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Lesson 37 2026

My holiness blesses the world.
1. This idea contains the first glimmerings of your true function in the world, or why you are here. ²Your purpose is to see the world through your own holiness. ³Thus are you and the world blessed together. ⁴No one loses; nothing is taken away from anyone; everyone gains through your holy vision. ⁵It signifies the end of sacrifice because it offers everyone his full due. ⁶And he is entitled to everything because it is his birthright as a Son of God.
I want to live this life in such a way that I fulfill my function. And I want to be happy and peaceful. The peace and happiness that I desire is fulfilled when I accept my function. I am devoted to this function now. I thought I was before, but I see now that I wanted it while still wanting other things. For part of my life I wanted more things, more fulfilling relationships. I believed that if I could control my environment, I could be happy.
Then, as I’ve studied and practiced the Course, I began to see the error in this. My environment does not need to influence my happiness unless that is my belief. With that understanding, I began to focus instead on my inner environment. I was learning to be vigilant for my thoughts and to ask for correction. I slowly got better at this, but I still wanted other things too, so I was not fully dedicated to this one function.
I wanted people to like me and to admire me. I wanted my children to notice what an improved version of myself I had developed. There were a lot of body issues that needed to be sorted before I was truly at peace and happy. Much of this began to shift for me in a way that pleased me, but that wasn’t it either. I was happier and more peaceful than before, but it wasn’t constant, and it seemed that the vagaries of life kept getting in the way of my happiness.
I would notice something in the Course that Jesus offered to help us achieve happiness—a practice or an idea that I had not tried yet—and I would be off and running, chasing that elusive happiness and even more elusive peace. Then, as I was studying Chapter 14, I read this one sentence that changed everything.
⁵Your only calling here is to devote yourself, with active willingness, to the denial of guilt in all its forms. (ACIM, T-14.V.3:5)
It was not the first time I had read this, of course, but this time I was gob smacked by it. I was finally ready for it, I suppose. Guilt is the barrier to our awakening, and to awaken we must dismantle that barrier. I am completely devoted to this task now. I am actively doing so, and in these holiness lessons, I am helped by being reminded of two things: God is in my mind, and I am very holy. My holiness envelops everything I see and blesses it. This is done by the power of God in me. I need only accept my calling.
Today’s lesson is helping me hone in on my function. ²Your purpose is to see the world through your own holiness. ³Thus are you and the world blessed together. This clarifies what I am to do and how. More importantly, it reinforces my only calling. None of this is new to me, but it feels as though puzzle pieces are quietly falling into place, giving me a clear picture of what I am to do to find the peace and happiness I have sought for so long.
Guilt is what I am to undo, and I must undo it everywhere and in every situation. Without the belief in guilt, I will happily bless all the world and with it myself. Everyone gains, and no one loses. So I asked Jesus where to start, and he pointed to Minneapolis. OK, Jesus, throw me into the deep end. I have not been able to look at that situation without judgment, no matter how I squinted my eyes. People are suffering. People are dying. There is no reason that had to happen. No matter how I looked at it or tried to spiritualize my reaction, I still saw guilt. And just saying that no one was guilty wasn’t changing that. If I simply dismiss guilt, how is it that no one loses? Nothing changes, and more suffering occurs.
What I was missing was that denying guilt is not the same as denying harm, or denying the need for change. Guilt is the belief that someone must be condemned in order for healing to occur. Holiness teaches otherwise. It restores wholeness by asking nothing of anyone—not suffering, not punishment, not sacrifice. When guilt is withdrawn, clarity becomes possible, and action can be taken without hatred guiding it.
2. There is no other way in which the idea of sacrifice can be removed from the world’s thinking. ²Any other way of seeing will inevitably demand payment of someone or something. ³As a result, the perceiver will lose. ⁴Nor will he have any idea why he is losing. ⁵Yet his wholeness is restored to his awareness through your vision. ⁶Your holiness blesses him by asking nothing of him. ⁷Those who see themselves as whole make no demands.
