The ego’s plan for salvation centers around holding grievances. It maintains that, if someone else spoke or acted differently, if some external circumstance or event were changed, you would be saved. Thus, the source of salvation is constantly perceived as outside yourself. Each grievance you hold is a declaration, and an assertion in which you believe, that says, “If this were different, I would be saved.” The change of mind necessary for salvation is thus demanded of everyone and everything except yourself.
Be alert to all temptation to hold grievances today, and respond to them with this form of today’s idea:
Holding grievances is the opposite of God’s plan for salvation. And only His plan will work.
(A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 71, W-pI.71.2:1-5;10:3-4. See also ACIM Lesson 71 Insights.)
Projection is a key mechanism for making separation seem real. It is a means for making the cause of our lack of peace appear to be outside of us. When we hold a grievance, we separate ourselves from the solution to perceived problems. Yet the solution is always available to us.
As we are willing to take our grievances to the Holy Spirit with willingness to let Him show us how to release them, we make way for the solution of our perceived problems. We make way for the healing of the false ideas that hide the fact that the Source of joy and peace is already in us and always with us.
As we do this, we take charge of our minds and become the master of our domain. We return to our natural state of joy in the Mind of Love. Today we will be vigilant to recognize grievances and bring them to the Holy Spirit in our mind for transformation.
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