A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 2

A Course in Miracles

Workbook Lesson 2

 

"I have given everything I see all the meaning that it has for me."

Interpreted by Roberta Gallop

 

Daily Welcome:  Hi, nice to see you again, I hope you are well rested and ready for our second day of ACIM workbook lessons. Another step on our journey. Journey's can be very interesting things in their own right, and I have found this ACIM journey to be no different. Sometimes I think I am heading in one direction and then I get a nudge or a glimpse of something else and the Wholly Spirit leads me in a totally different direction. I'm still following along the path as a student of the Course, but I will get an insight, like when I knew I needed to move. Not all the insights are that dramatic, but they are usually connected to a change in perceptions, brought about by these profound, but simple lessons.

 

Prayer: Blessed Christ, please expand us, help us to release our grip on the addiction we have to our little self, and show us the way home to you one lesson at a time. Please give us the insight and strength to move forward and believe. With each lesson, please quiet our minds that we may know the truth of who we are in you. Thank you allways. Amen.

 

Workbook Lesson: "I have given everything I see all the meaning that it has for me." This was the one that figuratively turned me upside down and dropped me on my head. My mind started bending itself like a pretzel, because yesterday we learned that everything I see doesn't mean anything, and today I am learning that everything I see has all the meaning I give to it. So, my logical and rational mind (said loosely) went to the place of then this world and everything in it is illusion. I am insane, living a fantasy, because nothing I see is real. So that is one of my hints that things go a lot deeper than they appear to be on the surface. I do believe a few times it was at this point when I started meeting with some good old-fashioned resistance. I was starting to feel a lot strange about the whole workbook thing, I was getting the feeling I was in the process of being brainwashed, but that small little voice was telling me, that maybe my brain needed to be washed, maybe that was the problem all along.

I tend to agree that a clearing and making clean of all the many layers of thousands and millions of ideas, illusions, and concepts that we have rattling around inside our heads from many lifetimes, obscuring us from knowing our true oneness with God, is a good thing to be open too. So that is a good motive for daily picking up the book and doing the lessons whether I particularly feel like it or not. As you do today's lesson especially, just kind of do it without any goal or expectation in your mind at all, in kind of an emotionally detached indiscriminate way.

 

Tips & Tricks: Something that is easy to fall into is listening to your own chatter, with you feeling either this course is so far beneath you it's not worth your time. Or that you are so stupid and dark and unwanted that you can't possibly get it anyway, so why bother. Then of course you may have friends and family giving you their opinions on how they feel about you becoming a student of ACIM, ranging anywhere from naming you as a heartless traitor to them wanting to take the Course with you. The nature of ACIM brings up its own controversy and the more you can stand strong in your own conviction about your choices the smoother time you will have.  It also helps to have a study buddy, group or teacher, someone in your corner so you can feel supported and not alone.

 

Upon Closing: Since these lessons tend to bring the truth, please remember in the words of Gloria Steinem, "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off". I have definitely enjoyed our time together today, and I look forward to hanging out with you again tomorrow. Please remember to do your workbook lesson, only one a day and do that reaching to the Wholly Spirit at night and then in the morning. See ya tomorrow, Love & Light Riki 🌈