Although you are one Self, you experience yourself as two; as both good and evil, loving and hating, mind and body.
Spirit makes use of mind as means to find its Self expression. And the mind which serves the spirit is at peace and filled with joy. [Mind’s] power comes from spirit, and it is fulfilling happily its function here. Yet mind can also see itself divorced from spirit, and perceive itself within a body it confuses with itself. Without its function then it has no peace, and happiness is alien to its thoughts.
Wait patiently, and let Him speak to you about your Self, and what your mind can do, restored to [your Self] and free to serve Its Will.
If you succeed, the thoughts that come to you will tell you you are saved, and that your mind has found the function that it sought to lose. Your Self will welcome [your mind] and give it peace. Restored in strength, [your mind] will again flow out from spirit to the spirit in all things created by the Spirit as Itself. Your mind will bless all things. Confusion done, you are restored, for you have found your Self. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 96, W-pI.96.1:1;4;8:4;10. See also ACIM Lesson 96 Insights.)
In truth we are Spirit. Spirit is one, eternal and formless. Spirit has no limit and is united with the Source of all strength. It opposes nothing, for there is nothing outside of Spirit. Spirit is at peace because there is nothing real that conflicts with it. Spirit is joyful, for Its only function is to extend Love.
If it seems that we are alone, weak and subject to outside forces, it is only because we have mistakenly identified with a false image of what we are. The body is not our identity. We are not lost in a dream world of conflict, uncertainty, fear and guilt. But we will experience that we are in the world when we believe we are a body, a separate identity. It is this mistaken belief that must be healed. As we let our minds return in peace to our one Self, we are healed. We will welcome the thoughts we share with God, the Thoughts of our one Self. This is our release and our freedom.
Today we would welcome the Thoughts we share with God.
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