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A Course in Miracles Lesson #218 (review)
Central Theme:
“I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”
Specific Review: (#198) “Only my condemnation injures me.”
We stand aghast at injustice. It seems rampant everywhere we look. How have we allowed corruption to reign supreme? Why is our food poison, our water scarce, what we value meaningless? How has this happened while we stand by believing that everything is as it should be? Why do we allow it to happen? The recognition of our unity is a major turning point in our evolution. With the knowledge that everything is connected, that what affects one affects all, we are prompted to stand up and make the change within ourselves that we would like to see in the world. This interconnectedness of All that Is first was shown to me by my Beagle, Harry. He was so sensitive to feelings around him that the mildest irritation about anything on my part would send him to the farthest depths of the closet, where he would remain until I had "cleared my energy field" -- so to speak. And now I watch my moods and thoughts affecting the demeanor of customers in my business. If I am tense and irritable, that's what I draw to myself. Seeing that there are only two choices, Love or fear, helps lead me from the blindness which has held us all helpless for so long. We have within our Being the ability to change the world. True evolution is the evolution of consciousness. What a wonderful thing, to see through awakened Thought! To wake up from the hypnosis we have allowed ourselves to fall under is a very exciting proposition, isn't it? Reality, as we have accepted it, is falling away to reveal a way of life we have thought of as impossible. Love is the liberator. Embrace the change which is moving from human intellect back into the space of the heart. Open yourself to the divine and live as you were created. Accept your reality as the reflection of God, with no fear, only Love guiding your every action. The time is now to live Love and all that implies!
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
“Glory be to God, and peace to the struggling hearts! Christ hath rolled away the stone from the door of human hope and faith, and through the revelation and demonstration of life in God, hath elevated them to possible at-one-ment with the spiritual idea of man and his divine Principle, Love.”
Science & Health Page 49:16-22
