ACIM Workbook Lesson 179 – for Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Affirmation: “God is but Love, and therefore so am I.”
“1. There is one life, and that I share with God.
“2. Your grace is given me. I claim it now. (WB334)”
Reflections:
We are One with God, oft repeated in this blog. This goes against some traditional Christian teaching that the earth and all in it are God’s handiwork, and that He stands apart from His handiwork. But the latest revelations, including A Course in Miracles, does state that God is One with us. Our life is His; He is experiencing Himself through us. These ideas are developed at some length by Neale Donale Walsch in his Conversations with God series.
We need only ask for God’s grace to receive it. He wants to give grace to us. Grace is the truth of forgiveness, but God does not forgive, because He does not perceive that we have ever sinned (a Text tenet). God does not need to forgive, but we do. This is a principal tenet of A Course in Miracles. When we have traveled far enough along the pathway, we will know that there is actually nothing to forgive, but most of us have not traveled that far yet.
Grace is a great boon that need only to be claimed to be our own. We will know God’s love for us when we accept the grace that He so willingly holds out to us.
Prayer:
Dear Father/Mother,
I would ask for Your grace today. This is the mercy that You extend to us all the time, but our eyes are frequently blind to it. I would not be blind today. Help me to live always in Your presence. Give me Your peace, along with the will to follow what You would have me say and do. Help me to be kind to those whom I encounter.
Your grace is partially a mystery to me, but I know that You can open my eyes to all that You mean by “grace.” Help me to comprehend more today, with my spirit as well as my mind. I would not follow the ego’s raucous calls today.
Amen.
MIRACLES EACH DAY 