Lesson 326 ~ I am forever God's Son.

Father, I was created in Your Mind; a Holy Thought that never lefts Its Home.  As You created me, I have remained.  You are Cause and I am Effect.  I did not create myself, nor did I create a "world" "apart from" You.  I remain with You in Eternal Bliss, though I am blinded to Reality by choosing to "see" illusions.  I have but ONE problem:  I think I am separated from You.  There is ONE solution:  forgive myself and Awaken to Reality.  All Your Attributes exist within me because it is Your Will to have a Son so like You that together We are Indistinguishable.  Where the Father Is the Son Is, and where the Son Is, so Is the Father.  I have all the Power of my Father, because He Willed it to be so.  I will follow God's Plan for me here on "earth."  His plan is my only goal.  In the end, God will gather His Effects into the Tranquil Heaven of His Love, where "earth" and all thoughts of "separation" will vanish and the Son will remember his True Home with His Father.  I will forgive everyone and everything for what they did not do.  I am making up the dream of "separation" and causing my mind great angst and sorrow. I am doing this to myself!   I will forgive to remember Reality.  I will see signs of my forgiveness reflected back to me from the "world" I seem to see "outside" me.  It will appear forgiven, then transformed, and then fade entirely into God's Holy Will. 

Lesson 325 ~ All things I think I "see" are only symbols.

The key to remembering my Reality is this:  What I seem to "see" reflects a process in my mind; it starts with my idea of what I want (dreams or Reality).  From there, my mind makes up an image of what it desires.  These images are then projected outward.  From insane wishes ("independence" from God) comes an insane world.  From thoughts of judgment comes a world condemned.  Yet from forgiving thoughts, a gentle world comes forth, and the forgiveness I offer comes back to me, giving me a kindly place of respite where my mind can rest a while.  Father, Your plan for me reflects Truth.  My thoughts seemingly "apart from" You reflect only dreams.  I am making up this world and all its experiences; I am doing it to myself.  And because I "created" it, I believe in it.  A mad man cannot help himself out of the madness because he believes what he sees.  He requires someone who does not see the madness to help him.  Father I trust only in You.

Lesson 324 ~ There is nothing I need "do." I merely follow.

Father, You gave me the plan for my salvation.  You have set the way I am to go, the role to take and every step in the path.  I cannot possibly lose my way.  I can choose to wander off a while, but I will return.  Your Loving Voice always calls me back.  I merely follow the way to You as You direct me.  I will follow the Way of God.  I am blinded by dreams and illusions.  I will not trust my own judgment.  God made the plan, the means by which it is accomplished, and He made the ending Certain.  He guarantees a Safe return Home.  I trust in Him and I merely follow the way.
 

Lesson 323 ~ I gladly "sacrifice" fear.

Giving up dreams, illusions, fear ~ all that does not exist is what You ask of Your Son.  You ask me to give up suffering, loss, sadness, anxiety and doubt, and freely let Your Love come streaming in to my Awareness, healing me of pain and giving me Your Own Eternal Joy.  This is the only "sacrifice" You ask of me, and one I gladly make.  This is the only "cost" of salvation.  The debt I "owe" my Father is merely letting go of self-deception, illusions and dreams.  Truth returns to me in Wholeness and Joy.  I am not deceived any longer.  Love has returned to my Awareness.  I am at Peace again.  Fear has disappeared and only Love remains. 

Lesson 322 ~ I give up only what was never Real.

I sacrifice dreams, nothing more.  Every dream serves only to hide my True Self as God's Holy Son. As dreams disappear I find the Gifts salvation brings awaiting me in Shining welcome with God's Ancient Messages to me.  The Memory of God is in every Gift that I have received of Him.  Father, You ask me to sacrifice nothing.  Sacrifice to You is inconceivable!  You Will only Peace, Love, Joy and Deep Contentment for Your Holy Son.  The dreams I seemingly created have no Reality.  In giving up dreams what loss is there to me except the loss of fear and the return of Love into my mind?

Lesson 321 ~ Father, my only goal is You.

Father, I have searched in vain for "bodies" and "things" to make me happy and whole.  Now I choose to hear only Your Voice directing me.  I will guide myself no more.  I understand nothing here in this world of dreams.  I cannot trust myself among all the distractions I have seemingly created.  But I trust in You.  Your Voice directs me.  The way to You is open and clear at last.  It is my will that I return to You.  The "world" is freed along with me.  As my mind heals, the "world," which is only in my mind, is freed as well.  How grateful I am to find the answer to all questions through the Certain means my Father has established.  My Freedom and Safety is found in God alone.  All cravings are satisfied, all questions answered, all tears are dried; grief turns to Joy, hate to Love, war to Peace, separation to Unity in the Remembrance of my Father.  Perfect Love awaits me. 

