Welcome to Daily Miracles, a running commentary on the 365 lessons of A Course in Miracles, an influential spiritual text from the 1970s. I am James Leroy Wilson and I invite you to join me as I go through this material for the first time.
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Lesson 189
I feel the Love of God within me now. (ACIM, W-189)
Receiving and feeling love means to "lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is; all concepts you have learned about the world; all images you hold about yourself. ²Empty your mind of everything it thinks is either true or false, or good or bad, of every thought it judges worthy, and all the ideas of which it is ashamed. ³Hold onto nothing. ⁴Do not bring with you one thought the past has taught, nor one belief you ever learned before from anything. ⁵Forget this world, forget this course, and come with wholly empty hands unto your God. (ACIM, W-189.7:1-5)
In that place, we release all that God is not: regret, fear, worry, resentment, bitterness, envy, jealousy, prejudice, injustice, unfairness, want, whatever makes you feel bad. They aren't what we are, they are add-ons; mental malware.
Just lay those thoughts aside, and you realize the presence of love, which is God. And you can feel that presence not just in silent, solitary prayer and meditation, but wherever you are and whatever you do.
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