My thoughts* on ACIM Urtext Lesson 100, for April 9, 2024. My part is essential to God’s plan for salvation.

Debra (Debi) Yvonne Simmons
6 min readApr 13, 2024

My part is essential to God’s plan for salvation.

  • Caution here. I feel this Lesson’s wording is a bit gaslighting insomuch that it acknowledges God within us as His Son and then denies God’s existence and says we ARE God. That will take us on a track that is far from who we are.

1. Just as God’s Son completes his Father, so your part in it completes your Father’s plan.

* Exactly, because you are a part of the Father’s Son.

²Salvation must reverse the mad belief in separate thoughts and separate bodies, which lead separate lives and go their separate ways.

³One function shared by separate minds unites them in one purpose, for each one of them is equally essential to them all.

* THIS may be our ONLY alignment in unity.

* God’s Expansion, which would be His Son is built on diversity because this the Father delights in. Always in Love and Benevolence but wouldn’t ‘creation’ suggest something new and diverse eternally?

* God will show us by the Holy Spirit, step by step, what this is beyond our function but for NOW we need to focus on our function which is Salvation and let God handle the rest.

2. God’s Will for you is perfect happiness. ²Why should you choose to go against His Will? ³The part that He has saved for you to take in…

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Debra (Debi) Yvonne Simmons

Atonement, His (Christ’s) Story, Three Temptations: Addiction, Power-Hunger, and Depression, “Seeing” Truth in the “Unseen”, Living Above the Chaos C U there :)