Lesson 248 – Whatever suffers is not part of me.

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I’ve heard it said that those who die on an exhale, die peacefully, because they are letting go, not grasping.  Lesson 248 is one of my favorite lessons.  It tells me that there is nothing to grasp for, nothing to suffer over, nothing I don’t already have.  I disowned the truth for the fun of it.  The idea of separating from God was laughable and now I laugh!  This very laughter lets me be faithful in disowning falsity — what is not true is false.  Nothing real can be threatened.  Nothing unreal exists.  Herein lies the peace of God.  Holy moly!  Instant gratification 🙂

LESSON 248

Whatever suffers is not part of me.

I have disowned the truth.  Now let me be as faithful in disowning falsity.  Whatever suffers is not part of me.  What grieves is not myself.  What is in pain is but illusion in my mind.  What dies was never living in reality, and did but mock the truth about myself.  Now I disown self-concepts and deceits and lies about the holy Son of God.  Now am I ready to accept him back as God created him, and as he is.

Father, my ancient love for You returns, and lets me love Your Son again as well.  Father, I am as You created me.  Now is Your Love remembered,  and my own.  Now do I understand that they are one.

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. 

Lesson 247 – Without forgiveness I will still be blind.

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Light illuminates me … my heart expands.  I used to be so painfully lonely and afraid, before I was reminded that it was I who chose to narrow my view and believe in separation from God.  What a relief to be re-Minded!  What a blessing to learn I’ve been blind.  What a joy to know the body’s eyes do not See.  I am forgiven, forgiving and free — and you with me.  Amen!

Please scroll down to hear Alisa Amor sing a beautiful rendition of Lesson 247.

LESSON 247

Without forgiveness I will still be blind.

Sin is the symbol of attack.  Behold it anywhere, and I will suffer.  For forgiveness is the only means whereby Christ’s vision comes to me.  Let me accept what His sight shows me as the simple truth, and I am healed completely.  Brother, come and let me look on you.  Your loveliness reflects my own.  Your sinlessness is mine.  You stand forgiven, and I stand with you.

So would I look on everyone today.  My brothers are Your Sons.  Your Fatherhood created them, and gave them all to me as part of You, and my own Self as well.  Today I honor You through them, and thus I hope this day to recognize my Self.

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. 

Lesson 246 – To love my Father is to love His Son.

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Love is Love.  If I love me through God’s Vision, then I love you and you and you.  All of you, because we really are all facets of the one ego thought that we could be separate and be autonomous.  But we can’t 🙂  You love me and I love you and God loves us and we love Him and we are He and He is We for there is no “us” and All is Well.

LESSON 246

To love my Father is to love His Son.

Let me not think that I can find the way to God, if I have hatred in my heart.  Let me not try to hurt God’s Son, and think that I can know his Father or my Self.  Let me not fail to recognize myself, and still believe that my awareness can contain my Father, or my mind conceive of all the love my Father has for me, and all the love which I return to Him.

I will accept the way You choose for me to come to You, my Father.  For in that will I succeed, because it is Your Will.  And I would recognize that what You will is what I will as well, and only that.  And so I choose to love Your Son.  Amen.

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. 

Lesson 245 – Your peace is with me, Father. I am safe.

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Peace.  One.  Unified.  Formless.  Innocent.  Giving.  Peace.  Creation.  Giving.  Eternal.  Infinite.  Peace.  One.  Love.  Joy.  Peace.  Harmony.  Beauty.  Peace.  Unified.  Innocent.  Perfection.  Whole.  Holy.  Peace.  One.  Giving.  Given.  Beloved. Love.

LESSON 245

Your peace is with me, Father.  I am safe.

Your peace surrounds me, Father. Where I go, Your peace goes there with me. It sheds its light on everyone I meet. I bring it to the desolate and lonely and afraid. I give Your peace to those who suffer pain, or grieve for loss, or think they are bereft of hope and happiness. Send them to me, my Father. Let me bring Your peace with me. For I would save Your Son, as is Your Will, that I may come to recognize my Self.

And so we go in peace. To all the world we give the message that we have received. And thus we come to hear the Voice for God, Who speaks to us as we relate His Word; Whose Love we recognize because we share the Word that He has given unto 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. 

Lesson 244 – I am in danger nowhere in the world.

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Meditating can bring on spiritual experience:  I am lying on my back but I am in the air … as high as the highest skyscrapers … I am a magic carpet sailing through time and space … there are clocks on the facades of buildings … the architecture is exquisite … the sweetness of the atmosphere so high brings tears of joy to my eyes … beauty is everywhere and in everything … danger still flirts around the edges, I close my eyes when the height is dizzying and feel God’s Comforting Embrace.  I am safe in His Arms and all I need do is but remember Him.  And know that spiritual experiences come and go, but I am in danger nowhere in the world because, ultimately, the world is a dream and Truth is Unchanging.

