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Lesson 317 ”I follow in the way appointed me.”
Reframe: I trust the path unfolding before me.
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, Your way is what I choose today. ²Where it would lead me do I choose to go; what it would have me do I choose to do. ³Your way is certain, and the end secure. ⁴The memory of You awaits me there. ⁵And all my sorrows end in Your embrace, which You have promised to Your Son, who thought mistakenly that he had wandered from the sure protection of Your loving Arms.” (ACIM, W-317.2:1-5)
OR… “I follow the truth.”
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
“I have a special place to fill; a role for me alone. Salvation waits until I take this part as what I choose to do. Until I make this choice, I am the slave of time and human destiny.” (ACIM, W-317.1:1-3)
I understand salvation as the goal of seeing the world—and everyone in it—through the eyes of love, thereby waking up from the dream that we are separate and alone. The decision to change our minds about how we see the world is made through forgiveness.
Today’s Lesson reminds us that until we make that decision, we are slaves to the ego mind’s world of fear and suffering.
When I’m under the rule of my ego mind—as I was recently regarding my car’s repairs—I feel frustrated, worried, and alone. I was definitely in a “woe is me” victim mindset. Overnight I let what I’ve learned so far from ACIM percolate. I knew I didn’t want to feel that way, that I had given up my peace. And the only one who really knew about it and suffered from it was me.
By the time I picked up the car the next day, my mindset had shifted. I was calmer and ready to respond to the people at the repair shop from a place of peace. They were helpful and just doing their jobs. When I do go to upper management to share my thoughts on how things were managed, I will let Divine Mind lead the way so that I maintain my peace.
That is what I understand the Lesson is teaching us to do today.
“Lesson 317 says all of us have navigation equipment. Rather than be a slave to time and human destiny, we can set the destination of joy into our GPS.” — “The Course in Miracles Experiment” by Pam Grout
Blessings & Peace,
Maureen,
The Mandala Lady
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