My thoughts* on A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 84, Love (*The One Original Universal Creator) Created Me Like Itself

These are the ideas for today’s review:

1. (67) Love created me like itself.

* GOD, WHO IS LOVE, CREATED ME LIKE HYMNSELF.

²I am in the likeness of my Creator.

³I cannot suffer, I cannot experience loss and I cannot die.

⁴I am not a body.

⁵I would recognize my reality today.

* I RECOGNIZE MY REALITY TODAY AS A PART OF THE BODY THAT MAKES UP GOD’S SON.

⁶I will worship no idols, nor raise my own self-concept to replace my Self.

* I WILL NOT ACCEPT THE COSTUME THAT SOMEONE IS WEARING IN THE ILLUSION PUT ON BY THEM, SOCIAL MEDIA, OR MYSELF AS BEING WHAT THEY TRULY ARE. THIS DOES NOT TAKE AWAY THE BROTHERHOOD OR “KINSHIP” THAT I SHARE WITH EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING.

⁷I am in the likeness of my Creator.

* But THIS DOES NOT MAKE ME “MY CREATOR.”

⁸Love created me like itself.

LOVE THAT “IS” GOD CREATED ME LIKE HYMSELF.

2. You might find these specific forms helpful in applying the idea:

²Let me not see an illusion of myself in this.

*This story is not who I am.

³As I look on this, let me remember my Creator.

* BY SEEING BEYOND THE ILLUSION TO HIS TRUTH.

⁴My Creator did not create this as I see it.

* My Creator did not create this as I see it and HE Will Help me through SPIRIT look over what seems to be here and share HIS LOVE, HIS ESSENCE with my Brother.

* I suspect that if we were to be true to reality, we would call EVERYONE Brother and release our “idolization” of form in “seeing” gender at all. Perhaps this is something that we will be moving into as time comes to a close and ETERNITY BECOMES the NORM.

3. (68) Love holds no grievances.

* GOD HOLDS NO GRIEVANCES.

* HEAR THAT, GOD HOLDS NO GRIEVANCES.

* GRIEVANCES WOULD LOCK US IN TIME AND TAKE US OUT OF OUR ETERNAL STATE OF EXISTENCE.

²Grievances are completely alien to love.

* They are false, non-existent, not real. YET, THEY MUST BE RELEASED AND UNDONE/CORRECTED IN THE SPHERE OF THE ILLUSION WHERE THEY OCCURRED BY EACH ONE OF US THROUGH THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE COMPLETE AND TRUE FORGIVENESS OF THE ATONEMENT.

³Grievances attack love and keep its light obscure.

* A grievance is something that we hold on to as if it were real. It locks us in time and hides Eternal Life from us BECAUSE IT TAKES US OUT OF THE PRESENCE OF FATHER.

* This does not mean that we do not get to be upset about an occurrence in the illusion. It means we DO NOT SEE IT AS REAL beyond its ‘cleanup capability,’ here and now. Kind of like, erasing a drawing in the sand on the beach.

⁴If I hold grievances I am attacking love, and therefore attacking my Self.

⁵My Self thus becomes alien to me.

* My “Self” as a part of God’s Son made like God HYMNSELF becomes something that I cannot see.

⁶I am determined not to attack my Self today, so that I can remember Who I am.

4. These specific forms for applying this idea would be helpful:

²This is no justification for denying my Self.

*Justification; the action of showing something to be right or reasonable:

“the justification of revolutionary action” · “he made a speech in justification of his career”

good reason for something that exists or has been done:

“there is no justification for an increase in charges” · “all these incidents were used again as a justification for my dismissal”

Similar: grounds, reason, basis, rationale, premise

* Justification in theology; the action of declaring or making righteous in the sight of God.

* Justification in printing; the action or manner of justifying a line of type or piece of text.

* In other words, the idea of making something real. ONLY GOD DOES THIS ANYWHERE.

* GOD, THE ONE ORIGINAL UNIVERSAL CREATOR HAS JUSTIFIED HIS SON’S EXISTENCE AND MAKES IT REAL. YOU NEED NO OTHER JUSTIFICATION.

³I will not use this(*SITUATION OR IMAGE THAT I HAVE OF THIS PERSON) to attack love.

⁴Let this not tempt me to attack myself.

(ACIM, W-84.1:1–4:4)

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

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