Lesson 161

Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.

Yesterday during my 90-minute talk (at the very end), I said: “If you come away with anything from this talk, let it be this: THE RELINQUISHMENT OF ANGER AND ATTACK.”

Today’s lesson is the practical application of how the relinquishment of attack is accomplished.

This lesson asks us “take a stand against our anger, that fear may disappear and offer room to love.”

Here is the total answer to all your problems. Look on everyone with love. Take a stand against your anger, that fear may disappear and offer room to love.

You’ll notice that this change of mind is your responsibility. You are not going to wake up one morning and realize you are free from problems. You must take a stand against anger. You must make a conscious decision that you don’t want conflict anymore. That above all else, you want to see.

Christ vision is given to you automatically the moment you decide that’s what you want.

From the text: “Only appreciation is an appropriate response to your brother.”

If you could LIVE that one sentence, you wouldn’t need A Course in Miracles. You wouldn’t need 365 lessons. You wouldn’t need a teacher. You wouldn’t need time. You wouldn’t need healing. All your problems would disappear. All fear would dissolve. You would recognize your own wholeness and completion, along with your brother’s wholeness and completion.

“Only appreciation is an appropriate response to your brother.”

That simplifies it, huh?

Lesson 161 is great. It says “One brother is all brothers. Every mind contains all minds, for every mind is one. Such is the truth.”

This means you don’t have to go looking very far for healing to be accomplished. It’s in your mind. God is with you. The Holy Spirit is with you. All brothers are with you.  There is no order of difficulty in miracles. As you accept Atonement and correction in your own mind, all minds are healed along with you because all minds are joined as one. This is what makes you the savior. You have the ability to heal the world because the world is what your mind is.

From chapter 6: “Be vigilant only for God and His Kingdom.”

Today:

“Select one brother, symbol of all the rest, and ask salvation of him. See him first as clearly as you can, in that same form to which you are accustomed. See his face, his hands and feet, his clothing. Watch him smile, and see familiar gestures which he makes so frequently. Then think of this: What you are now seeing conceals from you the sight of one who can forgive you all your sins; whose sacred hands can take away the nails which pierce your own, and lift the crown of thorns which you have placed upon your bleeding head. Ask this of him, that he may set you free:

Give me your blessing, holy Son of God. I would behold you with the eyes of Christ, and see my perfect sinlessness in you.

“And He will answer Whom you called upon. For He will hear the Voice for God in you, and answer in your own. Behold him now, whom you have seen as merely flesh and bone, and recognize that Christ has come to you.”

Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.

Today’s idea is your safe escape from anger and from fear. Be sure you use it instantly, should you be tempted to attack a brother and perceive in him the symbol of your fear. and you will see him suddenly transformed from enemy to savior, from the devil into Christ.