Category Archives: ACIM Daily Lessons

My salvation comes from me. When A Course in Miracles talks about temptation, it generally means anything that turns our minds away from the insight that what we are in truth is responsible for – and can perfectly accomplish – the salvation of self, other and world. In other words, temptation is always that whichContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 70”

My grievances hide the light of the world in me. Love does not hold grievances (W-pI.68.7:2), but ego does. Grievances – nurtured, cherished, clutched – are how ego sustains the darkness in which its unreality cannot be examined, found wanting, and let go. Critically, the darkness that grievances make, does not only obscure our truthContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 69”

Love holds no grievances. Grievances are footholds and handholds for ego because they obscure entirely the truth of our creation by love as love. “To hold a grievance is to let the ego rule your mind and condemn the body to death” (W-pI.68.1:4). This is because grievances are tacit admissions that we believe are bodiesContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 68”

Love created me like itself. What we are in truth is beyond language because it is beyond division into separate parts. What we are in truth is beyond what can be perceived because it is beyond interpretation. Yet – because we believe in division, or separation, and in the interpretation – we need a meansContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 67”

My happiness and my function are one. Our happiness and our function will almost certainly appear different in form but in reality they are the same thing. They are not similar; they are not related through cause and effect. They are identical. Our function and our happiness are one. This sameness is why the HolyContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 66”

My only function is the one God gave me. If we take nothing else from this lesson, we need to at least take the idea that salvation is a total commitment. This commitment has two parts: first, we recognize – we remember – that salvation is our only function (W-pI.65.1:5). Second we willingly let anyContinue reading “A Course in Miracles Lesson 65”