Lesson 320 ~ I am learning to Awaken to Reality.

There are no limits on the Son of God.  What he wills with his Creator must be done.  His Holy will can never be denied, because the Father made it so.  I am the Holy Son of God, and the Power of my Father's Will abides in me.  Though when I entertain thoughts of "separation from" God, I am powerless.  Father, Your Will can do all things in me, and this extends to the "world" that seems to be outside me.  There is no limit on Your Will and this same Power has been given to Your Son.  I have forgotten who I am, because I dream dreams of "separation."  I am learning to Awaken to my Reality with You. 

Lesson 319 ~ I am the Holy Son of God.

Here is a Thought from which all arrogance has been removed and only Truth remains.  Arrogance opposes Truth.  But when there is no arrogance, Truth will come immediately and fill the space. Only ego can be limited, and it looks for goals which are made to fail and limit.  My ego thinks if I gain, the rest of the world must lose.  Yet it is the Will of God for me to learn that what is given, is given to the Whole.  Father, what goal but to remember You, could You have given me?  My True Self shares Your Will with You.

Lesson 318 ~ I have everything I need.

All parts of God's Plan for salvation have one goal.  Salvation's purpose for me is to remember my Reality as Son of God.  I am the goal the "world" is searching for.  I am God's Holy Son.  His one Eternal Love.  All that I need to Awaken is within me.  Father, I accept salvation for myself.  When my mind heals, the "world" heals, until I Awaken to Reality and the "world" is no more. 

Lesson 317 ~ I am Safe in my Father's Arms.

Until I choose for Truth, I am the slave of "time" and "human destiny."  When I willingly and gladly choose Truth over dreams, I will recognize that salvation is already here.  Father, Your Way is what I choose today.  I choose to go where It will lead me.  I choose to do what It would have me do.  Your Way is Certain and the end Secure.  The Memory of You awaits me There.  All my sorrows end in Your Embrace.  I mistakenly thought I had wandered from the Sure Protection of Your Loving Arms. 

Lesson 316 ~ I will embrace only Truth.

Giving and receiving are one and the same.  ACIM tells me to avoid thoughts of judgment, anger, envy and hatred because entertaining these thoughts in my mind keeps me firmly entrenched in the dream.  Since there is nothing and no one "outside" me, I am giving these thoughts only to myself, delaying my return to Love.  All beautiful gifts of compassion, love, grace, charity and forgiveness that I seem to see by "others" "outside" me, belong to me as well.  My treasure house is full.  Not one gift is lost and only more are added.  I will dwell where my treasures are and exist where I am truly welcome and at home.  God uses my mis-creation of a world seemingly separated from Him, and turns it into the means for my return Home.  My salvation is accomplished in my mind, for there is nothing and no one "outside" me.  Mind is the only Reality.  The thoughts I think in the world of dreams are not even my True Thoughts.  I am learning to think parallel to the Mind of my Father; to lay aside thoughts of dreams and embrace only Thoughts which reflect Truth.  Father, I accept Your Gifts today.  I do not always recognize them as mine, yet I trust that You will provide the means by which I can Truly "see" their worth. 

Lesson 315 ~ Seek only Truth.

All God Created was made to bring only Joy, Happiness, and Love.  Being lost in a dream, I believe I created another "reality."  Yet even amongst  madness, all I mis-created is ready to move aside and make way for Truth and Reality at my behest.  Each day a thousand treasures are waiting to come to me with every passing moment.  I am blessed with Gifts throughout the day, in value far beyond all things of the world.  Yet in the past, they have gone unnoticed by a mind consumed with illusions.   I can deny Reality no longer.  I have heard and seen glimpses of Truth and the Son of God in me responds.   A brother smiles on another and my heart is gladdened.  Someone speaks a word of comfort, gratitude or mercy and my mind receives this gift and takes it as its own.   All that is "outside" me is a dream happening in my own mind.  Even the "good" in the world is a dream, because there is nothing and no one "outside" the Mind.  Yet while it seems real to me, my task is to look only for reflections of Truth.  I will find them.  Forgiveness is also a dream, but it is a dream which reflects Truth and creates no other dreams.  Kindness is a dream, but it can reflect Truth.  The "love" I find in the world is a dream, but it can reflect Truth.  The healing of my mind will be reflected in the world, until my mind is healed and the world is no more.  Thank You, Father, for the healing of my mind which is a part of Your Own.  You call to Your Son unceasingly, but I have allowed illusions and dreams to drown out Your Voice.  Yet, today, I have listened for You and I will no longer deny Your Words of Truth.  For the dream has brought pain, suffering, death and loneliness.  The Son of God in me is not at home in madness.  I long for my Home with You, Father, and I deny this no longer. 

