Workbook · Part I
Lesson 69
My grievances hide the light of the world in me.
What this lesson is saying
Today’s idea is: “My grievances hide the light of the world in me.” In ordinary English: The grudge you are feeding is covering the light in you. Stop feeding it.
A grievance is any thought that they have wronged you, failed you, or should be different so you can rest — or that you are not enough. Forgiveness here is not saying the event was fine. It is dropping the claim that the event gets to tell you what they are, or what you are. You can still leave. You can still say no. You stop using them as the reason you cannot be at peace.
You do not have to believe it first. You use the words on one real judgment — of someone, of yourself, of a situation — and then you take the next ordinary step.
This is not saying
This is not asking you to be friends, to stay in harm, or to call a harm a blessing. Keep any clear no. The work is in the mind: stop raising the case as a shield.
Why this can change a day
The usual rule is: I will rest when they change. This lesson reverses it. The grievance is what hides peace, not their behavior. That is why a small irritation and a long history use the same mechanism, and why one dropped case can change a whole day.
In your day
Same idea, three ordinary places — a relationship or encounter, the case against yourself, and a situation at work or at home. You do not need a special mood.
With someone
A bill, a number, a job title — money treated as what you are worth.
What to do
Say the words as written: “My grievances hide the light of the world in me.” Pay the bill. Eat. Rest. Then remember which law gets to tell you what you are. Care for the form. Do not worship it as identity.
Toward yourself
The victim story is running — this is happening to me, I have no say, anyone would tell this.
What to do
Say the words as written: “My grievances hide the light of the world in me.” Same facts. Stop the telling for one hour. What would a non-victim do next — the honest no, the rest, the next useful step. Do that.
At work, at home, or in a situation
You are collecting evidence. The world is a courtroom. Someone should pay.
What to do
Say the words as written: “My grievances hide the light of the world in me.” Drop the wish that someone lose. If a fact must be stated — a bill, a boundary, a time — state only the fact.
Two voices in the same mind
Hear which one is running. Then today’s idea, on a real person — or on you.
Unloving thought
These are the real laws. If the picture does not change I am not okay. Spiritual ideas are for later, after this is won.
Jesus’s way
“My grievances hide the light of the world in me.” A grievance is any thought that they have wronged you, failed you, or should be different so you can rest. The miracle is already there. The grievance is the shield. Lay it down. You do not have to hang out with them.
Spalding · 2019 · episode #267
Jesus’s commentary for Lesson 69
Tina reads the official workbook lesson first. Then she channels. The video is the source. The notes below are study notes of that sitting — not a transcript, and not A Year of Forgiveness.
After the reading
In the video · Jesus speaking
This is the channeled portion — after Tina has read the lesson. Study notes of that sitting. Not a transcript.
- After Tina reads Lesson 69, the channeling is living “My grievances hide the light of the world in me.” He will not let it stay a slogan. Use these words. Do not swap them for a thought you like better.
- He is unsentimental: you do not have to befriend them. You have to drop the exhibit so love can move. Gossip about them costs you the sitting.
How to sit today
Part I · Function
The idea is above. This is the one sitting this number asks — how often, how long, and the words. Not a second lesson.
- How often
- One longer sitting plus frequent practice
- How long
- Ten to fifteen minutes
How
- Before the long sitting, spend several minutes realizing what you are attempting: to reach the light in you, past the veil of grievances.
- Then go toward that light with determination. Grievances are the veil, not the people.
Longer sitting
One sitting — ten to fifteen minutes
- Today’s idea is: “My grievances hide the light of the world in me.”
- Before the long sitting, spend several minutes realizing what you are attempting: to reach the light in you, past the veil of grievances.
- Then go toward that light with determination. Grievances are the veil, not the people.
- Say, slowly: “My grievances hide the light of the world in me.”
Short / hourly
Frequent practice
- Say, slowly: “My grievances hide the light of the world in me.”
These scripts follow the workbook’s own method for this number — duration, frequency, and the sentences it asks you to use. They are a study paraphrase, not a replacement. Read the official lesson at acim.org and follow any wording it gives that is more specific than this card.
Words you may not know
Full glossaryCourse words do not mean what church, psychology, or ordinary English usually mean. These notes are for this lesson — tap a word.
Other voices — Tina, Ra, Carla
Short notes from the four streams. The teaching above is the lesson. These are doors if you want them.
Spalding
“My grievances hide the light of the world in me.” The grievance is a chosen unloving thought that knocks you off love’s frequency. The person is not the prison. Gossip costs you the miracle. Peace is behind the thing you are nursing.
Watch this lesson’s commentaryRa
Ra: catalyst used in heart (green) becomes love. Catalyst stored becomes a story and a blockage. This lesson is the using.
Open streamRueckert
A wanderer on Earth does not need a different lesson. She needs this one, done with her hands. Carla's whole archive is the proof: contact follows a life, it does not replace it.
Open stream