A Course in Miracles Workbook Daily Lesson 346, Year 2022

ACIM Daily Lesson 346. Today the peace of God envelops me, and I forget all things except His Love.

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Lesson 346

Today the peace of God envelops me, and I forget all things except His Love.

1. Father, I wake today with miracles correcting my perception of all things. ²And so begins the day I share with You as I will share eternity, for time has stepped aside today. ³I do not seek the things of time, and so I will not look upon them. ⁴What I seek today transcends all laws of time and things perceived in time. ⁵I would forget all things except Your Love. ⁶I would abide in You, and know no laws except Your law of love. ⁷And I would find the peace which You created for Your Son, forgetting all the foolish toys I made as I behold Your glory and my own.

2. And when the evening comes today, we will remember nothing but the peace of God. ²For we will learn today what peace is ours, when we forget all things except God’s Love.

Most days, I would think this is entirely possible.

My home is very peaceful, and I am in my home more often than not. I would still need to watch my mind, and my day would offer me plenty of opportunities for that. The calls I would take would be helpful because they would be with mind-healing partners. Our focus would be on God. And correcting my perception is what I do daily, anyway.

However, some days are not like that. Soon, I will have a very full schedule and Christmas parties to attend. So, things will not be calm and quiet, and there will be a lot of distractions. Consequently, I have to wonder how it is I am let time step aside with so many things to accomplish. And how I am supposed to not look upon the things of time. Further, how is it that in the midst of all this doing, I am to forget all things except His Love?

As I wondered about this, I realized that I can be the busiest person in the world and still accept the miracle of a healed mind. While I am baking cookies for the party, I can rest my mind in God. After that, while at the party, I can love everyone there and express that love in whatever way I am guided. Solitude is not necessary for this work. The peace of God is available in every circumstance in which I find myself.

One thing of time that I must stop is judgment.

That is if I want to forget all things except His Love. Yesterday, I said two things that sounded very judgmental. It was only in retrospect I realized this, and I was distressed that I didn’t express these thoughts differently. I didn’t think I felt like this, and as I think about it, I still don’t think it is so. And yet, there must be the desire to judge in my mind. The one thing I know, though, is that I want to be free of judgment.

So, I asked for that miracle. I forgave myself, and I let myself move into gratitude that I found something else in my mind to be healed. And gratitude that the means to be healed is in my mind, simply waiting for acceptance. What a miracle that is! This acceptance of the miracle, which corrects all perception is what assures me of a peaceful, happy day.

Other misperceptions will probably show up today. Situations that could cause a disruption in my plans and could be a distraction from God’s Love are possible. But if so, it is because, on some level, I seek these things. I know this, and so I know what to do about it. The miracle of correction is instantaneous. My acceptance can be instantaneous as well.

Right now, it is quiet and peaceful both in my mind and in my environment.

Later, the world will intrude, but it is entirely possible to remain quiet and peaceful even if all around me is chaos. I know this is true because this has been my experience. It takes a miracle, and I have access to miracles. Many times in the Course, we are told that miracles are our right. In lesson 77, we are given this prayer. ³I will not trade miracles for grievances. ⁴I want only what belongs to me. ⁵God has established miracles as my right. (ACIM, W-77.8:3-5) So today, I will be vigilant for any thoughts that would intrude on my goal, and I will trade them for the miracle.

Regina’s Tips

I really appreciate Regina’s tip this morning. The wording is a little different than the Course, but the meaning is perfectly aligned with it. Regina begins by giving her interpretation of the opening of the Book of John in the Bible. It says:

 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. …

She then ties that in with our special theme, which is What Is a Miracle?

She used the word utterance in place of Word, and it boils down to this.

Life + Utterance = Manifestation

Here is what she said about this. To make this simple, let me express it this way:

When we give expression to an idea by believing it and giving attention to it, it becomes infused with the life of our awareness, and it becomes manifest in some way. This is universal, divine law.

Going back to our special theme:

Each lily of forgiveness offers all the world the silent miracle of love. And each is laid before the Word of God, upon the universal altar to Creator and creation in the light of perfect purity and endless joy.

Regina reminds us that the “lily of forgiveness” can be expressed as abiding as the unaffected self, also can be seen as loving all. She says:

Each time we abide as unaffected—each time we practice or live the Loving All Method—the expression of that choice becomes a silent utterance fed into the creative principle (the Word of God, the universal altar to Creator and creation) and results in a perfectly pure and joyous manifestation.

