My experience with the ACIM Workbook Lessons

15 Sep 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 258 – Let me remember that my goal is God.

Lesson 258 – Let me remember that my goal is God.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

Everything but God is a little, senseless aim … God’s memory is hidden in our minds, obscured by meaningless nonsense which we have talked ourselves into believing.  Today is a clean slate day, a day of remembering what is just behind my eyes.  God is the only goal because God is what I am.  The time for senseless diversions, magnificent distractions and grand illusions is over.  The time has come for Eternity.  The time has come today.

LESSON 258

Let me remember that my goal is God.

All that is needful is to train our minds to overlook all little senseless aims, and to remember that our goal is God. His memory is hidden in our minds, obscured but by our pointless little goals which offer nothing, and do not exist. Shall we continue to allow God’s grace to shine in unawareness, while the toys and trinkets of the world are sought instead? God is our only goal, our only Love. We have no aim but to remember Him.

Our goal is but to follow in the way that leads to You. We have no goal but this. What could we want but to remember You? What could we seek but our Identity?

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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14 Sep 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 257 – Let me remember what my purpose is.

Lesson 257 – Let me remember what my purpose is.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

Let me remember my goal, my purpose, my function today that I may unify my thoughts and actions meaningfully.  Forgiveness is my function here.  Forgiveness brings me happiness and peace.  For give ness is for giving everything I believe in to the Holy Spirit — I lay my beliefs as gifts on His altar and in so doing am restored wholly to What Already Is.

LESSON 257

Let me remember what my purpose is.

 If I forget my goal I can be but confused, unsure of what I am, and thus conflicted in my actions.  No one can serve contradicting goals and serve them well.  Nor can he function without deep distress and great depression.  Let us therefore be determined to remember what we want today, that we may unify our thoughts and actions meaningfully, and achieve only what God would have us do this day.

Father, forgiveness is Your chosen means for our salvation.  Let us not forget today that we can have no will but Yours.  And thus our purpose must be Yours as well, if we would reach the peace You will for us.

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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13 Sep 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 256 – God is the only goal I have today.

Lesson 256 – God is the only goal I have today.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

Simple and clear: God is the only goal I have today.  His sacred Word is the only Word to listen to and hear. Forgiveness asks that we pay attention to what is real.  Now dreaming is used for awakening, moment by moment, until there is no dream to awaken from.  Bull’s eye.

LESSON 256

God is the only goal I have today.

The way to God is through forgiveness here.  There is no other way.  If sin had not been cherished by the mind, what need would there have been to find the way to where you are?  Who would still be uncertain?  Who could be unsure of who he is?  And who would yet remain asleep, in heavy clouds of doubt about the holiness of him whom God created sinless?  Here we can but dream.  But we can dream we have forgiven him in whom all sin remains impossible, and it is this we choose to dream today.  God is our goal; forgiveness is the means by which our minds return to Him at last.

And so, our Father, would we come to You in Your appointed way.  We have no goal except to hear Your Voice, and find the way Your sacred Word has pointed out to us.

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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12 Sep 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 255 – This day I choose to spend in perfect peace.

Lesson 255 – This day I choose to spend in perfect peace.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

A thought has come into my mind more strongly than ever before these past few months: it is easy to recognize the true Self and see through the illusion.  It is easy to know “myself” as Formless Love and not be fooled by the body.  It is easy to experience a shift in perception and see the world a holy new way.  This change of mind, this Wholesome thought is a bit ahead of my experience, just as lightning signals thunder.  This day is chosen to spend in perfect peace because that is What Already Is.  It is the logical outcome of yesterday’s lesson: Let every voice but God’s be still in me.  And the only reason is the Voice of Reason, the only reality is God’s Reality.  This is what God chooses for “me” today, and “I” accept!

LESSON 255

This day I choose to spend in perfect peace.

It does not seem to me that I can choose to have but peace today.  And yet, my God assures me that His Son is like Himself.  Let me this day have faith in Him Who says I am God’s Son.  And let the peace I choose be mine today bear witness to the truth of what He says.  God’s Son can have no cares, and must remain forever in the peace of Heaven.  In His Name, I give today to finding what my Father wills for me, accepting it as mine, and giving it to all my Father’s Sons, along with me.

And so, my Father, would I pass this day with You.  Your Son has not forgotten You.  The peace You gave him still is in his mind, and it is there I choose to spend today.

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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11 Sep 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 254 – Let every voice but God’s be still in me.

Lesson 254 – Let every voice but God’s be still in me.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

My mind expands as an all-encompassing circle and I realize I leave no one behind when I  let every voice but God’s go still … we go together as we un-merge from separation into the unified wholeness of Loving Expansion that we already are.  We are the Wordless; we share God’s Nameless Name; we are Unchanging Stillness.

LESSON 254

Let every voice but God’s be still in me.

 Father, today I would but hear Your Voice.  In deepest silence I would come to You, to hear Your Voice and to receive Your Word.  I have no prayer but this: I come to You to ask you for the truth.  And truth is but Your Will, which I would share with You today.

Today we let no ego thoughts direct our words or actions.  When such thoughts occur, we quietly step back and look at them, and then we let them go.  We do not want what they would bring with them.  And so we do not choose to keep them.  They are silent now.  And in the stillness, hallowed by His Love, God speaks to us and tells us of our will, as we have chosen to remember Him.

