To go deeper into the topic of faith, enjoy this transcript from a talk given by A Course in Miracles expert David Hoffmeister.
A Course in Miracles has a beautiful line that goes, "Love cannot be far behind a grateful heart and a thankful mind." That just kind of rolls out. It is the love that we are all seeking to know that ACIM tells us it is literally beyond what can be taught but we can work at removing the obstacles to the awareness of love's presence. So that is really where our focus is. And then as you clear the mirror of your mind from the attack thoughts and judgments and grievances, then the gratitude is there. It is not like something you need to have more of. It is just like it is already there ready to radiate and shine as you. Who you are is just a grateful presence, a grateful living presence. But it is just covered over by these judgments and grievances and attack thoughts.
A Course in Miracles actually talks quite a bit about removing those grievances and judgments in our mind and how important it is that we do so. So we will talk about that and we will also talk about the trust that it takes to do that because as long as you are trusting in the ego, then you are reinforcing, or we might say perpetuating judgments and grievances. But when you withdraw your faith from the ego and you give it over to the Holy Spirit, then naturally those grievances and judgments start to fade away and they become less and less in your awareness.
So faith is not a question of more or less faith; it is what am I putting my faith in? We are going to be all about exposing the ego and really pulling our faith away from the ego and putting it into the Holy Spirit. And that would have to transfer to all aspects of our mind including things like - sometimes people think of things like finances or relationships, there are various aspects of the human condition that seems to be, Oh well, I could turn to God for certain things, but there are certain things I can run a little bit better than God so I'll run them on my own. We find that does not really work. You cannot really run some aspects of your life. That control of trying to be in charge of certain things is where the problem is. So it progressively takes a lot of faith to transfer the training we have learned from A Course in Miracles.
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