David's commentary continued: "So in our reading from the text today we learned that the Atonement is the correction, it's the only so-called defense, we'll say, that works, that can't be used destructively, it's not a double-edged sword, it's the only thing that will work. It's the gateway to eternity. And while the sleeping mind believes in time, then the Atonement, the correction to this false belief in time, is really the only thing worthy of your mind. You could wake up every day with that one word in your mind: Atonement. Not future goals, not what will I do today, not thinking about what happened last night or what happened last week - that's the same-old-same-old versions of past-future thinking that keep the mind from Joy, from true happiness and peace. So the focus is Atonement or correction. That could be a mantra if you want a mantra: let me accept the correction for the belief in time and space, the belief that I've separated from my Source, from my Creator; let me accept the correction. And today's lesson, 'My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts', is just a reminder again of causation: that it's the thoughts that cross consciousness, it's the thoughts that I think I'm actually thinking that are causing the world I seem to see. And when I see the impossibility of these thoughts, I see the impossibility of causing such a world. We can't stop with just thinking we're causing the world, but we have to admit it, we have to come to a moment of stark, clear, unprotected admission of this set-up before we can laugh and let it go, and come fully into our holiness, which could never be concerned with such a foolish imagining, such silliness. So join me in this today, join me just in accepting the admission that will begin to free the mind; and what is that admission? 'My mind is preoccupied with past thoughts'."