This morning, I began to see this differently. I am not being asked to condone actions taken. In the world, there are things that need to change for the benefit of all. We must remove from society those who hurt others for the good of all. But does that require that we make them guilty? I began to understand that there is a way to help all.
As I accepted my part in the Atonement this morning, I felt the need to judge melt away. I felt it in my body. Tension I had not realized I was holding relaxed in my neck and shoulders. A lump in my throat melted away, and some tears gathered behind my eyes. I realized that I don’t want to hate anyone. I simply didn’t see a way to love those who were suffering without blaming those I perceived as causing the suffering.
Here is where my willingness became active. I can say no, it is not okay to break the laws made to protect us all, without guilt entering into it at all. Just as when my cat scratches my leather furniture, I stop her, but I don’t hate her or think she is guilty for being a cat doing what cats do. I can say to someone who breaks the law that something must be done, without believing they are guilty for being human. Humans, in their confusion and fear, do terrible things to each other. That’s why we have the Course in the first place—so we can wake up from the belief that we are human and remember that we are Spirit, an extension of God. That we are good.
How can I help myself and all others? By choosing to see past the story unfolding before us, and by refusing to arrest my sight at bodies and what bodies do in their desire to defend through attack. Seen through the holiness in my mind, they are blessed. My holiness will bless them and help them remember their holiness. In doing so, I reinforce the belief in my holiness and our shared oneness, as I acknowledge the same holiness in us all.
3. Your holiness is the salvation of the world. ²It lets you teach the world that it is one with you, not by preaching to it, not by telling it anything, but merely by your quiet recognition that in your holiness are all things blessed along with you. (ACIM, W-37)
This is my function, and it asks nothing but my willingness. As guilt is undone in my mind, holiness does what it always does—quietly blessing everything it sees.
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Lesson 38
There is nothing my holiness cannot do.
2025
I was pretty disappointed when I did this lesson the first time. I had a lot of plans for my holiness. It didn’t win the lottery for me or change the circumstances of my life to any degree. What it did for me was to plant a seed that began to grow.
I now understand what it means to bless the world with my holiness. As I have learned to shift my awareness from the split mind to the holy mind, I have blessed the world. I have blessed my story and my self, as well as blessed many others. This has shown up in many ways. But it is still erratic because I have not yet learned to stay in my right mind all the time.
Just last night, I read something on Facebook that broke my heart. When I am in my right mind, I am not affected by the world in that way. But, as Lloyd Lapp said, “To fight any part of the dream makes you part of the dream.” And that is what happened. I knew what was going on, and I reminded myself that “my holiness blesses the world.” But it seemed like a sham to me.
This morning, I said hello to Brother Jesus, and, with a smile, assured him I was back on my horse again. It was like yesterday never happened. This is because that first time doing these lessons, that seed was planted, and it has continued to grow and blossom. It hasn’t reached its full potential yet, but it will.
Jesus is showing us today what that full potential looks like. Does it inspire you, motivate you, or scare you? In the beginning, I completely misunderstood who he was talking to. I was still mostly identified with my image, Myron. She is not real, and she is not me. Jesus is talking to us, to who we truly are, the Sons of God. He is reminding us of our true nature and perhaps enticing us to step into that truth. And we can, you know. We will. So let us spend the day in practice, reminding ourselves frequently that there is nothing our holiness cannot do.
5. This is God’s Final Judgment: “You are still My holy Son, forever innocent, forever loving and forever loved, as limitless as your Creator, and completely changeless and forever pure. ²Therefore awaken and return to Me. ³I am your Father and you are My Son.” (ACIM, W-pII.10.5:1-3)
2026
1. Your holiness reverses all the laws of the world. ²It is beyond every restriction of time, space, distance and limits of any kind. ³Your holiness is totally unlimited in its power because it establishes you as a Son of God, at one with the Mind of his Creator.
2. Through your holiness the power of God is made manifest. ²Through your holiness the power of God is made available. ³And there is nothing the power of God cannot do. ⁴Your holiness, then, can remove all pain, can end all sorrow, and can solve all problems. ⁵It can do so in connection with yourself and with anyone else. ⁶It is equal in its power to help anyone because it is equal in its power to save anyone.
