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We can now REVIEW Lessons #91 through Lesson #110. This is REVIEW III. Today's Lessons, reviewed two at a time, are "Miracles are seen in the Light," and "Miracles are seen in the Light, and Light and Strength are one." Remember, the "Light" has the function of total forgiveness. "Forgiveness is my function as the Light of the world." (Lesson #62) Let's use these Thoughts during the day and remember every 30 minutes to say the Lessons.

Can we rise into our true IDENTITY? This Lesson puts us in the vibration of Who we are as God Created us. We are the Son of God. This is our Highest Reality. This is the "Truth that sets us free." Can we receive and embody this Truth? "I AM AS GOD CREATED ME." There are no problems in SELF-IDENTITY. I am not separated from my Source. I am the Son or Daughter of the Divine FATHER/MOTHER. I am as God created me. I am Love not fear. I am Life not death. I am Health, not sickness. I am Innocence, not guilt. My Self as God created me is my Reality. My ego is an illusion that does not exist in this Holy Reality—that is the ONLY Reality. I am ONLY that REALITY.

Giving and Receiving are ONE when I use the Light of Divine Vision and Understanding. The light the body's eyes "see" is not the clarity we need to transcend all opposites. There is a LIGHT of GOD's MIND, that is also our real mind, filled with only the thoughts we think with God. In this mind there are not "opposites" or "conflict." We receive what we give, because to give we acknowledge we are in full possession of what we give. We have in full awareness what we give, which increases what we have. We transcend "opposites" and all conflict. I give PEACE and I receive it more. Then I can "rest in God." independent of external war and strife. We offer Peace and Joy and we receive more of those and then we REST in this Divine Peace and Joy.

Are we listening to Peace and Joy, or to our mild irritations? Can we meet Life with a truly open heart and mind that is empty? Sondra & Markus explore the process of "listening to the truth" which amounts to deeper levels of peace and joy in our life. Let us be clear, “What does it mean to give and receive?"

We claim God's Gifts to us because they are already given. Yet, we have to be willing to give them away to know we have them. "To have, give all to all," it says in the TEXT. And now we are on the verge of knowing we have all the Peace and Joy God holds out for us. Are we not glad to know this? Our little "problems" cannot stand up before the Infinite Peace and Joy that is our Divine Inheritance. Even in the face of a "problem," this mighty statement of a fact can dissolve it.

Do I seek the truth of God's PEACE and JOY? Are we distracted into the pain of our existence? Are we committed to turn our life around? We can rise above all that is not Peace and Joy. We have to leave pain behind and rise to a Higher Truth. Are we able to do this? WIth the help of the Holy Spirit we can. We are sorry we casued ourselves to suffer. We accept the correction of all our "wrong thinking." We want the Truth today. We confess and move on, and the errors are transmuted to God's Peace and Joy.

God gives us only happiness. He gives us the way to transcend the body and the mind's projections of conflict onto it, and all pain it experiences. God has a higher Will for Joy that is His Will for us. "God's Will for us is perfect happiness." DO we accept that? Have we projected "fear" onto "God" which is the Source of Happiness? We must share in that happiness to realize it, and rise aove the "pains of the body's experience." We are asked to Identify with the Spirit. The natural state of that true Self-Identity is JOY. We choose this as our own will. A mind looking toward Spirit forgives and overlooks the painful experiences of the body, and the mind's misperceptions that brought them on.

This Podcast contains 3 in one. A Single Podcast on Lessons #78, #100, and #101. #78 Let miracles replace all grievances.#100 My part is essential in God's Plan for Salvation. #101 God's Will for me is perfect happiness. These are the most Key Lessons in A Course in Miracles. This Podcast could establish your mastery of the Course in actuality. These together give us the Doorway to Heaven. Are we willing to walk through it? This entry into another dimension is held our to us with certainty.

Salvation is the end of the ego's rule of our world and the embrace of our Holy Self as the guide by whom we live. This would be called "salvation" in ACIM, and "forgiveness" is the means by which we replace illusions of the "self we made" for the reality of Love that God created as our True Self. We are saved today from our separated illusions of a "mind" disconnected from its Source. We are as God created us. This is our Self of the Christ which is in constant connection to His Source. We use His Awareness to help us accept our True Self and be in a state of Love, Peace and Joy. This is our only Reality in Truth. To that which is not this Truth, we simply say: "God is still Love, and this is not His Will." Therefore, it is not my true will either, and I can let these illusions of pain and suffering go.

Salvation is the complete immersion in the Joy of Living, and forgiveness of all past errors we have made, or "think" we made. Our Real Self never made these errors. Salvation is the absolution of all our past mistakes. We have to completely forgive everyone and everything. We are free of all consequences in the embrace of our Divine Innocence that cannot ever be assailed. The Guiltless have no fear becaseu they see the Safety is given by God, and this Safety is absolute. Let us accept today our Real Self which amounts to our salvation.

We have one SELF that is whole and totally consistent with the Joy of God. To which do we use our mind to Identify? Body or Spirit? Are we SPIRIT? Are we a BODY? What is the Source of us? Spirit is in a state of Grace forever and this would be a state of Pure Joy. Body is immersed in duality—peace and war; good and evil; happiness and sorrow. The nature of Grace is constant JOY. This is God-like. What do we use our mind to identify with? We transcend the body didentification for our Spiritual Reality. SPIRIT is filled with Peace and Joy. Let's use the 5 minutes an hour to make contact with this Pure Spirit., this perfect happiness that is the Strength of the Light in us.

We practice affirming our Identity as God Created us to be. We are as God created us. We are One Self, at one with every aspect of creation, and limitless in power and in peace. Awareness of our Being solves all of our "problems." As God created us, we are free of all "personal lies" and claim our True Self. This is the Self of Love, free of fear, and cleansed of all "idols" that belive in death. We ask for truth to reveal our One Self to us.

The Light and the Strength of our holy SELF transcends the body's eyes and brain. There is a Sight and a Strength that is connected with the Christ Self that we share. But we have to be willing to let go of what we thought before with the brain's stored "knowledge” that was highly conditioned. We were conditioned to "hate" and to "love" according to what the body's eyes could "see." This was not true sight at all. It kept us wrongly blind in our separation. This Lesson helps us to forgive and let go of our misperceptions based on the body's eyes and brain that created division and false beliefs. We can use the Light of Truth in which to see with spiritual sight that unifies us with Creation—including all our brothers and sisters. In this Christ's Vision are we all One.

We have to see differently, without the filter of the body's eyes. Can we see beyond the body, and all the judgments that this limited form of vision gives us? Rise above the doubt and see through the Self God Created whole and complete, not separated from awareness of its Source. This is the Light beyond the body that gives us the vision of miracles. Strength is in this vision of holiness.

This is Lesson #80. The Problem is Separation which manifests in the form of grievances. Grevances divide us from one another and from the Energy of Life itself. In the absence of Peace and Joy and Gratitude toward this very Life we have, we would wallow in separation—and in this separation arise problems. It is devoid of Joy. Immersed in pain, we can end the illusion of suffering today when we end the Separation we feel between ourselves and our Source. Peace and Joy are the attributes of my Source. We can be in the Oneness with our Source. In that Oneness are our problems solved.