[acimlessons_list] Lesson 92 - April 2

[Sue Roth]

Lesson 92 - April 2

"Miracles are seen in light, and light and strength are one."

PRACTICE SUMMARY

Purpose: to experience the light of strength in you, which will reveal to
you the miracles that are always there.

Longer: 2 times-morning and evening, for 20 minutes
This exercise is another meditation, like you've been doing since Lesson 41.
That's why the instructions are so brief-it's assumed that you know how to
do this. Here, you try to sink to that deep place in your mind where light
and strength meet, and where "your Self stands ready to embrace you as Its
Own" (9:2). Seek this place and try to rest in the peace that waits for you
there. Your sinking should not be all your own effort. "Let yourself be
brought" (10:2) there; ask the truth to lead you there (this was emphasized
in Lessons 69, 73, and 91). While going there, remember to draw your mind
back from wandering as needed, and to carry an attitude of confidence,
desire, and determination. 

Frequent reminders: as often as you can
Repeat the idea, recognizing you are being led away from the body's
blindness to the light of true sight, in which miracles are seen. Do it with
a mindset of "I'm preparing myself for the evening practice period." In this
way, you can use the day to prepare yourself for a true holy instant at the
end of the day.

COMMENTARY

The goal of this lesson seems to me to be finding "the meeting place of self
and Self," as it is put in 10:4. "It is God's strength in you that is the
light in which you see" (3:1). There is Something in me that is as far
beyond what I think I am as the sun is beyond a match. There is an
unimaginable vastness in me that, by these lessons, I am being led to
discover. In the two twenty-minute practice periods today--the morning and
evening "meetings" as they are referred to (11:2)--I am attempting to bring
self to Self, to bring the match to the sun. I am trying to open the door to
infinity within myself.

This strength within me is mighty beyond the telling of it. It is "constant,
sure as love, forever glad to give itself away" (8:1). Within me, my Self
"stands ready to embrace [me] as Its Own" (9:2). I am a Triple-A battery
standing next to a nuclear power plant, about to plug in to endless power
that ever renews itself. No; that image is too cold, it lacks the "embrace"
spoken of. I am a tiny, fearful child, about to be swept up in the arms of
the universal, endlessly compassionate and omnipotent Father/Mother/God.

I think that perhaps the way a very young child sees its parents--huge,
vast, all-knowing, totally worthy of trust, able to do anything--is perhaps
a reflection of the truth of our relationship to God, and even our
relationship to our own true Self.

I find this lesson enormously encouraging. It tells me strength is the truth
about me (4:7). Those are words worth many repetitions! Truth gives its
strength to everyone who asks, in limitless supply (5:4). This light, this
strength, "does not change and flicker and go out" (7:5). "No one can ask in
vain to share its sight" (8:2). As a later lesson tells us, "No one can fail
who seeks to reach the truth" (Lesson 131). It does not matter how often I
have tried and failed, or how long it has been since I have had a flicker of
light in my mind, or how weak and puny seem the efforts of my heart; I
cannot fail. I have the strength of God in me, and it will lead me to where
I want to go.

I come to the practice periods today with trust in that strength. God's
strength. My strength. I come to allow, just for this brief period, my self
to meet my Self. I come to leave the darkness behind and let true vision, in
the light, dawn upon my mind. I care not that it may not seem to last. I
care not that my mind might seem dark before and dark after; for this
instant, let me open to the light, and let It begin Its work of leading me
home. I bring my doubts, my fears, my open disbelief and expose them to this
light, and in the light they disappear, and my heart floods with joy. I am
being "led away from darkness to the light where only miracles can be
perceived" (11:3).