II. The Gift of Lilies
1. Look upon all the trinkets made to hang upon the body, or to cover it or for its use. ²See all the useless things made for its eyes to see. ³Think on the many offerings made for its pleasure, and remember all these were made to make seem lovely what you hate. ⁴Would you employ this hated thing to draw your brother to you, and to attract his body’s eyes? ⁵Learn you but offer him a crown of thorns, not recognizing it for what it is, and trying to justify your own interpretation of its value by his acceptance. ⁶Yet still the gift proclaims his worthlessness to you, as his acceptance and delight acknowledges the lack of value he places on himself.
2. Gifts are not made through bodies, if they be truly given and received. ²For bodies can neither offer nor accept; hold out nor take. ³Only the mind can value, and only the mind decides on what it would receive and give. ⁴And every gift it offers depends on what it wants. ⁵It will adorn its chosen home most carefully, making it ready to receive the gifts it wants by offering them to those who come unto its chosen home, or those it would attract to it. ⁶And there they will exchange their gifts, offering and receiving what their minds judge to be worthy of them.
3. Each gift is an evaluation of the receiver and the _giver._ ²No one but sees his chosen home as an altar to himself. ³No one but seeks to draw to it the worshippers of what he placed upon it, making it worthy of their devotion. ⁴And each has set a light upon his altar, that they may see what he has placed upon it and take it for their own. ⁵Here is the value that you lay upon your brother and on yourself. ⁶Here is your gift to both; your judgment on the Son of God for what he is. ⁷Forget not that it is your savior to whom the gift is offered. ⁸Offer him thorns and _you_ are crucified. ⁹Offer him lilies and it is yourself you free.
4. I have great need for lilies, for the Son of God has not forgiven me. ²And can I offer him forgiveness when he offers thorns to me? ³For he who offers thorns to anyone is against me still, and who is whole without him? ⁴Be you his friend for me, that I may be forgiven and you may look upon the Son of God as whole. ⁵But look you first upon the altar in your chosen home, and see what you have laid upon it to offer me. ⁶If it be thorns whose points gleam sharply in a blood-red light, the body is your chosen home and it is separation that you offer me. ⁷And yet the thorns are gone. ⁸Look you still closer at them now, and you will see your altar is no longer what it was.
5. You look still with the body’s eyes, and they can see but thorns. ²Yet you have asked for and received another sight. ³Those who accept the Holy Spirit’s purpose as their own share also His vision. ⁴And what enables Him to see His purpose shine forth from every altar now is yours as well as His. ⁵He sees no strangers; only dearly loved and loving friends. ⁶He sees no thorns but only lilies, gleaming in the gentle glow of peace that shines on everything He looks upon and loves.
6. This Easter, look with different eyes upon your brother. ²You _have_ forgiven me. ³And yet I cannot use your gift of lilies while you see them not. ⁴Nor can you use what I have given unless you share it. ⁵The Holy Spirit’s vision is no idle gift, no plaything to be tossed about a while and laid aside. ⁶Listen and hear this carefully, nor think it but a dream, a careless thought to play with, or a toy you would pick up from time to time and then put by. ⁷For if you do, so will it be to you.
7. You have the vision now to look past all illusions. ²It has been given you to see no thorns, no strangers and no obstacles to peace. ³The fear of God is nothing to you now. ⁴Who is afraid to look upon illusions, knowing his savior stands beside him? ⁵With him, your vision has become the greatest power for the undoing of illusion that God Himself could give. ⁶For what God gave the Holy Spirit, you have received. ⁷The Son of God looks unto you for his release. ⁸For you have asked for and been given the strength to look upon this final obstacle, and see no thorns nor nails to crucify the Son of God, and crown him king of death.
8. Your chosen home is on the other side, beyond the veil. ²It has been carefully prepared for you, and it is ready to receive you now. ³You will not see it with the body’s eyes. ⁴Yet all you need you have. ⁵Your home has called to you since time began, nor have you ever failed entirely to hear. ⁶You heard, but knew not how to look, nor where. ⁷And now you know. ⁸In you the knowledge lies, ready to be unveiled and freed from all the terror that kept it hidden. ⁹There _is_ no fear in love. ¹⁰The song of Easter is the glad refrain the Son of God was never crucified. ¹¹Let us lift up our eyes together, not in fear but faith. ¹²And there will be no fear in us, for in our vision will be no illusions; only a pathway to the open door of Heaven, the home we share in quietness and where we live in gentleness and peace, as one together.
