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I am under no laws but God’s. Lesson 76 of A Course in Miracles brooks no middle ground. It is like Bob Dylan’s song Precious Angel: “You either got faith or you got unbelief and there ain’t no neutral ground.” Yet the absence of wiggle room is a gift, for it forces us to confrontContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 76”

The light has come. The 75th lesson of A Course in Miracles is both a celebration of what we are in truth and an opportunity for gratitude. We celebrate that which knows it is an extension of God’s wholly loving will. And we are grateful for the learners and teachers who make “the happy endingContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 75”

There is no will but God’s. This is a simple but deeply satisfying lesson of A Course in Miracles. If it’s true – and if we accept its truth – then all our perceived conflict is over. And in the absence of conflict, there is only peace. Thus, if we can grasp this lesson –Continue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 74”

I will there be light. The understanding that we are not separate from God does not relate to our bodies nor to the confused self that appears to be that body. We share a will with God, a will to create in perfect abstraction, beyond the limited nature of bodies and worlds. This is aContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 73”

Holding grievances is an attack on God’s plan for salvation. Lesson 72 extends the previous lesson’s emphasis that God’s plan for salvation is the diametric opposite of egos, and that only God’s plan can actually work in bringing us peace and happiness. Lesson 72 emphasizes that ego’s plan is an affirmative attack on God’s plan.Continue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 72”

Only God’s plan for salvation will work. From ego’s perspective, our experience of living in the world is predicated on others – how they behave, how they act, how they affect us. Essentially, “our” living becomes an effect of “their” living. This isn’t a form of unity but rather of upside-down, or backwards, cause-and-effect. WeContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 71”