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26 Aug 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 238 – On my decision all salvation rests.

Lesson 238 – On my decision all salvation rests.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

I am worthy, beloved, trusted, and holy.  I am worthy, beloved, trusted, and holy.  I am worthy, beloved, trusted, and holy.  My Father knows me to be worthy, completely lovable, absolutely trustworthy, and wholly holy.  I love my Father who lets me know my worthiness, belovedness, trustworthiness, and holiness.  A circle of love flows naturally between my Father and me.  A circle of love includes my brothers, for there are no strangers, and we are aspects of the same mind which ultimately is one state of Mind, worthy, beloved, trusted and holy.  My decision is made.  I choose my worthiness, belovedness, trustworthiness and holiness, and with that I choose all of you as me and the Holy Spirit as our teacher.  Amen.

LESSON 238

On my decision all salvation rests.

Father, Your trust in me has been so great, I must be worthy. You created me, and know me as I am. And yet You placed Your Son’s salvation in my hands, and let it rest on my decision. I must be beloved of You indeed. And I must be steadfast in holiness as well, that You would give Your Son to me in certainty that he is safe Who still is part of You, and yet is mine, because He is my Self.

And so, again today, we pause to think how much our Father loves us. And how dear His Son, created by His Love, remains to Him Whose Love is made complete in 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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25 Aug 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 237 – Now would I be as God created me.

Lesson 237 – Now would I be as God created me.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

There is a Light in me — a pilot Light at my center … and when I focus on that Light it grows and radiates in all directions.  This Light is a simple, loving state of Mind.  It seems to be within me, but I am not the me I thought I was — I am as God created me.   Therefore, I am Formless, Changeless, Living, Loving Light.  Illuminated, and streaming Great Rays to everyone and everything everywhere in the dream, yet discovering that the dream is within Me.  Shine, shine, shine!

LESSON 237

Now would I be as God created me.

Today I will accept the truth about myself.  I will arise in glory, and allow the light in me to shine upon the world throughout the day.  I bring the world the tidings of salvation which I hear as God my Father speaks to me.  And I behold the world that Christ would have me see, aware it ends the bitter dream of death; aware it is my Father’s Call to me.

Christ is my eyes today, and He the ears that listen to the Voice for God today.  Father, I come to You through Him Who is Your Son, and my true Self as well.  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. 

 

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24 Aug 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 236 – I rule my mind, which I alone must rule.

Lesson 236 – I rule my mind, which I alone must rule.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

My mind seems to roll out of my mind and stick its tongue out at me.  This is just a comical mirage which I can undo at any time by shifting my perspective.  When I choose the Holy Spirit as my teacher, I undo the illusion of my tongue talking itself into something which isn’t real or true.  This shift of perspective (a better teacher, a better way) leads to a shift in perception (from the body’s eyes to the reflection of God’s Vision) which is the healing of the mind — the miracle in action.  At first, changing my mind, owning the rulership of my kingdom, feels like single-handedly steering a huge oceanliner.  But as I maintain my focus and commit to fully turning the ship around, the arc grows smoother and easier with every degree … it becomes clear that the Holy Spirit, not “me” is navigating and the ship turns into Godship, effortlessly radiating Absolute Love.

LESSON 236

I rule my mind, which I alone must rule.

I have a kingdom I must rule.  At times, it does not seem I am its king at all.   It seems to triumph over me, and tell me what to think, and what to do and feel.  And yet it has been given me to serve whatever purpose I perceive in it.  My mind can only serve.  Today I give its service to the Holy Spirit to employ as He sees fit.  I thus direct my mind, which I alone can rule.  And thus I set it free to do the Will of God.

Father, my mind is open to Your Thoughts, and closed today to every thought but Yours.  I rule my mind, and offer it to You.  Accept my gift, for it is Yours 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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23 Aug 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 235 – God in His mercy wills that I be saved.

