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LESSON 97. I am spirit.

W-97.1. Today's idea, I am spirit, identifies you with your one big “S” Self. 2 Today's idea, I am spirit, accepts no split identity, nor tries to weave opposing factors into unity. 3 Today's idea, I am spirit, simply states the truth. 4 Practice this truth today that you are spirit as often as you can, for today's idea that you are spirit will bring your split from conflict to the quiet fields of peace. 5 No chill of fear can enter, for your split mind has been absolved from madness, letting go your ego’s illusions of a split identity.

W-97.2. We state again the truth about your big “S” Self, the holy Son of Who rests in you; whose split mind has been restored to sanity. 2 You are the spirit lovingly endowed with all your Father's Love and peace and joy. 3 You are the spirit which completes God, Himself, and shares God’s function as Creator. 4 God is with you always, as you are with God.

W-97.3. Today we try to bring still closer to your split mind. 2 Each time you practice, awareness is brought a little nearer at least; sometimes a thousand years or more are saved. 3 The minutes which you give are multiplied over and over, for the miracle makes use of time, but is not ruled by time. 4 is a miracle. Salvation is the first and last miracle. Salvation is the first miracle that is the last miracle, for Salvation and the miracle are one.

W-97.4. You are the spirit in whose mind abides the miracle of salvation in which all time stands still; the miracle of salvation in which a minute spent in using these ideas that I am spirit becomes a time that has no limit and that has no end. 2 Give, then, these minutes to using these ideas that I am spirit willingly, and count on the Who promised to lay timelessness beside these minutes that you give to the Holy Spirit. 3 The Holy Spirit will offer all His strength to every little effort that you make. 4 Give the Holy Spirit the minutes which He needs today, to help your split mind understand with the Holy Spirit’s guidance that you are the spirit that abides in the Holy Spirit, and that you call through the Holy Spirit’s Voice to every living thing; That you offer the Holy Spirit’s sight to everyone who asks: That you through the Holy Spirit replace error with the simple truth.

W-97.5. The Holy Spirit will be glad to take five minutes of each hour from your hands in which you spend using these ideas that I am spirit, and carry those ideas that I am spirit around this aching world where pain and misery appear to rule. 2 The Holy Spirit will not overlook one open mind that will accept the healing gifts your ideas that I am spirit bring, and the Holy Spirit will lay them everywhere the Holy Spirit knows your ideas that I am spirit will be welcome. 3 And your ideas that I am spirit will increase in healing power each time someone accepts them as his own split mind’s thoughts, and uses your ideas that I am spirit to heal his split mind.

W-97.6. Thus will each gift to the Holy Spirit be multiplied a thousandfold and tens of thousands more. 2 And when the gift that you are spirit is returned to you, it will surpass in might the little gift you gave as much as does the radiance of the sun outshine the tiny gleam a firefly makes an uncertain moment and goes out. 3 The steady brilliance of this light remains and leads you out of darkness, nor will you be able to forget the way of this light again.

W-97.7. Begin these happy exercises with the words the Holy Spirit speaks to you, and let these words, I am spirit, echo round the world through the Holy Spirit

2 Spirit am I, a holy Son of God, free of all limits, safe and healed and whole, free to forgive, and free to save the world.

3 With these words that you are spirit expressed through you, the Holy Spirit will accept this gift that you received of the Holy Spirit and increase this gift’s healing power and give this gift’s healing power back to you.

W-97.8. Offer each practice period today gladly to the Holy Spirit. 2 And the Holy Spirit will speak to you, reminding you that you are spirit, one with the Holy Spirit and God, your brothers and your big “S” Self. 3 Listen for the Holy Spirit’s assurance every time you speak the words the Holy Spirit offers you today, and let the Holy Spirit tell your mind that the words the Holy Spirit gives you are true. 4 Use the words the Holy Spirit gives you against temptation, and escape temptation’s sorry consequences if you yield to the ego’s that you are something else than spirit. 5 The Holy Spirit gives you peace today. 6 Receive the Holy Spirit’s words, and offer the words the Holy Spirit gives to you back to the Holy Spirit.

Notes to Lesson # 97 I am spirit.

Lesson 97, I am spirit, states the simple fact that you do not have a choice of who you are. You are spirit and remain as God created you. This makes your decision a simple one. You do not have a choice between good and evil since only one exists. Truth is the only choice that you are given.

Your denial of the truth is not a viable option. Your refusal to accept the fact that you are spirit is simply your decision-maker’s refusal to make a decision and to delay the ending of time. It is your ego’s belief that the false is an actual, meaningful choice. Your egoic world is meaningless since it has no effect on truth. The truth is that only love is real and you are that One. This is the only choice you are asked to make. There is only one problem, one choice and one answer.

Time is the belief that opposites exist. Time will end when you realize that all fear-based illusions are not real and you simply freely decide to accept the At-One-Ment for yourself. The atonement is the realization that you are now and forever will be that big “S” Self. With that realization, time, which is the measure of change, ends. Time has fulfilled its purpose of healing the split mind of its belief in separation. Sleeping have now reawakened to the changelessness of and that they are united as that One Self.

You are spirit. In time, your choice is simply to accept the truth that you remain perfect, whole and complete or attempt to deny that truth. Reject all egoic attempts to argue for your littleness.

I am spirit is simply a statement of fact. You complete God and are sharing God’s function as Creator. When you help others reawaken to the truth of who they are, you are involved in the creative process of extending the good, the holy and the beautiful. You are co-creating with God.

In time, love is the creative process in which time is utilized to reawaken sleeping minds to their spiritual magnificence as the Christ, their big “S” Self. As spirit, you are endowed with God’s love, peace and joy. As a miracle worker, you look past the illusions that plague the minds of those who perceive themselves to be separate from their Source. You are an instrument that the Holy Spirit utilizes to bear witness for the truth of who your brothers, sisters and you really are.

A miracle is a change in perception. It is the exchange of the ego’s fear-based thought system for the thought system of love and forgiveness. The miracle maker uses time to reframe the fear- based interpretation given to an experience in time. A miracle is not ruled by the laws of time. Rather, the miracle supersedes the fear-based laws of this world.

Salvation is the miracle of reawakening to the truth. It is the first and last miracle for it is an acceptance that you are that One Self, united with your Creator. Salvation is the first and last miracle since it ends the illusion of fear, which itself was never real.

Question: There are only two possible choices. You are either spirit, perfect, whole and complete or you are a body, not perfect, not whole and very incomplete. Given those two choices why would you argue for your littleness?

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