“No risk is possible throughout the day except to put your trust in magic, for it is only this that leads to pain. ‘There is no will but God’s.’ His teachers know that this is so, and have learned that everything but this is magic. (M-16.11)”
Affirmation: “I would avoid pain today.”
Reflections:
1 – Definitions of “Magic”
Magic is sometimes used in quite a different way, with quite a different definition. Jesus means “magical thinking,” which is an attempt to turn error to truth, and this is always a doomed prospect. Magic, for us, sometimes means good things. These are simply two different dictionary definitions.
2 – Error
We would not try to turn error, falsehood, into truth. We would not turn from our dependence on God, the Holy Spirit, Jesus (and his helpers) to a dubious solution to our problems that is doomed form the start. We will be free of risk if we depend upon the true and that which has value. And our way is A Course in Miracles, which will prove its value to us if tested. (And we are not discouraged from testing, though this is an interpretation not stated in ACIM.)
3 – Give Our Way over to God’s Way
We would avoid pain today. And to do so we must not attempt to get our way to be God’s. He may think very differently from what our sometimes ego-oriented mind may direct. We are not beyond the temptations of the ego. The ego will not be destroyed; it will just cease to matter to us. And we must not make the mistake of “resisting” the ego, for in resistance the ego is made strong. In conflict the ego is made strong as well (an ACIM tenet). We just quietly turn inward, and all will be well.
4 – Attraction
I worry sometimes that relatively new ideas circulating in our world, the manner of “attraction” as a way to get what one wants. Is this really wise? Perhaps we ought to be certain, through much inward consultation, if what we are trying to attract is actually in our best interests. And only God and the Holy Spirit (His Communicator) can tell us that..
Prayer:
Dear Father/Mother,
May I avoid pain today, by seeking Your way exclusively. I will try to be patient as You lead me to attract those things that are in my best interests. Thank You for Jesus’s wise words, his healing of disease and illness, and his calm presence. We may have Jesus with us when we don’t even realize this. He has said that he would come in response to one “unequivocal call.” I make that call now.
Be with us as we seek to attract only what is in our best interests. We need the guidance of the Holy Spirit or the Christ within. Otherwise, what we attract will turn to ashes and dust in our hands.
Be with us. I can think of no more needful prayer for today than this.
Thank You for answering me.
Amen.
MIRACLES EACH DAY 