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Lesson 194: ”I place the future in the Hands of God.”

Reframe: I release attachment and trust the unfolding of life.

Suggested Practice:

From the Introduction to Lessons 181-200:

”Our next few lessons make a special point of firming up your willingness to make your weak commitment strong; your scattered goals blend into one intent. ²You are not asked for total dedication all the time as yet. ³But you are asked to practice now in order to attain the sense of peace such unified commitment will bestow, if only intermittently. … And so we start our journey beyond words by concentrating first on what impedes your progress still. …⁴So we now attempt to go past all defenses for a little while each day. ⁵No more than this is asked, because no more than this is needed. ⁶It will be enough to guarantee the rest will come.”

Do two 15-minutes practices today.

Ponder what this means to you during the practices:

”God holds your future as He holds your past and present. ²They are one to Him, and so they should be one to you. ³Yet in this world, the temporal progression still seems real. ⁴And so you are not asked to understand the lack of sequence really found in time. ⁵You are but asked to let the future go, and place it in God’s Hands. ⁶And you will see by your experience that you have laid the past and present in His Hands as well, because the past will punish you no more, and future dread will now be meaningless.” (ACIM, W-194.4:1-6)

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Message

The last paragraph from the Lesson:

”Now are we saved indeed. ²For in God’s Hands we rest untroubled, sure that only good can come to us. ³If we forget, we will be gently reassured. ⁴If we accept an unforgiving thought, it will be soon replaced by love’s reflection. ⁵And if we are tempted to attack, we will appeal to Him Who guards our rest to make the choice for us that leaves temptation far behind.⁶No longer is the world our enemy, for we have chosen that we be its friend.” (ACIM, W-194.9:1-6)

It’s that last line—being the world’s friend versus its enemy—that resonated most for me. And it’s this that I believe we’re striving to experience in our human form. When we trust our future in the Divine’s hands, we’re at peace, assured of our happiness. When we slip and let the ego take charge, we’re assured that our Divinity will help us get back on track.

I take comfort in knowing that when I slip, I can always appeal for help and it will be there. Before studying the Course, if I slipped, I assumed there was no hope for me—I’d go down an endless rabbit hole with no idea what to do.

With this lesson, I like to think of my journey as being on a ship or plane. If I catch myself going off course, all I need is a course correction, and I’m moving forward again.

We can think of it like a slight modification of that old bumper sticker: God is my GPS. He doesn’t drive the car—He leads the way. And if I take a wrong turn, with love and grace, He recalculates the directions.

“Lesson 194 asks me to point my cursor on a happy future, to relinquish the past.”
— “The Course in Miracles Experiment” by Pam Grout

Blessings & Peace,

Maureen,
The Mandala Lady

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