Blessed, healing community
Many friends have told me about a Course in Miracles, some telling that personal writings of mine touched on some of the key principles. I found these passages as ones I needed to hear, rehear and take home in my heart. I thought to share it with my healing community (from Student Workbook, Lesson 93):"
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"You think you are the home of evil, darkness and sin. You think if anyone could see the truth about you he would be repelled, recoiling from you as if from a poisonous snake. You think if what is true about you were revealed to you, you would be struck down with horror so intense that you would rush to death by your own hand, living on after seeing this being impossible ...
"You sinlessness is guaranteed by God. Over and over this must be repeated, until it is accepted. It is true. Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God. Nothing can touch it, or change what God created as eternal. The self you made, evil and full of sin, is meaningless. You sinlessness is guaranteed by God, and light and joy and peace abide in you...
"You are what God created or what you made. One Self is true: the other is not there. Try to experience the unity of your One Self. Try to appreciate Its holiness and the Love from Which It was created. Try not to interfere with the Self Which God created as you, by hiding Its majesty behind the tiny idols of evil and sinfulness you have made to replace It. Let It come into Its own. Here you are; This is You. And light and joy and peace abide in you because this is so."
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I guess the transformational part of these readings is that they dissemble beliefs I held for decades as *truths*, and exposed them as distortions: maddening perceptions that are not sinful, evil or bad in themselves (as I thought my identity), but patterns of perception badly in need of correction, restoration and clear-seeing.
I found in reading, in dariing to examine these *truths* how painful, disheartening and futile it is has been to identify mySelf with what the CIM calls 'the ego' or 'the tiny self' --; it seems the extent to which I claim this 'littleness' as my identify is the extent to which I am prohibited from manifesting and experiencing 'light and joy and peace' in my lives and the lives of those I encounter. And the course says that light, joy and peace are my true nature.
I am doing the Course exercises. I have had glimpses of the Holy Instant with a friend. I am ready to shed that which does not work; to release it for that which is, always has been and which is me in the most eternal aspect: the part of me no behavior, belief or barrier can destroy. I also am committing to not feed the illusion again, to supplant unworkable beliefs by no longer entertaining them and replacing them with honoring ones constructed by disciplined, repeated actions.
Blessings, light, peace to all.
Please send Reiki as well. I am in the midst of a geographical move to live closer to my children.
Peace,
Beau
