Workbook · Part I
Lesson 40
I am blessed as a Son of God.
What this lesson is saying
Today’s idea is: “I am blessed as a Son of God.” In ordinary English: You are already blessed as God’s child. The mood does not get a vote.
You are used to building a self from parents, work, the glass, the mood, the ranking of other people. This lesson says what you are was given, not achieved: as God created you, and so are they. That is not a compliment. It is a fact you practice when the other self-image is loud.
You do not have to believe it first. You use the words on one real judgment — of someone, of yourself, of a situation — and then you take the next ordinary step.
This is not saying
This is not a self-esteem project and not a claim that you are more powerful than God. You will not lose your personality. The sharp edges — the attack on you, the attack on them — can go.
Why this can change a day
If you are a private, failing self, then of course you must defend, compare, and prosecute. If you are as God created you, so is the one who irritated you, and the war has nothing left to stand on.
In your day
Same idea, three ordinary places — a relationship or encounter, the case against yourself, and a situation at work or at home. You do not need a special mood.
With someone
A news clip, a feed, a conversation that wants a villain — and you lean in.
What to do
Say the words as written: “I am blessed as a Son of God.” Notice the loop before anything has happened. Look away. The street is not God. The next kind thing is.
Toward yourself
You are sure a plan is in your best interest: winning, being right, getting even.
What to do
Say the words as written: “I am blessed as a Son of God.” You are about to force an outcome so you will feel special or safe. Pause. Ask what peace would do next. Do that.
At work, at home, or in a situation
A delay that ‘proves’ the world is against you — traffic, a wait, a plan that stalled.
What to do
Say the words as written: “I am blessed as a Son of God.” You have invented the meaning, not the asphalt. Take that invented law off for one hour. Speak to this day, not to the theory.
Two voices in the same mind
Hear which one is running. Then today’s idea, on a real person — or on you.
Unloving thought
The feed proves it. The world is like that. Scanning for threat is intelligence. If I look away I will be naive.
Jesus’s way
“I am blessed as a Son of God.” Identity, not a mood. The same sentence is true of them. That is not a self-esteem project. You are not more powerful than God, so you can rest.
Spalding · 2019 · episode #238
Jesus’s commentary for Lesson 40
Tina reads the official workbook lesson first. Then she channels. The video is the source. The notes below are study notes of that sitting — not a transcript, and not A Year of Forgiveness.
After the reading
In the video · Jesus speaking
This is the channeled portion — after Tina has read the lesson. Study notes of that sitting. Not a transcript.
- On “I am blessed as a Son of God” Jesus through Tina (2019) takes the workbook at its word and applies it to the programmed mind — culture, church, screens — not to a monastery.
- Then let the commentary speak to the resistance that comes up.
- After Tina reads Lesson 40, the channeling is living “I am blessed as a Son of God.” He will not let it stay a slogan. Use these words. Do not swap them for a thought you like better.
- Identity, not a self-esteem project. You are not more powerful than God, so you can rest — and so can the one who irritated you.
How to sit today
Part I · Undoing
The idea is above. This is the one sitting this number asks — how often, how long, and the words. Not a second lesson.
- How often
- No long sittings. Very frequent short ones — once every ten minutes is highly desirable
- How long
- Brief. If only a moment is available, telling yourself you are blessed as a Son of God will do
- If you forget
- If you forget, try again. If there are long interruptions, try again. Whenever you remember, try again.
How
- Repeat the idea, then add several attributes you associate with being a Son of God and apply them to yourself — happy, peaceful, loving, contented; or calm, quiet, assured, confident.
- You need not close your eyes. Do not skip a repetition because you are in the wrong circumstance. You can do this in almost any situation if you want to.
Short / hourly
No long sitting. Very frequent short ones — once every ten minutes is highly desirable
- Today’s idea is: “I am blessed as a Son of God.”
- Repeat the idea, then add several attributes you associate with being a Son of God.
- Say, slowly: “I am blessed as a Son of God.”
- Say, slowly: “I am happy, peaceful, loving and contented.”
- Or: calm, quiet, assured, confident. You need not close your eyes. You can do this in almost any situation.
- If you forget, try again. If there are long interruptions, try again.
These scripts follow the workbook’s own method for this number — duration, frequency, and the sentences it asks you to use. They are a study paraphrase, not a replacement. Read the official lesson at acim.org and follow any wording it gives that is more specific than this card.
Words you may not know
Full glossaryCourse words do not mean what church, psychology, or ordinary English usually mean. These notes are for this lesson — tap a word.
Other voices — Tina, Ra, Carla
Short notes from the four streams. The teaching above is the lesson. These are doors if you want them.
Spalding
On “I am blessed as a Son of God” Jesus through Tina (2019) takes the workbook at its word and applies it to the programmed mind — culture, church, screens — not to a monastery. Do the exercise as written. Then let the commentary speak to the resistance that comes up. The resistance is the lesson.
Watch this lesson’s commentaryRa
This lesson is practice in polarizing with the person in front of you. Service to others is not a slogan. It is whether you treat them as the same being you are.
Open streamRueckert
A wanderer on Earth does not need a different lesson. She needs this one, done with her hands. Carla's whole archive is the proof: contact follows a life, it does not replace it.
Open stream