ACIM Lesson #253
“My Self is ruler of the universe.
It is impossible that anything should come to me unbidden by myself. Even in this world, it is I who rule my destiny. What happens is what I desire. What does not occur is what I do not want to happen. This must I accept. For thus am I led past this world to my creations, children of my will, in Heaven where my holy Self abides with them and Him Who has created me.”
[ACIM prayer for today]
“You are the Self Whom You created Son, creating like Yourself and One with You. My Self, which rules the universe, is but Your Will in perfect union with my own, which can but offer glad assent to Yours, that it may be extended to Itself.”
Marsha's thoughts]
Every day's study tells us the same thing. In reality, there is only One. We are that One, and Its (Our) perfection is seen when we are able to look past the self and see The Self. So the question is, why do we do this every day if we already know what it is? Answering for myself, I see that moment-by-moment reminders are needed! After all, every thing we hear in the world is giving us those insistent, erroneous affirmations of a false reality as being all there is, and also that anything other than what we can touch and prove is unreality. How easy it is to feel "airy-fairy" or "Pollyanna-ish" to espouse the thought we're studying! And so we're called on to prove these metaphysical, spiritual, Principles. The way we think, the way we live, the way we interact with others and our environment, in all these ways and more we find ourselves demonstrating this Truth in the most unexpected ways! One of my favorite practices is in finding a parking space in our busy tourist town. If my thought is flustered and busy, there is no space for anything else and I block the Self that knows where to go and when. On the other hand, if I approach this in a quiet knowing that I'm always in the right place at the right time, then room is left for my Oneness to be demonstrated and shown forth in supplying my every need. When I listen, this is a reality. When I assert my superior knowledge and logic, it's always a toss-up!
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
“The pains of sense are salutary, if they wrench away false pleasurable beliefs and transplant the affections from sense to Soul, where the creations of God are good, 'rejoicing the heart.' Such is the sword of Science, with which Truth decapitates error, materiality giving place to man's higher individuality and destiny."
Science & Health Page 265:31-5
“My Self is ruler of the universe.
It is impossible that anything should come to me unbidden by myself. Even in this world, it is I who rule my destiny. What happens is what I desire. What does not occur is what I do not want to happen. This must I accept. For thus am I led past this world to my creations, children of my will, in Heaven where my holy Self abides with them and Him Who has created me.”
[ACIM prayer for today]
“You are the Self Whom You created Son, creating like Yourself and One with You. My Self, which rules the universe, is but Your Will in perfect union with my own, which can but offer glad assent to Yours, that it may be extended to Itself.”
Marsha's thoughts]
Every day's study tells us the same thing. In reality, there is only One. We are that One, and Its (Our) perfection is seen when we are able to look past the self and see The Self. So the question is, why do we do this every day if we already know what it is? Answering for myself, I see that moment-by-moment reminders are needed! After all, every thing we hear in the world is giving us those insistent, erroneous affirmations of a false reality as being all there is, and also that anything other than what we can touch and prove is unreality. How easy it is to feel "airy-fairy" or "Pollyanna-ish" to espouse the thought we're studying! And so we're called on to prove these metaphysical, spiritual, Principles. The way we think, the way we live, the way we interact with others and our environment, in all these ways and more we find ourselves demonstrating this Truth in the most unexpected ways! One of my favorite practices is in finding a parking space in our busy tourist town. If my thought is flustered and busy, there is no space for anything else and I block the Self that knows where to go and when. On the other hand, if I approach this in a quiet knowing that I'm always in the right place at the right time, then room is left for my Oneness to be demonstrated and shown forth in supplying my every need. When I listen, this is a reality. When I assert my superior knowledge and logic, it's always a toss-up!
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
“The pains of sense are salutary, if they wrench away false pleasurable beliefs and transplant the affections from sense to Soul, where the creations of God are good, 'rejoicing the heart.' Such is the sword of Science, with which Truth decapitates error, materiality giving place to man's higher individuality and destiny."
Science & Health Page 265:31-5
A comment on the "parking place" experience. I noted that Marsha was not setting the intention of the "right parking place" but when she is aligned with Spirit the parking place she finds is the place she is suppose to be. It is so different to tell Spirit to find you parking place than to know that Spirit will direct you to the parking place you need to have to serve your Higher Self. Richard
ReplyDeleteIt is a fine distinction! Thanks for noting it, Richard :>
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