9. Would you not have your holy brother lead you there? ²His innocence will light your way, offering you its guiding light and sure protection, and shining from the holy altar within him where you laid the lilies of forgiveness. ³Let him be to you the savior from illusions, and look on him with the new vision that looks upon the lilies and brings you joy. ⁴We go beyond the veil of fear, lighting each other’s way. ⁵The holiness that leads us is within us, as is our home. ⁶So will we find what we were meant to find by Him Who leads us.
10. This is the way to Heaven and to the peace of Easter, in which we join in glad awareness that the Son of God is risen from the past, and has awakened to the present. ²Now is he free, unlimited in his communion with all that is within him. ³Now are the lilies of his innocence untouched by guilt, and perfectly protected from the cold chill of fear and withering blight of sin alike. ⁴Your gift has saved him from the thorns and nails, and his strong arm is free to guide you safely through them and beyond. ⁵Walk with him now rejoicing, for the savior from illusions has come to greet you, and lead you home with him.
11. Here is your savior and your friend, released from crucifixion through your vision, and free to lead you now where he would be. ²He will not leave you, nor forsake the savior in his pain. ³And gladly will you and your brother walk the way of innocence together, singing as you behold the open door of Heaven and recognize the home that called to you. ⁴Give joyously to your brother the freedom and the strength to lead you there. ⁵And come before his holy altar where the strength and freedom wait, to offer and receive the bright awareness that leads you home. ⁶The lamp is lit in you for your brother. ⁷And by the hands that gave it to him shall you be led past fear to love. (ACIM T-20.II.1:1–11:7)
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You believe that you are responsible for what you do but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice.
ACIM Original Edition T-1.IV.73:6-7
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If perfect love casts out fear,
And if fear exists,
Then there is not perfect love.
But only perfect love really exists.
If there is fear,
It creates a state which does not exist.
ACIM Original Edition T-1.I.100
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The Soul is in a state of grace forever.
Man’s reality is only his soul.
Therefore, man is in a state of grace forever.
ACIM Original Edition T-1.I.36
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“The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.”
ACIM In-2:3
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What It Says
1Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
2This is how A Course in Miracles begins. It makes a fundamental distinction between the real and the unreal; between knowledge and perception. Knowledge is truth, under one law, the law of love or God. Truth is unalterable, eternal and unambiguous. It can be unrecognized, but it cannot be changed. It applies to everything that God created, and only what He created is real. It is beyond learning because it is beyond time and process. It has no opposite; no beginning and no end. It merely is.
3The world of perception, on the other hand, is the world of time, of change, of beginnings and endings. It is based on interpretation, not on facts. It is the world of birth and death, founded on the belief in scarcity, loss, separation and death. It is learned rather than given, selective in its perceptual emphases, unstable in its functioning, and inaccurate in its interpretations.
4From knowledge and perception respectively, two distinct thought systems arise which are opposite in every respect. In the realm of knowledge no thoughts exist apart from God, because God and His Creation share one Will. The world of perception, however, is made by the belief in opposites and separate wills, in perpetual conflict with each other and with God. What perception sees and hears appears to be real because it permits into awareness only what conforms to the wishes of the perceiver. This leads to a world of illusions, a world which needs constant defense precisely _because_ it is not real.
5When you have been caught in the world of perception you are caught in a dream. You cannot escape without help, because everything your senses show merely witnesses to the reality of the dream. God has provided the Answer, the only Way out, the true Helper. It is the function of His Voice, His Holy Spirit, to mediate between the two worlds. He can do this because, while on the one hand He knows the truth, on the other He also recognizes our illusions, but without believing in them. It is the Holy Spirit’s goal to help us escape from the dream world by teaching us how to reverse our thinking and unlearn our mistakes. Forgiveness is the Holy Spirit’s great learning aid in bringing this thought reversal about. However, the Course has its own definition of what forgiveness really is just as it defines the world in its own way.
