Wisdom at Your Fingertips
“My sinlessness protects me from all harm.” How does sinlessness guarantee protection from harm? Through the working of the mind. The mind translates its content into images you see in the world. Pure and loving thoughts result in images that speak of Purity and Love. Thoughts of doubt, grievance and judgment result in images that
“Forgiveness lets me know that minds are joined.” What happens when you forgive and let go of your grievances? Liberation happens! Liberation from attachment and identification with form. And then you will remember your true nature: creative quality on its way from Source into extension, one with all of Creation and glorious in experience. Forgiveness
“Today I claim the gifts forgiveness gives.” Restoration is the gift forgiveness gives, restoration to Inner Peace and tranquility and to the Joy of living life to the fullest. Whenever you do not feel restored, it means you are clinging to some grievance towards someone or some situation. A grievance is a misunderstanding, a misinterpretation,
“Father, my freedom is in You alone.” Your freedom is in aligning with Love, Joy, Patience, Peace, and so forth, for it sets you free from the shackles of distrust, enmity, grievance and the like. When you move in harmony with the creative flow you are like a funnel that allows the creative stream to
“God is the only goal I have today.” Today’s lesson starts by saying: The way to God is through forgiveness here. There is no other way. (W-pII.256.1:1) The shackles of unforgiveness are holding you down. The bonds of holding on to a grievance bind you, not the other person and the situation they are a
“Heaven is a decision I must make.“ It is not enough to decide to not want attack, grievance, depression, illness and misery, even though it is a required first step. You need to ask for inner guidance and consciously align with the flow of Creation as you feel Love, Joy, and Peace well up within
The two ideas for review today are: 71) “Only God’s plan for salvation will work.“ You may feel that the term “God’s plan” seems to point to something outside of you. But it is not outside of you. You are as God created you, you are Love created by Love. The so called plan is
The two ideas for review today are: 67) “Love created me like itself.“ 68) “Love holds no grievances.“ Love created you like itself, and since Love is not a body, you are not a body. Love extends and expands, but it is never a body. The Course explains that the body’s function is communication: to
“Let miracles replace all grievances.“ It is not like you have to evoke miracles somehow. They happen naturally all the time everywhere, for they are the natural way Creation expresses. When you allow your mind to occupy itself with holding a grievance, with worrying or with being depressed and so forth, you in fact allow
“Holding grievances is an attack on God’s plan for salvation.“ Let’s look at the various elements of this statement. A grievance is an expectation turned sour, a resentment. An attack is an attempt to harm. God’s plan for salvation is forgiveness, which is the release from attachment to the world’s images. Together: Resentment hardens the