February 27, 2013 - Holiness For All!

Park City, Utah Sunset
photo by Aaron Springston

ACIM Workbook Lesson #58:

Today we review Lessons 36-40 

This review speaks of "my holiness" in four of the five summarized lessons. What does that mean? Is my holiness different from your holiness, perhaps based on  actions or thoughts? We are learning that this holiness is our true state of being as reflections of Love, realized through forgiveness in its purest sense. When I assert this Truth about myself, I affirm it for everyone. The urge to micro-manage things is strong in most of us, because we've been taught to make plans, to set goals, to nail down all the details. Recently the building in which I have my gallery was sold. The new owners have undertaken repairs which include replacing an old wooden awning on the front. While I had accepted that this was going to be done to the benefit of all, numerous people questioned if they were doing this in the proper way. And I had fallen into this questioning thought myself. While in the market, someone asked me how long it was going to take to get the new awning up and wondered about the appropriateness of the material to be used. When I told her that I didn't know when it would be done or how it would be done, but that I was trusting that everything would turn out best for everyone involved, she told me that rarely happened, particularly with people our age. Wow! Could this be true? We can't trust in goodness and our ability to allow it to be? And what did age have to do with it? This was enough to wake me up to what I'd been doing. I've learned to listen for inner guidance when making decisions of any kind. Most things in this life are beyond our control, aren't they? How many times do we make intricate plans only to have to change them when circumstances change?  I could write a book! Wayne Dyer tells us that worry is counterproductive. Why worry, he says? If we can do something about it, we will. If we can't do anything about it, what's the use in worrying? Living by this precept has brought a freedom I wouldn't have known had I held on to my old drama queen ways. My mantra is, Only Good can come of this. For this realization, I am most grateful.

Mary Baker Eddy quote:

"Man walks in the direction towards which he looks, and where his treasure is, there will his heart be also. If our hopes and affections are spiritual, they came from above, not from below, and they bear as of old the fruits of the Spirit." Science & Health Page 451:14-18