My thoughts* on ACIM Urtext Lesson 89, for March 29, 2024. Let us call on whatever benevolent resources we have to promote the healing of the psyche of the Son of Man and God.
These are our review ideas for today:
1. (77) I am entitled to miracles.
* I am entitled to see God. Wow. It has taken me a long time to get to this understanding, but this is what I hear today. A miracle is the reality of God brought into the mind of the Son and truth revealed of their REALITY and Co-Existence.
²I am entitled to miracles because I am under no laws but God’s.
* God is the lens by which I wish to see the world.
³His laws release me from all grievances, and replace them with miracles.
* There are plenty of reasons to choose to see grievances, envyings, jealousies, fears, but only one to have the faith to see God and that is because of the Love that is shared between a father and a son.
⁴And I would accept the miracles in place of the grievances, which are but illusions that hide the miracles beyond.
* The miracles are there AS the Love between the Father and the Son. They know nothing of fear, guilt, shame, or pity.
⁵Now I would accept only what the laws of God entitle me to have, that I may use it on behalf of the function He has given me.
* Oddly enough “I” do not have the power to do this at the snap of my fingers. God does. He makes the connection to the threads in my heart that know Him and remember that He values me, created me, and will Love me forever.
2. You might use these suggestions for specific applications of this idea:
²Behind this is a miracle to which I am entitled.
* There is a Love bigger than any problem or confusion the ego can contrive or make up and it is wrapped around me in spite of what I may see, hear, feel, or experience.
³Let me not hold a grievance against you, [name], but offer you the miracle that belongs to you instead.
* Let me offer you the Love of God that wants to heal all that troubles you and build you up.
⁴Seen truly, this offers me a miracle.
3. (78) Let miracles replace all grievances.
²By this idea do I unite my will with the Holy Spirit’s, and perceive them as one.
* Love, i.e. God, is our unifying factor.
³By this idea do I accept my release from hell.
* Hell is the confines of guilt, shame, and fear brought on by the belief in separation from God.
⁴By this idea do I express my willingness to have all my illusions be replaced with truth, according to God’s plan for my salvation.
* I know, it is TOO SIMPLE, but there it is!
⁵I would make no exceptions and no substitutes.
⁶I want all of Heaven and only Heaven, as God wills me to have.
* Amen.
4. Useful specific forms for applying this idea would be:
²I would not hold this grievance apart from my salvation.
³Let our grievances be replaced by miracles, [name].
⁴Beyond this is the miracle by which all my grievances are replaced.
* Sometimes the apple needs to be cut to expose the worm so that the rest of it can be eaten. So it is when grievances are exposed that something will spill over before it is filled up with the Love that God offers.
(ACIM, W-89.1:1–4:4)
Till next time, God bless, debi.
