Category Archives: ACIM Daily Lessons

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”

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”