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Lesson 47 2026

God is the strength in which I trust.
I have spent so much of my life trying to rely on what I think I can manage, arrange, or figure out. No wonder fear seemed reasonable. When I believe the burden is mine, the future feels uncertain, and my resources feel small. Today I am invited to a different foundation. There is a Strength in me that does not waver, does not overlook anything, and never fails. I can lean into that instead of into my own plans, and discover what real safety feels like.

Last night I went to sleep listening to From the Christ Mind, Book II. I woke up at some point to hear him talking about letting go of fear. I felt uncomfortable thinking about fear, but I knew I wanted to do this once and for all. Then I slipped back into sleep. So today’s lesson is perfect. Of course, I have fear if I am depending on my ego mind to make decisions for me. However, I don’t need to do that. As it tells me in the Lesson:

⁴There is a place in you where there is perfect peace. ⁵There is a place in you where nothing is impossible. ⁶There is a place in you where the strength of God abides.

This morning, when I went into meditation with this lesson, only two fearful ideas occurred to me. One of them was a minor issue that was more regret than fear, but my mind kept going back to it. I finally saw that the fear was not in what was done, but in my neatly avoiding asking the Holy Spirit to decide for me. I know I was doing that, but I didn’t let myself think about it at the time. I don’t need to be afraid of myself for having done this. Seeing it is already the correction. It doesn’t mean that I will go back to making my decisions with the ego. I forgave the slip and let that fear go. Nothing real had happened. Now that I have seen what happened, I will be vigilant for that going forward.

The second fear was the same as yesterday. I have been afraid for my friend who is doing something that he might seriously regret. What I notice is that I keep focusing on possible outcomes that feel scary to me. I am deliberately scaring myself. This is what happens when I trust my own strength. I have no idea what will actually happen, and I have no way of knowing what, if anything, I should say to my friend.

This is a situation I want to place in the Holy Spirit’s hands. I want to do that in every case—why wouldn’t I? As we are told in Chapter 14:

³Why would you struggle so frantically to anticipate all you cannot know, when all knowledge lies behind every decision the Holy Spirit makes for you? (ACIM, T-14.III.16:3)
This passage goes on to say:
⁴Learn of His wisdom and His Love, and teach His answer to everyone who struggles in the dark. ⁵For you decide for them and for yourself. (ACIM, T-14.III.16:4-5)

So, not only will I be guided to the best decision for myself, but I will be helping my friend.
I went into the meditation with my feelings all over the place, but I did reach that moment when I felt myself choose the strength of God, and my mind calmed down. It was a relief to feel peace flow through me. Writing about this cemented that feeling. I don’t know why writing it out helps so much, but it does. I suppose this is the way I talk it out with Jesus.  In the clarification of terms, we are told this about Jesus:

⁷Yet he would help you yet a little more if you will share your pains and joys with him, and leave them both to find the peace of God. (ACIM, C-5.6:7)

I feel happy, peaceful, even joyful right now, and I will continue to feel this if I remember that in any disturbance, I am not alone. I can give my trust to the strength of God that abides in me. And that strength is always enough.
The more I trust that Strength, the more peaceful I become.

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Lesson 46 2026

Forgiveness is everything. It is the way I live a peaceful and happy life while I think I am here. It is the way I awaken from the belief in separation. Forgiveness is the great need of the world, so I stay vigilant for it. No matter where it seems to appear—in someone I know and love, someone I don’t know at all, or in a situation—I am really only seeing the need to forgive a false belief I am holding. Thus, I am always forgiving myself, even when it appears to be outside my mind, because I am the one doing the seeing.
When I first started the Course, it seemed as if the list was endless. But now, while I still find something to forgive each day, it no longer feels overwhelming. Here is an example of how I practice. Someone I love very much is involved in something that could bring devastating consequences for himself and others. Each time I think of it, I feel fear clutch at my gut. This is the main focus of my forgiveness today.

I know there is no hierarchy of illusions. An illusion is an illusion regardless of the form it takes. My mind knows this; my heart sometimes begs to differ. Fear had taken over this morning, and I was lost in the story. But I asked my Brother Jesus to stand with me as I practiced, and my mind cleared; peace returned. It is such a relief when the fog of judgment and fear lifts and, once again, I recognize the presence of a miracle. I feel deep gratitude.

No matter what seems to be the source of my distress, it is always some belief in my mind that needs to be forgiven and let go. There are only a few root cause beliefs, so it is not difficult to see what is asking for correction: the belief that I am unsafe, unfairly treated, a victim, unloved or unlovable, the belief in lack or loss, and the belief in guilt. There may be others, but these come quickly to mind. I am willing to have them all undone. When I do, I am forgiving on behalf of the Sonship because what is forgiven in my mind is forgiven in all minds.

