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ACIM Manual For Teachers How Is Judgment Relinquished?
Therefore lay judgment down, not with regret but with a sigh of gratitude. Now are you free of a burden so great that you could merely stagger and fall down beneath it. And it was all illusion. Nothing more. Now can the teacher of God rise up unburdened and walk lightly on. Yet it is not only this that is his benefit. His sense
of care is gone, for he has none.
He has given it away, along with judgment. He gave himself to Him Whose judgment he has chosen now to trust instead of his own.
And where he came to judge he comes to bless. Where now he laughs he used to come to weep.
It is not difficult to relinquish judgment. But it is difficult indeed to try to keep it. The teacher of God lays it down happily the instant he recognizes its cost. All of the
ugliness he sees about him is its outcome.
All of the
pain he looks upon is its result.
All of the
loneliness and sense
of loss;
all these have come of it. And now he knows that these things need not be. Not one is true. For he has given up their cause, and they, which never were but the effects of his mistaken choice, have fallen from him. Teacher of God, this step will bring you peace. Can it be difficult to want but this? |
Our goal is basically, as St. Paul expressed it, to learn to "Let the mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." Philippians 2:5 "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind..." Romans 12:2 |
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