September 16, 2014 - Pure Eyes

photo by Aaron Springston

ACIM Workbook Lesson #259

“Let me remember that there is no sin.”

In these "remember" lessons, I have been making an effort to forgive myself the things I continue to feel guilty for and about. There are only a few, but they recur in thought like the moon making an orbit. Today while talking to a friend, she told me how it took her a long, long time to forgive someone who accused her of terrible things years ago. After we finished talking I wondered if we ever truly forgive as long as we remember the occurrence. I have a feeling that some day I won't remember these things I hold onto today, they will simply be gone from thought because God is "of purer eyes than to behold iniquity", and I'm a reflection of that perfection. 

Mary Baker Eddy quote:

“Question: Is there no sin?

Answer: All reality is in God and His creation, harmonious and eternal. That which He creates is good, and He makes all that is made. Therefore the only reality of sin, sickness, or death is

the awful fact that unrealities seem real to human, erring belief, until God strips off their disguise. They are not true, because they are not of God.”

Science & Health Page 472:23-30

September 16, 2011

ACIIM Lesson #259

“Let me remember that there is no sin.”

“Sin is the only thought that makes the goal of God seem unattainable. What else could blind us to the obvious, and make the strange and the distorted seem more clear? What else but sin engenders our attacks? What else but sin could be the source of guilt, demanding punishment and suffering? And what but sin could be the source of fear, obscuring God's creation; giving love the attributes of fear and of attack?”

[ACIM prayer for the day]
“Father, I would not be insane today. I would not be afraid of love, nor seek for refuge in its opposite. For love can have no opposite. You are the Source of everything there is. And everything that is remains with You, and You with it.”

"Olive Tree"
Charcoal by Susan DeRosa

[Marsha's thoughts]
How often we feel we've transgressed some material law and are being punished for it! I had a situation today where this seemed so. After completing a few hours of bookkeeping work on my little eBook, the elderly machine decided it couldn't stay turned on for more than a minute or so and also wouldn't connect to the internet. It seemed the completed work would have to be redone because there was no way to get it off the pitiful Linux-based system. To complete my punishment, I had been prompted to do this monthly chore for the first time on the iPad, but was in a rush and didn't want to try something new, so stuck with what was familiar, even though I had a "feeling" it should be done another way. I had allowed a separation in thought from God by not listening and following up on this inner prompt. Everything I needed to do was waiting for me to accept it, but egotistical knowing once again pushed the still, small voice aside. I again felt punished when thinking of the extra time and effort all this would entail. But instead of thinking of possibilities and time schedules, I quietly went about doing other things and after an hour or so it came to me to try again with a totally cooled down computer. And it stayed on for long enough to print the information to paper. I tell you all this to illustrate that when we totally surrender our plans, we are led in harmonious ways. Also, it's never too late to choose again and find solutions. This way of total Trust always takes us where we need to be in any situation.


Mary Baker Eddy quote:
“Question: Is there no sin?
Answer: All reality is in God and His creation, harmonious and eternal. That which He creates is good, and He makes all that is made. Therefore the only reality of sin, sickness, or death is the awful fact that unrealities seem real to human, erring belief, until God strips off their disguise. They are not true, because they are not of God.”
Science & Health Page 472:23-30