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Lesson 43

God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him.
1. Perception is not an attribute of God. ²His is the realm of knowledge. ³Yet He has created the Holy Spirit as the Mediator between perception and knowledge. ⁴Without this link with God, perception would have replaced knowledge forever in your mind. ⁵With this link with God, perception will become so changed and purified that it will lead to knowledge. ⁶That is its function as the Holy Spirit sees it. ⁷Therefore, that is its function in truth.
2. In God you cannot see. ²Perception has no function in God, and does not exist. ³Yet in salvation, which is the undoing of what never was, perception has a mighty purpose. ⁴Made by the Son of God for an unholy purpose, it must become the means for the restoration of his holiness to his awareness. ⁵Perception has no meaning. ⁶Yet does the Holy Spirit give it a meaning very close to God’s. ⁷Healed perception becomes the means by which the Son of God forgives his brother, and thus forgives himself.
3. You cannot see apart from God because you cannot be apart from God. ²Whatever you do you do in Him, because whatever you think, you think with His Mind. ³If vision is real, and it is real to the extent to which it shares the Holy Spirit’s purpose, then you cannot see apart from God. (ACIM, W-43)

In this lesson, Jesus uses the word ‘see’ to mean perception. What is my interpretation of what the eyes and other senses report to me? What meaning do I give it? To truly understand anything, I must see it through God. I will be misled when I try to understand with the ego. Only one of these voices remembers that we share the same Self.
God is the realm of knowledge and so knows nothing of perception. He gave us the Holy Spirit as our Mediator between perception and knowledge. Thank you, God, for that. Otherwise, we would be forever cut off from knowledge. This is why I continue to develop and refine this communication link with the Holy Spirit.

Sometimes, I feel like I am not sure if I am following the Holy Spirit’s guidance or the ego’s guidance. But if I examine the guidance closely, I will generally be able to work that out. The Holy Spirit will always answer for all. He will always guide me toward oneness, love, peace, kindness, sharing, and joining. The ego will not do that. It is always interested in some form of separation, such as anger, hatred, or selfishness. It is the ultimate me, me, me.

I have learned, with the Holy Spirit’s help, to be vigilant for separation thinking. For instance, when deciding how to vote, I consider what is in the best interest of the whole, not just what would be best for me. I try never to erect barriers between me and others, create boundaries that prevent joining, or settle for the ego’s need for specialness of any kind. When that kind of thinking seeps into my mind, I ask the Holy Spirit for guidance as to what to do.

If fear is driving my responses, I can be sure that I am looking at the situation with the ego. Fear and guilt are always hallmarks of ego thinking. Fear drives our worst behaviors in this world. People will allow pain and suffering to be inflicted on others when they are convinced they have something to fear from them. This is so even when the proof is flimsy or invented. When looked at with the ego, this will seem to make sense. To the ego, defenses are the way we keep ourselves separate and thus safe. I am beginning to see that defense is a statement that separation is real.

Jesus, on the other hand, teaches that our safety lies in our defenselessness, which allows us to join. Without the need to protect a separate self, we are free to join. As we come to accept that we are all part of the Oneness that is God, it will no longer make sense to hurt each other. And in that joining, we will discover we were never in danger. But as long as we look at the world through the ego’s filter of fear, we will continue to suffer. As we begin to see with God instead, our perception is corrected, and this is reflected in our lives.

Sometimes, when I have to decide how to respond to someone or some situation, I am guided to say yes and sometimes to say no. My response will be decided by my perception. Perception is so variable that it is hardly a reliable reference point. On my own, I cannot know what is in everyone’s best interest. But in our minds is the Holy Spirit who does know.

Why would I not choose that Advisor rather than the ego that is the embodiment of separation, knowing that separation is the cause of all suffering in the world? I am happy to practice this lesson and grateful for it. I want my perception to be brought as close to the truth as possible. I am willing to let my seeing be used for remembering instead of judging.