3. If you are holy, so is everything God created. ²You are holy because all things He created are holy. ³And all things He created are holy because you are. ⁴In today’s exercises, we will apply the power of your holiness to all problems, difficulties or suffering in any form that you happen to think of, in yourself or in someone else. ⁵We will make no distinctions because there are no distinctions. (ACIM, W-38)
Yesterday, in a writing I did from the Circle of Atonement in the Text, I talked about my son, who has been sick. Here is what I wrote about him.
Shortly before I began this particular writing, I got a text from my son. He has a particularly bad case of flu but cannot just sit things out while he heals. He had to drive quite a way to get his medicine. He can’t talk because of his sickness, and his head feels like it is going to explode. It hurts so much. On top of all that, he can’t work and his bills are all way behind, and he doesn’t have money for food. Then he had a blowout, and his new jack wasn’t working. Lord, have mercy!
I felt really bad for him and wanted to help, but there wasn’t much I could do in this situation. My focus yesterday was seeing the situation differently, staying in the Circle of Atonement with Jesus, seeing only innocence. And that was helpful to us both, but today, I see another way that I can help him and anyone, and how I can help any situation. I can remember that there is nothing my holiness cannot do. It can solve all problems in connection with anyone.
To use this power, I first establish that it is not the character Myron, the ego self, that is doing it. It is my Self, and it is my willingness to accept that in truth, I am God’s Son. As His Son I have the right to make God’s power manifest in the world.
And to be honest, I must overcome the ego tendency to see myself as Myron, frail and fallible. I look at the story of Myron, and she exhibits proof that she is both of those and has done so nearly all of her life.
But I am also far more open to the truth now than I have ever been. The lessons are designed to bring me to this truth, and this year they have penetrated further into my mind than has happened in the past. My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy. It is with this authority that I (my holiness) reverse the laws of the world that say I cannot change the course of an illness; that I cannot change someone else. There is nothing that my holiness cannot do.
So this morning, I have dared to step out of my role as Myron, as Toby’s mom, as a body in a world of pain and suffering. I accept my truth fully if only for this purpose, and my holiness blesses both of us, undoing the belief in sickness without exception. It establishes the truth in the place of the ego’s experience of suffering. It establishes the truth of our access to this power because what I can do, we all can do.
The ego is pretty actively resisting this, insisting I am being arrogant and ridiculous. But who am I going to believe, the ego or Jesus? I choose Jesus.
Afterward, will I slip back into the confines of the image of Myron? Well, this movement into my holiness is a new thing, or at least a rare thing, so probably I will revert to habit. But now I know that this is possible, that I can dare to accept my holiness. I can dare to say this aloud to others with only a twinge of fear that my holiness overrides. So who knows what will happen next?
⁵In the situation involving my son, in which I see myself, there is nothing that my holiness cannot do.
⁶In the situation involving my son, in which he sees himself, there is nothing my holiness cannot do.
³There is nothing my holiness cannot do because the power of God lies in it.
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Lesson 36 2026

My holiness envelops everything I see.
1. Today’s idea extends the idea for yesterday from the perceiver to the perceived. ²You are holy because your mind is part of God’s. ³And because you are holy, your sight must be holy as well. ⁴“Sinless” means without sin. ⁵You cannot be without sin a little. ⁶You are sinless or not. ⁷If your mind is part of God’s you must be sinless, or a part of His Mind would be sinful. ⁸Your sight is related to His Holiness, not to your ego, and therefore not to your body. (ACIM, W-36)
2026
This lesson gently carries yesterday’s idea forward, from the one who perceives to what is perceived. I am holy because my mind is part of God’s, and holiness does not divide itself. It cannot be partial or conditional. I am either sinless or I am not. If my mind is part of God’s—and the Course is unequivocal that it is—then sinlessness must be wholly true. Anything else would mean that a part of God’s Mind could be sinful, which is impossible. This is not a statement about behavior or effort, but about what is eternally so.
