Lesson 111 ~ Review III

I will review two recent lessons every day for 10 days, using a special format which I am to follow as closely as I can for five minutes twice a day and also for a few moments every hour. Learning will not be hampered if I miss a practice period, nor do I need to "catch up" in terms of numbers.  Rituals are not the aim and would in fact defeat the goal.  I cannot ruin, destroy or "mess up" God's Plan in any way.

I am willing to devote a few moments each hour to my salvation.  I will not be deceived by illusions that seem to be beyond my control.  There is always "time" to practice.  I can honestly see even in the world of illusions, that I "make time" for those things I truly desire.

Today I will withdraw the value given to illusions and offer it to my Happiness (and salvation!).  Do I want illusions or do I want Peace?  Do I want illusions or Joy?  Illusions or Serenity?  Illusions or Eternity?

I will place the ideas for today in my mind.   There is a part of my mind which knows what to do with them and I will have faith that it will use them wisely, being helped by the One Who gave me the thoughts.  God will not fail  The wisdom of my mind will come to my assistance. Repeat the ideas for the day, then lean back in quiet faith and let the mind find its healing.  Each time I think on these ideas, I allow my mind its sorely needed Silence, Rest and Peace.  Apply the ideas to any person, thought or situation that upsets, annoys, challenges or unnerves me.

These practice periods are helping me form the habit of applying Course lessons to everything I see, do and think about.  I will not repeat the ideas and lay them aside. They are meant to serve me in all ways.  Their usefulness is unlimited to me.  They are present whenever I need help of any kind.

This review of ideas ~ this "second chance" ~ will bring such large advances and learning gains so great, that I will continue on more solid ground with firmer footsteps and stronger faith.

#1  "Miracles are seen in Light" ~ I cannot see in darkness (the world of illusions).  The Light of Holiness and Truth fills my mind and I see the Innocence within.

#2  "Light and Strength are One."  ~  In the darkness (the world of illusions) I am limited and weak.  God's Strength gives me the True Vision to remember that I am His Son.  .

Lesson 110 ~ I am as God created me.

Today's idea is the birthplace of miracles.  God created me Perfect and I remain Perfect, no matter what dreams may tell me.  This one idea would be enough to heal my mind, if I wholly believed it. It would mean that I have not created an alternate reality, nor replaced Heaven with evil, misery, and death.  If I am as God created me, fear has no meaning, evil is not real, and misery and death do not exist.

If I am as God created me, illusions cannot replace Truth, health cannot turn to sickness, fear cannot be a substitute for Love, nor is death a part of Life.  The dream has not occurred if I remain as God created me.  In this one thought is the past undone and the present saved to quietly extend into a Timeless future.  If I am as God created me then I am not separated from God.

I am as God created me.  I am His Son.  I exist in Joy, Peace, Unity, Happiness. I am completely Safe and Loved.

I will practice today's idea with gratitude.  Truth has come to set me Free. This is the Truth God promised me; the Word which ends all sorrow.  I am as God created me.  The Son can suffer nothing and I am God's Son.  Today I will try to discover, in my mind, the Self who is the Holy Son of God.  Deep within me is the Holy Son waiting my acknowledgment as my Self.  I have been lost. I have forgotten my Self.  But today I am given Truth.

Today I will seek and find.  If I am not a body living in a dream-world, then who am I and where must I be?  I am the Son of God.  I remain in Heaven with my Father.  I have never left my Home.  I only fell asleep a little while and dreamed I was somewhere else.

Today I make a great advance to Truth by letting go of illusions and opening my mind to God.  I will remember Him hourly throughout the day with a thankful heart and loving thoughts despite all I seem to "see." This is how I remember my Reality. Today's idea reminds me of my Holy Self.  I will repeat it as often as I can throughout the day.  This is the Word of God Which sets me Free.  This is the Key that opens the Gate of Heaven and lets me Awaken to the Peace of God and His Eternity.

"I am as God created me."

Lesson 109 ~ I Rest in God.

Today I ask for the Rest and Quiet unshaken by the world's appearances.  I ask for Peace and Stillness in the midst of all illusions.  I ask for Safety and Happiness, even though I seem to perceive danger and sorrow.  Today's idea is the Thought that God will give what I request.

I Rest in God.  This idea will bring me the Rest, Quiet, Peace, Stillness, Safety and Happiness I look for.  I Rest in God.  This thought has the Power to Awaken Truth in me and end the suffering of my mind.  This is the Thought that enables me to recognize the Son of God in me.

I Rest in God.  This Thought will carry me through the day, past misery and pain, onward to the Certainty of God.  There is no suffering it cannot heal and no problem it cannot solve.  "Appearances" will turn to Truth before my eyes as I recognize that I Rest in God.

This is a day of Peace.  I am completely undisturbed no matter what the "world" seems to show me. In God I have no cares, concerns, burdens, anxiety or pain.  I Rest in a Changeless Timelessness. I will close my eyes and sink into Stillness.  I will let these Moments of Rest reassure my mind that all its frantic fantasies are only dreams.  I will be still and accept God's healing.  I will take time today to slip away from dreams into Peace.

For a few minutes every hour, I will take my Rest today so my tired mind is made Glad. The bird with broken wings will once again sing.  The stream long dry will again begin to flow.  I am near to Awakening, and the time when the Reality-That-is-All-There-Is comes closer to my worn and tired mind.  While I perceive the "world"  it will begin to reflect the healing taking place in my mind.  All my "brothers" will have Rest with me.

"I Rest in God."

Lesson 108 ~ Giving and Receiving are one in Truth

Today's idea, in and of itself, if believed wholly, could bring me True Vision.  All roads lead to God, but the ideas in ACIM were designed to get me there faster.  I need only work on myself.  There is no reason to evangelize others or change anyone else.  There IS no one "else" outside of me.  There is only the One Son and I am He.  If I heal my mind, "all" minds are healed.  I have seemingly separated myself from God and divided my One Self into "many" and Heaven into Its direct "opposite."

The Good News:  It is a dream.  I am Safe in Heaven dreaming of exile to a place apart from Peace, Love, Joy and Eternity.  My will rejoined with God's Awakens me to my Reality in Heaven.  I seem to be living "apart from" God, in charge of my own destiny, capable of both good and evil, love and hate.  I seem to make my own decisions and rely on my own wits and intelligence, making my way through a world of chaos.  In Reality, I am in charge of nothing and do not exist apart from God.  It is a foolish dream.  I cannot even Awaken on my own.  I can do nothing apart from God, I am only dreaming that I can.  I have been mistaken.  This is my only problem.  But it has already been solved.

The Light in me reconciles all seeming opposites.  The Light resolves all conflicts and mistaken thoughts.  This is not "light" seen by the body's eyes.  The body's eyes see nothing because the body does not exist,  though I did a good job of convincing myself that it does.  True Light is a State of Mind so Unified that darkness cannot be perceived at all.

Heaven has no opposite....only in dreams.  In the dream world there is the dream of Jesus and Buddha, etc., because even in the dream there are glimpses of Truth.  In dreams, giving and receiving are seen as two different things.  I have divided one aspect of Truth into opposites.  In Reality giving and receiving occur simultaneously and are One.  This one Thought, completely Unified will serve to Unify all thought.  One problem corrected will correct all problems, because there is only one problem:  that I think I am apart from God.