I am grateful to let my seeing be corrected. Holy Spirit, decide for God for me.
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Lesson 42

God is my strength. Vision is His gift.
1. The idea for today combines two very powerful thoughts, both of major importance. ²It also sets forth a cause and effect relationship that explains why you cannot fail in your efforts to achieve the goal of the course. ³You will see because it is the Will of God. ⁴It is His strength, not your own, that gives you power. ⁵And it is His gift, rather than your own, that offers vision to you.
2. God is indeed your strength, and what He gives is truly given. ²This means that you can receive it any time and anywhere, wherever you are, and in whatever circumstance you find yourself. ³Your passage through time and space is not at random. ⁴You cannot but be in the right place at the right time. ⁵Such is the strength of God. ⁶Such are His gifts. (ACIM, W-42)

I will achieve the goal of A Course in Miracles because God is my strength and vision is His gift. I lean into this lesson when I feel discouraged or fearful. For a long time it had felt like an uphill battle to let go of the desire to judge, the impulse to defend, the urgency that convinces me I need to attack. Then I remember: I am not depending on my strength. God is my strength. Failure is impossible. When I cannot imagine another way to see, when error feels more real than truth, I remember: vision is given to me. It is God’s gift.

I will awaken from the dream of separation because it is God’s Will that I do so, and it is His strength that upholds me and His Vision that guides me forward and shows me the way. Yesterday, we learned that within us is everything that is perfect. It is within me because it is God. God is within me, and I am within Him. How could success be in doubt? The idea of failure is insane.

At times, I have felt lost. How did I get to this place, this situation, I wondered. It seemed like I was in hell and couldn’t find an exit. But this couldn’t be true because life is not at random. My passage through time and space is not at random. I have discovered just how true this is. I am exactly where I need to be—at the next step in awakening. At times, I have felt distraught in certain situations and wondered if I was abandoned. Later, when I had transcended the problem, I was glad it had happened. I saw its value and loved that it had brought me to where I was.

Feeling lost had not happened in a good while because, as I practiced, my experience changed. It made a difference in my experience of my life. However, I hadn’t been happy with the direction our country has taken in the last few years, and I couldn’t see a happy outcome if it continued as it has. For a time, I felt fear and anger. I didn’t want to be here to see this. But I do believe that life is not at random, and so this must be the perfect place for me. So I asked: What am I to do now?

It had to be that I was to love rather than fear, and I became determined to be the love that was needed. There were many different ways I was shown to do this. The first and most essential was to allow my mind to be healed. I began to ask for another way to see things. I began to remember what should be obvious but had escaped me when I focused on fear. Separation is the problem, and joining is the answer.

I saw that I must join not only with those who agree with me, but with everyone. I saw that I was judging, and this would never bring peace, no matter how much I was convinced that I was right.
With each step forward toward love, fears hold on me lessened, and the errors became clear. I sometimes had to practice accepting a different way of seeing, even when it was given to me, but I did that. I began to have love for those I had previously seen as the enemy, and the imagined gap between us began to close Slowly, the urge to judge gave way to compassion… and then to love.

These last few days have been especially helpful because the lessons came at the perfect time to help me clean up any remaining blocks to love’s awareness. I had wrestled with myself as to whether it was time to start contemplating the Text again. I didn’t seem to have time for that, but the strong urge to do so decided it for me. By this time, I had learned not to ignore these nudges in a particular direction. So when I got to the Circle of Atonement, I was ready to read that my only calling here is to devote myself with active willingness to the denial of guilt in all its forms. And I was ready to heed it.

Along with another idea from Jesus, letting the Holy Spirit decide for me in all things, this very clear and uncompromising statement that I needed to let go of the belief in guilt once and for all, has given me an answer to all problems. Without guilt separating me from my brothers and sisters, and with clear and present guidance that I want in every circumstance, I am no longer fighting what is. I am here to be light in a dark time. This is no accident. I am here, and I am grateful that this is so.

