My thoughts* on A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 58, * My WHOLENESS Envelops Everything I See and What I Don’t

* My WHOLENESS envelops everything I see.

These ideas are for review today:

1. (36) My holiness envelops everything I see.

* It is NOT holiness! That is so DECEIPTIVE!

* IT IS WHOLENESS!

* The ONENESS with Christ as ALL THAT IS

²From my holiness does the perception of the real world come.

* From my witness of Christ in all that is BECAUSE I KNOW THAT GOD IS DOES THE PERCEPTION OF THE REAL WORLD COME.

³Having forgiven, I no longer see myself as guilty.

* I know that I can make mistakes which are entangled in the thought systems that I have accepted over eons of lifetimes that I have walked in the belief of separation and FATHER Will Show me how to correct them through SPIRIT which is ALSO in everything around me.

⁴I can accept the innocence that is the truth about me.

* Innocence because I can ONLY BE as FATHER made me. I did not and DO NOT make myself despite the world’s teaching that I do and MUST.

⁵Seen through understanding eyes, the holiness of the world is all I see, for I can picture only the thoughts I hold about myself.

* WHOLENESS AND BEING IN THE MIND AND WILL OF GOD. Perhaps this is where they got the idea of “holy” because separation from God makes HYMN bigger and better than us instead of us in a SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH HYMN.

* God’s Thinking is NOT like our thinking in ego=god belief.

* Ours is a Relationship of LOVE, not the tyranny of mortal relationships.

2. (37) My holiness blesses the world.

* My being one with all that is means that my choices affect the entire BODY or ESSENCE OF WHAT WE ARE AS THE SON OF GOD.

²The perception of my holiness does not bless me alone.

³Everyone and everything I see in its light shares in the joy it brings to me.

⁴There is nothing that is apart from this joy, because there is nothing that does not share my holiness.

* My being one with all that is means that my choices affect the entire BODY or ESSENCE OF WHAT WE ARE AS THE SON OF GOD.

⁵As I recognize my holiness, so does the holiness of the world shine forth for everyone to see.

* WHOLENESS, THINK EQUALITY. HMM.

3. (38) There is nothing my holiness cannot do.

* WHOLENESS, IN GOD.

²My holiness is unlimited in its power to heal, because it is unlimited in its power to save.

* What would I want to be a part of that could be greater than GOD?

* Talk about “fitting in!” Think of all of the trauma we have caused ourselves with the idea that God is not HERE, NOW, EVERWHERE as Jesus and mystics have said.

³What is there to be saved from except illusions?

* The cause of illusions is belief in separation from God. THIS is the ONLY THING you need to be saved from. THEN you reside in HEAVEN WITH GOD. PERIOD, WHERE YOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN.

⁴And what are all illusions except false ideas about myself?

* And others as we feel ourselves separated.

* Now, that does not give you permission to go up and rub your hand over someone’s stomach who is pregnant. That is an invasion of privacy that is crossing healthy boundaries and not okay.

⁵My holiness undoes them all by asserting the truth about me.

* My understanding OUR WHOLENESS undoes them all by asserting the truth about US.

* It undoes them, but it will not prevent you from seeing those still caught in the “shadow” of belief in separation, doing those things. Including those very close to you.

⁶In the presence of my holiness, which I share with God Himself, all idols vanish.

* WHOLENESS.

* With God, in God, of God.

* IDOLS are what we have made each other to be instead of the brethren which we ARE as part of the Body of BEINGS that MAKE UP CHRIST.

4. (39) My holiness is my salvation.

*The UNDERSTANDING of my WHOLENESS IN GOD and with everything else, EVER, is my salvation.

²Since my holiness saves me from all guilt, recognizing my holiness is recognizing my salvation.

* My witness of my WHOLENESS IN GOD AND EVERYTHING ELSE RELEASES ME FROM GUILT BECAUSE ONLY GOD’S WILL CAN BE DONE.

* To think of MYSELF AS GOD does just the opposite and lays all of the responsibility for what is right on MY SHOULDERS and I KNOW I am not capable of being all of that.

* This is the difference in the Father and Son, and why we must recognize Father.

³It is also recognizing the salvation of the world.

* YES.

⁴Once I have accepted my holiness, nothing can make me afraid.

* In accepting my wholeness through the complete forgiveness of the Son in the Atonement I have released my belief in the consequences of the belief in separation from God.

* This means that I can watch my children and my ex’s scramble to make his life more comfortable and create a wider gap between them and me, because “love, in EGO” suffocates, it lives in a vacuum. It does not grow and does not include others as WHOLENESS DOES.

* I could accept the façade of forgiveness (because we are all going to die, right) and “get along” but only if I deny my own existence as so many have done (me, too) for millions of years.

* I will NOT do that. Even though when the one daughter told me of some reconciliation, I was hopeful, I KNOW BETTER. And I will not leave that LIE for my children and theirs.

* Are they going to “get it?” No, most likely not.

* Will it divide my family further? Yeah, but that is the goal of the ego, only he will do it while bodies are all together.

* What if I just got along with everyone? You know, “Be nice?”

* Nah, I literally get physically ill from it and I am not going to do that to MYSELF. I DO NOT HAVE TO. And IT DOES NOT HONOR GOD OR WHAT I AM.

⁵And because I am unafraid, everyone must share in my understanding, which is the gift of God to me and to the world.

* BULLSHIT! Do you think my kids are going to understand? Or their kids? Or my ex? Or any decent person for that matter, much less a “Christian!” NO. I know better than to think that.

* But I can hold a healed world inside of me and know that everyone will be given the Vision of God when they are ready to receive it and understand there is NO LACK, there is NO HATE, and there is NO OPPOSITION TO GOD, THE ONE ORIGINAL UNIVERSAL CREATOR AND FATHER TO US ALL.

5. (40) I am blessed as a Son of God.

²Herein lies my claim to all good and only good.

³I am blessed as a Son of God.

⁴All good things are mine, because God intended them for me.

* I CAN KNOW THEM AND HOLD THEM CLOSE WITHIN ME.

⁵I cannot suffer any loss or deprivation or pain because of Who I am.

* No, but I can still watch the illusion and be emotionally moved by it even though I understand and KNOW that it is not real.

⁶My Father supports me, protects me, and directs me in all things.

* Remember that HE gave me the tools to go through this and that there is no way that I could be alone through this nightmare.

⁷His care for me is infinite, and is with me forever.

⁸I am eternally blessed as His Son.

(ACIM, W-58.1:1–5:8)

To Father be ALL Glory and Praise Given AS His Son, debi.

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