Lesson 211: Review: “I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.” “I am the holy Son of God Himself.”
This lesson says, “In silence and true humility I seek God’s glory to behold it in the Son whom He created as my Self.”
This is a beautiful reminder that we can come with a quiet heart to sit with God.
The ego runs its narrative a million miles a minute and tries to string together some sense of self worth through telling stories about the drama in which our egos like to partake. The Course reminds us that our egos are always trying to fill what they think are big shoes, like somehow we have to become better than it appears we are. This is why the ego is so big on trying to sell itself to the outer world and all who inhabit it. The ego is of the opinion that it has nothing on which to found its self worth so the ego talks a big game.
The ego tries to make itself appear much bigger than the ego knows it is. The ego knows it is always in a mind of lack, where we have nothing to make ourselves acceptable and worthwhile. Therefore, the ego pretends that it does. The Course reminds us that we don’t have to rely on our ego to give us that sense of self worth.
God rather does this when we listen to God’s message in the Course that we are all completely worthy of being the children of God.
That means we don’t have to do anything but show up and be just that. We don’t have to speak or tell stories. This is always the ego tactic to feign it is substantial. But it never works because it is not based on any truth.
The Course teaches us that we can stay out of our thinking mind.