Lesson 314 ~ Truth illuminates my mind.

With a new perception of the world, there comes a "future" very different from the "past."  The future is now recognized as only an extension of the present.  "Past" mistakes can no longer cast shadows because I recognize there is nothing and no one outside me, and that what I am seeing is my own guilt at seemingly separating myself from God and seemingly existing in a body in a world apart from Him.  I have been mistaken.  It is not possible that I am apart from God.  Death will not claim my future, for Life is now my goal and all the needed means to get me There are happily provided for me.  How can I grieve or suffer when I am freed from a dream which does not exist?  Security, Peace and Joy fill my quiet future.  Father, I have not "sinned,"  I have only been mistaken.  Now I leave the "future" in Your Hands.  I leave behind my past mistakes, knowing that Truth has entered my mind and nevermore will I be the same. 

Lesson 313 ~ Let a new perception come to me.

Father, I can have a Vision which looks on all things as sinless and forgiven.  When fear leaves, Love can enter.  Love will come wherever It is invited.  This Vision is Your Gift to me, Your Son.  I can continue to look for "proof" of separation from God and find a world of chaos, terror, and death, or I can begin to look for Truth.  Though there seems to be many problems in the world with a variety of solutions that never seem to work, there is only one problem:  I think I am separated from God.  And there is only one solution:  forgive everyone and everything, and remember my True Identity as God's Son.   Where do dreams go when I wake from a night's sleep?  It will be the same when I Awaken to my Reality with God.  I am Safe in Heaven, dreaming a dream of separation from God.  I must train my mind to think again with my Father.  Mind is the only Reality.  There is nothing and no one "outside" me.  Yet while I seem to exist in a terminal body in a terminal world, I can take steps to return to my Reality.  Today I will look upon everyone and everything through Christ-Vision which sees a world forgiven.  How beautiful is my vision, when I look for Truth. 

Lesson 312 ~ My mind has created this dream.

In the world of dreams I perceive "proof" of my imagined separation from God.  Having judged that I am separated from God, I see "separation" in many, many forms.  Anything that seems to be outside me is evidence of this because in Reality I am Pure Thought, and there is nothing and no one outside me.  What I "see," is what I have chosen to see.  ACIM tells me over and over, in many different ways that I have a choice:  I can continue to perceive "separation from" God, or I can choose to think and "see" differently.  Will I choose for chaos and mayhem, or will I choose Love and Peace?  Will I choose to see death and destruction, or will I choose Life and Unity?  I have no purpose for today except to forgive everyone and everything, and to look upon a liberated "world"  set free from all judgments I have made.  Father, this is Your Will for me today.  Your Will is my will.  

Lesson 311 ~ Judge nothing and no one.

The world's judgment was made to reinforce the thought of separation from God.  It judges what it does not understand, and therefore judges falsely.  It judges illusions and dreams.  One dream is not any different from another, they are all false.  The Son of God cannot be contained in a body, in a world separated from his Father.  All that I seem to see "outside" me is false.  Everything.  It is all a dream, and I am doing it to myself.  Yet when judgment is used for God's Holy Purposes, He will use it to relieve me from agony and re-establish my Peace of mind.  Father, I wait with an open mind to hear Your Judgment of the Son You Love.  I do not know my True Identity while I am lost in dreams, so I cannot judge anything and judge it Truly.  I let Your Love lead me today, while I judge no one and nothing.  My only task is to forgive everyone and everything.  Father, You will do the rest.

The Last Judgment

The "Second Coming of Christ" and "the Last Judgment" can be seen as God's Gift to His Son.  This is God's Final Judgment:  "You are my Holy Son, Innocent, Beloved and Pure.  Awaken and return to me.  I am your Father and you are my Son.   Come Home to me Son, your dreams are over."

God's Judgment is the Corrections of dreams and illusions.  It is the complete release from "suffering" and "sin"  and the returned to Peace, Security, Happiness and Union with my Identity as God's Son. 

Lesson 310 ~ I spend today in Fearlessness and Love.

Father, today I spend with You, just as You have chosen all my days should be.  What I will experience is not of time.  The Joy that comes to me, comes from Heaven. Today will be a sweet reminder to remember You, Father.  It is Your Will that I be set Free today.   I spend this day with my Father.  I am restored to Peace and Holiness.  There is no room for fear in me today, for I have welcomed Love into my heart.  And where Love is, fear cannot be. 

Lesson 309 ~ I will not be afraid to look within today.

