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A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson #311
“I judge all things as I would have them be.”
I write this on the eve of a day of decisions for the people of the United States of America. I don't know who our president will be when we read this in the morning. And I don't care. Please don't take this to mean I haven't had my preferences based on numerous policies and choices which these candidates have told us they will enact or uphold. But I have never understood why we should have two or more political parties if everyone is for the good of all. This shift in consciousness we are incorporating into our lives on a moment-by-moment basis through these and other teachings -- these ideas which are showing us the truth of what we are -- this is all that matters. As with events in our daily lives, it is impossible to make a set of rules and follow them no matter what. We must have the flexibility to change and evolve in thought as circumstances unfold before us. We have come to believe we must have rules to protect ourselves from numerous forces. In the realization that there is only one force, one omniscient, omnipresent God, we are acknowledging and recognizing our Oneness. This unfoldment can take many faces, but if we're only expressing the Love that is God, there is nothing other than peace, justice, the innate goodness which we truly are, being expressed in every action -- for the Good of All.
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
“One infinite God, good, unifies men and nations; constitutes the brotherhood of man; ends wars; fulfils the Scripture, 'Love thy neighbor as thyself;' annihilates pagan and Christian idolatry,--whatever is wrong in social, civil, criminal, political, and religious codes; equalizes the sexes; annuls the curse on man, and leaves nothing that can sin, suffer, be punished or destroyed.”
Science & Health Page 340: 23-29
