Day 139

Today's Lesson:

I will accept Atonement for myself.

Today we come to a decision to accept ourselves as God created us. And what is choice except uncertainty of what we are? There is no doubt that is not rooted here. There is no question but reflects this one. There is no conflict that does not entail the single, simple question, "What am I?"

Uncertainty about what we must be is self-deception on a scale so vast, its magnitude can hardly be conceived. To be alive and not to know ourselves is to believe that we are really dead. For what is life except to be ourselves, and what but we can be alive instead?

It is when we are uncertain of our lives that we need Atonement. Our denial makes no change in what we are. But we have split our minds into what knows and does not know the truth. We are ourselves. There is no doubt of this. And yet we doubt it. But we do not ask what part of us can really doubt ourselves. It cannot really be a part of us that asks this question. For it asks of one who knows the answer. Were it part of us, then certainty would be impossible.

Atonement remedies the strange idea that it is possible to doubt ourselves and be unsure of what we really are. This is the depth of madness. Yet it is the universal question of the world. What does this mean except the world is mad? Why share its madness in the sad belief that what is universal is true?

Nothing the world believes is true. It is a place whose purpose is to be a home where those who claim they do not know themselves can come to question what it is they are. And they will come again until the time Atonement is accepted, and they learn it is impossible to doubt yourself, and not to be aware of what you are.

We have a mission here. We did not come to reinforce the madness that we once believed in. Let us not forget the goal that we accepted. It is more than just our happiness alone we came to gain. What we accept as what we are proclaims what everyone must be, along with us. Fail not your brothers, or you fail yourself. Look lovingly on them, that they may know that they are part of you, and you of them.

This does Atonement teach, and demonstrates the Oneness of God's Son is unassailed by his belief he knows not what he is. Today accept Atonement, not to change reality, but merely to accept the truth about yourself, and go your way rejoicing in the endless Love of God. It is but this that we are asked to do. It is but this that we will do today.

Five minutes in the morning and at night we will devote to dedicate our minds to our assignment today. We start with this review of what our mission is:

I will accept Atonement for myself,
For I remain as God created me.

In thanks for all creation, in the Name of its Creator and His Oneness with all aspects of creation, we repeat our dedication to our cause today each hour, as we lay aside all thoughts that would distract us from our holy aim. For several minutes let your mind be cleared of all the foolish cobwebs which the world would weave around the holy Son of God.