ACIM workbook lesson #39:
"My holiness is my salvation."
For you who are occasional readers of the workbook lessons, today would be a good time !
As is stated in this day's lesson, "No one needs practice to gain what is already his." It seems difficult to forget the materialism that is so engrained in our daily lives. In remembering that those illusionary teachings are the only thing hiding our True Selves, we needn't concentrate on forgetting these beliefs, but on remembering our wholeness! An instance came up today where I had a chance to see something differently. One of the Catch-22s of life in our tourist town is that many shopkeepers are not open in the winter. We don't get enough tourists to stay open, is the logic. But perhaps we don't get enough tourists because not enough of us are open. My fill-in shopkeeper tells me that a woman called to ask if we'd be open on a certain day in March. When she was told that we would, she said that we were the first positive response she'd gotten from the few she had called. My by-rote response would have been a complaint against others. But I stopped and thought about how I could respond from my holiness. What I saw was the whole town as vibrant and joyful, whole and free. Seeing everything in its spiritual signification leaves no room for missing pieces or lack of any kind. Where there is no blame, there is no guilt. No guilt equals salvation!
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
“Who would stand before a blackboard, and pray the principle of mathematics to solve the problem? The rule is already established, and it is our task to work out the solution. Shall we ask the divine Principle of all goodness to do His own work? His work is done, and we have only to avail ourselves of God's rule in order to receive His blessing, which enables us to work out our own salvation.”
Science & Health Page 3:4-11
