February 28, 2015 - One Mind

"Snowbird"
photo by Aaron Springston

ACIM #59: Today we review Lessons 41-45. 

I've always had a tough time understanding political conflicts. It seems to me that if everyone is for the good of all, why would there be a conflict? I simply don't understand why we have these problems, and certainly don't want to talk about these crazy-seeming scenarios. We have one such brouhaha churning in our small tourist town. As hard as it is for me to believe, apparently some establishments refuse to do business with people of certain sexual orientations, so our town council passed an anti-discrimination ordinance. Now the state says this is illegal because people should be able to serve whoever they want to and refuse service to whomever they choose. Some people say, Why should we have to pass a law to facilitate something which should be happening in the first place: equality for all. We watch sadly as people choose a side and prepare for battle. Then there are the people who say they don't want to condone behavior by doing business with people whose actions are not approved of by them. Some go so far as to say this is mandated by God. If we believe and practice today's review topics, this is all a moot point. The presence of divine Love is with me and everyone all the time, so why should I feel compelled to condemn? The realization that I am seeing with Spirit's vision, and that I cannot see any other way, precludes any judgment too, because God is Love and does not judge. If God is the Mind with which I think, and that thought is only light, there is no fear nor condemnation. We could stop trying to change others' thought to what we think, knowing that every thought with divine Mind is exponential. Let's go forth and multiply -- Mind with a capital M, that is! 

Mary Baker Eddy quote:

"This scientific sense of being, forsaking matter for Spirit, by no means suggests man's absorption into Deity and the loss of his identity, but confers upon man enlarged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action, a more expansive love, a higher and more permanent peace."

Science & Health Page 265:10-15