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Lesson 84. These are the ideas for today's review:

 

Lesson 84. These are the ideas for today's review:

1.(67) Love created me like itself.

I am in the likeness of my Creator. I cannot suffer, I cannot experience loss
and I cannot die. I am not a body. I would recognize my reality today. I will
worship no idols, nor raise my own self-concept to replace my Self. I am in the
likeness of my Creator. Love created me like itself.

You might find these specific forms helpful in applying the idea:

Let me not see an illusion of myself in this.
As I look on this, let me remember my Creator.
My Creator did not create this as I see it.

3. (68). Love holds no grievances.

Grievances are completely alien to love. Grievances attack love and keep its
light obscure. If I hold grievances I am attacking love, and therefore attacking
my Self. My Self thus becomes alien to me. I am determined not to attack my Self
today, so that I can remember Who I am.

These specific forms for applying this idea would be helpful:

This is no justification for denying my Self.
I will not use this to attack love.
Let this not tempt me to attack myself.

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The commentary on this lesson is from Kenneth Wapnick's eight volume series of
books, called: "Journey Through the Workbook of A Course in Miracles," which can
be purchased at the following site:??~ M. Street
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(1:7-8) "I am in the likeness of my Creator. Love created me like itself."

*Jesus returns to the lesson's theme, and asks us to return as well. We are
speeded along our journey by our willingness to set aside the ego's shabby
substitutes and accept the truth about ourselves. We are created in the image
and likeness of our Creator and Source -- Love Itself.

This is reiterated in the specific applications:*

(2:2-4) "Let me not see an illusion of myself in this."
"As I look on this, let me remember my Creator."
"My Creator did not create this as I see it."

*The "this" is any situation that causes us to believe we are vulnerable bodies,
reinforcing the belief we are not glorious Self of spirit that God created.
Jesus' point is that if we see ourselves as hurt or exhilarated by anything, it
is because we have chosen to see it that way. Nothing has the power to make us
feel good or bad but the mind's choice for the ego, made because we value it
over the non-dualistic Self created by God. Jesus asks us to want to choose
differently; to see each event of our day as an opportunity to remember our
Creator. This choice is reflected by our recognition that Perfect Love could not
have created the situation we experience, and so it cannot be real. And what is
not real can have no power over us.*

(3:1) (68). "Love holds no grievances."

*Jesus returns to the important theme of grievances and attack thoughts. Implied
here is that our grievances do not just come; we <actively choose them> because
we want to hold another responsible for the misery we feel from having separated
from love. Rather than accept responsibility for our "sin" and admit the fear
that caused us to separate, we deny the sin, split it off from the self and,
through projection, hold grievances against someone else -- <anyone> else --
accusing that person of what we secretly believe we have done. All this is
brought about to fulfill the ego's purpose of protecting its existence through
denying the mind and making us mindless, leaving us "at the mercy of things
beyond [us], forces [we] cannot control" (T-19.IV-D.7:4)*

(4:2-4) "These specific forms for applying this idea would be helpful:

"This is no justification for denying my Self."
" I will not use this to attack love."
"Let this not tempt me to attack myself."

*Jesus, as always, appeals to the power of our minds to make another choice. His
appeal takes the power of recognizing there is no justification for attack
thoughts of any kind. Recalling the shift in purpose, of which the Holy Spirit
is the reminder, allows us to release our grievances. Thus does the love
underneath ascend in our awareness and bring us peace, the steppingstone to
remembering the Self we had denied.*


Love and Blessings,

Lyn Johnson
719-369-1822

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