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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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