A Course In Miracles... Lessons 9 & 10

Phew! Crisis averted. (And if you have no idea what im talking about, read my post about my experience with lesson 8 in ACIM). So after feeling totally lost after lesson 8 i made a post on the ACIM power posse on HerFuture and i also made a post on MiracleShare (its a social networking site for those studying ACIM... i totally recommend it) expressing my frustration and asking for help.

I want to give a special thanks to Corrine Zupko for answering my frustrations in a way i could understand followed up by:

Definitely don't sweat it! Understanding comes in phases. Whatever you get, you get, and whatever you don't, you don't, and it's ALL good! You are exactly where you are supposed to be.

Not that i should need it but it was like i was given permission to not fully understand it if i couldn't... which lifted a huge weight off of me. Some of the concepts she gave me almost literally blew my mind (check out the Workbook group on MiracleShare to see the full responses of what Corrine and others gave me) and even now i still can't fully wrap my head around them. But i realize its ok that i don't grasp it yet and that i am where i am supposed to be.

Now, on to lessons 9 & 10

Hehe, you do not know how much of a relief it was when i started working on lesson 9 and in the lesson it said "these exercises are concerned with practice, not with understanding." (I wish it would have told me that yesterday... then again, i wouldn't have gained the lesson that it was ok not to understand everything). 

Lesson 10 builds off of lesson 4 most directly. In lesson 4 it dealt with thoughts in general (this/these thoughts) where as in lesson 10 its more direct/personal as we say "my thoughts" instead of generalizing them. It also ties into lesson 1 (as i annotated somewhat in my written notes). In lesson one what we "saw" doesn't mean anything just like our "thoughts" don't mean anything in lesson 10. (Kind of feels like my mind is putting together a puzzle). 

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In case your mind needs a break from thinking as well... It's so cute and fluffy!!!

And in a random aside... i made kale chips today! Seriously, they were so wicked tasty that i think later this week they should get their own blog post.