6The world we see merely reflects our own internal frame of reference—the dominant ideas, wishes and emotions in our minds. “Projection makes perception” (T-21.in.1:1). We look inside first, decide the kind of world we want to see and then project that world outside, making it the truth _as we see it_. We make it true by our interpretations of what it is we are seeing. If we are using perception to justify our own mistakes—our anger, our impulses to attack, our lack of love in whatever form it may take—we will see a world of evil, destruction, malice, envy and despair. All this we must learn to forgive, not because we are being “good” and “charitable,” but because what we are seeing is not true. We have distorted the world by our twisted defenses, and are therefore seeing what is not there. As we learn to recognize our perceptual errors, we also learn to look past them or “forgive.” At the same time we are forgiving ourselves, looking past our distorted self-concepts to the Self That God created in us and as us.
7Sin is defined as “lack of love” (T-1.IV.3:1). Since love is all there is, sin in the sight of the Holy Spirit is a mistake to be corrected, rather than an evil to be punished. Our sense of inadequacy, weakness and incompletion comes from the strong investment in the “scarcity principle” that governs the whole world of illusions. From that point of view, we seek in others what we feel is wanting in ourselves. We “love” another in order to get something ourselves. That, in fact, is what passes for love in the dream world. There can be no greater mistake than that, for love is incapable of asking for anything.
8Only minds can really join, and whom God has joined no man can put asunder (T-17.III.7:3). It is, however, only at the level of Christ Mind that true union is possible, and has, in fact, never been lost. The “little I” seeks to enhance itself by external approval, external possessions and external “love.” The Self That God created needs nothing. It is forever complete, safe, loved and loving. It seeks to share rather than to get; to extend rather than project. It has no needs and wants to join with others out of their mutual awareness of abundance.
9The special relationships of the world are destructive, selfish and childishly egocentric. Yet, if given to the Holy Spirit, these relationships can become the holiest things on earth—the miracles that point the way to the return to Heaven. The world uses its special relationships as a final weapon of exclusion and a demonstration of separateness. The Holy Spirit transforms them into perfect lessons in forgiveness and in awakening from the dream. Each one is an opportunity to let perceptions be healed and errors corrected. Each one is another chance to forgive oneself by forgiving the other. And each one becomes still another invitation to the Holy Spirit and to the remembrance of God.
10Perception is a function of the body, and therefore represents a limit on awareness. Perception sees through the body’s eyes and hears through the body’s ears. It evokes the limited responses which the body makes. The body appears to be largely self-motivated and independent, yet it actually responds only to the intentions of the mind. If the mind wants to use it for attack in any form, it becomes prey to sickness, age and decay. If the mind accepts the Holy Spirit’s purpose for it instead, it becomes a useful way of communicating with others, invulnerable as long as it is needed, and to be gently laid by when its use is over. Of itself it is neutral, as is everything in the world of perception. Whether it is used for the goals of the ego or the Holy Spirit depends entirely on what the mind wants.
11The opposite of seeing through the body’s eyes is the vision of Christ, which reflects strength rather than weakness, unity rather than separation, and love rather than fear. The opposite of hearing through the body’s ears is communication through the Voice for God, the Holy Spirit, which abides in each of us. His Voice seems distant and difficult to hear because the ego, which speaks for the little, separated self, seems to be much louder. This is actually reversed. The Holy Spirit speaks with unmistakable clarity and overwhelming appeal. No one who does not choose to identify with the body could possibly be deaf to His messages of release and hope, nor could he fail to accept joyously the vision of Christ in glad exchange for his miserable picture of himself.
12Christ’s vision is the Holy Spirit’s gift, God’s alternative to the illusion of separation and to the belief in the reality of sin, guilt and death. It is the one correction for all errors of perception; the reconciliation of the seeming opposites on which this world is based. Its kindly light shows all things from another point of view, reflecting the thought system that arises from knowledge and making return to God not only possible but inevitable. What was regarded as injustice done to one by someone else now becomes a call for help and for union. Sin, sickness and attack are seen as misperceptions calling for remedy through gentleness and love. Defenses are laid down because where there is no attack there is no need for them. Our brothers’ needs become our own, because they are taking the journey with us as we go to God. Without us they would lose their way. Without them we could never find our own.
13Forgiveness is unknown in Heaven, where the need for it would be inconceivable. However, in this world, forgiveness is a necessary correction for all the mistakes that we have made. To offer forgiveness is the only way for us to have it, for it reflects the law of Heaven that giving and receiving are the same. Heaven is the natural state of all the Sons of God as He created them. Such is their reality forever. It has not changed because it has been forgotten.
