Welcome to active meditation.
A Course in Miracles,
Lesson 139 I will accept atonement for myself.
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.
For I remain as God created me.
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 on a sail.
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.
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.
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.
I'll be silent while you clear your mind.
Learn the fragile nature of the chains that seem to keep the knowledge of yourself apart.
As you say to yourself I will accept atonement for myself or I remain as God created me.
I will accept atonement for myself or I remain as God created me.
You I will accept atonement for myself.
I remain as God created me.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
