Be like a four-year-old

Why create worries for yourself?

Welcome to Daily Miracles, a running commentary on the 365 lessons of A Course in Miracles, an influential spiritual text from the 1970s. I am James Leroy Wilson and I invite you to join me as I go through this material for the first time.

Lesson 182

I will be still an instant and go home. (ACIM, W-182)

I first attempted to read this lesson in the very early morning, as I had woken up earlier than usual. I couldn’t get through it and decided to go back to sleep. And I dreamt where I was in several previous homes. Not from childhood but from youth and younger adulthood with old mentors and friends from that time. I wondered if the parts of the lesson I did read influenced the dream.

I went back to the lesson, and appreciated paragraph 11:

Take time today to lay aside your shield which profits nothing, and lay down the spear and sword you raised against an enemy without existence. ²Christ has called you friend and brother. ³He has even come to ask your help in letting Him go home today, completed and completely. ⁴He has come as does a little child, who must beseech his father for protection and for love. ⁵He rules the universe, and yet He asks unceasingly that you return with Him, and take illusions as your gods no more…