 Hi everyone, welcome again to Course in Miracles Workbook Lessons Live. We have a beautiful, beautiful lesson here, Workbook Lesson 110. Oftentimes we feel, I wish the truth was simple and today Jesus is going to lay the thought on us that is the one thought that's enough to save us and the world. It's interesting that there's only one thought needed and that's it. And this thought is, I am as God created me. So here we go, we're going to launch into it. We will repeat today's idea from time to time for this one thought would be enough to save you and the world if you believe that it is true. This truth would mean that you have made no changes in yourselves that have reality nor changed the universe so that what God created was replaced by fear and evil, misery and death. If you remain as God created you, fear has no meaning, evil is not real and misery and death do not exist. Today's idea is therefore all you need to let complete correction heal your mind and give you perfect vision that will heal all the mistakes that any mind has made at any time or place. It is enough to heal the past and make the future free. It is enough to let the present be accepted as it is. It is enough to let time be the means for all the world to learn escape from time and every change that time appears to bring in passing by what a paragraph, it just it's just reminding us that it's a perceptual problem. So it's not a big problem. It's just a perceptual problem of perceiving something that's not there. First of all, that's psychotic. It's a break from reality because reality is spirit. Reality is eternal. So it's just a perceptual problem, just it's psychotic, yes, there's schizophrenia involved because it's a split mind that now doesn't have unification, it believes in the Holy Spirit and the right mind and it seems to also believe in the ego, belief system or the wrong mind. So that's a split mind and it's got a pretty big case of multiple personality disorder because now what is one spirit seems to be fragmented into on earth 7.8 billion people. So it's a perceptual problem though. It's not a problem with nature. It's not a problem with pollution. It's not all the problems of the world, nuclear, armament, war, disease, climate change, you know, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, all of that. No, that's not it because it's a perceptual problem and today we're being given the one thought to completely heal everything. One thought, one solution heals everything. If you remain as God created you, appearances cannot replace the truth, health cannot turn to sickness, nor can death be a substitute for life or fear for love. All this has not occurred if you remain as God created you. You need no thought but just this one to let redemption come to light the world and free it from the past. In this one thought is all the past undone. The present saved to quietly extend into a timeless future. If you are as God created you, then there has been no separation of your mind from His, no split between your mind and other minds, and only unity within your own. The healing power of today's idea is limitless. It is the birthplace of all miracles, the great restore of the truth to the awareness of the world. Practice today's idea with gratitude. This is the truth that comes to set you free. This is the truth that God has promised you. This is the word in which all sorrow ends. For your five minute practice periods, begin with this quotation from the text. I am as God created me. His son can suffer nothing, and I am His son. Begin with this statement firmly in your mind. Try to discover in your mind the Christ self who is the Holy Son of God himself. Seek Him within you who is Christ in you, the Son of God and brother to the world. The Savior who has been forever saved with power to save whoever touches him, however lightly asking for the word that tells him he is brother unto him. You are as God created you. Today honor your Christ self. Let the graven images you made to be the Son of God instead of what He is, be worshiped not today. Keep in your mind the Holy Christ in you is waiting your acknowledgement as you. And you are lost and do not know yourself while He is unacknowledged and unknown. Seek Him today and find Him. He will be your Savior from all idols you have made, for when you find Him you will understand how worthless are your idols and how false the images which you believed were you. Today we make a great advance to truth by letting idols go and opening our hands and hearts and minds to God today. We will remember Him throughout the day with thankful hearts and loving thoughts for all who meet with us today, for it is thus that we remember Him. And we will say that we may be reminded of His Son, our Holy Self, the Christ in each of us, I am as God created me. Let us declare this truth as often as we can. This is the Word of God that sets you free. This is the key that opens up the gate of heaven and that lets you enter in the peace of God and His eternity. Okay, what a lesson I am as God created me. Just let it flow from you today. Let it reverberate from you. Let it ripple