ACIM Workbook Lesson 80 – for Monday, March 21, 2011
Affirmation: “Let me recognize my problems have been solved.”
Selected Passage:
“If you are willing to recognize your problems, you will recognize that you have no problems. Your one central problem has been answered, and you have no other. Therefore, you must be at peace. Salvation thus depends on recognizing this one problem, and understanding that it has been solved. One problem, one solution. Salvation is accomplished. Freedom from conflict has been given you. Accept that fact, and you are ready to take your rightful place in God’s plan for salvation.
“Your only problem has been solved! Repeat this over and over to yourself today, with gratitude and conviction. (WB143)”
Reflections:
The one central problem was separation, a belief that had its origin in putting our faith in our own judgments as interpreted by the ego. We thought that we were all alone in the world. Oh, yes, we might have companions in our brothers and sisters, but always this alliance was subject to disruption, due frequently because we did not know how to forgive. We blamed others for our own mistakes. We also blamed them for mistakes that impacted us. And all of this “understanding” was so misguided!
Today we can live free, with the knowledge (not perception only, for that is of the ego, until the perception has been cleansed by the Holy Spirit) that we have no problems. We will be told all that we should do in every situation that perplexes us. We do not have to make anything in to a problem. If we blow up our issues, surely we will allow ourselves to be overwhelmed, and this is a poor way in which to welcome guidance into our lives. We may be so upset that we cannot hear the guidance accurately. So let us put all of this nonsense behind today. May we realize that our problems have been solved, that the Holy Spirit is with us internally as the communication link to God. We can find solace in a confused and confusing world; we do not have to take it into our minds and bodies through stress or illness.
Illness is an external searching (an ACIM tenet). And we now know that we can look inwardly for our solutions. Let us do so today. And may we thank God that our problems have been solved.
Prayer:
Dear Father/Mother,
Thank You, dear God, for leading me to realize that regardless of what appears in my life, my problems have been solved. I have no problems! If this seems too good to be true, let me look within and listen to Your holy Word, and I will know that all is perfect just as it is.
I realize that this does not mean that there will not be the appearance of problems. But these are illusions perpetrated by living in an illusory world. I ask for Your reality today. And I know that Your reality is good and pure, healthy and prosperous. Let no illusion to the contrary shake my faith today.
Amen.