These manifestations are often called Grace.

Grace shows up in the world in innumerable ways, in any way that is helpful in the moment. Grace is usually seen as a miracle, but Grace is actually the effect of the miracle.

The miracle is the shift in perception from seeing one’s self as affected to seeing one’s self as unaffected. This miracle, the lily of forgiveness, fed into the creative principle, creates its likeness in manifestation because all ideas manifested through the creative principle manifest in the likeness of themselves.

Regina talks about the lesson.

Today the peace of God envelops me, And I forget all things except His Love.

Today’s workbook lesson says, “Father, I wake today with miracles correcting my perception of all things. … I do not seek the things of time, and so I will not look upon them. What I seek today transcends all laws of time and things perceived in time. I would forget all things except Your Love. I would abide in You, and know no laws except Your law of love.”

In other words, today, we do not seek to fix, change, get or avoid things or circumstances in the world because we know that judgment, as well as thought and action based on judgment, goes into the creative principle and creates like itself—more to fix, change, get or avoid.

Instead, we awake today with the realization of how divine law works. We understand that our safety and the world’s safety lies in our unaffectedness. It lies in living the Loving All Method because when the safety of the Loving All Method is fed into the creative principle, it manifests like itself, thereby manifesting true safety as Grace.

My Thoughts

When the gas leak adventure occurred, there were things that had to be done, and I did them. However, that is not what we are talking about here. If I had been upset by the circumstances and afraid of not knowing what to do, I would have been judging. I would have judged the situation as bad and unfair.

I would have seen myself as a victim, and I would probably have found someone to blame. For instance, I know that the valve leaking was probably caused by the exterminator moving the stove twice, but I didn’t blame him for it. I just saw it as a consequence. I avoided the temptation to judge and blame, and thankfully, I no longer believe in victimhood.

When someone tried to argue with me and find me wrong, I didn’t try to change the situation by defending myself or attacking them. I didn’t try to change anything to make me feel better. Instead, I just watched my own thoughts and feelings and dealt with them. I can honestly say that I loved the whole thing. I loved the whole week. It’s the only way to live.

Past Entry

This lesson reminds me that how I view my life is a choice, and what seems to be happening has no bearing on how I feel. I had always believed that the people and circumstances in my life were the cause of how I felt, but now I understand that I use the people and circumstances in my life as a place to project the fear and guilt that is in my mind.

Even after I have caused it to appear in my life, I still am not a victim of it. How I feel about anything, no matter how extreme it may appear to be, is always a choice I make. It is easy to get lost in the ego version of my life. But I become caught up in that version of life only as I want to. Today’s lesson reminds me that there is another choice.

When I am focused on the ego, it seems so big that it blots out the light, but that is only because I have given it all my attention. It is as if I were looking directly at a closed door. I feel trapped and can’t take my eyes off the door. I wish it were not locked. If only it would open. I bang on the door, and nothing happens. I sit and cry to think I am imprisoned behind this locked door, and there is nothing I can do about it.

Then in a moment of silence, even just a tiny moment, a thought rises up within my mind.

It might be, “I am not a victim of the world I see.” It might be, “I am still as God created me.” Some thought of truth is whispered in my heart, and I reconsider my position. I remember that I can step back and allow the Holy Spirit to look with me at this locked door. He encourages me to look with Him and to remove my focus from the door and place it on the truth.

I allow the door to recede and to get smaller and smaller as I allow my vision to shift. What I see is that the door stands alone. There are no walls on either side of the door. I was free to walk around the door at any time. It seemed to be my prison door only because I was intent only on the door. I allowed the door to become my world, but the power of choice that allowed me to feel like a prisoner allows me to feel free.

What a perfect day to make a choice for God! There is no past and no future; there is only now. And now is the time that I choose to forget the locked door, to forget all things except God’s love. I watch as the images that make up this ego world drift by me. They are meant to hold me hostage to my fears, but can only do so if I accept that purpose. Today I choose to focus on God’s love and the truth of who I am and allow everything else to be the illusion they are.

Oh, this is interesting.

As I was reading what I wrote, the phrase “they are meant to hold me hostage” jumped out at me. I said that as if it were something being done to me, and the Holy Spirit seemed to tap me on the shoulder and, with a gentle laugh, reminded me that I meant to hold myself hostage. Indeed, I am never a victim of anything outside my self. Nothing is being done to me but only by me. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for that reminder.

Contemplation 2025

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