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It can be but my gratitude I earn. A Course in Miracles makes an interesting point in this lesson. It notes that we have good intentions, that we are perfectly willing to be kind and generous and merciful, but that our efforts are always conditional upon receiving praise and honor in return. We’re happy toContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 197”

I have a function God would have me fill. We do not appear to live in a world that is governed by the laws of love. There is suffering everywhere. There is war and famine. There is injustice. We may scrape some crumbs of solace and peace here and there, but we are ever underContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 192”

I am the holy Son of God Himself. A Course in Miracles is a course designed to teach us what we are in truth. It is the solution to an identity crisis so profound that it has literally distorted the cosmos and made what is capable only of Love into an enemy. We are lonelyContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 191”

I choose the joy of God instead of pain. This lesson is an application of the principle that nothing real can be threatened and nothing unreal exists (T-in.2:2-3). The suggestion is that pain is simply a “wrong perspective,” and therefore that seen rightly, all suffering ends. To believe otherwise is to accept a God WhoContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 190”

The peace of God is shining in me now. A core premise of A Course in Miracles is that we are healed now. Salvation is already accomplished. It only seems to take time to learn what we are in truth, and accept what we are in truth. As this lesson pointedly asks – why waitContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 188”