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ACIM Lesson 39 2025

My Contemplation of Lesson 39
My holiness is my salvation.

I have been more concerned about getting the contemplation written, posted, and recorded than in giving the lessons the time they required. But today, the thought I was given was that, to gain from the lesson all it offers, I must spend the time required of myself. So, I decided on that before I read it. And of course, as I read the lesson, I realized why I was being reminded to do the lesson fully. My holiness is meant to save the world, and a savior must be saved if she is to save.

I have never been comfortable with just being without doing. I didn’t let myself think of that before I began the lesson. I just made a commitment and followed through on it. My desire to be saved and to save is strong enough to motivate me to do what it takes. I was surprised at the ease with which I spent the five minutes. I was not surprised at the peace that followed.

These are facts that I want to remember today.
My purpose is to allow myself to be saved from unloving thoughts so that I can save others. As I do this lesson and follow up on it with my attention to unloving thoughts, I do save others. Our minds are connected, so when I heal, we all heal.

Worrying is unloving. The ego mind associates worry with love, and I don’t want to make that mistake. I had a worried thought about one of my children. In the past, I thought I had to worry about my children. It seemed to prove I loved them. But I know now that worry is not love but is actually unloving. It is an attack on their invulnerability.

Guilt is hell. I don’t really believe it is anything else, but I still do accept guilt at times, which means I accept hell. I will watch for that, and if I notice guilt, I will remember that my holiness is my salvation. Guilt has no place in my holy mind. It is an unloving thought, and I would be saved from it.

Truth is obvious; ego is complex. If my mind becomes confused, I will pause, relax, and look at the false perception with the Holy Spirit so it can be corrected. There is nothing complicated about the Course. It is simple, and what it asks of us is easy to do. It is only my resistance that has ever made it seem complicated or difficult. If I notice resistance in any form, I will let myself be saved from that unloving thought.

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ACIM Lesson 38 2025

My Contemplation of Lesson 38

There is nothing my holiness cannot do.

I was pretty disappointed when I did this lesson for 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 the 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: “<em>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.”</em> (ACIM, W-pII.10.5:1-3)
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ACIM Lesson 37 2025

My Contemplation of Lesson 37
My holiness blesses the world.

Here are my favorite sentences. They explain what we do when we bless the world and why we do it.

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.

The world seems to be a bleak place when we look at it from the perspective of our split mind. The ego can only show us what it knows, anger, hatred, fear, and guilt. If I look at the world in this way, I curse it and myself with these dark thoughts. Looked at from the perspective of my holiness, my right mind, I bless the world with the love that I am. I see love because I am looking with my holiness. Nothing needs to change in the world for this shift to occur. The world, as I see it, is a reflection of my mind. I see what I want to see.

This morning, I kept thinking about how I don’t know what anything means. I wondered why that lesson kept going through my mind. Now I see how it fits with the lesson for today. This morning, I read something in the news that was disturbing, and I remembered that I “don’t know what anything is for.” With that shift from the split mind to the right mind, I looked again at the news and wondered how this story of the world would play out. I just wondered. I didn’t go into fear because I didn’t know what it was for, so why would I try to judge it? In this way, I was blessing it with my holiness.

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.

Someone said something that would cause suffering for others. My immediate thought was one of condemnation. But our lesson today tells us that my “holiness blesses him by asking nothing of him.” I want to bless him rather than condemn him because, in so doing, I am blessing my brother and myself, and I am saving the world. Why would I ever consider doing anything else?

My first prayer when I woke up was to ask the Holy Spirit to place my faith where it belongs. I am done giving my faith to illusions. That prayer has been a constant for me since I read this in Chapter 14: ⁶Your faith in nothing is deceiving you. ⁷Offer your faith to Me, and I will place it gently in the holy place where it belongs. (ACIM, T-14.II.3:6-7) I find this especially helpful when I read the news. The news is about an illusion. It is about nothing. I will not place my faith in nothing today.

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ACIM Lesson 36 2025

My Contemplation of Lesson 36
My holiness envelops everything I see.

My internet, as well as others for many miles around us, was out yesterday. It was strange to be without internet for so long. It seems to be working now, and I hope it holds up. So much of what I do is dependent on the internet. The lesson for yesterday was very helpful. When I became anxious about my clients not being able to reach me and not knowing why, I reminded myself that my mind is part of God’s. I am very holy. This would return me to peace.

Today is a continuation of what I practiced yesterday, except it is focused on what is perceived instead of the mind that perceived it. It tells us that I am holy because my mind is part of God’s, and since I am holy, so must my sight be holy. This is a significant sentence. As I look at my office, which is cluttered with tax receipts as I try to get it organized for my preparer, I think about what a mess it is. I must not be looking at it from the perspective of my holy mind. I need to change my mind. If I look at it from my right mind, that is, my holy mind, then I will see only holiness.

Yesterday, a friend shared a video of What a Wonderful World It Is by Louis Armstrong. I felt uplifted by it and thought about sharing it on my Facebook profile. But the next thought was that nobody would want to hear about what a wonderful world it is with all that is happening in the world right now. Then I immediately changed from my ego mind to my holy mind and realized that this is the perfect time to share this.

I said in part ...We are continuously influencing the world with each thought we have. Let us influence it toward good. If I add the negative energy of anger, frustration, fear, and guilt, I am only making things worse. May I always add the energy of love, kindness, and beauty. May I see in the world what I want to find there, not what I am afraid I will find. That was a thought coming from my holiness. That is enveloping the world in my holiness.

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ACIM Lesson 35 2025

My Contemplation of Lesson 35

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

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!

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