It seems to you that the Holy Spirit does not produce joy consistently in you only because you do not consistently arouse joy in others. Their reactions to you are your evaluations of His consistency. When you are inconsistent you will not always give rise to joy, and so you will not always recognize His consistency. What you offer to your brother you offer to Him, because He cannot go beyond your offering in His giving. This is not because He limits His giving, but simply because you have limited your receiving. The decision to receive is the decision to accept.T-9.VI.2:1-6

A Course in Miracles (p. 328). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

One of the paradoxical principles taught by A Course In Miracles is that you learn what you teach. A corollary principle is that you receive what you give. If you would have joy, give joy for it is in the giving that joy is generated. These principles are not the way of the world of the ego but the say of the Spirit.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the acceptance of one another and the encouragement to spiritual growth. It is in this acceptance and encouragement that joy is manifested.

Today it is suggested that we reflect on what we want to receive and if it is loving, give it.

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How can you become increasingly aware of the Holy Spirit in you except by His effects? You cannot see Him with your eyes nor hear Him with your ears. How, then, can you perceive Him at all? If you inspire joy and others react to you with joy, even though you are not experiencing joy yourself there must be something in you that is capable of producing it. If it is in you and can produce joy, and if you see that it does produce joy in others, you must be dissociating it in yourself. T-9.VI.1:1-5

A Course in Miracles (p. 327). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

People who are aware of the Holy Spirit working through them often report that the experience is mysterious to them and they have no idea where the inspiration comes from, how it is manifested, or how the influence it has is produced.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth. How this works seems ephemeral at best and yet we understand what Jesus meant when he said, “Where two or more are gathered in my name, there I will be.”

Today it is suggested that we watch for the impact that the Holy Spirit has on those we interact with and then consider how this was manifested through us and thus become more aware of God’s unconditional love within ourselves.

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This course offers a very direct and a very simple learning situation, and provides the Guide Who tells you what to do. If you do it, you will see that it works. Its results are more convincing than its words. They will convince you that the words are true. By following the right Guide, you will learn the simplest of all lessons: By their fruits ye shall know them, and they shall know themselves. T-9.V.9:1-6

A Course in Miracles (p. 327). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

There are many roads to Rome and many ways to skin the cat. We can ascend the mountain on multiple sides and still attain the same peak. A Course In Miracles is only one spiritual path. It assures us that it works, and the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. The search takes many of us in different directions but the destination is the same: the non dual Oneness.

Today it is suggested that we review the many different paths we have taken which have led us to the one we are on now and how our journey at present is going. Then tell someone.

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Remember that you choose the guide for helping, and the wrong choice will not help. But remember also that the right one will. Trust Him, for help is His function, and He is of God. As you awaken other minds to the Holy Spirit through Him, and not yourself, you will understand that you are not obeying the laws of this world. But the laws you are obeying work. “The good is what works” is a sound though insufficient statement. Only the good can work. Nothing else works at all. T-9.V.8: 9-16

A Course in Miracles (p. 327). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

How do we know if what we believe and say is helpful or not? Is it from the Holy Spirit or from the ego? If our beliefs and speech is from the ego, it will not help. But if our beliefs and speech is from the Holy Spirit it will. How to tell the difference? If it is from a place of conditional love, it is from the ego. If it is from the place of unconditional love, it is from the Holy Spirit.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. Does this search take us to the realm of the ego or to the realm of the Holy Spirit?

Today it is suggested that we be mindful of the place in which we place our faith: the world of the ego or the world of the Holy Spirit.

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A therapist does not heal; he lets healing be. He can point to darkness but he cannot bring light of himself, for light is not of him. Yet, being for him, it must also be for his patient. The Holy Spirit is the only Therapist. He makes healing clear in any situation in which He is the Guide. You can only let Him fulfill His function. He needs no help for this. He will tell you exactly what to do to help anyone He sends to you for help, and will speak to him through you if you do not interfere. T-9.V.8:1-8

A Course in Miracles (pp. 326-327). Foundation for Inner Peace. Kindle Edition. 

As teachers of God we are conduits and extenders. God’s unconditional love passes through us to others. In order for this to occur we must be aware of it ourselves. We can’t share what we are not aware that we already have.

In Unitarian Universalism some of us join together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person which arises from the unconditional love of their Transcendent Source.

Today it is suggested that we recognize, acknowledge, and accept God’s unconditional love for us and pay it forward.

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