Quiet Recognition

ACIM Workbook Lesson 37 – for Sunday, February 6, 2011

Affirmation:  “My holiness blesses the world.”

Selected Passage:

“Your holiness is the salvation of the world.  It lets you teach the world that it is one with you, not by preaching to it, not by telling it anything, but merely by your quiet recognition that in your holiness are all things blessed along with you.  (WB56)”

Reflections:

“Holiness” is a concept that we are hesitant to apply to ourselves, because we are so prone to see our failings.  But nothing that God created is not good, and He created us.  The Text says that often we tend to forget this in our more arrogant moments.  We cannot change reality, though, in any actual way because God is the creator of the real world.  The only thing that we have ever made (not created) is illusions.

When we are quiet, we are closer to God.  This passage asks us to feel that truth.  “[B]y your quiet recognition” is a potent statement.  We must turn to God to see rightly.  We must turn to God to ask that our egos wither away.  Only in holiness do we see rightly.  And only in holiness are we absolutely quiet.

We do not have to proselytize.  We merely need to “be” in the world.  Our being alone, when informed by the guidance of the Holy Spirit, will transform the world.  This does not mean that we will do nothing to correct injustice, but just that we will do nothing before hearing the best guidance about what to do.  We cannot choose our own miracles.  Jesus says in the early pages of the Text that consciously selected miracles are misguided.  We must be willing to be used by the Holy Spirit toward the end that He directs.

Then we will not act amiss.

Prayer:

Dear Father/Mother,

Please help me to be, first of all, and then to do in accordance with Your guidance.  Help me today to be calm and quiet, feeling your presence as I go about my regular routine.  On this Sunday help me to remember You.

May my thoughts be in accord with the Holy Spirit, and may my actions reflect only love in its highest form.

Amen.

Posted by Celia Hales on February 5, 2011

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