My thoughts* on Workbook Lesson 235, for August 22, 2024. We Need to Think for Ourselves or We Will Be Misled

God in His mercy wills that I be saved.

* And so it is.

1. I need but look upon all things that seem to hurt me, and with perfect certainty assure myself, “God wills that I be saved from this,” and merely watch them disappear.

* Do NOT take this literally or you will be disappointed. Nothing disappears. Your understanding alters about its reality BECAUSE you KNOW that God IS and anything outside of Love must be mistaken or unreal. Fear leaves you though because what real harm can the untrue do?

²I need but keep in mind my Father’s Will for me is only happiness, to find that only happiness has come to me.

* And who is going to find happiness when one has denied God’s Existence as KW did?

* Where was his happiness except in being able to appear to be the Wizard of Oz?

³And I need but remember that God’s Love surrounds His Son and keeps his sinlessness forever perfect, to be sure that I am saved and safe forever in His Arms.

* God’s Existence MUST be acknowledged and that of His Son acknowledged as ALL THAT IS before that is seen or felt and EACH will be acknowledged by the wholly Spirit that is the Voice of Father and Son UNITED.

⁴I am the Son He loves.

* Yes. As REAL as God Is.

⁵And I am saved because God in His mercy wills it so.

* I find this “A BIT OFF.”

* “In His mercy” does not quite fit. There was NOTHING to truly forgive because nothing occurred that was outside God’s Will. It was only the IMAGINATION of the Son that made it appear to be so. A delusional image was made of separation that exploded into galaxies and false realities without number.

* I am only suggesting that “In His mercy” is a remnant of Helen’s own will or belief system coming into the message. (Could it be Ken’s or Bill’s?)

2. Father, Your Holiness is mine.

* Wholeness/Oneness, All That Is ~ ness is mine.

²Your Love created me, and made my sinlessness forever part of You.

* Yes.

³I have no guilt nor sin in me, for there is none in You.

* Correct.

* Christians and other straight “theological and dogmatic” religions have a great deal of trouble with this. Our societies are actually built on guilt and ALL of our goods and services play into that very attitude. Even our “guilty pleasures” testify that this is so.

* Innocence is currently not an accepted state of being anywhere actually.

* Let it begin with me.

* Let me hold the Light that bears awareness that the Son of God is innocent and that He is Cherished by the Father Eternally in me. Amen.

(ACIM, W-235.1:1–2:3)

Till next time, God bless us EVERY ONE, debi.