Lesson 112 is a review lesson. It asks you to remember and practice two ideas:

(93) Light and joy and peace abide in me.

(94) I am as God created me.

It also gives you a simple format:

Morning and evening: spend about 15 minutes with these ideas.

On the hour: repeat the first idea.

On the half hour: repeat the second.

Let’s explore what this really means, beneath the words.

I. The Core Teaching

1. “Light and joy and peace abide in me.”

This sentence is not a hope, a wish, or a goal. It is a description of what you are in truth.

The Course teaches that your true Self is not the personality you think you are. Not the body, not the history, not the roles, not the mistakes, not the traumas, not the achievements. Beneath all of that, there is a radiant, changeless awareness that God created. That Self is pure light, pure joy, pure peace.

The ego’s entire strategy is to convince you that this cannot be true about you.

• It tells you: “You are guilty.”
• It tells you: “You are broken, damaged, unworthy.”
• It tells you: “Peace is something you might earn one day, if you work hard enough and fix yourself.”

The ego is trying to hide the simple fact that your innocence and holiness are already complete and untouched. It wants you to keep searching for peace outside yourself, because if you ever truly look within and accept what you find, the ego’s story dissolves.

The Holy Spirit, by contrast, is the quiet Voice in your mind that keeps gently reminding you:

“Nothing has gone wrong with your real Self.

You have not changed what God created.

Your light is still here, undimmed.”

When you say, “Light and joy and peace abide in me,” you are not trying to manufacture those qualities. You are letting the Holy Spirit uncover what is already there, beneath fear and self-judgment.

2. “I am as God created me.”

This is one of the most important ideas in the entire Course. It appears several times in different lessons because it is the key to undoing guilt.

The ego’s basic claim is: “You separated from God. You ruined everything. You are on your own now, and you should be afraid.” From that belief comes all shame, all fear, all attack, all defense.

But if you are as God created you, then:

• You have not truly separated.
• You have not changed your nature.
• You have not become guilty, stained, or unworthy.
• You remain spirit, not a vulnerable body.
• You remain loved, loving, and lovable.

The ego is trying to hide the fact that the “fall from grace” never actually happened. It wants you to believe that you really did break something in Heaven, and that your current life is the punishment or consequence. If you accept that you are as God created you, the whole story of sin, guilt, and fear begins to fall apart.

The Holy Spirit reveals that nothing real has been harmed. The “you” that God created is still safe, still whole, still at home in God. What you experience as a human life is like a dream of wandering, but your true Self has never left its Source.

So these two ideas together say:

• Your nature is light, joy, and peace.
• That nature has never changed.

This is the heart of the metaphysics: reality is unchangeable, and you are part of that reality. Everything else is a passing dream.

II. Applied to Daily Life

Let’s bring this into the situations you actually face.

1. Relationships

Suppose someone criticizes you, ignores you, or seems to betray you. The ego reacts:

• “I’m not good enough.”
• “They’re terrible; I must protect myself.”
• “I need them to change so I can be at peace.”

In that moment, Lesson 112 invites you to pause and remember:

• “Light and joy and peace abide in me.”
• “I am as God created me.”

You are being asked to shift your identity from the hurt, defensive self to the Self that cannot be harmed.

You might say inwardly:

“This pain I feel is not my true Self.

My worth has not changed because of this person’s behavior.

Light and joy and peace still abide in me, even now.”

From that place, you can respond differently. You may still set boundaries, speak honestly, or walk away from a harmful situation. But you do it from peace, not from attack. You remember that both you and the other person are more than the roles you’re playing in this moment.

2. Work and Responsibilities

At work, you might feel:

• Pressure to perform
• Fear of failure
• Competition, comparison, or resentment

The ego says: “Your value comes from your results. If you fail, you are less.” This creates stress and anxiety.

Bringing in Lesson 112, you remind yourself:

“My value is established by God, not by my job.

I am as God created me: whole, worthy, complete.

Light and joy and peace abide in me, even at my desk, even in this meeting.”

From this remembrance, you can still work, plan, and do your best—but the underlying tension softens. You are no longer trying to prove your worth; you are expressing a worth that is already given.

3. Illness and the Body

When the body is sick or in pain, the ego quickly says:

• “I am this body.”
• “I am weak, vulnerable, and at the mercy of the world.”
• “Something is wrong with me.”

The Course never asks you to deny your experience or refuse practical help. You can take medicine, see doctors, rest, and care for the body. But at the same time, you are invited to remember:

“I am not this body.

I am as God created me: spirit, whole, untouched by sickness.

Light and joy and peace abide in me, even if the body is uncomfortable.”

This doesn’t mean you pretend you feel physically fine. It means you distinguish between the body’s condition and your true Identity. The body may be weak, but your Self is not. The body may be in pain, but your Self remains in peace. This recognition opens the mind to healing—whether that healing appears as a change in the body or as a deep inner acceptance.

