ACIM Workbook Lesson #12
“I am upset because I see a meaningless world.”
[Marsha's thoughts]
Have you ever felt that when something is upsetting it should be avoided, or we should look for the cause and change it, or -- in the most extreme reaction -- put the blame on someone else, as it couldn't possibly be our own fault? And so, if we give no meaning to anything, if we see a meaningless world, and then become upset by this void, we may be tempted to try to figure out why this is happening. Today's lesson asks us to witness events without giving them any meaning, neither good nor bad, thereby leaving ourselves blank to see what Truth comes through in place of our personal feelings. So if we find this upsetting, let's not act upon these feelings; instead, let's witness what happens without placing an interpretation on it. When we allow Sprit [God] to manifest through us, which is our native state as a reflection, the image and likeness of God -- we open ourselves to the field of all possibilities. All these years of speculation on the nature of time and space, the episodes of Star Trek and Bewitched that have caused us to dream of "what if", our fascination with magicians and Harry Potter -- in honor of all these things, let's work to create a blank slate for Love to write on. Who's to know where this will lead us? To quote Rumi: "Out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there".
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
"Nothing is real and eternal,--nothing is Spirit,--but God and His idea. Evil has no reality. It is neither person, place, nor thing, but is simply a belief, an illusion of material sense."
Science & Health Page 71:1-5
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