A Course In Miracles Lesson 167

I notice how often I treat life as fragile instead of recognizing how much of it remains untouched by change.

Lesson 167

There is one life, and that I share with God.

🌿 Most of my fears begin with some form of separation.

Losing something.

Missing something.

Being cut off from something.

The details change, but the pattern is familiar.

A belief that life can be diminished.

That something essential can be taken away.

The lesson challenges that belief at its root.

There is one life.

Not many separate lives competing with one another.

Not isolated fragments moving independently through the world.

One life.

And that life has one Source.

The Course says that what we call death is ultimately the belief in separation.

The belief that we can become disconnected from our Source.

Disconnected from one another.

Disconnected from what we truly are.

When I look at my own experience, I can see how many forms that belief takes.

Loneliness.

Fear.

Anxiety.

Hopelessness.

Each one carries the assumption that I am somehow on my own.

That assumption feels convincing when I am caught inside it.

But the lesson asks me to question whether it is actually true.

If life comes from God, then life cannot be separate from its Source.

If ideas do not leave their source, then neither can I.

That does not mean I always feel connected.

It means my feelings do not determine reality.

The sun remains present even when clouds block the view.

The lesson invites me to trust something deeper than temporary perception.

Not because I can fully understand it.

Because I can begin to remember it.

Today I'm paying attention to where I experience separation as though it were a fact.

Where fear convinces me I am isolated, disconnected, or alone.

Not arguing with those experiences.

But becoming more willing to question the assumptions beneath them.

There is one life, and that I share with God.

I am MovingStill.

#iammovingstill #reentry #acim #spirituality #universalconsciousness

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