Welcome to Active Meditation A Course in Miracles lesson 97 I Am Spirit Today's idea identifies you with your one self.
It accepts no split identity,
Nor tries to weave opposing factors into unity.
It simply states the truth,
I Am Spirit.
Practice this truth today,
As often as you can,
For it will bring your mind from conflict to the quiet fields of peace.
No chill of fear can enter,
For your mind has been absolved from madness.
Letting go illusions of a split identity.
We state again the truth about yourself,
The holy child of God who rests in you,
Whose mind has been restored to sanity.
You are the spirit,
Lovingly endowed with all of God's love and peace and joy.
You are the spirit which completes itself and shares your function as creator.
God is with you always,
As you are with God.
Today we try to bring reality still closer to your mind.
Each time you practice,
Awareness is brought a little nearer,
At least.
Sometimes a thousand years or more are saved.
The minutes which you give are multiplied,
Over and over.
For the miracle makes use of time,
But is not ruled by it.
Salvation is a miracle,
The first and last.
The first that is the last,
For it is one.
You are the spirit in whose mind abides the miracle,
In which all time stands still.
The miracle in which a minute spent in using these ideas becomes a time that has no limit and that has no end.
Give then these minutes willingly,
And count on the one who promised to lay timelessness beside them.
God will offer all God-given strength to every little effort that you make.
Give God the minutes which God needs today.
To help you understand,
With God,
You are the spirit that abides in God and that calls through God's voice to every living thing,
Offers God's sight to everyone who asks,
Replaces error with the simple truth.
Let's practice.
Spend a few moments repeating,
I am spirit.
I am spirit.
Let's continue to ponder its meaning to you.
I am spirit.
I am spirit.
I am spirit.
I am spirit.
I am spirit.
I am spirit.
I am spirit.
I am spirit.
I am spirit.
I am spirit.
I am spirit.
I am spirit.
The Holy Spirit will be glad to take five minutes of each hour from your hands and carry them around this aching world where pain and misery appear to rule.
God will not overlook one open mind that will accept the healing gifts they bring.
And God will lay them everywhere they will be welcome.
And they will increase in healing power each time someone accepts them as their thoughts and uses them to heal.
Thus,
Will each gift to God be multiplied,
A thousand fold,
And tens of thousands more.
And when it is returned to you,
It will surpass in might the little gift you gave.
As much as does the radiance of the sun outshine the tiny gleam a firefly makes,
An uncertain moment can go out.
The steady brilliance of this light remains and leads you out of darkness.
Nor will you be able to forget the way again.
Let's practice again.
Begin these happy exercises with the words the Holy Spirit speaks to you and let them echo round the world through the Holy Spirit.
Repeat after me.
What am I?
The holy child of God.
Free of all limits.
Safe and healed and whole.
Free to forgive.
Free to save the world.
Expressed through you,
The Holy Spirit will accept this gift that you gave,
Increase its power and give it back to you.
Give this gift to the Holy Spirit now.
Spirit,
Am I.
The holy child of God.
Free of all limits.
Safe and healed and whole.
Free to forgive.
Free to save the world.
Listen for assurance from the Holy Spirit.
Every time you speak the words,
The Holy Spirit offers you today.
Let the Holy Spirit tell your mind that these words are true.
Use these words against temptation and escape temptation's sorry consequences if you yield to the belief that you are something else.
The Holy Spirit gives you peace today.
Receive the Holy Spirit's words and offer them to God.
Spirit,
Am I.
A holy child of God.
Free of all limits.
Safe and healed and whole.
Free to forgive and free to save the world.
I am Spirit.
I am God.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
