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ACIM Lesson 37 2025

My Contemplation of Lesson 37
My holiness blesses the world.

Here are my favorite sentences. They explain what we do when we bless the world and why we do it.

This idea contains the first glimmerings of your true function in the world, or why you are here.

²Your purpose is to see the world through your own holiness. ³Thus are you and the world blessed together.

The world seems to be a bleak place when we look at it from the perspective of our split mind. The ego can only show us what it knows, anger, hatred, fear, and guilt. If I look at the world in this way, I curse it and myself with these dark thoughts. Looked at from the perspective of my holiness, my right mind, I bless the world with the love that I am. I see love because I am looking with my holiness. Nothing needs to change in the world for this shift to occur. The world, as I see it, is a reflection of my mind. I see what I want to see.

This morning, I kept thinking about how I don’t know what anything means. I wondered why that lesson kept going through my mind. Now I see how it fits with the lesson for today. This morning, I read something in the news that was disturbing, and I remembered that I “don’t know what anything is for.” With that shift from the split mind to the right mind, I looked again at the news and wondered how this story of the world would play out. I just wondered. I didn’t go into fear because I didn’t know what it was for, so why would I try to judge it? In this way, I was blessing it with my holiness.

3. Your holiness is the salvation of the world. ²It lets you teach the world that it is one with you, not by preaching to it, not by telling it anything, but merely by your quiet recognition that in your holiness are all things blessed along with you.

Someone said something that would cause suffering for others. My immediate thought was one of condemnation. But our lesson today tells us that my “holiness blesses him by asking nothing of him.” I want to bless him rather than condemn him because, in so doing, I am blessing my brother and myself, and I am saving the world. Why would I ever consider doing anything else?

My first prayer when I woke up was to ask the Holy Spirit to place my faith where it belongs. I am done giving my faith to illusions. That prayer has been a constant for me since I read this in Chapter 14: ⁶Your faith in nothing is deceiving you. ⁷Offer your faith to Me, and I will place it gently in the holy place where it belongs. (ACIM, T-14.II.3:6-7) I find this especially helpful when I read the news. The news is about an illusion. It is about nothing. I will not place my faith in nothing today.

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ACIM Lesson 36 2025

My Contemplation of Lesson 36
My holiness envelops everything I see.

My internet, as well as others for many miles around us, was out yesterday. It was strange to be without internet for so long. It seems to be working now, and I hope it holds up. So much of what I do is dependent on the internet. The lesson for yesterday was very helpful. When I became anxious about my clients not being able to reach me and not knowing why, I reminded myself that my mind is part of God’s. I am very holy. This would return me to peace.

Today is a continuation of what I practiced yesterday, except it is focused on what is perceived instead of the mind that perceived it. It tells us that I am holy because my mind is part of God’s, and since I am holy, so must my sight be holy. This is a significant sentence. As I look at my office, which is cluttered with tax receipts as I try to get it organized for my preparer, I think about what a mess it is. I must not be looking at it from the perspective of my holy mind. I need to change my mind. If I look at it from my right mind, that is, my holy mind, then I will see only holiness.

Yesterday, a friend shared a video of What a Wonderful World It Is by Louis Armstrong. I felt uplifted by it and thought about sharing it on my Facebook profile. But the next thought was that nobody would want to hear about what a wonderful world it is with all that is happening in the world right now. Then I immediately changed from my ego mind to my holy mind and realized that this is the perfect time to share this.

I said in part ...We are continuously influencing the world with each thought we have. Let us influence it toward good. If I add the negative energy of anger, frustration, fear, and guilt, I am only making things worse. May I always add the energy of love, kindness, and beauty. May I see in the world what I want to find there, not what I am afraid I will find. That was a thought coming from my holiness. That is enveloping the world in my holiness.

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ACIM Lesson 35 2025

My Contemplation of Lesson 35

My mind is part of God’s. I am very holy.

This lesson no longer makes me uneasy, but at first, it did. There was nothing in me that felt holy, much less very holy. I could not imagine my mind was part of God’s. But I did the lesson anyway. I did it for several years. I did it anyway because that was the instructions in the introduction.

