A Course in Miracles Workbook Daily Lesson 301, Year 2022

ACIM Daily Lesson 301 And God Himself shall wipe away all tears. 1. Father, unless I judge I cannot weep.

Lesson 301

And God Himself shall wipe away all tears.

1. Father, unless I judge I cannot weep. ²Nor can I suffer pain, or feel I am abandoned or unneeded in the world. ³This is my home because I judge it not, and therefore is it only what You will. ⁴Let me today behold it uncondemned, through happy eyes forgiveness has released from all distortion. ⁵Let me see Your world instead of mine. ⁶And all the tears I shed will be forgotten, for their source is gone. ⁷Father, I will not judge Your world today.

2. God’s world is happy. ²Those who look on it can only add their joy to it, and bless it as a cause of further joy in them. ³We wept because we did not understand. ⁴But we have learned the world we saw was false, and we will look upon God’s world today.

The message here is simple.

We think we became our own God and made of ourselves something we are not. We made a world that we could call our own and one that would allow us to seek the specialness we thought would make us happy. However, we were wrong about all of it and now we suffer the guilt and fear that was caused by this choice. But all is not lost as there is another world.

This is the happy world that is God’s replacement for the one that is the source of all pain. It is the world that will usher in complete reconciliation with God and bring us to Oneness once more. Our judgment that specialness would be better than Universal Love is what set us on this ill-advised journey. By contrast, the end of judgment shows us the happy world that is the Second Coming.

The original judgment is symbolized in the world over and over, giving us the opportunity to witness how ineffective judgment is. In this way, we come to realize ourselves that we want to lay down judgment. In God’s World, there is no judgment because there is nothing to judge better or worse. Here there is reflected only eternal glorious Reality. I will not waste these judgments when they occur. I will use them to choose again, this time for God and for His Son.

Here is something that happened many years ago.

One morning I was reading Post Secret. It is a web page that posts people’s secrets. I read one that caused a little ripple of unease in me, and I nearly didn’t notice that unease because it was there and gone so quickly. But then I went back and read it again.

Someone had sent in a postcard saying that his secret is he plays phone pranks on his own mom. I sat with it for a moment and realized there was a real fear in me trying to come up. I let it rise to the surface and imagined my son doing this to me. I felt anger at this young man for what he did to his mom. That I should have such a visceral reaction to this secret helped me to see that I have unforgiven judgments that need healing.

It seemed like a small thing; after all, I nearly didn’t even notice it. But it is these kinds of judgments that color my life and keep it dark and joyless. In truth, there are no small judgments, only judgments. If it seems small, it is only because I have been unwilling to acknowledge it, and have pushed it quickly to the bottom of the heap where I don’t have to see it.

I felt very grateful that I did notice.

 I was grateful that I was willing to look at it with the Holy Spirit. He helped me to see how important this process is.

Me: Holy Spirit, why did I have this uneasiness when I read that secret? I can’t imagine one of my sons doing this to me. Well, obviously I can imagine it, but they never have.

Holy Spirit: Think for a moment what quickly went through your mind before you withdrew your attention.

Me: I thought how very unkind and unloving. I felt, for just a microsecond that I wanted to cry. It was as if it had happened to me and that it meant my sons do not love me. Writing those words make me want to cry right now.

Holy Spirit: This is the fear of not being loved expressing itself through your tears.

Me: Holy Spirit, it is very hard for me to hear You because I don’t want to look at this.

He answered me.

Holy Spirit: Dear one, do you see that your sons have nothing to do with this? They have not expressed a lack of love, but you have judged yourself unworthy of love. This is your judgment of yourself, projected onto your sons. All love comes from your Father. Sometimes you see it as though it is coming from someone else, but it is only passing through the image of that person so that you can accept it.

All lack of love comes from your judgment that you are not worthy.

That thought blocks love from your awareness. If you understood your innate worthiness and completely accepted it, then you really would not be able to imagine your sons (or anyone else) not loving you.

Do you see that all feelings of lack are the result of self-judgment? God showers you, His Beloved, with love all the time. You hold up the umbrella of unworthiness so that very little touches you. Then you fret because this one or that one does not love you. Only you judge yourself as unworthy, and only you create a world devoid of love.

When you see yourself as unloved, even in what you would call a small way or by someone who you do not think of as important, you have seen yourself as unloved and unlovable. Lack is not discreet, and you cannot hold it true in one area of your life and not another. The judgment of lack will indeed color all of your life, and those areas where you think of yourself as loved will become strained as you try to convince yourself that you have what you denied.

Me: Thank you, Holy Spirit for helping me to understand this. I am willing to see this differently. I am willing to know that I am completely loved and to see this love reflected in all areas of my life.

Contemplation 2025

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