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Lesson 311 ”I judge all things as I would have them be.”
Reframe: I release judgment and allow things to be as they are.
Suggested Practice:
From now on:
Once in the morning and once in the evening for however many minutes feels sufficient. Then every hour remember/recite the idea for the day.
Prayer For today:
(feel free to swap out the wording to whatever resonates with you best)
“Father, we wait with open mind today, to hear Your Judgment of the Son You love. ²We do not know him, and we cannot judge. ³And so we let Your Love decide what he whom You created as Your Son must be.” (ACIM, W-311.2:1-3)
OR… “I let love decide.”
For Lessons 311-320: What is the Last Judgment? is the theme for the next 10 days. Read the whole article here.
”Christ’s Second Coming gives the Son of God this gift: to hear the Voice for God proclaim that what is false is false, and what is true has never changed. ²And this the judgment is in which perception ends. ³At first you see a world that has accepted this as true, projected from a now corrected mind. ⁴And with this holy sight, perception gives a silent blessing and then disappears, its goal accomplished and its mission done.” (ACIM, W-pII.10.1:1-4) … “The final judgment on the world contains no condemnation. ²For it sees the world as totally forgiven, without sin and wholly purposeless.” (ACIM, W-pII.10.2:1-2)
OR put another way…
”It’s when we accept the truth of who we truly are: sinless, holy, whole and complete, just as Love created us.”
From the PART II Introduction: Read the whole introduction here.
“Words will mean little now. ²We use them but as guides on which we do not now depend. ³For now we seek direct experience of truth alone. ⁴The lessons that remain are merely introductions to the times in which we leave the world of pain, and go to enter peace. ⁵Now we begin to reach the goal this course has set, and find the end toward which our practicing was always geared.” (ACIM, W-pII.in.1:1-5)
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Message
From the Lesson:
“Judgment was made to be a weapon used against the truth. ²It separates what it is being used against, and sets it off as if it were a thing apart. ³And then it makes of it what you would have it be. ⁴It judges what it cannot understand, because it cannot see totality and therefore judges falsely.” (ACIM, W-311.1:1-4)
More times than I can remember, I have misjudged people and situations. For instance, I once introduced a speaker at a meeting I was hosting and added that it was nice he brought his daughter. Turns out, it was his wife. Embarrassing. Because she was much younger than him, I made an erroneous judgment about their relationship.
I could share other examples, but I feel compelled to focus on the misjudgments I have made about myself—and continue to make. That first sentence about judgments being used against the truth really struck a chord with me. I’m constantly judging myself: my body, my worth, my intelligence, my habits. Thinking of them as weapons helps me understand the damage these judgments do to my soul.
I understand how and why the ego mind tries to suppress my connection to the Divine. It wants to stay in control. If I realized my full power, it wouldn’t be needed any longer. It reminds me of the first two lines of Marianne Williamson’s poem “Our Deepest Fear”:
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.”
My ego mind’s fear is that I am powerful beyond measure. And that, my dear ACIM followers, is what the Course has been teaching us all along. I am the Son of God, whole and complete, just as God created me. Judgment is the ego mind’s greatest weapon for dismantling that truth. Because from the ego’s perspective “it cannot see totality,” it throws illusions at me and calls them truth.
Choosing to identify with Divine Mind creates an open door to the truth. So as I catch myself passing judgment, I can acknowledge the ego mind’s presence and counter it with a more accurate thought. When I look in a full-length mirror and feel a judgment about my weight coming on, I can pause, acknowledge it (I like using Tag Team’s “Whomp! There it is” to give the situation some levity), breathe, and counter with “well, look at you looking all cute and adorable.” With that I return to peace and go about my merry way.
The same approach works when the judgment points outward. When someone cuts me off in traffic and I want to judge them harshly, I can pause, acknowledge it (“whomp! there it is”), take a deep breath, and say something like “oh, that’s interesting” to override the potential judgment. The judgment loses its grip, and I continue on my journey.
Since the beginning of the Lessons, we’ve been told that our perspective is limited and our judgments are based mostly on illusions the ego projects.
The title says I judge all things as I would have them be. I don’t see my body or the people around me as they are; I see the version my ego has already built, then react to that.
My takeaway today: if I want to experience the truth, forego judgments and allow Divine Mind to lead the way.
“I can’t really destroy the ego, but I can quit identifying with it. I can quit letting it call the shots.” — “The Course in Miracles Experiment” by Pam Grout
Blessings & Peace,
Maureen,
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