April 24
Karen Casey, Daily Meditations for Practicing the Course:
“How open-minded are we?”
“Being open-minded generally means we’re tolerant of people who hold political opinions and spiritual beliefs other than our own.
Open-mindedness also includes accepting that both genders and all races are inherently equal. But the Course says there’s more to it. The Course defines open-mindedness as total forgiveness of everyone for whatever their transgressions. That’s not so easy.
The reason we struggle with this principle is that we severely judge ourselves. Our imperfections aren’t tolerable to us, so one else’s are either. As we accept what we hate about ourselves, which we project onto others, we’ll become more willing to offer compassion, first to others and, finally to ourselves.”
“Today I will practice forgiveness.
That’s the Course’s main lesson.”
Marianne Williamson, A Year of Daily Wisdom: “Prayer is a conduit for miracles. It addresses the problems of the world at their source. It changes people at a cellular level, and with each one who changes, others are brought miraculously closer to enlightenment.
” Hugh Prather, Morning Notes: “A generous gesture is never made alone. Angels surround us and lift us up each time we express our batter nature. Let me imagine a world I would truly like to be part of, because my efforts to be happy, kind, and whole are helping to bring it about.”
Wayne Dyer, There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem: “Remember it is your ego that is the most formidable obstacle to the attainment of God. It is your identification with this idea of yourself as separate from God that creates your so-called problems.”
Paul Ferrini, Grace Unfolding: “When we accept our lives the way they are, we rest in the truth of our being, which does not depend on what is happening outside of us. We rest in the realization that right here and right now we are worthy of love and so are others.”
Unity’s Daily Word:
“As I let go and let God, the events of my life come together in perfect order.”
“With an abundance of commitments and responsibilities to fulfill, I may at times feel that I have my own personal mountain of challenges to climb. Should I feel a need to remove obstacle or resolve difficult situations, I pause in sacred reflection, knowing that God is my all in all.”
“God is universal – the one power and presence that has created and sustains the universe. God is personal – unconditional love ever present in my life. As God’s creation, I have abilities and strengths to express.”
“I also know that with God as the constant source of my good, I can, with certainty, release any and all matters into my Creator’s care. I let go and let God, and the events of my life come together in perfect order.”
A Course in Miracles: Lesson 114
Review Lessons 97 & 98
“I am spirit.” “I will accept my part in God’s plan for salvation.”
I AM spirit, I am not this body, this form of illusions I have believed in. While in this illusion, I forgive myself for all thoughts I have had which were not thoughts with God, which were thought when I also thought I could be separate from God. But all these illusions are just that illusions – nothing made by nothing.
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