To learn that giving and receiving are the same can be tried and proven so easily.  When this is proven, I will see it always works in every circumstance where it is tried.  This Thought can be generalized to other areas of doubt and false vision.  The fantasy is always difficult to maintain and chaotic in nature.  Salvation is simple and easy.

Today I will practice the special case of giving and receiving.  It has results that cannot be missed.  To give is to receive, and to receive is to give.  Today I offer Peace to everyone and I will see how quickly Peace returns to me.  I am trying to reach the Light deep inside my mind.  Light holds Tranquility, Joy and Happiness.  The "world" and everything in it can never make me Happy because I seemingly created it to show me a place "apart from God and Heaven" ~ the "opposite" of God and Heaven.  I can stop looking for Happiness where it will never be.

While I perceive the world and "others," I will practice offering Peace, Quiet and Gentleness to every situation and person that presents itself to me.  I will replace all negative thoughts with Thoughts of Peace and Love.  I do not have to dwell on every negative thought that comes into my consciousness.  I can choose only the Good.  It is MY choice.  I will find I have exact return for what I have "given."  One "brother" represents all others.   If I offer Peace to one brother, I offer it to all and to myself.

"Truth tells me: Giving and Receiving are one and the same.  What I offer, comes back to me.  Offer only Good."

Lesson 107 ~ Truth will correct all error in my mind.

What can correct illusion but Truth?  And what is error but dreams which are unrecognized as illusion?  When Truth has entered, error disappears to nothingness.  Error simply vanishes, leaving no trace.

Can I imagine a state of mind without illusion and how it would feel?  I will try to remember a quiet moment when nothing interrupted my peace of mind and I was certain that I was loved and safe. Now I will extend that moment to Eternity.  Multiply that by a hundred and then a hundred more. That gives me just a hint....just the faintest idea of my state of mind when Truth has come.

Without illusion there is no fear, no doubt, no pain and no attack.  The time is coming when Truth will occupy my mind completely.  It will not shift or alter in form, nor come and go, nor change in any way.  It will stay exactly as It Always Was, to meet every need and solve every difficulty.  Illusion will simply disappear when Truth corrects error in my mind.

Truth gives Perfect Constancy and Steady and Sure Love.  Truth needs no defense, so attack is impossible.  Illusion brought to Truth is corrected.  It is impossible to seek Truth and not succeed.

Today belongs to Truth. I was not meant to suffer and die.  My Father Wills that my dreams are gone. I will let Truth correct them all.  I am not asking for something I do not already have.  I am asking that I recognize the Truth that is already there.  I am certain of success today.

I am not made of flesh, blood and bone.  My Father created me as His Son, and I will ask Him to be in my Awareness today.  I am not apart from God.  I am Eternally with Him, though I do not know this while I dream.  Today for a few minutes each hour, I will let Truth correct all error in my mind, and then I will rest in God.  He will envelop me and give me a Peace so Deep and Tranquil that I will return to the familiar dream-world reluctantly.  Yet all error in the world will be corrected as I let it be corrected in my mind, for the world "outside" is only a dream in my mind.

"Truth will correct all error in my mind."

Lesson 106 ~ Be still and listen for Truth.

If I lay aside ego's voice, however loudly it may seem to call, if I refuse to accept its petty gifts that give me nothing, if I listen with an open mind, not the ego-mind which has its own ideas of "salvation," then I will hear the Mighty Voice of Truth:  Quiet in Power, Strong in Stillness, and Completely Certain in Its Message.

I will listen and hear my Father speak to me.   His Voice silences the thunder of the meaningless and shows the way to Peace, to me who cannot see.  I will be still today and listen to Truth.  I will not be deceived by voices of death, which tell me they have found my salvation and happiness in a toned and chiseled body, a treasure of riches or a "satisfying" career.  I will not listen to the fantasies of ego. I will listen to Truth.

Today I will walk lightly past the voices of the world and past their meaningless promises. The Voice for God holds my Happiness in Its Hand, held out to me in Welcome and Love.  I can choose to hear only Him today.  There is no need to wait for Happiness.

Today the promise of God's Word is kept.  I will hear It and be silent.  He comes with miracles a thousand times as Happy and Wonderful as those I have ever dreamed in the world of dreams.  God's miracles will not fade when the dreaming ends; they end the dream instead and last forever, for they come from God to His dear Son whose other name is my Self.  I will prepare myself for miracles today and allow my Father's ancient pledge to me to be kept.

As my mind heals, this healing will be reflected back to me from the world, which is only a dream in my mind.  Today I will be ready for salvation.  I will listen and hear a Voice which resounds throughout the dream-world.

The Bringer of miracles needs me to accept them first.  When I have a negative thought in my mind, will I let it fester and hold me in the dream, or will I lay it aside and accept God's Love and Joy instead?  The choice is mine.  I free the "world" when I free my mind from everything that is not Love, and this Freedom is reflected back to me throughout the "world."   Giving and Receiving are One.  They are the Circle of Creation.  What I give, I will receive.

Five minutes every hour I will quiet my mind and listen to Truth.  God's Word has always been there for me.  Today I accept It and be Free.  While I "see" the fantasy-world before me, I will offer a blessing when my "brother" seems to hand me a curse. For this "brother" is myself in disguise, telling me I am separated from God.  In my mind I will offer, instead, a reassurance that this is not so.  I will say silently, "brother, we have been mistaken, let us return to the Father and be at Peace."

"Be still and listen for Truth."

Lesson 105 ~ God's Peace and Joy are mine.

I must recognize God's Gifts are given to me, only then can I choose to accept Them. God's Gifts are mine. Today I will accept Them to complete the Gift.  ACIM lessons are broken down into very basic, simple steps.  It may seem repetitive to say, "God gives me a Gift, I recognize that a Gift has been given and then I finally accept the Gift."  But I have placed dreams before my vision and I must be taught with simple steps.

God's Gifts are not like the world's gifts in which the giver loses as he gives the gift, and the receiver is made richer by the giver's loss.  The world's gifts are not gifts but bargains made with ego (the part of me who believes in the world of dreams).  The world's gifts are always given for a more valuable return: for someone's love and affection; an endowment to charity which recognizes the giver's wealth; a gift to a new neighbor in exchange for goodwill and friendship, etc.  The world's gifts are a temporary loan; a pledge of debt to be repaid with more than the gift was worth.  This strange distortion of what "giving" means, is spread throughout the dream world. Giving has become a source of fear because the both the giver and the receiver are held in debt to one another.  It strips all meaning from the gifts that are given, and leaves me nothing in the gifts I take.

God's Gifts are given to Everyone and they are give Eternally.  No one loses, Everyone wins.  A major learning goal in ACIM is the reversal of my idea of "giving."  I will accept God's Peace and Joy, and learn a different way of looking at giving.  God's Gifts only increase when they are given away.

Heaven's Peace and Joy intensify when I accept them as mine.  True Giving is Creation Itself.  It extends Limitlessness, Eternity and Love unto Itself.  Giving and Receiving are One, Ongoing and Constant.  True Giving is a circle of Love which never ends.  True Giving adds to All-That-Is-Already-Complete.  Not in simple terms of adding "more," for that implies that there was "less" before.  God's Gifts increase letting What-Cannot-Contain-Itself fulfill Its aim of giving away Everything It has, securing the Gifts forever for Itself.

