A Course in Miracles Journal (Day 21)

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Today’s ACIM Journal Entry:A Course in Miracles (Day 21)

I took a few days off. After a call with a spiritual brother on Friday, we decided to do a 90-day spiritual destiny accountability experiment.

The idea was simple, we both knew we had turning points coming up in our lives, and while we were the same person in some ways, we were being called differently.

So we decided to follow our callings, trusting our intuition, manifesting/Law of Attraction lessons these next few months and reconnect on April Fool’s Day 2025.

Knowing that no matter what the other person chose or how it played out, someone would love, embrace and accept you for it.

Shortly after that call, my intuition reaffirmed that what I needed right now was a phase of just being.

No trying to plan things out, make major life decisions, just feel into my body and just be. In as many moments as I could throughout my day, I would look to permit myself a physical, energetic and emotional vacation.

Let it all go. Relax and settle into that relaxing.

I knew that just being would call certain items up to heal and it has.

I started my ‘just be’ days Friday afternoon and it is now Sunday; 2.5 days in and wow has it been amazing!

From going deep and healing but also snapping into place certain manifesting items. That snap when you know you and the universe have co-decided it is time and therefore it is done.

Other manifesting items remain on the elusive plate, but one by one. What comes up, comes up these ‘just be’ days and it’s already been worth it.

I realized I never “liked” certain associations I had with my college major even when I picked it. I learned that the only thing I need to know is, “That I am beautiful. I am worthy and I am love.”

No other judgements, or ideas serve me.

Coincidentally, it’s also been the winter solstice. So busy, busy energetics time with, or without ACIM.

Which is really why I decided to skip it. ACIM causes shifts - big ones sometimes - and poking around in my mind, my heart and my energetic space wasn’t really living by ‘just be.’

But here I am, back. :)

Text. Chapter 3. V. Beyond Perception

This section opens with a line so similar to the first line of section IV that I had to double check that I didn’t misplace my bookmark.

Paragraph 2: I am not sure I understand “create” vs. “make” from this alone. Paragraph 3: ‘Knowing does not lead to doing’ - OMG, this is a clear statement of some of my life’s biggest challenges (and disappointments) thus far.

I once believed that learning everything, knowing more than everyone else would equate to success, riches, happiness. There is nothing further from the truth.

"When behavior is unstable, we are disagreeing with God’s will.” I look forward to learning more about this. What is stable behavior and how to act in accordance with it/align to it.

‘What it is you are.’ Ha. I literally had this come up in my conversation with my friend on Friday and in my meditation series yesterday.

One cannot know what they want, if they do not know who they are. I wrote a bit of articles on it. Yet I already know who I am - more or less, what I am: love.

For years I struggled trying to figure out my purpose. The value of my life as if I could get an answer, agree and slap a big Purpose label on my life.

That’s not how it works. And that has become more and more, not only clear, but peaceful to honor in my “just be” state.

“Knowledge does not require ingenuity.”

So simple yet so profoundly true! My gut instantly applied this to entrepreneurial ventures. So often we feel we have to have the next brilliant or creative idea, when truth is already in existence. All that is not there is knowledge of that truth.

Any message, product or offering in support of the truth has value. (Perceived value) - gotta love the perception theme in Chapter 3! Lol

I sat there reading and rereading “ingenious thinking is not the truth that shall set you free, but you are free of the need to engage in it when you are willing to let it go.” After enough reads I looked up and both my clocks read 11:11.

“You are a miracle of God. Creation is your Source and your only real function.’ Does this mean I have the power of God? At least as far as forgiveness is concerned, as I “already have” forgiveness” according to the text. And any job, role, function, purpose is creation?

I love the closing words of this section about one’s worthiness and to have no doubts whatsoever no matter the state - because there is only one state: worthiness.

Such loving closing words and a beautiful affirmation to head to bed with.

Workbook: “I am determined to see things differently.”

Well, today was lighthearted until this exercise. It started with thoughts of a guy that’s been getting under my skin yet I will have to deal with him soon. But, with a series of items ranging from my ex-boyfriend to my former pre-covid home, it landed on my father’s likely sexual abuse of someone dear to me.

It was behind closed doors, but I knew. I know… now.

I was beyond clueless at the time, yet carried the subconscious awareness for decades. I’ve known now for almost ten years. I try not to vomit when I remember.

I recall crying uncontrollably for days the first time I realized it. Crying for her, crying my anger at him, and crying trying to forgive my innocence of not knowing or recognizing.

There was also the tinge, both painfully and gratefully, that it was not I.

So while I can choose to see this differently, and I have forgiven many things with this approach, including a man’s attempt to kill, I both know a miracle can take this this quickly and easily, but I feel such a transgression should not be freed on a whim. Even if the likely perpetrator no longer walks amongst us.

But he’s not the one who gets punished by the memory’s retention - I am.

[I then sat for a while going over a various amount of related memories using the meditation and emotional processing method I learned from Cushnir’s The One Thing Holding You Back]

I did finish processing this harsh emotion a day or two later. You can read about it here: How I Chose to Heal from Witnessing a Traumatic Childhood Event.

With Love, Acacia

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