How to be saved from hell

Lesson 39 of A Course in Miracles

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.

My holiness is my salvation. (ACIM, W-39)

I’ve seen elsewhere in spiritual texts that hell and heaven are states of mind, and today’s lesson seems to reflect that idea.

Feeling bad is a choice, so “My unloving thoughts about _________ are keeping me in hell.”

But, “My holiness is my salvation.”

The terminology seems harder to get used to than the idea, particularly the word “holiness.” But that might be because it’s hard to really absorb or understand the idea that “I am holy.”

In any case, to recognize unloving thoughts and to be able to abandon them upon recognition seems like a great habit to start. I’ve felt better throughout the day from doing this.

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