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ACIM Workbook Lesson #258
“Let me remember that my goal is God.”
I had a friend who died from cancer. She was always busy doing things. I once asked her if she ever had any quiet time and she honestly told me that she didn't want any because then she would have to think. Many traumatic events had happened in her life, including the violent deaths of her parents and tragic passing of her children. Maybe our thoughts are constantly occupied by collecting material possessions, or perhaps we simply need the busyness of daily life to keep us from thinking about painful memories, but in either case we rarely allow ourselves the quiet we need to hear Spirit. We fear the unknown and think that these things around us are what we need, rather than looking beyond them to the Truth which heals our fear. We may use alcohol and drugs to cover up the turmoil for a little while, but lasting peace only comes through knowledge of Love. Sometimes love is used as a soporific, placating our desire for an all-encompassing Love with no beginning nor end. Today I will remember to remember what I have forgotten, which is only found within.
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
“This scientific sense of being, forsaking matter for Spirit, by no means suggests man’s absorption into Deity and the loss of his identity, but confers upon man enlarged individuality, a wider sphere of thought and action, a more expansive love, a higher and more permanent peace.” Science & Health Page 265:10-15