I gladly practice this lesson today. I want to never forget my purpose and my function while I am here. I am here to succeed. God is my strength. Vision is His gift. The world is distracting, and so I need this practice. I need this to keep me mindful of my goal and to remind me that it matters. It matters very much. It is everything.
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Lesson 41 2026

God goes with me wherever I go.
It is easy to look at the world right now and see fear, hatred, and cruelty. But that has always been true. It can be depressing but that is the consequence of separation. All the descriptors Jesus uses in this lesson have been felt by me; loneliness, abandonment, anxiety, worry, helplessness, misery, suffering, and intense fear of loss. Even now, as my mind heals, those feelings still arise. I let them be there, but I no longer encourage them or believe they rest on truth.

What I am learning not to do now is to try to fix them myself. For example, when I feel lonely, I don’t call someone or try to distract myself from the feeling. If I become anxious, I don’t take a pill or use any of the old ways of calming myself. It’s the same for the rest of the feelings that are the inevitable outcome of thinking that we are separate from God. I am learning to bring them to truth instead of trying to manage them myself. As Jesus tells us in this lesson, all the ways we have tried to cure the ills of the world won’t work because the problem isn’t real.

Of course it isn’t. How could we be separate from our Creator? God goes with us everywhere we go because He is our Source, the source of our very life. We are thought in the Mind of God. If we could somehow separate ourselves from His Mind, we would no longer be thought. We would not exist. Since this is not possible, we are perfectly safe from all suffering.
Our desire to experience separation produced a state that does not exist. We are only dreaming of separation, and so we must awaken from the dream. This is what we are doing right now as we share these lessons and practice them as our Brother Jesus is telling us to do. It is our dream, and so we must choose when to awaken from it. It is proof of His love for us that we do this slowly so as not to frighten us further.

Today, we are assured that deep within us is everything that is perfect, ready to radiate through us and out into the world. This love will cure all sorrow and pain as it heals the mind that believes in them. My ACIM study group yesterday was talking about pain. Pretty much everyone has suffered from one form or another from pain, and yet we will discover in Lesson 190 that pain is not real. In fact, he tells us that if pain is real, God is not. Some of us have experienced relief of pain in what appears to be miraculous ways.

I myself shared the story of my migraines. I used to have them frequently. Needless to say, they were very painful and generally lasted several days. One time, I was scheduled to give a three-day workshop and had flown in for it. Many others came from different places to attend. I got there, and a migraine hit me. There was no way to cancel at this point, and so I just decided I had to carry on. I asked the Holy Spirit for help and started the class.

As I began to talk, the pain began to subside. And as I became engaged in what we were doing, I was amazed to discover that the pain disappeared altogether. When it was time for a break, it roared back to life. I went to my room and lay down until the break was over. When I began to talk again, the pain once again disappeared. It continued like this for the whole workshop.  I don’t think anyone had any idea this was happening.

What I learned from this is that, like the world of time itself, pain really isn’t real. It requires our full attention to exist. It makes me smile when I think of it. Like we are thought in the Mind of God, my pain was thought in my mind. When I quit thinking about it, it quit existing until I had time to think of it again. This was an important step in learning that the mind is powerful. It can cause pain and suffering, and it can eliminate it, not through willpower but by choosing correctly. I am learning that instead of giving my allegiance to the belief in suffering, I can radiate my holiness to the world.

The first step is to recognize that I can never be deprived of my holiness because its Source goes with me wherever I go. This means that all things of God go with me, like peace and joy. Nothing can destroy my peace because God goes with me wherever I go. Love, peace, and joy are always available to me. I have buried them under the effects of my belief in separation, but they are still there.

Just because I have made myself unaware of the truth doesn’t mean there is no truth. I can once again become aware of my holiness as I am meant to, and that is the purpose of today’s lesson. It is the reason we are instructed to spend some time this morning, sinking below the world we made with our idle thoughts and going inward to leave appearances and approach reality.

