Sunday grats...Chap 23: "The War Against Yourself."
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I am grateful again today that my lifestyle maintains Peacefulness and Calm. I wonder how long ago my investment in P&C commenced to be desirous of this and then to come by it? Could it have been long ago when I first read “Lost Horizons?”
I am still grateful for reading that book as a child and believing in a Shangri-La. Each phase of my life has always been better that that past existence. I’m not claiming any Utopias, but to that skinny scrawny kid reading that book…it did offer hope. To that skinny scrawny kid my present existence would appear Utopiac!
I am grateful for opening ACIM to Introduction of Chap 23. "War Against (ego)Myself," Jesus is trying to tell me, rell:
“rell, Do you not see the opposite of frailty and weakness is sinlessness? Innocence is strength, and nothing else is strong. The sinless cannot fear, for sin of any kind is weakness. The show of strength attack would use to cover frailty conceals it not, for how can the unreal be hidden? No one is strong who has an enemy, and no one can attack unless he thinks he has. Belief in enemies is therefore the belief in weakness, and what is weak is not the Will of God. Being opposed to it, it is God's "enemy." And, rell, fearing God is an opposing will.
“Walk in glory, rell, with your head held high, and fear no evil. The innocent are safe because they share your innocence. Nothing they see is harmful, for their awareness of the truth releases everything from the illusion of harmfulness. And what seemed harmful now stands shining in your innocence, released from sin and fear and happily returned to love.”
Me? Don’t you just love segments like this in ACIM? Up until I was age 50, I attacked God…big time! In ACIM I learned that to attack is a call for love. Don’t you know God sure did have to love me a lot to finally get through to me for me to know that mine and ego’s warring was merely an illusion? And to think that I went straight to the Top seeking love? Don’t you know how grateful I am each day for Helen to scribe and Bill to type… just being there for Jesus…as was Bill and Bob, the 2 drunks who received the 12-Steps of Alcoholism?
To me it is very interesting to Realize the ego is nothing. I, as rell, in this physical body is illusory, and that rell, this Child of God is eternal? Don’t you know that I am grateful?…I am just as grateful as our patty, to be a part of this Cyberfamily to remind me to be vertical...rell
Posted on Nov 23, 2003, 11:16 AM from IP address 209.74.139.58