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ACIM Lesson 11 2025

My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world.

Of course, they are. How else would this world appear except from our thoughts? We had a thought that might have been: Let there be separation. And we knew an idea of separation. The body’s eyes acted as projectors for what we were now aware of as the concept of separation. They showed us our thoughts as form in action. Amazing, really. For realism’s sake, we pretended to forget where all this came from, and thus, it seemed to be outside us, causing us. Incredible. And not in a good way. Meaningless for sure since none of this was real, just thought projected.

Today, I looked around my kitchen as I made breakfast and reminded myself that my meaningless thoughts were showing me a meaningless world. I was not seeing a world and then thinking about it, however it might seem. I was thinking about a world, and then seeing my thoughts.

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ACIM Lesson 10 2025

My thoughts do not mean anything.

My thoughts do not mean anything. I watch the parade from the sidelines.

<ul>My heart is filled with joy this morning.
I hope the rain lets up before I need to drive to Shelly’s.
I didn’t remember to do yesterday’s lesson as often as needed, but I will do better today.
I wish my son would not smoke.</ul>

These are thoughts I think I think. They are not my real thoughts. My mind is really blank. These thoughts do not mean anything. This thought will help to release me from all I now believe. I can’t believe I ever felt guilty for meaningless thoughts.
Thank you, Jesus, for your instructions and your ever-present help.

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ACIM Lesson 9 2025

I see nothing as it is now.

When I first did these lessons all those years ago, I absolutely did not believe the statement that I see nothing as it is now. I did the lesson anyway. Later, I was confused, but I accepted that I just didn’t understand it. And I did it anyway. Now, I do understand it, and I do the lesson. My mind still wants to object to it, and I will have a moment of confusion, but my desire for the truth clears the confusion quickly. I love the truth even as I sometimes resist it. My desire for truth wins out each time.

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ACIM Lesson 8 2025

My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.

I seem to be thinking about hearing from a friend this morning, the discomfort of getting out in the freezing weather this morning, and a precious video of my granddaughter I watched last night. Wondering if I will have time to write some more about Chapter 14 today. But my mind is preoccupied with past thoughts.

I notice how much my mind wants to weave a story around these thoughts, but I resist. I am aware of the reason we do this. It keeps us from becoming aware of the real world. What the ego mind doesn’t want to examine too closely is that this preoccupation with the past is meant to protect us from our memory of God. If that happens, we will throw ourselves into Him because we love God so much, and He loves us so much. Then, the ego will dissolve away. I guess there is still a desire for separation and specialness, and it is this desire that makes defending against God seem sane.

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ACIM Lesson 7 2025

I see only the past.

I do understand this lesson and accept its importance because this is not my first time through these lessons. But I am doing them as directed, so I obediently went through the ritual of noticing how I see only the past in everything. The ego ignored my certainty that I understood all this and tried to hijack the practice. I looked at my ruler and had to laugh as I remembered the clerk at the store looking at me like I was weird. She couldn’t imagine what I needed a ruler for. I told her it was to draw straight lines on paper, and she still looked flummoxed.

But then I looked at a picture of my son, worried about him, and looked at my favorite coffee cup, hoping it would never break. And on it went as the ego tried to drag me into sad or frightening stories. But it didn’t work because it was just proving the point that nothing I see means anything and that I have given it all the meaning it has for me.
Clearly, I don’t understand anything, and I am never upset for the reason I think. And most clearly, I am upset because I see something that is not there. I saw disaster lurking behind each object of my attention, where clearly there was nothing happening. How did I know that I had something to fear, except that fearful things seemed to happen in the past?
I am glad that I am not required to do anything about this today. I only need to see how it works in my mind, and that I do see.

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