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Doll created from a 40-year-old blouse,
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ACIM Lesson #222
“God is with me. I live and move in Him.”
We are waking up from our oblivious stupor, from our dream of separation from God and all that Is. This awakening is taking many forms, and I'm sure you are seeing examples everywhere, too! The admittance to ourselves that we are divine has taken us to another level of action to correspond with our thought. I'm seeing people changing life-long habits because they suddenly find them repugnant or useless. For quite some time, I've known that I can no longer eat meat. This is not because I feel I shouldn't eat something which was once alive and feeling, because I know that plants have the same attributes, although on a different level perhaps. While this decision does have something to do with kinship with all life, it is mainly because of the horrible ways we choose to raise and slaughter animals. When I was a child, my parents had a small meat processing business. People would bring in the animals they had raised and they would be quietly killed and packaged. This is the image I've had in my mind of what happens in the meat preparing process. This is no longer so, as we all know. There is no respect for the animal itself, no love involved in the taking of its life, and generally no care taken in the preparation of this food for consumption. From listening to my heart, this space deep inside beyond belief and habit, I have come to this decision. For me, this is living and moving in God. Not the decision itself, but the listening and following. Today's ACIM lesson states this: "God is with me. He is my Source of life, the life within, the air I breathe, the food by which I am sustained, the water which renews and cleanses me. He is my home, wherein I live and move ..." There are so many ways we as humans have gone astray. I join with you in watching and listening for the Truth of our existence, and to be aware of ways to demonstrate this in every action. Namaste'.
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
“The theory that soul, spirit, intelligence, inhabits matter is taught by the schools. This theory is unscientific. The universe reflects and expresses the divine substance or Mind; therefore God is seen only in the spiritual universe and spiritual man, as the sun is seen in the ray of light which goes out from it. God is revealed only in that which reflects Life, Truth, Love,-- yea, which manifests God's attributes and power, even as the human likeness thrown upon the mirror, repeats the color, form, and action of the person in front of the mirror.”
Science & Health Page 300:26-4
