27 Jul 2022 Comments Off on Lesson 208 – I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.

Lesson 208 – I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

When we make love, it is said, “The earth stopped” but when we Make Love, “The earth Stills.”  Hit the sweet spot and you score.  Hit the Sweet Spot and there’s the Still Point, the holy instant, the one-way ticket Home.  There is nothing to do there–only a way of Being.  And that way of Being is inarguably the purpose of Life, the loving emanation of Life Itself.  I feel it now, Shining through my classroom of form just a bit longer …

LESSON 208

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

(188)   The peace of God is shining in me now.

I will be still, and let the earth be still along with me.  And in that stillness we will find the peace of God.  It is within my heart, which witnesses to God Himself.

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

Let’s practice together!  Watch and hear Amy reading each ACIM Lesson on Youtube.  Also, check out Workin’ the Workbook, Amy’s online class which supports the ACIM Workbook practice. 

 

 

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26 Jul 2022 Comments Off on Lesson 207 – I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.

Lesson 207 – I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

I have the sense of the body being a covering which can be snapped away, like an old-fashioned convertible car top.  The unsnapping is heavy and somewhat unwieldy, but once done, all pain stays with the snapped off part … and I am detached and can observe body sorrow and pain without participating in it, knowing it is not really part of me or anyone else.  God’s blessing of Completion and Peace is what is Real.  What happiness!  Unsnap the top 🙂

LESSON 207

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

(187)   I bless the world because I bless myself.

God’s blessing shines upon me from within my heart, where He abides.  I need but turn to Him, and every sorrow melts away, as I accept His boundless Love for me.

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

Let’s practice together!  Watch and hear Amy reading each ACIM Lesson on Youtube.  Also, check out Workin’ the Workbook, Amy’s online class which supports the ACIM Workbook practice. 

 

 

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25 Jul 2022 Comments Off on Lesson 206 – I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.

Lesson 206 – I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

Falling asleep with God in my mind, sleeping with God in my dreams, awakening with God in my dawn.  Last night I dream I open my eyes and I am on a magic carpet so high in the sky it is just below the doorway to Heaven.  There is a Friend on the carpet who tells me to open my eyes and what I see is the world, the entire world, spread out below me in exquisite beauty.

At first I am afraid and feel dizzy, an actual vortex of vertigo.  The Friend understands when I close my eyes to orient myself … then, a bit more prepared, I try again.  Oh, the happiness I feel at everyone and everything down below being in a state of Beauty, Peace and Joy.  I get it: shrug off the covering (the body and the state of mind which causes an effect of being covered–and the guilt, fear, anger and hatred that come with it) and underneath is sparkling blue white crystal Love–like a waterwall of All-Is-Well joyfully, gorgeously spilling over.

LESSON 206

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

(186)   Salvation of the world depends on me.

I am entrusted with the gifts of God, because I am His Son.  And I would give His gifts where He intended them to be.

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

Let’s practice together!  Watch and hear Amy reading each ACIM Lesson on Youtube.  Also, check out Workin’ the Workbook, Amy’s online class which supports the ACIM Workbook practice. 

 

 

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24 Jul 2022 Comments Off on Lesson 205 – I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as you created me.

Lesson 205 – I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as you created me.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

While I abide where I am not at home, my purpose is the peace of God.  How comforting to have a clear purpose and live in service of God’s Will.  How relaxing to have only one choice: to choose the peace of God in every situation, with every person.  My function and my life is to embrace the Christ … Christ meaning communion with my brothers … which surely leads to Union with  God.  Freedom is creating as God intended.  Christ is the co-creation we are and which we continue extending, joyfully, effortlessly, inevitably.

Dare I feel this inexplicably, predictably happy and expansive when the world is suffering?  Yes!  It is the only way to feel in order to lead by example!  All Is Well.  Dreams are not Reality.  We are not suffering bodies.  We are not suffering minds.  We are Free and Whole and Complete, Together as One.  Not-enslaved, not-partial, not-incomplete.  Not lonely, not afraid, not asleep.  We are Awake in the Stillness of Eternal Being.  That is the Truth.

Does this mean that my heart never aches?  The human heart will ache from time to time, inevitably.  But this is not a problem.  The heart can ache or the heart and sing and neither changes the Truth.  I allow that sadness to move through me and be released.  I send each and every one of my brothers the Peace of God and feel emotional weather move through me as the conviction of my spiritual life reinforces that removing blocks to the awareness of Love’s Presence inevitably reveals Love.

LESSON 205

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

(185)   I want the peace of God.

The peace of God is everything I want.  The peace of God is my one goal, the aim of all my living here, the end I seek, my purpose and my function and my life, while I abide where I am not at home.

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

Let’s practice together!  Watch and hear Amy reading each ACIM Lesson on Youtube.  Also, check out Workin’ the Workbook, Amy’s online class which supports the ACIM Workbook practice. 

 

 

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23 Jul 2022 Comments Off on Lesson 204 – I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.

