I’m the inventor

Lesson 32 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.

I have invented the world I see. (ACIM, W-32)

Yesterday’s lesson hit me in ways I didn’t write about at the time. I had a realization about some problems that I traced back to things I was taught as a youth. But thanks to that lesson, I realize that I am not the victim of the world I see (ACIM, W-31). I was able to look at it differently rather than dwell in that sense of victimhood.

Today’s lesson continues the theme. I’ve actually tried to look at things this way, if not with the same words, for quite a while now. But at times during the day where I was thinking about some problems relating to people close to me, but which weren’t really my own problems, I realized that I still invented those problems, because I see them. We’re to apply this for any situation that might cause distress, even if they don’t seem to be top priority: “I have invented this situation as I see it.”

I’ve heard it often said that “I create my own reality.” Maybe that’s from later on in the Course. Today’s statement doesn’t quite go that far, but it’s still a liberating feeling when I affirm that I am in control of what I perceive.

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