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ACIM Lesson 34 2025

I could have peace instead of this.

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.

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ACIM Lesson 33 2025

My contemplation of Lesson 33
There is another way of looking at the world.

This is a very simple lesson and a simple exercise. It is to be done as often as possible. That it is simple does not mean it is unimportant. Each of these lessons builds on the other and literally changes the way we think. And what changes the way we think changes everything. It is what we came to learn. It will wake us up.

Today, I will remind myself that there is another way of looking at the world. As I look around myself at my outer environment and as I look within at my inner environment, I notice how the inner is reflected in the outer. I perceive in the outer what I believe to be true. What I perceive to be true about the world will not change until my beliefs change. This is why I want another way of looking at the world.

Like many people, I have been alarmed at what appears to be a strong movement away from oneness and toward separation, away from love and toward fear. I see this on both sides of the divide. But I have discovered there is another way to see this as I remember that before change can occur, I must look at the problem with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will then shine the darkness away. We must, as one, look at the problem, and we are doing that now, even if we don’t understand this is what is happening.

As I ask for another way to see, I am moved toward Love. Always and in every circumstance, I am moved toward Love. I am stunned at the simplicity of the answer. Love does all things, heals all things, makes all things right. If my mind wanders to fear, guilt, or judgment, I ask for another way to see, and Love is there, peace is there.

Now, it is not that I ask for another way to see and decide that love must be the answer. I ask for another way to see, and Love fills my heart and mind. Love is not an answer; Love is the Answer. I don’t choose love from among other answers. I allow Love to overcome all things. Dear God, I am so very grateful for your Answer. And all it took was my willingness to let go of my preconceived solutions so that the Answer could be given to me. Today, I gladly remind myself to ask for another way to look at the world, both the outer world and my inner world. I ask often and with anticipation of the Answer that will be received by my open mind.

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Lesson 32 2025

I have invented the world I see.

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 that. 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.

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Lesson 31 2025

My contemplation of Lesson 31
I am not the victim of the world I see.

I think that we each come here with specific tasks - beliefs that we want to forgive for all of the Sonship. I was drawn to this lesson from the beginning, and I am sure that was because this was a belief I chose to undo. I always felt like a victim, and though I believe everything Jesus tells us in the Course, I struggled with this one.

It so often seemed obvious that I was a victim in certain circumstances. But I kept working with it, and kept forgiving the idea of victimhood. This became a belief I completely forgave. I do not now believe I could ever be a victim. This doesn’t mean that the ego mind stopped reaching for that belief. But it does mean that I never accept it as true.

For instance, I was abused by a neighbor when I was a child. The ego argued that a child does not choose this, and I couldn’t do anything about it. In this situation, I was definitely a victim. But this can’t be true since this is my story. And the story was not chosen as a child. Now I see how this situation and others were necessary to the story. After all, if I were to forgive the belief in victimhood, I had to know what it was to feel like a victim.

Even now, the ego dangles the victimhood belief before me to see if I’m going to bite. After the last damaging hurricane in my area, I, like many people here, had some unfortunate experiences with contractors while trying to get repairs done on my house. The ego mind argued for victimhood in this case. It was useless because I just could not and can not now sustain any feeling of victimhood. Give it up, ego. It is never going to work. ~smile~

My success with this lesson is a perfect example of how wonderfully the Course works if we let it. I didn’t change my mind about victimhood the first time I read the lesson. I had to practice forgiveness with situations in my life repeatedly before the idea that I could never be a victim of the world I see became the truth for me. I am so very grateful to Brother for his Course. And I am grateful to myself for my persistence.

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ACIM Lesson 30 2025

God is in everything I see because God is in my mind.

Since we began the lessons, we have been learning that what we see with our eyes is not reality. Rather, it is what we want to see. It is a projection of our thoughts. Thus, the solution to a painful situation is to change the mind we are using to see it. If we are suffering from what we see, which many of us are, we must be seeing with our ego mind.

As we come to accept that God is in our mind, we can choose to view the world from the perspective of our holy mind. Can you imagine how different your world will seem when you perceive everything from the perspective of God?

Jesus says: ²From this idea will the world open up before you, and you will look upon it and see in it what you have never seen before. ³Nor will what you saw before be even faintly visible to you. This is what happens as we awaken from our dream. I read in Angelo DeLulla’s book, Awake, that this is what happened to him. He also said that with awakening, there is an end to all suffering in this lifetime. I find that idea motivating, to say the least.

Most of us are projecting from our ego mind what we don’t want in an effort to be rid of it. What we are being introduced to in this lesson is the alternative. Instead of projecting to be rid of, we can project what we love. We are trying to join with what we see rather than keeping it away from us.

I know this works because I do it. The problem is that I don’t project to join all the time. There are times when I project to separate, and this is what I want to correct. I am enthused about practicing this lesson.

The progress I have achieved thus far was accomplished as a result of recognizing my ego projections and forgiving them. I am thrilled to practice recognizing God in my mind and projecting from that perspective. When I get even a glimpse of my reality, it brings me to tears.

Here I am, Lord. Direct my practice today. I put myself in Your Hands.

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