Good Morning!
Today’s lesson makes a distinction about our thoughts. “They are merely true or false”, as sentence 1-5 tells us. Notice that it goes on to say that true thoughts create their own likeness and false thoughts make theirs. As I said in a previous lesson, God creates – ego makes. If you remember this, then whenever you see passages about “creating” and “making”, you will understand what level is being discussed.
There are no “idle thoughts”. It may seem to you that sometimes when you are lost in your thoughts, thinking of nothing earth-shattering, that your thoughts mean nothing, that they are just mindless chatter. No so! This lesson tells us that salvation requires that you also recognize that every thought you have brings either peace or war; either love or fear. In the text of A Course in Miracles, it says There are no idle thoughts. All thinking produces form at some level. (T-2.VI.9.13-14)
You’ll notice that many of these lessons and passages deal with the concept of “levels”. When we are at the level of God (where we really are in reality) then we co-create love and peace and when we are at the level of form (where we think we really are) we make war and are fearful. Notice that God is nowhere around at the level of form. We’re on our own here at the level of form and maybe that explains why we are so afraid. It’s like being 4 years old and losing your mother in the grocery store.
We think we’ve lost God. We haven’t however; we have momentarily forgotten where we truly are and who we are (with God and of God).
Joan