5 and 34

5 and 34: 

lessons 5 and 34 of A Course in Miracles give us a complete practice, an entire path laid clear with just these two simple passages. This came to my attention through Course teacher Kenneth Wapnick, how he would continuously return to these lessons in many of his talks and writing and stress the importance to truly understand them. Although there's 29 lessons between them, and neither are placed with more emphasis than any other, if fully taken to heart -

they are enough to set us free. 

I am never upset for the reason I think, lesson 5 urges us to examine our every fear: from smallest upset to largest distress, we're asked to seem them all as opportunities for miracles. A miracles here, as offered by the Course, is a shift of perception, that through inquiring into the nature of whatever upsets us, we come to see how our projections fill each present moment with thoughts placed firmly from the past. Our freedom lies in seeing this, and then, we lesson 34 in mind -

a shift is asked for:

I could see peace instead of this.

this is the miracles of any situation, a prayer for an internal exchange of past distress for the innocence of the present moment. We could see peace right now, regardless of what's presented to us, if only we let go of thoughts that bind us to memories of the past. 

our freedom is always right now.

it's a continuous choice.

each moment....

we're asking for a miracle. 

and lessons 5 and 34 remind us...

it's just a mind-shift away. 

~

Love, Eric 

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