Lesson 235 – God in His mercy wills that I be saved.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

I am safe forever within God’s Arms … I … am … safe … within … God’s Arms … forever … heart-meltingly, quiet-mindedly Safe.  Joy-spreadingly, Love-pervadingly Safe.  God’s Love surrounds me.  God’s Love protects me.  God’s Love saves me.  God’s Love is me.  Amen.

LESSON 235

God in His mercy wills that I be saved.

 I need but look upon all things that seem to hurt me, and with perfect certainty assure myself, “God wills that I be saved from this,” and merely watch them disappear.  I need but keep in mind my Father’s Will for me is only happiness, to find that only happiness has come to me.  And I need but remember that God’s Love surrounds His Son and keeps his sinlessness forever perfect, to be sure that I am saved and safe forever in His Arms.  I am the Son He loves.  And I am saved because God in His mercy wills it so.

Father, Your Holiness is mine.  Your Love created me, and made my sinlessness forever part of You.  I have no guilt nor sin in me, for there is none in 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. 

 

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22 Aug 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 234 – Father, today I am Your Son again.

Lesson 234 – Father, today I am Your Son again.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

As dreams of sin and guilt drop away, I am no longer my father’s daughter and my mother’s daughter, duty-bound to them in worldly ways.  Now I turn into an innocent white pillar, which then expands into a cloud-white vapor, which lightly swirls and spirals upwards into an unDone ether … from there all is Quiet.  All is True.  All are equals.  No obligations, no expectations, no conditions, no guilt, no sin, no fear, no shame, no need for care and protection — no danger, no illness, no loneliness, no sorrow, no poverty, no depravity, no evil, no exile.  Father, today I am Your Son again, safe and happy at Home where the true “I” has always been.  Amen.

LESSON 234

Father, today I am Your Son again.

 Today we will anticipate the time when dreams of sin and guilt are gone, and we have reached the holy peace we never left.  Merely a tiny instant has elapsed between eternity and timelessness.  So brief the interval there was no lapse in continuity, nor break in thoughts which are forever unified as one.  Nothing has ever happened to disturb the peace of God the Father and the Son.  This we accept as wholly true today.

We thank you, Father, that we cannot lose the memory of You and of Your Love.  We recognize our safety, and give thanks for all the gifts You have bestowed on us, for all the loving help we have received, for Your eternal patience, and the Word which You have given us that we are saved.

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 Aug 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 233 – I give my life to God to guide today.

Lesson 233 – I give my life to God to guide today.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

I give all my thoughts to my Father today–vast horizon-like contentment: no words.  Empty, space-less.  No me.  No we.  The fullness of no-thingness.  I give my Father all my acts as well:  speed bump … time slowed … choose again … not my goals, but Your Goals.  The air feels tender and smells sweet.  Let’s see, my idea of wisdom, or the Wisdom of the Infinite?  I think I’ll go with the countless gifts and mercies of the Holy Spirit Who, when followed with complete devotion removes all doubt and restores Truth.

LESSON 233

I give my life to God to guide today.

Father, I give You all my thoughts today.  I would have none of mine.  In place of them, give me Your Own.  I give You all my acts as well, that I may do Your Will instead of seeking goals which cannot be obtained, and wasting time in vain imaginings.  Today I come to You.  I will step back and merely follow You.  Be You the Guide, and I the follower who questions not the wisdom of the Infinite, nor Love whose tenderness I cannot comprehend, but which is yet Your Perfect gift to me.

Today we have one Guide to lead us on.  And as we walk together, we will give this day to Him with no reserve at all.  This is His day.  And so it is a day of countless gifts and mercies 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. 

 

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20 Aug 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 232 – Be in my mind, my Father, through the day.

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

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

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.

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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19 Aug 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 231 – Father, I will but to remember You.

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

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

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.

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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19 Aug 2021 Comments Off on 2. What Is Salvation?

2. What Is Salvation?

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

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.

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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18 Aug 2021 Comments Off on Lesson 230 – Now will I seek and find the peace of God.

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

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

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.

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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