Lesson 110
- I Am As God Created Me
- We will repeat today’s idea from time to time,
- for this one thought would be enough to save you
- and the world, if you believed that it is true.
- Its truth would mean that you have made
- no changes in yourself that have reality,
- nor changed the universe so that what god created
- was replaced by fear and evil, misery and death.
- If you remain as god created you,
- fear has no meaning, evil is not real,
- and misery and death do not exist.
- Today’s idea is therefore all you need to let complete correction
- heal your mind, and give you perfect vision that will heal
- all the mistakes that any mind has made at any time or place.
- It is enough to heal the past and make the future free.
- It is enough to let the present be accepted as it is.
- It is enough to let time be the means for all the world to learn escape
- from time, and every change that time appears to bring in passing by.
- If you remain as god created you, appearances
- cannot replace the truth, health cannot turn to sickness,
- nor can death be substitute for life, or fear for love.
- All this has not occurred, if you remain as god created you.
- You need no thought but just this one, to let redemption
- come to light the world and free it from the past.
- In this one thought is all the past undone; the present saved
- to quietly extend into a timeless future.
- If you are as god created you, then there has been
- no separation of your mind from his,
- no split between your mind and other minds,
- and only unity within your own.
- The healing power of today’s idea is limitless.
- It is the birthplace of all miracles, the great restorer of the truth
- to the awareness of the world. Practice today’s idea with gratitude.
- This is the truth that comes to set you free.
- This is the truth that god has promised you.
- This is the word in which all sorrow ends.
- For your five-minute practice periods, begin with this quotation from the text:
- I am as god created me.
- His son can suffer nothing.
- And I am his son.
- Then, with this statement firmly in your mind,
- try to discover in your mind the self
- who is the holy son of god himself.
- Seek him within you who is christ in you,
- the son of god and brother to the world;
- the savior who has been forever saved,
- with power to save whoever touches him,
- however lightly, asking for the word
- that tells him he is brother unto him.
- You are as god created you.
- Today honor your self.
- Let graven images you made to be
- the son of god instead of what he is
- be worshipped not today.
- Deep in your mind the holy christ in you
- is waiting your acknowledgement as you.
- And you are lost and do not know yourself
- while he is unacknowledged and unknown.
- Seek him today and find him.
- He will be your savior from
- all idols you have made.
- For when you find him, you will understand
- how worthless are your idols and how false
- the images which you believed were you.
- Today we make a great advance to truth
- by letting idols go and opening our hands
- and hearts and minds to god today.
- We will remember him throughout the day
- with thankful hearts and loving thoughts
- for all who meet with us today.
- For it is thus that we remember him.
- And we will say, that we may be reminded
- of his son, our holy self, the christ in each of us:
- I am as god created me.
- Let us declare this truth as often as we can.
- This is the word of god that sets you free.
- This is the key that opens up the gate of heaven
- and that lets you enter in the peace of god and his eternity.