God is Complete, make no mistake about that.  Yet in the language of dreams, I can understand that God's Completion includes His Son (me), and God Himself is not Complete without me.  But He is never without me.   I am Safe in Heaven dreaming of exile to a fantasy world.  I only seem to be separated from God and Heaven.

True and Real Giving never contains loss for anyone.  In the world's "giving," someone always has more while the other has less.  When I give a gift, I no longer have it. When I give away money, I have less for myself.  These ideas cannot be reconciled in the world of dreams.  The world of dreams does not exist.  It is only my mind and thoughts which must be healed and reconciled to God and Reality.  Today, I will receive God's Gifts of Joy and Peace, and in accepting His Gifts, they are given back to Him, completing the circle of Love.

Start today's lesson by thinking of those whom I have denied my blessing; perhaps judged them harshly and abruptly, or said an unkind word.  I must realize I have only hurt myself.  For the "world" and "other bodies" do not exist, so where do my negative thoughts go?  Only to myself.  I will think of my "enemies" today and now, offer each one the Peace and Joy that God has given me.  I am now using the world of dreams to heal myself.  There is only One Self, not many. But while I see many "selves,"  I offer them the Blessings that will come back to me and heal my mind.  While I hold negative thoughts about anyone else, those thoughts remain in the One Mind, blinding me to Reality.  When I give God's Gifts to "my brothers," I am learning to Awaken to Reality and accept these Gifts as my own.  Giving and Receiving are One in Reality. The blessings I "give," I also "receive."  This is all done at the level of the Mind, because the world does not exist.  It is my thoughts that must be healed.

Whenever I encounter a "brother," I will always offer a silent blessing, ESPECIALLY if s/he seems to offer me a curse.  For I am doing this to myself!  I am creating a "brother who curses at me." Recognize this "brother" as a part of my mind which asks for healing and give "him" the healing which he asks for.  For this "brother" is MYSELF in disguise.

God's Peace and Joy are mine.  I will remind myself this hourly throughout the day. Offer this Gift to any "brother" who seems to tempt me.

"God's Peace and Joy are mine."

Lesson 104 ~ I ask only for what belongs to me in Truth.

Joy and Peace are not dreams.  God Wills Joy and Peace for His Son, and what God Wills is so. Though the Son can choose differently, the Father will not oppose the Son's will.  The Father waits patiently for the Son to choose Truth.

There must be a place in my mind made ready to receive God's Gifts, for they are not welcomed gladly by a mind which embraces illusions.  Today I will remove insanity from my mind to make way for Truth.  God's Gifts are within me and there is no reason to wait for them. They belong to me.

God's Gifts are not welcome in the midst of insanity, so  choosing Them in place of dreams, I unite my will with God's and recognize that the Will of the Father and the Will of the Son are One.  I choose only what belongs to me in Truth.  Joy and Peace are my Inheritance.

Today I lay aside the conflicts of the world; I lay aside the "goals" and "gifts" of illusions, and seek instead my Peaceful and Joyful Reality.  I clear dreams from my mind to make a Holy Place where God's Gifts are welcome.

God's Will is done.  There is no need to wait.  I will clear a place in my mind and accept God's Will.  I seek only what belongs to me in Truth.  God's Gifts of Joy and Peace are all I want.

"I ask only for what belongs to me in Truth."

Lesson 103 ~ God, being Love, is also Happiness.

Happiness is an attribute of Love and cannot be apart from Love.  Happiness cannot be experienced where Love seems to be absent. Love has no limits, being Everywhere. Joy is also an Attribute of Love, therefore Joy is Everywhere as well.  Ego (the part of me believing in illusions) denies this Reality.  Ego believes there are gaps in Love where "sin" can enter, bringing pain instead of Joy.  Ego limits Happiness by redefining Love as "limited," and introduces opposites to What has no limit or opposite.

In the world of illusion, fear was made to be Love's opposite.  I imagined a world "apart from" God. The images in the world of dreams have no Reality in Truth and ultimately, only witness to the fear of God.  If I am "apart from" God then I must "fear" Him.  In the world of fantasy, I forget that I am Love; I forget that I am Joy.  To "fear" God, I also fear all the attributes of God which include Happiness, Love, Unity and Joy.

Today's simple idea (Reality is always simple) corrects the false belief that God is to be feared. It also emphasizes that Happiness is mine because I am God's Son.  I will allow this one correction to be placed in my mind each waking hour today.  I will welcome Happiness as it replaces fear with Truth and Joy replaces pain.  God is Love and He offers only Love and all the Attributes of Love.  My Reality is with God.  The dream does not exist.  I am learning to question the dream I created.  God will never do battle with the will of His Son.  He will only gently remind me that Love waits for me and that I do not need to be in pain. Like a Mother who interrupts a child's game of war, with the reassuring reminder, "Come in, supper's waiting for you."   I will quiet all my fears with the assurance of today's idea which is Kind and Wholly True.  God is waking me from the dream with words of Truth.  I will do my part to repeat these words of Truth as often as possible in response to anything the world of dreams offers me.

"God, being Love, is also Happiness."

Lesson 102 ~ I share God's Will of Happiness for me.

The lessons seem redundant at times, but this is on purpose.  The negative thoughts I tell myself are redundant.  The negativity I believe about the world is redundant.  ACIM tells me the same thing over and over, in different ways, with different words, to reach every aspect of my tormented mind.  Be grateful.

I do not want to suffer.  I may think suffering buys me something I want, but this belief is surely shaken now, at least enough to allow me to question it and to suspect that it really makes no sense. This belief has not gone yet, but it now lacks the roots that once secured it tightly to the dark and hidden secret places of my mind.

Today I continue to try to loosen its weakened hold further still, and to realize that pain is without purpose, without cause and without power to accomplish anything. Suffering gets me nothing at all and it does not exist.  I have been a slave to nothing.  I will be free today to join the Happy Will of God.

I will devote my practicing today to reach the Happiness God's Will placed in me.  This is my Home, my Safety, my Peace, my salvation and my Rest at last.  Here there is no fear.

I share God's Will for Happiness for me.  I accept It and seek It deep within my mind for It is there, waiting only my choice.  I cannot fail to find what God Wills for me to have.  God Wills me Happiness. I will be loving to God's Son, whom God created to be Love Itself.

Every hour I will remind myself that I now accept Happiness as my goal.  I can be certain I am joined with God's Will in doing this.

"I share God's Will for Happiness for me."

Lesson 101 ~ God's Will for me is Perfect Happiness

Here is what I believe in the world of dreams:  punishment is just and cannot be escaped; salvation is obtained through suffering; the sinful deserve pain and death; they know it waits for them and it will seek them out and find them somewhere, sometime, and in some form that evens the account owed to God.

If sin is Real, salvation is very painful, for pain is the cost of sin.  The idea of salvation in the world of dreams is fearful for it takes everything away (the story of Job) before it grants the welcome relief of death to victims who are little more than bones before "salvation" is pacified.  I have made a devil of God's Son.  In the world of dreams, salvation is merciless, but wholly just.  It has become my bitter enemy, the curse of God on me who has crucified His Son.   I believe salvation calls for suffering as penance for my "sins."  While I believe I am a body and see a world outside me I will believe that "sin" is Real. I will believe that hatred, prejudice, injustice, war, natural disasters, private thoughts and death are Real.

