You Believed Pain Paid Off — What If It Could Never Buy You Anything? | ACIM 102

Walter brings twenty-three years of suffering to a car dealership in a little red wagon. He’s sorted it into envelopes by year, and he figures he’s finally got enough for the blue car by the window. Then the salesman draws a line across the corner of a bill. It goes dark. Walter slides another one across the desk. “Try one from a different year.” In this Detective Boy investigation of A Course in Miracles Lesson 102, “I share God’s Will for happiness for me,” we follow Walter as he tries to spend what he’s spent years saving. He can tell us what every bill cost him. Then Detective Boy asks who told him the dealership would take them. Walter keeps one bill back. If he lets that one go, how will he explain who he is? That’s where the investigation gets personal. We can get so used to telling our story through what we’ve endured that we start to wonder who we’d be without the receipts. The blue car is still by the window when a little girl spins a wheel on Walter’s wagon. It squeaks. She squeaks back. For a moment, Walter forgets to count. If God has already given me happiness, what am I still trying to buy with my pain? #ACIM #ACIM102 #ACourseInMiracles #DetectiveBoy #PainIsPurposeless