A Course in Miracles Lesson #203 (review)
Central theme:
“I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”
Specific review: (183) “I call upon God's Name and on my own.”
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| "Where We've Been" photo by Aaron Springston |
I feel fortunate to have had the experience of discovering that the name my parents gave me was not the original one given, that my birthdate was untrue, that the whole story of my birth had been falsified, including who my parents were. Why would I find this to be a fortuitous happening? At first I didn't. I was very angry that my parents, who had taught me to be truthful in every circumstance, had perpetuated a lie concerning my birth. I found out about this around twenty years ago, and within a short time of this revelation, I came to understand that it doesn't matter about all these so-called facts. What matters is who loves you and guides you through the early years, not who actually gave birth to you and what the details of that are. Recently a YouTube video by Eckhart Tolle has come to my attention: The Flowering of Human Consciousness. This talk starts out with him asking us to pretend we have no name. He wants us to examine how this feels and see who we are without this part of our "story" in place. This is why I feel fortunate to have found out years ago that I wasn't who I thought I was. It enabled me to begin to see who I Am. Our only parent is the source of All That Is. We have no birth date as we are eternal, without beginning or ending. Every single part of our material history is an illusion of the existence we have perpetuated. It can all be released in favor of Truth. I Am a child of God, an idea of divine Mind. I Am only Love. This doesn't mean that I will lose my individuality. On the contrary! We are set free to be more of ourSelves when we release the limitations imposed by heredity, circumstance, material beliefs concerning our capabilities. We are also freed from the pain of guilt, blame, and other derogatory emotions. When we call on God's name, we are calling on ourSelf. Our sustenance, our comfort, are all found within.
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
"Man's individuality is not material. This Science of being obtains not alone hereafter in what men call Paradise, but here and now; it is the great fact of being for time and eternity."
Science & Health Page 285:2-6
