Lesson 71: “Only God’s plan for salvation will work.” The Course is giving us a direct route to salvation. It is giving us the direct route to our inner peace. We are learning to do something that works. We are learning to choose a reality that works. This means...
Archive for month: March, 2016
Laurie’s Reflections
Lesson 70: “My salvation comes from me.” What draws me so completely to the Course is its gentle message. It doesn’t thrash us on the backside or shock our system into complying. God is not trying to get us on His side because that somehow makes His life better-...
Laurie’s Reflections
Lesson 69: “My grievances hide the light of the world in me.” ♠We are permanently worthy. ♥The amazing thing is that nothing whatsoever can change who we are, reassigning us into people who don’t belong to the pool of extraordinary chosen ones who live as testaments to God’s will. ...
Laurie’s Reflections
Lesson 68: “Love holds no grievances.” We are learning from the Course that we so frequently hold some amount of grievance in our relating to every one. We have this habit of finding fault, we judge what we see. Our egos make a big stink about these every little...
Laurie’s Reflections
Lesson 67: “Love created me like Itself.” Jesus teaches us how to see only the good about ourselves. We are learning that God is the reason we can claim about ourselves to be only the perfect and whole. We are learning to get good at changing our minds about...
Laurie’s Reflections
Lesson 66: “My happiness and my function are one.” The Course teaches us that our happiness is the most important thing we can do. We are fully influenced to believe in the world that saving the starving babies in Africa is the most important part of our living. Or...
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Lesson 65: “My only function is the one God gave me.” The Course reminds us that we need to be clear about what our will is. We may hear over and over about the same concepts. This is on purpose, so we get to a place where the realization...
Laurie’s Reflections
Lesson 64: “Let me not forget my function.” This lesson says, “Let me not try to substitute mine for God’s.” In the world we find ourselves in this crazy mess; we as egos in some ways end up getting resentful about God wanting us to do things His...
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Lesson 63: “The light of the world brings peace to every mind through my forgiveness.” What is extraordinary about the Course’s teaching is that we are the cause of everyone’s salvation. We have the power to bring peace and joy and give people exactly what they experience as the...
Laurie’s Reflections
Lesson 62: “Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.” We learn that forgiveness is entirely different from what we thought before. The world regards forgiveness as the feeling with the lead weight attached. Forgiveness feels like such a burden because it is very difficult to do...