Only God's plan for salvation will work… Holding grievances is an attack on God's plan for salvation...
At first when I encountered the Courses perspective on the concept of sin, I noticed I had this deflect-type belief that went something like, “I don’t believe in sin. I’m over that. ~ That belief is my parent’s and theirs and the fundamentalist, fearful types, the ones that are ‘not there yet’; the unsophisticated thinkers, the ignorant people’s. I rejected that naive belief long ago.” (ha ha ~cosmic belly-laugh) I subscribed to the ‘boomeritis’ ideology, where the rule is: everything is subjective; the truth is no ultimate truth, but relative to the perceiver’s view, a conglomerate of “don’t step on anybody’s ‘belief toes.” So thinking I was ‘over that already’, kept me from seeing how thoroughly entrenched in and subject to the belief in sin I really was.
Meanwhile, I was punishing myself left and right for all slip-ups to my plan for salvation based on my interpretation and my requirements for gaining forgiveness and the
Yes. But like it says, words are just symbols of symbols, twice removed from reality. This leaves plenty of room for a sharp mind like mine to interpret and redesign …
ONLY THE TRUTH IS TRUE!
Being open to the explanation of the ‘belief in sin’ as the Course lays it out, is critical to the surrender of ‘my way’ and the understanding of the 'one mistake'. Sin versus Error offers a succinct layout of this fundamental belief in chapter 19 of the text:(T-19.II.1-7)
The backwards approach just doesn't work... But, here’s the eternally generous thing ~the rest of the story, as we say.
Because I sincerely, truly, deeply, want the truth, and I was aware I didn’t have a grasp on it, I just kept turning to the only source, A Course in Miracles, where I felt it could be found and I just had to trust it would be revealed.
Actually, I couldn't help myself... Reading the course was sort of an ‘out of body’ experiences for me. I felt myself being lifted up, blending with an idea base far greater than myself. It was an experience of complete release; if just for an instant at a time. I realized a new awareness of the possibility of ‘true joining’ through ideas.
I love what it says about this experience in context of the holy instant in chapter 18 of the text, where it says: “Everyone has experienced what he would call a sense of being transported beyond himself. This feeling of liberation far exceeds the dream of freedom sometimes hoped for in special relationships. It is a sense of actual escape from limitations”. I remember even reading that and spinning it into some impression the holy experience of losing myself within the grand joining with love, happening right here, right now.
I was aware that nothing previously familiar to me in this world was giving me the feeling of freedom and experience of selflessness I was experiencing within my mind when joining with the ideas presented in the Course... Within this one mind-meld are all mind-melds contained, mind does not go out and join, but rather it is “a joining of yourself and something else in which your mind enlarges to encompass it. It becomes part of you, as you unite with it. And both become whole, as neither is perceived as separate… merely by a quiet melting in…”
This is the life of the miracle… a quiet melting in of the idea of God and His Idea of Creation, His Idea of His Son… This is God’s plan for salvation… it is an experience of perfect safety and peace… an awareness that nothing need be done…
This experience of freedom makes it easy to handle/forgive any compulsion to have a grievance so as to not disturb the serenity of love’s awareness… And in that recognition, peace is instantly restored…
~Thank you for your willing mind-meld, within this holy instant~ the love that you are showers me with your presence and the love of God… we are the One and we represent our Fathers idea… All gratitude and glory to God~ ~amen
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