14Forgiveness is the means by which we will remember. Through forgiveness the thinking of the world is reversed. The forgiven world becomes the gate of Heaven, because by its mercy we can at last forgive ourselves. Holding no one prisoner to guilt, we become free. Acknowledging Christ in all our brothers, we recognize His Presence in ourselves. Forgetting all our misperceptions, and with nothing from the past to hold us back, we can remember God. Beyond this, learning cannot go. When we are ready, God Himself will take the final step in our return to Him.
Lessons 361 to 365
This holy instant would I give to You. Be You in charge. For I would follow You, certain that Your direction gives me peace.
1. And if I need a word to help me, He will give it to me. ²If I need a thought, that will He also give. ³And if I need but stillness and a tranquil, open mind, these are the gifts I will receive of Him. ⁴He is in charge by my request. ⁵And He will hear and answer me, because He speaks for God my Father and His holy Son.
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Final Lessons
Introduction
1. Our final lessons will be left as free of words as possible. ²We use them but at the beginning of our practicing, and only to remind us that we seek to go beyond them. ³Let us turn to Him Who leads the way and makes our footsteps sure. ⁴To Him we leave these lessons, as to Him we give our lives henceforth. ⁵For we would not return again to the belief in sin that made the world seem ugly and unsafe, attacking and destroying, dangerous in all its ways, and treacherous beyond the hope of trust and the escape from pain.
2. His is the only way to find the peace that God has given us. ²It is His way that everyone must travel in the end, because it is this ending God Himself appointed. ³In the dream of time it seems to be far off. ⁴And yet, in truth, it is already here; already serving us as gracious guidance in the way to go. ⁵Let us together follow in the way that truth points out to us. ⁶And let us be the leaders of our many brothers who are seeking for the way, but find it not.
3. And to this purpose let us dedicate our minds, directing all our thoughts to serve the function of salvation. ²Unto us the aim is given to forgive the world. ³It is the goal that God has given us. ⁴It is His ending to the dream we seek, and not our own. ⁵For all that we forgive we will not fail to recognize as part of God Himself. ⁶And thus His memory is given back, completely and complete.
4. It is our function to remember Him on earth, as it is given us to be His Own completion in reality. ²So let us not forget our goal is shared, for it is that remembrance which contains the memory of God, and points the way to Him and to the Heaven of His peace. ³And shall we not forgive our brother, who can offer this to us? ⁴He is the way, the truth and life that shows the way to us. ⁵In him resides salvation, offered us through our forgiveness, given unto him.
5. We will not end this year without the gift our Father promised to His holy Son. ²We are forgiven now. ³And we are saved from all the wrath we thought belonged to God, and found it was a dream. ⁴We are restored to sanity, in which we understand that anger is insane, attack is mad, and vengeance merely foolish fantasy. ⁵We have been saved from wrath because we learned we were mistaken. ⁶Nothing more than that. ⁷And is a father angry at his son because he failed to understand the truth?
6. We come in honesty to God and say we did not understand, and ask Him to help us to learn His lessons, through the Voice of His Own Teacher. ²Would He hurt His Son? ³Or would He rush to answer him, and say, “This is My Son, and all I have is his”? ⁴Be certain He will answer thus, for these are His Own words to you. ⁵And more than that can no one ever have, for in these words is all there is, and all that there will be throughout all time and in eternity.
What does A Course in Miracles (ACIM) consist of?
What It Is
1As its title implies, the Course is arranged throughout as a teaching device. It consists of three books: a 669-page Text, a 488-page Workbook for Students, and a 92-page Manual for Teachers. The order in which students choose to use the books, and the ways in which they study them, depend on their particular needs and preferences.
2The curriculum the Course proposes is carefully conceived and is explained, step by step, at both the theoretical and practical levels. It emphasizes application rather than theory, and experience rather than theology. It specifically states that “a universal theology is impossible, but a universal experience is not only possible but necessary” (C-in.2:5). Although Christian in statement, the Course deals with universal spiritual themes. It emphasizes that it is but one version of the universal curriculum. There are many others, this one differing from them only in form. They all lead to God in the end.
3The Text is largely theoretical, and sets forth the concepts on which the Course’s thought system is based. Its ideas contain the foundation for the Workbook’s lessons. Without the practical application the Workbook provides, the Text would remain largely a series of abstractions which would hardly suffice to bring about the thought reversal at which the Course aims.
