ACIM: A Love Poem
A Course in Miracles is like an epic love poem or love song written personally for you. Like any great piece of inspired art, everyone experiences it differently. Individually. The love poem that is A Course in Miracles is deeply woven with metaphor. Just when we understand and experience one metaphor, another rises, and another level of meaning is uncovered. Soon the inter-connectedness of all the metaphors eventually give way to a single message: You are my beloved Son.
Think of a song you liked as a child; you probably liked the beat. It was fun and made you feel good. As a teenager you suddenly cared about the lyrics, and related it to your teenage angst. As an adult, following a marriage or divorce, or death of a loved one, you realize the lyrics had a much deeper meaning than you ever realized — you had just never heard it before, but it was always there, waiting for you to grow up.
The Course always says the same thing, even as it speaks on different levels, but since we experience ourselves differently as we grow with the Course (”A child, a man, and then a spirit” – from the poem, A Jesus Prayer, by Helen Schucman), we hear and experience this singular message of innocence in different ways, on different levels. It is only at the end that we can see Jesus has always sung the same sweet song.
As a child we hear it as a soothing lullaby, as a teenager we hear it as a song of direction and guidance for our lives and awakening minds, and as an adult we finally realize we are the song.
June 25th, 2009 at 11:10 pm
Fairly swooning…..
June 26th, 2009 at 8:21 am
…a love story that draws me back again and again. :)
June 26th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
I agree with you. With the Course we read it for the first time, and it means something, the next times that something has a deeper meaning, and a deeper meaning, until one day there is a sentence that you read and you exclaim: Sure, this is what it means and I didn´t grasp it before. We have in our hands the most beautiful love story. We are the beloved Son of God. But to reach this awareness, now, we have to GENTLY work.
June 26th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
I apprecitate how your insights trigger deeper insight within me. Sometimes after reading your post I feel slightly dazed,in a good way,and just sit back and say- Wow!
June 27th, 2009 at 12:13 am
The Course in Miracles is the “never ending story”. How wonderful that we can read this book repeatedly, and yet never be reading exactly the same story, because we increasingly open to new realizations and revelations. At times Course students complain that the text is too hard to understand, especially in the beginning.
Yes, it is initially difficult and even exasperating for many of us. Yet with time we grow into the Course. Thank God and the gang (Jesus/Holy Spirit) that the Course is not just another pop psychology self-help book written at a 4th grade level. In this sense, it is NOT like so many other best sellers that receive Oprah endorsements and have their human authors make the talk show circuit to speak a few McNuggets of common sense. I realize modern authors must do this in the hope that something will attract the ego before the short attention span of the much maligned MTV generation moves on, like a hummingbird zipping from flower to flower.
The Course demands a commitment of the MIND and HEART. In repayment for that commitment, the student receivings new Truths and Experience at greater depths, even from the same words that the student has probably already read in the past. Perhaps THAT is one of the Course’s most subtle yet important miracles?