My thoughts* on A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 86, ONLY GOD’S PLAN FOR SALVATION WILL WORK

These ideas are for review today:

1. (71) Only God’s plan for salvation will work.

²It is senseless for me to search wildly about for salvation.

* Looking for Love in ALL the wrong places.

* I think my motto will be, BEING LOVE in all the wrong places. LOL. Meaning that I do not look for it but bring it by bringing in my heart as a witness that GOD IS.

* THAT TRUTH ALONE IS LOVE AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED.

³I have seen it in many people and in many things, but when I reached for it, it was not there.

* Could that be because a part of my consciousness KNOWS that God’s Love IS EVERYWHERE?

* But that my state of mind while in ego or separation mode reaches for HIS “expression” or image and NOT FOR HYMN?

* Do you see what I mean? GOD IS IN ALL THINGS, but when we think we are grabbing food, cash, or body, we are grabbing not LOVE but a false image that we interpret as LOVE.

* WHAT A DIFFERENCE IT IS TO ACKNOWLEDGE GOD MOMENT BY MOMENT, INSTANT BY INSTANT!

* By doing so, we are able to “see” the false representations for what they are and have healthy boundaries.

* Of course, this takes time for most of us. SOME may be able to just flip the switch in their mind, and they are good to go, but I am not one of those.

* I am “unlearning” by FATHER’S Guidance through SPIRIT, one WHOLISTIC INSTANT at a time.

* I am taking this into my new community so that I can witness God in all that is and support the boundaries that I need to acknowledge.

⁴I was mistaken about where it is.

⁵I was mistaken about what it is.

⁶I will undertake no more idle seeking.

⁷Only God’s plan for salvation will work.

⁸And I will rejoice because His plan can never fail.

2. These are some suggested forms for applying this idea specifically:

²God’s plan for salvation will save me from my perception of this.

³This is no exception in God’s plan for my salvation.

⁴Let me perceive this only in the light of God’s plan for salvation.

* I really like this last one. This is how I live anymore. I look at the day as presenting what Father would like me to see and respond to (or record) about the United and Universal Consciousness that Jesus says FATHER SEES AS CHRIST.

* The Direction From FATHER comes through the feelings, impressions, and inspirations that I receive through SPIRIT within me.

* Through the lens of SPIRIT, I interpret all that comes into my awareness.

* Now, grant you, sometimes I do not “get it” right away. Sometimes I need to be away from the situation for an hour or even a day or two but when SPIRIT explains something to me it drops into my mind and I recognize that it is not me ~ and that it is not something that is not of SPIRIT since it supports MY WORTHINESS AND THAT OF OTHER’S BEFORE GOD.

* And SPIRIT supports the witness that what is not in alignment with Father in the world is the confusion of the son regarding separation from FATHER.

3. (72) Holding grievances is an attack on God’s plan for salvation.

* You let the grievances go when you accept the Atonement because you know that ONLY GOD IS and the Son is JUST CONFUSED.

* Then you follow this advice whose author I do not know, “Always remember those who truly show up for you—and never forget those who don’t.”

* THAT IS A HUGE PART OF ESTABLISHING HEALTHY BOUNDARIES IN THIS SPHERE WE ARE CURRENTLY IN.

²Holding grievances is an attempt to prove that God’s plan for salvation will not work.

* It PISSES ME OFF that this is not explained correctly and yet, I understand that this message from Jesus was going through the minds that had not yet grasped the Atonement concept which undoes belief in the illusion created in the mind of the son by belief in separation from GOD, the One Original Universal Creator.

³Yet only His plan will work.

⁴By holding grievances, I am therefore excluding my only hope of salvation from my awareness.

⁵I would no longer defeat my own best interests in this insane way.

⁶I would accept God’s plan for salvation, and be happy.

* I hope that you understand that SPIRIT does show you the nasty things that the son thinks it does to itself and THAT WILL CAUSE EMOTIONAL RESPONSES of all kinds, but you do not need to own the emotional responses or the situations as if they were REAL, because THEY ARE NOT.

4. Specific applications for this idea might be in these forms:

* “AS REAL” IS THE PHRASE THAT YOU WANT TO USE IN LOOKING AT THE WORLD, OR YOUR RESPONSE TO THE CONFUSION BROUGHT ON BY BELIEF IN SEPARATION FROM GOD.

²I am choosing between misperception and salvation as I look on this.

³If I see grounds for grievances in this, I will not see the grounds for my salvation.

⁴This calls for salvation, not attack.

* ATTACKING is not something you EVER WANT TO DO, “REAL” or “IMAGINED.”

* A good example of what I mean is the difference between swearing and cursing.

* Cursing ATTACKS, swearing refutes or denies the situation or costume that another is wearing.

* I do hope that you can see the difference because it is the difference between LIFE AND DEATH, LITERALLY. DEATH, IN ILLUSION, BECAUSE THERE IS NO SUCH THING. AND ETERNAL LIFE IN REALITY, BECAUSE THAT IS ALL THAT GOD CREATES.

(ACIM, W-86.1:1–4:4)

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

May be an image of 1 person, child, anklet, beach and body of water

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