My thoughts* on ACIM Workbook Lesson 157, June 7, 2025, Into His Presence Would I Enter Now

Into His Presence would I enter now.

I HAVE to have a witness of HIS PRESENCE OR I COULD NOT TAKE ANOTHER MINUTE OF THIS CRAP.

That sounds like what they say when you go into the Celestial Room in the Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Yep, I have to walk there. I cannot do this any other way.

1. This is a day of silence and of trust.

* And if you think that means not lifting your voice about injustices, you are mistaken.

* Those who can f-around with my pc have already made it so I cannot see the curser when I try to copy and paste in hopes of discouraging me from the work that I do. And I might swear but I breath and I keep on going.

²It is a special time of promise in your calendar of days.

³It is a time Heaven has set apart to shine upon, and cast a timeless light upon this day, when echoes of eternity are heard.

⁴This day is holy, for it ushers in a new experience; a different kind of feeling and awareness.

⁵You have spent long days and nights in celebrating death.

⁶Today you learn to feel the joy of life.

2. This is another crucial turning point in the curriculum.

²We add a new dimension now; a fresh experience that sheds a light on all that we have learned already, and prepares us for what we have yet to learn.

³It brings us to the door where learning ceases, and we catch a glimpse of what lies past the highest reaches it can possibly attain.

⁴It leaves us here an instant, and we go beyond it, sure of our direction and our only goal.

3. Today it will be given you to feel a touch of Heaven, though you will return to paths of learning.

²Yet you have come far enough along the way to alter time sufficiently to rise above its laws, and walk into eternity a while.

³This you will learn to do increasingly, as every lesson, faithfully rehearsed, brings you more swiftly to this holy place (*this place where you know you are whole with all of creation) and leaves you, for a moment, to your Self.

* NOT UNLESS you actually accept the Atonement and set the Son of God free from punishment for his mistaken belief in separation from God.

4. He will direct your practicing today, for what you ask for now is what He wills.

²And having joined your will with His this day, what you are asking must be given you.

³Nothing is needed but today’s idea to light your mind, and let it rest in still anticipation and in quiet joy, wherein you quickly leave the world behind.

5. From this day forth, your ministry takes on a genuine devotion, and a glow that travels from your fingertips to those you touch, and blesses those you look upon.

²A vision reaches everyone you meet, and everyone you think of, or who thinks of you.

³For your experience today will so transform your mind that it becomes the touchstone for the holy Thoughts of God.

6. Your body will be sanctified today, its only purpose being now to bring the vision of what you experience this day to light the world.

²We cannot give experience like this directly.

³Yet it leaves a vision in our eyes which we can offer everyone, that he may come the sooner to the same experience in which the world is quietly forgot, and Heaven is remembered for a while.

7. As this experience increases and all goals but this become of little worth, the world to which you will return becomes a little closer to the end of time; a little more like Heaven in its ways; a little nearer its deliverance.

²And you who bring it light will come to see the light more sure; the vision more distinct.

³The time will come when you will not return in the same form in which you now appear, for you will have no need of it.

⁴Yet now it has a purpose, and will serve it well.

8. Today we will embark upon a course you have not dreamed of.

²But the Holy (*WHOLE, IE SPIRIT) One, the Giver of the happy dreams of life, Translator of perception into truth, the holy (*WHOLE, being of the whole that is Christ and the Voice of Father) Guide to Heaven given you, has dreamed for you this journey which you make and start today, with the experience this day holds out to you to be your own.

9. Into Christ’s Presence will we enter now, serenely unaware of everything except His shining face and perfect Love.

* NO, this is God’s Presence we must enter. Christ is us and we are confused.

²The vision of His face will stay with you, but there will be an instant which transcends all vision, even this, the holiest (*acknowledging wholeness within creation).

³This you will never teach, for you attained it not through learning.

* Jesus teaches that learning is actually “unlearning” what we taught ourselves through belief in separation from God.

⁴Yet the vision speaks of your remembrance of what you knew that instant, and will surely know again.

(ACIM, W-157.1:1–9:4)

Till next time, God Bless, debi.