Lesson 27: Above all else I want to see.
More than anything, I want to see. Really see. See truly. The way Jesus sees.
I feel motivated. And I feel understood. Jesus gets it that giving spiritual vision priority in my life will provoke insidious ego thoughts about loss and deprivation. What do I have to give up in order to see spiritually? But Jesus is very reassuring in Lesson 27. He says we don’t have to fully mean it when we say, “Above all else I want to see.”
He also says that vision has no cost to anyone and that vision can only bless. He is giving us those follow-up phrases as positive self-talk. Jesus is very psychologically astute 🙂
Then he asks, “The real question is, how often will you remember? How much do you want today’s idea to be true?”
Sincerity, in A Course in Miracles, is of the utmost importance. Honesty and sincerity will save us lot of time. Time that would have been spent suffering in senseless human struggles.
Right at the beginning of the ACIM Text, we are told:
“Child of God, you were created to create the good, the beautiful and the holy. Do not forget this. The Love of God, for a little while, must still be expressed through one body to another, because vision is still so dim. You can use your body best to help you enlarge your perception so you achieve real vision, of which the physical eye is incapable. Learning to do this is the body’s only true usefulness.” T-1
