Created by Deborah Martin
For a Facebook Post
Have you ever caught yourself saying or doing something which surprised you? — and not in a good way! Recently I did just that. While chastising someone for their actions, suddenly I realized that while pointing a finger, three were pointing back at me. It’s something to know, intellectually, that what bothers us about “other people” is what bothers us about our own selves. But when the emotional, spiritual implications of that action suddenly hits you in the head (so to speak), it’s a different feeling entirely. It’s an opening of the heart and a humble asking for divine guidance on how to think about the situation. And, of course, that guidance came through quickly and thoroughly. The following ACIM quote is what found its way to me. The whole section will be pondered soon. Namaste, my friends …
“The guilty always condemn, and having done so they will still condemn, linking the future to the past as is the ego’s law. Fidelity to this law lets no light in, for it demands fidelity to darkness and forbids awakening. The ego’s laws are strict, and breaches are severely punished. Therefore give no obedience to its laws, for they are laws of punishment. And those who follow them believe that they are guilty, and so they must condemn. Between the future and the past the laws of God must intervene, if you would free yourself. Atonement stands between them, like a lamp shining so brightly that the chain of darkness in which you bound yourself will disappear.”
—A Course in Miracles T-13.IX.1:1-8
“Progress is born of experience. It is the ripening of mortal man, through which the mortal is dropped for the immortal. Either here or hereafter, suffering or Science must destroy all illusions regarding life and mind, and regenerate material sense and self.”
—Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page 296:4-9
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