Who would sanely seek out the savage punishment of "salvation"?  Who would not flee "salvation" and attempt ~ in every way ~ to drown out the voice that speaks of salvation?   I need today's practice periods. The lessons in ACIM teach me that sin is not Real and all that I believe in the world of dreams has never happened. I will accept God's plan for salvation, not my own.  

Happiness is a key idea in understanding what salvation means.  God's Will for me is Perfect Happiness because there is no sin.  Pain of any kind is only the sign that I have misunderstood myself.  I will not fear the Will of God, but turn to It in confidence that It will set me free from all imagined consequences of sin in my feverish dreams.   

God's Will for me is Perfect Happiness.  There is no sin; it has no consequences.  I will repeat this hourly and then attempt to find the Joy today's idea will introduce into my mind.  Today I will gladly give God five minutes of each hour to remove the heavy load I lay upon myself with the insane belief that sin is Real.  Today's idea sets me on the road to Freedom and bring wings to speed me on......and the hope to go faster still to the waiting goal of Peace.  

Today I will escape from madness, if only for a little while.  There is no sin.  I will remember this today and tell myself as often as a I can.  

"God's Will for me is Perfect Happiness."

Lesson 100 ~ God Wills Perfect Happiness for me.

Salvation reverses the insane belief in separate bodies which have separate thoughts, lead separate lives and go their separate ways.  My Reality is Oneness.

God's Will for me is Perfect Happiness. Why should I choose to go against His Will? When my mind heals, that healing will be reflected back to me in the "world" while I continue to see it.  

I will not be sad today.  Sadness is a sign that I am making the choice for illusions. God asks me to be Happy.  I have not been asked to lose or sacrifice or die.  

Today I will try to find the Joy God Wills for me.  I will look deep within me past all foolish thoughts and goals, as I look to meet the One Son in me.  He will be there, and I can reach Him now.  God Himself calls me Home.  He is waiting for me to choose Him.  

Practice today's thought hourly and whenever a thought arises that seems to disturb my peace of mind. 

"God Wills Perfect Happiness for me."

Lesson 99 ~ Salvation (forgiveness) is my only function in the dream-world.

Salvation and forgiveness are the same.  They both imply that something has gone wrong, something needs correction, or something exists apart from the Will of God. Both imply the impossible.  I am living in a state of conflict between What Is and what could never be. Truth and illusion are both equal for me now, for both seem to coexist.  The impossible is the thing I need forgiveness for and salvation from. Salvation, though a dream within the dream, reflects Truth because it undoes what was never done and Awakens me to Truth.  It corrects the thought of a dream which does not exist.

In my mind both Heaven and "earth" seem to coexist.  My mind  "sees" illusions and thinks they are Real.  Yet illusions have existence only because they are thought.  And yet they are not Real because a thought "apart from" Oneness is impossible.

With God's Plan for salvation, what was never done is overlooked and "sins" are forgiven because they never happened.  Only in my mind have horrible things happened, because I believe I am thinking apart from God.  If I were apart from God, there would be a void indeed.  But I can never be apart from God, because it is God's Will that His Son is One with Him, Eternally Joyful, Happy, Peaceful and Whole.

God's plan for salvation is apart from the "time" and "space" I seem to have created in my mind.  Yet salvation operates in "time" because it must work within the dream. God is aware that I believe I am apart from Him, but He knows I am Safe with Him.  It is my choice to dream the dream.  God will never oppose the Will of His Son.  But Heaven would immediately correct error, if error were to exist.  The dream was over as soon as it began.  But while I believe in it, I seem to "see" it.

God's Will is the Thought that brings illusion to Truth and sees the Truth beyond the dream. Salvation/Awakening/forgiveness is my only function in the dream while I am dreaming.  I have given myself another function to wander a barren world searching frantically for what I seem to have lost.  I look for it in the illusions which I seem to have created, such as relationships, wealth and things.  Just as I seem to find what I thought I lost, it disappears in my grasp, leaving me wandering on to continue searching.  God has One Answer to my dream:  God is Love and this is not His Will.

God's plan for salvation contains my Freedom.  The world of pain is not God's Will. Forgive myself the thought that I am separated from Him.  Replace all thought of separation with the words of salvation found in these ideas.  Let God's Thought replace all my seeming errors and enter the darkened places of my mind.  The dream is not my Reality and never was.  My Reality is with my Father in Peace, Love and Joy.

I do not think solitary thoughts and make them Real by hiding them from God.  Today I will let in Light and allow no obstacle to what He Wills for me.  I will open my secrets to His Kindly Light and then recognize how bright the Light still shines in me.

It is God's Will that my mind is One with His.  My only function in the world of dreams is to forgive the dream and the dreamer (me).  Turn to God and let Him teach me.  Lay aside all fear and be willing to know my Self as Love; a Love which has no opposite.

Forgive all thoughts which seem to oppose Truth, Unity and Peace.  I can never lose what God has given me.  I do not live "apart from" God in a world of dreams.  Heaven is all around me and within me.  I exist in Perfect Love and Peace.  I will forgive everything else to remember this.   When I forgive what I think I have made, I am saved.

When I am tempted to believe in the dream, today's idea has the power to remove all forms of doubt and fear forever from my mind.  Today I will lay forgiveness on my mind and let all fear be gently laid aside for Love to find Its rightful place in me and show me that I am God's Son.   Appearances cannot withstand the Truth these mighty words contain:

"Salvation (forgiveness) is my only function in the dream-world."

Lesson 98 ~ I accept my part (forgiveness) in God's plan for salvation.

Today is a big day.  I make a stand for Truth.  I choose Truth and let illusions go.  I will not go from illusions to Truth and back again.  I take a firm position with Truth.

Today I dedicate myself to Truth and salvation as God Wills for me.  I will stop looking for salvation in a world of dreams.  I will not argue that my salvation is in a fistful of cash, a faithful lover, or the perfect job.  The cash, the lover and the perfect job have not offered me the Lasting and Complete Happiness I had hoped for, because I still yearn for something more.

I lay aside all doubts today.  I have a Mighty purpose to fulfill.  I have been given everything I need to reach the goal.  Not one mistake stands in my way.  I have been absolved from all error.  My "sins" are washed away by realizing they were only mistakes.  I have no fear.  I am surround by a Heaven I do not see with the body's eyes.  I am Safe in Heaven, dreaming of exile to a world apart from God.

I will not count on "magic," or invent escapes from things that seem to threaten my peace of mind.  I rest in quiet Certainty that I will do what is given me to do.  I do not doubt my own ability because my function will be fulfilled completely in the Perfect time and place, just as God Wills.  What God Wills is done.

I choose today not only for myself but for the "world" of dreams in my mind.  When I choose for Truth, my mind is healed along with the "world."  The world of dreams will reflect back to me my healing, until I no longer choose for dreams.  Then all is One with God.

The Course speaks in the language of separation here:  "All who took the stand we take today will gladly offer us all they learned and every gain they made.  Those still uncertain, too, will join with us and, borrowing our certainly, will make it stronger still. While those as yet unborn will hear the call we heard, and answer it when they have come to make their choice.  We do not choose only for ourselves today."    The "world" is healed when my mind heals.  How beautiful.