Jesus tells us this. It is quite possible to reach God. ²In fact it is very easy, because it is the most natural thing in the world. ³You might even say it is the only natural thing in the world. ⁴The way will open, if you believe that it is possible. In the past, when I have tried this, I was heavily defended against success. Of course, I didn’t think of it this way. I just acknowledged that my mind is undisciplined, and trying not to think of other things was exhausting.

This time, I was willing and, yes, my mind is still pretty undisciplined, but I stuck with it. I didn’t have the usual fear of failure; I simply showed up. I asked for the Holy Spirit to go with me. I was about to stop when I felt something moving through me. I can’t think of how to explain this without using words that will have different meanings to people. I just knew I was being answered. It didn’t last long, and I’m not sure of the lasting effect, but I feel happy and peaceful now, and I am encouraged and grateful.

I am going to happily practice the lesson today, reminding myself frequently that God goes with me where I go, and what that means to me. I will do as Jesus instructs. ³Concentrate on the holiness that they imply about you; on the unfailing companionship that is yours; on the complete protection that surrounds you. And this lesson ends with one of my favorite lines in the Course, which I like to use in first person.

I can indeed afford to laugh at fear thoughts, remembering that God goes with me wherever I go.
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Lesson 40 2026

Lesson 40
I am blessed as a Son of God.
1. Today we will begin to assert some of the happy things to which you are entitled, being what you are.
I am blessed as a Son of God. I am happy and peaceful. I woke up at 2:00 and was unable to go back to sleep. I tossed and turned a while trying to get comfortable. By this time, an hour had passed. I talked to the Holy Spirit. I said that I wanted at least another hour of sleep. But I deferred to His decision about what I needed and asked Him to decide for me. It occurred to me to listen to a meditation with a mask over my eyes, and I fell asleep for an hour.
What pleases me about that situation is that in the past, I would have worried about not sleeping and predicted a difficult day. In other words, I would have not only gone without sleep, but I would also have suffered. This didn’t happen. I didn’t worry, and I didn’t think about how tired I would be in the morning. I just asked the Holy Spirit to decide all things for me. I am blessed as a Son of God.
This year, the deductible for my medicine went up, and the out-of-pocket cost of my first prescription was too high for me to pay. Not once did I worry about that. I asked the Holy Spirit to decide for me how to think about this and what to do about it, if anything. This went on for several days, and I just waited to see if anything was required of me.
I had the thought to ask the pharmacy how long they hold the prescription, and I said I didn’t see myself paying that much. She told me to talk to my insurance company and see if they could do anything. I had no idea that could be an option, but I did it. Very quickly, with little effort on my part, they were able to help me, and now it’s all worked out. I got my medicine yesterday, and I didn’t suffer at all as I would have if I had chosen to decide with the ego. If it had turned out that the medicine was unavailable to me, in those days I was waiting to discover the outcome, I saw that I would still have been at peace. I am blessed as a Son of God.
Recognizing that my only calling here is to devote myself with active willingness to the denial of guilt in all its forms has released me from distress that had dogged me recently. Studying the Circle of Atonement section of the Course has added to my blessings. Jesus said,  ⁴I stand within the circle, calling you to peace. ⁵Teach peace with me, and stand with me on holy ground. I felt that calling deep within me. Now I recognize that each person I meet or think of, I either invite into the circle or condemn to stay outside it, and I stand with him either way. My choice is simple and obvious. I cannot accept that blessing for myself and withhold it from anyone else. I am blessed as a Son of God.
Jesus also tells us that “⁶Holiness must be shared, for therein lies everything that makes it holy.” I am holy because you are holy. I will not recognize my own holiness without recognizing yours. We rise or fall together in my awareness of the truth. So, I see the next piece of the puzzle fall into place. My holiness cannot refer to my separate self. It is the natural state of the Self that knows itself as One with all the Sons of God. Anything less than that would be a wish to be alone. I cannot see someone else as separate from me and know that I am blessed as a Son of God. Blessing is recognized in our togetherness.
I let us be one, and in that quiet joining, I remember I am blessed.
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Lesson 39 2026

