[acimlessons_list] Lesson 348 - December 14

[Susan Carrier]

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Lesson 348 - December 14


"I have no cause for anger or for fear, For You surround me. 
And in every need That I perceive, Your grace suffices me."

PRACTICE SUMMARY

(See Part II Practice Summary and also Part II Introduction)

COMMENTARY

"You surround me." Close your eyes and be quiet, and think of the Love or
Presence of God as a golden light. Imagine that light shining on the front
of you. Feel its warmth, its golden glow, like the radiance of the sun on a
bright, summer day.

Now, become aware of that same light behind you. The Love of God is shining
on you, front and back. Let yourself feel the safety of it.

The Presence of God is also on your right, and on your left. It is all
around you, above you and below you. You are surrounded by this golden
light, immersed in it. You are surrounded by perfect safety (1:5), perfect
benevolence. Allow yourself to feel what that is like.

In this Love there is no cause for anger or for fear. There is no cause for
anything except the perfect peace and joy you share with God.

"God's grace suffices us in everything that He would have us do. And only
that we choose to be our will as well as His" (2:1-2).

Whenever you can today, stop for a moment or two and visualize yourself
surrounded by the Love of God.


WHAT IS A MIRACLE? (Part 8)

W-pII.13.4:2-3

There must be faith before a miracle: the desire to see it, the choice to
ask for what we cannot now see, and to believe that what our ego-generated
perception shows us is false. But when that faith arises, when we become
miracle-minded, that faith will produce its own vindication:

"Yet faith will bring its witnesses to show that what it rested on is really
there" (4:2). When I place my faith in a miracle, there will be
evidence--witnesses--to prove that what I put my faith in truly exists.
When, for instance, I am willing to look past my brother's ego and to see
the call for God in him, something will happen that will witness to me that
the call for God in him is really there. Perhaps my forgiveness will be met
with gratitude. Perhaps my response of love will be met with love returning.
Perhaps, in someone of whom I never believed it possible, I will see a spark
of light. Faith <will> bring its witnesses.

"And thus the miracle will justify your faith in it, and show it rested on a
world more real than what you saw before; a world redeemed from what you
thought was there" (4:3). My willingness to believe in love's presence will
show me love's presence. I will see what I choose to see. I will see that
the world of spirit is more real than the world of mere matter. Sickness
will give way to health. Sadness will be replaced with joy. Fear will be
transformed to love. And where I thought I saw sin and evil, I will see
holiness and good.

It is the transformation of my mind that brings about a different world. It
is my readiness to invite the miracle that opens the way for it. The changes
in the world I see are not the miracle; they are its results. The miracle
<brings> witnessess; it reveals a world different from what I thought it
was. First, though, the change of mind, the faith. Then the witness to
faith, justifying it, validating it. 
 
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