I am waiting silently, in the deep resting of my mind and the quiet listening of my heart, and I ask myself how I can love myself today.
I felt tormented and not at ease. My mind just stepped in to answer, but everything my mind said did not sound real. Then I ask again, love, show me how to love myself today. And this is what I started
hearing.
I love you because you represent my presence and my self-image in the world. I love all of you; I love
your successes and failures, your glory and fear, your mistakes and perfection, and your rights and
wrongs. I love your body – its flaw and flawlessness; I love your psychology, unhealthy and healthy habits. I love all of you because, in truth, you are an expression of me.
And I replied: I am grateful to you for loving me. I am thankful to you for seeing me and for appreciating all that I am; despite your encouraging voice, still, I am having difficulties with genuinely loving myself. Again Love, can you show me how to love myself today?
I am your real identity. Do not look for me. Feel me, and let yourself be with me. Allow your mind to
recognize me, your heart to contact me, your bones to connect with me, your emotion to touch me. Start by willing to come back to me.
I could not recognize you amidst my foolish thoughts; I am willing to come back to you. Love, show me the way back to you.
You have always been so secure, glorious, beautiful, magnificent, whole, and holy. You have been shining, and your light is so bright. You have been created out of love, and you have been designed to be a gift to this world.
Forgive me Love for failing to recognize my true identity, forgive me for forgetting to see the truth about myself. I am offering my will to release all thoughts I made about myself. I feel free because I am realizing my mistake and delivering them back to you to set me free, forever free. Love, guide me on how to love myself today.
Not with your will power, but with your willingness, with your total surrender, accept to realize the
source from where you came. You have never left this source. You are created out of love, and you are part of this love, and love is a part of you. Anything else are just stories that your mind has fabricated. Anything else is not the real you; I am your only reality.
Love, you have triumphed today, I will not turn away from you as in you is my glory, my joy, my peace, and my bliss. I have been searching. I have been looking while you were always calling me to return. I hear your voice with more clarity. My willingness to identify with you is stronger than ever before; I am sure it will prevail over all my reckless thoughts. Love; show me how to love myself today.
Come back to me; I am your real identity. Do not look for me; feel me, allow your mind, your body, and your emotion to merge and to melt with me. Start by returning to me.
My mind is at peace, my heart is feeling you, my bones are sensing you, I know I am with you.
You are not with me; you are me, you are Love. Thank you for your willingness to come back. With this sincere and divine readiness, you are saved, secure, and home forever now. Remember, as you might leave me again, how to come back.
My mind is at peace, my heart is feeling you, my body is sensing you, and my emotion is submerged with you. How can I be anything else but you?
Identify with Love, and you are safe. Identify with Love, and you are home. Identify with Love and find yourself.
– ACIM