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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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ACIM Lesson 6 2025

I am upset because I see something that is not there.

I had a moment of panic when I started my washing machine, and it didn’t seem like water was flowing. I turned it off quickly in case my pipes froze last night. After the house warmed up sufficiently, I cautiously tried again, and the water flowed freely. I seemed to have panicked because maybe a line had burst. But I panicked because I saw something that was not there.

I was feeling regret that I may have said something that hurt a friend’s feelings. But I was regretful because I saw something that was not there.
If I gave up the tendency to panic or feel regret at the thought of everything but these, I would still not be free. To be free of illusions so that we can know Reality, we must let go of them all. Otherwise, we are still lost in our imagination.

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ACIM Lesson 5 2025

I am not upset for the reason I think.

This lesson is one that has been essential to my practice. Besides coming to realize that I am never upset for the reason I think and thus always looking deeper, there are two other ideas that would guide me. There are no small upsets. I didn’t know that, but once I thought about it, I realized how true it is. I am either upset or I am at peace. I cannot be upset in any way and still be at peace. What a revelation that was! And this one: I cannot keep this form of upset and let the others go. Of course, now that I consider this, it is obvious for the above reason. I can let go of a thousand upsets, and if there is one more, I will still not be at peace.

This morning’s thoughts
I am anxious that I have spent too much money.
I am anxious that I am not going to be happy with my purchase.
I am worried about my son, who is depressed.

I am not upset about these issues for the reason I think.
I am willing to forgive them and let them go, recognizing they may seem different in form, but in content, they are all the same. These days, I value my peace above all other things.

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ACIM Lesson 4 2025

These thoughts do not mean anything.

“I love this first cup of coffee. I wish I had gotten up earlier. I hope I have time to do my Text work today. I feel anxious when I get behind.” These thoughts do not mean anything. They are like the things I see in this room.

I could have gone all day without these thoughts… literally. I’ve probably had the same thoughts, and many like them, thousands of times. Even more. All they do is hide my real thoughts from my awareness. I think of thoughts as the veil that hides reality, the veil I am learning to lift and will soon recognize as nothing. Just illusion. When that happens, it will disappear completely, and I will see the real world.

So, I continue this lovely practice of lessons and whatever else the Holy Spirit guides me to do. I will continue to watch the veil thin, and the Love that is the stuff of reality is exposed more and more. Even now, I feel such joy and peace, and I feel it for no reason that I can discern. It must be that joy and peace are simply natural when we turn from the illusion and toward God.

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ACIM Lesson 3 2025

I do not understand anything I see.

The point of the exercises is to help you clear your mind of all past associations, to see things exactly as they appear to you now, and to realize how little you really understand about them.

I do not understand this cup of coffee. I find it remarkably difficult to suspend my judgment and to do this simple exercise without thinking about what I understand about the objects around me. The mind really wants to argue the point. And, of course, that is the point. How can I discover the truth when I think I already know it? Dear God, I pray for the humility of an open mind.

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