A Course In Miracles – San Jose Karl J Vidt, ACIM Student/Teacher

ACIM T-28.I The Present Memory

September 13, 2011

At this very moment we have all we need. We have no need to learn, do, or remedy anything. We are complete as a whole creation of God. Nothing can ever change a creation of God, so we remain as God created us. What is needed now is unlearning, undoing, remembering. We have done so much and learned so much that has blocked our minds from the awareness of who we really are, from the awareness that we are a holy creation of God, innocent and unchangeable as our true state of being. We have just focused on a mistaken idea that we could be anything not a part of the Divine.

We have used memory to focus on our ideas about the past. We carry with us in our mind every thought and idea about every experience and feeling we have ever had. We have convinced ourselves that those ideas about our past are true; we actually believe them. All our thoughts and ideas we believe so true are really perceptions. Rather than actual truth, they are merely perceptions; our best attempt to understand our experiences outside the Mind of God where we have convinced ourselves we are. Memory is our perception of our past that we carry with us into the present and believe to be the absolute truth. But what we remember, we need to recognize what it is; merely a perception made up by our minds and believed to be true.

But memory has a higher purpose, as does perception and all else we have made up. Spirit has been given to us to help us see differently, to see more clearly, to perceive more correctly. As we let Spirit guide our mind we find Sprit giving us new ideas and thoughts about our memories. They become learning tools used by Spirit to unlearn what we have learned that is untrue. We can allow Spirit to show us what is real and true ad what is an illusion or a mistaken thought separated form God and our own Divine state of being. The miracle we experience is the healing of our thoughts and ideas, the recognition of what is true and real and the willingness to let go of thoughts that are not real. We already have all knowledge there is for we are One with God. Our mistake is the belief in the thought that we are not One with God.

Our mistaken thoughts and ideas take many forms. Yet, the one fix, the one correction the Holy Spirit holds ready for us to accept is applicable to every form if incorrect thought or perception we may hold. We may need to let Spirit apply this lesson in many circumstances until we finally realize that there is only one error in our thinking. Spirit is patient with us and continues to apply the correction to each error until we begin to understand that is there is only one mistake. So we unlearn ad unlearn and unlearn until we finally realize what we must unlearn and accept that healing and miracle in its entirety. Because we are attached to our memory of the past, we have the opportunity now to remember now, to remember the present, for the present is where have always been, but for a while did not realize it or recognize it. There is no time like now to remember the now. Let it be so.

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