Lesson 344 Today I learn the law of love; that what I give my brother is my gift to me. “This is Your law, my Father, not my own.  I have not understood what giving means, and thought to save what I desired for myself alone.  And as I looked upon the treasure that I […]

Lesson 343 I am not asked to make a sacrifice To find the mercy and the peace of God. “The end of suffering can not be loss.  The gift of everything can be but gain.  You only give.  You never take away.  And You created me to be like You, so sacrifice becomes impossible for […]

Lesson 342 I let forgiveness rest upon all things, For thus forgiveness will be given me. “I thank You, Father, for Your plan to save me from the hell I made.  It is not real.  And You have given me the means to prove its unreality to me.  The key is in my hand, and […]

13.  What Is a Miracle?   Miracle, what a beautiful word, derived from the Latin word miraculum, meaning “object of wonder,” which grew from mirari, “to wonder,” forming its root from, mirus, meaning “wonderful.”  Over the years its Latin roots have come to form our Old English definition of Miracle, for example in Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary the following […]

Lesson 341 I can attack but my own sinlessness,  And it is only that which keeps me safe.   Father, Your Son is holy.  I am he on whom You smile in love and tenderness so dear and deep and still the universe smiles back on You, and shares Your Holiness.  How pure, how safe, […]

Lesson 340 I can be free of suffering today. Father, I thank You for today, and for the freedom I am certain it will bring.  This day is holy, for today Your Son will be redeemed.  His suffering is done.  For he will hear Your Voice directing him to find Christ’s vision through forgiveness, and […]

Lesson 339 I will receive whatever I request. “Father, this is Your day.  It is a day in which I would do nothing by myself, but hear Your Voice in everything I do; requesting only what You offer me, accepting only Thoughts You share with me” (ACIM Lesson 339 2:1-2). Today is a powerful teaching […]

Lesson 338 I am affected only by my thoughts. “Your plan is sure, my Father,–only Yours.  All other plans will fail.  And I will have thoughts that will frighten me, until I learn that You have given me the only Thought that leads me to salvation.  Mine alone will fail, and lead me nowhere.  But […]

Lesson 337 My sinlessness protects me from all harm. “You Who created me in sinlessness are not mistaken about what I am.  I was mistaken when I thought I sinned, but I accept Atonement for myself.  Father, my dream is ended now.  Amen”  (ACIM Lesson 337 2:1-4).   What must we do to achieve the […]

Lesson 336 Forgiveness lets me know that minds are joined. “In quiet may forgiveness wipe away my dreams of separation and of sin.  Then let me, Father, look within, and find Your promise of my sinlessness is kept; Your word remains unchanged within my mind, Your Love is still abiding in my heart” (ACIM Lesson […]

Lesson 335 I choose to see my brothers sinlessness. “What could restore Your memory to me, except to see my brother’s sinlessness?  His holiness reminds me that he was created one with me, and like myself.  In him I find my Self, and in Your Son I find the memory of You as well” (ACIM […]

Lesson 334 Today I claim the gifts forgiveness gives. “I seek but the eternal.  For Your Son can be content with nothing less than this.  What, then, can be his solace but what You are offering to his bewildered mind and frightened heart, to give him certainty and bring him peace?  Today I would behold […]

Lesson 333 Forgiveness ends the dream of conflict here.   “Father, forgiveness is the light You chose to shine away all conflict and all doubt, and light way for our return to You.  No light but this can end our evil dream.  No light but this can save the world.  For this alone will never […]

Lesson 332 Fear binds the world.  Forgiveness sets it free. “We would not bind the world again today.  Fear holds it prisoner.  And yet Your Love has given us the means to set it free.  Father, we would release it now.  For as we offer freedom, it is given us.  And we would not remain […]

Lesson 331 There is no conflict, for my will is Yours.   “How foolish, Father, to believe Your Son could cause himself to suffer!  Could he make a plan for his damnation, and be left without a certain way to his release?  You love me, Father.  You could never leave me desolate, to die within […]

12.  What Is the Ego? This is a question that perplexes most spiritual students and scientists:  What exactly is the ego?  As with all esoteric terms, it is not something that can be quantified, accurately tested, or even physically held in one’s hand, although we tend to carry it around with us always.  But to […]

Lesson 330 I will not hurt myself again today. “Father, Your Son can not be hurt.  And if we think we suffer, we but fail to know our one Identity we share with You.  We would return to It today, to be made free forever from all our mistakes, and to be saved from what […]

Lesson 329 I have already chosen what You will. “Father, I thought I wandered from Your Will, defied it, broke its laws, and interposed a second will more powerful than Yours.  Yet what I am in truth is but Your Will, extended and extending.  This am I, and this will never change.  As You are […]

Lesson 328 I choose the second place to gain the first. “There is no will but Yours.  And I am glad that nothing I imagine contradicts what You would have me be.  It is Your Will that I be wholly safe, eternally at peace.  And happily I share that Will which You, my Father, gave […]

Lesson 327 I need but call and You will answer me. Father, I thank You that Your promises will never fail in my experience, if I but test them out.  Let me attempt therefore to try them, and to judge them not.  Your Word is one with You.  You give the means whereby conviction comes, […]