ACIM Lesson #169
“By grace I live. By grace I am released.”
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"To the top of the Mountain in Mongolia"
photo by Aaron Springston |
We are taught today that grace cannot be learned, although it is the goal of learning. We are told that grace is laid at the prepared table, and this preparation is what we are doing in these metaphysically divine studies. It takes an open mind to be willing to wake up from the material existence we have accepted as reality. Through the total recognition that our only will is that which is one with God's, we ready ourselves for the revelations of Truth. It is often said that we need not strive for an understanding of God. You know the words: Let go and let God! And this is certainly true. So what makes this simple, but not easy? I think it's because of the constant cacophony from physical senses, bombarding us every moment with how things are supposed to be. Once again, we look for ways to tune in to Truth, God, and turn off these constant bombardments. And how else but through these studies which allow a clean slate to occasionally appear? We feel the Presence and want it more and more. Mary Baker Eddy states, “Desire is prayer". So through our desire for this rest with God, the blissful quiet which has no purpose other than communion with the One, we live by grace and are released from the seeming reality around us, into our true Being as a reflection of God.
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
“The fading forms of matter, the mortal body and material earth, are the fleeting concepts of the human mind. They have their day before the permanent facts and their perfection in Spirit appear. The crude creations of mortal thought must finally give place to the glorious forms which we sometimes behold in the camera of divine Mind, when the mental picture is spiritual and eternal. Mortals must look beyond fading, finite forms, if they would gain the true sense of things. Where shall the gaze rest but in the unsearchable realm of Mind? We must look where we would walk, and we must act as possessing all power from Him in whom we have our being.”
Science & Health Page 263:32-9
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