My thoughts* on ACIM Urtext Lesson 161, for June 9, 2024. Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.

Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.

* You are the Son of God he is speaking to.

1. Today we practice differently, and take a stand against our anger, that our fears may disappear and offer room to love.

* Anger is a response to fear. It is seen more easily in some but we each have it.

²Here is salvation in the simple words in which we practice with today’s idea.

* “Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.”

³Here is the answer to temptation which can never fail to welcome in the Christ where fear and anger had prevailed before.

* “Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.”

⁴Here is Atonement made complete, the world passed safely by and Heaven now restored.

* “Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.”

* Could it get any clearer OR easier? Accepting the Atonement offers you the baptism that begins a whole new existence as Christ along with Jesus.

⁵Here is the answer of the Voice for God.

* “Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.”

2. Complete abstraction is the natural condition of the mind.

* ab·strac·tion **I suggest that this is the definition that Jesus was pointing to for abstraction, “the quality of dealing with…