LETTING THE HOLY SPIRIT CHANGE ME BY DOING THE TWO-STEP When you say, “Holy Spirit, what do I need to know here?” And what you need to know is revealed to you, and you know how to behave because you know what the truth is, and your behavior reflects the love that is the Meaning of it and the Principle that is the nature of it, and the Truth that is the essence of it. Absolutely everything and everyone is blessed. Because your action is an uninhibited expression of the Father’s Will. Wow . . . something to be hoped for and appreciated in every instant that it happens during your days. And the thing is, that you need to be willing to play this “Mother, may I?” game, spiritualized, we’ll say. So that everything you do, you ask for help from the Father, or you ask for help from the Holy Spirit. You do the two-step, you hesitate, and you say, “Help!” And you don’t immediately begin to try to figure things out for yourself. You say, “Help” and you listen because you actually expect an answer to come from someplace other than your imagination. [reading Text] Leave Him His function, for He will fulfill it if you but ask Him to enter your relationships, and bless them FOR you. You see? This involves a shift in you. You’ve got to let a willingness to not be number one in your life, occur and make room for that which actually is Number One. You could say, That of you which is utterly sane and whole and complete. You’ve got to make room for It. And you’ve got to make room for It to enter and bless your relationships for you. Now remember, I talked before about the fact that you’re in relationship with everything: You’re in relationship with the wall, the floor, the flowers, the birds, the trees. You walk down the street and you enjoy them—you see them—you’re in relationship with them. You’re in infinite relationships right now. The need is for you to bring the Holy Spirit into all of those relationships. You need to be willing to say and mean it, “I don’t really know what my relationship with the wall is. I have no idea what a holy relationship with the wall might mean. I have no idea what the holiness of the wall feels like. I have no experience of what its divine Meaning is or what its function is. But I want to know.” You might as well all be babies at this moment. Because you are in a world that you know nothing of even though you think you know pretty much a lot about it. But there is so much of what it divinely is and what it divinely means and what aspects of you, all of these things are, that’s all there for you to be experiencing—for you to discover. But you’re not going to discover it until you say, “Father, what does this mean? Father, what do I need to do now?” To do the two-step, to practice the holy instant. To let every moment of your day be a moment in which you are actively feeling curious—actively feeling a curiosity to know what of God is confronting you, what the holiness of what you’re seeing actually is. Well, that’s true prayer, right there. And to invite the experience and be undefended against it significantly enough for it to register with you, will constitute what the words, “true empathy” mean. True empathy is you in any given moment, abandoning your confidence that you know what something is, so willingly and so humbly, that there’s simply is nothing present in you to resist or to block the influx of the conscious awareness of truth and the conscious experience of Love and all of the divine qualities of Being that will rush in and fill you and transform you and lift you out of hell. Again: If it’s valuable, let it change you. Yes, I’m getting a little pushy. I am pushing for an experience. I’m pushing you out of your head. I’m pushing you out of your intellect. I’m pushing you out of your privacy and your valuing of it. And I’m saying, “let’s get on with this, this week, tonight, tomorrow!” Play “Mother, may I?” and if it’s insulting, do it anyway. Don’t listen to your ego complain. It will complain, you don’t have to honor it. Let’s get on with Waking Up. Let’s get on with Redemption. Let’s get on with Atonement. And let’s make room for true enjoyment of Being, of Life. Don’t be so passive. Don’t be so laid back in your “wonderful awareness of spiritual things.” If they’re valuable, let them change you. And I would like for you to write that down and put it on your refrigerator this week. To remind you that none of this is to keep the status quo. If it’s valuable, let it change you. Go through your day with an attitude of expectation of change and a willingness to embrace it. That’s one way to stop resisting it. And I promise you the only reason you’re not experiencing the ultimate is because you’re resisting it. I love you. I love you all. And because all of this is meaningful, is significant, I desire for you to let it change you. And I support the changes that will occur. Bless you. ~excerpt from ACIM Study Group with Raj/Jesus 1/2/10 Conducted by the Northwest Foundation for ACIM nwffacim.wordpress FaceBook: https://facebook/groups/183859725130360/ All of the activities of the Northwest Foundation for A Course In Miracles are provided without charge or obligation. This is possible because of thoughtfulness, love extended without conditions. Such is the nature of Gift. As a result these materials are available to you, because someone like you has already gifted you with them. And, at Rajs instruction, these materials will never be sold. If you would like to add your thoughtfulness and love, to gift others with the availability of these materials, please contact nwffacim.org -----oOo----- Now I am present with and available to every single one of you, everyone at every moment. And so it is my intent in being with groups of people like this to make this fact known and by Pauls presence and demeanor also convey the fact that my being available doesnt require of anyone any special talent, because Paul is about as regular as anyone else on this planet and has no special talent in order to hear me. Does that clarify that for you? For those of you who are students of A Course In Miracles, I will take this opportunity to point out that my time spent with Helen Schucman was also not a special instance. And although there have been some expressions of the fact, or the idea-not the fact-the idea that everyone else cant expect the same sort of relationship with me or with Guidance that she experienced, is untrue. It is an attempt to elevate her, and to elevate the Course into a false position of religious respect, whether it is stated that way or not.
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