Miracles News

April-June, 2007

I Am Sustained by the Love of God

Revs. Sue Borg and Frank Arnold

Rev. Sue Borg —We will be giving a weekend workshop at Pathways of Light August 4-5 that will be based on Lesson 50 in the Workbook: I am Sustained by the Love of God. This lesson begins with — “Here is the answer to every problem that will confront you, today and tomorrow and throughout time. In this world, you believe you are sustained by everything but God. Your faith is placed in the most trivial and insane symbols; pills, money, ‘protective’ clothing, influence, prestige, being liked, knowing the ‘right’ people and an endless list of forms of nothingness that you endow with magical powers.” How many “gods” or “idols” do you place before God?

I discovered that I even placed the bathroom before God. My first thought every morning used to be, “I have to get up and go to the bathroom.” When I realized I thought about using the bathroom before I even had a notion of thinking about God, I changed that waking thought and now upon waking I think and even say out loud, “Good Morning, God. Here I am wanting to know where to go, what to say and to whom.” A much nicer morning greeting!

During our weekend workshop we will practice ways to reassure ourselves that the Love of God always sustains us, but only always and in every way. We will do exercises to clear up the notion that we have to do anything but Love God and ask for direction.

By practicing what this lesson teaches, we will discover a different way of living in the world. We will explore the profound impact this lesson can have on us and how we can more fully live from a place of love instead of fear.

Rev. Frank Arnold — This lesson gave my life all the meaning it has. I ‘heard’ this message for the first time on March 19, 1993, but like many others, I struggled with it and tried to make it hard. About a year and a half later, I ‘heard’ it again and I finally ‘got it.’
I will tell this story at the workshop and share with you all the ways we can know without a doubt that we are sustained by the Love of God, and that gratitude is the only appropriate response to our inherent gifts from God, our Source.

When you compare the time you spend with God to the time you spend doing everything else, it begins to look a little lopsided, so we’ll discuss the ways we can be with God no matter what we are doing. When I tell people where I’ve been and where I am now, the story is a compelling reason to study the Course and particularly know the truth of this lesson.

There are ways to make this life easy and prosperous. You do not have to give up anything and, in fact, cannot give up anything that God has given you, and he has given you everything. You are sustained by the Love of God.

“Put all your faith in the Love of God within you; eternal, changeless and forever unfailing. This is the answer to whatever confronts you today. Through the Love of God within you, you can resolve all seeming difficulties without effort and in sure confidence. Tell yourself this often today. It is a declaration of release from the belief in idols. It is your acknowledgment of the truth about yourself.”

Revs. Sue Borg and Frank Arnold co-founded an organization called It’s A Miracle Center, created to educate and inspire the study of A Course In Miracles. They have been students of the Course since 1983, and have taught a weekly A Course In Miracles group since 1989. They were the hosts for the 2005 International ACIM Conference in Salt Lake City.

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