A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #362 - This holy instant would I give to You. Be You in charge. For I would follow You, certain that Your direction gives me peace,

 Lesson #362

This holy instant would I give to You. Be You in charge. For I would follow You, certain that Your direction gives me peace.

St. Paul says in his letter to the Corinthians, “If God is with you who can be against you?” It can be added that you and God are a dynamic duo. The power of the universe is realized when your will is brought into alignment with God’s will for you.

In Alcoholic Anonymous it is suggested, in step eleven, that we improve our conscious contact with God. The lessons of the last five days of the ACIM workbook are all the same because they are so important. In working on these last five lessons we practice step three of AA which is turning our willfulness over to God’s will for us which, simply put in one word, is love.

In Unitarian Universalism we join together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person. When we become attuned to this inherent worth and dignity peace and bliss arises.

Today, lesson #362 suggests that we align our will with God’s will for us. This takes discernment of what God’s will for us is. This discernment is the answer to the question, “What would love have me do.”

A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #361 - This holy instant would I give to You. Be you in charge. For I would follow You, certain that your direction gives me peace.

 

Lesson #361

This holy instant would I give to You. Be you in charge. For I would follow You, certain that your direction gives me peace.

We have arrived at the last five lessons which are all the same. Basically, it is suggested that we rest in doing God’s will for us. We have given up our willfulness and turned it over. We are going with the flow, resting in the peace of the Tao.

In Alcoholic Anonymous it is suggested, in step three, that we make a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understand God.

In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. This search takes us to goodness, truth, and beauty which is found in the holy instant when we rest in the presence of our Transcendent Source.

Today, it is suggested in lesson #361 that henceforth we listen consistently to the Voice of 

God which speaks to us constantly. All we need do to experience the peace and bliss of God is to listen.

A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #360 - Peace be to me, the holy Son of God. Peace to my brother, who is one with me. Let all the world be blessed with peace through us.

 Lesson #360

Peace be to me, the holy Son of God. Peace to my brother, who is one with me. Let all the world be blessed with peace through us.

As we arrive in the last days of the end of the 365 day A Course In Miracles workbook we can appreciate the non dualistic metaphysics of the teaching. The Son and the Father are one. I and my brothers are One. Christians call this Oneness of the Son, “Body of Christ.” It is in this growing awareness of the non duality of the Transcendent that peace arises.

In alcoholic Anonymous, we are encouraged, in step eleven, to improve our conscious contact with God as we understand God through prayer and meditation. In this conscious contact, we find peace and serenity.

In Unitarian Universalism we join together to affirm and promote the love of the interdependent web of all existence of which we are a part.

Today, it is suggested in lesson #360 that we bless the world with the peace we have experienced through the awareness of the non dualistic Oneness of all existence.

A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #359 - God's answer is some form of peace. All pain is healed; all misery replace with joy. All prison doors are opened. And all sin is understood as merely a mistake.

 Lesson #359

God’s answer is some form of peace. All pain is healed; all misery replaced with joy. All prison doors are opened. And all sin is understood as merely a mistake.

Universalists teach that God loves us unconditionally and would never consign any of God’s creations to hell. In the world of the ego, mistakes are made due to the separation which the ego condemns as sin to ignite guilt, suffering, fear, and anger. If we call on God to heal our separation, God’s answer is some form of peace.

In Alcoholic Anonymous we are encouraged to improve our conscious contact with God which is done through forgiveness. We first forgive ourselves with God’s love and then others.

In Unitarian Universalism we join together to affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person. Mistakes are recognized, acknowledged, and forgiven as we perceive and focus on the Divine Spark in every person.

Today, in lesson #359, we experience the peace of God when we forgive, which is the willingness to give up making other people and circumstances responsible for our unhappiness. We recognize that we are not victims except by our own choosing. We are responsible for the choice we make between Love and fear.

A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #358 - No call to God can be unheard nor left unanswered. And of this I can be sure; His answer is the one I really want.

 Lesson #358

No call to God can be unheard nor left unanswered. And of this I can be sure; His answer is the one I really want.

Jesus teaches, “Seek and you will find. Knock and the door will be opened for you.” What the heck is Jesus talking about? The spiritual yearning we all feel to become One with the All once again. We all yearn to go home.

In Alcoholic Anonymous it is encouraged in step eleven to improve our conscious contact with God as we understand God. All we have to do is ask, surrender our egos, and accept the peace and bliss that arises.

In Unitarian Universalism we covenant together to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning and what is this truth and meaning we all are searching for? It is the peace and bliss of the Oneness with God.

Today, lesson #358 reminds us that no call to God can be unheard or unanswered because God is the Ground of Our Being, our Transcendent Source and what we really want deep down is to go home again and belong to that from which we have separated ourselves.

A Course in Miracles workbook lesson #357 - Truth answers every call we make to God, responding first with miracles, and then returning unto us to be itself.

 Lesson #357

Truth answers every call we make to God, responding first with miracles, and then returning unto us to be itself.

What is truth? In Unitarian Universalism the fourth principle of seven is to affirm and promote the free and responsible search for truth and meaning. What is this “truth” that we are searching for?

In Alcoholic Anonymous it is suggested, in step eleven, that the truth we are searching for is the improved conscious contact with God as we understand God.

In Unitarian Universalism it is suggested in the first principle that we affirm and promote the inherent worth and dignity of every person.

Today, in lesson #357 it is suggested that the truth we call for is found in the miracle of forgiveness which frees our brothers and sisters and ourselves.

A Course In Miracles Workbook Lesson #356 - Sickness is but another name for sin. Healing is but another name for God. The miracle is thus a call to Him.

 

Lesson #356

Sickness is but another name for sin. Healing is but another name for God. The miracle is thus a call to HIm.

As we near the end of the workbook, the terms used in the A Course In Miracles workbook become more understandable. Sin is separation from the Love of God. Healing is a return to the Oneness, the non duality of the Ground of Our Being, our Transcendent Source. The miracle is the shift in perception from the world of the ego based on separation and division to the world of God which is the Oneness, the Wholeness, holiness, get it? And so the miracle is a remembering from Whence we have come and the healing of the separation.

In Alcoholic Anonymous it is suggested, in step eleven, that we improve our conscious contact with God through prayer and meditation, what today we call “mindfulness.”

In Unitarian Universalism we join together to affirm and promote the responsible search for truth and meaning which takes us to the place of miracles.

It is suggested in today’s lesson, #356. that we drop the ego and call to the Oneness of God and work a miracle.