Today’s ACIM Lesson

Lesson 232 – Be in my mind, my Father, through the day.

Posted on August 20, 2021

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I caught the end of the 1950’s movie, The Tender Trap, with Frank Sinatra and Debbie Reynolds yesterday. After Frankie breaks the heart of his fiancee, she meets someone else and he goes to her wedding where she tosses him the bridal bouquet. After the church empties, only Frank and Debbie are left, and he tosses Debbie the bridal bouquet. Now all she has to do is choose again … When it comes to practicing A Course in Miracles, every day the Workbook asks me to keep God in my mind throughout the day. Every day I gladly say, “I do!”

LESSON 232

Be in my mind, my Father, through the day.

Be in my mind, my Father, when I wake, and shine on me throughout the day today. Let every minute be a time in which I dwell with You. And let me not forget my hourly thanksgiving that You have remained with me, and always will be there to hear my call to You and answer me. As evening comes, let all my thoughts be still of You and of Your Love. And let me sleep sure of my safety, certain of Your care, and happily aware I am Your Son.

This is as every day should be. Today, practice the end of fear. Have faith in Him Who is your Father. Trust all things to Him. Let Him reveal all things to you, and be you undismayed because you are His Son.

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Lesson 231 – Father, I will but to remember You.

Posted on August 19, 2021

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by Amy Torres

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My will is the prong, God’s Will is the socket, and the Holy Spirit grounds me so I won’t be shocked. I plug my will into God’s Will and there is a propulsion to Greater Heights. This propulsion is instantaneous and involves no physical movement — the decision to remember my Father results in a mind shift. Enough mind shifts result in Atonement.

LESSON 231

Father, I will but to remember You.

What can I seek for, Father, but Your Love? Perhaps I think I seek for something else; a something I have called by many names. Yet is Your Love the only thing I seek, or ever sought. For there is nothing else that I could ever really want to find. Let me remember You. What else could I desire but the truth about myself?

This is your will, my brother. And you share this will with me, and with the One as well Who is our Father. To remember Him is Heaven. This we seek. And only this is what it will be given us to find.

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2. What Is Salvation?

Posted on August 19, 2021

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by Amy Torres

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In Part II of the Workbook, every 10 lessons we are given an instruction. It comes in the form of a question. There are 14 of these questions all together, and each one of them corresponds to a set of 10 lessons, and is to be read every day for the next 10 days along with our lesson for the day. “What Is Salvation?” is the second instruction and goes with Lessons 231 – 240.

2. WHAT IS SALVATION?

Salvation is a promise, made by God, that you would find your way to Him at last. It cannot but be kept. It guarantees that time will have an end, and all the thoughts that have been born in time will end as well. God’s Word is given every mind which thinks that it has separate thoughts, and will replace these thoughts of conflict with the Thought of peace.

The Thought of peace was given to God’s Son the instant that his mind had thought of war. There was no need for such a Thought before, for peace was given without opposite, and merely was. But when the mind is split there is a need of healing. So the Thought that has the power to heal the split became a part of every fragment of the mind that still was one, but failed to recognize its oneness. Now it did not know itself, and thought its own Identity was lost.

Salvation is undoing in the sense that it does nothing, failing to support the world of dreams and malice. Thus it lets illusions go. By not supporting them, it merely lets them quietly go down to dust. And what they hid is now revealed; an altar to the holy Name of God whereon His Word is written, with the gifts of your forgiveness laid before it, and the memory of God not far behind.

Let us come daily to this holy place, and spend a while together. Here we share our final dream. It is a dream in which there is no sorrow, for it holds a hint of all the glory given us by God. The grass is pushing through the soil, the trees are budding now, and birds have come to live within their branches. Earth is being born again in new perspective. Night has gone, and we have come together in the light.

From here we give salvation to the world, for it is here salvation was received. The song of our rejoicing is the call to all the world that freedom is returned, that time is almost over, and God’s Son has but an instant more to wait until his Father is remembered, dreams are done, eternity has shined away the world, and only Heaven now exists at all.

Remember, in Part II of the Workbook, every 10 lessons we are given an instruction. It comes in the form of a question. There are 14 of these questions all together, and each one of them corresponds to a set of 10 lessons, and is to be read every day for the next 10 days along with our lesson for the day. “What Is Salvation?” is the second instruction and goes with Lessons 231 – 240.

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Lesson 230 – Now will I seek and find the peace of God.

Posted on August 18, 2021

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by Amy Torres

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I enter a long rectangular room. It is empty except for a bookcase, placed within the room on a diagonal, which extends for a considerable distance. The room has a vast spaciousness. The floorboards are rich, sensuous wood laid in seamless planks that also emphasis the seeming endless length of the room. I say to myself, “This breaks a rule of interior design. Width should go against length to balance the space.” But the space speaks for Itself, and It is clearly balanced, gracious, beautiful and expansive. In fact, It is ever-extending, inviting me to cross a threshold … which I walk towards … into the very Peace of God.

The above video is a sample from Workin’ the Workbook.

LESSON 230

Now will I seek and find the peace of God.

In peace I was created. And in peace I do remain. It is not given me to change my Self. How merciful is God my Father, that when He created me He gave me peace forever. Now I ask but to be what I am. And can this be denied me, when it is forever true?

Father, I seek the peace you gave as mine in my creation. What was given then must be here now, for my creation was apart from time, and still remains beyond all change. The peace in which Your Son was born into Your Mind is shining there unchanged. I am as You created me. I need but call on You to find the peace You gave. It is Your Will that gave it to Your Son.

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Lesson 229 – Love, which created me, is what I am.