It is worth 5 minutes every hour to accept the Happiness God has given me.  I have made at least a thousand worthless choices in the world of dreams.  Is 5 minutes not a small effort on my part in exchange for a reward so great it cannot even be measured?

These lessons offer a guarantee of full release from pain of every kind, and Joy that the world does not know.  Today I exchange a little of my time for Peace of mind and certainty of purpose with the promise of complete success.  "Time" has no meaning, so in essence I am being ask for nothing in exchange for Everything.  I cannot lose!  I only succeed.

Every hour today I will give God my tiny gift of 5 minutes.  He will give the idea for today the deep Conviction and Certainty that I lack, when I practice and accept it.  His Words will join with mine and make each repetition of today's idea a total dedication. God's Confidence in me will bring Light to all the words I say, and I will go beyond their sound to what they really mean.

Each five minutes I spend with God, He will accept my words and give them back to me all bright with a Faith and Confidence so Strong and Steady they will Light the "world" with Hope and Gladness.

Give God the words and He will do the rest.  He will help me to understand.  He will open the way to Happiness.  Peace and Trust will be His Gifts to me.  He will exchange every moment of time I offer Him for Timelessness and Peace.  God's Unlimited and Eternal Joy and Certainty is added to my small efforts.

Repeat today's idea often and make my mind ready for Happiness.  Every hour I will spend a little time with God.  I will be thankful and lay down all "earthly" tasks, petty thoughts and limited ideas.  I will spend a Happy time with God each hour and tell Him I accept the part He gave me.

"I accept my part (forgiveness) in God's plan for salvation."

Lesson 97 ~ I am Spirit.

Today's idea teaches me about my One Self.  I am not a soul trapped in a body living in a world of insanity.  I am Spirit, dreaming a dream.  This is simple Truth.  Practice this Truth often today, for It will bring my mind from conflict to the quiet fields of Peace.  No chill of fear can enter.  My mind has been freed from madness.

I am Spirit, lovingly supplied with all my Father's Love, Peace and Joy.  I am the Spirit which completes my Father and shares His Function as Creator.  God is with me always and I am with Him. I am Spirit.  Again, I state the Truth about my Self.  The Holy Son of God rests in me.  My mind has been restored to Sanity.

Today's lesson brings Reality another step closer.  Each time I practice, Awareness is brought nearer. In illusory terms, sometimes a "thousand years" or more are saved. The minutes I spend pursuing salvation are multiplied over and over, for the miracle suspends time and space.  Salvation is a miracle within the illusion.  Miracles are not needed in Reality. They are needed only to Awaken me from dreams; to intervene in a fantasy of my own miscreation.

Count on God, Who promised to offer His Strength to every small effort I make.  Give Him the minutes of my day to help me understand that I am Spirit living Eternally in Him. Applied to all situations and people in the dream, this one idea replaces error with simple Truth.  Illusions are complicated and difficult. Truth is Pure and Simple.

God will be glad to take five minutes of each hour from my hands and carry them around the aching dream-world in my mind, where pain and misery appear to rule.  He will find all the places in my mind that need healing.  Each gift of time and effort to Him will be multiplied a thousand times and tens of thousands more.  And when it is returned to me it will surpass in Strength and Might, the little gift I gave; just as the radiance of the sun outshines the tiny gleam of a firefly.

The steady brilliance of Light stays with me always and leads me out of darkness.  It is always there. Yet if I invest my time and effort in illusions I will not know of Its Presence.  Though I will never again forget the Way.

I am Spirit, the Holy Son of God, free of all limits.  Safe, Healed and Whole.  What I give to God, is given back to me Healed, Whole, and multiplied a thousand fold.  Let God speak to me today, reminding me that I am One Spirit.  Listen for His assurance every time I repeat today's idea.  Let Him speak to me of Truth.  Use today's idea against the temptation to believe in illusions and escape their sorry consequences if I yield to the belief that I am a body.

Accept the Peace God's Holy Spirit offers me today.

"I am Spirit."

Lesson 96 ~ Salvation comes from my One Self.

Although I am One Self, I have divided this "self" into many.  My "individual" experience of "self" is that of a private mind and a physical body.  I think within me is both good and evil, love and hate.  This sense of a split "self" creates feelings of acute and constant conflict within me, leading to frantic attempts to fix these contradictory aspects.  I have looked for many solutions and none of them has worked.  The opposites I see in myself will never be compatible, because only Perfect Oneness exists.

The fact that Truth and illusion can never be reconciled no matter what, must be accepted if I want to recognize Reality.  Until I have accepted this, I will attempt an endless list of goals that will never be accomplished.  All efforts will fail.  I created a dream of failure, what else can I expect?

The "problems" of the world cannot be resolved because they do not exist and are meaningless.  Good and evil will never coexist because in the presence of one, the other is hidden.  A world outside myself, populated with many bodies exists only in dreams.  There is nothing "outside" myself.  I am Pure Thought, Created like my Creator to exist with my Creator, not in a separate fantasy world apart from my Creator.  I will make no further attempts to reconcile the good and evil that seems to exist within me.  The presence of one denies the other and only one is Real.

Spirit uses the mind as a means to find its Self-expression.  The mind which serves Spirit is at Peace and filled with Joy. The mind's Power comes from Spirit.  Yet mind can see itself divorced from Spirit and imagine itself within a body.  Mind without its True function then perceives itself without Peace, and Happiness is foreign to its thoughts.  Mind apart from Spirit cannot think; it denies its Source of Strength and sees itself as helpless, limited and weak.  Dissociated from its function, mind thinks it is alone and separate, attacked by armies and hiding in the body's frail support.  Now the mind thinks it must reconcile love and hate, peace and chaos, sorrow and joy. This is impossible.  In the presence of hate, Love is hidden.  The mind becomes very, very confused.

I will waste no more time on this.  Who could resolve the senseless problems of a dream?  Illusions are not Real and problems that do not exist cannot be solved.

My Self remains within the Mind of God.  Salvation is a thought I share with God; a correction of the mistake of seeming separation from God.  Salvation tells me to be Joyful....that what I thought I created, never occurred at all.  The evil thoughts and deeds I thought happened in myself and the world, were never Real.  It was all a fantasy ~ a dream ~ created by a mind who thought it was able to separate itself from God.

Again today, every hour, I will  repeat the thought for today and think about its meaning.  I will search for God in my mind.  Then I will wait patiently for Him to speak to me of my True Self.  My True Self is the Son of God.  I will seek Him out in me.  I will search His Thoughts and claim Them as my own.  These are my Real Thoughts, the ones I denied when I let my mind go wandering in dreams.

Lost in dreams my mind is confused, but my Self restores Sanity.  Each time I tell my frantic mind of salvation is a step closer to Awakening.  In the salvation of my mind, is the salvation of the world which is a dream in my mind.   Those I love and all that is dear to me remains with me where it has always been:  in my mind.  This inconsistent and imperfect version of "love" in the world of dreams is absolutely nothing compared to the Love that awaits me.

The healing I experience in my mind, will be reflected back to me in the world I see. When I give love and kindness in the "world," I am giving to myself and it is always reflected back to me.  When I give, I receive.  That is the Law of God.  Replace all unsettling thoughts with today's idea.  This is a Course in mind-training for a wildly undisciplined mind lost in a dream.  I am remembering my Truth.

