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Reclaiming Our Identity in God

My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy.

Today’s idea does not describe the way you see yourself now. ²It does, however, describe what vision will show you. ³It is difficult for anyone who thinks he is in this world to believe this of himself. ⁴Yet the reason he thinks he is in this world is because he does not believe it.

You will believe that you are part of where you think you are. ²That is because you surround yourself with the environment you want. ³And you want it to protect the image of yourself that you have made. ⁴The image is part of this environment. ⁵What you see while you believe you are in it is seen through the eyes of the image. ⁶This is not vision. ⁷Images cannot see.

The idea for today presents a very different view of yourself. ²By establishing your Source it establishes your Identity, and it describes you as you must really be in truth. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 35, W-35.1:1–3:2. See also ACIM Lesson 35 Insights.)

It is difficult for us to accept that our mind is part of God’s and we are very holy because we believe we are an image disconnected from God. This image is neither holy nor unholy because it is an illusion. An illusion is neither bad nor good, it is nothing.

In order to accept the truth of what we are, we have to let go of our belief in a false image of our identity. This is threatening to our seeming existence. If we believe our identity is a body, the loss of the body is the loss of our identity. This is why death is frightening.

In the ego’s dream of separation. It seems that without a body, we do not exist. This is typical of the ego’s distortions. In reality, the body does not exist at all. Our true Identity is held perfectly secure in the Mind of God, changeless and unchangeable. We cannot lose the Identity God created as His Son. This Identity shares God’s holiness.

Today’s lesson is a step toward recognizing the Self that is our true Identity. Our Identity is eternally at peace, joyful and loving as God is. We welcome it now.

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