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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”

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”