4The Workbook includes 365 lessons, one for each day of the year. It is not necessary, however, to do the lessons at that tempo, and one might want to remain with a particularly appealing lesson for more than one day. The instructions urge only that not more than one lesson a day should be attempted. The practical nature of the Workbook is underscored by the introduction to its lessons, which emphasizes experience through application rather than a prior commitment to a spiritual goal:
5Some of the ideas the workbook presents you will find hard to believe, and others may seem to be quite startling. This does not matter. You are merely asked to apply the ideas as you are directed to do. You are not asked to judge them at all. You are asked only to use them. It is their use that will give them meaning to you, and will show you that they are true.
6Remember only this; you need not believe the ideas, you need not accept them, and you need not even welcome them. Some of them you may actively resist. None of this will matter, or decrease their efficacy. But do not allow yourself to make exceptions in applying the ideas the workbook contains, and whatever your reactions to the ideas may be, use them. Nothing more than that is required (W-in.8-9).
7Finally, the Manual for Teachers, which is written in question and answer form, provides answers to some of the more likely questions a student might ask. It also includes a clarification of a number of the terms the Course uses, explaining them within the theoretical framework of the Text.
8The Course makes no claim to finality, nor are the Workbook lessons intended to bring the student’s learning to completion. At the end, the reader is left in the hands of his or her own Internal Teacher, Who will direct all subsequent learning as He sees fit. While the Course is comprehensive in scope, truth cannot be limited to any finite form, as is clearly recognized in the statement at the end of the Workbook:
9This Course is a beginning, not an end...No more specific lessons are assigned, for there is no more need of them. Henceforth, hear but the Voice for God...He will direct your efforts, telling you exactly what to do, how to direct your mind, and when to come to Him in silence, asking for His sure direction and His certain Word (W-ep.1:1; 3:1-3).
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Lesson 360
Peace be to me, the holy Son of God. Peace to my brother, who is one with me. Let all the world be blessed with peace through us.
1. Father, it is Your peace that I would give, receiving it of You. ²I am Your Son, forever just as You created me, for the Great Rays remain forever still and undisturbed within me. ³I would reach to them in silence and in certainty, for nowhere else can certainty be found. ⁴Peace be to me, and peace to all the world. ⁵In holiness were we created, and in holiness do we remain. ⁶Your Son is like to You in perfect sinlessness. ⁷And with this thought we gladly say “Amen.”
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What is “A Course in Miracles” or “ACIM”?
The goal of A Course in Miracles or ACIM is not love or God, but the undoing, through forgiveness, of the interferences of guilt and fear that prevent our acceptance of Him. Per the Introduction of the Text, this course does aim at removing the blocks to the awareness of love’s presence, which is your natural inheritance (ACIM C-3.1; T-in.1; Glossary-Index For A Course In Miracles)
A distinction needs to be made. “Forgiveness” is understood in ACIM is the looking at our specialness with the Holy Spirit or Jesus without guilt or judgment; it sees all people as united in the Sonship of God, looking beyond the seeming differences that reflection separation; it is the recognition that what we thought was done to us we did to ourselves since we are responsible for our scripts, and therefore only we can deprive ourselves of the peace of God. Forgiveness sees the other person as spirit, whole and innocent, as they remain with you in the oneness of God. We forgive others for what they have not done to us, not for what they have done (T-14.IV.3; T-22.VI.8; T-25.VI; W-pI.62; W-pI.186.14; W-pI.192; W-pI.200.6; Glossary-Index For A Course In Miracles)
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From here on, abbreviations to published A Course In Miracles (ACIM) references will be used as follows:
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W: workbook for students (https://acim.org/acim/workbook/introduction/en/s/401?wid=toc&fwv=true)
M: manual for teachers (https://acim.org/acim/manual/introduction/en/s/801?wid=toc&fwv=true)
C: clarification of terms
(https://acim.org/acim/clarification/introduction/en/s/851?wid=toc)
in: Introduction (of any referenced section)
r: Review (workbook for students)
