Showing posts with label Working Out Salvation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Working Out Salvation. Show all posts

Thursday, August 18, 2016

What Else, Indeed!

photo credit: Randal Thompson
ACIM Workbook Lesson #231
“Father, I will but to remember You.

Today we begin a series of lessons which fall under the overview, “What is Salvation?”. One phrase which hit me where I live is: "Salvation is undoing in the sense that it does nothing, failing to support the world of dreams and malice.” I pause to contemplate why it is such a difficult task to release the past. We apparently love to support illusions rather than allowing them to disappear into the ethers. Tonight I ask myself: Do I really believe the story I’ve made up for myself? Why do I believe it to be true, rather than an illusive belief I’m holding on to? Must it always come back to cause pain and fear and sorrow, or can I really, truly allow eternity to reign supreme over limited storytelling? We are asked in the last sentence of Lesson 21: “What else could I desire but the truth about myself?” What else, indeed!! 


Mary Baker Eddy quote: “Man should renew his energies and endeavors, and see the folly of hypocrisy, while also learning the necessity of working out his own salvation.” Page 426:13-15 Science & Health with Key to the Scriptures

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