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Honor and acknowledge your Self

Mary:
During our quiet time this morning, we were guided to read A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 110. The following stood out to me:

You are as God created you. Today honor your Self. Let graven images you made to be the Son of God instead of what he is be worshipped not today. Deep in your mind the holy Christ is waiting your acknowledgement as you. And you are lost and do not know yourself while He is unacknowledged and unknown. (W-pI.110.9)

I realize that it is so arrogant of me not to honor and acknowledge my Self. It is obvious if I see a world of separation that I have chosen to believe in a thought system of separation that is the opposite of my Self. I have true humility when I let the truth be true and not try to change it. I am as God created me. And this I includes everyone. No one is left out of God’s Oneness.

I need to be humble today and remember that the whole thought system I have bought into is not true. I honor my Self by letting go of these false ideas of separation. I let go, or forgive, by offering them up to the Holy Spirit to be undone. As the Holy Spirit shines a light on all the separate images I am making real through my belief, it becomes clear that this is how I wake up from the dream. This is how I move from caterpillar to butterfly.

As I practice honoring my Self by being willing to acknowledge the truth, peace returns. Inspiration for how to be truly helpful returns. I remember that forgiveness is my only function while I still think I am here.

Robert:
Whenever I judge I am embattled. I have perceived myself as separate and I am defending against what I judge. Every battle starts with a judgment. Consequently every battle proclaims guilt real and defines the Son of God as a sinner. While this could never be true, it can be believed and thus experienced as true.

To maintain the ego thought system there must be constant battle. For in the instant a brother is recognized as my one Self, the battle disappears. Guilt disappears. And Love flows in to fill the seeming gap left clean by the mind that has ceased to defend against the truth.

Today I choose to be vigilant for peace. Today I choose to be mindful of embattled thoughts and offer them to the Holy Spirit to be purified by His Light of Love. I am willing to do this a hundred or a thousand times an hour because I know that in this release I open the door to the peace of God. This is all I really want.

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