My One Self is not the "self" of ego, but the Self who is One with All and One with God.

"Salvation comes from my One Self."

Lesson 95 ~ I am one Self, United with my Creator.

Today's idea accurately describes me as God created me.  I am One within myself and One with God. My Perfect Unity makes change in me impossible.  I cannot possibly be a soul imprisoned in a body that withers and dies, living in a world of constant change and chaos.

I see myself in a physical world, imprisoned in a body....a ridiculous mockery of Creation:  weak, vicious, ugly and sinful, miserable and in mental/emotional/physical pain.  This is my version of myself in my fantasy of "a world apart from God:"  a self divided into many parts, separate from God and feebly held together by the vengeful "god" to which I pray.  This "god" is my own mistaken version of God.  The "god" of the world does not hear my prayers, for it does not exist.  The "god" I made in the dream has no Reality.  God does not seek justice, condemn, send "His Son" to hell or insist that he die to be with Him in Heaven.  The "god" of my dreams is nothing.  The God of Reality is All There Is.  The God of Reality never takes, but only gives.  And what He gives is given to ALL Eternally.

Today I direct my thoughts toward reaching my True Self, United with my Creator.  I will repeat today's lesson every hour.  This seems difficult....impossible!   Ego is distracted and has no mental discipline.  But I am learning to remember the Son of God in me.  I do not realize how much effort it takes to maintain an illusion of unreality.  Reality is Simple and Effortless, though it will seem just the opposite to me in the world of fantasy.  In the world of dreams everything is opposite to Reality because that is exactly what I intended that it show me:  the opposite of Reality.  Yet I find time to do the things that seem important to me: think thoughts of the world, check Facebook, look at my phone for messages, surf the internet, indulge in my hobbies, watch TV, eat and drink.  In the world of dreams I make time to do the things I really want to do.

ACIM is helping me reevaluate what it is I want.  I want Love, Peace, Joy, Unity, Happiness........Eternally.  I do not want endless disappointment, war, chaos, prejudice, judgment, hatred, unhappiness, boredom, grief, sadness, frustration, poverty, lack; being always in need of something or someone, always waiting for my happiness in a person, situation or event.

Frequent, short practice periods have advantages for me with my undisciplined mind. Unless I am reminded of my purpose frequently, I  tend to forget about it for long periods of time.  I often fail to remember my hourly practices and I have not made a habit of using the idea for the day as an automatic response to temptation.

Structure is necessary for me at this time.  Plan for frequent reminders of my goal and regular attempts to reach it.  It is not the amount of time, but the application of the short periods of time that I am asked to use on behalf of Awakening.  Short, hourly practices are advantageous for me whose motivation is inconsistent and whose ego remains heavily defended against Awakening.

I will not use my lapses from this schedule as an excuse not to return to it again as soon as I can.  I may be tempted to regard the day as "lost" because I failed to do what is asked of me.  Yet I should simply recognize it for what it is:  a refusal to let my mistake (the dream-world) be corrected, and an unwillingness of my ego to try again.

Truth is not delayed by my mistakes.  It is only held back by my unwillingness to let mistakes go.  I will be determined to forgive myself for the lapses and failures in following the instructions given to me.  Forgiveness allows me to overlook my mistakes rather than give them power to delay my learning.

When I fail to meet the requirements of these teachings, I have merely made a mistake.  This calls for correction and nothing else.  Let all errors go by recognizing them for what they are:  attempts by the ego-part of myself to keep me unaware of my Reality with God.   Today I will try to reach the Place in me where the Sonship lives.

I am One Self United with my Creator and with every aspect of Creation.  I exist in Peace, Love, Light, Joy and Unity.....Eternally.  I am Limitless in Power.  I am One with my Father.  Repeat this today and attempt to feel the meaning of the words.

I am One Self, Complete, Healed and Whole, with the Power to lift the veil of darkness from my mind, letting the Light in.  I am One Self, in Perfect Harmony with All There Is, and All That There Will Be.  I am the Holy Son of God United with all my "brothers."  There are no "others," there is only One Son that seemingly divided Itself into "many."

Feel this One Self in me, and let It shine away all illusions and doubts.  This is my Self ~ the Son of God Himself ~ as sinless as my Creator, sharing in His Strength and Power.  There is One Self, One Son and One God.  I will find this Holy Truth in me. Heaven looks to me in confidence that I will try today.

Throughout the day I will not forget my goal.  I will repeat today's idea as frequently as possible and understand that each time I do, the "world" hears the Voice of Hope, the stirring of Truth and the Gentle Rustling of the Wings of Peace.  As my mind opens to Truth, this Truth will be reflected back to me from the world I seem to see.

My acknowledgment of Truth is a call to the world to be at one with me.  To everyone I meet today, I will silently offer the promise of today's idea, telling them, "You are One Self with me, United with our Creator.  I honor you because of what I am and what God is, Who Loves us both as One."

"I (you) am One Self, United with the Creator."

Lesson 94 ~ I am as God created me.

I am as God created me, not the fantasy I imagined. This one idea brings complete salvation. This one statement makes all forms of temptation powerless. This one thought renders ego silent.  I am as God created me.  The sounds of the world are quiet, the sights of the world disappear and all thoughts this world ever held are wiped away forever by this one idea.  In this idea salvation is accomplished and Sanity restored.

True Light is Strength and Strength is Sinlessness.  If I am as God created me, I must be Strong and Light must be in me.  I am as God created me, not the madness I created for myself.  Darkness cannot hide the Glory of God's Son.  I stand in Light, Strong in the Love in which I was created, and in which I remain throughout Eternity.

Today devote a few minutes of each hour attempting to feel the Truth in me, trying to reach the Son of God in me.  This is the Self That never sinned, nor lives in dreams. This is the Self that never left Its Home in God to walk uncertainly in the world of illusion.  This is the Self That knows no fear, loss, suffering or death.

Nothing is required of me to reach this goal except to lay illusions aside.  Go past the list of attributes I have ascribed to myself, both good and bad, and wait in silent expectancy for the Truth about me. God has promised that Truth will be revealed to all who ask for It.  I cannot fail because God never fails.  Tell myself frequently today that I am as God created me.  Respond to anyone who seems to irritate me with the words, "you are as God created you, not the dream of madness I see."

Make every effort to repeat today's idea hourly.  Each practice will be a milestone in learning the thought system of this Course and a giant stride toward Awakening.

"I am as God created me."

Lesson 93 ~ My Sinlessness is guaranteed by God.

I think I am full of evil, darkness and sin.  I think if anyone could see the "truth" about me, they would be horrified.  These beliefs are so firmly planted in me that it is difficult to believe they are based on nothing.  I have made mistakes, that is obvious.  I have sought salvation in strange ways. Insane and foolish dreams and fantasies have deceived me.  I have worshiped  idols made of dust.

 I have been experiencing a world of dreams.  Even the thoughts I think in this world are not my Real Thoughts. Today I will question all I have believed.  God does not share this strange world with me which is enough to prove it is a fantasy.

The false image of myself cannot withstand the Will of God.  I think salvation happens through death; I think I (as a body) must be destroyed to have Peace and salvation.   But God Wills me Life!  The bad things I think I have done were never done at all....all my "sins" are nothing!  I am as Pure and Holy as God Created me.

