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ACIM Lesson 43 2025

My contemplation of Lesson 43
God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him.

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.
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 developed this communication link with the Holy Spirit and continue to refine it.

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. I don’t vote for what is best for me. I vote for what is in everyone’s best interest. I don’t 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 have turned to the ego for meaning. 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.

To the ego, defenses are the way we keep ourselves separate and thus safe. Jesus, on the other hand, points out that our safety lies in our defenselessness, which allows joining. 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. But as long as we keep living miserable lives built on attack and defend, we will continue to suffer. It is fear driving this behavior. That is just another way of saying that the ego is driving our life.

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. The point is, 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? It is actually the cause of the world as we experience it. 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.

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ACIM Lesson 42 2025

My contemplation of Lesson 42
God is my strength. Vision is His gift.

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. Sometimes, it feels 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. But then I remember that I am not depending on my strength to do these things. God is my strength. I cannot fail. When I feel like I just can’t imagine another way to see, when the error feels more real than the truth, I remember that vision is available to me because it is God’s gift to me.

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 I not succeed? The idea of failure is crazy.

Sometimes, I can feel lost. How did I get to this place, I wonder. It seems like I am in hell and can’t find an exit. But this cannot 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 for my next lesson, my next step forward toward my 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.

I gladly practice this lesson today. I want to never forget my purpose and my function while I am here. 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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ACIM Lesson 41 2025

My contemplation of Lesson 41
God goes with me wherever I go.

I love this lesson because it introduces awakening. We are literally attempting to awaken from the dream of separation as we do this lesson. He knows we may not, probably will not, be successful the first time we do this. However, we might. And eventually, we will be successful. That is why I love the lesson.

I also love it because it describes the effects of the belief in separation: the depression, loneliness, worry, and the suffering we experience believing we are separate from God. So many people feel a sense of abandonment and assume it has its origins in their story. Their father abandoned the family. Or their mother died at their birth. Maybe their partner left them for someone else.

But those are not the source of the feeling of being abandoned. They are the images that represent the separation from God, images that we project as our stories. They are our attempt to solve the problem without solving it at all. No matter how many images we project, the only problem we really have is that we think we separated ourselves from our Source. So the only solution is to accept that we have not done so. God still goes with us wherever we go.

⁴The idea for today has the power to end all this foolishness forever. ⁵And foolishness it is, despite the serious and tragic forms it may take.

The world is tragic even at its best. It is tragic because it seems to exist outside of God. Even if we have a wonderful life story, we are still deluded into believing we are not the Son of God. And the best life ever ends in death. So, today I will try again to move past the thoughts that make up the pretense of life and let my awareness rest on reality.

How do we solve the problem of the world? It seems impossible, especially now. There are so many problems and so much hate and fear. In spite of this, it is a simple solution, one we do not seriously consider. We do not question the reality of the problem. But today is the day in which we do so. We relax into silence and go within where the answer lies.

Deep within you is everything that is perfect, ready to radiate through you and out into the world. ²It will cure all sorrow and pain and fear and loss because it will heal the mind that thought these things were real, and suffered out of its allegiance to them.

Is this not worth five minutes of our time this morning? In the past, when I attempted this meditation, I did so with trepidation, afraid of failure and what that would mean about me. Now, though, I do it with joy, knowing that I will never fail completely and sooner or later, I will succeed.

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ACIM Lesson 40 2025

My contemplation of Lesson 40
I am blessed as a Son of God.

This is a simple and happy lesson. The only part that might be a problem is remembering to do it every 10 minutes. I doubt that I will, but that’s OK. I will, without judgment, notice when I have forgotten and do it then. I am reminded of this from Chapter 14.II.1.4 ...guilt is interference, not salvation, and serves no useful function at all.

I very much appreciated yesterday’s lesson: My holiness is my salvation. In fact, I had a restless night’s sleep and woke up out of sorts. So, I lay there and did that lesson. I thought of my unloving thoughts and reminded myself that my holiness was my salvation. I thought about how my belief in the body/world was the problem. But that is not me. My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy. Holiness is my reality, and as I remember that, I am saved.

So, today’s lesson is a perfect follow-up. I am blessed as a Son of God. As a Son of God, my holiness keeps me safe from these foolish, unloving thoughts. I happily proclaim the truth of my being instead. I am blessed as a Son of God. I gratefully practice this lesson. I could never be guilty because I am blessed as a Son of God with innocence. I could never want to see anyone else as guilty because I am blessed as one with God and all His creations.

I am blessed as a Son of God.

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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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