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special and unique. All is one. All is Love. All is God. The Holy Spirit reminds me that this is my true
Identity and it is everyone's true Identity. Everyone walks with God in perfect holiness because that
is the only reality that is true. Anything else consists only of dreams that are not real and mean
nothing. The only way for me to know this is to step back and let Him lead the way.

Today my practice is to step back and open my mind to the Holy Spirit again and again. It is only in
this way that I will be led to the awareness of what is true always. God is but Love and therefore so
am I. God is but Love and therefore so is everyone in this world. Let me step back today and
remember the truth.

Listen to Lesson 174 Insights

Lesson 174 “ Review V: "God is but Love and therefore so am I." "Into His
Presence would I enter now. Today I learn to give as I receive."”

"Into His Presence would I enter now" is another way of saying I would accept His Presence now. We
are completely surrounded by and in God's Love. It's only our denial of His Love that makes It seem
like we need to enter into It.

Here we are, completely immersed in Love, yet we wander the world seeking for love. It is because,
in our desire for specialness, we try to keep some love for ourselves alone. This is the insane wish to
have more than everything. Because Love by its nature must be extended, to know we are in Love's
Presence, we must give or share God's Love. Trying to keep God's Love for ourselves blocks our
awareness of having and being It. That is why we need to learn to give as we receive.

I enter into Love's Presence by giving Love. Giving Love shows me that I have Love and am Love. Love
is never depleted by giving It away. It is only expanded. To experience God's Love flowing through
me, I must remove the barriers to that flow. The barriers are judgment and guilt. Thus forgiveness is
the means by which I enter into His Presence. In this world forgiveness is received by giving it. So
forgiveness is Love's reflection in this world. It opens my mind to become aware of God's Presence.

Today I ask Holy Spirit's help to recognize the barriers I put up against Love and to let them go so
that I may enter into His Presence and give as I receive.

Opening my mind to Love's Presence is what the Course is all about. Opening my mind to the truth is
opening my mind to God's Love and my true Identity. I cannot open my mind and still have a closed
mind. I cannot do both at the same time. It is either one or the other. Separation is the opposite of
oneness. When I open my mind to seeing separation, my mind is closed to seeing Love's oneness.
When I open my mind to Love's oneness, separation disappears. What I open my mind to is what I
give.

Today my practice is to open my mind to the truth, to Love's oneness, Love's peace, Love's kind and
gentle ways. How willing am I to open to Love's oneness today? It is my decision moment by
moment. What do I think I am? It is my decision moment by moment. Today my practice is to open
to Love's Presence again and again until it becomes a consistent habit.

The world of separation seems so familiar that I find myself slipping back into separation's old and
tired ways far too often. Thank goodness I have Holy Spirit right there in my mind to help me return
to being aware of Love's Presence, Love's peace and Love's joy.

Lessons by Marlyn Marval Feb 23th thru April 9th 2015