A Course in Miracles Workbook Daily Lesson 331, Year 2022

ACIM Daily Lesson 331 There is no conflict, for my will is Yours. 1. How foolish, Father, to believe Your Son could cause himself to suffer!

Lesson 331

There is no conflict, for my will is Yours.

1. How foolish, Father, to believe Your Son could cause himself to suffer! ²Could he make a plan for his damnation, and be left without a certain way to his release? ³You love me, Father. ⁴You could never leave me desolate, to die within a world of pain and cruelty. ⁵How could I think that Love has left Itself? ⁶There is no will except the Will of Love. ⁷Fear is a dream, and has no will that can conflict with Yours. ⁸Conflict is sleep, and peace awakening. ⁹Death is illusion; life, eternal truth. ¹⁰There is no opposition to Your Will. ¹¹There is no conflict, for my will is Yours.

2. Forgiveness shows us that God’s Will is One, and that we share it. ²Let us look upon the holy sights forgiveness shows today, that we may find the peace of God. ³Amen.

God is Love, and Love would not leave us in pain and suffering.

There must be a certain way out. So, what is our release from our self-made hell? We are given the Holy Spirit to guide us out and forgiveness to undo what we made. All that we need to do is to look at our miscreations with the Holy Spirit and forgive them. For instance, I forgave the idea that my son was endangered, and all fear for him fell away.

This choice for God left me in peace so that I could enjoy the rest of my son’s visit. Moreover, it reminded me of who I am and who he is. As I was writing this, I suddenly experienced pain in my thumb and up my arm. My first thought was to question what I am doing that caused this, maybe spending too much time typing. My second thought was that pain is not real. I know this because, in Lesson 190, Jesus said this. ³If God is real, there is no pain. ⁴If pain is real, there is no God. (ACIM, W-190.3:3-4) Pain is vengeance, and Love is not vengeance, so there can be no pain.

Remembrance of the truth motivates me to forgive all things that trouble my mind, including the belief in pain. I sat with these true thoughts and let them instruct my mind in the truth. The pain dissolved. But more importantly, choosing the truth awakens in me a desire for God that overcomes all ego desires. Choosing God through forgiveness of all ego thinking ends conflict once and for all. This is how I choose the peace of God in every circumstance.

I wonder how it is that it took me so many years to understand this simple idea.

There is only God, and therefore there is only the Will of God. I cannot have a different will because there is not a different will to be had. There cannot be a God and a me because there is only God. Everything I believe and everything I experience that represents something, not God, must be an illusion, a hallucination, a dream. I forgive the idea that something that is not God exists.

This morning in my dream of life as Myron, I had a lot to get done in a short time. I also forgot to do something important. I felt the stirrings of anxiety, so I stopped what I was doing and considered what had just happened. A thought occurred, and I didn’t question that thought; I just believed it. That was the only thing that occurred in my dream story.

So, I questioned the idea that there was too much going on and that I couldn’t do it all, and maybe something else would get overlooked. I realized that I don’t know that this is true. I don’t even know that everything has to get done. So, I dropped the troublesome thought that was causing a disturbance in my mind because it no longer made sense to hold it there. I just did what it came to me to do next, and here I am, the work done and right on time. And I did it in peace.

Regina’s Tips

Today’s lesson helps emphasize any decision we may have made to commit even more to the path of awakening. It says:

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 for his release? … How could I think that Love has left Itself? There is no will except the Will of Love. … Conflict is sleep, and peace is awakening. Death is illusion; life, eternal truth.”

And so today, we begin again. We forgive ourselves for any past “failings” that we may perceive, and we contemplate what we really want.

My Thoughts

For most of my life, I held onto the memory of every failure in my life. What a burden that was! I would be having a very pleasant day, and suddenly, it was as if I couldn’t stand so much happiness. I would become aware of a past transgression, and the peace I had felt evaporated instantly. For a long time, I thought that this was just the way of things and I had no control over it.

After practicing the Course principles for a while, I began to question this. Did I really have no control over my mind? Lesson 236 says that I rule my mind, which I alone must rule. So it is up to me to look at these thoughts with the Holy Spirit and accept His correction.

Another passage that helped me a lot is this one. Your worth is not established by teaching or learning. ²Your worth is established by God. (ACIM, T-4.I.7:1-2)And, ⁶Again,—nothing you do or think or wish or make is necessary to establish your worth. ⁷This point is not debatable except in delusions. (ACIM, T-4.I.7:6-7) So, how could I be affected by past actions or any actions? I remain as God created me regardless of what is done in an illusion. Knowing this must be true, I began to choose forgiveness rather than cherishing painful memories. I did this because awakening is now my goal, not suffering.

And now, this is what is most true to me.

Yes, we chose to have this experience of separation from God, but we are not guilty of it. We are not condemned to endure it forever. In fact, nothing is happening in reality. We remain one with God even as we dream of a world without Him. It is a painful state, and as we awaken to that pain and realize what we have given up, we are also provided with the key to salvation. The Holy Spirit teaches us to forgive what we have done, and it disappears as if it had never happened because it never did.

My experience has been that I started with the guilty thoughts in my mind, noticing that they were painful, and in keeping them, I could not be at peace. So I began to forgive whichever thought caught my attention, and with the Holy Spirit’s help, I let that thought go. From there, I began to notice many thoughts seem to represent beliefs in my mind, and the work became easier as I realized I did not need to forgive each thought one at a time. I could forgive the belief it represented, and a whole set of thoughts would fall with it.

After a while, I had released enough of these thoughts and beliefs that my mind was enlightened somewhat.

Without so much darkness covering the reality that had always been there, I began to feel the Love that is God. And I began to experience the strength of God that is in me always. It has all become so much easier now. Having experienced God’s presence, I know I am not alone, and I know His love for me is unabated in spite of my foray into separation. He did not leave me helpless and lost.

This lesson reminds me that my mind is healed because I asked that it be healed, and God’s only answer is “Yes.” It is God’s Will that I remain as He created me, and so there is nothing else that could happen. What I am experiencing now that is unlike what God created is a memory of something I used to believe. My only response is to deny the denial of truth. I see the thought of guilt and know that it has nothing to do with me.

Contemplation 2025

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