A Course in Miracles

Lesson 94 - I am as God created me.

Today we continue with the one idea which brings complete salvation; the one statement which makes all forms of temptation powerless; the one thought which renders the ego silent and entirely undone:

You are as God created you.

The sounds of this world are still, the sights of this world disappear, and all the thoughts that this world ever held are wiped away forever by this one idea. Here is salvation accomplished. Here is sanity restored.

True light is strength, and strength is sinlessness. If you remain as God created you, you must be strong and light must be in you. He Who ensured your sinlessness must be the guarantee of strength and light as well.

You are as God created you.

Darkness cannot obscure the glory of the Son of God. You stand in light, strong in the sinlessness in which you were created, and in which you will remain throughout eternity.

Today we will again devote the first five minutes of each waking hour to the attempt to feel the truth in you. Begin these times of searching with these words:

“I am as God created me. I am His Son eternally.”

Now try to reach the Son of God in you.

• This is the Self that never sinned, nor made an image to replace reality.
• This is the Self that never left Its home in God to walk the world uncertainly.
• This is the Self that knows no fear, nor could conceive of loss or suffering or death.

Nothing is required of you to reach this goal except to lay all idols and self-images aside; go past the long list of attributes, both “good” and “bad,” you have ascribed to yourself; and wait in silent expectancy for the truth.

God has Himself promised that it will be revealed to all who ask for it. You are asking now. You cannot fail because He cannot fail.

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 which 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 which 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.

I am as God created me.

His Son can suffer nothing.
And I am His Son.

Lesson 162 - I am as God created me.

This single thought, held firmly in the mind, would save the world.

From time to time we will repeat it, as we reach another stage in learning. It will mean far more to you as you advance.

These words are sacred, for they are the words God gave in answer to the world you made. By them, it disappears; and all things seen, within its misty clouds and vaporous illusions, vanish as these words are spoken. For they come from God.

Here is the Word by which the Son became his Father's happiness, His Love and His completion.

Here creation is proclaimed, and honored as it is. There is no dream these words will not dispel; no thought of sin and no illusion which the dream contains that will not fade away before their might. They are the trumpet of awakening that sounds around the world. The dead awake in answer to its call. And those who live and hear this sound will never look on death.

Holy indeed is he who makes these words his own; arising with them in his mind, recalling them throughout the day, at night bringing them with him as he goes to sleep.

His dreams are happy and his rest secure, his safety certain and his body healed, because he sleeps and wakens with the truth before him always.

He will save the world, because he gives the world what he receives each time he practices the words of truth.

Today we practice simply. For the words we use are mighty, and they need no thoughts beyond themselves to change the mind of him who uses them.

So wholly is it changed that it is now the treasury in which God places all His gifts and all His Love, to be distributed to all the world, increased in giving; kept complete because its sharing is unlimited.

And thus you learn to think with God.

Christ's vision has restored your sight by salvaging your mind.

We honor you today.

Yours is the right to perfect holiness you now accept. With this acceptance is salvation brought to everyone.

For who could cherish sin when holiness like this has blessed the world?

Who could despair when perfect joy is yours, available to all as remedy for grief and misery, all sense of loss, and for complete escape from sin and guilt?

And who would not be brother to you now; you, his redeemer and his Savior?

Who could fail to welcome you into his heart with loving invitation, eager to unite with one like him in holiness?

You are as God created you. These words dispel the night, and darkness is no more. The light is come today to bless the world, for you have recognized the Son of God, and in that recognition is the world's.