If the forgiveness doesn’t come naturally and easily, I ask the Holy Spirit to correct my perception. It is always a perception that needs correction. This loved one of mine is just living out his script and learning from it as he goes, just as we all are. Jesus says we are learning to remember. I love that idea because it simplifies every decision and puts everything in perspective.

I hope my friend chooses to learn with less suffering, but that is his decision. Regardless of how it seems to unfold, he and I remain safe in God, even while we appear to have this strange experience of separation.

My friend has decisions to make, and that is his responsibility. My interpretation was the problem, not what he seemed to do. So that is what needed correction, and that is my responsibility. That simple request for healed perception is easy to remember and can be offered even when I am busy. Even when I forget the truth, I am supported, strengthened, and comforted.

I am, as always, grateful for A Course in Miracles and for my Father Who placed the Holy Spirit in my mind to guide, heal, and comfort. And in that acceptance, love is remembered.
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Lesson 45 2026

God is the Mind with which I think.
Every time I sit with this lesson, I feel overwhelmed by its beauty and by the magnitude of what it promises. I am in the Mind of God, thinking His Thoughts. I don’t know how anyone could hear that and not feel something inside respond. It is like a call to come home.

This morning, I tried to follow the practice as given. I stayed longer than the few minutes asked of me. I wanted very much to reach those Thoughts. But the mind kept moving. It wanted to make the practice personal. It wanted to evaluate how I was doing. It wanted results.
Each time I noticed, I turned away from the chatter as gently as I could. I didn’t fight it. I didn’t bargain with it. I simply tried again. And I kept trying.

When the time ended, I felt grateful that I had stayed with it. That, for me, is new. There were many times in the past when discomfort would have been my signal to stop. I would make a quick, sincere effort, and then quit because I was so afraid I would fail anyway.
I did not feel that this morning. But I did feel disappointed. I wanted the promise of the lesson. I wanted silence. I wanted an experience I could recognize and say, Yes, this is it. Instead, there was willingness. There was staying. There was returning again and again.

As I sit with it now, I begin to wonder if that was the miracle.
Years ago, when my desire for awakening was just beginning, I dreamed that I was kneeling before an altar. When I woke up, that was the only part I could remember, yet I knew it mattered. When I first encountered this lesson, I recognized that dream. I thought it meant I would one day arrive at some holy moment of completion.

Perhaps it meant devotion. Because that is what happened today. I came to the altar. I knelt in the only way I currently know how. With wandering thoughts. With hope. With resistance. With love.
The lesson tells me my real thoughts are still in my mind, completely unchanged. Nothing I have done has altered them. They are there, shining beneath the noise. I am not creating them. I am learning how to uncover them. Maybe the veil lifts gently because that is what I can accept.

So I will not call this practice a failure. I showed up. I remained. I wanted the truth more than I wanted escape. And that feels like progress to me.

Thank You for the Thoughts You think with me. They are still there. And I am still willing to find them.

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Lesson 44 2026

God is the light in which I see.
When people are stumbling in the dark, as many are now, we lightworkers have a job to do.  This is our opportunity to shine our light and help our brothers find their way to their own light. I want very much to do that, but I must first be sure my light is shining brightly. It cannot do that if my mind is dark with unloving thoughts. So I am vigilant for judgments, for fear thoughts, guilt thoughts, for anger or hatred. I look fearlessly at all I find, and if I find this darkness in my mind, I ask the Holy Spirit to correct my perceptions and to place my faith where it belongs.

But today Jesus shifts my attention in a very personal way. He is not asking me to produce light, but to find it. If I am to see truly, I must recognize that the light is already within my mind, given by God, and always present.

If I see darkness in someone else, I recognize that this darkness is in me, too, since our minds are connected. So, I heal it there. This helps both of us simultaneously. All darkness is within, as all light is within. There is nothing outside our mind. The darkness is an illusion and thus can be undone. All light is creation and simply exists even when obscured by dark thoughts. When I forgive those thoughts, the light is there, and so I can see.

Our practice today is designed to help us learn to reach the light. Jesus knows this is simple and natural, but if the mind is not trained, it feels hard. He tells us that we must accomplish this training if we want to see, and I do want to see. I want that more than anything. So I jumped right in this morning, and I will do so during the day as well. In all the years I have been studying the Course, I have never been as determined as I am now.
If you notice resistance, Jesus explains what it is about.

⁴While you practice in this way, you leave behind everything that you now believe, and all the thoughts that you have made up. ⁵Properly speaking, this is the release from hell. ⁶Yet perceived through the ego’s eyes, it is loss of identity and a descent into hell.

