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We Are Worthy of Vigilant Practice

I am one Self, united with my Creator.

Today’s idea accurately describes you as God created you. ²You are one within yourself, and one with Him. ³Yours is the unity of all creation. ⁴Your perfect unity makes change in you impossible. ⁵You do not accept this, and you fail to realize it must be so, only because you believe that you have changed yourself already.

You see yourself as a ridiculous parody on God’s creation; weak, vicious, ugly and sinful, miserable and beset with pain. ²Such is your version of yourself; a self divided into many warring parts, separate from God, and tenuously held together by its erratic and capricious maker [ego], to which you pray. ³It does not hear your prayers, for it is deaf. ⁴It does not see the oneness in you, for it is blind. ⁵It does not understand you are the Son of God, for it is senseless and understands nothing.

⁴You have seen the extent of your lack of mental discipline, and of your need for mind training. ⁵It is necessary that you be aware of this, for it is indeed a hindrance to your advance.

…you have not yet formed the habit of using the idea as an automatic response to temptation.

…with all the certainty that you can give [affirm]:

²I am one Self, united with my Creator, at one with every aspect of creation, and limitless in power and in peace. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 95, W-95.1:1–2:5;4:4-5;5:3;11:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 95 Insights.)

The source of all temptations in the world is our belief that the body is our identity. Our responses to appearances in the world are founded upon this mistaken belief. Because the body represents our separation from God, it is weak and vulnerable, for it denies the power of God in our true Self. We need to break the habit of responding to the world as if our body and the world were real.

This affirmation provides a practice that we can use to interrupt the trance script that that keeps us entrenched in the ego thought system. It reminds us of the truth of what we are to help us disconnect from our mistaken identification with the body. We are not a body. We are the Self God created one with Himself. Here is our power and safety. Here we remember we are eternal Love and nothing else.

As we awaken to this fact we experience the joy and peace of our Home in God. We are worthy of being vigilant with this practice it frees us from our self-imposed limitations. It returns us Home to Heaven.

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