Here is the end of choice,
For here we come to a decision to accept ourselves as God created us.
What is choice except uncertainty of what we are?
There is no doubt that choice is not rooted here.
There is no question but reflects this one.
There is no conflict that does not entail the single simple question,
What am I?
Yet,
Who could ask this question except one who has refused to recognize who they really are?
Only refusal to accept yourself could make the question seem to be sincere.
The only thing that can be surely known by any living thing is what it is.
From this one point of certainty,
It looks on other things as certain as itself.
Uncertainty about what you must be is self-deception on a scale so vast its magnitude can hardly be conceived.
To be alive and not to know yourself is to believe that you are really dead.
What is life except to be yourself?
And what but you can be alive instead?
Who is the doubter?
What is it that is doubted?
Whom do you question?
Who can answer?
We merely state that we are not ourselves and therefore,
Being something else,
We become a questioner of what that something is.
Yet,
We could never be alive at all unless we knew the answer.
If we ask as if we do not know,
It merely shows we do not want to be the thing we are.
We have accepted it because we live.
We have judged against it and denied its worth.
We have decided that we do not know,
The only certainty by which we live.
Thus,
We become uncertain of our life,
For what our life is has been denied by us.
It is for this denial that you need atonement.
Your denial made no change in what you are,
But you have split your mind into what knows and what does not know the truth.
You are yourself,
There is no doubt of this,
And yet you doubt it.
But you do not ask what part of you can really doubt yourself.
It cannot really be a part of you that asks this question,
For it asks of one who knows the answer.
Were it part of you,
Then certainty would be impossible.
Atonement remedies the strange idea that it is possible to doubt yourself.
Atonement remedies the idea that it is possible to be unsure of what you really are.
This is the depth of madness,
Yet who am I is the universal question of the world.
What does this mean,
Except the world is mad?
Why share its madness in the sad belief that what is universal here is true?
Nothing the world believes is true.
It is a place whose purpose is to be a home,
Where those who claim they do not know themselves can come to question what it is they are.
And they will come again until the time atonement is accepted.
And they will come again until they learn it is impossible to doubt yourself and not to be aware of what you are.
Say to yourself,
Repeat in your mind,
I will accept atonement for myself,
For I remain as God created me.
Again,
I will accept atonement for myself.
I will accept atonement for myself,
For I remain as God created me.
Only acceptance can be asked of you,
For what you are is certain.
What you are is set forever.
In the holy mind of God,
And in your own mind,
It is so far beyond all doubt and question that to ask what it must be is all the proof you need to show that you believe the contradiction,
That you know not what you cannot fail to know.
Is this a question,
Or a statement,
Which denies itself in statement?
Let us not allow our holy minds to occupy themselves with senseless musings,
Such as this.
We have a mission here.
We did not come to reinforce the madness that we once believed in.
Let us not forget the goal that we accepted.
It is more than just our happiness alone we came to gain.
What we accept as what we are proclaims what everyone must be along with us.
Fail not your brothers and sisters,
Or you fail yourself.
Look lovingly on them,
That they may know that they are a part of you,
And you are a part of them.
This does atonement teach.
Atonement demonstrates that the oneness of God's children is unassailed.
By the belief,
We know not what we are.
Today,
Accept atonement,
Not to change reality,
But merely to accept the truth about yourself,
And go your way rejoicing in the endless love of God.
It is but this that we are asked to do.
It is but this that we will do today.
Five minutes in the morning and at night,
We will devote to dedicate our minds to our assignment for today.
We start with this review of what our mission is.
Say to yourself,
Say in your mind,
I will accept atonement for myself,
For I remain as God created me.
Repeat,
I will accept atonement for myself,
For I remain as God created me.
We have not lost the knowledge that God gave to us when he created us like him.
We can remember it for everyone,
For in creation are all minds as one.
In our memory is the recall of how dear our brothers and sisters are to us in truth,
Of how much a part of us is every mind.
In our memory is the recall of how faithful our brothers and sisters have really been to us,
And how our Father's love contains them all,
In thanks for all creation in the name of its creator and his oneness with all aspects of creation.
We repeat our dedication to our cause today,
Each hour,
As we lay aside all thoughts that would distract us from our holy aim.
Now,
For several minutes,
Let your mind be cleared of all the foolish cobwebs which the world would weave around the holy child of God,
While you clear your mind.
Learn the fragile nature of the chains that seem to keep the knowledge of yourself apart.
Apart.
As you say to yourself,
I will accept atonement for myself,
For I remain as God created me.
I will accept atonement for myself,
For I remain as God created me.
I will accept atonement for myself,
I remain as God created me.
