Workbook · Part I
Lesson 45
God is the Mind with which I think.
What this lesson is saying
Today’s idea is: “God is the Mind with which I think.” In ordinary English: The mind you think with is God’s, borrowed. The private commentator is not that mind.
God, in this workbook, is not a distant judge. Love is the name for the mind that is not at war. “God goes with you” means you do not have to fetch a spiritual state, then go live. The next room, the next person, the next fear is already the place.
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 church language you have to swallow, and not a demand that you feel devout. If the word God gets in the way, use Love. The practice is the same: stop arguing that you are alone.
Why this can change a day
Loneliness, specialness, and attack all need God to be absent. Remembering you are accompanied changes how you treat a stranger, a partner, and the face in the glass — without a speech.
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 photo, a birthday, a glance at a hand — aging as doom.
What to do
Say the words as written: “God is the Mind with which I think.” Care for the body. Do not make the photo into God, and do not punish it. Identity is not the glass.
Toward yourself
Unhappiness used as proof you are serious, or holy. Joy looks suspicious.
What to do
Say the words as written: “God is the Mind with which I think.” Notice where you postponed joy until they change, or until you have suffered enough. Take one hour without that bargain.
At work, at home, or in a situation
A political enemy, a public figure, a ‘them’ you have never met and already hate.
What to do
Say the words as written: “God is the Mind with which I think.” No exceptions. You do not have to vote for them. You do have to drop the wish to hurt. The mind is the same mind.
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 picture is the Self. Time is hunting me. If I do not fight the picture I disappear.
Jesus’s way
“God is the Mind with which I think.” This idea is a joining, not a theory. Receive it as much as you can. Then treat the next person as included.
Spalding · 2019 · episode #243
Jesus’s commentary for Lesson 45
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.
- “God is the Mind with which I think.” Not the church’s God of threat.
- He uses the lesson to wean you from a God who was an overlay, so the One who is can be obvious.
- After Tina reads Lesson 45, the channeling is living “God is the Mind with which I think.” He will not let it stay a slogan. Use these words. Do not swap them for a thought you like better.
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
- Three five-minute sittings, plus a minute or two of appreciation during the day
- How long
- Five minutes
- Through the day
- Take a minute or two as you repeat the idea through the day to appreciate your mind’s holiness.
How
- Same general form as Lesson 44. You are trying to reach the mind that thinks with God, underneath the thoughts you made.
Longer sitting
Three sittings — five minutes
- Today’s idea is: “God is the Mind with which I think.”
- Same general form as Lesson 44. You are trying to reach the mind that thinks with God, underneath the thoughts you made.
- Say, slowly: “God is the Mind with which I think.”
Short / hourly
A minute or two of appreciation during the day
- Repeat the idea and appreciate your mind’s holiness.
- Say, slowly: “God is the Mind with which I think.”
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
“God is the Mind with which I think.” Not the church’s God of threat. The Love in which you actually exist. He uses the lesson to wean you from a God who was an overlay, so the One who is can be obvious.
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
Carla's Channeling Handbook begins before any voice arrives: purity of desire, care of the instrument, harmony in the group. Today's idea is that care, applied to ordinary life.
Open stream