ACIM Workbook Lesson 33 – for Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Affirmation: “There is another way of looking at the world.”
Selected Passage:
“Merely glance casually around the world you perceive as outside yourself, then close your eyes and survey your inner thoughts with equal casualness. Try to remain equally uninvolved in both, and to maintain this detachment as you repeat the idea throughout the day. (WB50)”
Reflections:
The affirmation for today will, in a practical sense, reinforce what we have been reading on previous days. It will lead to seeing a better world. But saying the affirmation often is imperative; changing the mind to conform to the real world takes practice. It does not take effort in a stressful sense, but practice can be done that is both stress-free as well as joyful.
“Casualness” implies ease of effort, and the passage uses a form of this term twice. The repetition shows its importance. We look about our world, within and without, and we sustain a moment of detachment that assures us that, regardless of what we “see,” we can improve what we see through our own choice. This choice is strictly in line with the guidance that the Holy Spirit would give us.
By now, we have seen the value of “doing” the Workbook. We also do not have wholly untrained minds in this, the second month. We can recall the directive to say the affirmation repeatedly throughout the day, and we will be the better for it.
Prayer:
Dear Father/Mother,
Please help be, throughout the day, to survey my inner and outer worlds with casualness. This is easeful, not effortful. Much can be accomplished today toward saving time in our journey through this world.
Be with me today so that I do not forget to practice the Workbook. Thank You for making it so easy a task. Salvation can indeed seem almost effortless. We need to study and to learn the way Home, but we do not have to make these activities in salvation a difficult task.
Amen.
