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ACIM Lesson 16 2025

I have no neutral thoughts.

I woke up with anxiety this morning. It was mostly about my children. My daughter had surgery yesterday, and it was rough. My son, who is living with me now, has been deeply depressed. Thoughts about them crowded my mind. Those thoughts were not neutral, and they were creating in their likeness. Yikes! It was like I had not learned anything from the Course.

So, what I did was to review all the lessons up to this one because I knew the answer was there, but the ego thoughts were obscuring it. At first, it wasn’t helping, but I persisted. Soon, I began to smile. It is easy to get caught up in the story that is unfolding and forget the purpose. I can use the story to go more deeply into the illusion or give it to the Holy Spirit to lift me out of the darkness. I chose the Holy Spirit, and He never lets me down.

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ACIM Lesson 15 2025

My thoughts are images that I have made.

This is a favorite lesson. It thrills me to look at what appears to be a solid and real object and realize that it is just an image I wanted to see. The eyes are like virtual reality goggles. They don’t show us what is there. They show us what we want to be there. Sometimes, this is pretty cool stuff. I want coffee to exist, and there it is. That was one of our best ideas. That and chocolate.

But sometimes, I want a place to put my guilt, and those images are not so pleasant. From the perspective of the ego, the eyes serve to convince us the world is real. And because the images seem to be outside our minds, we can believe we have no responsibility for them. Thus, someone or something else is guilty of them.

Used by the Holy Spirit, they show us what it is in our minds that yet needs to be healed. And sometimes, they show us a manifestation of a miracle as the mind is healed. What a blessing that can be.

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ACIM Lesson 14 2025

God did not create a meaningless world.

I’ve done these lessons a number of times, and I don’t want my contemplations to become rote, the same old - same old. It doesn’t mean the horrors will necessarily be different, but I want the list to be genuine and the feelings that come with it to be genuine. So I began with, Lord, here I am. And I waited as my mind cleared of the meaningless thoughts, knowing that I would be guided to the horrors I needed to see.

I took my time and let each one have its moment. And when I followed it with “and so it is not real,” I let myself feel the relief that comes with that belief. I started with the immediate, my son’s depression.

I ended with a more general cruelty, unkindness, and self-centeredness of the separated ones. And with each, I reminded myself that not one of them could not be real because God did not create them. Afterward, I felt peace and strength knowing that we are as God created us and will always be so, no matter what we dream up to experience.
God did not create a meaningless world.

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ACIM Lesson 13 2025

A meaningless world engenders fear.

Because I think I am in competition with God.
I project what I want to see and then I perceive its meaning. One might wonder why it is that we so often perceive what causes anxiety and here in this lesson, Jesus explains this. We rush to give it meaning before God can do so. We are so determined to be our own creators that we will suffer anything to prove the impossible.

As soon as I read this lesson, I felt my heart lift a little. I have recently had a difficult situation in my life and while I know I am the one that has made it feel difficult, I keep doing it. I think that maybe this will be the lesson that helps me change my mind once and for all about this.

Since I am determined to see this situation differently, the ego mind wants to solve the problem by changing the narrative. I want to solve the problem by letting it be and waiting to see the meaning God writes on it.

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ACIM Lesson 12 2025

I am upset because I see a meaningless world.

I gave it all the meaning it has for me, so however I feel about it is a choice I made. What is truly insane is the desire to defend my choices. I have come to recognize this tendency and to remind myself that there is another way, a happier, more peaceful way to see the world, despite the ego’s insistence that my way is the only way. The ego continues to offer me the thoughts that I made in the past, the thoughts of a mind driven insane by guilt. But I continue to remember the truth. When I am upset by the world, I am upset over the meaningless. Seeing how nonsensical that is, I let the thought go.

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ACIM Lesson 11 2025

My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless world.

Of course, they are. How else would this world appear except from our thoughts? We had a thought that might have been: Let there be separation. And we knew an idea of separation. The body’s eyes acted as projectors for what we were now aware of as the concept of separation. They showed us our thoughts as form in action. Amazing, really. For realism’s sake, we pretended to forget where all this came from, and thus, it seemed to be outside us, causing us. Incredible. And not in a good way. Meaningless for sure since none of this was real, just thought projected.

Today, I looked around my kitchen as I made breakfast and reminded myself that my meaningless thoughts were showing me a meaningless world. I was not seeing a world and then thinking about it, however it might seem. I was thinking about a world, and then seeing my thoughts.

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ACIM Lesson 10 2025

My thoughts do not mean anything.

My thoughts do not mean anything. I watch the parade from the sidelines.

<ul>My heart is filled with joy this morning.
I hope the rain lets up before I need to drive to Shelly’s.
I didn’t remember to do yesterday’s lesson as often as needed, but I will do better today.
I wish my son would not smoke.</ul>

These are thoughts I think I think. They are not my real thoughts. My mind is really blank. These thoughts do not mean anything. This thought will help to release me from all I now believe. I can’t believe I ever felt guilty for meaningless thoughts.
Thank you, Jesus, for your instructions and your ever-present help.

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