Thank God for Mark Twain and thank God for you Lisa! Communication IS the key! Without you and Mark Twain, this beautiful inspiration would be lost. Thank You for sharing!
It’s telling to me that both these review lessons have suggested prayers, I guess you could call them, that have *(name)* in them. Which tells me that there is something I need to input for these lessons to be actually realized by me.
A big part of the major confusion I had when I first got into the Course was to read its cool abstract ideas (and not just in the theoretical part, i.e. the Text, but in the WB as well) and decide I now knew what the meant. But I found out that that was like seeing pictures of Mt. Rushmore and thinking I knew what it was like to see Mt Rushmore.
The Course is notorious for giving titles to lessons that seem to say one thing but the text of the lesson points to another way of seeing/thinking entirely. Like in this lesson. The use of words “entitled” and let” seem to imply that I am owed miracles merely by ‘being’ and can passively allow miracles to replace grievances simply be entertaining these ideas.
My take is that the suggestions in the text of this lesson implies something quite different. It implies a much more concrete and particular through participation, another kind of action of mind. More than just knowing something, or observing or comprehending it, or even realizing its meaning. If my understanding is of, or about, something, it’s objective. No less an objectification than a califlower.
what stuck out for me while rereading Let miracles replace all grievances was..by this idea do I accept my release from hell, express my willingness to have all my illusions be replaced with truth, according to God’s plan for my salvation. i would make NO EXCEPTIONS and NO SUBSTITUTES. i want ALL of heaven and only heaven as God wills me to have it…the amazing course
“No less an objectification than a califlower.” I love it!!!!
Actually I feel more like an artichoke but I guess it is the same thing!
When a miracle happens it passes all understanding.
Then I go back to being an artichoke until the next one hits.
We are just training our minds to see the miracles everywhere.
Lisa says it best when she talks about practicing and applying each lesson exactly as you are instructed without expecting anything.
With each lesson I am peeling away the tough outer core, piece by piece until I reveal the soft heart that is within!
This is way too poetic for me.
Hi Al,
As long as you realize it IS poetic and not literal!
I agree, purposeful application is everything,
\but, for me, seeing miracles isn’t the point of ACIM any more than holding a hammer is the point of doing carpentry. A miracles is a tool. Of course I’ve been called a tool a few times, but I don’t think it was intended to mean the same thing.
As far as illusions being replaced, Pamela, if you walk 20 miles into the woods you have to walk 20 miles to get out. Now the miracle shortens the walk, but stopping in the woods, entertaining beautiful ideas, in my opinion, does not heal. Frankly I think it can be a delaying tactic. The literature of the world is full of beautiful ideas!
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Amen!
Thank God for Mark Twain and thank God for you Lisa! Communication IS the key! Without you and Mark Twain, this beautiful inspiration would be lost. Thank You for sharing!
It’s telling to me that both these review lessons have suggested prayers, I guess you could call them, that have *(name)* in them. Which tells me that there is something I need to input for these lessons to be actually realized by me.
A big part of the major confusion I had when I first got into the Course was to read its cool abstract ideas (and not just in the theoretical part, i.e. the Text, but in the WB as well) and decide I now knew what the meant. But I found out that that was like seeing pictures of Mt. Rushmore and thinking I knew what it was like to see Mt Rushmore.
The Course is notorious for giving titles to lessons that seem to say one thing but the text of the lesson points to another way of seeing/thinking entirely. Like in this lesson. The use of words “entitled” and let” seem to imply that I am owed miracles merely by ‘being’ and can passively allow miracles to replace grievances simply be entertaining these ideas.
My take is that the suggestions in the text of this lesson implies something quite different. It implies a much more concrete and particular through participation, another kind of action of mind. More than just knowing something, or observing or comprehending it, or even realizing its meaning. If my understanding is of, or about, something, it’s objective. No less an objectification than a califlower.
what stuck out for me while rereading Let miracles replace all grievances was..by this idea do I accept my release from hell, express my willingness to have all my illusions be replaced with truth, according to God’s plan for my salvation. i would make NO EXCEPTIONS and NO SUBSTITUTES. i want ALL of heaven and only heaven as God wills me to have it…the amazing course
“No less an objectification than a califlower.” I love it!!!!
Actually I feel more like an artichoke but I guess it is the same thing!
When a miracle happens it passes all understanding.
Then I go back to being an artichoke until the next one hits.
We are just training our minds to see the miracles everywhere.
Lisa says it best when she talks about practicing and applying each lesson exactly as you are instructed without expecting anything.
With each lesson I am peeling away the tough outer core, piece by piece until I reveal the soft heart that is within!
This is way too poetic for me.
it is not way too poetic for me, it is beautiful! thank you
Hi Al,
As long as you realize it IS poetic and not literal!
I agree, purposeful application is everything,
\but, for me, seeing miracles isn’t the point of ACIM any more than holding a hammer is the point of doing carpentry. A miracles is a tool. Of course I’ve been called a tool a few times, but I don’t think it was intended to mean the same thing.
As far as illusions being replaced, Pamela, if you walk 20 miles into the woods you have to walk 20 miles to get out. Now the miracle shortens the walk, but stopping in the woods, entertaining beautiful ideas, in my opinion, does not heal. Frankly I think it can be a delaying tactic. The literature of the world is full of beautiful ideas!