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Lesson 318 ”In me salvation’s means and end are one.”
Reframe: Healing is the means and the end.
Suggested Practice:
From now on:
Once in the morning and once 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)
“Let me today, my Father, take the role You offer me in Your request that I accept Atonement for myself. ²For thus does what is thereby reconciled in me become as surely reconciled to You.” (ACIM, W-318.2:1-2)
OR… “As I heal, others heal.”
For Lessons 311-320: What is the Last Judgment? is the theme for the next 10 days. Read the whole article here.
”Christ’s Second Coming gives the Son of God this gift: to hear the Voice for God proclaim that what is false is false, and what is true has never changed. ²And this the judgment is in which perception ends. ³At first you see a world that has accepted this as true, projected from a now corrected mind. ⁴And with this holy sight, perception gives a silent blessing and then disappears, its goal accomplished and its mission done.” (ACIM, W-pII.10.1:1-4) … “The final judgment on the world contains no condemnation. ²For it sees the world as totally forgiven, without sin and wholly purposeless.” (ACIM, W-pII.10.2:1-2)
OR put another way…
”It’s when we accept the truth of who we truly are: sinless, holy, whole and complete, just as Love created us.”
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)
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Message
“The end is to realize I am God’s Son as Christ, and the means of attainment is to see God’s Son in everyone, including myself, recognizing our single purpose and goal. Seeing at last that we share the same self, I awaken to the truth that we share one Self. Thus, I am God’s Son, and I seek God’s Son.” — Kenneth Wapnick “Journey Through the Workbook of ACIM”
Wapnick sums it up more clearly than I could have done. When I first read this Lesson, I couldn’t get past the abstraction of “means and end are one” until I read his framing of it. To make it even more concrete for myself, I would put it this way:
We are all of the Light. My salvation is seeing that Light in everyone and in me.
While I normally share a personal story, today’s Lesson felt more philosophical than practical to me. Even so, it reminds me to see the Light in everyone — and in myself — as I go about my day.
“When I view ‘reality’ through the lens of possibility rather than a solidified, this-is-just-how-it-is viewpoint, the new and magical is set in motion.” — “The Course in Miracles Experiment” by Pam Grout
Blessings & Peace,
Maureen,
The Mandala Lady
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