“Miracles are seen in light, and light and strength are one.”
Light = Strength
Darkness = Weakness
This is a great lesson. “You think seeing is tied up with the body and its eyes and brain.”
LOL.
“You believe the body’s brain can think.”
I’m not an LOL kind of person but it is totally appropriate here. LOL. Lots of Laughs. It’s so funny, once you know that you are the Mind of God. You will laugh out loud that you ever thought your eyes could see or that your ears could hear or that your brain could think.
You, as God created you, are purely Mind, wholly Mind. You are not a body. You are the Mind of God. You are entirely creative. You are forever pure. There is no lack. You have total understanding. Complete knowledge. All power with God’s strength supporting you.
Knowing this, you would stop investing in your body’s limited abilities to see, hear and think. The body cannot do any of these things. You are a mind. You are spirit. You are light. This needs continual repeating until you know it as fact and truth.
“It is your weakness that sees through the body’s eyes.”
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Can you see this? Can you hear what this is saying? It’s outstanding. When you are using the body’s eyes to see, you are using weakness. The body’s eyes can only show you falsity. They can only show you form, which is meaningless and will deceive you every time. You will believe other people are doing things to you. And this is lies, lies, lies.
No one is doing anything to you. Nothing at all is happening.
While you think bodies (your own and others) are doing things in the world you are actually sound asleep, with your eyes open, believing that what you see is real.
You need to get into the habit of using Christ vision to see beyond the body, to see what is truly there. You start training yourself to see the spark in every person, to see the light in everything. You look past form. This takes great practicing, perseverance and dedication. The body’s eyes will fail you every time. You must train yourself to see with Christ vision.
What does this mean? It means that when your brother is acting out, attacking you, in confusion, doing whatever he is doing … YOU … THE SAVIOR … are asked to see beyond his actions. You look beyond the form. You relate only to that which is eternal and changeless, to the love that is there.
Often times, it is only a spark … the tiniest dimmest spark, barely noticeable.
And often, your brother does not know any better. He acts out of fear, and that’s not your concern. You don’t have to change him. You don’t have to instruct him. He does not need to hear concepts from A Course in Miracles. Why? Because he’s not even there!!! This is amazing. He’s simply an idea in your mind.
That person out there who is driving your crazy or who is pushing you away is you. So you don’t have to change him or her. You simply have to change your mind about the situation. You need to learn to see things differently.
Welcome to the practice of A Course in Miracles.
Welcome to Christ vision.
Here is where you start relating to everything as ENERGY, as LIGHT, as ETERNAL, as CHANGELESS, as SPIRIT, as MIND.
The body’s eyes will continually show you form. As far as I know, that will never change. My job is not to change the form. My job is to see the perfection in my brother and to relate only to that.
“To demonstrate that I am not an ego. I am a channel for God.”
Strength = the truth about you
Weakness = an idol falsely worshipped and adored that strength my be dispelled, and darkness rule where God appointed there should be light.
Amazing.
“Weakness cannot see a purpose in forgiveness and in love. It sees all others different from itself, and nothing in the world that it would share. It judges and condemns but does not love. It fears and attacks and hates itself and darkness covers everything it sees.”
ON THE OTHER HAND:
“The light of strength is constant, sure as love, forever glad to give itself away, because it cannot give but to itself.”
So do you see? You have a choice to make. You are either relating from your own weakness (judging others, condemning, correcting others behavior) OR you are relating from the strength of God (extending love, staying in a state of appreciation and gratitude, being helpful, realizing everyone shares your Identity in God)
So, you have a choice.
You make this choice in every situation.
You choose your own weakness or your choose God’s strength.
And you’ll know which one you choose by the way you feel. Weakness will make you feel angry, deprived, depressed and confused. God’s strength will make you feel happy, appreciative and alive.
This lesson asks to give 20 minutes today to practicing this lesson, morning and evening.
20 minutes to join with God, to leave the darkness, and to remember the truth.
“The gift of sight is given to you.”
“Let us repeat as often as we can the idea for today, and recognize that we are being introduced to sight, and led away from darkness to the light where only miracles can be perceived.”
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Your clarity is contagious!
Thanks!