* This lesson brought out some exceptionally deep thoughts on my part.
God’s peace and joy are mine.
1. God’s peace and joy are yours.
²Today we will accept them, knowing they belong to us.
³And we will try to understand these gifts increase as we receive them.
⁴They are not like to the gifts the world can give, in which the giver loses as he gives the gift; the taker is the richer by his loss.
⁵Such are not gifts, but bargains made with guilt.
⁶The truly given gift entails no loss.
⁷It is impossible that one can gain because another loses.
⁸This implies a limit and an insufficiency.
* We are talking about energy here and the fact that ONLY God IS and His essence is what brings us all things that are based in True Love.
* That is it! I started seeing my fella as the deliverer of the way I felt when he touched me. Instead of remembering that it is God who sends all that is of Love.
* I know, y’all are going to think that I am nuts, but you already know this. Haha..
* I am reworking out the way my brain receives this information. I am dedicated to bringing God into the Complete Consciousness of Christ and that means looking at the intimate moments.
* “You ARE Love.” This is the message that I want to bring into the world that I see. Love and God are the same energy to me. The split between my fella and I was his frustration with me wanting to bring all into this because he feels that hate has a place in the world and that he has that feeling within him. My frustration was that he had been pulling away from me in touch and in communication. The Holy Spirit showed me that he was giving these things to another. Maybe not his heart but certainly his touch and his ear. He’d actually been sharing the key points of their conversations with me and it was protecting them that had him angry with me and my work. Here is an example of lack you see. Her ego wants to cling to the sorrow and grudge she has held and woken up to every morning for years. THAT, debra, is what you are dealing with.
* From the Atonement where I have been shown Heaven and Eternity in the Holy Instant, I can see these things because the Holy Spirit has shown them to me. Now, I still have an ego script in my thought patterns, and I am being taught how to release these through the experiences that I am having with others. This is what I believe that the Holy Spirit would have me show to others so that they might be able to exit those mazes of thought and not be trapped there.
* In these instances, I would do well to remember that All That Is ~ is mine, because God has given it to me as a part of the Sonship of Christ. And that Time is the culprit that appears to say that I do not have something such as his touch, attention, or ear. Or that she has something I do not or that I could have something which SHE does not. Hmm. Talk about ‘all-inclusive’ but that is what I am hearing. I cannot have it both ways. Either God IS or God isn’t and I need to trust that the timeline and story that I am into is correct. For me in this lifetime, at this point in my life, it is a one person commitment that I want in my thoughts and heart as a lover, yet I must open my mind to recognize the energy factor of God and know that Love simply flows in all/to all because God is the ‘energy that we ARE and that we are IN.
* I apologize if this sounds confusing. I am seeking a way to understand, live, and share what I know of God’s REALITY and it is bound to seem confusing at the onset.
* For me, I am hearing ‘let go’ and trust that I am losing nothing and that my love for her is sufficient to tell me that I would not have ‘circumstances’ be any other way than they are at this time. Hmm.
2. No gift is given thus.
²Such “gifts” are but a bid for a more valuable return; a loan with interest to be paid in full; a temporary lending, meant to be a pledge of debt to be repaid with more than was received by him who took the gift.
* From this sense of lack, i.e.: ⁷It is impossible that one can gain because another loses. ⁸This implies a limit and an insufficiency.
³This strange distortion of what giving means pervades all levels of the world you see.
* Jesus, and Father, thank you for teaching us.
⁴It strips all meaning from the gifts you give, and leaves you nothing in the ones you take.
* Help us turn this around. Thank you.
3. A major learning goal this course has set is to reverse your view of giving, so you can receive.
²For giving has become a source of fear, and so you would avoid the only means by which you can receive.
* If I can think of giving God’s Love fully and seeing God’s Love fully in my daily events (which is a practice I have only recently attempted) I can exercise releasing this fear.
³Accept God’s peace and joy, and you will learn a different way of looking at a gift.
* I am and they do.
⁴God’s gifts will never lessen when they are given away.
* I know that the energy that I get from processing through these things is tremendous and far outweighs the challenges or sadness that occurs from them.
⁵They but increase thereby. * YES.
4. As Heaven’s peace and joy intensify when you accept them as God’s gift to you, so does the joy of your Creator grow when you accept His joy and peace as yours.
