As spiritual students we often talk about learning.

We say we’re learning to forgive. Learning to love. Learning to let go.

But here’s what ACIM teaches and I’ve found is helpful to understand:
we’re not learning anything. We’re remembering. We already know.

Remembering is what’s actually happening when we have an “aha” moment and we think, “oh, I get it now.” That’s not new information arriving.

It’s the memory of truth returning to our conscious awareness.

Ernest Holmes, our beautiful brother in truth, said it this way: “Healing does not take time. The only time that it takes to have a healing is the time that it takes to have a realization.”

The realization IS the remembrance. The remembrance IS the healing.

This matters because it shifts how we practice, and how we live our lives.  It’s certainly shifted my approach to my life.

I think of my life this way now:  I’m remembering the truth.  In order to make room for the truth in my conscious awareness, I have to discard my attachments to the false.  I don’t have to learn about the truth – the truth is already in my mind and if I’m both willing and interested, willing to let the past go and interested in discarding the false, then, the truth is right there.

Having a VERY STRONG WILLINGNESS to release any attachment to thoughts that upset me has made so much room for the truth in my mind.  And that saves me so much time and energy every day.

We can relax into it. We can say to our own Higher Holy Spirit Self, to Jesus, to the ascended masters and the angels: help me remember the truth.

I like to add: help me remember AND value the truth.

Because sometimes we remember and then we go right back to valuing what isn’t true. The grievance. The upset. The story we’ve been telling ourselves for years.

So we ask for help with the remembering. And we ask for help with the valuing too.

This is a partnership. We’re not doing this on our own. Going it alone is the very thing we’re releasing. The Higher Holy Spirit Self is right there, as close as our willingness.

When I catch myself struggling, I pause. I remember that I already know what I need to know. I just need help valuing it over the familiar pattern of pain.

And Spirit always, always shows up.

Something magnificent is always occurring if we allow it.

The truth is our liberation. The truth is our freedom. And the truth is already ours, right now, waiting to be remembered.

We get to decide how quickly we let ourselves remember.

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We are entitled to Miracles!