I have disowned the truth. Now let me be as faithful in disowning falsity. Whatever suffers is not part of me. What grieves is not myself. What is in pain is but illusion in my mind. What dies was never living in reality, and did but mock the truth about myself. Now I disown self-concepts and deceits and lies about the holy Son of God. Now am I ready to accept [the Son of God] back as God created him, and as he is.
Father, my ancient love for You returns, and lets me love Your Son again as well. Father, I am as You created me. Now is Your Love remembered, and my own. Now do I understand that they are one. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 248, W-pII.248. See also ACIM Lesson 248 Insights.)
Grief, fear and guilt are the inevitable effect of believing we have lost the innocence and changelessness of the Love we are. We were created by Love as Love and remain eternally in the changeless Mind of Love. In changelessness is perfect peace. This is our natural state.
If we seem to suffer, experience loss or feel vulnerable to attack, we have disowned the Love we are. We have claimed a separate identity as our own. This identity is not real. But we will experience it as real because of our belief in it. These negative emotions signal that we need to heal our mind of the false belief that denies the truth of What we are.
We have been given a Healer in our mind Who is ever ready to bring us the vision of the Self Love created, perfectly safe in Its strength and changelessness. Today we choose to accept this Help, for we would suffer no longer. We want the peace of God. We accept the Help we have been given to find our way Home to Love.
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