Today’s lesson begins with “You are holy because your mind is part of God’s [therefore], your sight must be holy as well.”\u00a0 This I can follow and grasp.\u00a0 Jesus is saying my godliness envelops everything I see because the truth of me is my godliness and as Jacquelyn pointed out in yesterdays tip, “We are being invited to experience ourselves and our world in a way we have blocked our selves from experiencing it in the past.\u00a0 We are being invited to take the person out of the experience.” And as NTI Colossians 1 says about this experience, “You are beyond concepts and differences and form, and within the Life Force that is all things.”<\/p>\n
It is this next part of today’s lesson that Jesus wants us to examine that had me scratching my head.\u00a0 Jesus seems to go on about something that initially appeared unrelated when he says: \u201c’Sinless’ means without sin. You cannot be without sin a little. You are sinless or not. If your mind is part of God’s you must be sinless, or a part of His Mind would be sinful.” I got a better understanding of why he began talking about sin when I read ACIM’s section on Sin versus error:<\/p>\n
It is essential that error be not confused with \u201csin,\u201d and it is this distinction which makes salvation possible.\u00a0 For error can be corrected, and the wrong made right.\u00a0 But sin, were it possible, would be irreversible.\u00a0 For by [sin], God Himself is changed and rendered incomplete.<\/p>\n
Sin is the belief in the reality of separation.\u00a0 Sin is the belief that things outside of you have the ability to affect you.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s look at Brent Haskell’s book Journey Beyond Words.\u00a0 In the chapter entitled \u201cHoliness,\u201d Jeshua says:<\/p>\n
You will know, in your holiness,
\nThat all of life is your own creation.
\nGod is your source.
\nYou are very holy.
\nIn your holiness, you are the God of your own life.
\nAnd you experience that life in your oneness with God.
\nApart from God, you cannot see.
\nApart from Him, you but imagine your apartness.
\nApart from your holiness,
\nYou imagine that you are separate,
\nThat beings are different from you.
\nYou will imagine that they are not your own creations.
\nYou will imagine that your pain is pain.
\nYou will imagine that things can happen to you
\nFrom outside yourself, not by your own choice.<\/p>\n
So, as you can see if sin were real, (w)holiness would not be.\u00a0 You could and some might say you did imagine something less than wholeness, but it isn’t real.\u00a0 Sin isn’t real and therefore I am free to experience my truth and the truth is that my holiness envelops everything I see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lesson 36. My holiness envelops everything I see. Today’s lesson begins with “You are holy because your mind is part of God’s [therefore], your sight must be holy as well.”\u00a0 This I can follow and grasp.\u00a0 Jesus is saying my godliness envelops everything I see because the truth of me is my godliness and as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[122,88],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gentlehealingtips-jpe","8":"category-sidebar","9":"entry"},"yoast_head":"\n