Last night I was tired and ready for bed, but couldn’t go there because my cat was outside and didn’t come when called. I couldn’t leave her out there because it was going to rain shortly, and there was no cover for her. So I was trying to kill a little time with something that didn’t require much of me. I started scrolling through Facebook and then through YouTube. That was more information than I needed to see just before bedtime.
I didn’t sleep well and woke up out of sorts. It didn’t take much to realize the problem. Too much negative information all at once had pulled me into the story they were peddling. It wasn’t conducive to loving thoughts. I wasn’t feeling oneness with my cat or with the world in general. There is no oneness and love in the split mind where I was. There is only blame, shame, and fear, and so that is what I saw.
I didn’t need to analyze this for long. All I have to do to return to love is to return to the Mind of Love. That is the Mind I am part of, and so my true mind. It is very holy, and from a holy mind, I see only holiness. This decision to look from holiness to holiness was reinforced as I facilitated ACIM study sessions during the day. With each one, my heart opened wider, and love, happiness, and peace became my experience. Nothing “out there” changed. It is whatever I see in it, and that depends on my choice of mind.
Because my mind is holy, my seeing must be holy as well. Vision does not come from the body or the ego, but from the mind that chooses its source. When I see with holiness, I am not making the world holy in form, nor am I denying appearances. I am simply no longer using guilt as the lens through which I look. Holiness envelops everything I see because nothing I see is outside my mind, and a guiltless mind cannot project guilt. Where guilt is absent, attack falls away, and what remains is a gentle, inclusive way of seeing that quietly restores peace.
When I looked from the split mind, I was actually seeing nothing real, since the split mind itself is part of the illusion, but it was a nothing that I temporarily believed in, and so it was, for a time, my world. I was looking at it with my eyes and believing everything I saw: a difficult, time-consuming cat, a world with angry, hateful people, and sad and pitiful stories of people mistreated.
I knew I was making poor decisions, and when I asked Jesus what was wrong with me, the answer I saw reminded me that I always make poor decisions with the ego. Holy Spirit, decide for me. The shift didn’t happen all at once, but I did begin to question my thoughts, and pretty soon, I was laughing at the absurdity of the whole thing. Seriously, was I holding a grievance against my cat, for Heaven’s sake? As I chose to see the world through my right mind, I saw her as holy, and everyone I was with was seen through the lens of our shared holiness. It has been a blessed day.
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Lesson 35 2026

My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.  (ACIM, W-35)
2025
This lesson no longer makes me uneasy, but at first, it did. There was nothing in me that felt holy, much less very holy. I could not imagine my mind was part of God’s. But I did the lesson anyway. I did it for several years. I did it anyway because that was the instructions in the introduction.
9. Remember only this; you need not believe the ideas, you need not accept them, and you need not even welcome them. ²Some of them you may actively resist. ³None of this will matter, or decrease their efficacy. ⁴But do not allow yourself to make exceptions in applying the ideas the workbook contains, and whatever your reactions to the ideas may be, use them. ⁵Nothing more than that is required. (ACIM, W-in.9:1-5)
So, I did them, and now I am comfortable with this lesson. I accept that my mind is part of God’s just as I accepted Lesson 30 when it told me that God is in my mind. And so now I will practice this lesson today as I am told to do.
I am afraid of failure. But my mind is part of God’s. I am very holy.
Jesus is very specific in the instructions for this lesson, and I am following them. But this belief is the one I want to share with you. I am a teacher of God, and I do my best to be a good teacher of God and follow His lead at all times. I do that, mostly, but sometimes I say the wrong thing. And instead of just forgiving it and moving on or making amends if that is called for, I fret over it. I worry about it and wonder if I should even be attempting this.
On a good day, I see that this is not helpful, and I ask the Holy Spirit to correct the belief that caused this. I ask Him to undo the consequences of my error. Then I go back to my purpose. But I want to be free of the fear of failure. There are other ways I let that fear get in the way.
For instance, I have an easel in one of my rooms. There are all the art supplies needed for me to paint a picture. But I don’t think I have the talent for this, and I am afraid I will fail. It has all been there for several years now, waiting for me to stop making excuses and enjoy the effort.
