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The baby animal
Lesson 60 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.
(46) God is the Love in which I forgive. (ACIM, W-60.1:1)
(47) God is the strength in which I trust. (ACIM, W-60.2:1)
(48) There is nothing to fear. (ACIM, W-60.3:1)
(49) God’s Voice speaks to me all through the day. (ACIM, W-60.4:1)
(50) I am sustained by the Love of God. (ACIM, W-60.5:1)
The key sentence for me in this review:
The blameless cannot blame, and those who have accepted their innocence see nothing to forgive (ACIM, W-60.1:3)
I’ve seen and heard stories of how a baby animal that lost its mother in some kind of accident or disaster, will become attached to whoever saves it: a person, an animal of a different species, even a motor vehicle. The rescuer becomes the new “mother.”
That’s how the animal copes with trauma, it’s how the animal alleviates its fear. Its survival mode tells it to be with the one that had just helped it survive. They…