4. Anxiety and Daily Stress

When you feel anxious—about money, relationships, the future—the ego is whispering:

• “You are alone.”
• “You are unsafe.”
• “You must control everything.”

Lesson 112 suggests a different inner conversation:

“If I am as God created me, I am not alone.

I am held in a Love that cannot fail.

Light and joy and peace abide in me now, even if my thoughts are racing.”

You might not feel instant calm, but each time you return to these ideas, you loosen the grip of fear. You begin to trust that there is a deeper safety that does not depend on circumstances.

III. Overcoming Resistance

This lesson can stir up resistance because it directly challenges the ego’s identity.

1. *“This can’t be true about me.”*

You might think of your past mistakes, your current struggles, and feel, “Light and joy and peace? In me? No way.”

The Course would gently say: you are confusing your behavior in the dream with your reality as God’s creation. The dream can be chaotic, but the dreamer remains untouched. Your mistakes do not define you; they only show you where you have forgotten who you are.

2. *Fear of losing individuality.*

Part of you may fear: “If I am only light and peace, will I become bland, passive, or lose what makes me ‘me’?”

In truth, you do not lose anything real. You lose only fear, guilt, and conflict. Your unique expression of love actually becomes clearer and more beautiful when it is not distorted by ego defenses.

3. *Fear of letting go of guilt.*

Many people are secretly attached to guilt. It seems to give structure: “If I feel bad enough, I’ll be safe from repeating mistakes.” Or, “If I condemn myself, I’m being responsible.”

But guilt does not prevent error; it repeats it. To accept “I am as God created me” is not to excuse harmful behavior. It is to return to the only place from which true correction is possible: the remembrance of your innocence and the innocence of others.

If you notice resistance, you don’t need to fight it. Simply notice it and say:

“Part of me is afraid of this truth.

Holy Spirit, help me gently see that I lose nothing by accepting what I am.

Show me that this light is safe.”

IV. Today’s Practice – Step by Step

Lesson 112 gives a structure. Here is a simple way to follow it.

1. Morning (about 15 minutes)

1. Sit quietly, eyes closed if comfortable.

2. Slowly repeat:

“Light and joy and peace abide in me.”

Let the words sink in. Imagine them as a soft light in your heart, not as a demand but as a gentle reminder.

3. Then say:

“I am as God created me.”

Let this be like a deep, quiet truth beneath all your opinions about yourself.

4. Spend a few minutes in silence. If thoughts come, gently answer them with one of the ideas:

• If a guilty thought arises: “I am as God created me.”
• If a fearful thought arises: “Light and joy and peace abide in me.”

5. Close with a simple intention:

“Today I will remember, as often as I can, what I really am.”

2. Evening (about 15 minutes)

Repeat the same process:

• Review both ideas slowly.
• Reflect on your day: where did you forget? where did you remember?
• Offer any remaining worries to the Holy Spirit, letting these ideas cover them like a soft blanket.

3. Every Hour on the Hour

When the hour comes (use a gentle reminder if possible):

• Pause briefly and say:

“Light and joy and peace abide in me.”

• Let it interrupt whatever story your mind was telling. Even 10–20 seconds is enough to plant the seed again.

4. Every Half Hour

At the half hour:

• Pause and say:

“I am as God created me.”

• Let this be a reset of your identity, a reminder that nothing that happened in the last half hour has changed your real Self.

If you forget some hours, don’t scold yourself. Simply begin again when you remember. Each repetition is a small opening for the Holy Spirit to use.

V. Comparable ACIM Lessons

These ideas are closely related to several other lessons:

• **Lesson 94 – “I am as God created me.”**

The original lesson that today reviews. It emphasizes that this idea is a complete salvation in itself.

• **Lesson 93 – “Light and joy and peace abide in me.”**

Also being reviewed. It focuses on undoing self-condemnation and accepting your holiness.

• **Lesson 67 – “Love created me like itself.”**

Very similar in content: your nature is love because your Source is Love.

• **Lesson 132 – “I loose the world from all I thought it was.”**

Connected because when you accept you are as God created you, you must also begin to see the world differently—as less of a prison and more of a classroom for remembering.

• **Lesson 158 – “Today I learn to give as I receive.”**

As you accept light, joy, and peace in yourself, you naturally extend them to others.

These lessons all point to the same central truth: your Identity is not what you made of yourself; it is what God created, and that has never changed.

VI. Closing Thought

Let this day be gentle. You are not trying to force yourself to believe something. You are allowing a quiet truth to rise into awareness:

Beneath every fear, every story, every role,

you remain exactly as God created you—

and in you, light and joy and peace still abide.

You do not have to make this true.

You only have to stop arguing with it.