Lesson 181 ~ Trust the Experience of Truth.

My brother is myself.  Remember this, for there is nothing or no one "outside" me. Any hateful or unkind thought I entertain blocks my Awareness of Reality.

Knowledge is of Heaven, perception is of the dream-world.  Yet, perception has a focus because it gives consistency to what dreams show me.  ACIM teaches me to use this focus to embrace Truth.  What I "see" in the world of dreams will reflect my new focus or goal.

I will replace dreams and illusions with Thoughts of Truth.  I instruct my mind that Truth is all I want.  I will not ruminate about the past or worry about the future.  "Past" and "future" do not exist.  I seek only Truth and I look for it only in the present.  TRUTH is my goal.  If I feel anger or dismay, I have turned from my goal.  If a brother's sins occur to me or I turn my eyes to my own mistakes, Truth will be obscured.

I look neither backward nor ahead, but straight into the present and give my trust to the Experience of Truth.  I seek for respite an instant from the misery of the world. This is not an "escape from reality," it is a rest, in Reality, for my weary soul.

I have created the dream-world to give me an experience "apart-from-God."  ACIM teaches me that I may use everything in the dream-world to Awaken to Reality.

Lesson 134 ~ I will see forgiveness as it is.

In the world of dreams, forgiveness is seen as something that provides an uneven sacrifice of good for evil; a gift unjustified and undeserved.  It sees forgiveness as something bestowed by the innocent on the guilty; being fully aware of the evil deed of the "other," yet offering absolution.  "I" forgive "you."  One is innocent, the other guilty. The innocent look past the deeds of the guilty.

This is a twisted view of forgiveness.

First of all there are no "others," the "world" and all its "evil deeds" are a dream in my mind.  I desire to see a world "apart from" God and this was seemingly projected from my mind to "outside" my mind.  The Son seems to be split into "many" and thrust outside of himself.  Oneness was "divided by a billion," creating up/down, right/left, here/there, near/far, safe/unsafe, happy/sad, you/me etc.

Real forgiveness pardons only what is false and untrue.  Truth is God's Creation.  All Truth belongs to Him and reflects His Laws and radiates His Love.  The major difficulty that I find in genuine forgiveness is, I still believe I must forgive something that really happened.  All I need do is forgive what never happened and what was never True.  Real forgiveness sees nothing outside me.

"Sin" is not Real and this makes true forgiveness natural and completely sane; a deep relief and a quiet blessing to my mind.  It does not give illusions any Reality at all, but collects them lightly, with a little laugh and gently lays them at the feet of Truth.  Like a child playing a game of war with plastic soldiers; he looks up to see his mother and father nearby in safe comfort, reminding himself he is only playing.

Forgiveness is the only thing that stands for Truth among the illusions of the world.  It sees their nothingness and looks straight through the thousand forms in which they appear.  Forgiveness looks on what is false and it is not deceived.  It does not become anxious at the self-accusing shrieks of sinners mad with guilt, but looks on them with quiet eyes and thinks "this is not Truth."

Forgiveness sees illusions as illusions, not as Truth.  It overlooks what is not there and opens the Way to Truth, which has been blocked by dreams of guilt.  While I continue to see a "world of insanity" before me, I will Awaken to Reality by offering forgiveness.

When I am tempted to accuse someone of "sin" in any form, I can understand that there is nothing outside me, that "evil/bad" is only a projection of my own guilt.  What I seem to see "others" saying and doing is a projection of my own mind, for there are no "others" and there is nothing outside me.  I will keep my mind as free of guilt and pain as God Himself intended it to be, and as it is in Truth.

Let all dreams of evil, hatred and attack be brought silently to Truth.  I will not dwell on them and allow them to consume my mind and keep it tormented.  I will gently Awaken from the dream by understanding what I thought I saw was never there. There is no need to "fight" to save myself.  I am Safe in Heaven with my Father, dreaming of exile to a world of madness.

Yet while I see a "world" before me, I must practice forgiveness which joins my mind with the Reality in me.  I will spend 15 minutes twice today in pursuit of Reality. While I see a dream before me, I will choose one brother and think about his "sins" one by one as they cross my mind. Briefly consider all the "evil" things I thought of him and realize that there are no "others" and nothing "outside" myself, so the "sin" I perceive is my own thought of guilt and madness.  I will begin to sense a lifting up, a lightening of a weight across my chest and a deep feeling of relief.  The heavy chains of condemnation I sought to lay on a "brother" have imprisoned only myself and weighed me down.

