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ACIM Workbook Lesson #103 “God, being Love, is also happiness.”
I know a man who insists he's never known happiness. He often says he doesn't have any idea what love feels like, yet he has a twinkle in his eye and is usually smiling. I think he's happy, but simply doesn't recognize what that means. Perhaps he’s grasping at something he thinks of as being just out of reach. I would guess he feels love, too, but thinks it's supposed to bring on an epiphany of some sort. Personally, I feel intense rushes of love from something as pure as seeing the first flock of butterflies in the spring. A group of swallowtails frolicking in my flower bed is more than enough to break open my heart and leave me feeling giddy. Remembering my friend’s lament over the lack of love in his life, remembering the butterflies' grace which flows to me, I will think twice before I pass by any divine Idea without drinking in its happiness. Love and happiness are our divine heritage as the expression of God. God is Love, and so are we!
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
“Higher enjoyments alone can satisfy the cravings of immortal man.” Science & Health Page 61:1
I am happy that I've found someone else who enjoys the correlation between the Course and Mary Baker Eddy's works. I am often astounded to read something in one or the other that completely agree.
ReplyDeleteHere is a rather outstanding example, the first is not from ACIM but from a book of poetry by Helen Schucman, the scribe of the Course.
"Angels are Thoughts that come from God to you." [The Gifts of God, p. 4]
"Angels are pure thoughts from God." [Science & Health 298:28]
I am enjoying your blog. Thank you!
Thank you, Cassandra!! I love the quotes from Helen. I find it fascinating, as I'm sure you do, too, the correlations in these two disciplines. Please comment often!!
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