All week I have been repeating and meditating on this ACIM Lesson, have been really struggling . So what a gift to read and to affirm this, thank you Marianne always appreciate your beautiful written words of truth.
"What will LOVE have me do today", that prayer you shared has helped me to resolve issues that come up, I had a small poster made to include that sentence. No matter what angst is circulating in my brain, all I have to say are those words, and instantly I feel at peace. Thank you from my heart/soul and spirit.
Thank you, Marianne, for making me pause and truly reflect.
I’ve forgiven others… but the harder journey was forgiving myself.
It’s taken me over 30 years to move from the soul-numbing self-hatred of my youth to a place of neutrality — and now, at times, even real, delicious sparks of self-love. That shift is a blessing I don’t take lightly.
Every day I ask God to use me…
and every day, in a thousand quiet ways no one else can see, God does.
Tiny miracles balanced on the head of a pin — precise, subtle, unmistakable.
A very thought-provoking piece. How often are our unresolved issues brought up in our subconscious and unconscious musings. Some of these issues are still viewed through the eyes of a toddler, young child or rebellious teenager. Unprocessed grief issues seem also to be passed on from one generation to the next. I often need help from others who have chosen to uncover these things that have made living in the now difficult. I believe that if we chose to explore these areas of difficulty through meditation and prayer, we will be rewarded beyond our expectations.
I have this great practice that if I am not able to forgive (conditioned mind identified= with the past/ego) I forgive myself for not being able to forgive a trespass against me .
Patience is a form of love.
When we talk about forgiveness we can never force it.
Forgiveness comes from understanding.
You can never really forgive unless you first understand.
And this comes from self knowledge.
And this takes no time.
Forgiveness, like life, is in the now it is not in the past and it cannot be in the future .
It comes back to core ACIM teachings understanding who we are.
We are all in essence awareness having a dream of form, consciousness .
I like that, " I forgive myself for not being able to forgive."
I think I will use that if I need but ad the phrase, 'at this time,' to the sentence.
Dear God,
Please help me understand why forgiveness is so hard in this situation. Please heal my heart and remove the blinders in front of my eyes that keep me from seeing my objections.
Thank you for helping me, God.
May this situation be lifted to divine right order.
Amen
It is interesting and encouraging that so many of us are interested in learning to do better with forgiveness.
A prayer I have said for Donald Trump because I find him literally impossible to love, he's so consumed with spiritual and psychological sickness that it makes me sick even to think about him... but I need to pray about him and what he's doing to the country... so here's what I say..
Dear God
Please relieve Donald Trump of his suffering so that those who suffer as a result of his suffering will be relieved of their suffering.
Show me the path to release my suffering over him and over his behavior, so I can contribute to mending what is being broken, to healing what has been wounded, to building what must be built so that this kind of suffering can never return.
It's not quite the same thing as what you pray but it's along similar lines.
And by the way I can't do it if I'm on certain social media, especially the one currently owned by Elon Musk. There's just such a powerful undertale of sarcasm and irony and Venom on that platform.
Sometimes I need to understand that I'm not strong enough to fight the negative influence of thousands of negative voices. But I can ask for what is positive productive and healing in mine to grow and strengthen and find purpose in the world.
Looks like your new book will be exciting, Marianne. Many, many, congratulations. You are sooo prolific, like the Mozart of ACIM principles books.
Anyway, I have read and listened and journaled on the concept in today's post for 20 years.
But, I didn't really start to get it in an actionable manner until those 20 years passed and one of my ever present assignments presented itself in a concrete, material way.
I pray to be used by divine spirit to teach others how to heal faster. At least my desert wandering was only 20 years vs. 40!
I didn't buy the original version of it because the way she waxed sentimental about moving into one's fifties was very different from what I was experiencing at the end of my 40s and early 50s. That was a very very difficult time in my life. I had to make adjustments for which I was completely unprepared, and didn't understand what I was doing or why I needed to do it.
I had to slough off an entire identity as a single woman, move away from my hometown where I worked slavishly for 25 years to build an autonomous identity, and become a woman married to a man from a dangerously compromised family. At one point being around them was a direct threat to my physical and mental health. Some deeply unsafe things were happening in that family.
We all got through it when the most problematic family member declined and lost her power to control the others. But then we had to take on huge caregiving responsibilities. We had barely adjusted to them when my best friend and former Course in Miracles teacher lost control over her life. Beause she was an integral part of my life with my husband, we took on that caregiving responsibility as well.