Today I will practice forgiveness throughout the day, for there will still be many times when I forget its meaning and attack a "brother" who is really myself.  I crucify only myself.  My "brother" is myself.

"I will see forgiveness as it is."

Chapter 10 ~ Sickness/Blasphemy

I am God's Son.  Nothing outside me exists. God will never judge against me or He would be judging against Himself. God does not and will not EVER change His Mind about me. He knows me as His Son. God's Law is Love. Anything other than Love is not Real.  I violate God's laws only in my imagination. "Time" and Eternity are both in my mind and will conflict until I realize that the only proper use of "time" is as a means to regain Eternity. What can upset me, if only Love exists?  If anything upsets me it can only be because I imagined a world other than God's and it can only be a dream.

At Home in God.  I am at Home in God, dreaming of exile but perfectly capable of Awakening to Reality.  I know from experience that while I sleep, my dreams seems real. Yet the minute I wake up, I realize I was dreaming.  I do not think this is strange, even though all laws of the world were violated in my dreams (I was able to breath underwater, I fell off a cliff and did not die, my house turned into a car, etc). So......is it not possible that in "waking" from "dreams," I merely shifted from one dream to another, without really waking at all?

I have forgotten my Reality with God, but when I hear His Voice, I will remember. When I remember, I will know being Awake in God is my Reality.  I will remember Everything the instant I desire It Wholly and Completely. Illusions will disappear. Right now I am distracted by dreams; dreams of responsibilities, love, finances, war, disasters, and weather. But when I Remember, dreams will be disappear because I will want only Truth. And finally accepting Truth, It will be mine.

The Decision to Forget. The word "dissociate" means, "to regard as separate or unconnected." ACIM teaches me that I have dissociated from God and His Kingdom. This is all taking place in my mind. The only Reality is Spirit or Thought, so physical dissociation is not truly possible.

In order to dissociate, I first have had to Associate, or know. Knowledge must come first.  I knew God and His Kingdom, and now I have seemingly separated from It. Since this is all happening in my mind, dissociation is nothing more than a decision to forget.  I have replaced Knowledge of God and His Kingdom with dreams.

ACIM teaches me to choose God and His Kingdom.  ACIM is the shortcut Home. 

In my decision to remember God, lies the Joy, Peace and Glory of the Kingdom. God just needs my small willingness, for He retains the Knowledge of Heaven (and myself as Son) and He is waiting for me to accept It.  I gladly give up everything that stands in the way of my remembering......for God is in my memory. To remember, is merely to restore to my mind What Is Already There.

The people, situations, natural disasters, problems, and concerns that weigh heavy on my mind are just distracting me from Reality.  I created an alternate "reality" that distracts me from Reality. When I attack (all attack is in the mind) I am literally attacking myself. Nothing exists outside of me.  I am like a man dreaming of a bear attack, arms and body thrashing in his sleep, only to awaken and realize there is no bear at all! All those "people out there" are One with me. When I look into a brother's face, I will choose to see myself and the face of Christ. Christ is the Son, the sum of all brothers and sisters reunited in God.

The world I created is all about attack in some form or another. Behind every small sigh, is a world of rage. When I attack, I teach and reinforce it in myself. If I only realized the complete havoc this makes of my Peace of mind, I would never make such an insane decision. By choosing the dream-world, I am choosing against God and His Kingdom.

The god of Sickness.  I am not apart from God and I do love Him. The crazy thoughts I think in this world are not even my True Thoughts. I have distracted myself with a world that exists only in my dreams.  I will not be afraid. It is impossible to change my Reality as God's Son.  I am with God in Heaven right now, distracted by dreams that are projected like a movie onto a screen. Any anger, hate, disgust.....even a small sigh, are reminders that I am dreaming.  I am the Son of God lost in sickness.

I think I am in this changing, chaotic world; I think I can be hateful, annoyed or saddened; but I am dreaming.  I believe I can attack and others can attack me; but I am dreaming.  I believe that death is inevitable; but I am dreaming.  I believe I am a body and there are other bodies; but I am dreaming.

Wake up to Life. There are no bodies, there is no world, no one is sick and there is no death. Only Love, Happiness, and Life exist.