My holiness is my salvation.
1. If guilt is hell, what is its opposite? ²Like the text for which this workbook was written, the ideas used for the exercises are very simple, very clear and totally unambiguous. ³We are not concerned with intellectual feats nor logical toys. ⁴We are dealing only in the very obvious, which has been overlooked in the clouds of complexity in which you think you think.
2. If guilt is hell, what is its opposite? ²This is not difficult, surely. ³The hesitation you may feel in answering is not due to the ambiguity of the question. ⁴But do you believe that guilt is hell? ⁵If you did, you would see at once how direct and simple the text is, and you would not need a workbook at all. ⁶No one needs practice to gain what is already his.
3. We have already said that your holiness is the salvation of the world. ²What about your own salvation? ³You cannot give what you do not have. ⁴A savior must be saved. ⁵How else can he teach salvation? ⁶Today’s exercises will apply to you, recognizing that your salvation is crucial to the salvation of the world. ⁷As you apply the exercises to your world, the whole world stands to benefit.
4. Your holiness is the answer to every question that was ever asked, is being asked now, or will be asked in the future. ²Your holiness means the end of guilt, and therefore the end of hell. ³Your holiness is the salvation of the world, and your own. ⁴How could you to whom your holiness belongs be excluded from it? ⁵God does not know unholiness. ⁶Can it be He does not know His Son? (ACIM, W-39)
Jesus is right. Salvation is simple. Give up the belief in guilt, and you must awaken because there would be nothing standing in your way. So why does giving up guilt seem so very hard? I don’t have a strong desire to keep anyone guilty anymore. Not in the sense I once did. When I divorced my husband, I held a grievance against him, and I worked on letting that go for a year before I felt any relief from it. And then worked for another two or three years before I was completely free.
I have had another forgiveness lesson that was equally hard for me to release, and it took me three and a half years to do so. In both cases, I kept running into that wall that said, “But they did it.” That doesn’t happen anymore. The things they ‘did’ were just part of the script, part of the illusion. I cannot forgive an image we made, and the one who seems to inhabit the image remains untouched by what the image appears to do. It is just using the image to wake up, the same as I am using the image of Myron.
So what is my problem? I was asking Jesus this very same question this morning. I probably don’t go an hour during the day that I don’t judge someone or something. I don’t hold onto the judgment, but there it is. It is my first impulse when I am aware of something that feels threatening. OK, I see, Jesus. It is fear that keeps judgment in place for me. I feel threatened by someone or something, and I immediately judge them. Fear is always the alarm that the self I made feels exposed. Now that I understand, today’s lesson is going to be truly helpful for me.
I absolutely believe that guilt is hell and innocence is Heaven. I think that I have been moving in that direction with fear thoughts without realizing that is what I’m doing. I have lost interest in reading anything that spews anger, hatred, or the desire for the punishment of evil-doers. When people talk about the Epstein files and profess that these men just being exposed is not enough. That the victims cannot heal until the perpetrators are punished, I see guilt being perpetuated, and this cannot help any of us. I’m not interested in that. I want freedom for all of us. I want Heaven for all of us.
The same applies to my fear-driven judgments. I want to be free of those as well, for my sake and the sake of the Sonship. Fear doesn’t make sense. The only thing I could fear is that something unpleasant could happen to the story of Myron, and that is not me. I said I felt like I had been moving toward releasing fear without realizing that is what I was doing. I see now that every day I am a little bit freer of the belief in Myron. That realization is thrilling and, at the same time, frightening in itself. But it will be okay because every day I ask the Holy Spirit to decide for God for me in everything. Decide for God for me in this fear of being my Self, Holy Spirit. And I will follow.
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