* This is heart-warming.
* In some circles I can see how this phenomenon might be seen as ‘feeding’ Itself. Not by taking from another but by increasing in one’s energy and we do understand that God began creation as an expansion of Himself.
²True giving is creation.
³It extends the limitless to the unlimited, eternity to timelessness, and love unto itself.
* It seems to be more than our minds can comprehend and this is where remembering that we are but children and can rest in the Arms of God is so comforting to me.
⁴It adds to all that is complete already, not in simple terms of adding more, for that implies that it was less before.
⁵It adds by letting what cannot contain itself fulfill its aim of giving everything it has away, securing it forever for itself.
* This may be an understanding I will not receive fully in this lifetime but it has the traces of understanding what God may be in it.
5. Today accept God’s peace and joy as yours.
* This I do through the Forgiveness of the Atonement.
²Let Him complete Himself as He defines completion.
³You will understand that what completes Him must complete His Son as well.
⁴He cannot give through loss.
⁵No more can you.
⁶Receive His gift of joy and peace today, and He will thank you for your gift to Him.
* RECEIVING then, is our gift to God. In practical terms today, it may be the tolerance and acceptance of whatever presents itself in our lives without judgment or attachment having gratitude in our hearts and minds for the mere fact that we KNOW that God Exists. Believe me, this is HUGE and so REWARDING.
6. Today our practice periods will start a little differently.
²Begin today by thinking of those brothers who have been denied by you the peace and joy that are their right under the equal laws of God.
* Whoa! It is their birthright. Even under conditions that FEEL like betrayal or abandonment. Oh my. Tis true. “Pray for those who despitefully use you” has a lot more meaning to me today.
³Here you denied them to yourself.
* Do you see how we are being shown the workings of the ego mind? Actually, the mis-workings or mis-teachings that say others can have more than me or that I can have more than them. These are things that the world believes in currently that are WRONG and Jesus through the Holy Spirit is showing us how to correct them.
⁴And here you must return to claim them as your own.
* THIS is how you ‘escape’ the world. You literally understand that its storylines and fabrications do not take anything from you or make any sense even, in the realm of your true existence in the Mind and Will of God. Instead of it being that there is nothing though, I get the sense that you have it all. You want to open your mind to the understanding that you already have it all. There is nothing for you to have to gain or obtain.
7. Think of your “enemies” a little while, and tell each one, as he occurs to you:
²My brother, peace and joy I offer you, that I may have God’s peace and joy as mine.
³Thus you prepare yourself to recognize God’s gifts to you, and let your mind be free of all that would prevent success today.
⁴Now are you ready to accept the gift of peace and joy that God has given you.
⁵Now are you ready to experience the joy and peace you have denied yourself.
⁶Now you can say, “God’s peace and joy are mine,” for you have given what you would receive.
* How precious, thank you.
8. You must succeed today, if you prepare your mind as we suggest.
²For you have let all bars to peace and joy be lifted up, and what is yours can come to you at last.
³So tell yourself, “God’s peace and joy are mine,” and close your eyes a while, and let His Voice assure you that the words you speak are true.
9. Spend your five minutes thus with Him each time you can today, but do not think that less is worthless when you cannot give Him more.
²At least remember hourly to say the words which call to Him to give you what He wills to give, and wills you to receive.
³Determine not to interfere today with what He wills.
⁴And if a brother seems to tempt you to deny God’s gift to him, see it as but another chance to let yourself receive the gifts of God as yours.
⁵Then bless your brother thankfully, and say:
⁶My brother, peace and joy I offer you, that I may have God’s peace and joy as mine.
(ACIM, W-105.1:1–9:6)
* Free stock photo, the tactile things that we enjoy are superfluous or extras that really have little meaning and need to be seen more as ‘frosting on the cake’ than needs or identity in any way.
* Touch and our other senses are the ‘last battle ground’ of the ego. The place where the mind chooses to place itself at the mercy of the body and its limitations or accept its truth as a part of God and All That IS.
* Motherhood and lovers may be the two most excruciating examples of these perceived needs, especially as we perceive ourselves wronged thereby or lacking in these experiences as we choose to define them.
Till next time, God bless, debi.
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