Salvation requires the acceptance of but one thought;—you are as God created you, not what you made of yourself. ²Whatever evil you may think you did, you are as God created you. ³Whatever mistakes you made, the truth about you is unchanged. ⁴Creation is eternal and unalterable. ⁵Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God. ⁶You are and will forever be exactly as you were created. ⁷Light and joy and peace abide in you because God put them there.
…for the first five minutes of every waking hour, begin by stating the truth about your creation:
²Light and joy and peace abide in me.
³My sinlessness is guaranteed by God.⁴Then put away your foolish self-images, and spend the rest of the practice period in trying to experience what God has given you, in place of what you have decreed for yourself.
You are what God created or what you made. ²One Self is true; the other is not there. ³Try to experience the unity of your one Self. ⁴Try to appreciate Its Holiness and the love from which It was created. ⁵Try not to interfere with the Self which God created as you, by hiding Its majesty behind the tiny idols of evil and sinfulness you have made to replace It. ⁶Let It come into Its Own. ⁷Here you are; This is You. ⁸And light and joy and peace abide in you because this is so. (A Course in Miracles, W-93.7;8:1–9:8. See also ACIM Lesson 93 Insights.)
Truth does not need correction. It is true and nothing else is true. But errors are simply mistakes that call for correction.
As long as we believe our identity is determined by a body and what it does, we are believing in an error. The complete correction of this error will return us to full awareness of the Self we are as God created Us, His Son. This mistaken belief calls for correction, not punishment. Judgment simply supports a false belief without correcting it.
Our healing comes when we let the Holy Spirit help us forgive the mistake that calls for Love and correct it with Love. This is what forgiveness does. We cannot do it alone. We need to welcome the Holy Spirit’s correction of our misperceptions with true perception. His vision sees only Love or a call for Love.
Misperceptions are the effect of mistaken beliefs. Because the beliefs are untrue and not real, the misperceptions are not real. As we accept the Holy Spirit’s help, we heal the beliefs that cause of our fear and guilt. We awaken to the Love we are.
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