For this review we will use these ideas:
1. (79) Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved.
* Belief in separation is always the source of the problem. This does not mean that the core of the problem, the hate that resides for that which one feels is different does not need to be addressed.
²Let me realize today that the problem is always some form of grievance that I would cherish.
* I cherish a grievance BECAUSE I believe in separation from God, Self, and all else.
³Let me also understand that the solution is always a miracle with which I let the grievance be replaced.
* The wording of this is very misleading in our vernacular today. It suggests that a single grievance be met one at a time and while that will need to occur UNTIL the original error of belief in separation from God has been addressed ANY form of forgiveness of the individual error is only a ploy of the fearful ego to show that specialness that Jesus speaks of in the Course whether it shows itself as “holier than others” or “the sinfulness of others.”
⁴Today I would remember the simplicity of salvation by reinforcing the lesson that there is one problem and one solution.
* One problem, one grievance, i.e. the belief in separation from God.
⁵The problem is a grievance; the solution is a miracle.
* The problem is separation “seen as a grievance.”
* The solution is allowing God’s Love in which unites the Father and the Son and the power in them NOW unitedly.
⁶And I invite the solution to come to me through my forgiveness of the grievance, and my welcome of the miracle that takes its place.
* It breaks my heart that this was not written with the clarity that it could have been and was used to lead us to think that we could play the fearful ego’s game as if the ‘issues’ we are dealing with are real, instead of the true source of our confusion which is the original error of belief in the possibility of separation from God.
2. Specific applications of this idea might be in these forms:
²This presents a problem to me which I would have resolved.
* In other words, I do not wish that either of us continue suffering.
³The miracle behind this grievance will resolve it for me.
* The Truth that this is the Son of God with whom I believe I have a grievance will show me that there must be simple confusion and not really an issue ONCE the idea of separation is removed.
⁴The answer to this problem is the miracle that it conceals.
* The problem conceals the idea that I have accepted a false reality, i.e. separation from God and my brother.
3. (80) Let me recognize my problems have been solved.
²I seem to have problems only because I am misusing time.
³I believe that the problem comes first, and time must elapse before it can be worked out.
* I must approach with any attempt to resolve any issue as if it were already resolved and in fact did not exist because its cause came from belief in separation from God.
⁴I do not see the problem and the answer as simultaneous in their occurrence.
⁵That is because I do not yet realize that God has placed the answer together with the problem, so that they cannot be separated by time.
⁶The Holy Spirit will teach me this, if I will let Him.
* Yes. And WHEN we will hear this is up to EACH of us.
⁷And I will understand it is impossible that I could have a problem which has not been solved already.
* THAT is the beauty of the Atonement as I understand it today.
4. These forms of the idea will be useful for specific applications:
²I need not wait for this to be resolved.
³The answer to this problem is already given me, if I will accept it.
⁴Time cannot separate this problem from its solution.
* The end of separation from God, which marks the end of time, which is what the Atonement becomes for each of us.
(ACIM, W-90.1:1–4:4)
Till next time, God bless, debi.
Freedom Principles; At-One-Meant Now 
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