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As I let myself be healed by the Holy Spirit, I see all those around me are healed along with me. It is
wonderful to recognize that I am never healed alone. It is wonderful to offer blessing instead of
attack. What a wonderful life to have this purpose instead of continuing to make separation real!

I was thinking about the process of healing being shared. When I allow my mind to experience
healing, that healing is shared by the One Mind that I am. It is not that anything has changed reality
because the One Mind of God's Son has always been healed. I see it as a light that goes on in my
mind allowing me to see what I really am. At the same time, it blinks on in all other minds.

Is everyone aware of the light? Obviously not. It is like the other day when I was looking for my keys.
I looked everywhere and couldn't find them. Because I knew they had to be there, I kept looking.
Eventually I found them in a place I had already looked. They were right there in plain sight. How
could I have overlooked them for so long? I don't know, but it is clear that I can overlook the
obvious. I can overlook what is right there waiting for me to see it.

There are many people who have already accepted healing and the light from their healing is right
there in my mind waiting for me to decide that I want to see it. When I do, I will add my light to it. I
can imagine at some point so many minds will add their light that the One Mind will be illuminated
in a way that makes everyone else long to join with it. And perhaps that is what is happening now.
Perhaps that is the draw I feel to join in healing.

Lesson 139 “I will accept Atonement for myself.”

This lesson is telling us that this world was made as a place for self-doubters to come in the mad idea
that we could change ourselves from what God created us to be. It is the result of rejecting ourselves
as we were created. It's no wonder the world is filled with people who doubt their worth, have low
self-esteem and spend their lives trying to make up for what they believe is lacking. All of us do this
in some way. Countless workshops have been offered to help people improve their self esteem and
realize their worth.

What I appreciate about this lesson is that it goes to the core of the problem. It does not tell us that
we were wounded as a child by critical parents or that if we just affirm often enough that we are
worthy of whatever it is that we think we are missing, we will feel okay. This lesson simply reminds
us that we remain as God created us and that our denial of Reality has not changed reality. Our
denial of our Self has not changed What we are.

God created us worthy because He created us like Himself and of Himself. By accepting Atonement
for ourselves, we accept ourselves as we were created. With that acceptance, whatever occurs in
form does not matter, for we remember we remain perfect as God created us.

I need simply to change my mind about who I think I am. I am not a split off image, separate and
alone. I am not a body. I am the holy creation of God Himself. That is my reality and the reality of
everyone, unchangeable, absolutely certain. Every time I feel uncertainty, it is an indication that I
have forgotten What I am. It is an indication that it's time to remind myself that I remain as God
created me and accept Atonement for myself.

Thirty years ago a spiritual teacher told me that I was playing dumb. I now know that "playing dumb"
means not accepting myself as I was created by God. Playing dumb means thinking I am weak and

Lessons by Marlyn Marval Feb 23th thru April 9th 2015