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Lesson 227: ”This is my holy instant of release.”

Reframe: This moment is a chance to release, reset, and align.

Suggested Practice: 

From now on: 
One in the morning and one in the evening for however many minutes feels sufficient. Then every hour remember/recite the idea for the day. 

Prayer For today: 
(feel free to swap out the wording to whatever resonates with you best)

“Father, it is today that I am free, because my will is Yours. ²I thought to make another will. ³Yet nothing that I thought apart from You exists. ⁴And I am free because I was mistaken, and did not affect my own reality at all by my illusions.⁵Now I give them up, and lay them down before the feet of truth, to be removed forever from my mind. ⁶This is my holy instant of release. ⁷Father, I know my will is one with Yours.” (ACIM, W-227.1:1-7)

From the PART II Introduction: Read the whole introduction here.

“Words will mean little now. ²We use them but as guides on which we do not now depend. ³For now we seek direct experience of truth alone. ⁴The lessons that remain are merely introductions to the times in which we leave the world of pain, and go to enter peace. ⁵Now we begin to reach the goal this course has set, and find the end toward which our practicing was always geared.” (ACIM, W-pII.in.1:1-5)

For Lessons 221-230: Forgiveness is the theme. Read the whole article here.
“Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred. ²It does not pardon sins and make them real. ³It sees there was no sin. ⁴And in that view are all your sins forgiven. ⁵What is sin, except a false idea about God’s Son? ⁶Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go. ⁷What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.” (ACIM, W-pII.1.1:1-7)

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Message

From the Lesson:

”And so today we find our glad return to Heaven, which we never really left. ²The Son of God this day lays down his dreams. ³The Son of God this day comes home again, released from sin and clad in holiness, with his right mind restored to him at last.” (ACIM, W-227.2:1-3)

Today we’re introduced to the idea of a “holy instant,” one of my favorite teachings from the Course. As I understand it, a holy instant is that shift in perception when we change our minds—when we release the fear, limiting belief, or grievance blocking our access to inner peace, love, and joy.

It’s when we choose to see things differently. The other day on the highway, someone in a sporty vehicle was weaving between lanes. At first I was frightened—one wrong move and we’re in a pile-up. That fear quickly turned to anger. Where’s the highway patrol? Why do people drive that way? That’s when I noticed I’d lost my peace.

I knew what to do. I chanted one of my go-to ACIM statements as often as I needed: “I could know peace instead of this.” I repeated it all the way to my destination. Doing so helped release the ego’s hold on my thoughts and brought me back to the present, where I could breathe and realign with my peace.

That was my holy instant—the moment I let go of the anger and, with it, the underlying guilt of believing I’d separated from God, and instead focused on peace.

I think that’s what the Course means by miracles. Shifting our perception from fear-based to peace-based is a miracle. And the moment we make that shift, the moment we change our minds toward peace, that becomes our holy instant of release.

“The exciting thing about this truth…is that another way IS possible.”
— “The Course in Miracles Experiment” by Pam Grout

Blessings & Peace,

Maureen,
The Mandala Lady

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