9. Remember only this; you need not believe the ideas, you need not accept them, and you need not even welcome them. ²Some of them you may actively resist. ³None of this will matter, or decrease their efficacy. ⁴But do not allow yourself to make exceptions in applying the ideas the workbook contains, and whatever your reactions to the ideas may be, use them. ⁵Nothing more than that is required. (ACIM, W-in.9:1-5)

So, I did them, and now I am comfortable with this lesson. I accept that my mind is part of God’s just as I accepted Lesson 30 when it told me that God is in my mind. And so now I will practice this lesson today as I am told to do.

I am afraid of failure. But my mind is part of God’s. I am very holy.

Jesus is very specific in the instructions for this lesson, and I am following them. But this belief is the one I want to share with you. I am a teacher of God, and I do my best to be a good teacher of God and follow His lead at all times. I do that, mostly, but sometimes I say the wrong thing. And instead of just forgiving it and moving on or making amends if that is called for, I fret over it. I worry about it and wonder if I should even be attempting this.

On a good day, I see that this is not helpful, and I ask the Holy Spirit to correct the belief that caused this. I ask Him to undo the consequences of my error. Then I go back to my purpose. But I want to be free of the fear of failure. There are other ways I let that fear get in the way.

For instance, I have an easel in one of my rooms. There are all the art supplies needed for me to paint a picture. But I don’t think I have the talent for this, and I am afraid I will fail. It has all been there for several years now, waiting for me to stop making excuses and enjoy the effort.

None of this sounds like I believe that my mind is part of God’s and that I am very holy. Thus, the need for practice. And so today, I will practice joyfully knowing that my mind is being healed of its mistaken beliefs as I do so. This whole practice is quite miraculous!

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ACIM Lesson 34 2025

I could have peace instead of this.

This lesson came along at the perfect time! I woke up feeling strangely anxious and didn’t know why at first. Then I remembered. So here is what happened. Yesterday, while shopping for groceries, I picked up some cookies for my son. I noticed some sugar-free cookies, and since I don’t eat sugar, I thought about buying some for myself.

I looked them over carefully. They were sweetened artificially, and I am careful to keep the amount of those sweeteners to a minimum. I decided that I would get a package of them and eat two of them a day when I wanted something sweet. Then, on my way home, I ate half the package of cookies. Well, so much for that plan.

The problem was not that I bought cookies or that I didn’t stop with two. The problem was that I felt guilty. I felt afraid of my own out-of-control behavior. But I decided that this was just the kind of thing to use yesterday’s lesson with. So, I reminded myself that there was another way of looking at this and went on to bed, thinking I was done with the problem.

This morning, I discovered I was not done with it. When I looked at the lesson for the day, I felt immediate relief. Oh yeah, I could have peace instead of this. Just reminding myself of that truth was enough to lift the dark cloud of guilt from my mind. I chose to buy cookies and to eat them. I chose to feel guilty about that. Now, I will make a better choice, a choice for peace.

The cookie drama (or comedy) is just another episode of “The Life of Myron” and is not important in itself. But the choice to be anxious or at peace is important. Each time I make that choice, I move toward God or toward ego. That is why it is important. And each time I decide for God, I am teaching myself that peace is what I want. Having done this for a long time now, I generally find it easy to choose peace. Making the choice for peace repeatedly is why it is easy for me now.

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ACIM Lesson 33 2025

My contemplation of Lesson 33
There is another way of looking at the world.

This is a very simple lesson and a simple exercise. It is to be done as often as possible. That it is simple does not mean it is unimportant. Each of these lessons builds on the other and literally changes the way we think. And what changes the way we think changes everything. It is what we came to learn. It will wake us up.

Today, I will remind myself that there is another way of looking at the world. As I look around myself at my outer environment and as I look within at my inner environment, I notice how the inner is reflected in the outer. I perceive in the outer what I believe to be true. What I perceive to be true about the world will not change until my beliefs change. This is why I want another way of looking at the world.

Like many people, I have been alarmed at what appears to be a strong movement away from oneness and toward separation, away from love and toward fear. I see this on both sides of the divide. But I have discovered there is another way to see this as I remember that before change can occur, I must look at the problem with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit will then shine the darkness away. We must, as one, look at the problem, and we are doing that now, even if we don’t understand this is what is happening.