Within me is Eternal Innocence.  It is God's Will that It be there Forever and Forever.  I, His Son, whose will is as Limitless as His Own, cannot change this.  I have seemingly created a world apart from God.   But because the goal of the "world" is to be "apart from" God, it can only be fantasy.  Nothing, can be apart from God.  It is impossible.  Mind is the only Reality.  There is nothing and no one "outside" me.  To find Heaven, I must look within.  Part of me fears looking within.  I sleep with the TV on; Musak fills every nook and cranny of every building I enter; I turn on the radio as soon as I get in the car.  I cannot be alone with my thoughts.  Silence unnerves me.   Yet what I fear is only a dream.  The world of illusions has no effects on me.  Within me, deep within the Silence, is the Holiness of God.  Within me is the Memory of Him.  Looking within, Father, is the Sure release from idle dreams of sin.  Your Altar within me stands Serene and Undefiled.  It is also a Holy Altar to my Self, as Your Son.  It is There I find my True Identity. 

Lesson 308 ~ "Now" is the only time there is.

If I choose to reach past time to Timelessness, I must change my perception of what time is for.  The thoughts I think 99% of the time are thoughts of the past or thoughts of the future.  I am rarely in the "now."  The thoughts I think in the world of dreams are not even my True Thoughts; they are thoughts preoccupied with dreams and illusions. "Past" and "present" are illusions.  Salvation exists right "now."  The birth of Christ (my mind healed and Whole) is now, without a past or future.  Christ comes to give a present Blessing to my mind, restoring it to Timelessness and Love.  And Love is ever-present, here and now.  The only good use for "now" is to forgive everyone and everything,  preparing my mind to return to Reality.  Father, it is NOW I am redeemed.  This instant is the "time" You have appointed for Your Son's release, and for salvation of my mind. 

Lesson 307 ~ God's Will is my will.

Father, Your Will and my will are the same.  There is no other will for me to have.  My desire is not to be apart from You in a world of "separation;"  this is senseless and only causes me pain and torment.  Only Your Will can bring me Happiness and only Your Will exists.  In accepting only Your Will, I enter into a Peace where conflict is impossible.  I am One with You.  Nothing contradicts the Holy Truth that I am Your Son and remain with You, just as You created me.  When I join my will with God's, I enter silently into a State where conflict cannot exist.  With this prayer, I acknowledge that God's Will and mine are One and the same.

Lesson 306 ~ I am the Holy Son of God.

The Vision I receive through the lens of forgiveness can offer me a day where I see a "world" so like Heaven that an Ancient Memory returns to me.  Today I can forget the world I made and go past all fear, illusions, and "demons," and be restored to Love, Holiness, and Peace.  I am born anew into a world of mercy and Care; of Loving Kindness, and the Peace of God.  And so, Father, I return to You, remembering that I never left.  In gratitude I come with empty hands and an open heart and mind, asking for only what You would give.  In Your Love, the Gift of the Sonship healed and Whole, is mine. 

Lesson 304 ~ Dreams will not obscure my Sonship

Dreams can only hide Reality from me if I choose dreams over Reality.  It is my choice.  I am doing it to myself.  Perception is a mirror, not a fact.  Perception shows me my state of mind.  What seems to be "outside" me, is a projection of what is going on in my mind.  Is my mind preoccupied with the idea of separation from God?  If so, I will see myself in a "body" in a "world" populated with other bodies.  If I seem to see anything "outside" me, I can be sure, I am choosing illusions over Reality.  Yet, I can choose to think differently.  I can choose to think different thoughts.  Today I will replace dreams with Thoughts of Truth.  I will bless the world of madness by looking at it with forgiveness.  When I offer forgiveness ~ or think thoughts of forgiveness ~ it seems that I am offering it to "someone" or "something."  Yet, since there is nothing "outside" me, forgiveness fills my mind, making it ready for Truth to enter.  When Truth begins to dawn on my mind, It will be reflected in the "world" I seem to see while I seem to see it.  Where do the situations and figures in my sleeping dreams go when I wake up?   It will be the same for what now seems to be my "reality." Father, I will offer forgiveness to recognize my Self as forgiven.  You lead me from darkness to Light; from "sin" to Holiness.  Your Gift to me is that I remember You and my Reality as Your Son. 

Lesson 303 ~ The Son of God is born in me today.

Watch with me angels, watch with me today.  Let all God's Holy Thoughts surround me and be still with me while Heaven's Son is born.  Let earthly sounds be silent and the sights to which I am accustomed disappear.  The Son of God is welcomed where He is at Home.  Let Him hear the Sounds He understands and the Sights that show His Father's Love.  I will no longer be a stranger to my Self, for the Son of God is born again in my Awareness today.   Father, my Sonship has come to save me from the "evil self " I thought I made.  I am the Son You Love above all things.  My Sonship is my Self as You created me.  It is not a Christ that can be crucified.  It is the Christ that represents the Sonship as healed and United.  I am Safe in Your Arms, Father.  Let me gratefully receive the Sonship You have bestowed upon me.