Sorry Not Sorry: A Course in Miracles and Guilt, Shame, and Not Good Enough

July 6, 2021

What Does ACIM Mean by Forgiveness? | ACIM Lesson 134

August 3, 2021

Solving Problems with A Course in Miracles: ACIM Lessons 79 & 80

A Course in Miracles teaches us that all our problems and our pain originate in the belief that we have separated from God. Workbook Lesson 79, “Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved” and lesson 80, “Let me recognize all my problems have been solved” discuss this in detail.

The atonement – which is the full realization that the separation never occurred – is the solution.

So how do we apply that in a practical way in the world?

Instead of maintaining a position of “That wasn’t supposed to happen” or “Whose fault is it that things got all f*cked up?”, solving problems with A Course in Miracles involves being willing to release the situation, to see it differently, to acknowledge that we don’t know, and allowing our minds to be corrected as to what the solution is.

It is the ego mind that makes up problems in this world in the first place, as a projection of our belief in the one problem. The ego mind exists only in a state of fear – and you can’t solve a problem at the level of mind that created it.

Solving problems with A Course in Miracles means admitting that we don’t really have the slightest idea what is supposed to happen in any given situation, and asking Spirit to guide us.

Beginning the day in a place of acknowledging that you aren’t really the one driving this bus and asking to be told, guided, shown – is a great start. Releasing your ideas of how to solve your problems will save you a LOT of time and energy (which – come on – you would probably otherwise just spend resisting and trying to make your own agenda happen anyway. Just saying. ; )