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Claiming Our True Identity

I am as God created me.

This single thought, held firmly in the mind, would save the world. …These words are sacred, for they are the words God gave in an­swer to the world you made. By them it disappears, and all things seen within its misty clouds and vaporous illusions vanish as these words are spoken. For they come from God.

Here is the Word by which the Son became his Father’s happiness, His Love and His completion. Here creation is proclaimed, and honored as it is. There is no dream these words will not dispel; no thought of sin and no illusion which the dream contains that will not fade away before their might.

Holy indeed is he who makes these words his own; arising with them in his mind, recalling them throughout the day, at night bringing them with him as he goes to sleep. His dreams are happy and his rest secure, his safety certain and his body healed, because he sleeps and wakens with the truth before him always. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 162, W-pI.162.1:1,4-6;2:1-3;3:1-2. See also ACIM Lesson 162 Insights.)

While we believe we are a body, we are identifying with an image that does not come from God. God’s Love is limitless, boundless and eternal. To be in God’s likeness, we must have His attributes. But the image of a body is a limitation that binds us to a world of separation that God did not create. It is a world made by the ego to hide from God’s Love.

Love is one, eternal and changeless. The differences in the world of bodies cannot exist in Love. The Love, joy and peace of God are the same everywhere, always without limit. This is what God created as His extension, His Son — our true Self.

When we affirm, “I am as God created me,” we are claiming our true Identity. This Identity cannot be sick, lonely, afraid or guilty. As we claim this Identity, we let go of the mistaken beliefs that make the world of bodies seem real. The images of the ego fade as our belief in them is withdrawn to be replaced by the Light of Love. As we let this Light shine through us, we bring healing to the world.

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