To believe that a Son of God can be sick is to believe that part of God can suffer. Love cannot suffer. Love never attacks.  I am Invulnerable in the Love of God.  I am not subject to attack, sickness, and death.  I will accept God in myself and my "brother," for while I see "others" I have many opportunities to offer forgiveness and Love, until I Awaken, no longer need forgiveness, and only Love remains.

To believe a Son of God is sick is to believe in dreams. All dreams are caricatures of Creation, taught by a insane mind too divided to know Creation. When I do not know myself as God's Son, I become sick; sick with hatred, sick with disease, sick with old age, sick with fluctuating emotions, sick in thought.  I always see error in my brother before I see it in myself, but seeing it in my brothers is proof that it is first in me.  I will avoid correcting my brother for my own errors.  I will work only on myself, for One Mind is All There Is.

Sickness is an illusion. The only good use of denial is to deny illusions.  My task is to deny illusions completely.

God is not a jealous god, He knows nothing can replace Him. But I have created my own gods of death, sickness, money, success, fame, power, disease....and these I guard and covet in my dreams, which falsely reassure me that the dream is real. When I dream about a world without God, I block Him from my mind, then I desperately search for other "gods" to fill the emptiness. Yet my dreams will disappear in a cloud of dust when I remember who I really am: The Son of God.  I hear the god I choose to listen to. Will it be the ego-god of the dream-world or will it be my Father?

I do not realize how much effort I put into my gods and how vigilant I am on their behalf. Yet they exist only because I honor them.  I honor death with mourning and monuments.  I honor every disaster my world brings with my attention and emotions. I honor wealth with purchasing as many possessions as I can, or if I do not seem to have what I want, I allow my thoughts to covet it in "another." Illusions are not worthy of honor. To honor them is to honor nothing. If I see the god of sickness anywhere, I is because I have accepted him. If I accept him, I will bow down and worship him because I made him to be God's replacement.

Only at the Altar of God will I find Peace. This Altar is in me because God Himself put it there. His Voice calls me to return. He will be heard when I place no other gods before Him.

The End of Sickness. All "magic" (medicine, surgery, therapy, etc) is an attempt to fix the un-fixable. All religion is the recognition that the fixable cannot be fixed. Sickness and Perfection cannot coexist. God created me Perfect, therefore I am Perfect. If I believe I can be sick, I have placed other gods before my Father. God does not war with the god of sickness, but I do. The god of sickness is proof that I am seeing a world other than God's, and my world cannot coexist with God's. 

If I refuse to "worship" the god of sickness is whatever form he appears to me, he will disappear into the nothingness out of which he was made.

Reality dawns only on the unclouded mind and It is always there to be accepted.  I must be willing to accept It. Knowledge cannot dawn on a mind full of illusions. Illusion and Truth cannot coexist in my mind. Truth is Whole and cannot be known partially, or by part of the mind. To overlook sickness or illusion (nothingness), is merely to evaluate it correctly. To perceive other gods, is to have a split mind.

God's Laws will keep my mind at Peace because Peace is God's Will and all of His Laws are created to uphold His Will. The Laws of God work only for my good. God's Laws are the Laws of Freedom.  Mine are the laws of bondage. Freedom and bondage cannot coexist, so my laws and God's cannot be understood together. Either I am embracing my laws or God's, it is impossible to do both. There are no other laws other than God's Laws, except in fantasy and dreams. Everything else is lawless and chaotic. Anything not under the Laws of God, does not exist.  My gods do not actually bring chaos, I am endowing them with chaos and accept it of them.  I am doing this to myself.

I have given my peace of mind to the gods I made.  In Reality, I can never lose what God has given me, I can only deny It. But be Joyful. All of this has never been. Nothing except God and His Kingdom are Real.  I am dreaming a dream of chaos and unlawfulness. What I have created in my dream is so unworthy of me that I could never want it if I were willing to see Truly. And when I see it Truly, I will see nothing at all.  My Vision will automatically look beyond, to the Kingdom within me and all around me. Reality cannot break through my denial and illusions, but It will envelope me Completely when I let go of dreams.