Other people retire from their busy careers, send their children off to Independence, downsize their houses and start to travel in their mid-60s. I fell under an avalanche of hard physical and emotional work, treading water is hard as I could, constantly adjusting to storms in that sea.
Some good things came of it, but I still have one major caregiving responsibility in my life. I live in a house that's probably too much for me and my husband to manage, and at my age I won't be able to stay here forever.
But if this is a Life Cycle Mudslide there's got to be a lotus plant blooming out there somewhere. I'm reading the book now to find my Late Life Lotus.
I you choose to buy the book, I hope it help you find your Late Life Lotus too.
When in a moment of seeing love everywhere, I was able to write the President a heartfelt personal email, with love.
Also I asked that he ask his workers to not be so rough on the people they are removing, because then we think they are terrible people, (ice). When we know they are not really like that.
This small gesture of human decency and integrity is bigger than it looks on the outside. I'm sure you had to do some heavy lifting to send that letter.
The result will not be seen by any change in his perspectives or the actions of those ICE operatives.
They are some of the worst people in this country. But you are not among them. By your prayers and with your letter and you have relieved yourself of the suffering they are spreading across this country.
It may be a small one, but you lit a candle. It will take you under the darkness of your despair and it will shed a little light among the rest of us.
It may seem like lighting one little candle won't do much good but imagine what would happen if you keep that candle lit and you run into another person whose candle has been snuffed out by the winds of violence blowing across our country. Your little candle lights their distinguished candle, and they turn to a neighbor whose candle has blown out and light that candle.
You can illuminate an entire stadium full of people praying for Hope and Healing that way.
Thank you for lighting your candle, and helping mine to shine a little brighter.
And please forgive the typos. I'm using voice to text and I didn't clean up my comment before I published it to you and to Marianne's other readers. 💟🌈💟
Every day, every DAY, in the morning first thing, I surrender my ego, and work on acceptance and forgiveness. Eventually I come to realize a much truer identity. From there I spend my day loving people, all people. And it comes back and love prevails.
Inspiration comes from all over! Just watched "Harvey the Rabbit", the movie with Jimmy Stewart last nite with a friend. Its about living in true love.
I love the lesson of Dorothy helping her friends and sticking up for them and dousing scarecrow with water, opposing the fire, cruelty and meanness of the witch and that the wicked witch could not exist in that kind of world.
After I reread the essay, I decided that the words she spoke applied to **me *too, and I did something that surprised me. immediately bought the book on Kindle.
I figured for $10 what can I lose?
There was something about that essay that *really spoke to me, and honestly, I wanted to see what other people were talking about as they described the rest of the book.
I retain my commitment to refrain from subscribing for pay to Marianne's blog, buying her spiritual workshops and investing in her political campaigns because I think her approach has been misguided.
It caused more harm than good.
To her and to the country.
But I've decided to make an exception for books because books out last political campaigns.
The value of this one will vastly out distance anything Marianne has to say if she runs for the presidency again. I'm in my seventies now, so supporting a candidate who wants to change the entire structure of the American government (and has novrealustic chance to do so) is not going to bear fruit for me in my lifetime.
But learning to live the last 10 years of my life well, that will bear some fruit. First for my husband who loves me dearly, then for the people who depend on me in my support community, then for the small family I have with my husband's sister, her husband and their children. Then my neighbors. The merchants who serve me. The caregivers who support me as I take the Path of Aging.
I think that book will do me some good. Buying a Kindle book doesn't support Marianne's political aspirations all that much, but it supports my physical emotional and spiritual needs.
All week I have been repeating and meditating on this ACIM Lesson, have been really struggling . So what a gift to read and to affirm this, thank you Marianne always appreciate your beautiful written words of truth.
Bless you on your path, Patty!
"What will LOVE have me do today", that prayer you shared has helped me to resolve issues that come up, I had a small poster made to include that sentence. No matter what angst is circulating in my brain, all I have to say are those words, and instantly I feel at peace. Thank you from my heart/soul and spirit.
Thank you, Marianne, for making me pause and truly reflect.
I’ve forgiven others… but the harder journey was forgiving myself.
It’s taken me over 30 years to move from the soul-numbing self-hatred of my youth to a place of neutrality — and now, at times, even real, delicious sparks of self-love. That shift is a blessing I don’t take lightly.
