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...
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ACIM Lesson 166
Laurie Prez, , Laurie's Course In Miracles Workbook Reflections, Godless thinking makes inner poverty, Punctuate with light, Questioning outlook makes us teachable, 1
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
Laurie Prez, , Laurie's Course In Miracles Workbook Reflections, Deny falsehoods, God is eternal, God's back up plan, 2
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
Laurie Prez, , Laurie's Course In Miracles Workbook Reflections, Ego likes extremes, Forgive ourselves, Forgive the world, Undoing internal resistance, 1
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
Laurie Prez, , Laurie's Course In Miracles Workbook Reflections, Death's being unreal releases our attachment, Fear of death, Forgive our fears, 0
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 161
Laurie Prez, , Laurie's Course In Miracles Workbook Reflections, Body is neutral, Forgive the Course's imperfections, Use body for God's Will, 0
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...
ACIM Lesson 160
Laurie Prez, , Laurie's Course In Miracles Workbook Reflections, Denial of fear thoughts, Loving thoughts may appear as such, Processing fear with God, 0
Lesson 160: “I am at home. Fear is the stranger here.” The Course teaches us to be comfortable in our own skin. The ego is used to being in conflict within. When we are not aligned we end up with attack energy within us; and then we are never...
ACIM Lesson 159
Laurie Prez, , Laurie's Course In Miracles Workbook Reflections, Form is unreal, Miracle is shift in consciousness, Miracles ordinary, 0
Lesson 159: “I give the miracles I have received.” The Course reminds us to feel grateful for our receiving miracles. But we don’t have to feel like they are something out of the ordinary. The gift of the miracle, the shift in consciousness, should happen all the time, as...
ACIM Lesson 158
Laurie Prez, , Laurie's Course In Miracles Workbook Reflections, God given blazing path, God has perfect plan, God's plan is accomplished, Time is set, 0
Lesson 158: “Today I learn to give as I receive.” This lesson says, “The time is set already.” The Course teaches us to understand time and our our functioning here in a different way. Jesus says that time is not real in truth and so we need to loosen...
ACIM Lesson 157
Laurie Prez, , Laurie's Course In Miracles Workbook Reflections, Big Picture, Language is imperfect, Presence of God, Silence with God, 0
Lesson 157: “Into His Presence would I enter now.” The Course teaches us how to listen to God. We also learn from perusing the book- the text and workbook how to think in ways that are harmonious. We learn how to choose our thinking and we can continue to...