None of this sounds like I believe that my mind is part of God’s and that I am very holy. Thus, the need for practice. And so today, I will practice joyfully knowing that my mind is being healed of its mistaken beliefs as I do so. This whole practice is quite miraculous!
2026
This morning I began my day as has become my habit. I lay in bed for a while with hand on heart, asking who it was that needed my love prayer this morning. I think it was my son who has the flu and maybe pneumonia. I fell back to sleep, and dreams were happening, but my hand stayed on my heart, and I continued to feel the love. I still do. And so when I read the lesson with the list of examples, I couldn’t relate to any of them. When I read last year’s journal, I realized how much my mind has healed in that year.
Probably all those examples from the lesson occur in my mind but I don’t believe them and so they don’t affect me. I wait for Spirit to show me what I need to see, and it was the belief in being endangered. It doesn’t scare me as much as it used to and isn’t my constant companion as it used to be, but it is still there. I see what is happening in the world, and I don’t feel safe. Right now, I feel fine, but I know that the feeling of being endangered still arises from time to time. When it does, I ask the Holy Spirit to decide for God for me.
My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy. I am a little amazed to discover that I believe this. I feel it. I also feel like a body, especially when it is in pain or seems to be imposing some limit on me. I am aware of the personality of Myron, and sometimes this amuses me, and other times I feel limited by that as well. For instance, my friend has been sick, and I think of her and pray for her. I check in with her to see how she’s doing.
In the meantime, other friends are visiting, sitting with her when needed, bringing meals so she doesn’t have to cook. When I discovered this, I realized it never occurred to me to do any of these things, and I’m, once again in my life, confronted with this lack in myself, of some basic instinct that others seem to have. That kind of thing used to embarrass me and confound me so that I felt bad about myself. Now, I see it as some quirk in this personality, and I try to do better, but it is not me. My mind is part of God. I am very holy.
I still feel the constrictions of time and worry about unfinished projects, but my mind is part of God’s, and I am very holy. I am tempted to guilt when I waste time I could be using more profitably. But my mind is part of God’s, and I am very holy.
Well, Jesus, I feel too full of love and happiness this morning to find any more beliefs, but as the day goes on, perhaps I will. If there is anything I need to be aware of, please let me know. I want to hold only those beliefs that are true, so I want to acknowledge and forgive those that are not true.
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Lesson 34 2026

I could see peace instead of this.
1. The idea for today begins to describe the conditions that prevail in the other way of seeing. ²Peace of mind is clearly an internal matter. ³It must begin with your own thoughts, and then extend outward. ⁴It is from your peace of mind that a peaceful perception of the world arises.
⁴I can replace my feelings of depression, anxiety or worry [or my thoughts about this situation, personality or event] with peace. (ACIM, W-34)
2025
Here is what I wrote last year.
This lesson came along at the perfect time! I woke up feeling strangely anxious and didn’t know why at first. Then I remembered. So here is what happened. Yesterday, while shopping for groceries, I picked up some cookies for my son. I noticed some sugar-free cookies, and since I don’t eat sugar, I thought about buying some for myself.
I looked them over carefully. They were sweetened artificially, and I am careful to keep the amount of those sweeteners to a minimum. I decided that I would get a package of them and eat two of them a day when I wanted something sweet. Then, on my way home, I ate half the package of cookies. Well, so much for that plan.
The problem was not that I bought cookies or that I didn’t stop with two. The problem was that I felt guilty. I felt afraid of my own out-of-control behavior. But I decided that this was just the kind of thing to use yesterday’s lesson with. So, I reminded myself that there was another way of looking at this and went on to bed, thinking I was done with the problem.
This morning, I discovered I was not done with it. When I looked at the lesson for the day, I felt immediate relief. Oh yeah, I could have peace instead of this. Just reminding myself of that truth was enough to lift the dark cloud of guilt from my mind. I chose to buy cookies and to eat them. I chose to feel guilty about that. Now, I will make a better choice, a choice for peace.
