Father, Your Son is perfect. When I think that I am hurt in any way, it is because I have forgotten who I am, and that I am as You created me. Your Thoughts can only bring me happiness. If ever I am sad or hurt or ill, I have forgotten what You think, and put my little meaningless ideas in place of where Your Thoughts belong, and where they are. I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts. The Thoughts I think with You can only bless. The Thoughts I think with You alone are true.
I will not hurt myself today. For I am far beyond all pain. My Father placed me safe in Heaven, watching over me. And I would not attack the Son He loves, for what He loves is also mine to love. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 281, W-pII.281. See also ACIM Lesson 281 Insights.)
We seem to be in a world of hurt. But it is only a false image of our self that seems to be capable of being hurt. This little separate self is a construct of the ego thought system of separation. It could never be real in truth. But our belief in this little self’s reality makes harm, even to the point of death, seem real. All this comes from denial of the Love God wills us to have and be.
It is time to welcome God’s Love in our mind and heart. God’s Love is His eternal gift to His Son, our true Self. He has not withdrawn His gift. His Love is changeless. It cannot be hurt or changed in any way. This changelessness guarantees our perfect protection from harm, for we share God’s invulnerability.
Today we choose to perceive the world with Christ’s vision, seeing the innocence and harmlessness of Love everywhere. With this practice we accept the Self God created as His Son in place of the false image of a little, separated self. In gratitude we accept the gift of God’s Love.
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