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My grievances hide the light of the world in me. My salvation comes from me. A Course in Miracles suggests that to hold a grievance is to condemn both our own self and other selves to a body and a world in which those bodies can only suffer and die. When we insist on ourContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 85”

Love created me like itself. Love holds no grievances. The question is what are we. The suggestion A Course in Miracles makes is that we are answering that question incorrectly, but can be taught to answer it correctly. We are not bodies – subject to the myriad woes forever visited on bodies – but ratherContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 84”

My only function is the one God gave me. My happiness and my function are one. The end of conflict – which is the remembrance of peace – is our objective. In worldly terms – which includes our bodies – this seems impossible. And, in those terms, it is! Our lives, and the world inContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 83”

The light of the world brings peace to every mind through my forgiveness. Let me not forget my function. Healing is specific. We heal the world not from far away but from the heart of it – right here in the very bodies and circumstances that are given. There is no world but this! AndContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 82”

I am the light of the world. Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world. Our function as the light of the world is related to truthfulness. Light reveals what is true – light shines on reality. It undoes what obscures – what darkens – reality. When we accept that our function isContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 81”

Let me recognize that my problems have been solved. Lesson 80 of A Course in Miracles is so entangled with Lesson 79 it feels wrong somehow to take them separately. Yet without the clarity of the prior lesson, this one would lose some of its power. In practice, they merge together in a way thatContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 80”