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ACIM Workbook Lesson #309
“I will not fear to look within today.”
On this day before a major election in the United States, most people are receiving an onslaught of commercials delineating reasons they should vote for various political candidates. Although I've taken myself out of this loop of communication, an occasional one slips through when I'm in a public setting. The intensity of the attacks on character and actions is surprising and unsettling to me. While I have made up my mind concerning who I plan to vote for, I've felt it's important to listen to the "other side" before voting. I have read about what the candidates espouse in their overall plans, and reluctantly have listened to a couple of youtube videos which a relative has sent me, telling why my ideas are wrong. This is a nice intellectual exercise, but it does nothing to show me Truth. That can only be found from going within. Mary Baker Eddy once told a reporter her only politics were to pray for a righteous government, to love her neighbor as herself, and to love God above all else. This last imperative is where I find Truth within. By giving away all beliefs concerning personality and past experiences, through the desire to know God, Truth is revealed in a sureness of inner knowing. With this knowledge, there is no reason for the material listenings I have done concerning the "facts" surrounding the political candidates. I think we've all seen that these so-called facts are no more than wishful dreams. Part of listening to Love includes prayerful affirmations that everyone, including our candidates, hears with this divine ear. Through this knowing, their actions will express the Love of God for the good of All. Be still and know ...
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
“When speaking of God's children, not the children of men, Jesus said, 'The kingdom of God is within you;' that is, Truth and Love reign in the real man, showing that man in God's image is unfallen and eternal. Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick. Thus Jesus taught that the kingdom of God is intact, universal, and that man is pure and holy. Man is not a material habitation for Soul; he is himself spiritual. Soul, being Spirit, is seen in nothing imperfect nor material.”
Science & Health Page 476-28-8
