ACIM workbook lesson #80:
"Let me recognize my problems have been solved."
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[Marsha's thoughts]
The realization that there is only one problem, which is our seeming sense of separation, and that since it is impossible to be separated from our source our problem is already solved since it never existed in anyway other than belief, is such a freeing notion! It doesn't matter if the "problem" is one of a child who is making choices we feel sure will cause him and others pain and sadness, or if a sickness seems to hold us in its grip, or a financial struggle of some sort appears to be keeping us captive, all these maladies of sense are one and the same to the metaphysical principle which negates them. And that's what this lesson tells us today. This knowing that we're a reflection of God, actualized by our emanation as Life, Truth, Love, Spirit, Soul, Mind, Principle, lets us live with no limits in our human existence. In my lifetime, I've seen this divine principle work in so many ways. This seeing beyond the material picture to the spiritual truth allows us to live Truth rather than erroneous material belief. What a relief!
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
"It is ignorance and false belief, based on a material sense of things, which hide spiritual beauty and goodness. Understanding this, Paul said, 'Neither death, nor life, ... nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God.'
This is the doctrine of Christian Science:that divine Love cannot be deprived of its
manifestation, or object; that joy cannot be turned into sorrow, for sorrow is not the master of joy; that good can never produce evil; that matter can never produce mind nor life result in death. The perfect man -- governed by God, his perfect Principle -- is sinless and eternal.
Harmony is produced by its Principle, is controlled by it and abides with it. Divine Principle is the Life of man. Man's happiness is not, therefore, at the disposal of physical sense. Truth is not contaminated by error. Harmony in man is as beautiful as in music, and discord
is unnatural, unreal."
Science & Health Page 304:3-21
