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.
Lesson 180
God is but Love, and therefore so am I. (ACIM, W-180)
1. (169) By grace I live. ²By grace I am released. (ACIM, W-180.1:1-2)
2. (170) There is no cruelty in God and none in me. (ACIM, W-180.2:1)
Grace and cruelty are opposite ideas.
To live in grace means to live as if there's nothing to fear and nothing to defend. Not your possessions, and certainly not your ego.
To be cruel is to be fearful of losing everything. It is to view life as a "zero-sum" game, where one can prosper only at the unwilling expense of another.
This morning I let myself be exposed to social media before doing spiritual work. I was "triggered" by an opinion I thought was ignorant and hypocritical, and got angry at a whole group of people who seem to agree with it
Although I didn't respond publicly, I was attacking the people I disagreed with in my mind. I imagined retorts that would get them to agree and make them feel foolish for having their previous beliefs. I fantasized about being perceived as more intelligent than they were. I was attacking them for my ego's sake.
To be in grace would have been to let things roll off my shoulder and continue about my day joyfully. That's what I aim to do.
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