Holding grievances is an attack on God’s plan for salvation. Holding grievances is an attempt to prove that God’s plan for salvation will not work. Yet only His plan will work. By holding grievances, I am therefore excluding my only hope of salvation from my awareness. I would no longer defeat my own best interests in this insane way. I would accept God’s plan for salvation, and be happy.
I am choosing between misperception and salvation as I look on this.
If I see grounds for grievances in this, I will not see the grounds for my salvation.
This calls for salvation, not attack. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 86, W-pI.86.3;4:2-4. See also ACIM Lesson 86 Insights.)
Salvation is the means to be saved from harm. We harm ourselves when we believe we are separated from the Love, peace and joy of God. In truth, this could never be. But in a dream of separation it seems that harm is all around us. We see images of people and things outside us that could at the very least be cause for unhappiness or, at worst, cause our death. Nothing in this dream world provides a means for release from this constant appearance of danger.
A grievance is a judgment against someone or something that we perceive as harmful. This grievance keeps us focused on the images of the dream and blocks our awareness of the truth of our eternal safety in Love.
God’s plan for our release from this fearful perception is brought to us through His Voice. If we choose the Holy Spirit as our Guide for all our perceptions, He will show us that they are based on a mistaken belief that we are separate. And He will show us that what lies beyond the mistaken perception is the changeless gift of God’s Love, peace and joy.
Every day we have the opportunity to choose against believing in our misperceptions and welcome the Holy Spirit’s vision of the truth. This is the choice to leave the ego’s darkness and live in the Light of Love.
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