Comments on: Great letter from someone practicing & applying A Course in Miracles http://gorgeousforgod.com/2008/03/30/great-letter-from-someone-practicing-applying-a-course-in-miracles/ Inspiration - Healing - Transformation - A Course in Miracles Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:12:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Carol Wise http://gorgeousforgod.com/2008/03/30/great-letter-from-someone-practicing-applying-a-course-in-miracles/comment-page-1/#comment-730 Carol Wise Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:17:15 +0000 http://gorgeousforgod.com/?p=282#comment-730 As a student of ACIM, I am always amazed when I pay attention and NOTICE the miracles in my life. Perfect example: My husband and I took our new puppy and cat for our maiden voyage in our 5th wheel this past 5 days. While we were crazed because the cat and dog are getting to know each other and we continually had to move one animal to a different room .... and all the necessary paraphenalia, we wound up looking for a house in Grand Junction, CO. We have always wanted to retire there..and wouldn't you know we found one! We signed the contract on faith, because we have to sell our house as well in the Denver Suburbs. The miracle was that I stopped criticizing myself for how I was doing or not doing ACIM. We get home and realized..."Oh, NO" we've made a mistake. Then my husband gets a call from a company whose pilot retired in Grand Junction...a definite miracle. We do not know what is going to happen but I have asked the Holy Spirit to guide our way through this. My husband does not read ACIM, but everyday I say to him..."Miracles do happen you know!" And they have been showing up regularly! Thanks Lisa, for all of your love, it helps "center" me and get me back on track when I feel I have "lost my way!" Love, Carol As a student of ACIM, I am always amazed when I pay attention and NOTICE the miracles in my life. Perfect example: My husband and I took our new puppy and cat for our maiden voyage in our 5th wheel this past 5 days. While we were crazed because the cat and dog are getting to know each other and we continually had to move one animal to a different room …. and all the necessary paraphenalia, we wound up looking for a house in Grand Junction, CO. We have always wanted to retire there..and wouldn’t you know we found one! We signed the contract on faith, because we have to sell our house as well in the Denver Suburbs. The miracle was that I stopped criticizing myself for how I was doing or not doing ACIM. We get home and realized…”Oh, NO” we’ve made a mistake. Then my husband gets a call from a company whose pilot retired in Grand Junction…a definite miracle. We do not know what is going to happen but I have asked the Holy Spirit to guide our way through this. My husband does not read ACIM, but everyday I say to him…”Miracles do happen you know!” And they have been showing up regularly!

Thanks Lisa, for all of your love, it helps “center” me and get me back on track when I feel I have “lost my way!”

Love,

Carol

]]> By: EJ http://gorgeousforgod.com/2008/03/30/great-letter-from-someone-practicing-applying-a-course-in-miracles/comment-page-1/#comment-716 EJ Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:39:56 +0000 http://gorgeousforgod.com/?p=282#comment-716 One of the paradoxes of this kind of work for me was figuring out how thought works. If I do choose my thoughts, I would have to had thought them already, otherwise, if there were no thoughts yet, how could choose them? On the other hand, if we really can only have one thought at a time, how can there be thoughts to choose from, plus the thought of a choice. Questioning this kinda stuff, after I gave the WB it's year of application, helped me to understand the illusory nature of the ego thought system and the world and laws it makes, the "overness" of time, and the fact that all my thinking and therefore seeing/experiencing the separation are mindless effects of one tiny mad, impossible idea. That the very structure of self and the world cannot stand up to a reasonable inquirey instigated by ACIM. That awakening is a piecemeal, dream undoing of a dream. That I have to make choices and decisions to 'get out" BECAUSE I made up choice and decision "to get in" in the first place. I mean, hello, if reality is singular and changeless, what sort of decision or choice could there be? One of the paradoxes of this kind of work for me was figuring out how thought works.
If I do choose my thoughts, I would have to had thought them already, otherwise, if there were no thoughts yet, how could choose them?

On the other hand, if we really can only have one thought at a time, how can there be thoughts to choose from, plus the thought of a choice.

Questioning this kinda stuff, after I gave the WB it’s year of application, helped me to understand the illusory nature of the ego thought system and the world and laws it makes, the “overness” of time, and the fact that all my thinking and therefore seeing/experiencing the separation are mindless effects of one tiny mad, impossible idea. That the very structure of self and the world cannot stand up to a reasonable inquirey instigated by ACIM. That awakening is a piecemeal, dream undoing of a dream. That I have to make choices and decisions to ‘get out” BECAUSE I made up choice and decision “to get in” in the first place.

I mean, hello, if reality is singular and changeless, what sort of decision or choice could there be?

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