The Denial of God. The rituals of the god of sickness are strange and demanding. Joy is never permitted. Depression is the sign of allegiance to the god of sickness. To deny God is to deny my own Identity which is true blasphemy, and in this sense, the wage of sin is death. To deny my Identity will keep me firmly entrenched in a world of change, destruction, and death. Denying Life is to believe in the opposite of Life which is death. All forms of denial replace What Is, with what is not.

God created me as His Son and gave me Everything Good, yet I tell Him, "I am not worthy.  I flagellate myself and do penance and live in this world of chaos, destruction and death.....because I am not "worthy," I tell God that I do not want His Glory.  Is this not arrogance? Is this not blasphemy? Yet I cannot blaspheme, I only think I can.  Blasphemy is self-destructive, not God-destructive.

To deny God inevitably results in projection and in my projection I have created a world "outside" me that seems to be devoid of God.  My dream-world "proves" to my sick mind that God could not possibly exist or if He did exist then He is cruel.   I have projected onto the "world" and "others" all the thoughts and ideas that accompany my denial of God.  I then believe that "others," not myself, are doing evil and bad things. The denial I project "out there," comes back to me in the images I see and hear in the world.  I may believe that I judge "others" by the messages they give me, but I have judged them what I have projected onto them: the denial of God and His Kingdom.

The god of sickness demands the denial of health. To exist in the dream-world, I must perceive and worship sickness with my time, attention, thoughts and ideas. Sickness and death seem to enter my mind against my will, but it was me who created them.  I created the god of depression, the god of hate, the god of war, the god of injustice. In my denial of God, I created a world completely the opposite of God in every way. 

".....(of yourself) you can do nothing...." John 15:5.  But I am not of myself. If I were, what I made would be true and escape would be impossible. It is because God  Created me and I am His Son, I do not need to worry.  My gods are nothing, because my Father did not create them, and I cannot create anything unlike the Father. Only what is like the Father can be Real.

I have not sinned, I have only been mistaken.  Remember.....what I deny, I must have once known. If I have accepted denial, I can also accept its undoing.

God has not denied me. He does not retaliate, He only calls me to return. He calls me from every part of the Sonship. He answers every call, but I have not answered His. The Love of God is in everything He Created.  His Son is everywhere. Look with Peace upon my "brothers" and God will come rushing into my heart in gratitude. Healing is the acknowledgment of God.

What is of God is Eternal and I am of God. Would God allow Himself to suffer? "Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?" Luke 11:11. Would God offer His Son anything that is not Whole, Eternal, Joyful, and Loving?  I will accept myself as God Created me and I will be incapable of suffering. If I deny God, I bring sin, pain and suffering to my own mind, because of the Power God gave me to Create. Because of my Free Will, I am able to deny God and His Kingdom. But because my creation of the dream-world does not share the characteristics of God, it does not exist. That I believe it does, is beyond question.

I do not realize how much I have denied myself. God, in His Love, would not have it so. Yet He would not interfere with me, because He Created His Son Free. To interfere with my thoughts and ideas would be to attack Himself, and God is not insane. When I deny God, I am insane. God merely gives me the solution and waits patiently for me to choose it.

Heaven waits for my return.  I am not at home anywhere else or in any other condition. That is why I perceive misery and restlessness. Yet God has given me the means for undoing what I have made. Listen to Him and I will learn how to remember what I Am.

God knows me as Wholly Sinless and it is blasphemy to perceive myself or any "other" as guilty. God knows me as Wholly without pain, it is blasphemous to perceive suffering anywhere. God knows me as Wholly Joyous, it is blasphemous to feel depressed. All of these illusions (whatever form blasphemy make take) are refusals to acknowledge God and His Kingdom.  To deny God and His Kingdom is to deny my Self.

Arrogance is the denial of Love.  Love shares, arrogance withholds. While "time" seems to be my reality, my mind will experiences "choices." "Time" itself is a choice. Choice is not of God. Choice is a concept, not Reality. To remember Eternity, I will look only on the Eternal. Ask myself: is this Eternal? If not, it does not exist. When I am preoccupied with the world and its problems and the things of "time," I will continue to live in "time." As always, my choice is determined by what I value.

Time and Eternity cannot both be Real because they contradict each other. Accept only what is Timeless as Real, and I will begin to understand Eternity and make It mine.

Lessons 361~365 ~ Only God's direction gives me Peace.

