ACIM workbook lesson #55:
Today is the fifth of a ten-day review of the first lessons. For a guide to this review, and a short description of each of the five, go to this link:http://acim.org/Lessons/lesson.html?lesson=55
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| Aaron Loosing Bonds - phograph by a friend |
[Marsha's thoughts]
This review is so exciting I want to write about each and every one -- but I've already done that! So I'll just go with the first part of the review from lesson #21: "What I see now are but signs of disease, disaster and death. This cannot be what God created for His beloved Son." Christian Scientists are often criticized for using Spirit to heal disease. Obviously this would be impossible. Alternatively, we are chastised for doing nothing when faced with this thing called disease. If you have a so-called disease, it does no good to pretend it's not there. While affirmations, visualizations, different psychological techniques are often effective at changing matter, that is not what spiritual healing is all about. Some think that the metaphysical treatment of disease is trying to affect a change in your experience. It is not. And some think that spiritual healing through prayer is praying to God to heal disease. It is not. Yet others feel that prayer is "doing nothing". It is not. Witnessing and demonstrating the Truth of our being is what it is. Seeing past the illusion to a single moment of Reality, that is what spiritual healing is about. And when you see this Truth, you live it in whatever realm you're experiencing at the moment. This Principle cannot be changed, and the moment you realize the unchanging nature of this law, you will see it as the governing principle of everything. Today I will not be afraid to live my purpose.
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
"Human sense may well marvel at discord, while, to a diviner sense, harmony is the real and discord the unreal. We may well be astonished at sin, sickness, death. We may well be perplexed at human fear; and still more astounded at hatred, which lifts its hydra head, showing its horns in the many inventions of evil. But why should we stand aghast at nothingness?”
Science & Health Page 563:1-7
