Welcome to Daily Miracles, a running commentary on the 365 lessons of A Course in Miracles, an influential spiritual text from the 1970s. I am James Leroy Wilson and I invite you to join me as I go through this material for the first time.
There is another way of looking at the world. (ACIM, W-33)
I'm thinking of our recent days:
Above all else I want to see things differently. (ACIM, W-28)
God is in everything I see. (ACIM, W-29)
God is in everything I see because God is in my mind. (ACIM, W-30)
I am not the victim of the world I see. (ACIM, W-31)
I have invented the world I see. (ACIM, W-32)
And now we have:
There is another way of looking at the world. (ACIM, W-33)
We don't have to look at the world through the lens of distress. We can, instead, see a world of opportunities and incentives to express love.
Whenever I felt distress during the day, I couldn't help but combine the lesson with the previous lesson by saying: There is another way of looking at this problem because I invented the problem to begin with, and it's not really real.
When I watch a movie and it finishes with the Bad Guy getting away, I know the film studio is hoping the movie's popular enough to make a sequel.. I don't lie in bed at night worrying that the Bad Guy is on the loose, or wondering what I should do to help capture him. The Bad Guy is a problem that doesn't exist.
If I do think that, it's obvious that the Bad Guy is a problem I invented. Perhaps most seemingly real problems also don't really exist, or the resolution is so easily available that it's really a much smaller problem than I imagined.
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