If I need a word to help me, God will give it to me.  If I need a thought, that He will also provide.  If I need only a tranquil, open mind, that is the Gift I will receive of Him.  God is now in charge by my request.  He will hear and answer me. 

Lesson 360 ~ The Law of Love is my Reality.

Father, the Law of Love is the only Law There Is, and It tells me that giving and receiving, and receiving and giving,  are One and the same.  You have provided me a way out of the insanity of my own making.  You told me that forgiveness leads to my Awakening.  And as I forgive, I lay aside illusions one by one, making room for Truth.  Truth enters in the form of Peace, Love, Joy and Sanity.  When I receive these Gifts from You, I cannot help but also give Them, because that is the Law of Love.  While I continue to experience (as I am concurrently forgiving) the world of dreams, I will give the miracles of Your Gifts to my "brothers," as they radiate from my very being, and from them to me, for my "brother" and I are One.  There is no separation between us.  When I heal, my "brother" heals. As I heal, the "world" heals.  All that seems to be outside me, is a fantasy within my mind.  The Great Rays of Your Light remain Eternally Still and Undisturbed in me.  I reach for Them in Silence and Certainty.  Nowhere else can Certainty be found but deep within me, who is within You.  In Holiness I was Created and in Holiness I remain.  The Father and the Son are One, and I am like my Father in Perfect Innocence.  Amen.

Lesson 359 ~ I forgive to Awaken to Reality

I have misunderstood all things.  I am not a "sinner" living in a "body" in a "world" populated with things, situations and others "outside" me.  There is nothing and no one "outside" me.  There are not "many," but only One.  Reality is Pure Thought and I am a Thought of God.  I exist in God, not in a world "outside" God.  Fantasy can never be Reality.  God created me Innocent, Joyful, Loving, Happy and Eternal.  Just because I imagine I am something else does not make it Real.  What I think I am and what I think I have done has had no effects on Reality.  "Sin" is impossible.  My Awakening to Reality with God starts with forgiveness.  When I forgive the shadow-world that seems to be "outside" me, and all the situations, things and people that seem to be outside me, I create a space in my mind for Truth.  Even the thoughts I think in this "world" are not my True Thoughts.  Only the Thoughts I think with God are my True Thoughts.  I am lost in a world of insanity of my own making.  I forgive, to be at Peace.  I forgive, to Awaken to Reality.  I forgive.......and God does (has already done) the rest.  Father, Your Answer is always some form of Peace;  all "pain is healed, all "misery" replaced with Joy, all "prison doors" are opened, and all "sin" is merely understood as a mistake. 

Lesson 358 ~ I trust only God, not my insane mind.

I think I want dreams that upset and hurt me.  I think I want to be split into many, creating a lonely existence in an individual body.  I think I want the happiness that seems to be "outside" me.  My mind is lost in insanity and I do not know what I want.  I can be certain only of this:  No call to God is left unanswered and only His answer is the one I want.  Father, You know what I really am and remember what I really want.  Help me, Father to remember Your Love.  Keep Your Promises to me always in my Awareness.

Lesson 357 ~ There is no "reality" "outside" myself.

Forgiveness helps me escape the prison house in which I think I live.  My Reality as God's Son is pointed out to me, first in "others" that seem to be "outside" me, then in myself.  God's Voice instructs me patiently to hear His Word and to give Truth as I have It received from Him, through my forgiveness of my thoughts and everyone and everything that seems to be outside me.  I will listen for God's Voice instructing me to find the Way to Him.  I will replace all I seem to see, hear, touch, taste, smell and feel with Thoughts of Truth.  There is no "reality" "outside" me.  What seems to be "outside" me is a thought in my mind of "separation from" God.   "Proof" of separation was what I had been looking for in the people, things and situations I projected "outside" me.  Today, I choose to "see" differently.  Today I choose to forgive and see through the eyes of forgiveness.  Truth answers every call made to God.  As the result of my forgiveness, God responds first with miracles of Truth and then calls to me to return to Him and be my Self as His Son. 

Lesson 356 ~ God always answers my call.

