My thoughts* on Workbook Lesson 281 for October 6, 2024. I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts.
I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts.
* It is interesting how, without God, our thoughts can be all about suffering. It seems that this is all that they can see. It is difficult for me to understand how someone could cope with that.
1. Father, Your Son is perfect.
²When I think that I am hurt in any way, it is because I have forgotten who I am, and that I am as You created me.
³Your Thoughts can only bring me happiness.
⁴If ever I am sad or hurt or ill, I have forgotten what You think, and put my little meaningless ideas in place of where Your Thoughts belong, and where they are.
⁵I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts.
⁶The Thoughts I think with You can only bless.
⁷The Thoughts I think with You alone are true.
* Amen.
2. I will not hurt myself today.
²For I am far beyond all pain.
³My Father placed me safe in Heaven, watching over me.
⁴And I would not attack the Son He loves, for what He loves is also mine to love.
* I would be speaking of myself here.
* This does not give us permission to speak or think unkindly about those who are ill or in challenging circumstances within the construct of the illusion we think we are living in today.
* Nor does it mean that we will not be emotionally influenced by our surrounding circumstances which appear to be real within the framework of the absence of God.
(ACIM, W-281.1:1–2:4)
Till next time, God bless, debi.