As I ask for another way to see, I am moved toward Love. Always and in every circumstance, I am moved toward Love. I am stunned at the simplicity of the answer. Love does all things, heals all things, makes all things right. If my mind wanders to fear, guilt, or judgment, I ask for another way to see, and Love is there, peace is there.

Now, it is not that I ask for another way to see and decide that love must be the answer. I ask for another way to see, and Love fills my heart and mind. Love is not an answer; Love is the Answer. I don’t choose love from among other answers. I allow Love to overcome all things. Dear God, I am so very grateful for your Answer. And all it took was my willingness to let go of my preconceived solutions so that the Answer could be given to me. Today, I gladly remind myself to ask for another way to look at the world, both the outer world and my inner world. I ask often and with anticipation of the Answer that will be received by my open mind.

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Lesson 32 2025

I have invented the world I see.

I had to laugh this morning as I began the lesson. I was sitting in my office at my computer, and so I looked around at my surroundings. As I did so, I felt compelled to straighten things up as I looked at them. Not the intention of the lesson. LOL.

My world is one of contrasts, from the desire for order to the equal desire to create chaos. It happens in my mind, and so it happens in my world. And yet, as I look around at my world and in my mind for the interpretation of my world, I am aware of two things. I have little control over the outer and complete control of the inner world. I feel very grateful for that insight.

The larger outer world is going through some changes right now. No one in charge has asked for my opinion or my consent. But, how I see this is entirely up to me. I can watch it all from the ego mind if I want to. However, that will be inventing a world of separation and thus suffering. Or I can look at it from my holy mind, in which case I will see the purpose and the solution. This makes it no different than any other situation I find myself in. It is just another opportunity to forgive, heal, love, and awaken.

I have decisions to make about the world we have made. There is nothing new about that. I always have decisions to make about the world. How will I choose to see it? How will I choose to use it? Will I use it to extend love and support to my fellow man as we all try to navigate it? Or will I use it to go deeper into the dream and bring more darkness into our shared mind?

If I judge the situation as more important, more awful, more wonderful, more or less anything, it is because I have blinded myself to the truth. There is no hierarchy in illusions. Nothing is good or bad, only truth or illusion. I choose to look at each occurrence and each thought with the Holy Spirit. He will lighten away the darkness. And if I forget that commitment, I will simply choose again. The world is a classroom, and I am here to learn. If I choose to feel guilty as I learn, I will change my mind. I will remind myself, “Myron, be a happy learner.

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Lesson 31 2025

My contemplation of Lesson 31
I am not the victim of the world I see.

I think that we each come here with specific tasks - beliefs that we want to forgive for all of the Sonship. I was drawn to this lesson from the beginning, and I am sure that was because this was a belief I chose to undo. I always felt like a victim, and though I believe everything Jesus tells us in the Course, I struggled with this one.

It so often seemed obvious that I was a victim in certain circumstances. But I kept working with it, and kept forgiving the idea of victimhood. This became a belief I completely forgave. I do not now believe I could ever be a victim. This doesn’t mean that the ego mind stopped reaching for that belief. But it does mean that I never accept it as true.

For instance, I was abused by a neighbor when I was a child. The ego argued that a child does not choose this, and I couldn’t do anything about it. In this situation, I was definitely a victim. But this can’t be true since this is my story. And the story was not chosen as a child. Now I see how this situation and others were necessary to the story. After all, if I were to forgive the belief in victimhood, I had to know what it was to feel like a victim.

Even now, the ego dangles the victimhood belief before me to see if I’m going to bite. After the last damaging hurricane in my area, I, like many people here, had some unfortunate experiences with contractors while trying to get repairs done on my house. The ego mind argued for victimhood in this case. It was useless because I just could not and can not now sustain any feeling of victimhood. Give it up, ego. It is never going to work. ~smile~

My success with this lesson is a perfect example of how wonderfully the Course works if we let it. I didn’t change my mind about victimhood the first time I read the lesson. I had to practice forgiveness with situations in my life repeatedly before the idea that I could never be a victim of the world I see became the truth for me. I am so very grateful to Brother for his Course. And I am grateful to myself for my persistence.

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