Father, You promised You would never fail to answer any call Your Son might make to You.  It does not matter where I am, what seems to be my problem nor what I believe I have become.  I am Your Son and You will answer me.  The miracle that results from my forgiveness reflects Your Love.  Your Name replaces every thought of "separation from" You.  Your Name, Father, gives answer to Your Son, because to call Your Name is to call my own.  Insanity is another name for "sin."  My mind is troubled when I think I am "separated from" God, hence it is "sick," or "insane."  Healing is another name for God.  Miracles are the Gifts God gives when I forgive illusions and make room in my mind for Truth.  Will God answer my call when I pray that my team wins a football game?  I am asking for more illusions in the world of illusions, why would He further entrench me in the dream?  Will God answer my prayers for "death" not to take a loved one?  He tells me "this is not so! There is no death you are dreaming, Child."  Will God answer my prayers for my physical or mental pain to end?  He tells me to lay aside my thoughts of the world and He will exchange them for His Own Thoughts which offer only Joy, Peace, Contentment and Love. 

Lesson 355 ~ I accept God's Word.

Father, why should I wait for the Joy You promised me? You keep the Word You gave Your Son in exile. Reality waits for me.  I need only reach out my hand to It.  Even now my hand touches It.  It is very close.  I do not need to wait a minute longer to be at Peace Forever.  I choose You, Father, and my Identity as Your Son.  I wish only to be my Self as Your Son, and to Know You as my Father and Creator.  Today, I forgive all illusions and seek only Reality. 

Lesson 354 ~ I am Certain of my purpose.

I am God's Holy Son, beyond the reach of time and entirely Free of every law except for His.  My will is the same as my Father's Will.  My Reality is Joyful, Loving, Peaceful and Whole.  While I experience an "existence" as a body in a "reality" outside me, I will forgive and forgive and forgive.  My only function now is forgiveness.  Nothing and no one can hurt me except my own thoughts, and even those are not my True Thoughts.  Today, I stand with Truth. 

Lesson 353 ~ I have one task: forgiveness.

The need for learning has almost come to an end.  I have learned that there is nothing and no one "outside" me.  I have learned that I am not a spirit trapped in a body, but I am Pure Thought and I am the Holy Son of God Himself.  I have learned that I have filled my thoughts with the fantasy of being "separated from" God and that I have split my mind into many "others" ....a "universe," "plants," "animals," "cars," "houses," etc.  I have learned that to Awaken to Reality, I must do my part in forgiving all my thoughts and everyone and everything that seems to be outside me.  Forgiveness clears the mind of madness creating a space for Truth to enter.  I have learned that God will do (has already done) the rest.  My only task is forgiveness. 

Lesson 352 ~ Today I choose Love.

Judgment and Love are opposites.  From one comes all the sorrows of the world.  From the other comes the Quiet, Eternal Peace of God.  Forgiveness sees only Innocence.  It never judges.  Judgment will blind me.  God has given me a way to find His Peace again.  All roads lead Home, for there is nowhere else to go.  I can tarry in the world of dreams lifetime after lifetime, or I can choose differently.  I can choose to experience a "world-separated-from-God,"  or I can choose Truth.  I have within me the Memory of God and my Reality as His Son.  The thoughts I think in the world of dreams are not my True Thoughts.  The Thoughts I think with God are my True State of Mind. Father I hear Your Voice and find Your Peace today. 

Lesson 351 ~ I will think only Thoughts of Truth.

When I fill my mind with negative thoughts - judgment, envy, covetousness, impatience, hatred, boredom, weariness, etc. - and dwell on the negative, I block my mind from Truth.  When I see myself and those around me as "sinners" in a "sinful" world, I choose to be alone and friendless in a fearful state of existence.  All my "problems" are by my own choice!  What I "see" "outside" me is what I choose to see, and there are only two options:  Reality or a world separated from God.  When I choose Truth, I see my Innocence and my way is Secure and Clear.  There is nothing and no one "outside" me, and what I seem to see "outside" me is a fantasy in my mind of "separation from" God.  I will forgive all my thoughts, and everyone and everything I seem to see, which creates a space in my mind for Truth to enter.  I only need do my part and my Father will do the rest. 

Lesson 350 ~ Miracles mirror God's Eternal Love.