The "self" I created in the world of dreams is not the Son of God, therefore this "self" does not exist at all.  And anything it seems to do and think means nothing.  It is neither bad nor good.  It is unreal and nothing more.  What Power can this "self" possess, when it clearly contradicts the Will of God?  The "self" I made ~ evil and full of sin ~ is meaningless.  My Sinlessness is guaranteed by God.  Light, Joy and Peace live in me.

My Sinlessness is guaranteed by God.  Over and over I must repeat this until I accept it.  It is Truth. My Sinlessness is guaranteed by God.  Nothing can touch it, change it or harm what God created as Peaceful, Loving and Eternal.

I was created by God.  I am what God Wills me to be, not what I seem to have made of myself as a body in a world of dreams.  Whatever evil I think I did is false.  I am as God created me.  Whatever mistakes I think I made, the Truth about me as God's Son is Unchangeable.  Creation is Eternal and Unalterable.  My Sinlessness is guaranteed by God.  I am, and forever will be, exactly as God Created me.  Light, Joy and Peace live in me because God put Them there.

Just as often as I check my messages on my cell phone, indulge in a hobby, drink coffee, eat, go to the bathroom, think a thought....I can remind myself:  Light, Joy and Peace live in me; my Sinlessness is guaranteed by God.  Say this to myself often today. Then I will put away false images and spend time trying to experience what God has give me, in place of what I tell myself I am.

Am I am a body in a world of dreams, or am I what God made me?  One Self is True, the other "self" does not exist.  Today I will try to experience the Unity of my One Self. I will try to appreciate Its Holiness and the Love from Which It was Created.  I will try not to interfere with the Self God made by hiding Its Majesty behind the tiny illusion of a body in a world of war, judgment, prejudice, hatred, anger, impatience and injustice. Let my Self gently return to Its Reality.  Let It come into Its Own.  Light, Joy and Peace abide in me because They are Truth.

If a situation arises that seems to disturb me, quickly dispel the illusion by repeating today's thought to myself.  If I am tempted to become angry with someone, tell them silently, "Light, Joy and Peace abide in you; your Sinlessness is guaranteed by God." In this, I am blessing myself, because there is no "world" and there are no "others." The world and all it contains is a dream in my mind.  I can do much today to realize the idea for today is Truth indeed.

"Light, Joy and Peace live in me.  My Sinlessness is guaranteed by God."

Lesson 92 ~ Light, Strength, Peace, Joy and Love are One.

I have not thought of Light in terms of Strength, nor darkness in terms of weakness. Light is being with God.  Darkness is being lost in a world of illusion.   My idea of "seeing" is tied up with the body's eyes and brain.  I believe I can see better by putting little bits of glass before my eyes.

I also believe the body's brain can think.  If I truly understood the nature of thought I would laugh at this insane idea.  It is as if I thought I held the match that lights the sun. Insanity believes the body's eyes can see and its brain can think.

God's Strength in me holds the Light in which I see.  It is God's Mind with which I think.  The thoughts I think in the world of dreams are not even my Real thoughts.  I do not know Reality while I place illusion before Vision.  God's Strength denies my thoughts of weakness.  It is my weakness that "sees" through the body's eyes, peering around in darkness to behold darkness like itself: the small, the weak, the sick and dying, those in need, the helpless and afraid, the sad, the poor, the starving and the joyless.  These things are seen through "eyes" that cannot see.  Strength overlooks these things by seeing past appearances. Strength keeps Its steady gaze on the Light that lies beyond appearances.  In darkness I perceive a self that is not there.  Strength is the Truth about me; weakness is the idol that I worship and adore in the world of dreams, where darkness rules.  God Willed that there be Light, yet I choose to dream of darkness.  It is only my choice ~ my desire ~ that keeps me in this dream.

Heaven is Oneness.  Strength, Truth, Light, Joy, Peace and Love are One.  If I have Peace, I have All the rest.  If I know Truth, I know All the rest.   Truth can only bring Happiness and Peace.  Truth gives Its Strength to those who ask, in Limitless supply. Truth understands that lack in anyone is lack in all.  And so Truth gives Its Light that all may See and benefit as One. Anything of God is always shared.  Truth brings the miracles in which the Sonship unites in purpose, forgiveness and Love.

In the world of illusion, I look around in darkness and can see no purpose.  I see all "others" as different from myself.  I see that when I give, I have less for myself so I hesitate to share.  I judge and condemn, and never truly love any others.  In darkness I try to hide myself.  My thoughts and judgments seem to be private. I fear, attack, and hate, and darkness covers everything I see.  I see no miracles in the world of dreams, only hate, war, poverty, judgments, intolerance, prejudice and weakness.  In the world of illusion I have separated my "self" from All There Is.

Light and Strength see only my Oneness with All There Is.  It never changes, flickers or goes out. The Light of Strength is constant, sure as Love and forever glad to give Itself away because it gives All to Itself.

The body's eyes provide only visions of self-deception. The Strength in me offers Light and guides my seeing so I do not dwell on mere shadows. Strength and Light Unite in me.  Today I will try to find this meeting place deep within and rest for a moment in the Peace of God where my Self lives.  The Son is waiting to meet himself again and be One with His Father.

Twice today, for twenty minutes, I will try to find this place of Peace, where my self meets my Self. I will leave the dark for a little while and practice seeing in Light.  I will close the body's eyes and ask Truth to show me how to find the Place of Peace, where Strength, Light and Love are One.

Repeat today's idea often today and recognize that I am being introduced to Sight and led away from darkness.

"Miracles are seen in Light; Light, Strength, Peace, Joy and Love are One."

Lesson 91 ~ Miracles are seen in Light.

Miracles and Vision always go together.  This needs frequent repeating.  It is a central idea in my new Thought System.  The miracle is always there, but I will only see miracles in Light, not in darkness.

While I remain in darkness, the miracle is hidden and I am convinced it is not there. Darkness seems my only reality in the dream-world.  If I am not Aware of Light, how can I appreciate It?  The Thought System that ACIM introduces to me helps me remember that darkness is only a dream and Light is my Reality.  I am Safe in Heaven, dreaming of exile to a world "separated from" God.

ACIM tells me that what I seem to see in the world of darkness is not there. This sounds like insanity.  I absolutely do not question the "reality" of what my body's eyes show me.  I have no doubt that the images they show me are reality.  In Truth my faith has been invested in darkness, not Light.  How can this be reversed?  For the part of me who believes in the dream (ego) it is impossible.  But I am no longer wholly insane.

The efforts I make with the lessons in ACIM, however small they may be, have Strong Support.  If I realized how Great this Strength, all my doubts would vanish.  I believe I am a body in world that seems to limit me at every turn.  This sense of weakness has taken its toll on my Spirit.  Yet the damage is reversible.  In fact, it never happened.

Three times today for ten minutes, I will try to leave my weakness behind and instruct myself that I am not a body. I put my faith in what I desire; today I desire Reality and I will instruct my mind accordingly.  I can escape the body if I choose.  Do I desire more darkness or am I ready for miracles?

Miracles are seen in Light.  The body's eyes do not perceive Light, but I am not a body. What am I? What I think I am in the darkness is a belief that needs to be undone.  The belief that I am a body is a mistake that calls only for correction.  What I really am will be revealed to me.

