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Accepting and Extending Love

Holy Spirit to Mary:
Today practice accepting Love in each now moment… Just focus on accepting Love and extending Love… Let the rest take care of itself… Let Love guide your perceptions… Let yourself be carried by Love… In Love there is no past and no future, only the eternal present. Let yourself become aware of Love’s eternal presence today…

Robert:
Today we read Lesson 213 in the Workbook of A Course in Miracles, which is a review of Lesson 193, “All things are lessons God would have me learn.” It gives a helpful explanation of God’s lessons: “A lesson is a miracle which God offers to me, in place of thoughts I made that hurt me.” (W-pII.213.1:2)

The ego interprets a lesson as punishment, especially if it’s perceived as painful. If I think I am in an unhappy situation or something is wrong or I’m experiencing bodily pain, the ego would interpret this lesson as punishment because I am guilty. Guilt is the glue that holds the ego thought system together.

But if God’s lesson is a miracle, then it is a lesson in Love, not punishment and guilt. So the perception of pain, unhappiness, fear and guilt is an opportunity to turn to God’s Voice for His lesson in Love. Thus if I am having a disturbing experience, it is an opportunity to turn away from ego’s lesson in guilt and open to God’s lesson in Love. His lesson will replace the thoughts I made that bring me pain and disturb my peace.

God’s lessons are happy lessons. His lessons lead me to remember that, “I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.” This is the only lesson God would have me learn. It is the lesson that releases me from the self-imposed limits of believing that I am separate from Love, confined to a body. Thus God’s lessons are not to be feared but welcomed. There is nothing I want more than to remember that I am innocent, I am loved and I am Love. And this is the lesson God would have me learn.

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