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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
“I can give up but what was never real.” When someone hands you a VIP ticket to a concert of your favorite musician for which you had managed to get a general admission ticket, would you feel like you were sacrificing the general ticket in favor of the VIP ticket? Of course not. You would
“The hush of Heaven holds my heart today.” Focus and faith. In other words: stay your mind on what is lovely and pure and trust that the lovely and pure will envelop you, inner and outer. Full text of Workbook lesson 286 in ACIM
“My true Identity abides in You.” It is impossible for an extension of something to be different in nature from its source. Your true nature remains forever Source’s true nature, which is loving, joyful, peaceful, glorious, expansive, inclusive, and so forth. Part of today’s text reads: We offer blessing to all things, uniting lovingly with
“How can illusions satisfy God’s Son?” From today’s lesson: What but Your memory can satisfy Your Son? I will accept no less than You have given me. I am surrounded by Your Love, forever still, forever gentle and forever safe. (W-pII.272.1:3-5) What does “Your memory” point to? It points to Love in all its facets
“I am surrounded by the Love of God.” You are surrounded by Love and Charity. You are borne up by Peace, Beauty and Abundance. Take these statements as fact and refuse to let in anything else. And refuse to send out anything else, as well. Find the ray of Light, the spark of Love in
“My holy vision sees all things as pure.” There is no other vision than a pure vision. All other ways of seeing are distorted perceptions. You get what you give out. When you entertain and give out contorted thoughts you will see twisted images. Any thought that falls short of Love and Peace and Joy
“Let me perceive no differences today.” Today’s lesson closes by saying: We would come home, and rest in unity. For there is peace, and nowhere else can peace be sought and found. (W-pII.262.2:2,3) Home is where Love is. Home is where Joy is and Beauty. Home is a state of mind where Freedom, Peace and
“My home awaits me. I will hasten there.” Your home is right where you are. The word “there” is only an indication of a shift in focus, a change from expecting “your good” to come from the world of form to knowing it to be in your mind. My home awaits my glad return. Your
Review: “I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.” 186) “Salvation of the world depends on me.” The only world you have any influence on is the world you see and experience from where you think you are right now. That world, which is a reflection of