My thoughts* on ACIM Urtext Lesson 95, for April 4, 2024. I am one Self, united with my Creator.
I am one Self, united with my Creator.
* I wonder if this speaks to the one person, debi, or to the Christ Whole Sonship?
* I am going to take it as if it is both thereby connecting both my right and left brain and removing that which separates me from Love and All That Is.
1. Today’s idea accurately describes you as God created you.
²You are one within yourself, and one with Him.
³Yours is the unity of all creation.
⁴Your perfect unity makes change in you impossible.
⁵You do not accept this, and you fail to realize it must be so, only because you believe that you have changed yourself already.
2. You see yourself as a ridiculous parody on God’s creation; weak, vicious, ugly and sinful, miserable and beset with pain.
* Be aware that once you have accepted the Atonement that you will be amongst those who have not and you will want to hold the space for them that knows who they are inspite of how they may present themselves.
²Such is your version of yourself; a self divided into many warring parts, separate from God, and tenuously held together by its erratic and capricious maker, to which you pray.
* Do you hear how he is speaking to Christ as One Body here?
³It does not hear your prayers, for it is deaf.
* Our divided Unity does not hear the unity of which we ARE.
⁴It does not see the oneness in you, for it is blind.
⁵It does not understand you are the Son of God, for it is senseless and understands nothing.
* Divided we are only mass confusion.
3. We will attempt today to be aware only of what can hear and see, and what makes perfect sense.
²We will again direct our exercises towards reaching your one Self, which is united with Its Creator.
* This you do individually and as a Whole because there is no division in Reality.
³In patience and in hope we try again today.
* This sentence personifies the personality of Jesus to me for he has been faithful and devoted to our reuniting in all I have read from him. That does not mean that he did not make mistakes or learn along the way just as we do.
4. The use of the first five minutes of every waking hour for practicing the idea for the day has special advantages at the stage of learning in which you are at present.
²It is difficult at this point not to allow your mind to wander, if it undertakes extended practice.
* In other words, this is something that will just become natural for you to be aware of eventually.
³You have surely realized this by now.
⁴You have seen the extent of your lack of mental discipline, and of your need for mind training.
⁵It is necessary that you be aware of this, for it is indeed a hindrance to your advance.
* The fact that we do not teach our children that they are in charge of the functions of their mind and that outside influence is only supportive of what we believe inside needs to change.
5. Frequent but shorter practice periods have other advantages for you at this time.
²In addition to recognizing your difficulties with sustained attention, you must also have noticed that, unless you are reminded of your purpose frequently, you tend to forget about it for long periods of time.
³You often fail to remember the short applications of the idea for the day, and you have not yet formed the habit of using the idea as an automatic response to temptation.
* This is a direct statement to Helen and Bill as well as to Christ as a Whole which will be corrected through application of the Atonement.
6. Structure, then, is necessary for you at this time, planned to include frequent reminders of your goal and regular attempts to reach it.
²Regularity in terms of time is not the ideal requirement for the most beneficial form of practice in salvation.
* Another indication that this is something that will become a part of your intrinsic understanding.
³It is advantageous, however, for those whose motivation is inconsistent, and who remain heavily defended against learning.
* This is the application of practicing correctly something until all opposing defenses of it are released.
7. We will, therefore, keep to the five-minutes-an-hour practice periods for a while, and urge you to omit as few as possible.
²Using the first five minutes of the hour will be particularly helpful, since it imposes firmer structure.
* In our linear minds, establishing a foundation for the future makes sense.
* This will be required until it becomes a natural part of your mentality and recognized existence.
³Do not, however, use your lapses from this schedule as an excuse not to return to it again as soon as you can.
⁴There may well be a temptation to regard the day as lost because you have already failed to do what is required.
⁵This should, however, merely be recognized as what it is; a refusal to let your mistake be corrected, and an unwillingness to try again.
8. The Holy Spirit is not delayed in His teaching by your mistakes.
²He can be held back only by your unwillingness to let them go.