fl: Final lessons (workbook for students)
ep: Epilogue (https://acim.org/acim/clarification/epilogue/en/s/858?wid=toc)
P: Psychotherapy: Purpose, Process and Practice (https://acim.org/acim/psychotherapy/introduction/en/s/901?wid=toc&fwv=true)
S: The Song of Prayer (https://acim.org/acim/song-of-prayer/prayer-introduction/en/s/922?wid=toc&fwv=true)
Examples of the notation used in references:
T-26.IV.4:7 (T for ACIM Text; 26 for Chapter; IV for Section; 4 for Paragraph; 7 for Sentence)
W-pI.169.5:2 (W for Workbook; pI for Part I; 169 for Lesson; 5 for Paragraph; 2 for Sentence)
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W: workbook for students (https://acim.org/acim/workbook/introduction/en/s/401?wid=toc&fwv=true)
M: manual for teachers (https://acim.org/acim/manual/introduction/en/s/801?wid=toc&fwv=true)
C: clarification of terms
(https://acim.org/acim/clarification/introduction/en/s/851?wid=toc)
in: Introduction (of any referenced section)
r: Review (workbook for students)
fl: Final lessons (workbook for students)
ep: Epilogue (https://acim.org/acim/clarification/epilogue/en/s/858?wid=toc)
P: Psychotherapy: Purpose, Process and Practice (https://acim.org/acim/psychotherapy/introduction/en/s/901?wid=toc&fwv=true)
S: The Song of Prayer (https://acim.org/acim/song-of-prayer/prayer-introduction/en/s/922?wid=toc&fwv=true)
Lesson 359
God’s answer is some form of peace. All pain is healed; all misery replaced with joy. All prison doors are opened. And all sin is understood as merely a mistake.
1. Father, today we will forgive Your world, and let creation be Your Own. ²We have misunderstood all things. ³But we have not made sinners of the holy Sons of God. ⁴What You created sinless so abides forever and forever. ⁵Such are we. ⁶And we rejoice to learn that we have made mistakes which have no real effects on us. ⁷Sin is impossible, and on this fact forgiveness rests upon a certain base more solid than the shadow world we see. ⁸Help us forgive, for we would be redeemed. ⁹Help us forgive, for we would be at peace.
https://acim.org/acim/lesson-359/gods-answer-is-some-form-of-peace-all-pain-is/en/s/784
We sincerely hope the daily ACIM workbook lessons we shared throughout 2024 were truly helpful to you on your spiritual path towards discovering your oneness with God. Here’s what you can expect from this account in 2025:
- Daily reposting of the ACIM Workbook lessons
- Select passages from the ACIM Text, Workbook, Manual For Teachers, and other ACIM-inspired books
Check out the ACIM audio app for your mobile device: https://acim.org/audio-app/
ACIM web edition (free): https://acim.org/acim/en/
Here’s to a most peaceful and joyous New Year as we encourage one another to remove the obstacles to Love’s presence and remember our true reality in God.
Lesson 358
No call to God can be unheard nor left unanswered. And of this I can be sure; His answer is the one I really want.
1. You Who remember what I really am alone remember what I really want. ²You speak for God, and so You speak for me. ³And what You give me comes from God Himself. ⁴Your Voice, my Father, then is mine as well, and all I want is what You offer me, in just the form You choose that it be mine. ⁵Let me remember all I do not know, and let my voice be still, remembering. ⁶But let me not forget Your Love and care, keeping Your promise to Your Son in my awareness always. ⁷Let me not forget myself is nothing, but my Self is all.
https://acim.org/acim/lesson-358/no-call-to-god-can-be-unheard-nor-left-unanswered/en/s/783
Lesson 357
Truth answers every call we make to God, responding first with miracles, and then returning unto us to be itself.
1. Forgiveness, truth’s reflection, tells me how to offer miracles, and thus escape the prison house in which I think I live. ²Your holy Son is pointed out to me, first in my brother; then in me. ³Your Voice instructs me patiently to hear Your Word, and give as I receive. ⁴And as I look upon Your Son today, I hear Your Voice instructing me to find the way to You, as You appointed that the way shall be:
⁵“Behold his sinlessness, and be you healed.”
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Lesson 356
Sickness is but another name for sin. Healing is but another name for God. The miracle is thus a call to Him.
1. Father, You promised You would never fail to answer any call Your Son might make to You. ²It does not matter where he is, what seems to be his problem, nor what he believes he has become. ³He is Your Son, and You will answer him. ⁴The miracle reflects Your Love, and thus it answers him. ⁵Your Name replaces every thought of sin, and who is sinless cannot suffer pain. ⁶Your Name gives answer to Your Son, because to call Your Name is but to call his own.
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