyone and everything. Want nothing more than to be guided by what is real in everyone and everything. Learn to rest here, and then you return to the world as a bearer of light.
There is a stimulant that the ego calls joy. It’s a satisfaction in getting what you want, and it feels very intensely pleasurable. It doesn’t last. There is a joy you are all the time. The only reason this unwavering, unchangeable joy is not obvious in everyone and even everything all the time is because of the projection of the illusion of fear. The illusion of fear just covers up the joy that is always here. Joy doesn’t have to be manufactured or performed. It’s fully here, always. What you learn is how to stop and back out of the projection of fear until it isn’t a habit anymore.
Look for a moment at the wounded part of what seems to be you. This part seems to want praise. It seems to want to get. It is attached to the belief that something is or could be lacking. Just rest and look, knowing that in truth, you are safe, held, carried, guided, and provided for. It is from this place of security that you look. You look upon what is other than you. It is false you. It is an illusion of you. This is what projects fear on everyone and everything. And it’s not even you. It’s just a show that you allow, watch, and experience.
Now remember what you are. Remember that what you truly are always is fully connected to everyone and everything you would call else, everywhen forever. Rest here. From here, what you are extends. From here, the light you are can extend and shine through the appearance of everyone and everything, everywhen. What you allow to extend comes back to you, so that light comes back to you and through you harmlessly, bringing blessing and transformation that helps you and all remember truth, to remember who you are. It’s a true wake-up call that you allow. There is every reason to pause frequently to allow this washing today.
When you feel disturbed, you’re seeing and contemplating what is not real. You can only experience surfaces with physical senses. The light in which you physically see is false light. Even so, the real light of Spirit can use your illusion to communicate with you and to remind you and all of Home. Give Spirit this tool, and see Spirit use it well and wisely. When you allow Spirit to be in charge, you can give up all your striving. The light you are extends through everyone and everything, relieving you of any perceived need to judge it. This same light washes back to you in blessing. Truly, there is nothing to fear.
We rest with you as you allow the illusion of false light to fade, seeing the true safety of real and shared light.
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