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Lesson 186: Salvation of the world depends on me.
Here is the statement that will one day take all arrogance away from every mind. Here is the thought of true humility which holds no function as your own but that which has been given you. It offers your acceptance of a part assigned to you, without insisting on another role. It does not judge your proper role. It but acknowledges the Will of God is done on earth as well as Heaven. It unites all wills on earth in Heaven's plan to save the world, restoring it to Heaven's peace.
Lesson 26: My attack thoughts are attacking my invulnerability.
A practical meditation exercise contained within ACIM Workbook, Lesson 26. An overview of the lesson and detailed exercise.
It is surely obvious that if you can be attacked you are not invulnerable. You see attack as a real threat. That is because you believe that you can really attack. And what would have effects through you must also have effects on you. It is this law that will ultimately save you, but you are misusing it now. You must therefore learn how it can be used for your own best interests, rather than against them.
Forgiveness: Beautiful not numbing
As sin is an idea you taught yourself, forgiveness must be learned by you as well, but from a Teacher other than yourself, Who represents the other Self in you. Through Him you learn how to forgive the self you think you made, and let it disappear.
I can learn to forgive my misunderstandings of myself, others, and experiences by allowing the situation to be reinterpreted closer and closer to the truth until forgiveness is natural.
Everything that happens in my frame of awareness is the Voice of God presenting a lesson for my understanding. The only barrier for my learning the lesson is my own desire to give the situation my own meaning, a judgement I have learned based on opinions and positions I am carrying from my past.
Reinterpretation Experiences
We are embarking on an organized, well-structured, and carefully planned program aimed at learning how to offer to the Holy Spirit everything you do not want. He knows what to do with it. You do not know how to use what He knows.
This seemed to be an invitation to allow the HS to reinterpret my negative thoughts. This reinterpretation is not the ultimate goal, but it is a step within the plan of forgiveness. It is impossible to forgive a situation that has been already judged negatively. By allowing the Spirit to first place a reinterpretation of how the experience was only helpful, forgiveness or acceptance is only the natural response.
A Course in Miracles Introduction
This course can be summed up very simply in this way:
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.