ACIM Workbook lesson #142:
Review of :
#123 "I thank my Father for His gifts to me."
#124 "Let me remember I am one with God."
And our main thought to hold in these review lessons:
"My mind holds only what I think with God."
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| "No Baggage" photo by Aaron Springston |
There is someone I like very much whom I've heard ugly stories about. It doesn't matter how much I try to put these tales away from thought, they come back every time I see or think of her. Why do I think of that first, before all the wonderful times we've shared together and the stimulating conversations we've had? That's mortal mind ruling again! It took me a while to really understand the quote which I paraphrase here: "That which I don't want, I do; that which I do want, I don't." But it seems to pertain to just about everything, doesn't it? When I think about this woman's supposed deeds, I don't want to give them any credence, but there they are, wiggling into being, time and again. But isn't this what we're studying? The thought we're holding to throughout these lesson reviews certainly pertains to my situation. Does Love see this woman as subject to bouts of mean-spirited behavior? Wouldn't this behavior be the lie about her and not her true Being? Isn't this gift from God which we talk of today the ability to think and be as God is? We have the God-given right to be pure in every thought and deed. This is our Oneness demonstrated; our gift from God. And I feel sure this woman is not the only person or thing which causes a knee-jerk reaction in my thinking. So I'll notice that today. And I won't simply tell myself that I shouldn't think like that, but I'll gently correct myself, turning thought to the Truth which shows her to be the pure reflection of Love, too. In seeing her as such, I won't blame myself for actions which may be mirroring hers. My reaction toward her will not bring me feelings of guilt, only acknowledgement that I'm giving power to error, and that's not what my mind holds when thinking with God. As Mary Baker Eddy posits, before we decided on a false sense of things, perhaps we heard impressions of Truth as easily as we hear musical tones. Let's listen for them together today.
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
“Before human knowledge dipped to its depths into a false sense of things,--into belief in material origins which discard the one Mind and true source of being,-- it is possible that the impressions from Truth were as distinct as sound, and that they came as sound to the primitive prophets. If the medium of hearing is wholly spiritual, it is normal and indestructible.”
Science & Health Page 213: 30-4
