Lesson 171: Review: “God is but Love, and therefore so am I.” “All things are but echoes for the Voice for God.” “The power of decision is my own.” All experiences in the world are simply ways for us to get to God. The Course says that everything is...
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ACIM Lesson 170
Lesson 170: “There is no cruelty in God and none in me.” Gone are the days with the strict head master at school who raps our knuckles fiercely with a ruler to discipline us. He has his own definition of justice. The world and the ego are apt...
ACIM Lesson 169
Lesson 169: “By grace I live. By grace I am released.” The Course teaches us how to live in grace via our serenity. We want to give God permission to be the one Who allows us to be in this state of serenity. We want God be the...
ACIM Lesson 167
Lesson 168: “Your grace is given me. I claim it now.” God is not at all bossy. The Course teaches us how to understand that God never wants to be in the position of controlling us. Our need for control is always, always always an ego device. Control is...
ACIM Lesson 166
Lesson 166: “I am entrusted with the gifts of God.” This lesson says, “How could you then proclaim your poverty in exile?” This sentence gets right to the essence of the Course’s message. It is asking us a question. The Course teaches us to get into a questioning outlook, to...
ACIM Lesson 165
Lesson 165: “Let not my mind deny the thought of God.” The Course teaches how powerful is our sense of denial. When we deny something we are acting like it is not true. Denial is strong in that when we deny something we make it unreal. It becomes as...
ACIM Lesson 164
Lesson 164: “Now we are one with Him Who is our Source.” We are learning to undo our internal resistance. We all start with an innocence about us that is unchangeable. That means we always are perfect exactly as we are. There is nothing wrong with time or...
ACIM Lesson 163
Lesson 163: “There is no death. The Son of God is free.” The world’s version of our death is that it is final. We hear all the time in the human realm that death is the last part of our lives because it is when we terminate our experience...
ACIM Lesson 162
Lesson 162: “I am as God created me.” The Course is teaching us how to have a relationship with ourselves. The ego is entirely false. Therefore, the ego’s perception of how we are is totally false. This then blocks our awareness of how we are in truth. God deems...
ACIM Lesson 161
Lesson 161: “Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.” This lesson says, “”One brother is all brothers. Every mind contains all minds, for every mind is one.” The Course includes all of us in the reference to “Son of God.” When the Course says Son this includes...