Workbook · Part I
Lesson 78
Let miracles replace all grievances.
What this lesson is saying
“Let miracles replace all grievances.” Each decision in the mind is one or the other. A miracle here is a change of mind, not a prize and not a spectacle.
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. That thought is a shield. It hides the light that is already there in you and in them. The person you used as the target is the savior appointed for you: the one through whom you could put the shield down.
You do not have to feel loving. You have to stop raising the shield. Carry the idea to everyone you meet or remember today, including the small irritations.
This is not saying
This is not asking you to be friends, to stay in harm, or to say the event was fine. Keep any clear no. Replacement means the grievance and the miracle cannot share the same mind — not after they apologize, now.
Why this can change a day
The usual rule of a life is: I will be at peace when they change. This lesson says the opposite, and it is the hinge of the whole year. Peace, health, and a clear mind sit behind the grievance you are nurturing. When the grievance goes, they often stop triggering you because the trigger was a belief.
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
The name that already crossed your mind — the one you still want to be different so you can rest.
What to do
Hold their faults for a moment — the pain, the body, the “sins.” Then ask to see them as the savior appointed for you. Say: Let miracles replace all grievances. You do not have to feel loving. You have to stop raising the shield.
In encounters
You meet someone, think of someone, or remember someone from the past — even a small irritation.
What to do
Silently give them the role of savior. Say the idea. That is the whole day. A grievance is any thought that they have wronged you, failed you, or should be different so you can be at peace.
Toward yourself
You catch your own face in a glass and start a case — failing, unholy, not enough.
What to do
Same replacement. A grievance against yourself is still a grievance. Ask to see you without the shield. Then the next decent action.
Two voices in the same mind
Hear which one is running. Then today’s idea, on a real person — or on you.
Unloving thought
If they would change, I would be happy. This grievance is my shield. Without it I will not see the truth of them — I will be fooled. I already know their faults.
Jesus’s way
Let miracles replace all grievances. Each decision is a grievance or a miracle. A grievance is any thought that they have wronged you, failed you, or should be different so you can rest. It hides the light that is already there. The person you used as the target is the savior appointed for you.
Spalding · 2019 · episode #276
Jesus’s commentary for Lesson 78
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.
- The annoying person is the savior.
- Grievances knock the mind off the frequency of love, so miracles cannot get through — a self-inflicted loss, not their behavior.
- Peace, health, and knowledge sit behind the grievance you are nurturing.
- You do not have to be friends.
- When the grievance goes, they stop triggering you because the trigger was a belief.
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
- Two longer sittings, plus remember throughout the day with everyone you meet or think of
- How long
- Ten to fifteen minutes — the current longer-practice pattern
- When shaken
- A new grievance is not stored. It is today’s subject.
How
- Hold someone in mind first as you now consider them — faults, difficulties, pain, neglect, body, “sins.”
- Then ask of Him Who knows this Son of God in truth that you may look on him a different way. Let the Holy Spirit show you the savior in that role.
- Through the day, refuse to hide anyone’s light behind a grievance. That is the miracle replacing it.
Longer sitting
Two sittings — ten to fifteen minutes
- Today’s idea is: “Let miracles replace all grievances.”
- Hold someone in mind first as you now consider them — faults, difficulties, pain, neglect, body, “sins.”
- Then ask of Him Who knows this Son of God in truth that you may look on him a different way. Let the Holy Spirit show you the savior in that role.
- Say, slowly: “Let miracles replace all grievances.”
Short / hourly
Throughout the day with everyone you meet or think of
- Refuse to hide anyone’s light behind a grievance. That is the miracle replacing it.
- Say, slowly: “Let miracles replace all grievances.”
When shaken
A new grievance is not stored. It is today’s subject
- Say, slowly: “Let miracles replace all grievances.”
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
The annoying person is the savior. Grievances knock the mind off the frequency of love, so miracles cannot get through — a self-inflicted loss, not their behavior. Peace, health, and knowledge sit behind the grievance you are nurturing. You do not have to be friends. When the grievance goes, they stop triggering you because the trigger was a belief.
Watch this lesson’s commentaryRa
Ra would say: the mind/body/spirit complex meets catalyst. Service-to-self stores it as control and story. Service-to-others metabolizes it as love. A miracle is that metabolism happening faster than the ego's paperwork. Session 34 and 47 on catalyst, session 18 on the desire that polarizes, session 63 on the choice — this lesson is those, in one sentence.
Open streamRueckert
Carla's life was this practice under psychic greeting, illness, and the ordinary friction of a working group. The instrument who holds a grievance cannot tune. Q'uo's long teaching on 'the one in front of you' is Lesson 78 in Confederation cadence: bless, and the light has a place to land.
Open stream