Miracles News

January-March, 2009

My Sinlessness Protects Me from All Harm

Rev. Carrie Drought

My sinlessness ensures me… freedom forever from all thought of loss; complete deliverance from suffering. And only happiness can be my state, for only happiness is given me. What must I do to know all this is mine? I must accept Atonement for myself, and nothing more. God has already done all things that need be done. And I must learn I need do nothing of myself, for I need but accept my Self, my sinlessness, created for me, now already mine, to feel God’s Love protecting me from harm.

Wow, isn’t that beautiful? It makes me question…

What is sinlessness? First of all, the word doesn’t come up in spell check (lol). But anyway, here’s my guess:

Sinlessness is forgiving that we feel separate. Forgiving that we think we are all separate. Forgiving that we don’t know God. Forgiving that we don’t understand what we are, what is ours, what our divine right is, what is real. That there are no laws of matter. We don’t live by the world of belief and laws of matter. That we transcend all of that “material belief” by understanding and absorbing the unreality and power of it all. Sinlessness means we live by God’s laws?

We are under God’s laws, not laws of matter and laws of this “world.”

Sinlessness means that all perceived “sin” isn’t even personal to us. If you see someone stealing, don’t call him a thief. There is no such thing. There is an appearance of sin which isn’t personal to the person. The way to heal is to accept that there is no such thing as a thief and that the act the person is in is really a “spell” of a belief in lack and not personal to that person.

So, for me, when I am upset or sad, then I do not have to label myself as somehow suffering from some personal problem of sadness. It isn’t personal to me. This is how I am sinless? Because this perceived sadness is not personal to me. Once I realize that, the sadness disappears because it has no fuel to continue to power it because I have released my sense of it being personal to me. I hope so!

I feel great now. But, to be honest, I’m a little worried about feeling the sadness I felt a week ago… and the sadness I have felt from time to time. Maybe it is true that in our spiritual journey we go through what appears to be a “Dark night of the soul,” where we are just releasing a lot of perceived pain and sadness and once it is all out then we are done.

Maybe that is why people seem to have a major transformation after a severe episode of “hitting rock bottom.” They just get to a point of pure surrender because they realize whatever they’re holding onto isn’t working for them anymore.

I want to let go of it. But, quite frankly, I am scared of it. Because I don’t seem to have control over it. I don’t seem to have control over when the sadness comes. All I know is that when I am sad, I do turn to ACIM or Joel Goldsmith’s writings and somehow I get back to a place of peace and happiness.

Maybe I should be eternally grateful that I have those tools and I don’t need medication or external things to get me back to peace. Maybe I should just accept where I am and know that when I do get sad, pick up a Joel Goldsmith book and then bam, I am back to peace and understanding that God is my supply and comfort in all situations. I need not fear.

It’s all about fear. I’m really getting with that understanding. But every time I get so clear, I think I’m going to stay in this wonderful peace and inevitably I do not stay in this peace. So, I guess you cannot lose your vigilance to knowing God. It isn’t a part-time job to know God (LOL) and evidently you need to keep up on it!

Is there a time when you don’t have to be so vigilant? I think so.

Rev. Carrie Drought is a Pathways of Light minister living in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

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