A Course in Miracles Lesson #213 (review)
Central Theme:
“I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”
Specific Review: (#193) “All things are lessons God would have me learn.”
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| "Salt Lake City, Utah Sunrise" photo by Aaron Springston |
I'm learning to love the things which I find disturbing, distressing, or even mildly unsettling. When I'm hit in the face with strong or mild negative emotions, I can be pretty sure that it's because of something which I've done, or am doing, some form of thought which correlates to the sense I find so distracting! And so when I become upset over something, I make time to examine it as quickly as possible, before I forget the feeling of this distress. Why do I want to do it quickly? Because I've found that mortal mind, or the ego, will quickly convince me that I am right for feeling this way, and that there is no reason to examine what I'm thinking in my own thought, or doing in my own life, which causes me to feel angry or sad or disturbed -- or whatever way it may be manifested. The Course in Miracles tells us in Lesson #193, "I will forgive, and this will disappear." This is what I'm doing when I say I make time to examine the situation and my reaction to it. I'm not going to analyze and take notes, or make lists of pros and cons, but I am going to seriously look at what is behind my emotional response to the event. Now, when tears come to my eyes because I hear that a fellow gallery owner is near to passing after a long illness, I don't need to sit down and tell myself that there is no death and delineate the reasons this is so. I'm simply feeling sad for her sweet family and friends who will miss her so. And in that feeling of Love which swells my heart and overflows from my eyes, I see them all in their true existence as reflections of All That Is, God. Yes, we are learning, expanding consciousness, accepting Reality. For this, I am most grateful.
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
“Sorrow has its reward. It never leaves us where it found us. The furnace separates the gold from the dross that the precious metal may be graven with the image of God. The cup our Father hath given, shall we not drink it and learn the lessons He teaches?”
Science & Health Page 66:30-3