* This is important. We cannot hold onto our guilt.
³Let us therefore be determined, particularly for the next week or so, to be willing to forgive ourselves for our lapses in diligence, and our failures to follow the instructions for practicing the day’s idea.
⁴This tolerance for weakness will enable us to overlook it, rather than give it power to delay our learning.
* This does not deny it or not see it.
⁵If we give it power to do this, we are regarding it as strength, and are confusing strength with weakness.
* Curious how our weakness is considered our strength by the fearful ego yet, it does confirm the ego’s mentality that we are worthy of death alone and not of God’s Love and Presence.
9. When you fail to comply with the requirements of this course, you have merely made a mistake.
²This calls for correction, and for nothing else.
* Thank you.
³To allow a mistake to continue is to make additional mistakes, based on the first and reinforcing it.
* Correction, then, is not to be avoided. To simply deny our mistakes is to fall victim to the ego’s idea of self-destruction.
⁴It is this process that must be laid aside, for it is but another way in which you would defend illusions against the truth.
10. Let all these errors go by recognizing them for what they are.
* Again, do not mistake this for denial, only as a call to correction.
²They are attempts to keep you unaware you are one Self, united with your Creator, at one with every aspect of creation, and limitless in power and in peace.
* Imagine if we chose to look at this in relation to real issues on the planet.
³This is the truth, and nothing else is true.
⁴Today we will affirm this truth again, and try to reach the place in you in which there is no doubt that only this is true.
11. Begin the practice periods today with this assurance, offered to your mind with all the certainty that you can give:
²I am one Self, united with my Creator, at one with every aspect of creation, and limitless in power and in peace.
³Then close your eyes and tell yourself again, slowly and thoughtfully, attempting to allow the meaning of the words to sink into your mind, replacing false ideas:
⁴I am one Self.
* Be assured that the one Self is the Son of God as a Whole Body consisting of All That Is.
⁵Repeat this several times, and then attempt to feel the meaning that the words convey.
12. You are one Self, united and secure in light and joy and peace.
²You are God’s Son, one Self, with one Creator and one goal; to bring awareness of this oneness to all minds, that true creation may extend the allness and the unity of God.
* Oh my, read that again. “…extend the allness and the unity of God.” How splendid!
³You are one Self, complete and healed and whole, with power to lift the veil of darkness from the world, and let the light in you come through to teach the world the truth about yourself.
* Father, let it be.
13. You are one Self, in perfect harmony with all there is, and all that there will be.
²You are one Self, the holy Son of God, united with your brothers in that Self; united with your Father in His Will.
³Feel this one Self in you, and let It shine away all your illusions and your doubts.
⁴This is your Self, the Son of God Himself, sinless as Its Creator, with His strength within you and His Love forever yours.
⁵You are one Self, and it is given you to feel this Self within you, and to cast all your illusions out of the one Mind that is this Self, the holy truth in you.
* There is nothing and no one outside of the Mind and Will of God as His Son. I wish to hold space for that witness before all.
14. Do not forget today.
²We need your help; your little part in bringing happiness to all the world.
³And Heaven looks to you in confidence that you will try today.
⁴Share, then, its surety, for it is yours.
⁵Be vigilant.
⁶Do not forget today.
⁷Throughout the day do not forget your goal.
⁸Repeat today’s idea as frequently as possible, and understand each time you do so, someone hears the voice of hope, the stirring of the truth within his mind, the gentle rustling of the wings of peace.
15. Your own acknowledgment you are one Self, united with your Father, is a call to all the world to be at one with you.
²To everyone you meet today, be sure to give the promise of today’s idea and tell him this:
³You are one Self with me, united with our Creator in this Self.
* Yes, it was referring to both the individual and Christ, as a Whole.
⁴I honor you because of What I am, and What He is, Who loves us both as One.
(ACIM, W-95.1:1–15:4)
Till next time, God bless, debi.
