You are not your body

And there’s nothing to worry about.

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.

Sickness is a defense against the truth. (ACIM, W-136)

Imagine that you have a favorite baseball player.

In the 2nd inning of the 124th game of a 162-game season, he strikes out. This knocks his batting average from .297 to.296. You’ve been hoping he’d have a .300 season, but he just got further away from it.

How would this make you feel about yourself? Would you wonder how a just God would allow such a thing?

Would you wonder what you personally did to cause the strikeout?

Not even the most avid baseball fan lives and dies with each at-bat. There are ebbs and flows to the game and to the season.

This at-bat has nothing to do with you, and you have no reason to be upset. Once you realize that, your problem is “solved” because it was never a problem in the first place.

You are not this baseball player, and even he isn’t concerned about a single at-bat.