Every day I ask God to use me…
and every day, in a thousand quiet ways no one else can see, God does.
Tiny miracles balanced on the head of a pin — precise, subtle, unmistakable.
And it is well with my soul.
Namaste.
🙌
Very beautiful expressions of self-love and enlightened growth ElleBeah--I am happy for you.
A very thought-provoking piece. How often are our unresolved issues brought up in our subconscious and unconscious musings. Some of these issues are still viewed through the eyes of a toddler, young child or rebellious teenager. Unprocessed grief issues seem also to be passed on from one generation to the next. I often need help from others who have chosen to uncover these things that have made living in the now difficult. I believe that if we chose to explore these areas of difficulty through meditation and prayer, we will be rewarded beyond our expectations.
I was just talking about this very issue with my husband.
Generational karma ( so to speak) can be really heavy. However, it is so rewarding when we choose to understand that concept and work through it.
Thank you for writing directly to me Marianne. I am soaking it up like a sponge. <3
I find forgiveness usually to be a sticky thing.
It is a process for sure and often times has its own schedule.
We need to be patient with ourselves, but it is worth the endeavor.
I have this great practice that if I am not able to forgive (conditioned mind identified= with the past/ego) I forgive myself for not being able to forgive a trespass against me .
Patience is a form of love.
When we talk about forgiveness we can never force it.
Forgiveness comes from understanding.
You can never really forgive unless you first understand.
And this comes from self knowledge.
And this takes no time.
Forgiveness, like life, is in the now it is not in the past and it cannot be in the future .
It comes back to core ACIM teachings understanding who we are.
We are all in essence awareness having a dream of form, consciousness .
I like that, " I forgive myself for not being able to forgive."
I think I will use that if I need but ad the phrase, 'at this time,' to the sentence.
Dear God,
Please help me understand why forgiveness is so hard in this situation. Please heal my heart and remove the blinders in front of my eyes that keep me from seeing my objections.
Thank you for helping me, God.
May this situation be lifted to divine right order.
Amen
It is interesting and encouraging that so many of us are interested in learning to do better with forgiveness.
Blessings to you!
A prayer I have said for Donald Trump because I find him literally impossible to love, he's so consumed with spiritual and psychological sickness that it makes me sick even to think about him... but I need to pray about him and what he's doing to the country... so here's what I say..
Dear God
Please relieve Donald Trump of his suffering so that those who suffer as a result of his suffering will be relieved of their suffering.
Show me the path to release my suffering over him and over his behavior, so I can contribute to mending what is being broken, to healing what has been wounded, to building what must be built so that this kind of suffering can never return.
It's not quite the same thing as what you pray but it's along similar lines.
And by the way I can't do it if I'm on certain social media, especially the one currently owned by Elon Musk. There's just such a powerful undertale of sarcasm and irony and Venom on that platform.
Sometimes I need to understand that I'm not strong enough to fight the negative influence of thousands of negative voices. But I can ask for what is positive productive and healing in mine to grow and strengthen and find purpose in the world.
To give the media meta-verse's world drama a Reality it does not have through our reactivity only strengthens it.
"Resit not evil"
Resistance strengthens it, just be aware and let Love speak through you.
There is no need to fight the darkness, just be a light you are. Just Be.
Vision or Judgment, we can pick only one.
Also when looking deeply we can see these media actors are puppets on the stage acting for the world moneylenders, the world economic monopoly.
Knowing trumps perceiving.
Looks like your new book will be exciting, Marianne. Many, many, congratulations. You are sooo prolific, like the Mozart of ACIM principles books.
Anyway, I have read and listened and journaled on the concept in today's post for 20 years.
But, I didn't really start to get it in an actionable manner until those 20 years passed and one of my ever present assignments presented itself in a concrete, material way.
I pray to be used by divine spirit to teach others how to heal faster. At least my desert wandering was only 20 years vs. 40!
See my comment down thread.
It's a good book.
I didn't buy the original version of it because the way she waxed sentimental about moving into one's fifties was very different from what I was experiencing at the end of my 40s and early 50s. That was a very very difficult time in my life. I had to make adjustments for which I was completely unprepared, and didn't understand what I was doing or why I needed to do it.
I had to slough off an entire identity as a single woman, move away from my hometown where I worked slavishly for 25 years to build an autonomous identity, and become a woman married to a man from a dangerously compromised family. At one point being around them was a direct threat to my physical and mental health. Some deeply unsafe things were happening in that family.