Posted on August 17, 2021

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by Amy Torres

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Each individual face turns into the Same “face.” Each body illuminates from within. All bodies become One entity, and the world shifts from separate countries and territories to One radiant globe … which then melts away into the no-thing-ness from which it came … leaving Light and only Light … because … Love … which created me … is what I am.

LESSON 229

Love, which created me, is what I am.

I seek my own Identity, and find it in these words: “Love, which created me, is what I am.” Now need I seek no more. Love has prevailed. So still It waited for my coming home, that I will turn away no longer from the holy face of Christ. And what I look upon attests the truth of the Identity I sought to lose, but which my Father has kept safe for me.

Father, my thanks to You for what I am; for keeping my Identity untouched and sinless, in the midst of all the thoughts of sin my foolish mind made up. And thanks to You for saving me from them. Amen.

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Lesson 228 – God has condemned me not. No more do I.

Posted on August 16, 2021

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by Amy Torres

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My mistakes about myself are dreams. Bad dreams can have happy endings. Mistakes can be successfully corrected. Light am I, I am Light. Ever-expanding, timeless, formless. Wordless, Spaceless. Breathing through myself I become more and more permeable until what is permeated is no more … how peaceful. “By focusing on the good in him [your brother or yourself], the body grows decreasingly persistent in your sight, and will at length be seen as little more than just a shadow circling round the good.” (T-31.VII.3:3)

LESSON 228

God has condemned me not. No more do I.

My Father knows my holiness. Shall I deny His knowledge, and believe in what His knowledge makes impossible? Shall I accept as true what He proclaims as false? Or shall I take His Word for what I am, since He is my Creator, and the One Who knows the true condition of His Son?

Father, I was mistaken in myself, because I failed to realize the Source from which I came. I have not left that Source to enter in a body and to die. My holiness remains a part of me, as I am part of You. And my mistakes about myself are dreams. I let them go today. And I stand ready to receive Your Word alone for what I really am.

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Lesson 227 – This is my holy instant of release.

Posted on August 15, 2021

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by Amy Torres

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I give up my illusions and lay them before the feet of truth. These are my gifts to God, which I place on His Altar while I still believe I’m separate but am willing to know better. My illusions, meaning everything I think I think, I give to God … and as I am unburdened, He is Revealed.

LESSON 227

This is my holy instant of release.

Father, it is today that I am free, because my will is Yours. I thought to make another will. Yet nothing that I thought apart from You exists. And I am free because I was mistaken, and did not affect my own reality at all by my illusions. Now I give them up, and lay them down before the feet of truth, to be removed forever from my mind. This is my holy instant of release. Father, I know my will is one with Yours.

And so today we find our glad return to Heaven, which we never really left. The Son of God this day lays down his dreams. The Son of God this day comes home again, released from sin and clad in holiness, with his right mind restored to him at last.

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Lesson 226 – My home awaits me. I will hasten there.

Posted on August 14, 2021

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by Amy Torres

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Hastening Home is unhurried. There is no rush, no pressure. Just motivation 🙂 The undoing process has melted away enough fear that I know that to go Home requires nothing but releasing delusions and hallucinations. I choose to unlock my mind, and hand the key to wrong-minded thinking over to the Holy Spirit so He can correct my misperceptions. Over and over again, until there is no door and there is no lock and there is no me. Amen.

LESSON 226

My home awaits me. I will hasten there.

If I so choose, I can depart this world entirely. It is not death which makes this possible, but it is change of mind about the purpose of the world. If I believe it has a value as I see it now, so will it still remain for me. But if I see no value in the world as I behold it, nothing that I want to keep as mine or search for as a goal, it will depart from me. For I have not sought for illusions to replace the truth.

Father, my home awaits my glad return. Your Arms are open and I hear Your Voice. What need have I to linger in a place of vain desires and of shattered dreams, when Heaven can so easily be mine?

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Lesson 225 – God is my Father, and His Son loves Him.

Posted on August 13, 2021

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by Amy Torres

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Quiet electricity, cool and steady. Together with Jesus and my brothers, a journey is ended, that was never begun. God is my Father, always-loving, unconditionally-loving, generous, embracing, playful, beauty-inducing, beauty-appreciating, harmonious. This is beyond comprehension and explanation, but count me in!

LESSON 225

God is my Father, and His Son loves Him.

Father, I must return Your Love for me, for giving and receiving are the same, and You have given all Your Love to me. I must return it, for I want it mine in full awareness, blazing in my mind and keeping it within its kindly light, inviolate, beloved, with fear behind and only peace ahead. How still the way Your loving Son is led along to You!

Brother, we find that stillness now. The way is open. Now we follow it in peace together. You have reached your hand to me, and I will never leave you. We are one, and it is but this oneness that we seek, as we accomplish these few final steps which end a journey that was not begun.

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Lesson 224 – God is my Father, and He loves His Son.

Posted on August 12, 2021

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by Amy Torres

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I am Light. My Father reveals to me what He would have me see instead of what I choose to see. I am Light. This Light is so Loving, so Bright, so Absolutely Joyful that It Is Everything because everything that was not light melts away in the Presence of Light. This Light is Quiet, Grand and Powerful, yet Humility Itself. The Light bursts within me, Rays stream through me, a bolt of fear flashes away in my Acceptance, and God Is.

LESSON 224

God is my Father, and He loves His Son.

My true Identity is so secure, so lofty, sinless, glorious and great, wholly beneficent and free from guilt, that Heaven looks to It to give it light. It lights the world as well. It is the gift my Father gave to me; the one as well I give the world. There is no gift but this that can be either given or received. This is reality, and only this. This is illusion’s end. It is the truth.

My Name, O Father, still is known to You. I have forgotten It, and do not know where I am going, who I am, or what it is I do. Remind me, Father, now, for I am weary of the world I see. Reveal what You would have me see instead.

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