out across the universe as a declaration of truth. This lesson is the one thought that ends the belief in lies. This one thought ends the belief in separation and shows it never was. This one thought takes away history. So this is more than historical. This is a present moment thought that literally transcends all of time because this thought I am as God created me is a real thought and the rest of the thoughts in consciousness are not. Sometimes people wonder if a course in miracles is non-dualistic. Well, let's just say I am as God created me is singular, singularity, oneness, eternity, divine love. Yeah, there is no need for another one thought and it's all that is needed to heal the world and heal myself. So I thought as an additional booster, I would go back all the way to chapter one in the text and this is like a thought to just really spring into I am as God created me. This is Jesus in chapter one, section five. The title of this section is wholeness and spirit. The miracle is much like the body in that both are learning aids for facilitating a state in which they become unnecessary. When spirits original state of direct communication is reached, neither the body nor the miracle serves any purpose. How you believe you are in a body, however, you can choose between loveless and miraculous channels of expression, loveless being the ego and miraculous channels being the Holy Spirit and Jesus. You can make an empty shell, but you cannot express nothing at all. You can wait, delay, paralyze yourself or reduce your creativity almost to nothing. But you cannot abolish it. Isn't that lovely? You cannot abolish your creativity, but your God given creativity cannot be abolished. You can destroy your medium of communication, but not your potential. You did not create yourself. The basic decision of the miracle minded is not to wait on time any longer than is necessary. Time can waste as well as be wasted. The miracle worker therefore accepts the time control factor gladly. He recognizes that every collapse of time brings everyone closer to the ultimate release from time in which the son and the father are one. Equity does not imply equality now. When everyone recognizes that he has everything, individual contributions to the sonship will no longer be necessary. When the atonement has been completed, all talents will be shared by all the sons of God. God is not partial. All his children have total love and all his gifts are freely given to everyone alike. What you become as little children means that unless you fully recognize your complete dependence on God, you cannot know the real power of the son in his true relationship with the father. The specialness of God's son does not stem from exclusion, but from inclusion. All my brothers are special. If they believe they're deprived of anything, their perception becomes distorted. When this occurs, the whole family of God or the sonship is impaired in its relationships. So let's just go up to everyone remembers that from the Bible, Jesus spoke that in the Bible 2000 years ago, except you become as little children means that unless you recognize, you fully recognize your complete dependence on God, you cannot know the real power of the son in his true relationship with the father. So this is why we're always talking about trust. Trust in the Holy Spirit to provide every perceived need as long as you believe in lack, then you have to rely on the Holy Spirit. If you think it's your body or the body working, providing for you, sustaining you, if you think it's other bodies providing for you, if you think you're sustained by a partner, by a friend, by family, by a government, by actions of the body, exercise, eating the bright and nutritious foods, if you believe you're sustained by breathing air. I remember the matrix. Do you really believe that's air you're breathing? Morpheus says to Neo in the training exercise there. No, air is not required. It's what it is just a forgiveness of all those things and just staying with the joy of I am as God created me. I am sustained by the love of God. That's less than 50 in the workbook. And well, let's jump to the workbook less than 76. I am under no laws but God's. I am not under the laws of economics. I'm not under the laws of interpersonal relationships. I'm not under the laws of countries. I'm not under the laws of medicine. I'm not under the laws of nutrition, of knowing the right people. I'm not under the laws of prestige and status. I don't need to people, please. I am as God created me. You can see this whole thing of complete dependence on God as the source in spirit is the escape hatch. So if you really go for this and you realize what freedom this is, you don't have to play by the made believe rules that the ego made up. You can actually just be carried and float along. And you might say, while you still even believe you have a body that that will be navigated by Jesus and the Holy Spirit. That will be orchestrated by Jesus and the Holy Spirit. You know, that's the time control factor that Jesus was mentioning. Yeah, if you're a miracle worker, then time is under the control of the