Lesson 204 – I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

Yesterday’s deliverance leads to today’s inheritance.  Yes, I choose to have it all!  I give up bodies, the world, and all its supposed treasures and in the giving up is the All and No Thing exposed and accepted.  Exposure comes easily when attachment is released.  Sitting quietly, knowing All is Well, Full and Complete, Everlasting and Everspreading.  Love begets Love.  And Love is Abstract.  Love is a state of Mind.  Love is Permanent.  Love is an unchoosing of all that is not-Love.  Once that choice is made: voila!  Here It Is.

LESSON 204

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

(184)   The Name of God is my inheritance.

God’s Name reminds me that I am His Son, not slave to time, unbound by laws which rule the world of sick illusions, free in God, forever and forever one with Him.

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

Let’s practice together!  Watch and hear Amy reading each ACIM Lesson on Youtube.  Also, check out Workin’ the Workbook, Amy’s online class which supports the ACIM Workbook practice. 

 

 

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22 Jul 2022 Comments Off on Lesson 203 – I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.

Lesson 203 – I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

My name is not Amy.  God’s Name is not God.  Amy is within God.  The brain cannot contain the Infinite-Eternal because its nature is to split and separate, name and claim.  And “Problems that have no meaning cannot be resolved within the framework they are set.” (W-96)  But dreaming of personhood is not a problem unless believed in and taken seriously.  Now the present memory is restored:  I am not a body, I am free, for I am still as God created me: Spirit-Ineffable-Unlimited … happy, soaring.

LESSON 203

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

(183) I call upon God’s Name and on my own.

The Name of God is my deliverance from every thought of evil and of sin, because it is my own as well as His.

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

Let’s practice together!  Watch and hear Amy reading each ACIM Lesson on Youtube.  Also, check out Workin’ the Workbook, Amy’s online class which supports the ACIM Workbook practice. 

 

 

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21 Jul 2022 Comments Off on Lesson 202 – I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.

Lesson 202 – I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

What does God’s Voice sound like?  It is a spreading of Wings silently rustling with sure Direction.

LESSON 202

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

(182) I will be still an instant and go home.

Why would I choose to stay an instant more where I do not belong, when God Himself has given me His Voice to call me home?

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

Let’s practice together!  Watch and hear Amy reading each ACIM Lesson on Youtube.  Also, check out Workin’ the Workbook, Amy’s online class which supports the ACIM Workbook practice. 

 

 

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20 Jul 2022 Comments Off on Lesson 201 – I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.

Lesson 201 – I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

My heart simply opens with a rush of Gladness and spreads around the world … the Sufi symbol comes to mind.

LESSON 201

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

(181) I trust my brothers, who are one with me.

No one but is my brother. I am blessed with oneness with the universe and God, my Father, one Creator of the whole that is my Self, forever One with me.

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

Let’s practice together!  Watch and hear Amy reading each ACIM Lesson on Youtube.  Also, check out Workin’ the Workbook, Amy’s online class which supports the ACIM Workbook practice. 

 

 

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20 Jul 2022 Comments Off on Review VI: Introduction

Review VI: Introduction

REVIEW VI covers Lessons 181 – 200
Introduction

For this review we take but one idea each day, and practice it as often as is possible. Besides the
time you give morning and evening, which should not be less than fifteen minutes, and the
hourly remembrances you make throughout the day, use the idea as often as you can between
them. Each of these ideas alone would be sufficient for salvation, if it were learned truly. Each
would be enough to give release to you and to the world from every form of bondage, and invite
the memory of God to come again.

With this in mind we start our practicing, in which we carefully review the thoughts the Holy
Spirit has bestowed on us in our last twenty lessons. Each contains the whole curriculum if
understood, practiced, accepted, and applied to all the seeming happenings throughout the day.
One is enough. But from that one, there must be no exceptions made. And so we need to use
them all and let them blend as one, as each contributes to the whole we learn.

These practice sessions, like our last review, are centered round a central theme with which we
start and end each lesson. It is this:

I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.

The day begins and ends with this. And we repeat it every time the hour strikes, or we
remember, in between, we have a function that transcends the world we see. Beyond this, and a
repetition of the special thought we practice for the day, no form of exercise is urged, except a
deep relinquishment of everything that clutters up the mind, and makes it deaf to reason, sanity
and simple truth.

We will attempt to get beyond all words and special forms of practicing for this review. For we
attempt, this time, to reach a quickened pace along a shorter path to the serenity and peace of
God. We merely close our eyes, and then forget all that we thought we knew and understood. For
thus is freedom given us from all we did not know and failed to understand.

There is but one exception to this lack of structuring. Permit no idle thought to go unchallenged.
If you notice one, deny its hold and hasten to assure your mind that this is not what it would
have. Then gently let the thought which you denied be given up, in sure and quick exchange for
the idea we practice for the day.

When you are tempted, hasten to proclaim your freedom from temptation, as you say:
This thought I do not want. I choose instead _______________.

