Thank you, Sean, so much for this, and thank you to April for her comment too. A major stumbling block for me in my encounter with the Course (since 1990) has been in what it at first seemed to me to be saying around physical and mental suffering. Much of this has been to do with how I tried to read the Course for a long time - just kind of speed-and-skim, with little space and attention and simple engagement, but sometimes I just could not find a way to connect it with human raw experience, mutual and personal. Your piece really works for me.
This was quite a profound communication for me. It touched my soul. It's making sense of ACIM for me. The way you see it, if that's the intention of the Course, then it is beyond beautiful. Now, I have to go back and read it again for the sheer upliftment. If I feel called to, may I share it?
Much gratitude to you Sean for your posting on pain as it really resonated with me. At times it feels like I'm walking a tightrope of yes, I'm a body, but at the same time that's not my true identity and the balancing act is trying not to fall so heavily into thinking I'm just a body when I'm experiencing pain. When I'm in the throes of worldly suffering in whatever form it's taking at the moment, I find what helps me the most is taking a shower and repeating several times "I am not a body I am free for I am still as God created me." This seems to unlock my bear trap mind and I actually feel myself sighing and this simple remembering allows me to interact differently with my own pain and the pain of others.
Thank you, Sean, so much for this, and thank you to April for her comment too. A major stumbling block for me in my encounter with the Course (since 1990) has been in what it at first seemed to me to be saying around physical and mental suffering. Much of this has been to do with how I tried to read the Course for a long time - just kind of speed-and-skim, with little space and attention and simple engagement, but sometimes I just could not find a way to connect it with human raw experience, mutual and personal. Your piece really works for me.
This was quite a profound communication for me. It touched my soul. It's making sense of ACIM for me. The way you see it, if that's the intention of the Course, then it is beyond beautiful. Now, I have to go back and read it again for the sheer upliftment. If I feel called to, may I share it?
Much gratitude to you Sean for your posting on pain as it really resonated with me. At times it feels like I'm walking a tightrope of yes, I'm a body, but at the same time that's not my true identity and the balancing act is trying not to fall so heavily into thinking I'm just a body when I'm experiencing pain. When I'm in the throes of worldly suffering in whatever form it's taking at the moment, I find what helps me the most is taking a shower and repeating several times "I am not a body I am free for I am still as God created me." This seems to unlock my bear trap mind and I actually feel myself sighing and this simple remembering allows me to interact differently with my own pain and the pain of others.