The light of truth is in us, where it was placed by God. It is the body that is outside us, and is not our concern. To be without a body is to be in our natural state. To recognize the light of truth is to recognize ourselves as we are.
ACIM-W-9:1-4
Edging God Out
The ego's plan for us is not God's. I once heard Wayne Dyer using the acronym: Edging God Out...to describe ego and it sticks.
Ego's agenda is the opposite of God's. In fact, it does everything it can to keep us from God. Ego holds grievances, convincing us that our problems and challenges occur out there and therefore can only be fixed out there. It encourages us to put all our energy into changing circumstances, controlling events and manipulating others to act and behave a certain way. Of course, this is an impossible mission and that is another part of ego's plan to keep us stuck, away from complete satisfaction and therefore away from God....to fail. Ego's plan for our salvation then is " Seek but do not find."
While God's plan is for us to seek salvation in the only place we can ever find it...within. Holding grievances is the opposite of God's plan...accepting His will for us is the only means of salvation. We simply need to ask, "What would You have me do? Where would You have me go? What would You have me say and to whom? " (Lesson 71) and listen for an answer.
We Are Not These Bodies
What people do in their body forms is not who they are. Yet ego, which so wants to attack and replace God in our lives, wants us seeing ourselves separate and alone in these vulnerable bodily forms so we depend on it rather than the truth of who we are.
When we hold grievances about what others do in their bodily form we are keeping them stuck in body limitation, we are keeping ourselves stuck in that same limitation and we are attacking God's plan for salvation.
If we create an angry world in our minds where the body is at the mercy of it, then we will need something to protect us. Ego creates this false image of the world and our idea of separation so it can flourish as our pseudo protector. To this carefully prepared arena, where angry animals seek for prey and mercy cannot enter, the ego comes to save you. ACIM-W-72:6:1.
In Lesson 72 we are guided to simply ask God what salvation is , admitting that we do not understand it but reminding ourselves that any grievance is an attack on God's plan for it.
Within Not Without
The world we see through ego eyes is full of idle wishes and grievances. The illusion ego creates with these things stands in our way of seeing the truth of who we are. All our suffering is generated by seeing the world in this way ego wants us to see it and it all happens in our mind. Your picture of the world can only mirror what is within. The source of neither light or darkness can be found without.ACIM-W-73:5:1-3
As long as we continue to agree with ego's version of the world we will suffer. When we see it all as illusion and forgive, choosing to see the world through spirit's light we heal. Grievances darken your mind, and you look out at a darkened world. Forgiveness lifts the darkness, reasserts your will, and lets you look upon a world of light. ACIM-W-73:5:3-4
We simply need to accept God's plan for us and wish to remember Who we really are. We will there to be light so we can see we are aligned with God's will for us. (Lesson 73)
God's is the Only Will
We find great peace when we realize there is only One Will so therefore there can be no conflict. The only Will is God's. All ideas that conflict with that are not real. Nothing can disturb us when we accept that reality. He will offer us the only peace we need. ( Lesson 74)
The Light has Come
Lesson 75 teaches us that the light has come. When we don't see ego's shadow hovering over our world... darkness, turmoil and death disappear. We see that we are already healed, that we are already saved, that we are already at peace. More than that, we see that we can share this light and peace. We can heal and we can save.
No Laws But God's
There are certain laws we adhere to at ego's bidding. You really think you will starve unless you have stacks of green paper strips and piles of metal discs. You really think a small round pellet or some fluid pushed into your veins through a sharpened needle will ward off disease and death. You really think you are alone unless another body is with you. ACIM-W-76: 3:2-4
Lesson 76 tells us these are not laws but insane ideas we believe in order to protect the body so we are saved. The only thing we need to be saved from is the mind. The body is not the only being hurt. The mind is hurting itself. The body is endangered by the mind that hurts itself. The body suffers just in order that the mind will fail to see it is a victim to itself. The body's suffering is a mask the mind holds up to hide what really suffers. ACIM-W-76:5:2-4
We do not have to obey the so called laws of medicine, economics, health. There is only one law we are under and that law is God's. We need to hear what God's law is all about by going inward and listening in quiet stillness.
Entitled to Miracles
You are entitled to miracles because of what you are. you will receive miracles because of what God is. And you will offer miracles becsue you are one with God. We are entitled to miracles and we can choose them over grievances. ( Lesson 77 ; 78)
Solving Problems
We need to recognize what a problem is before we can solve it. The only real problem we have is this idea that we are separated from our Source and therefore from each other. This is the source of all our problems yet we do not see it that way. When we are wrapped up in ego's fantasies we see ourselves as separate and as separate beings we have a host of individual problems to sort through on a daily basis. Our heads are full of problematic thoughts that we assume are our problems because they keep us from peace. Identification with this mindscape keeps us from seeing what the real problem is which is that we see ourselves as separate. Once we recognize this as the problem, it is solved. (Lesson 79)
One Problem; One Solution
In Lesson 80 we are to recognize that our problems have been solved. There is only one problem, therefore only one solution. Let me recognize this problem has been solved
All is well in my world!
ACIM (2007) A Course in Miracles; Combined Volume. Workbook Lessons 71-80. Foundation for Inner Peace
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