Wisdom at Your Fingertips
Thoughts on “What is the Second Coming?” in the ACIM Workbook (Full text of “What is the Second Coming” in the workbook) The second coming is a phrase used to describe the restoration to your awareness of your true identity and that of all of Creation. With your awareness completely restored the mind is freed
“This holy instant would I give to You. Be You in charge. For I would follow You, certain that Your direction gives me peace.” And so we have arrived at the last lesson of the workbook on the last day of the year. Be at peace. All is well and you need do nothing. Creation
“Truth answers every call we make to God, responding first with miracles, and then returning unto us to be itself.” The truth is the way creation happens, it is a creative dynamic. It cannot be confined to a definition that holds in a moment in time or a place in space. Truth is in expression
“I gladly make the ‘sacrifice’ of fear.” Today’s lesson follows on yesterday’s lesson. It closes by saying that when we let go of self-deceptions and of images we worshiped falsely, truth returns to us in wholeness and in joy. We are deceived no longer. Love has now returned to our awareness. And we are at
“This instant is the only time there is.” What does this statement imply? It implies that linear time as you know it is a construct and not a fact. An experience is also a fact, but only in the happening of it. The fact of experiencing allows for an ever deepening awareness of reality. This
Review: “I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.” 199) “I am not a body. I am free.” If you are not a body, then what are you? The Course explains that you are a thought in the mind of God. Which means that you are a
“There is no peace except the peace of God.”. God’s peace is here, it hasn’t gone away. It takes focus though to zoom in on the peace of God. That is your part. You make up your mind that you would like to have peace. You find the peace within and you look for signs
The following statements are given for review: “God is but Love, and therefore so am I.” 159) “I give the miracles I have received.” “God is but Love, and therefore so am I.” 160) “I am at home. Fear is the stranger here.” “God is but Love, and therefore so am I.” When the exchange
The following statements are given for review: “God is but Love, and therefore so am I.” 155) “I will step back and let Him lead the way.” “God is but Love, and therefore so am I.” 156) “I walk with God in perfect holiness.” “God is but Love, and therefore so am I.” Today’s two
“I share God’s Will for happiness for me.“ The lessons states “your only function here is happiness”. In other lessons we have read that your only function is forgiveness, and that your only function is salvation. All three represent the restoration in your mind of the awareness of your true nature: love, light, joy and