A Course in Miracles Workbook Daily Lesson 269, Year 2022

ACIM Daily Lesson 269 My sight goes forth to look upon Christ’s face. 1. I ask Your blessing on my sight today.

Lesson 269

My sight goes forth to look upon Christ’s face.

1. I ask Your blessing on my sight today. ²It is the means which You have chosen to become the way to show me my mistakes, and look beyond them. ³It is given me to find a new perception through the Guide You gave to me, and through His lessons to surpass perception and return to truth. ⁴I ask for the illusion which transcends all those I made. ⁵Today I choose to see a world forgiven, in which everyone shows me the face of Christ, and teaches me that what I look upon belongs to me; that nothing is, except Your holy Son.

2. Today our sight is blessed indeed. ²We share one vision, as we look upon the face of Him Whose Self is ours. ³We are one because of Him Who is the Son of God; of Him Who is our own Identity.

I do ask God’s blessing on my sight today.

I want to see with Christ Vision, to see the face of Christ in everyone. So, I will pay attention to my thoughts and reactions to others. In this way, I can be shown the error if there is one, and shown how to look beyond them. This happened to me one morning last year. I was walking in the park, and two women were coming toward me.

I felt uneasy as I realized that none of us were wearing masks, but then I saw they were veering off the path. One of them looked up and smiled at me, and I smiled back and felt happy, and I was glad we weren’t wearing masks. I am also aware that some people feel very differently about masking and vaccinating than I do, and that’s OK. I stay vigilant for any desire to judge them or our difference in opinion. If that happens, I am quick to ask for Vision to show me the face of Christ in us all.

Christ’s vision is His gift to you. (ACIM, T-13.VIII.6:6)

Sometimes I will be asked how to see the face of Christ in another. My experience is that I cannot do this, but that I can want this and be willing to meet its conditions, and it just happens. The only conditions I am aware of are the willingness to see past the body, the personality, the words or actions of the other person, and mostly to look past my own judgments.

I don’t think I can be given the gift of Christ Vision if I am angry or projecting guilt. If I fail to meet its conditions, I can always access this gift if I ask the Holy Spirit for a new perception. There is always another way to see, I just have to sincerely desire it and ask for it. Asking for this new way to see is how I forgive the world and let it disappear so that I can become aware of what it has hidden. It will still be an illusion, I see, but it will be a transcendent illusion, one closer to reality.

Yesterday, I brought my computer in to get a new hard drive.

I had to drive an hour and a half to get this done because no one nearer me is certified to work on my Mac. I have gone to one of their stores and was not impressed. So I noticed on my way there that I was already feeling defensive toward them. As soon as that thought entered my mind, I was not at peace, so I questioned it. Do I want a different company to work on my computer, or do I want the peace of God?

As soon as I raised that question in my mind, I knew the answer. The peace of God is everything I want. I forgave the thought and went back to peace. When I arrived at the store, I looked at the technician with Christ’s vision. I loved him. And when he talked to me, he was patient kind, and a pleasure to deal with. I received what I gave.

No surprise there. Jesus tells us throughout the Course that this is how it works. I began the trip with an ego illusion in mind but chose to forgive that thought before I could project it. I did this simply by staying aware of my thoughts and forgiving those that are not my real thoughts.

It made me happy to read this entry from 2015.

I am asking God’s blessing on my sight today and every day. I have had this experience and know it is possible. Just yesterday, I saw the result of allowing my holy vision to show me the truth. There were changes at worked that I disliked the changes and I saw one person as chiefly responsible and resented her for it. I felt trapped in the situation because I don’t see it changing, and I don’t see myself quitting. This increased the resentment.

All along, I have been aware that this is my story and no one else’s responsibility and that I have been projecting to make it someone else’s fault. Yet I allowed my fear to drive my responses and seemed unwilling to stop. It was very frustrating and uncomfortable, and I continued throughout the experience to ask for vision. Then I accepted vision, and everything turned on a dime.

That is the most amazing part for me.

I was miserable in my judgments for days, and then I wasn’t. Everything changed in a moment. I was pretty sure the healing was done but knew I would have to be confronted by the situation to be sure. I was looking forward to being at peace at work or seeing what else in my mind needed to be undone. Yesterday, another drama was going on, and I experienced no conflict in my mind. Instead, I was an instrument of peace for the others involved, so I know it is done.

I can’t tell you how good this feels! I think about the drama getting worse, and I am at peace. Or, I think about getting fired, and I am at peace. Lately, I have been testing this as I think about being retired and living basically on social security. And instead of feeling panicked, I find myself laughing as I consider how on earth that could work. I think about not being able to retire (which has been my most persistent ego goal for a while now), and I feel nothing about it.

“Wow, Holy Spirit. We did good! What else do we need to work on?”

Contemplation 2025

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