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Daily Lesson 80 ~
March 21

Let me recognize that my problems have been solved.

If you are willing to truly see through and beyond what appear to be your problems, you will recognize that you actually have none. The one central problem, experienced by you and all the world and everyone in it, has been answered and resolved, and you have no other. Therefore you must be at peace.

This Course has called this recognition and state of mind, “right-mindedness,” in which you know that in truth everything is “right” or well with life. In this state, even if it is only temporarily experienced, you know that everything that happens is met not by you alone but with One Who knows the Solution and Resolution of all seeming problems, and that the Meaning behind all your experiences is your awakening to Reality. Only from this state can you share the Answer you have received to all apparent problems through the miracles extended through you as a result of your miracle-mindedness.

Awakening thus depends on recognizing the one problem, and understanding that it has been solved. One problem and one Solution, and awakening is accomplished. Freedom from conflict has been given you. Accept this fact, and you are ready to take your rightful place in the Divine’s Plan of Awakening.

Your only problem has been solved, and with it all the others you believed you had! Repeat this over and over to yourself today, with gratitude and conviction. You have recognized your only problem – separation – opening the Way for the Holy Spirit to give you the Divine’s Answer—Atonement. You have laid deception aside, and seen the Light of Truth. You have accepted Atonement for yourself by bringing the problem to the Answer. And you can recognize the Answer because the problem has been identified.

Peace is your Inheritance today. A problem that has been resolved cannot trouble you. Only be certain that you remember that all problems are the same. Their many forms will not deceive you while you remember this:

“One problem and one Solution.”

Accept the Peace this simple statement brings.

In our two longer practice periods today we will receive the Peace that must be ours when the problem – separation – and the Answer – Atonement – have been brought together. The problem must be gone because the Divine’s Answer cannot fail. Having recognized one, you have recognized the other. The Solution is inherent in the problem, placed where It is needed by the Divine Itself. You are answered and have accepted the Answer. Awakening is yours.

Now let the Peace that your acceptance brings be given you. Close your eyes and receive your Inheritance. Recognize that your problems have been solved. Recognize that you are out of conflict, free and at peace. Embrace your right-mindedness. Above all, remember that you have one problem and that the problem has one Solution. It is in this that the simplicity of awakening rests. It is because of this that it is guaranteed to work.

Assure yourself often today that your problems have been solved because you have seen through them all to the one problem behind them all, and to its Solution. Repeat the idea with deep conviction as frequently as possible. And be particularly sure to remember to apply the idea for today to any specific problem that may arise, saying:

“Let me recognize that this problem has been solved.”

Let us be determined today to be free of resentment, grievances, grudges and feelings of being offended that come when we believe that our problems are legion, and unsolvable. Let us be determined to be free of problems that do not exist. The means is simple honesty. Do not deceive yourself about what the problem is, and you must recognize that it has been solved.

 

Corresponding Text Section

 

Chapter 4: Discerning the Ego’s Terrain

 

11. The Healing of the Wholly Joyous

To heal is to bring forth Happiness. This Course has invited you to consider how many opportunities you regularly have to find Joy and Gratitude, and through these renewed Strength, and how many of these opportunities you regularly pass by, decline, or refuse. This is the same as reminding you that you have postponed healing yourself. The Light that is in you eternally is the Light of Joy. Radiance is not associated with sorrow. Depression is often contagious, but although it may affect those who come in contact with it, they do not yield to its influence wholeheartedly. But Joy calls forth an integrated willingness to share in It, and thus promotes the mind’s natural inspiration to respond as one.

Those who attempt to heal without being wholly joyous themselves call forth different kinds of responses at the same time, and thus deprive others of the Joy of responding wholeheartedly. You must be happy to be whole-hearted. If fear and Love cannot coexist, and if it is impossible to be entirely fearful and remain alive, then the only possible whole State is that of Love. There is no difference between Love and Joy. Therefore, the only possible whole State is the wholly joyous. To heal, or to bring forth Joy, is therefore the same as to integrate and bring about Oneness. That is why it makes no difference to what Part or by what Part of the Divine Family the healing is done. Every Part benefits, and benefits equally.

You are being blessed by every beneficent thought of any of your sisters and brothers anywhere. It is natural to want to bless them in return out of gratitude. You do not have to know them individually, or they you, to bless them or be blessed by them. The Light of Joy is so strong that it radiates throughout Creation and returns thanks to the Creator for radiating Its Joy upon It. Only those who have remembered they are the Divine’s holy Children are capable of being clear Channels of Its beautiful Joy, because only they have reclaimed their Innocence enough to hold It by sharing It. It is impossible for a Child of the Divine to truly love their neighbor except as themself. That is why the healer’s prayer is:

Let me know this sister and brother as I know myself.