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Lesson 72 ~ A Course in Miracles ~ Zoom Call Video: Holding grievances is an attack on God’s plan for salvation
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Overview
1. While we have recognized that the ego’s plan for salvation is the opposite of God’s, we have not yet emphasized that it is an active attack on His plan, and a deliberate attempt to destroy it. ²In the attack, God is assigned the attributes which are actually associated with the ego, while the ego appears to take on the attributes of God.
2. The ego’s fundamental wish is to replace God…
3. Although the attempt to keep the limitations that a body would impose is obvious here, it is perhaps not so apparent why holding grievances is an attack on God’s plan for salvation…
4. You are not dealing here with what the person is…
5. If God is a body, what must His plan for salvation be?…
6. To this carefully prepared arena, where angry animals seek for prey and mercy cannot enter, the ego comes to save you…
7. This is the universal belief of the world you see…
8. We will try today to stop these senseless attacks on salvation…
9. The light of truth is in us, where it was placed by God….
10. Our goal in the longer practice periods today is to become aware that God’s plan for salvation has already been accomplished in us…
11. Now we would see and hear and learn…
12. Whenever you feel your confidence wane and your hope of success flicker and go out, repeat your question and your request, remembering that you are asking of the infinite Creator of infinity, Who created you like Himself: ²What is salvation, Father? ³I do not know. ⁴Tell me, that I may understand…
13. One or perhaps two shorter practice periods an hour will be enough for today, since they will be somewhat longer than usual…
Subjects Discussed: 1 – God’s plan for salvation is to have us forgive and let go of the ego’s tool, mindset and world. 2 – Grievances define as any of the ego’s tools, such as judgment off self and others, anger, resentment, fear. 3 – In any moment, thanks to free will, you can choose between your grivances and God’s will for you. 4 – God is All, thus the ego trying to place itself in opposition to God, has to be nothing. 5 – Your natural state is to be at one with the mind of God. 6 – The ego uses the body to make you believe that you are separate from your brother. 7 – God uses the body as a communication device for the soul. 8 – We created the ego when we had. a thought that was not of God and we forgot to laugh. 9 – Holding grivances blocks God’s plan for your salvation. 10 – Your brother is not what he think, says or does, he is who God created. 11 – Overlook the body/story and sees only the truth in others as true. 12 – Every grievance you hold reinforces the false idea that the body is real. 13 – There is an eternal battle between the body/flesh/physical and the spirit/soul/love/the eternal. 14 – The more you get to practice releasing/forgiving your grivances – the less time you will spend in conflict, confusion and pain. 15 – The more you practice trusting the Divine design and Divine timing the more peace you will experience. The more peace you experience the more grateful to God you will become. 16 – Let go of your attachment to outcome. Practice in those moments trusting God more. 17 – If you place your faith in the ego’s timing it will bring you anxiousness and pain. 18 – In each moment you can choose between the ego’s grivances or God’s plan for salvation, judgment or forgiveness, pain or peace. 19 – Our body is a communication device for the soul. 20 – You have all the tools you need within you to awaken, heal and grow. 21 – When in doubt, ask the Holy Spirit what to think, say and do, and then think, say and do only that. 22 – Practice being at peace with what is. “Thy will be done.” 23 – When we hold unto our grivances we fail to see the gift that god is trying to offer us in the present moment. 24 – Forgive and you will be set free. 25 – Practice bring the Holy Spirit in and using Him/Love as your guide. 26 -Don’t punish yourself for reacting with the ego, just practice stopping your investment in the ego’s thoughts. 27 – Ask and you will be answered, seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened to you. 28 – A lack of confidence simply means the ego is in control of your thoughts. Remember God created you and be confident. 29 – In any moment as God: “How can I lead my brothers to salvation now.” 30 – The same person the ego would have you condemn is the same person , when seen through Love’s lens, becomes your savior, your guide to salvation.
