You are not your body

 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.

Sickness is a defense against the truth. (ACIM, W-136)

Imagine that you have a favorite baseball player.

In the 2nd inning of the 124th game of a 162-game season, he strikes out. This knocks his batting average from .297 to.296. You’ve been hoping he’d have a .300 season, but he just got further away from it.

How would this make you feel about yourself? Would you wonder how a just God would allow such a thing?

Would you wonder what you personally did to cause the strikeout?

Not even the most avid baseball fan lives and dies with each at-bat. There are ebbs and flows to the game and to the season.

This at-bat has nothing to do with you, and you have no reason to be upset. Once you realize that, your problem is “solved” because it was never a problem in the first place.

You are not this baseball player, and even he isn’t concerned about a single at-bat.

Sickness is either a manifestation of worry, or it is trying to make you worry by reminding you of the eventual death of the body. It wants you to worry about your own helplessness.

But just as you are not your favorite baseball player, you are not your body. You are eternal and have no cause to worry about anything.

James Leroy Wilson writes Daily Miracles, The Daily Bible Chapter, JL Cells, and The MVP Chase. Thanks for your subscriptions and support!

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