ACIM Lesson 241 This holy instant is salvation come.
Lesson 241
This holy instant is salvation come.
1. What joy there is today! ²It is a time of special celebration. ³For today holds out the instant to the darkened world where its release is set. ⁴The day has come when sorrows pass away and pain is gone. ⁵The glory of salvation dawns today upon a world set free. ⁶This is the time of hope for countless millions. ⁷They will be united now, as you forgive them all. ⁸For I will be forgiven by you today.
2. We have forgiven one another now, and so we come at last to You again. ²Father, Your Son, who never left, returns to Heaven and his home. ³How glad are we to have our sanity restored to us, and to remember that we all are one.
Shifting our Awareness
Could we really have salvation today? Could we really release the darkened world right now? Of course, we could. The world of fear and suffering is an idea in our mind and the world of light and love is also an idea in our mind. In any single instant, we can place our awareness on the real world. All we need to do is to lose interest in those things that hold us captive to our imagined world of separation.
We have all shifted our awareness from one thing to another. Imagine you are in a room and your attention is on this one person who is very interesting to you. Suddenly, you notice another person, and you shift your attention to that one. It is that simple. We have most of our attention on the dream world of separation. That is why it seems so real to us. We have placed our awareness there. It is interesting to us, so we are unaware of anything else.
There is another world.
Now that we are studying A Course in Miracles, we are learning that there is another world in the “room” with us. This is the real world, the world that is our final step before we return to God. We might think of it as Eden or Paradise. It is the world without our fear and guilt projected onto it. The real world is revealed to us as we release these thoughts of fear and guilt. It is like we just noticed the other one in the room. With practice, we can keep our awareness on the real world and live the happy dream until dreams are over.
In this lesson, we are invited to do this. We probably won’t succeed in keeping our awareness on the real world for very long. However, the more we let the Holy Spirit heal our minds, the more we will want to remain in His corrected version of our story. As Jesus has told us, nothing is difficult that is wholly desired. We are learning that we wholly desire Heaven, and our practice shows us that we can have this. When my mind wanders to the ego version of life, I imagine myself turning my head away from it and toward the real world instead. Just shifting my awareness. Easy peasy!
Regina’s Tips
Our last special theme said that salvation “is a promise, made by God, that you would find your way to Him at last. It cannot but be kept. It guarantees that time will have an end, and all the thoughts that have been born in time will end as well.”
Today we celebrate this promise. We also realize that we are not passive receivers of the promise. We have a role to play. Our role is forgiveness. Forgiveness is remaining focused on our unaffected Self while failing to support the ego—choosing not to uphold it with our attention and action.
Since we are not supporting the ego, we need another way to live in the world. That way is surrender, seeking guidance from spiritual intuition by asking, “What am I to do now?” and letting it lead us in everything we think, say and do.
How glad we are to celebrate the promise of salvation today! We celebrate by joyously doing our part. We are eager to play our role in salvation.
My Thoughts
I am all in with Regina’s suggestions today. I am playing my role by forgiving what we made and by reminding myself during the day and in meditation that I am as God created me and that Self remains unaffected by my imagination. And I surrender as fully as I can to inner guidance, and I do so most of the time.
I was thinking about something that happened yesterday. I had judged someone and was feeling very uncomfortable about it. Also, I was very busy, so I put the thought aside but could not put aside the discomfort. I looked at it with the Holy Spirit as soon as I had time. I looked at the judgment and at the feelings I was experiencing so I could be corrected. Then I forgave myself for my mistake, and it all fell away. Yay for the miracle!
I was also thinking about this sentence. ⁸For I will be forgiven by you today. I used to wonder about that. How is it that we forgive Jesus, and why would we need to? But I see now that he is part of the whole, and as we forgive the whole, we also forgive him.
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