A Course in Miracles Workbook Daily Lesson 264, Year 2022

ACIM Daily Lesson 264 I am surrounded by the Love of God. 1. Father, You stand before me and behind, beside me, in the place I see myself, and everywhere I go.

Lesson 264

I am surrounded by the Love of God.

1. Father, You stand before me and behind, beside me, in the place I see myself, and everywhere I go. ²You are in all the things I look upon, the sounds I hear, and every hand that reaches for my own. ³In You time disappears, and place becomes a meaningless belief. ⁴For what surrounds Your Son and keeps him safe is Love itself. ⁵There is no source but this, and nothing is that does not share its holiness; that stands beyond Your one creation, or without the Love which holds all things within itself. ⁶Father, Your Son is like Yourself. ⁷We come to You in Your Own Name today, to be at peace within Your everlasting Love.

2. My brothers, join with me in this today. ²This is salvation’s prayer. ³Must we not join in what will save the world, along with us?

No matter what tale we weaved, and what story we seem to be living, the only thing that exists is God and His Creation, which is more God. How could I be anything but safe and loved? How could these images of my imagination be real? Holy Spirit, please help me today as I navigate the dream world in my mind. Help me to remember the truth.

There have been times when I have been asleep and dreaming.

And suddenly, the dream took a turn that I didn’t like. I have had those times when the dream turned lucid, and I pulled myself out of it. Sometimes it felt like trying to free myself of a spider’s web, sticky and hard to get through despite its fragility. Other times, the dream was so frightening that I would make a firm decision to wake up and that happened immediately. Those times I had to make myself stay awake until I was sure the dream wouldn’t pull me under again.

This is what it felt like in the dream life of Myron for a long time. Like my nightmares which I rarely have anymore, my daydreams are not as frightening as they used to be. But sometimes, I do briefly fall prey to the fear generated by the images of the world we made. I used to fight my way out of the dream using the tools of the Course. But now, I can make a firm decision to wake up to the truth. I practice the latter because it is empowering to do it this way. It helps me remember who I am.

Regardless of how we awaken, we will awaken.

What we awaken to is the knowledge that there is only God. We exist in God, as does everything and everyone. There is nothing outside God. I remember someone saying that trying to find God is like a fish trying to find water. I swim in God. I keep instructing my mind of this undeniable fact as the mind keeps clinging to the body as if that were its salvation. It is slowly giving up the fight, and I am practicing the power of decision to speed this awakening process along.

⁶Let me remember the power of my decision, and recognize where I really abide. (ACIM, W-53.4:6)

As I look at the world today, I will remember that it is holy because it shares the Holiness of God as do all things. It doesn’t seem so but then I remember what Jesus tells us in the Course. ⁶The world you see cannot be the world God loves, and yet His Word assures us that He loves the world. (ACIM, M-11.1:6) And²God does love the real world, and those who perceive its reality cannot see the world of death. (ACIM, T-12.III.8:2).

If it is my desire to do so, I can see that holiness instead of the many little annoyances that judgment makes of the world. This is how I live the happy dream, seeing the world in its holiness rather than seeing the world I made with my judgments. I am not alone in this decision because Jesus is joining me. As he says: ³Must we not join in what will save the world, along with us? (ACIM, W-264.2:3) Yes! Absolutely, Brother.

The following is a conversation with the Holy Spirit.

At first, I learned what the Course had to teach me. Then I began to practice what I was learning. Eventually, this practice brought me to acceptance. Accepting all Jesus is teaching us sometimes filled my heart with joy. But other times, I experienced grief at all I relinquished to have the world. This is what the Holy Spirit was talking to me about.

This prayer leaves me in tears.

They are tears of joy for the truth of who I am and who I remain despite my foolish dreams. They are also tears of grief for what I have come to believe about myself, for trying to make myself what I am not. Holy Spirit, I am willing to see differently.

Holy Spirit: Child, only in your wildest imagination could you exist apart from God. You have lost nothing in thinking it is possible. You have only frightened yourself with scary thoughts. This does not make Creation different. God is before, behind, and beside you, because there is literally no place God is not. That you imagine you can create a hiding place to keep God out is very possible. That you believe it works and experience yourself separate from God is possible and is what you have done.

You powerful child of God, your experience is exactly what you want it to be.

 But even so, it is not the truth. The truth remains inviolate and will continue to be so regardless of how long you want to play the game of smallness. You have done nothing wrong and have nothing to feel guilty for because nothing has happened. God is still before, behind and beside you.

You are beginning to withdraw the value you have placed in the world you made. Each time you are willing to look at an ego belief and consider that it may not be what you thought it was, you begin to wake from the dream of separation. It really is so simple. You thought that there was great value in the world you made in your dreams. Now you are considering the possibility that your value was misplaced. You are thinking that you may have been wrong. You are waking up. You are realizing that you are not Myron.

Me: Holy Spirit, yesterday at the store I had the feeling of being a character in a play.

I had the thought that the loud, obnoxious character in line before me was being played by Christ.

Holy Spirit: As you continue to choose Me as Teacher, you will have many such enlightened moments, moments when you see the effect of having changed your mind. When you look at someone as a jerk, you have placed value on having him be this person because now, he serves as the place you put the beliefs about yourself that you can’t stand to look at.

But as you begin to awaken, you will no longer need your brother to be the place you project your errors because you are beginning to understand they are not sins, and you are not condemned for them. What value is the scapegoat now? As you withdraw the value you placed on him as the place you project your “sins”, this frees you to see the truth that you share with your brother; he is the Christ. As are you.

Contemplation 2025

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