No Defense in Love

photo credit: Richard Quick

ACIM Workbook Lesson #341

"I can attack but my own sinlessness, and it is only that which keeps me safe."

From today's introduction to the next workbook lessons: "A miracle is a correction. It does not create, nor really change at all. It merely looks on devastation, and reminds the mind that what it sees is false." Today starts a ten-day study of "What is a Miracle?" The need to defend and attack cannot come from the reflection of God. Divine Love does not need to defend itself or fear anything, as it knows nothing of such things. The world we live in was made to hide the innocence which is our Being. Viewed through the miracle of forgiveness, we see a world different than one viewed through the eyes of revenge and retribution. I may see a dream of darkness, but Truth is light. You may be interested in reading more. If so, here is a link: http://acim.org/Lessons/lesson.html?lesson=341

Mary Baker Eddy quote:

"The miracle of grace is no miracle to Love."

Science & Health Page 494:15

May 15, 2014 - A Healed Mind

"Ancient Enigma"
sculpture by Ken Starbird

ACIM Workbook Lesson #135

"If I defend myself I am attacked."

There is so much to love in today's ACIM workbook lesson! A favorite point of mine is this: "A healed mind does not plan. It carries out the plans that it receives through listening to wisdom that is not its own. It waits until it has been taught what should be done, and then proceeds to do it." What freedom it is to realize we needn't be in charge of everything! Waking up in the morning, open to Spirit, God, allows us to be led in ways that wouldn't be obvious if we weren't listening. Of course, there are often parameters involved in our day, but that doesn't preclude our being open to thought about ways to think outside the box. Life is an adventure, and a harmonious one when we leave behind the desire to plan every moment of it!

Mary Baker Eddy quote:

"One says: 'I take good care of my body.' To do this, the pure and exalting influence of the divine Mind on the body is requisite, and the Christian Scientist takes the best care of his body when he leaves it most out of his thought ..."

Science & Health Page 383:5-9

January 23, 2012 - Peaceful harmony

ACIM workbook lesson #23:

"I can escape from the world I see by giving up attack thoughts."

(Here is a link to the entire commentary. I highly recommend its inclusion in your study.

http://acim.org/Lessons/lesson.html?lesson=23)

"Hawaii Sunrise" photo from
Aaron Springston

[Marsha's thoughts]

We hear talk of raising our vibrations, of activating our DNA strands, of various ways to remember our true Identity. All these effects are meant to lead us to an end result which is peaceful harmony, or to somehow take us back to the Cause of these effects. Could it be that all these ways from which we seek to attain "higher consciousness" can be realized from a giving up of attack thoughts? When we find ways of bridging the separation we have set up in our minds, will we then realize our Oneness and allow ourselves to get back to the garden from which we've never left? And so we practice today giving up attack thoughts in order to facilitate our realizations of this Oneness.  Attack thoughts are often obvious, but look out for the ones which wear a disguise! All thoughts which are not the emanation of God, Love, are attack thoughts. I Am the thought of God. Joy guides me in this realization!

Mary Baker Eddy quote:

"We reason imperfectly from effect to cause when we conclude that matter is the effect of Spirit, but a priori reasoning shows material existence to be enigmatical. Spirit gives the true mental idea. We cannot interpret Spirit, Mind, through matter. Matter neither sees, hears, nor feels. Reasoning from cause to effect in the Science of Mind, we begin with Mind, which must be understood through the idea which expresses it and cannot be learned from its opposite, matter. Thus we arrive at Truth, or intelligence, which evolves its own unerring idea and never can be coordinate with human illusions."

Science & Health Page 467:23-3