My thoughts* on ACIM Workbook and Lesson 216, August 4, 2025, If I Attack, I Suffer. But IF I Forgive (*Truly), Salvation Will Be Given unto Myself.

I am not a body.

I am free.

For I am still as God created me.

1. (196) It can be but myself I crucify.

²All that I do I do unto myself.

³If I attack, I suffer.

⁴But if I forgive, salvation will be given me.

* I do not give forgiveness here. Because IF I DO, I MAKE THIS REAL and just stay in the illusion of separation from God.

* I forgive what started the whole thing. The original thought that forgot to laugh at the idea that God could be separated from the Son.

* Then I see the Father and Son united and SPIRIT speaking to us of what I can do to assist in bringing the Son back to the remembrance of the Father. THAT IS MY GOAL. I HAVE AND NEED NO OTHER. This ALONE is what shines and ignites your remembrance of the light of this remembrance within you.

⁵I am not a body.

* I talk about wanting to have a man in my life who would give the idea of God’s Reality a chance, but I have absolute contentment and do not need that. I do sense that humanity needs some answers. NOT THAT I NEED TO PERFORM MYSELF, THOUGH I DO FEEL SOMEONE IS CALLED TO DO THAT AND TO BEAR WITNESS OF IT. I HAVE SENSED IT IN MANY AND SEXUALITY IS SUCH A BIG DEAL IN THIS LIFE FORM; I JUST KNOW THAT IT NEEDS TO BE CORRECTLY UNDERSTOOD. ARGH! To heck with it.

* I cannot pretend like I know what it is, but who knows, if I get into more of the Urtext or other scriptures, it will present itself so that I can communicate what I feel.

⁶I am free.

* Yes. Free to BE. THIS is what is important to me.

⁷For I am still as God created me.

(ACIM, W-216.1:1-7)

* Hear this and join me IN the Presence of God, in Heaven on Earth.

To God be all glory, even as He shares it with the Son, amen.

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