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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10 Sep 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 253 – My Self is ruler of the universe.

Lesson 253 – My Self is ruler of the universe.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

What happens is what I desire … I get to choose.  I can choose Higher Power, my True Self, or ego willpower.  There’s no contest!  Ego willpower has gotten me nothing.  Connecting my will with God’s Will has been the most natural, effortless lift in the world.  I don’t have to know how to do this — I just need to be willing to be willing to connect with Will 🙂  And off I go with God’s Wind beneath my Sails. This world really is full of comic book characters — you gotta laugh!

LESSON 253

My Self is ruler of the universe.

It is impossible that anything should come to me unbidden by myself. Even in this world, it is I who rule my destiny. What happens is what I desire. What does not occur is what I do not want to happen. This must I accept. For thus am I led past this world to my creations, children of my will, in Heaven where my holy Self abides with them and Him Who has created me.

You are the Self Whom You created Son, creating like Yourself and One with You. My Self, which rules the universe, is but Your Will in perfect union with my own, which can but offer glad assent to Yours, that it may be extended to Itself.

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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09 Sep 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 252 – The Son of God is my Identity.

Lesson 252 – The Son of God is my Identity.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

Yesterday I was reminded that my only need I did not recognize, but now I see that I need only truth.  Today I learn the truth of my Identity: I am the Son of God.  My Self is shimmering with Perfect Purity, Brilliant Light, Limitless Love and Calm, Quiet Certainty.  Heaven is restored to me in each instant I let myself know I am that Self which God has given me and which seems so distant yet is so very near.  Boundless Love within me, without me, permeating me, emanating from me, nothing but Radiance.

LESSON 252

The Son of God is my Identity.

My self is holy beyond all the thoughts of holiness of which I now conceive.  Its shimmering and perfect purity is far more brilliant than is any light that I have ever looked upon.  Its love is limitless, with an intensity that holds all things within it, in the calm of quiet certainty.  Its strength comes not from burning impulses which move the world, but from the boundless Love of God Himself.  How far beyond this world my Self must be, and yet how near to me and close to God!

Father, You know my true Identity.  Reveal It now to me who am Your Son, that I may waken to the truth in You, and know that Heaven is restored to 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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08 Sep 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 251 – I am in need of nothing but the truth.

Lesson 251 – I am in need of nothing but the truth.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

Things grow very quiet now.  I am aware my thinking is not Thought.  I am aware “i” am asleep.  I am aware I am the Beingness of God and not an “I.”  There is awareness that I am in need of nothing, absolutely nothing, but my Self, which is the Truth.  I place myself in God’s Hands and He guides me in emerging from the ego coma and awakening to the Truth That Is.

LESSON 251

I am in need of nothing but the truth.

 I sought for many things, and found despair.  Now do I seek but one, for in that one is all I need, and only what I need.  All that I sought before I needed not, and did not even want.  My only need I did not recognize.  But now I see that I need only truth.  In that all needs are satisfied, all cravings end, all hopes are finally fulfilled and dreams are gone.  Now have I everything that I could need.  Now have I everything that I could want.  And now at last I find myself at peace.

And for that peace, our Father, we give thanks.  What we denied ourselves You have restored, and only that is what we really want.

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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07 Sep 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 250 – Let me not see myself as limited.

Lesson 250 – Let me not see myself as limited.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

It is hard work to limit God.  To try to curb God’s flow, stanch a self-inflicted wound, build a dam around an ocean, a fence around a hurricane, all of this is impossible and needless work.  And it is just an idea, not a fact.  It is only a delusional thought, not a reality.  I am Unlimited because I am an extension of God’s Love.  We are Gentleness and Strength — the kind of Power which is Unified, Whole, All-Inclusive.  Abundance is the simple memory of what I am, which is what you are, which is All That Is. And So It Is.  Amen.

LESSON 250

Let me not see myself as limited.

 Let me behold the Son of God today, and witness to his glory.  Let me not try to obscure the holy light in him, and see his strength diminished and reduced to frailty; nor perceive the lacks in him with which I would attack his sovereignty.

He is Your Son, my Father.  And today I would behold his gentleness instead of my illusions.  He is what I am, and as I see him so I see myself.  Today I would see truly, that this day I may at last identify with him.

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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06 Sep 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 249 – Forgiveness ends all suffering and loss.

Lesson 249 – Forgiveness ends all suffering and loss.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

Light to Light.  Heaven  to Heaven.  Home to Home.  Love to Love.  Eternity to Eternity.  Infinity to Infinity.   Innocence to Innocence.  Joy to Joy.  God to God’s Child.  God’s Child to God.  Giving Giving Giving.

LESSON 249

Forgiveness ends all suffering and loss.

 Forgiveness paints a picture of a world where suffering is over, loss becomes impossible and anger makes no sense.  Attack is gone, and madness has an end.  What suffering is now conceivable?  What loss can be sustained?  The world becomes a place of joy, abundance, charity and endless giving.  It is now so like to Heaven that it quickly is transformed into the light that it reflects.  And so the journey which the Son of God began has ended in the light from which he came.

Father, we would return our minds to You.  We have betrayed them, held them in a vise of bitterness, and frightened them with thoughts of violence and death.  Now would we rest again in You, as You created us.

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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