Welcome to Active Meditation.
A Course in Miracles Lesson 93 Light and joy and peace abide in me.
You think you are the home of evil,
Darkness,
And sin.
You think if anyone could see the truth about you,
They would be repelled,
Recoiling from you as if from a poisonous snake.
You think if what is true about you were revealed to you,
You would be struck with horror,
So intense that you would rush to death by your own hand.
Living on after seeing this being impossible.
These are beliefs so firmly fixed that it is difficult to help you see that they are based on nothing,
That you have made mistakes is obvious,
That you have sought salvation in strange ways,
That you have been deceived,
That you have been deceiving,
That you have been afraid of foolish fantasies and savage dreams,
That you have bowed down to idols made of dust.
All this is true by what you now believe.
Today we question this,
Not from the point of view of what you think,
But from a very different reference point,
From which such idol thoughts are meaningless.
These thoughts are not according to God's will.
These weird beliefs God does not share with you.
This is enough to prove that they are wrong,
But you do not perceive that this is so.
Why would you not be overjoyed to be assured that all the evil that you think you did was never done,
That all your sins are nothing,
That you are as pure and holy as you were created,
And that light and joy and peace abide in you?
Your image of yourself cannot withstand the will of God.
You think that this is death,
But it is life.
You think you are destroyed,
But you are saved.
The self you made is not the child of God.
Therefore this self does not exist at all,
And anything it seems to do and think means nothing.
The self you made is neither bad nor good.
The self you made is unreal and nothing more than that.
The self you made does not battle with the child of God.
The self you made does not hurt the child nor attack the child's peace.
The self you made has not changed creation.
The self you made has not reduced eternal sinlessness to sin.
The self you made has not reduced love to hate.
What power can this self you made possess when it would contradict the will of God?
Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God.
Over and over this must be repeated.
Until it is accepted,
It is true.
Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God.
Nothing can touch it or change what God created as eternal.
The self you made,
Evil and full of sin,
Is meaningless.
Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God,
And light and joy and peace abide in you.
Salvation requires the acceptance of but one thought.
You are as God created you,
Not what you made of yourself.
Whatever evil you may think you did,
You are as God created you.
Whatever mistakes you made,
The truth about you is unchanged.
Creation is eternal and unalterable.
Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God.
You are and will forever be exactly as you were created.
Light and joy and peace abide in you,
Because God put them there.
In our longer exercise periods today,
Which would be most profitable if done for the first five minutes of every waking hour,
Begin by stating the truth about your creation.
Light and joy and peace abide in me.
My sinlessness is guaranteed by God.
Then put away your foolish self-images,
And spend the rest of the practice period in trying to experience what God has given you,
In place of what you have decreed for yourself.
You are either what God created,
Or what you made.
One self is true,
The other is not there.
Try to experience the unity of your higher self.
Try to appreciate its holiness and the love from which it was created.
Try not to interfere with the self which God created as you,
By hiding its majesty behind the tiny idols of evil and sinfulness you have made to replace it.
Let your higher self come into its own.
Here you are.
This is you.
And light and joy and peace abide in you,
Because this is so.
Let's practice.
Say to yourself,
Repeat after me,
Light and joy and peace abide in me.
My sinlessness is guaranteed by God.
Experience what God has given you,
Your higher self,
In place of what you have decreed for yourself.
I'll be silent.
I'll be silent.
I'll be silent.
You may not be willing,
Or even able,
To use the first five minutes of each hour for these exercises.
Try however to do so when you can.
At least remember to repeat these thoughts each hour.
Light and joy and peace abide in me.
My sinlessness is guaranteed by God.
Then,
Try to devote at least a minute or so to closing your eyes and realizing that this is a statement of truth about you.
Let's practice again.
Say to yourself,
Say in your mind,
Light and joy and peace abide in me.
My sinlessness is guaranteed by God.
Let your higher self come to you,
Merge with you.
The bright white light is surrounding you.
Here you are.
This is you.
Light,
Joy,
And peace abide in you.
Because this is so.
Let your higher self come to you.
Let your higher self come to you.
Let your higher self merge with you.
The bright white light is surrounding you.
Here you are.
This is you.
Light,
Joy,
And peace abide in you.
This is so.
Let your higher self come to you.
If a situation arises that seems to be disturbing,
Quickly dispel the illusion of fear by repeating these thoughts again.
Should you be tempted to become angry with someone,
Tell them silently,
Light and joy and peace abide in you.
Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God.
You can do much today to bring you closer to the parted salvation that God has assigned to you.
You can do much today to bring the conviction to your mind that the idea for today,
Light and joy and peace abide in me,
Is true indeed.
Light and joy and peace abide in me.
My sinlessness is guaranteed by God.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
