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Course in Miracles Lesson #209 (review)
Central Theme:
“I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”
Specific review: (#189) “I feel the Love of God within me now.”
To feel Love from a source outside ourselves is impossible. To express a material sense of love is an illusion. But to be the Love which is God, that is Truth. God is Love, and we are Its manifestation. Hence, we are Love. The recognition that we are Love is liberation in and of itself. In a poem by Mrs. Eddy she says, "Love looseth me and lifteth me a'yont hate's thrall". Can you tell she was a fan of Shakespeare? Old-fashioned language aside, she's saying that Love sets us free, lifting us above and beyond any hate we may perceive. I was talking to a man today who must have been accustomed to inducing angry reactions from people. He said a number of ugly things in a rather loud voice, fully expecting to get a rise out of me. I found him rather amusing, like a little boy having a tantrum, and so I spoke to him as such. Very calmly I told him that we don't speak that way in Eureka Thyme, that this is a space of Love and beauty, and he really should go outside if that's the way he wanted to act. I’ve mostly given up trying to change anyone, and usually I can resist the urge to want to fix others, but I've come to see that it's my purpose to show them the way to freedom of living in the Truth of their Being. By actions and words we assist ourselves, and thereby everyone, in the realization that Love is the only reality. To live Love allows a total release from past habitual thought and the pain we've chosen. And then there is no need for blame, guilt, nor forgiveness. We are free.
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
“The history of our country, like all history, illustrates the might of Mind, and shows human power to be proportionate to its embodiment of right thinking. A few immortal sentences, breathing the omnipotence of divine justice, have been potent to break despotic fetters and abolish the whipping-post and slave market; but oppression neither went down in blood, nor did the breath of freedom come from the cannon's mouth. Love is the liberator.”
Science and Health Page 225:14-22
