Day 84

Today's Lesson:

These are the ideas for today's review:

(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.

We 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.

(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.

Miracles I'm noticing:

I really love these reminders. It gives me a chance to see how far I've come in my studies and my remembering. I also love the distinction between my self and my Self. When I can remember that what's really important is my Self, I remember that I'm not alone on this journey. I also remember that I'm studying this course with several others, any one of whom I can call for support during any struggles that pull me back to my self. We share a commitment to what these lessons are teaching us, and that is proving to be a miracle in itself. However, as I remember that this is the way God intended us to live - in comfort and joy and love instead of in struggle and worry and fear - I see that the only obstacles that come up for me are ones my self put there. My Self wants this to be easy. What a relief and a sense of peace that brings. That is surely a miracle that is with me every single day. Remembering it proves that I am learning. I notice that the remembering is turning into just the way it is - there are far fewer times that I even forget. And that, for me, is the true miracle! Now I want to practice gratitude so I don't take it for granted!