Things to remember when you're feeling down

"Here’s a quiz question for you…" said Eric. "No looking at your books! Which lesson title is so central to the Course's teaching that it appears in the Workbook three times? Do you give up?"
     "'God is but love and therefore so am I?'" suggested Mark.
     "Not quite, but it’s a good guess. It’s actually very close: 'I am as God created me.'"
     Daisy began looking it up in the contents. "Lesson 94," she said. "...Lesson 110... and Lesson 162!"
     "Maybe Jesus ran out of fresh ideas," said Christopher.
     "If we believe we can alter, or destroy, or tarnish what God created, are we not in effect saying we’re more powerful than God? And isn’t that the height of arrogance, however we dress it up? So it isn’t humble to feel guilty. It isn’t modest to feel unworthy. But nor is it a sin! It’s simply a mistake… a false idea about the Son of God. And that, dear friends, is the Course in one lesson."
     "Or in three," said Christopher.
     Eric raised his eyes to the ceiling.

The above is an extract from Peter M Parr's forthcoming new book, Encounters with A Course in Miracles, to be published in 2020.