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Lesson 314 ”I seek a future different from my past.”
Reframe: I allow the future to be free of old patterns.
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 were mistaken in the past, and choose to use the present to be free. ²Now do we leave the future in Your Hands, leaving behind our past mistakes, and sure that You will keep Your present promises, and guide the future in their holy light.” (ACIM, W-314.2:1-2)
OR… “I choose to be free from my past.”
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
“The future now is recognized as but extension of the present. Past mistakes can cast no shadows on it, so that fear has lost its idols and its images, and being formless, it has no effects.” (ACIM, W-314.1:2-3)
Intellectually, I understand the premise of today’s Lesson. In practice, it pushes me out of my comfort zone, mainly because I’ve carried my past mistakes for decades. They are part of my system. I see the value in releasing them. And I know I can do it in an instant by changing my mind about them—what I understand the Course to mean by forgiveness.
One issue came up during a group Zoom call earlier today. We were discussing where in our lives we feel stuck and what our soul would want us to know about it. I feel stuck with getting my art and readings out into the world. As part of the process, we were asked what our seven-year-old self wanted us to do. The visual that came to mind was me dancing around the playroom of my childhood home, and hearing her say she loves to perform. This room was also where I did my arts and crafts.
Talking about it here makes me realize that I’m stuck now because, emotionally, I’m still hiding out in the basement, where it’s safe from being judged, criticized, and ridiculed. Judgment is the very thing I fear now as an adult.
Granted, doing arts and crafts at that age wasn’t a mistake. The mistake I made was deciding that it was safer to hide in the basement than be true to myself. The shadow of that decision is what I want to release.
Today’s Lesson gave me a whole new way to look at this issue. Those past judgments, criticisms, and ridicule are long gone. And I don’t have to hold on to the belief that hiding is safer. It’s that fear that has kept me stuck. Yes, I could still face judgment now as an adult—but it will be my grown-up self that knows how to respond.
My takeaway is that instead of being stuck in the past, I can change my future by letting my seven-year-old self dance and create art out in the open.
“Lesson 314 gives me an opportunity to see reality from a different angle.” — “The Course in Miracles Experiment” by Pam Grout
Blessings & Peace,
Maureen,
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