And then repeat the idea for the day, and let it take the place of what you thought. Beyond such
special applications of each day’s idea, we will add but a few formal expressions or specific
thoughts to aid in practicing. Instead, we give these times of quiet to the Teacher Who instructs
in quiet, speaks of peace, and gives our thoughts whatever meaning they may have.

To Him I offer this review for you. I place you in His charge, and let Him teach you what to do
and say and think, each time you turn to Him. He will not fail to be available to you, each time
you call to Him to help you. Let us offer Him the whole review we now begin, and let us also not
forget to Whom it has been given, as we practice day by day, advancing toward the goal He set
for us; allowing Him to teach us how to go, and trusting Him completely for the way each
practice period can best become a loving gift of freedom to the world.

REVIEW VI

Introduction

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19 Jul 2022 Comments Off on Lesson 200 – There is no peace except the peace of God.

Lesson 200 – There is no peace except the peace of God.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

Something is changing.  I keep having a sense of my body as superfluous.  Even when it tries to distract me with aches and pains, I’ve lost interest.  My conviction has been strengthened enough that my focus is on the body’s only purpose: to be a vehicle for the Holy Spirit’s unifying Love.  And the inexplicable, predictable Love which I really am keeps spreading through me at unlikely moments … it’s making sense that Heaven is Within, and the body’s eyes but serve me for an instant longer.

LESSON 200

There is no peace except the peace of God.

 Seek you no further. You will not find peace except the peace of God. Accept this fact, and save yourself the agony of yet more bitter disappointments, bleak despair, and sense of icy hopelessness and doubt. Seek you no further. There is nothing else for you to find except the peace of God, unless you seek for misery and pain.

This is the final point to which each one must come at last, to lay aside all hope of finding happiness where there is none; of being saved by what can only hurt; of making peace of chaos, joy of pain, and Heaven out of hell. Attempt no more to win through losing, nor to die to live. You cannot but be asking for defeat.

Yet you can ask as easily for love, for happiness, and for eternal life in peace that has no ending. Ask for this, and you can only win. To ask for what you have already must succeed. To ask that what is false be true can only fail. Forgive yourself for vain imaginings, and seek no longer what you cannot find. For what could be more foolish than to seek and seek and seek again for hell, when you have but to look with open eyes to find that Heaven lies before you, through a door that opens easily to welcome you?

Come home. You have not found your happiness in foreign places and in alien forms that have no meaning to you, though you sought to make them meaningful. This world is not where you belong. You are a stranger here. But it is given you to find the means whereby the world no longer seems to be a prison house or jail for anyone.

Freedom is given you where you beheld but chains and iron doors. But you must change your mind about the purpose of the world, if you would find escape. You will be bound till all the world is seen by you as blessed, and everyone made free of your mistakes and honored as he is. You made him not; no more yourself. And as you free the one, the other is accepted as he is.

What does forgiveness do? In truth it has no function, and does nothing. For it is unknown in Heaven. It is only hell where it is needed, and where it must serve a mighty function. Is not the escape of God’s beloved Son from evil dreams that he imagines, yet believes are true, a worthy purpose? Who could hope for more, while there appears to be a choice to make between success and failure; love and fear?

There is no peace except the peace of God, because He has one Son who cannot make a world in opposition to God’s Will and to his own, which is the same as His. What could he hope to find in such a world? It cannot have reality, because it never was created. Is it here that he would seek for peace? Or must he see that, as he looks on it, the world can but deceive? Yet can he learn to look on it another way, and find the peace of God.

Peace is the bridge that everyone will cross, to leave this world behind. But peace begins within the world perceived as different, and leading from this fresh perception to the gate of Heaven and the way beyond. Peace is the answer to conflicting goals, to senseless journeys, frantic, vain pursuits, and meaningless endeavors. Now the way is easy, sloping gently toward the bridge where freedom lies within the peace of God.

Let us not lose our way again today. We go to Heaven, and the path is straight. Only if we attempt to wander can there be delay, and needless wasted time on thorny byways. God alone is sure, and He will guide our footsteps. He will not desert His Son in need, nor let him stray forever from his home. The Father calls; the Son will hear. And that is all there is to what appears to be a world apart from God, where bodies have reality.

Now is there silence. Seek no further. You have come to where the road is carpeted with leaves of false desires, fallen from the trees of hopelessness you sought before. Now are they underfoot. And you look up and on toward Heaven, with the body’s eyes but serving for an instant longer now. Peace is already recognized at last, and you can feel its soft embrace surround your heart and mind with comfort and with love.

Today we seek no idols. Peace can not be found in them. The peace of God is ours, and only this will we accept and want. Peace be to us today.  For we have found a simple, happy way to leave the world of ambiguity, and to replace our shifting goals and solitary dreams with single purpose and companionship. For peace is union, if it be of God. We seek no further. We are close to home, and draw still nearer every time we say:

There is no peace except the peace of God,
And I am glad and thankful it is so.

Let’s practice together!  Watch and hear Amy reading each ACIM Lesson on Youtube.  Also, check out Workin’ the Workbook, Amy’s online class which supports the ACIM Workbook practice. 

 

 

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