My thoughts* on ACIM Workbook Lesson 217, for August 4, 2024. This is true and misleading at the same time.

I am not a body. I am free.

* The idea of body and this existence in that place where death is worshipped truly wants to claim me and demands that IT IS REALITY and NOTHING ELSE EXISTS, especially not Eternity or Eternal Life.

* It demands that I breathe and do my best to have a roof over my head but INSIDE there is a “place” where I know Who I am and that I come from Love.

For I am still as God created me.

1. (197) It can be but my gratitude I earn.

* This is true and misleading at the same time.

²Who should give thanks for my salvation but myself?

* THIS gives away our Relationship to God that Allows OUR ACCEPTANCE of our own existence.

³And how but through salvation can I find the Self to Whom my thanks are due?

* Through SALVATION ~ I FOUND ~ GOD, THE ORIGINAL AND UNIVERSAL CREATOR, HIS SON OF WHICH I AM A PART, and the (W)HOLY SPIRIT BY WHICH I HAVE BEEN GIVEN NEW EYES AND EARS ALONG WITH A GPS TO GUIDE ME MOMENT BY MOMENT THROUGH THIS DARKNESS THAT I HAVE A WITNESS IN THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE EGOIC MENTALITY OF CHRIST AT THIS TIME.

⁴I am not a body. ⁵I am free.

⁶For I am still as God created me.

* I know that EVERYONE will come to this for themselves.

* In the meantime, I will hold a “witness” of God’s Love for His Son and the beautiful treasure that awaits us all.

(ACIM, W-217.1:1–6)

Till next time, God bless, debi.