Commentary on ACIM Lesson 234

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

Father, today I am Your Son again.

Phenomena.... "having the appearance of reality, but failing to be actually real". Clearly understanding this is a very big key to peace of mind while walking in this world. If we were 100% of the time in communion with Reality, we would suffer not. To the ego in the world, this clearly looks 'crazy'. But that is the nature of truth--- that it turns the teachings of the world on it's head.

Sometimes in the past I have been allowed to be a hermit of sorts and escape the world for periods of time by living in nature away from the grid and other people. There was much I was able to learn by so doing. And, as now is not such a time, there is much to be learned (I even would like to say, 'mastered') by being both in the middle of the world, and in the middle of 'phenomena'.

For both are made of the same stuff: the illusions of duality. The Course repeats often that all thoughts are creative, and that we are responsible for our thinking. Mantra is a very useful way to practice being responsible for this. It sets up a constant thought pattern that keeps at least a piece of our attention on something else besides the constantly changing 'movie' of the world through our awareness. This can work to keep the door to a higher wisdom more open, so that in times of stress, help is available.

The Course offers many mantras.... practically any thought that you experience as jumping off the page at you is usable, but I recommend the shorter ones, like 'I am as God created me'. Or, for example, using todays thought... my mantra version of it might be: Today, Love, I am yours. Use what ever you like...Repeating a mantra a thousand times during one day is like bathing in a breath of Heaven.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 234

Father, today I am Your Son again.

Today we will anticipate the time when dreams of sin and guilt are gone, and we have reached the holy peace we never left. Merely a tiny instant has elapsed between eternity and timelessness. So brief the interval there was no lapse in continuity, nor break in thoughts which are forever unified as one. Nothing has ever happened to disturb the peace of God the Father and the Son. This we accept as wholly true today.

We thank You, Father, that we cannot lose the memory of You and of Your Love. We recognize our safety, and give thanks for all the gifts You have bestowed on us, for all the loving help we have received, for Your eternal patience, and the Word which You have given us that we are saved.