 Doing the mind training, learning to forgive, accept spirit as it is. Let go of illusions, release illusions from our mind, all beliefs, all attack thoughts, all errors. It's a purification. We're going through a purification and we're launching into it day by day. And today we are up to workbook lesson number 67 from A Course in Miracles. Thank you, thank you Jesus for guiding us and showing us the way to love and joy and happiness, peace, clarity. Yeah, we love it. We're lifted. We're lifted in it. Lesson 67. Love created me like itself. Today's idea is a complete and accurate statement of what you are. This is why you are the light of the world. This is why God appointed you as the world's savior. This is why the Son of God looks to you for His salvation. He is saved by what you are. We will make every effort today to reach this truth about you and to fully realize if only for a moment that it is the truth. In the longer practice period, we will think about your reality and its whole unchanged and unchangeable nature. We will begin by repeating this truth about you and then spend a few minutes adding some relevant thoughts such as holiness created me holy. Kindness created me kind. Helpfulness created me helpful. Perfection created me perfect. Any attribute which is in accord with God as He defines Himself is appropriate for use. We are trying today to undo your definition of God and replace it with His own. We are also trying to emphasize that you are part of His definition of Himself. After you have gone over several such related thoughts, try to let all thoughts drop away for a brief preparatory interval and then try to reach past all your images and preconceptions about yourself to the truth in you. If love created you like itself, this capital self, this Christ self, this higher self must be in you. And somewhere in your mind, it is there for you to find. You may find it necessary to repeat the idea for today from time to time to replace distracting thoughts. You may also find that this is not sufficient and that you need to continue adding other thoughts related to the truth about yourself. Yet perhaps you will succeed in going past that and through the interval of thoughtlessness to the awareness of a blazing light in which you recognize yourself as love created you. Be confident that you will do much today to bring that awareness nearer whether you feel you have succeeded or not. It will be particularly helpful today to practice the idea for the day as often as you can. You need to hear the truth about yourself as frequently as possible because your mind is so preoccupied with false self images. Four or five times an hour and perhaps even more, it would be most beneficial to remind yourself that love created you like itself. Hear the truth about yourself in this. Try to realize in the shorter practice periods that this is not your tiny solitary voice that tells you this. This is the voice for God reminding you of your Father and of yourself. This is the voice of truth replacing everything that the ego tells you about yourself with the simple truth about the Son of God. You were created by love like itself. Love created me like itself. It's such a beautiful idea. I can't help feel this joyful song rising up in me many years ago in 1992. Donna Marie Carey and I traveled around the United States, Florida, and then through the Midwest out west of it. Basically, she would take workbook lessons like this. Love created me like itself and she would turn them into little songs and she would send me the song. So I ended up actually singing a lot of the workbook because of her inspiration to make songs out of workbook lessons. And now we know there's a lot of others that have done it. Of course, before us doing it, Donna Marie Carey, there was Oman and Chanti and then there's been a whole lot of people over the years that had taken workbook lessons. Yes, my friend Resta did it. I know Slava has done it. I know Netta Bowen has done it and Helena Hoonison has done it. So it's been kind of a chorus of workbook lessons for me. I've been surrounded by these beautiful little songs, these little songs that came through when people were practicing a course in miracles and wanting to teach and learn it and reinforce it in themselves. So again, love created me like itself. Donna Marie Carey, thank you. Love created me like itself. I cannot be anything else. I am as God created me. So love is all that I can be. Love, love, love created me. I am love. So there it is. Love created me like itself. This is what we do. We remind ourselves throughout the day. So also, I think for some support for today's idea, love created me like itself. I have gone to the search program for a course in miracles and I typed in the word creation. Okay, 420 results came up. Starting with chapter one, only the creations of light are real. He recognizes both God's creations and your illusions. He's talking about the Holy Spirit. The miracle compares what you have made with creation, accepting what is in accord with it as true and rejecting what is out of accord as false. It reflects the original form of communication between God and his creations involving the extremely personal sense of creation, sometimes sought in physical relationships. You are a perfect creation and should experience awe only in the presence of the creator of perfection. Miracles are the way in which minds that serve the Holy Spirit unite with me for the salvation or release of all of God's creations. Thank you, Jesus. Still in chapter one, the impersonal nature of miracles is because the Atonement itself is one uniting all creations with their creator. God would be mocked if any of his creations lacked holiness. The creation is whole and the mark of wholeness is holiness. If it elects to do so, the mind can become the medium by which the Spirit creates along the line of its own creation. While lack does not exist in creation of God, it is very apparent in what you have made. In attitude, then, though not in content, you resemble your creator who has perfect faith in his creations because he created them. Chapter two, in the creation, God extended himself to his creations and imbued them with the same loving will to create. In this sense, the creation includes both the creation of the Son by God and the Son's creation when his mind is healed. This requires God's endowment of the Son with free will because all loving creation is freely given in one continuous line in which all aspects are of the same order. God and his creations are completely dependent on each other. When it is understood that the mind, the only level of creation, cannot create beyond itself, neither type of confusion need occur. The body cannot create in the mind because only the mind is the level of creation and mind cannot create beyond itself. So mind reaches to itself, Jesus tells us, it does not go out within itself as everything, you within it and it within you. Creation, love, light, that is a fact. That is what's real and the projections of the cosmos linear time and all the images are not. So therefore we come to the basically the introduction summary of a course of miracles. Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God. It's because only the level of creation is at the mind level and the mind cannot create beyond itself. The fearful must miscreate because they misperceive creation. So this is the belief in the ego is where the fear arises and then all miscreation is an error. But that error has already been corrected by the Holy Spirit. So now all that remains for the mind is to wake up and remember its divine creation and divine creations. Purely spirit in a pure line of spirit, extending spirit, extending spirit. The fundamental conflict in this world then is between creation and miscreation. Creation is real. Spirit is real and miscreation. Perception, linear time, the whole cosmos is false. Your will to create was given you by your creator who was expressing the same will in his creation. Everyone will ultimately look upon his own creations and choose to preserve only what is good. Just as God himself looked upon what he had created and knew that it was good. At this point the mind can begin to look with love on its own creations because of their worthiness. Your own last judgment cannot be directed toward yourself because you are not your own creation. It is your own perfect judgment of your own perfect creations. There are no strangers in God's creation. So we're moving there into chapter 3. You can never make your misperceptions true and your creation is beyond your own error. The interpretive function of perception, a distorted form of creation then permits you to interpret the body as yourself in an attempt to escape from the conflict you have induced. So it's the misperception, the misidentification with the body that seems to be an escape attempt that the ego has sponsored. But you can always come back to I am not a body, I am free, I am still as God created me. I would know my true self, Christ's self and my creations. I would know my Creator. I would accept the Atonement for myself. It just goes on and on. 420 results in The Course in Miracles. Wow. So there we go. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. We are just basking in our lesson today. Number 67 from the workbook, The Course in Miracles. Love created me like itself. Enjoy the day, enjoy the love, enjoy the light, extend it. And as many times as you can remember it, just remember that beautiful declaration. Love created me like itself. And if you have trouble remembering, then remember Donna Marie Kerry's cute little song about it. Love created me like itself. I cannot be anything else. I am as God created me. So love is all that I can be. Love, love, love created me. I am love, love, love, love created me. I am love, starts with the line, love created me like itself. Okay. Glorious day, my beloved friends.