A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson #159
“I give the miracles I have received.”
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| "Forbidden City Acrobats - China" photo by Aaron Springston |
Today I had an interaction with someone who tells me he has cancer. I nearly wrote this as "tells me he has the claim of cancer", because that's the vernacular used in Christian Science to denote the unreality of erroneous thought. But that sounds awfully pompous, don't you think? Semantics notwithstanding, the principle is sound. We are not trying to change a physical condition, but rather to change thought about the basis of Being and what that means. This dear man told me that he felt there were certain laws of living which could not be usurped. Most of us have seen numerous examples of how this is not so. We have witnessed what appears to be a law set aside, and society generally thinks of this as supernatural intervention. In Christian Science, we call these events the demonstration of Truth. Today's ACIM workbook lesson asks us to give what we have received. This sharing of the understanding of our relationship with God is given through our living of it. When we let ourselves slip into that space which releases all mortal thought, we allow that "Mind to be us, which was also Christ Jesus". Through this simple -- yet not always easy --process, we give all we have accepted, and this is referred to as healing. I look forward to a day of flowing miracles!
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
"Though demonstrating his control over sin and disease, the great Teacher [Jesus] by no means relieved others from giving the requisite proofs of their own piety. He worked for their guidance, that they might demonstrate this power as he did and understand its divine Principle. Implicit faith in the Teacher and all the emotional love we can bestow on him, will never alone make us imitators of him. We must go and do likewise, else we are not improving the great blessings which our Master worked and suffered to bestow upon us. The divinity of the Christ was made manifest in the humanity of Jesus."
Science & Health Page 25:22-33
