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I am entitled to miracles. Let miracles replace all grievances. One way to think of a miracle is that it interrupts familiar patterns of thinking. We are going along in our life, more or less on autopilot, and the miracle appears and brings everything to a halt. Our mind stops wandering. Suddenly we are fullyContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 89”

The light has come. I am under no laws but God’s. A major premise of A Course in Miracles is that the only choice actually available to us is between reality and illusion. All peace lies in choosing reality; all fear in choosing illusion. Illusion appears multi-faceted. There are many people to choose between. ThereContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 88”

I will there be light. There is no will but God’s. Today we make a conscious decision to intentionally apply our will to bringing forth light rather than darkness. Thus, we are insisting on accurate perception; we are refusing the confusion and despair that attend darkness. “Light” and “dark” are metaphors related to seeing. TheContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 87”

Only God’s plan for salvation will work. Holding grievances is an attack on God’s plan for salvation. To the extent we actually have problems, one of them might be that we insist on looking for salvation where it cannot be found, and thus go on in anguish and suffering when peace and happiness are literallyContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 86”

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”