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A Course in Miracles Lesson #155
“I will step back and let Him lead the way.”
Our burgeoning understanding of the one Principle is setting us free from the bonds of mortal laws. And yet sometimes it seems as though we're back to baby steps, faltering over the simplest of decisions and becoming fearful of all the what-ifs. At times like this, we tend to say we're having a bad day. I often laugh when people tell me this, observing that the day has nothing to do with it; it's our perception of events. Well, I've had a difficult day today. That's the way I took it. It seems that once something goes awry, our little self starts to expect more of the same. And so we get it. But acceptance of myself as God's image and likeness allows me to step back from the planning and worry which can so easily become habitual. I don't like the choices I made today, so tomorrow I'll choose again!
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
