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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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