A Course in Miracles Lesson #155
“I will step back and let Him lead the way.”
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| "Gobbler's Knob" photo by Aaron Springston |
As witnessed by the popularity of Harry Potter and other fictional characters, we love to explore the magical and mystical! Most everyone, including myself, has been enchanted by stories involving extraordinary powers. Could it be we feel very close to demonstrating many of these things for ourselves? Aren't we all realizing abilities which could be interpreted as otherworldly? Mrs. Eddy referred to this as supremely natural, not supernatural. As we begin to understand our nature as reflections of God, we also start to see how material principles have limited us. These long-accepted principles are taking on a transparency in the light of Truth. Our burgeoning understanding of the one Principle is setting us free from the bonds of mortal laws. Through our acceptance of a basis which is all-inclusive, it becomes unnecessary to analyze each and every thing we encounter. There is no need for counting calories, or weighing our options in making decisions, nor worrying over the actions of others. Acceptance of ourselves as God's image and likeness allows an expansiveness to develop which includes an innate knowing of what to do in any given situation. When I "step back" from my planning and worry, I can witness the guidance which is always governing me. Everyday I hear people marveling at the serendipitous occurrences in their lives. We are all experiencing this shift in perception of reality. Today I accept my spiritual sense of Being as a natural, normal expression of consciousness. I embrace it with joyous acknowledgement of its divine origin, translated through me.
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
“Spiritual sense, contradicting the material senses, involves intuition, hope, faith, understanding, fruition, reality. Material sense expresses the belief that mind is in matter. This human belief, alternating between a sense of pleasure and pain, hope and fear, life and death, never reaches beyond the boundary of the mortal or the unreal. When the real is attained, which is announced by Science, joy is no longer a trembler, nor is hope a cheat. Spiritual ideas, like numbers and notes, start from Principle, and admit no materialistic beliefs. Spiritual ideas lead up to their divine origin, God, and to the spiritual sense of being.”
Science & Health Page 298:13-24
