Course in Miracles Lesson 33: Another Way

Your problems probably don’t really exist.

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.

There is another way of looking at the world. (ACIM, W-33)

I’m thinking of our recent days:

• Above all else I want to see things differently. (ACIM, W-28)
• God is in everything I see. (ACIM, W-29)
• God is in everything I see because God is in my mind. (ACIM, W-30)
• I am not the victim of the world I see. (ACIM, W-31)
• I have invented the world I see. (ACIM, W-32)

And now we have:

There is another way of looking at the world. (ACIM, W-33)

We don’t have to look at the world through the lens of distress. We can, instead, see a world of opportunities and incentives to express love.

Whenever I felt distress during the day, I couldn’t help but combine the lesson with the previous lesson by saying: There is another way of looking at this problem because I invented the problem to begin with, and it’s…