Resistance can be obvious. We might feel fear or anger at the apparent loss of control. Or maybe the resistance is more subtle, showing up as not enough time, or I just can’t slow my mind down. That was always my favorite, and it seemed so clearly a fact that I didn’t recognize it as resistance. Or, to be more accurate, I was able to hide behind it and tell myself that I was being honest. No more of that, though. I am no longer willing to sit in the dark, wishing something would save me from my decisions. Nor am I so confused about who I am that losing the ego is confused with losing myself. I am among the Sons of God, and I will let my light shine now.

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Lesson 43

God is my Source. I cannot see apart from Him.
1. Perception is not an attribute of God. ²His is the realm of knowledge. ³Yet He has created the Holy Spirit as the Mediator between perception and knowledge. ⁴Without this link with God, perception would have replaced knowledge forever in your mind. ⁵With this link with God, perception will become so changed and purified that it will lead to knowledge. ⁶That is its function as the Holy Spirit sees it. ⁷Therefore, that is its function in truth.
2. In God you cannot see. ²Perception has no function in God, and does not exist. ³Yet in salvation, which is the undoing of what never was, perception has a mighty purpose. ⁴Made by the Son of God for an unholy purpose, it must become the means for the restoration of his holiness to his awareness. ⁵Perception has no meaning. ⁶Yet does the Holy Spirit give it a meaning very close to God’s. ⁷Healed perception becomes the means by which the Son of God forgives his brother, and thus forgives himself.
3. You cannot see apart from God because you cannot be apart from God. ²Whatever you do you do in Him, because whatever you think, you think with His Mind. ³If vision is real, and it is real to the extent to which it shares the Holy Spirit’s purpose, then you cannot see apart from God. (ACIM, W-43)

In this lesson, Jesus uses the word ‘see’ to mean perception. What is my interpretation of what the eyes and other senses report to me? What meaning do I give it? To truly understand anything, I must see it through God. I will be misled when I try to understand with the ego. Only one of these voices remembers that we share the same Self.
God is the realm of knowledge and so knows nothing of perception. He gave us the Holy Spirit as our Mediator between perception and knowledge. Thank you, God, for that. Otherwise, we would be forever cut off from knowledge. This is why I continue to develop and refine this communication link with the Holy Spirit.

Sometimes, I feel like I am not sure if I am following the Holy Spirit’s guidance or the ego’s guidance. But if I examine the guidance closely, I will generally be able to work that out. The Holy Spirit will always answer for all. He will always guide me toward oneness, love, peace, kindness, sharing, and joining. The ego will not do that. It is always interested in some form of separation, such as anger, hatred, or selfishness. It is the ultimate me, me, me.

I have learned, with the Holy Spirit’s help, to be vigilant for separation thinking. For instance, when deciding how to vote, I consider what is in the best interest of the whole, not just what would be best for me. I try never to erect barriers between me and others, create boundaries that prevent joining, or settle for the ego’s need for specialness of any kind. When that kind of thinking seeps into my mind, I ask the Holy Spirit for guidance as to what to do.

If fear is driving my responses, I can be sure that I am looking at the situation with the ego. Fear and guilt are always hallmarks of ego thinking. Fear drives our worst behaviors in this world. People will allow pain and suffering to be inflicted on others when they are convinced they have something to fear from them. This is so even when the proof is flimsy or invented. When looked at with the ego, this will seem to make sense. To the ego, defenses are the way we keep ourselves separate and thus safe. I am beginning to see that defense is a statement that separation is real.

Jesus, on the other hand, teaches that our safety lies in our defenselessness, which allows us to join. Without the need to protect a separate self, we are free to join. As we come to accept that we are all part of the Oneness that is God, it will no longer make sense to hurt each other. And in that joining, we will discover we were never in danger. But as long as we look at the world through the ego’s filter of fear, we will continue to suffer. As we begin to see with God instead, our perception is corrected, and this is reflected in our lives.

Sometimes, when I have to decide how to respond to someone or some situation, I am guided to say yes and sometimes to say no. My response will be decided by my perception. Perception is so variable that it is hardly a reliable reference point. On my own, I cannot know what is in everyone’s best interest. But in our minds is the Holy Spirit who does know.

Why would I not choose that Advisor rather than the ego that is the embodiment of separation, knowing that separation is the cause of all suffering in the world? I am happy to practice this lesson and grateful for it. I want my perception to be brought as close to the truth as possible. I am willing to let my seeing be used for remembering instead of judging.

I am grateful to let my seeing be corrected. Holy Spirit, decide for God for me.
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