The study of divine metaphysics requires a willingness to question every value that we hold, to let light into our minds, to allow grace to be our natural state. To study A Course in Miracles takes a willingness for your mind to be healed from fear and limitation; it requires you to question every value you hold. We tend to think it’s a good thing to hold strong opinions about any number of things, such as politics. It may seem as though I’m saying we shouldn’t work for social reform, that we shouldn’t stand up to wrong-doers, that we should become the proverbial doormat. Not so! I think that giving up the things which make us angry, the things for which we become fighting mad, enables us to open ourselves to this gift of divine Love. Then we are guided to do meaningful work in ways we hadn’t considered, because strong mindsets were hiding them from our vision. I think it will be an interesting exercise to take note of the thoughts I have which keep me from the gift of divine Love. I hope you’ll join me!
“Christ is the true idea voicing good, the divine message from God to men speaking to the human consciousness.”
Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 332:9-11
“The gift of Christ is all I seek today. What but Christ’s vision would I use today, when it can offer me a day in which I see a world so like to Heaven that an ancient memory returns to me? Today I can forget the world I made. Today I can go past all fear, and be restored to love and holiness and peace. Today I am redeemed, and born anew into a world of mercy and of care; of loving kindness and the peace of God.
“And so, our Father, we return to You, remembering we never went away; remembering Your holy gifts to us. In gratitude and thankfulness we come, with empty hands and open hearts and minds, asking but what You give. We cannot make an offering sufficient for Your Son. But in Your Love the gift of Christ is his.”
A Course in Miracles W-306.1:1–2:4
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