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Lesson 45 2026

God is the Mind with which I think.
Every time I sit with this lesson, I feel overwhelmed by its beauty and by the magnitude of what it promises. I am in the Mind of God, thinking His Thoughts. I don’t know how anyone could hear that and not feel something inside respond. It is like a call to come home.

This morning, I tried to follow the practice as given. I stayed longer than the few minutes asked of me. I wanted very much to reach those Thoughts. But the mind kept moving. It wanted to make the practice personal. It wanted to evaluate how I was doing. It wanted results.
Each time I noticed, I turned away from the chatter as gently as I could. I didn’t fight it. I didn’t bargain with it. I simply tried again. And I kept trying.

When the time ended, I felt grateful that I had stayed with it. That, for me, is new. There were many times in the past when discomfort would have been my signal to stop. I would make a quick, sincere effort, and then quit because I was so afraid I would fail anyway.
I did not feel that this morning. But I did feel disappointed. I wanted the promise of the lesson. I wanted silence. I wanted an experience I could recognize and say, Yes, this is it. Instead, there was willingness. There was staying. There was returning again and again.

As I sit with it now, I begin to wonder if that was the miracle.
Years ago, when my desire for awakening was just beginning, I dreamed that I was kneeling before an altar. When I woke up, that was the only part I could remember, yet I knew it mattered. When I first encountered this lesson, I recognized that dream. I thought it meant I would one day arrive at some holy moment of completion.

Perhaps it meant devotion. Because that is what happened today. I came to the altar. I knelt in the only way I currently know how. With wandering thoughts. With hope. With resistance. With love.
The lesson tells me my real thoughts are still in my mind, completely unchanged. Nothing I have done has altered them. They are there, shining beneath the noise. I am not creating them. I am learning how to uncover them. Maybe the veil lifts gently because that is what I can accept.

So I will not call this practice a failure. I showed up. I remained. I wanted the truth more than I wanted escape. And that feels like progress to me.

Thank You for the Thoughts You think with me. They are still there. And I am still willing to find them.

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