miracle workers. So that's where we get phrases like arranging time and space. That's the orchestration, which is just bringing everything into alignment that everything is mind and everything is working together for the good. That's what that really means. Ultimately, every member of the family of God must return. The miracle calls him to return because it blesses and honors him, even though he may be absent in spirit. God is not mocked is not a warning, but a reassurance. God would be mocked if any of his creation lacks holiness. The creation is whole and the mark of wholeness is holiness. Miracles are affirmations of sonship, which is a state of completion and abundance. Whatever is true is eternal and cannot change or be changed. Spirit is therefore unalterable because it is already perfect, but the mind can elect what it chooses to serve. The only limit put on his choice is that it cannot serve two masters. If it elects to do so, the mind can become the medium by which spirit creates a long line of its own creation. If it does not freely elect to do so, it retains its creative potential, but places itself under tyrannous rather than authoritative control. Tyrannous being the ego and authoritative control being under Christ's control, under the control of the Holy Spirit, under the direction and instruction of spirit. As a result, it imprisons because such are the dictates of tyrants. To change your mind means to place it at the disposal of true authority. Let's remember God is the author of reality and that's true authority. Let's remember I did not create myself. I am a creation of God. I am as God created me and I would place my mind under the disposal of true authority, the true author of reality, God. Did God offer time and space? No, God offers Christ and pure creation, eternal, changeless spirit. Did God invent the world? No, God did not invent time and space. We're letting go of the whole thing, the whole nothingness. The miracle is a sign that the mind has chosen to be led by me in Christ's service. This is Jesus talking to. That's the me. The abundance of Christ is the natural result of choosing to follow Him. All shallow roots must be uprooted because they are not deep enough to sustain you. What are these shallow roots? The belief in economics, the belief in supply and demand, the belief in people policing, the belief in an external source, the belief in money, the belief in food, the belief in air. On and on and on. Yeah, lesson number 50, lesson number 76. If you want to know what shallow roots are, just read those two lessons, lesson 50 and 76. Then Jesus gives it to you straight. The illusion that shallow roots can be deepened and thus made to hold is one of the distortions on which the reverse of the golden rule rests. OK, you can't deepen your monetary economic security because it's not a real belief system. It's not a real source of sustenance. You cannot deepen anything that involves the body's betterment because the body wasn't created by God. OK, God creates in spirit and only in spirit. So, you know, these ideas of deepening the illusion that shallow roots can be deepened is basically saying that self-improvement, small self-improvement, personal improvement is just a belief in shallow roots being deepened. And Jesus is saying they can't be. They cannot illusion that shallow roots can be deepened. It is an illusion. It's a distortion. As these false underpinnings are given up, the equilibrium is temporarily experienced as unstable. Yeah, your mind is going from upside down to right side up. It's it's temporarily seemingly unstable because it's turning over everything that was once believed is true, the past. However, nothing is less stable than an upside down orientation, nor can anything that holds it upside down be conducive to increased stability. So this is beautiful as we're opening today to the most holy idea there could ever be the one idea, the one thought that saves everything, saves the world, saves the mind, sleeping mind. I am as God created me. Yeah, he's just telling us here that there can be some turbulence and instability as you as you make this declaration as you choose to focus on this one thought. I am as God created me. Then, you know, it seems like there's any other belief in the mind that don't be surprised if it gets. If the ego gets its feather ruffled today, its feathers ruffled from I am as God created me. If you start to feel like you start to seem to be unhappy for no earthly reason, like why am I unhappy? It's because the mind is opening to the truth and the ego is resisting the truth. Because if I am as God created me, then there must not be an ego. There can't be a separation from God if I am still as God created me. If I am still eternal spirit. So thank you for joining me. Wow, we're really blowing the trumpet today. We went from from holy week to happy week and now oh, yesterday we were going into a deep rest in God and now today the one thought that heals everything heals everything. I am as God created me that the God's son can suffer nothing. I am as God created me. Thank you. God bless you. See you again soon.