The cookie drama (or comedy) is just another episode of “The Life of Myron” and is not important in itself. But the choice to be anxious or at peace is important. Each time I make that choice, I move toward God or toward ego. That is why it is important. And each time I decide for God, I am teaching myself that peace is what I want. Having done this for a long time now, I generally find it easy to choose peace. Making the choice for peace repeatedly is why it is easy for me now.
2026
I have found more significant issues to disturb my peace this year than eating too many cookies. But is that really true? I think not. If my peace is disturbed then it is disturbed. One cannot be in a little peace or a lot of peace. If an issue feels more significant that another it is because I told myself a story that made it seem that way. Jesus has told us that there is no hierarchy in illusions. One is not bigger or worse or better than another. It is truth or it is an illusion. If it is an illusion, it is not reality, and I can choose peace instead.
It is that simple even if we make it feel hard by desiring the illusion to remain in place. Sometimes, it is enough to remind myself that I am deliberately choosing to give up my peace over something that is unreal. That fact may snap me out of my delusion. Sometimes, I get caught in the story for a time and listen to the ego enumerate the reasons this is an exception and point out the ‘obvious’ reasons I need to keep being upset. But these days, I don’t value the drama like I used to. Nor do I see the point in worrying or being angry. My moods don’t create change in what is happening. They just cause me distress and keep me feeling separate.
Here is something Jesus tells us in the section of the Course called The Circle of Atonement.
⁵Your only calling here is to devote yourself, with active willingness, to the denial of guilt in all its forms.  T-14.V. 3
This is all I am asked to do – deny guilt in all its forms, and judgment is one of its forms. If I judge people or situations as not preferred, I believe that something is guilty of robbing me of my peace. Maybe I also think I am guilty of thinking I could be a victim. If I think someone is hurting themselves with their behavior and I wish they would stop, I think they are guilty.
These guilt thoughts can be subtle and masked as love or caring. But my only calling here is to devote myself with ACTIVE willingness to the denial of guilt in all its forms. And when I actively choose not to fall for the ego subterfuge, to choose peace in all situations, I am devoting myself to my calling. Just making that decision for the day brings me to peace and remembering throughout the day keeps me in peace.
The bottom line for me is that peace doesn’t just happen, nor do I just somehow lose it. Peace is a choice. It is a decision I make. Today, I remind myself that peace is always available, because it was never taken from me—only postponed by my own decision.
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Lesson 33 2026

I have invented the world I see.
(From now on, I am not going to write the whole lesson, just the part I am emphasizing. The lesson itself is readily available elsewhere.)
1. Today we are continuing to develop the theme of cause and effect. ²You are not the victim of the world you see because you invented it. ³You can give it up as easily as you made it up. ⁴You will see it or not see it, as you wish. ⁵While you want it you will see it; when you no longer want it, it will not be there for you to see.
2. The idea for today, like the preceding ones, applies to your inner and outer worlds, which are actually the same. ²However, since you see them as different, the practice periods for today will again include two phases, one involving the world you see outside you, and the other the world you see in your mind. ³In today’s exercises, try to introduce the thought that both are in your own imagination.
2025
I had to laugh this morning as I began the lesson. I was sitting in my office at my computer, and so I looked around at my surroundings. As I did so, I felt compelled to straighten things up as I looked at them. Not the intention of the lesson. LOL.
My world is one of contrasts, from the desire for order to the equal desire to create chaos. It happens in my mind, and so it happens in my world. And yet, as I look around at my world and in my mind for the interpretation of my world, I am aware of two things. I have little control over the outer and complete control of the inner world. I feel very grateful for that insight.
The larger outer world is going through some changes right now. No one in charge has asked for my opinion or my consent. But, how I see this is entirely up to me. I can watch it all from the ego mind if I want to. However, that will be inventing a world of separation and thus suffering. Or I can look at it from my holy mind, in which case I will see the purpose and the solution. This makes it no different than any other situation I find myself in. It is just another opportunity to forgive, heal, love, and awaken.
I have decisions to make about the world we have made. There is nothing new about this. I always have decisions to make about the world. How will I choose to see it? How will I choose to use it? Will I use it to extend love and support to my fellow man as we all try to navigate it? Or will I use it to go deeper into the dream and bring more darkness into our shared mind?
