December 30, 2011 - Reality

ACIM Lesson #364

"This holy instant would I give to You.
Be You in charge. For I would follow You,
Certain that Your direction gives me peace."

Photo by Aaron Springston

[Marsha's thoughts]

All the insecurities, the feelings of loss and lack, the guilt and blame, all these things have lost their reality to us through this year of study and insight into our true Self. Now that we see the unreality of these beliefs within ourselves, it's hard to not point them out to others when they present themselves! These last few days, I've noticed what I do say in the face of negativity, fear, anger, and hate. After a snide racial comment from a terse-lipped woman, I said, "Keep smiling!" Whereupon she gave me a fake smile and I gave her a small Namaste' bow and left. When asked advice concerning happiness, (knowing through experience that none of us can fix any other of us) my only suggestion is to concentrate on what brings us happiness and fulfillment, and the unhappiness and emptiness will be lost in its face. We live what we've learned, giving to others from our receiving. What fun to see the joy this day will bring!

Mary Baker Eddy quote:

“The sculptor turns from the marble to his model in order to perfect his conception. We are all sculptors, working at various forms, moulding and chiseling thought. What is the model before mortal mind? Is it imperfection, joy, sorrow, sin, suffering? Have you accepted the mortal model? Are you reproducing it? Then you are haunted in your work by vicious sculptors and hideous forms. Do you not hear from all mankind of the imperfect model? The world is holding it before your gaze continually. The result is that you are liable to follow those lower patterns, limit your lifework, and adopt into your experience the angular outline and deformity of matter models. To remedy this, we must first turn our gaze in the right direction, and then walk that way. We must form perfect models in thought and look at them continually, or we shall never carve them out in grand and noble lives.”

Science & Health Page 248:12-29