A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #280 - What limits can I lay upon God's Son?

 Lesson #280

What limits can I lay upon God’s Son?

In the song American Pie, Don McLean, the songwriter and singer says, “The three men I admire most: The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost. They caught the last train for the coast, the day the music died.” Has the music died for you? Would you like to hear the celestial music again? Today’s lesson asks us, “What limits can I lay upon God’s Son?” The answer is “none.” God’s Son is an extension of God’s Divine Nature.

In Alcoholic Anonymous, it is suggested in step nine that we make direct amends to the people we have harmed wherever possible and where it would do no further harm. This requires forgiveness first of ourselves and then of others. This kind of forgiveness facilitates “healing.”

In Unitarian Universalism, we join together to affirm and promote justice, equity, and compassion in human relations and in doing so we recognize and acknowledge that there is no limit to the goodness of God’s Son.

Today, it is suggested that we look for and acknowledge at least to ourselves the Divine Spark in every person and that we cannot limit the Divine Nature of God’s Son.

A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #279 - Creation's freedom promises my own.

 Lesson #279

Creation’s freedom promises my own.

Would you rather live in the world of the ego or the world of the Spirit? The choice is ours once we become aware that a choice exists.

The Universalists' wonderful insight was that God loves God’s creation unconditionally. There is no hell other than the one we humans create in the world of the ego. Recognizing and acknowledging the liberation of unconditional love we can join with it at any time we choose.

In Alcoholic Anonymous, it is suggested in step eleven, that we improve our conscious contact with God through prayer and meditation. With this improvement comes peace and joy and maybe even bliss.

In Unitarian Universalism we acknowledge the Unconditional Love of the Universe of which we are a part when we affirm and promote a love for the interdependent web of existence.

Today, when stressed, we remind ourselves of the choice we have. We can say to ourselves, “Creation’s freedom promises my own.”

Where is Unitarian Universalism taking us?

 Topic Six

Where is Unitarian Universalism taking us?

The way people have been told they’re supposed to go is not the way they came here to go. And that is why 98% of the world’s people are spending 98% of their time on things that just don’t matter. When you turn that around, you’ll turn your life around.

Walsch, Neale Donald. The Only Thing That Matters (Conversations With Humanity Book 2) (p. 9). Hay House. Kindle Edition. 

Unitarian Universalists join together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. This sounds good in theory but as a practicality it leaves people drifting and wandering.

Unitarian Universalism would be more helpful if it provided a map or at least a compass. It’s failure to do so leaves the denomination floundering and fighting amongst themselves about what direction the group should take. As Donald Walsch writes “98% of the world’s people are spending 98% of their time on things that just don’t matter.”

The big questions are “Where is Unitarian Universalism headed and where is it taking its members and the world it interacts with?”

Anybody know? Anybody have ideas about these two questions? As Lewis Carroll wrote, “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.”

A Course In Miracles Workbook Lessons #278 - If I am bound, my Father is not free.

 Lesson #278

If I am bound, my Father is not free.

Am I a body with a soul or a soul with a body? The correct answer is a soul with a body. The body does not bind me; my soul is free.

In Alcoholic Anonymous it is suggested, in step eleven, that we improve our conscious contact with God through prayer and meditation.

In Unitarian Universalism we join together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning which frees our soul to travel beyond our limiting bodies. We are free to explore, learn, understand, and love.

Today, it is suggested that we remind ourselves that our souls are not limited but free to seek and unite with the Divine. We laugh as we remind ourselves that if we are bound, then God is not free and how could that be possible?

A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #277 - Let me not bind Your Son with laws I made.

 

Lesson #277

Let me not bind Your Son with laws I made.

We are born, and we are socialized and conditioned, and we grow old and hopefully grow up and as we mature we realize that our socialization and conditioning are not true but constructed. We have been trained to worship idols and have forgotten that the Divine is simply Love. The question is not what would society have me do, but rather, what would love have me do? The lesson today teaches that we should not bind God’s creations with our human made laws.

In Alcoholic Anonymous in the first three steps, we come to realize that our lives based on the rules, expectations, and laws of the ego are unmanageable. It is suggested that we turn our willfulness over to merging our will into what we intuit is the will of the Divine or the Tao.

In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote seven principles the first and most important being the inherent worth and dignity of every person. The question always should be “what would Love have me do?” The Loving thing often is not the legal thing, the regulatory thing, and expected and required thing. It is asked in A Course In Miracles, “Would you rather be right or be happy? Unitarian Universalism teaches us clearly that we are to honor the inherent right and dignity of every person whether they are an outlaw or not.

Today, it is suggested that we be mindful of whether society’s expectations are loving and we remind ourselves that we have a choice sometimes between the loving thing and the right thing. The lesson teaches, “Let me not bind Your Son with laws I made.”

A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #276 - The Word Of God is given me to speak.

 Lesson #276

The Word of God is given me to speak.

Knowing that you are loved unconditionally by your Creator, what should you say today to yourself and the people you interact with? What should be your attitude? What is your position on things?

In Alcoholic Anonymous it is suggested in step twelve that we share what we have learned from the program with others. What are the main lessons which AA teaches? That every person has inherent worth and dignity, and that we are part of something for greater than our ego self which we share with all our brothers and sisters on the planet. That “something” is the Divine. This is the message it is suggested that we carry to others.

In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote seven principles. It is these we are encouraged to share. How often do you speak of them and mindfully act on them?

Today, being aware of who and what we are, we welcome opportunities to share this knowledge with others not necessarily in what we say but in how we act and what we intend.

A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #275 - God's healing Voice protects all things today.

 Lesson #275

God’s healing Voice protects all things today.

Jesus tells people according to Matthew that they worry too much. “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, now about your body, and what you shall put on.Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?  Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life. (Matthew 6:25-27)

In Alcoholics Anonymous it is suggested in step eleven that we improve our conscious contact with God and quit worrying. Life has a way of working out in the end if we put the Divine first.

In Unitarian Universalism we join together to promote and affirm the inherent worth and dignity of every person. People are just as important as birds and plants. Life feeds them so what are we so worried about? Life will take care of us as well as long as we are respectful.

Today self reckoning is suggested as we go through the day. We can ask ourselves what we are so anxious about and does it really matter? The answer 98% of the time about 98% of the things we worry about is “no.” And then we need to ask, “What would Love have me do?”