I will accept Atonement for myself.
Here is the end of choice. For here we come to a decision to accept ourselves as God created us. And what is choice except uncertainty of what we are? There is no doubt that is not rooted here. There is no question but reflects this one. There is no conflict that does not entail the single, simple question, “What am I?”
Yet who could ask this question except one who has refused to recognize himself?
Thus he becomes uncertain of his life, for what [his life] is has been denied by him. It is for this denial that you need Atonement. Your denial made no change in what you are. But you have split your mind into what knows and does not know the truth.
Atonement remedies the strange idea that it is possible to doubt yourself, and be unsure of what you really are. This is the depth of madness. Yet it is the universal question of the world. What does this mean except the world is mad? Why share its madness in the sad belief that what is universal here is true?
We have not lost the knowledge that God gave to us when He created us like Him. We can remember it for everyone, for in creation are all minds as one. And in our memory is the recall how dear our brothers are to us in truth, how much a part of us is every mind, how faithful they have really been to us, and how our Father’s Love contains them all. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 139, W-pI.139.1;2:1;5:1-4;6;11:4-6. See also ACIM Lesson 139 Insights.)
The ego’s answer to the question, “What am I?” is that we are a body which seems to live for a brief time until it dies — our life has ended. Yet the Course tells us that we have one life which we share with God. This life must be eternal because God is eternal.
In the Course, Atonement means we have let go of all false beliefs that deny the eternal Love we are. All barriers to Love have been released by forgiving our mistaken perceptions and accepting Love as our Identity instead of a false image of our self.
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