LESSON 244

I am in danger nowhere in the world.

Your Son is safe wherever he may be, for You are there with him.  He need but call upon Your Name, and he will recollect his safety and Your Love, for they are one.  How can he fear or doubt or fail to know he cannot suffer, be endangered, or experience unhappiness, when he belongs to You, beloved and loving, in the safety of Your Fatherly embrace?

And there we are in truth.  No storms can come into the hallowed haven of our home.  In God we are secure.  For what can come to threaten God Himself, or make afraid what will forever be a part of 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. 

Lesson 243 – Today I will judge nothing that occurs.

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Honesty is the best policy.  The truth shall set me free.  Bits of perception do not add up to a whole.  The hologram contains the Holy.  The Holy is within the hologram.  Shine, shine, shine.

LESSON 243

Today I will judge nothing that occurs.

I will be honest with myself today. I will not think that I already know what must remain beyond my present grasp. I will not think I understand the whole from bits of my perception, which are all that I can see. Today I recognize that this is so. And so I am relieved of judgments that I cannot make. Thus do I free myself and what I look upon, to be in peace as God created us.

Father, today I leave creation free to be itself. I honor all its parts, in which I am included. We are one because each part contains Your memory, and truth must shine in all of us as one.

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. 

Lesson 242 – This day is God’s. It is my gift to Him.

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w h o l l y    o p e n     m i n d   . . .    m i n d     o p e n     w h o l l y    . . .    o p e n  . . .    h o l y   . . .   m i n d    . . .     o p e n n e p o h o o p o n o p o n o . . . 🙂

LESSON 242

This day is God’s.  It is my gift to Him.

I will not lead my life alone today. I do not understand the world, and so to try to lead my life alone must be but foolishness. But there is One Who knows all that is best for me. And He is glad to make no choices for me but the ones that lead to God. I give this day to Him, for I would not delay my coming home, and it is He Who knows the way to God.

And so we give today to You. We come with wholly open minds. We do not ask for anything that we may think we want. Give us what You would have received by us. You know all our desires and our wants. And You will give us everything we need in helping us to find the way to You.

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. 

Lesson 241 – This holy instant is salvation come.

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(((((((  forgiven  )))))))

LESSON 241

This holy instant is salvation come.

What joy there is today! It is a time of special celebration. For today holds out the instant to the darkened world where its release is set. The day has come when sorrows pass away and pain is gone. The glory of salvation dawns today upon a world set free. This is the time of hope for countless millions. They will be united now, as you forgive them all. For I will be forgiven by you today.

We have forgiven one another now, and so we come at last to You again. Father, Your Son, who never left, returns to Heaven and his home. How glad are we to have our sanity restored to us, and to remember that we all are one.

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. 

Lesson 240 – Fear is not justified in any form.

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Heart opens and waves of fearless joy roll forth, east to west, north to south, in to out … undoing the sense of form and Formlessly confirming the lack of justification for fear.

LESSON 240

Fear is not justified in any form.

Fear is deception. It attests that you have seen yourself as you could never be, and therefore look upon a world which is impossible. Not one thing in this world is true. It does not matter what the form in which it may appear. It witnesses but to your own illusions of yourself. Let us not be deceived today. We are the Sons of God. There is no fear in us, for we are each a part of Love Itself.

How foolish are our fears! Would You allow Your Son to suffer? Give us faith today to recognize Your Son, and set him free. Let us forgive him in Your Name, that we may understand his holiness, and feel the love for him which is Your Own as well.

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. 

Lesson 239 – The glory of my Father is my own.

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False humility serves no one and keeps our ostrich heads in the sand.  True humility reveals to us that we are Glorious.  The glory of our Father is our own.  We are sinless/Innocent and guiltless/Innocent.  We are as God created us … Unified Light … Unified Light … Living Loving Light … gloriously Joined in Peace and Joy … ever-extending Joyful, Peaceful, Unified, Living, Loving, Light … Ashe!

LESSON 239

The glory of my Father is my own.

 Let not the truth about ourselves today be hidden by a false humility.  Let us instead be thankful for the gifts our Father gave us.  Can we see in those with whom He shares His glory any trace of sin and guilt?  And can it be that we are not among them, when He loves His Son forever and with perfect constancy, knowing he is as He created him?

We thank You, Father, for the light that shines forever in us.  And we honor it, because You share it with us.  We are one, united in this light and one with You, at peace with all creation and ourselves.

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.