If I judge the situation as more important, more awful, more wonderful, more or less anything, it is because I have blinded myself to the truth. There is no hierarchy in illusions. Nothing is good or bad, only truth or illusion. I choose to look at each occurrence and each thought with the Holy Spirit. He will lighten away the darkness. And if I forget that commitment, I will simply choose again. The world is a classroom, and I am here to learn. If I choose to feel guilty as I learn, I will change my mind. I will remind myself, “Myron, be a happy learner.
2026
Right from the beginning, A Course in Miracles explains the problem and the solution. We have invented a world, and it is not reality. This world is in our minds and nowhere else. We did this in that tiny tick of time, and we keep the world alive in memory …not because we are sinful, but because we still believe it has something to offer us. The Course is intended to help us to finally let it go. It does this slowly and gently, but that doesn’t mean it is of little importance. This lesson is powerful, and yet it can be approached without fear because it asks so little of us. Jesus is an amazing teacher.
There is an emphasis on realizing that the inner and outer worlds are actually the same. What I think appears as the world I see. Such a simple idea, and yet completely transformative in its impact if we accept it and act on it. Here is a simple example. I read about Willie Nelson quietly providing for those in the winter storm. The article said he and other country singers joined in.
More than 30 tons of food, heaters, blankets, generators, and survival supplies were being packed and dispatched into the heart of the 2026 winter superstorm.
No press conference.
No celebrity spotlight.
No dramatic rallying cry.
Just quiet, coordinated action.

I was deeply touched by this because I want to be of service, too. I care about others, and I always want to help where I can. I am drawn to these kinds of stories because they make me happy. Not everyone feels the same way. Some people are caught in their fear, and instead of feeling the urge to help, they might see it as an attack, a pull on them to give what they are afraid of losing. There are other ways of seeing it as well.

Same situation, two completely different views. Sometimes the views of people are so different that it is as if they live on different planets. One cannot understand the view of the other, and separation becomes so implanted in the minds that they cannot see the only thing that is true; that they are united as one and cannot be otherwise. Actually, when it gets that bad, they are really more alike than different. Both are coming from fear, and both sincerely believe the other is a threat that must be overcome.

When I start to think that way, I ask the Holy Spirit to decide for me how to see others, how to communicate with those who disagree with me, and when to choose silence when that is better. I ask for help because I know that if I choose confrontation instead of joining, I will see danger everywhere I look. I will experience attack if in my mind I am defending myself. This is how I make the world I see. It is with my thoughts and beliefs. I realize now how much I was hurting myself when I thought I was protecting myself.

I still feel compassion for those who suffer at the hands of another, but I also feel compassion for the one causing the suffering. This was a change that occurred a little at a time over the last few years from the practice of the Course. I had to remind myself of the truth many times, and I had to learn to turn away from the ego voice that insisted this didn’t make sense. And to be honest, it was a little scary for a while. Now it just feels like the only thing that makes any sense.

What I have gained from this decision for God, for Love, is peace of mind. I seldom feel attacked, even when someone is trying to attack me. And if I do feel the sting of attack, I turn to the Holy Spirit for help, and I receive a different way to see it. I remember when I used to act from my fear and attack others, and compassion takes over in the place of fear. My world now feels less threatening than it used to, and when I give way to fear, I know what to do about it, and I recover peace more quickly.

It’s okay for others to disagree with me and even to see things radically different from how I do. We are all going Home and this worldly experience doesn’t change that. It can help us get there faster, or it can show us what is not working. It’s all good. I said at the beginning of this contemplation that I always feel a pull to help, that I cared about others. This was not always true.

I used to be heavily defended, too. It was a miserable life as my defensiveness drew attacks and more defenses in an endless cycle. Until A Course in Miracles showed me my error. The world was not attacking me. I was doing that to myself with my thoughts and beliefs. My mind is happier and more peaceful now that this cycle has been broken. My world reflects my mind. And yes—seen this way—it really is all good. I notice now that whenever peace fades, it is simply an invitation to choose again.
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