A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 17

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 17

 

"I see no neutral things."

 

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  Hi my beautiful buddies, up and at um, another day of moving along. Maybe we can slow the pace down a little and just kinda sashay down the path doing our best runway model impersonation. It's so important that we take the fun where we can find it. I think I'm gonna wear my best feathered boa and pink leather skullcap and my favorite designer overalls, no heels, just my ten little piggies. What will you wear? How will you outrageously express yourself today? When it comes to the Course there are as many ways to rock it, as there are people. 

 

Prayer: Our Precious and steadfast Teacher, please help us to believe in ourselves, please help us to see ourselves as you see us. Please help to strengthen our resolve to want to put away the thinking and image making and reach to light, reach within to you. Thank you for loving us into existence and being with us every step of the way on our grand adventure together. We love you and wish only to feel the true oneness. Please guide us to the garden. Thank you for teaching us. Allways.

 

Workbook Lesson: "I see no neutral things. Judgment is a powerful tool; it created the world as we know it. The knowledge of good and evil has made everything mean something, pretty car, ugly blonde etc. The way my teacher explains it is. "So, if you are not making something different, you are seeing everything not just the same, but it's reality before it's discerned is different." (Rev. Devan Jesse Byrne, ACIMi L17, ex.)  I think he is talking about how our judgment makes everything different, and definitely not neutral. I believe neutral is love, and our natural state before we start defining and judging, that is why it is different. We take the beautiful wholeness of All that is, and then with our thoughts start slicing and dicing. This Course aims at helping us learn to unthink and just be as we are naturally. As these lessons focusing on cause and effect continue, we are reminded by the Course that as we think so we believe we are. This is where illusion comes from because the weaving of thoughts makes the effect.

 

Thinking It Over: It's like with any movie, the thought, the idea, comes first. My thoughts were I hate myself, no one loves me, I am a pathetic loser, I can't do this, I need help, everyone thinks I'm a joke. What thoughts caused your movie? Then they add the images and plots, scenery, actors, and on and on. I usually played the victim, the helpless, misunderstood, damsel in distress, waiting to be saved.  What does your movie effect look like?

 

Tips & Tricks: I hope you like the new section,s it was created with the hope that we can expand our own understanding of the lesson and share on them, I know nothing gets me pondering like a good honest question. Also, that regular reminder to do the lessons the best you can, whether you understand how it fits or not, and if you miss one you don't have to beat yourself up, just start with the missed lesson the next day, just doing one lesson at a time. Please don't try and play catch up by doing more than one lesson a day. If you have a lesson that you would like to do for more than one day that's fine.

 

Upon Closing: Hey you guys, we did it, we found our way to a resting place for today. I don't know about you, but I feel like I put a day in. Please allways remember you are loved and valued, and it would be unthinkable for me to have to do this without you, cause you bring so much joy to my heart. Please remember you are never alone on the journey, that you make such a stupendous difference in my life, and a reminder that you were called to the Course by divine design, basically you're here cause God wanted you here. Please have an inspiring rest of your day, a blessed night and remember to call upon the Wholly Spirit. Hugs, Love & Light, Riki 🌈