Wisdom at Your Fingertips
The following statements are given for review: “God is but Love, and therefore so am I.” 151) “All things are echoes of the Voice for God.” “God is but Love, and therefore so am I.” 152) “The power of decision is my own.” “God is but Love, and therefore so am I.” The Course teaches
“There is no cruelty in God and none in me.” There is no cruelty in anyone. There is only perceiving under the spell of a misunderstanding that cries for release. Responding within the framework of a misunderstanding solidifies it in your experience. That is why today’s text says: “You make what you defend against, and
“By grace I live. By grace I am released.” Forgiveness is something you can decide to do or not. Grace, on the other hand, happens; it is what you enter into when you have forgiven. We have explained forgiveness as the setting free of self, of others and of situations from the constraints of mistaken
“Your grace is given me. I claim it now.” According to today’s lesson “His grace is yours by your acknowledgment” (W-pI.169.2:4). Grace is omnipresent, but in order to experience it, it needs to be acknowledged first. Just like you could not fully experience the joys of a day at the beach when you stay focused
“There is one life, and that I share with God.” You share in the aliveness of Life. You are aliveness itself. Life does not have compartments with on one end exuberance and zest, and on the other end indifference, cynicism and despair. Life is Beauty, Freedom, Joy, Love and Peace happening. Anything else signals a
“I am entrusted with the gifts of God.” Not only are you entrusted with the gifts of God, the gifts of God are who you are. You yourself are the gift. You are Love in expression, Joy in becoming, Peace in expanding, Freedom in extending. Your focus on these qualities, which are your own, which
“Let not my mind deny the Thought of God.” This is another way of saying: Let me not focus away from the fullness of Creation. Creation’s dynamic is always available and accessible, even in the direst of circumstances. The thought of God is the sparkling idea that is Creation: Love that you can attune to
“Now are we one with Him Who is our Source.” Oneness is your state, your true nature. You are far more than the limited little self you hold yourself to be, looking at the images in the world through your physical eyes. Neither your body nor the images your eyes behold can begin to give
“There is no death. The Son of God is free.” The Son of God is a sparkling idea, the idea of Creation in extension. Death on the other hand, is a flat thought. When you narrow your focus to a certain form or outcome, your view of the full dynamics of Creation diminishes. The discrepancy
“I am as God created me.” You were created Loving, Peaceful, Joyful, Free, Playful, One with and connected to All that is. Any notion of yourself that is of lesser quality is a misunderstanding. Any perception of someone else or of some circumstance that is of lesser quality is a projection, a signal alerting you