Father, what I forgive becomes part of me.  The Son of God incorporates all things within himself, just as You created him.  The Memory of You, Father, depends on my forgiveness.  What I Am is unaffected by my insane thoughts.  What I "see" in the dream-world is the direct result of my thoughts.  The thought of separation from You has seemingly created a "reality" outside me. Only my forgiveness will let Your Memory return to me.  My healing will be reflected in the world I seem to see.  Where I once saw poverty, I will see Bounty. Where I once saw devastation, I will see Beauty. Where I once saw sorrow, I will see Joy.  Does that mean that devastation suddenly looks beautiful to me?  No.  But I will understand that the "devastation" that once "proved" to me that I was "separated from" God, does not exist; and I will remember that I am Safe and Wholly Loved in the Arms of my Father; the "devastation" will not frighten me, and eventually, as my forgiveness is complete, the world of dreams will disappear entirely and be replaced by Reality.  As I gather the miracles that result from the forgiveness of all my insane thoughts and everything and everyone I seem to see, I will indeed be grateful.   As the Memory of God is restored to me, I will remember my Reality as God's Son and reestablish my Existence in Eternal Love. 

Lesson 349 ~ I will follow the Law of Love.

I offer Freedom to everything I seem to see, and that Freedom returns to me.  The Law of Love states, that what I give, I will receive.  Father, Your Gifts are mine.  Each one I accept provides me with a Gift to give.  As I give, I will receive.  Your healing miracles belong to me when I offer forgiveness to everyone and everything I seem to see.  God knows my needs and He gives me the Grace to meet them all.  I trust in Him to send miracles to bless my mind as I offer forgiveness instead of judgment.  Judgment keeps me bound to the world of dreams.  Forgiveness releases me and prepares me for Awakening.

Lesson 348 ~ God's Everlasting Love surrounds me.

Father, You are here and I am not alone.  Surrounding me is Everlasting Love.  I am Your Son.  You give me Everything.  I need nothing.  Surrounding me is Perfect Safety.  Surrounding me is Perfect Innocence.  Fear and anger disappear when a space is made for Love to enter.  God's Grace is enough in everything He would have me do.  I choose His Will to be mine.  I lay aside all thoughts except those of Peace, Love and Joy.....I think with the Thoughts of my Father. 

Lesson 347 ~ Today I think with the Thoughts of God.

Father in the world of dreams, I want what goes against my will as Your Son.  I seemingly created the world as an experience of "separation from" You.  Though this is impossible, anything is possible in fantasy.  I seemingly exist in a fantasy of separation from You, and what I want in the world of dreams is more "proof" of separation from You.  My mind is sick, Father and I do not know what I need, want or desire.  I give all judgment to You.  You see what I see, yet You know Truth.  You see my pain, yet understand it is not Real.  In Your Understanding, I am healed.  You give the miracles that dreams hide from my Awareness.  I give all judgment to You, I do not know my own will, but You are Sure it is Your Own.  Today, I choose to set aside dreams.  I will think Your Thoughts, speak Your Words and do what You tell me to do.  Through my forgiveness of my own thoughts, and everyone and everything that seems to be "outside" me, miracles come to me.  I will listen today.  I will be very still and hear the Quiet, Gentle Voice of God assuring me that I am the Son He Loves. 

Lesson 346 ~ I forget all things except God's Love.

Father, I wake today with miracles correcting my perception of all things.  Time has stepped aside today.  I do not look for the things in the world of dreams.  What I seek today transcends all laws of time.  Today, I forget all things except Your Love.   I live in You, Father and know no laws except Your Law of Love; therefore I find the Peace which You created for Your Son.  I forget all the foolish toys I made as I behold Your Glory.....and my own!  When evening comes today, I will remember nothing except for the Peace of God.  I have learned today, that Peace is mine when I forget all things except God's Love.  The thoughts I think in the world of dreams are not even my True Thoughts.  I do not have to think every thought that comes into my mind.  I can choose which thoughts to think!  Today, I choose to think about God's Love.  And only this, is Truth. 

Lesson 345 ~What I give, returns to me. I offer only forgiveness today.

Father, miracles are shifts in perception resulting from forgiveness; they reflect Your Gifts to me, Your Son.  Everything I give returns to me, reminding me that the Law of Love (to give is to receive) is Universal.  Even here in the dream, the Law of Love takes a form which can be recognized.  The forgiveness that I offer, returns to me.  Here in the "world," the miracle resulting from forgiveness lights the way to You.  I will let Peace settle in my mind today and it will be reflected back to me from the world I seem to see.  The forgiveness I offer, results in miracles to bless my tired mind and be reflected back to me from what seems to be "outside" me.  I will find rest today.