My thoughts* on ACIM Urtext Lesson 284 for 11 October 2023. Even Once Enlightened There Is a Time of Healing

I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

* I release them from my reference of “REALITY” by accepting the Atonement.

1. Loss is not loss when properly perceived.

* The melancholy that can come over me needs not to be perceived as real but as the ego trying to get me to hold onto what is not real to find out that the ego is fiction.

²Pain is impossible.

³There is no grief with any cause at all.

⁴And suffering of any kind is nothing but a dream.

* I have come to realize that there is almost a grieving process that happens when we give up the pain and we do not need to be afraid of this.

* I suspect that the frustration that others feel or express toward me can be a sense of processing that grief as well.

⁵This is the truth, at first to be but said and then repeated many times; and next to be accepted as but partly true, with many reservations.

⁶Then to be considered seriously more and more, and finally accepted as the truth.

* Do you get the sense of process that this portrays?

⁷I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.

* I do this by acknowledging our true identity IN God and not in the consequences of the fear and guilt of separation.

⁸And I would go beyond these words today, and past all reservations, and arrive at full acceptance of the truth in them.

2. Father, what You have given cannot hurt, so grief and pain must be impossible.

* I acknowledge this completely. And stand as an observer as I view the story that I agreed to participate in.

²Let me not fail to trust in You today, accepting but the joyous as Your gifts; accepting but the joyous as the truth.

* The IS my core. I know that it does not sound like that at times but it is nonetheless.

(ACIM, W-284.1:1–2:2)

Till next time, God bless, debi.