If I am not a body, what am I?  I will exchange my faith in the body for what Heaven will show me.  I need a Real Experience of Truth; solid and sure and worthy of my faith.

If I am not a body, what am I?  Ask myself this today in honesty and then devote several minutes to allow my mistaken thought to be corrected.  For example say, "I am not weak, but Strong;" "I am not helpless, but All-Powerful;"  "I am not illusion, but Reality;"  "I can not see in darkness, only in Light."

Try to experience these Truths about myself.  Concentrate on the experience of Strength.  All sense of weakness is associated with the belief that I am a body ~ a belief that is mistaken and deserves no faith.  Try to remove my faith from the body, if only for a moment.

My efforts today, however meager, are fully supported by the Strength of God.  It is from Him my Strength will come.

Remind myself throughout the day, that miracles are seen in Light.  Meet any temptation with today's idea.

"Miracles are seen in Light."

Lesson 90 ~ Review II

Idea #1:  "Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved."

If I do not understand the problem, it cannot be solved.  Let me realize today that the problem is always some form of grievance that witnesses to my "separation from" God.  The solution is always a miracle.  I will let the grievance be replaced by a miracle.  A) Problem, B) Miracle; how do I get from A to B?  FORGIVENESS.  Anything that seems to exist outside me is a dream in my mind. Today I will remember how simple salvation is by recognizing that there is one problem and one solution.  The problem is a grievance; the solution is a miracle.   I invite the solution to come to me through my forgiveness of the grievance and my welcome of the miracle that takes its place.  I can apply the idea in these ways:  "The miracle behind this grievance will resolve the problem for me;"   "This problem hides a miracle.  I will look beyond to the miracle."

Idea #2:  "Let me recognize my problems have been solved."

I seem to have problems only because I am misusing time.  I believe that the problem comes first, then time must pass before it can be worked out.  The problem and the answer are simultaneous.  I do not yet recognize that God placed the answer together with the problem so they cannot be separated by time.  God will teach me this if I let Him.  I will understand that it is impossible that I could have a problem which has not already been solved.  Some useful ways to apply this idea:  "The answer to this problem has already been given me; I only need to accept it;"  "Time cannot separate this problem from its solution;"  "I do not need to wait for this problem to be resolved."

Lesson 89 ~ Review II

Idea #1:  "I am entitled to miracles."

The Laws of God release me from all grievances.  Today I replace all grievances with miracles.  I am subject to no laws except for the Laws of God.  My only function in this world is forgiveness.  I will forgive and accept the miracles that replace all grievances. The Laws of God entitle me to Peace, Joy, Wholeness, Serenity, Love.....Eternally.  I accept only what the Laws of God entitle me to have, and I will use what He gives me on behalf of my function of forgiveness.  I can use such ideas to help me today:  "I am entitled to the miracle beyond this situation;"  "I will not hold a grievance against you (name), instead I will offer you the miracles that belongs to you;"  "Seen Truly, this situation offers me a miracle."  The world of dreams does not exist but while I believe in it, I will seem to "see" it, and while I seem to see it, I will forgive the "bodies" and "situations" that seem to offer me grief.  I will even forgive the ones which seem to offer me salvation with their sparkly, desirable trimmings (money, status, relationships, etc), but offer only death (more illusion).  

Idea #2:  "Let miracles replace all grievances."

In this idea I unite my will with God's and perceive our wills as One.  In this idea I accept my release from hell and express my willingness to have all my illusions replaced with Truth, according to God's Plan for salvation.  I make no exceptions and no substitutes.  I want Heaven and only Heaven, which God Wills me to have.  Some ways to apply this idea would be:  "Holding this grievance keeps me apart from salvation;"  "Let my grievances be replaced by miracles;" "Beyond this situation is the miracle."  Behind every grievance is a miracle.  Today I will look past the grievance to the miracle.

Lesson 88 ~ Review II

Idea #1:  "The Light has come."

In choosing salvation over attack, I simply choose to recognize Truth.  My only choice is between Truth and illusion.  Between what is Real and what does not exist.  The Light has come.  I choose Light,  for nothing else exists.  Light replaces darkness with my choice to see Light.  Some ways to apply this idea:  "This cannot show me darkness because the Light has come;"  "The Light in you (name) is all that I see;"  "I will see only Truth."

Idea #2:  "I am under no laws but God's"

This is the Perfect Statement of Freedom.  I am under no laws except for God's.  In the world of dreams I am constantly tempted to make up other laws and then give them power over me.  The only reason I suffer is because I believe in them.  They have no real effect on me at all.  I am Safe with God in Heaven dreaming of exile to a world of insanity.  God's Laws are the Laws of Freedom.  They Awaken me to Reality.  I can apply this idea in such ways:  "My perception of this situation shows me that I believe in laws that do not exist;"  "Only the Laws of God exist;"  "Let me allow God's Laws to work in this situation, not my own."

Lesson 87 ~ Review II

Idea #1:  "I will there be Light."

It is not my will to wander in darkness, fearful of shadows and afraid of the unreal. Light will be my Guide today.  I will follow where It leads me and see only what It shows me.  Today I will experience the Peace of True perception.  I will use the Power of my will today.  I can use these phrases: "This cannot hide the Light I desire to see;" or "You (name) stand with me in Light;" or "In Light this will look different."

Idea #2:  "There is no Will except for God's."

I am safe today because there is no Will but God's.  I am afraid only when I believe in dreams. When I am afraid I will try to attack, judge, hate or covet, because I believe my safety is threatened. Today I will recognize that all this has not occurred.  I have been dreaming.  The world of illusion does not exist.  I am Safe in Heaven dreaming of exile. I am Safe because there is no Will except for God's. Today I will perceive with the Will of God.  Some forms of this idea: "It is God's Will that you (name) are His Son and it is my will as well;" "This is part of God's Will for me however I may see it."

Lesson 86 ~ Review II

Idea #1:  "Only God's Plan for salvation will work."

It is pointless to search in the world of dreams for salvation.  I think I have have seen it in many people and in many things, but I was mistaken about what and where my salvation is.  I will stop looking for salvation in the world of dreams.  Only God's Plan for salvation will work, and I will rejoice because God's Plan can never fail.  If I think I see my Happiness (salvation) in a person, place or thing, I will say, "This will not bring me lasting Happiness, only God's Plan for salvation will make me Happy;"  or, "My Joy and Happiness (salvation) are not found outside me."

Idea #2:  "Holding grievances is an "attack" on God's Plan for salvation."

Holding grievances (judgments, anger, impatience, negative self-talk, worry, anxiety, etc.) is an attempt by ego to prove that God's Plan will not work.  By holding grievances I am excluding from my Awareness my only hope of salvation. Only God's Plan will work.  Nothing else will relieve me of the dream of madness.  I constantly defeat my own best interests by looking for salvation (Love, Happiness, Joy, Serenity, Unity, Peace, etc) outside me in attractive and alluring situations and people until they ultimately disappear in my my grasp.  Today, I will accept God's Plan for salvation and be Happy.  When something "desirable" catches my eye, I will say, "I am choosing between illusion and salvation as I look on this." or "Only God's Plan for salvation will bring me Happiness." If someone troubles me, I will say, "This calls for salvation, not attack;"  or, "I lay aside grievances to find salvation."