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ACIM Lesson #233
“I give my life to God to guide today."
When we give away certain thoughts and habits, release them from our mind, we need replacements to insure there is no space for the old to return. And so we give away our material thoughts and actions, replacing them with the Mind which is God. How I look forward to having none of my own thoughts! Without stopping to remember what exactly they are, I know there are numerous times within the past week alone that I've had thoughts and expressed them and wondered why in the world I had done so! And it’s not enough to stop them from spewing forth, I choose to quench their existence. This does not happen within my mind, but by giving up this sense of personal responsibility and resting in the knowledge that our words and actions are a reflection of Mind, the One Source of all ideas. Today I was playing cribbage with an dear long-time friend. She mentioned that getting old shifted your perceptions of yourself. She said that once she was no longer working and being a "productive citizen", that people thought of her differently and she was more or less taking up space waiting to get out of the way by the change called death. Wow! I didn't expect that one! It caused me to think of people I know well who have retired from their life-long jobs, and also those who have created jobs for themselves which they will probably never give up. My friends who have retired are now productive in numerous activities, helping others in wonderful ways. They can't imagine retiring from life. Their pursuit of happiness for others brings abundant joy to them. Leaving ourselves under the control of our mortal mind brings us many beliefs such as my friend has concerning this stage of her life. To understand our relation to the Divine opens us to ideas which are pure and unadulterated by the human beliefs we think of as our own thought. Leaving the past behind and reaching forth to this new/old thought leaves us feeling fulfilled, freeing us to accept bold new ways of living, no matter what age we think we are!
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
“When we fully understand our relation to the Divine,
we can have no other Mind but His,--no other Love,
wisdom, or Truth, no other sense of Life, and no
consciousness of the existence of matter or error.
The power of the human will should be exercised only
in subordination to Truth; else it will misguide the
judgment and free the lower propensities. It is the
province of spiritual sense to govern man.”
Science & Health Page 205:32-7
