Lesson 141: “Review: “My mind holds only what I think with God.” “Forgiveness is the key to happiness.” “Forgiveness offers everything I want.” Forgiveness is the key to happiness and we need to start with forgiveness first. Happiness may seem like an easy task because it seems like one...
Archive for month: May, 2017
ACIM Lesson 140
Lesson 140: “Only salvation can be said to cure.” This lesson says, “Atonement does not heal the sick, for that is not a cure. It takes away the guilt that makes sickness possible.” Our guilt is the most fundamental problem. Guilt is so rampant, we feel it on some...
ACIM Lesson 139
Lesson 139: “I will accept Atonement for myself.” This lesson says, “This does Atonement teach, and demonstrates the oneness of God’s Son is unassailed by his belief he knows not what he is.” To “assail” is to disturb. This sentence means that there is nothing that can interfere...
ACIM Lesson 138
Lesson 138: “Heaven is a decision I must make.” This lesson says, “Of all the choices you have tried to make this is the simplest, most definitive and prototype of all the rest, the one which settles all decisions.” We get the great news from the Course that we...
ACIM Lesson 137
Lesson 137: “When I am healed, I am not healed alone.” This lesson says, “Just as forgiveness overlooks all sins that never were accomplished, healing but removes illusions that have not occurred.” When we accept our sinful nature, then we make it real. When we think we are making...
ACIM Lesson 136
Lesson 136: “Sickness is a defense against the truth.” This lesson says, “Defenses are plans to defeat what cannot be attacked.” The ego has a totally false belief that the body is real and therefore, is capable of creating sickness. The Course says that sickness is only a belief...
ACIM Lesson 121
Lesson 121 “Forgiveness is the key to happiness.” This lesson says, “An unforgiving mind sees no mistakes, but only sins.” The Course teaches us to be open to interpretation. Part of the problem we have is simply allowing for the possibility that things can be any other than they...