My thoughts* on ACIM Workbook Lesson 163, June 12, 2025, There is NO Death. The Son of God IS Free.

There is no death. The Son of God is free.

* The only death is the one we walk in without a belief and knowledge of God.

1. Death is a thought that takes on many forms, often unrecognized.

²It may appear as sadness, fear, anxiety or doubt; as anger, faithlessness and lack of trust; concern for bodies, envy, and all forms in which the wish to be as you are not may come to tempt you.

³All such thoughts are but reflections of the worshipping of death as savior and as giver of release.

2. Embodiment of fear, the host of sin, god of the guilty and the lord of all illusions and deceptions, does the thought of death seem mighty.

²For it seems to hold all living things within its withered hand; all hopes and wishes in its blighting grasp; all goals perceived but in its sightless eyes.

³The frail, the helpless and the sick bow down before its image, thinking it alone is real, inevitable, worthy of their trust.

⁴For it alone will surely come.

* Yeah, where the hell is God in their minds? I mean, really!? Do you think He meant for you to come here so you could ponder DEATH ALL OF YOUR LIFE?

* I know that this is where I have been forced to live and do have to deal with it every day within the constraints of the belief system of Separation that I find myself.

* I got a tiny break from it when I was raising my children, but once that is over or they have taken charge of the decisions in their own lives, that IS where I have lived.

* Isn’t this the life of a yogi or a Buddhist? To embrace death in life, giving up the need to fit in or have desire?

* I understand how “it seems logical,” but here is the deal: WE WERE CREATED OUT OF DESIRE. THE DESIRE OF THE FATHER TO HAVE A SON (NO GENDER HERE TO EITHER) THAT HE MIGHT BLESS HIM AND FIND JOY IN THEIR MUTUAL EXISTENCE AND EXCHANGE.

* Think about it. This is something that we mock and “spit at” when we deny God.

* And don’t tell me that you cannot at least PRETEND, to want to believe, HE EXISTS! (I had to ask SPIRIT if I heard Him right!)

* That very action is an act of faith “in the possibility.” It releases direct denial, which Father will not contradict.

* THIS IS BECAUSE HE HAS GIVEN YOU THE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE YOUR EXISTENCE FOR YOU MUST BE AS HE IS, FREE TO DO SO OR YOU COULD NOT STAND “IN YOUR OWN IDENTITY” AS HIS SON.

* That is all that it would take, and you would open the door for SPIRIT to work in your life.

3. All things but death are seen to be unsure, too quickly lost however hard to gain, uncertain in their outcome, apt to fail the hopes they once engendered, and to leave the taste of dust and ashes in their wake, in place of aspirations and of dreams.

²But death is counted on.

³For it will come with certain footsteps when the time has come for its arrival.

⁴It will never fail to take all life as hostage to itself.

4. Would you bow down to idols such as this?

²Here is the strength and might of God Himself perceived within an idol made of dust.

³Here is the opposite of God proclaimed as lord of all creation, stronger than God’s Will for life, the endlessness of love and Heaven’s perfect, changeless constancy.

* Constancy of abundance, delight, and bliss. Without contrast or duality. Whole, complete, healed, not able to be ill, laying aside any form once one decides it is time to try on another. Only LIGHT and continual exploration of the delights of existence in the ever-present, NOW.

⁴Here (*in opposition to God) is the Will of Father and of Son defeated finally, and laid to rest beneath the headstone death has placed upon the body of the holy Son of God.

5. Unholy in defeat, he has become what death would have him be.

²His epitaph, which death itself has written, gives no name to him, for he has passed to dust.

³It says but this: “Here lies a witness God is dead.”

⁴And this it writes again and still again, while all the while its worshippers agree, and kneeling down with foreheads to the ground, they whisper fearfully that it is so.

6. It is impossible to worship death in any form, and still select a few you would not cherish and would yet avoid, while still believing in the rest.

²For death is total.

³Either all things die, or else they live and cannot die.

⁴No compromise is possible.

⁵For here again we see an obvious position, which we must accept if we be sane; what contradicts one thought entirely can not be true, unless its opposite is proven false.

7. The idea of the death of God is so preposterous that even the insane have difficulty in believing it.

²For it implies that God was once alive and somehow perished; killed, apparently, by those who did not want Him to survive.

³Their stronger will could triumph over His, and so eternal life gave way to death.

⁴And with the Father died the Son as well.

* In other words, YOU have chosen to deny your own existence.

8. Death’s worshippers may be afraid.

²And yet, can thoughts like these be fearful?

³If they saw that it is only this which they believe, they would be instantly released.

⁴And you will show them this today.

⁵There is no death, and we renounce it now in every form, for their salvation and our own as well.

⁶God made not death.

⁷Whatever form it takes must therefore be illusion.

⁸This the stand we take today.

⁹And it is given us to look past death, and see the life beyond.

9. Our Father, bless our eyes today.

²We are Your messengers, and we would look upon the glorious reflection of Your Love which shines in everything.

³We live and move in You alone.

⁴We are not separate from Your eternal life.

⁵There is no death, for death is not Your Will.

⁶And we abide where You have placed us, in the life we share with You and with all living things, to be like You and part of You forever.

⁷We accept Your Thoughts as ours, and our will is one with Yours eternally.

* ETERNAL LIFE IS AS SIMPLE AS THAT, FOLKS!!! WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR???

⁸Amen.

(ACIM, W-163.1:1–9:8)

Till next time, God Bless, debi.