Workbook · Part I
Lesson 50
I am sustained by the Love of God.
What this lesson is saying
Today’s idea is: “I am sustained by the Love of God.” In ordinary English: You are held by Love, including when you feel unseen, tired, or overlooked.
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
Someone cut you off, a line did not move, a tone in a shop — a fictitious anger.
What to do
Say the words as written: “I am sustained by the Love of God.” Name the official reason. Set it down. One breath without the story that they caused your aloneness. Then the next useful thing.
Toward yourself
An ex, an old friend, a name you still use as a wound.
What to do
Say the words as written: “I am sustained by the Love of God.” Remember the event if you must. Stop using it as the law of now. This person is not that hour. You do not have to call them.
At work, at home, or in a situation
You are kind in the room and cruel in the mind — a smile, and a case running underneath.
What to do
Say the words as written: “I am sustained by the Love of God.” You are not alone in the effects of your thoughts. Catch the case. Choose a different one. Then the smile can be true.
Two voices in the same mind
Hear which one is running. Then today’s idea, on a real person — or on you.
Unloving thought
Of course I am upset — look at them. Anyone would be. The anger proves I am right and alone.
Jesus’s way
“I am sustained by the Love 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 #248
Jesus’s commentary for Lesson 50
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.
- I am sustained by the Love of God.
- Not by the job, the body, or being right.
- He is weaning you from the other fuel.
- Review tomorrow will test whether this was a sentence or a source.
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
- Two longer sittings, morning and evening, plus often during the day
- How long
- Ten minutes twice
- Through the day
- Tell yourself this often. It is the answer to whatever confronts you today.
How
- Let the idea sink deep. Repeat it, think about it, let related thoughts come, and allow peace to flow over you. Do not fight idle thoughts — let them pass and return to the idea.
Longer sitting
Morning and evening — ten minutes twice
- Today’s idea is: “I am sustained by the Love of God.”
- Let the idea sink deep. Repeat it, think about it, let related thoughts come, and allow peace to flow over you.
- Say, slowly: “I am sustained by the Love of God.”
- Do not fight idle thoughts — let them pass and return to the idea.
Short / hourly
Often during the day — the answer to whatever confronts you
- Say, slowly: “I am sustained by the Love of God.”
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
I am sustained by the Love of God. Not by the job, the body, or being right. He is weaning you from the other fuel. Review tomorrow will test whether this was a sentence or a source.
Watch this lesson’s commentaryRa
The Logos does not abandon its offspring. Third-density forgetfulness is the experiment, not the truth of your provision.
Open streamRueckert
A Wanderer's Handbook keeps returning here: you are not a stranded soul. You are a provisioned one who forgot.
Open stream