We all got through it when the most problematic family member declined and lost her power to control the others. But then we had to take on huge caregiving responsibilities. We had barely adjusted to them when my best friend and former Course in Miracles teacher lost control over her life. Beause she was an integral part of my life with my husband, we took on that caregiving responsibility as well.
Other people retire from their busy careers, send their children off to Independence, downsize their houses and start to travel in their mid-60s. I fell under an avalanche of hard physical and emotional work, treading water is hard as I could, constantly adjusting to storms in that sea.
Some good things came of it, but I still have one major caregiving responsibility in my life. I live in a house that's probably too much for me and my husband to manage, and at my age I won't be able to stay here forever.
But if this is a Life Cycle Mudslide there's got to be a lotus plant blooming out there somewhere. I'm reading the book now to find my Late Life Lotus.
I you choose to buy the book, I hope it help you find your Late Life Lotus too.
Where can I email you outside this forum?
I am moved by your comment. But I don't want to post a bunch of personal remarks on a public forum.
Thanks, Rebecca
Thank you. 🙏 🌬️💞
When in a moment of seeing love everywhere, I was able to write the President a heartfelt personal email, with love.
Also I asked that he ask his workers to not be so rough on the people they are removing, because then we think they are terrible people, (ice). When we know they are not really like that.
Peace and love, Iowa.
This small gesture of human decency and integrity is bigger than it looks on the outside. I'm sure you had to do some heavy lifting to send that letter.
The result will not be seen by any change in his perspectives or the actions of those ICE operatives.
They are some of the worst people in this country. But you are not among them. By your prayers and with your letter and you have relieved yourself of the suffering they are spreading across this country.
It may be a small one, but you lit a candle. It will take you under the darkness of your despair and it will shed a little light among the rest of us.
It may seem like lighting one little candle won't do much good but imagine what would happen if you keep that candle lit and you run into another person whose candle has been snuffed out by the winds of violence blowing across our country. Your little candle lights their distinguished candle, and they turn to a neighbor whose candle has blown out and light that candle.
You can illuminate an entire stadium full of people praying for Hope and Healing that way.
Thank you for lighting your candle, and helping mine to shine a little brighter.
And please forgive the typos. I'm using voice to text and I didn't clean up my comment before I published it to you and to Marianne's other readers. 💟🌈💟
Hello! Thanks you so much Amylouise!! I love you.
Every day, every DAY, in the morning first thing, I surrender my ego, and work on acceptance and forgiveness. Eventually I come to realize a much truer identity. From there I spend my day loving people, all people. And it comes back and love prevails.
Inspiration comes from all over! Just watched "Harvey the Rabbit", the movie with Jimmy Stewart last nite with a friend. Its about living in true love.
I love the lesson of Dorothy helping her friends and sticking up for them and dousing scarecrow with water, opposing the fire, cruelty and meanness of the witch and that the wicked witch could not exist in that kind of world.
Applies to your experience with Dems 2024.
Juss sayin'. 😍🌈💟
Amylouise Donnelly, you so often make me chuckle! Thanks!
Thanks for the affirmation.
After I reread the essay, I decided that the words she spoke applied to **me *too, and I did something that surprised me. immediately bought the book on Kindle.
I figured for $10 what can I lose?
There was something about that essay that *really spoke to me, and honestly, I wanted to see what other people were talking about as they described the rest of the book.
I retain my commitment to refrain from subscribing for pay to Marianne's blog, buying her spiritual workshops and investing in her political campaigns because I think her approach has been misguided.
It caused more harm than good.
To her and to the country.
But I've decided to make an exception for books because books out last political campaigns.
The value of this one will vastly out distance anything Marianne has to say if she runs for the presidency again. I'm in my seventies now, so supporting a candidate who wants to change the entire structure of the American government (and has novrealustic chance to do so) is not going to bear fruit for me in my lifetime.
But learning to live the last 10 years of my life well, that will bear some fruit. First for my husband who loves me dearly, then for the people who depend on me in my support community, then for the small family I have with my husband's sister, her husband and their children. Then my neighbors. The merchants who serve me. The caregivers who support me as I take the Path of Aging.
I think that book will do me some good. Buying a Kindle book doesn't support Marianne's political aspirations all that much, but it supports my physical emotional and spiritual needs.
So I got this one.
And I'm glad I did that. 💟
thank goodness 🥰
I am really appreciative of your new book thank you.