God’s light clarifies confusion
Day 44: God’s light. Imagine you’re in your bedroom at night with the lights off. You feel cold, and you want to find your favorite hoodie. The room is pitch black. Even though you know where things are in the room, you’re stumbling around, and NOT finding the hoodie.
Finally, convinced the hoodie is downstairs, you give up, and you say, “It’s not here. I left it somewhere else.”
In fact, the hoodie is there. You just can’t see it.
Turn the lights on. Suddenly everything is visible. Including the hoodie. Right where you left it.
This example illustrates the key point from ACIM Lesson 44.
God’s light is always on.
In order to see it, just stop blocking it.
Darkness is a place you linger, not a permanent condition.
No one who believes should stay in darkness.
Then Jesus cried out, "Whoever believes in me does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. The one who looks at me -- is seeing the one who sent me.
I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness."
John 12:46
Stop blocking God’s light. Seeing into darkness feels easier, but really, it’s a trap.
Lesson 44 says that’s how it works with God. The “light” that lets you see what’s real is already built into you. It’s not something you have to find or earn.
When the River of Shame noise takes over (worry, bad moods, ego, fear), it’s like you’re living in a dark room, insisting no presence is there. Because you can’t see anything, you decide that nothing is there.
The practice in this lesson is basically learning how to flip the switch. Or more accurately, how to stop blocking the light.
Once that happens, you will see things you’ve never seen before. And then you can receive guidance and protection from Holy Spirit (River of Grace).
To summarize: The light is already there, and so is the “seeing equipment”.
You just have to stop looking into darkness.
Look towards the light by connecting with Holy Spirit. He will help you find what you are looking for.
A Course in Miracles (ACIM), Lesson 44 video
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God is the light in which I see. ACIM Lesson 44
A Course In Miracles (ACIM): Workbook Lesson 44 (full text – free to read)
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