My thoughts* on ACIM Urtext Lesson 159, for June 7, 2024.

I give the miracles I have received.

* How I long to share my ‘vision’ that contains only the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. That is the world that I EXIST in.

* Therein I see the stories that people live in and the realm where they feel they are separate and I know that trust among those who feel separated from God is not reasonable and I also know that I am able to trust the inner guidance I receive from the Holy Spirit.

* The miracles I have received are the witness of my innocence as a part of the Son of God and that God IS and because He IS, I AM.

1. No one can give what he has not received. ²To give a thing requires first you have it in your own possession. ³Here the laws of Heaven and the world agree. ⁴But here they also separate. ⁵The world believes that to possess a thing, it must be kept. ⁶Salvation teaches otherwise. ⁷To give is how to recognize you have received. ⁸It is the proof that what you have is yours.

* I am able to see Christ in others and know of God’s Love for them. In so doing, I receive of that myself.

2. You understand that you are healed when you give healing. ²You accept forgiveness as accomplished in yourself when you forgive. ³You recognize your brother as yourself, and thus do you perceive that you are whole. ⁴There is no miracle you cannot give, for all are given you. ⁵Receive them now by opening the storehouse of your mind where they are laid, and giving them away.

* I love the way it says to recognize your brother is perceiving that you are whole!

3. Christ’s vision is a miracle. ²It comes from far beyond itself, for it reflects eternal love and the rebirth of love which never dies, but has been kept obscure. ³Christ’s vision pictures Heaven, for it sees a world so like to Heaven that what God created perfect can be mirrored there. ⁴The darkened glass the world presents can show but twisted images in broken parts. ⁵The real world pictures Heaven’s innocence.

* You can live there now. I do. Even with the confusion and chaos that I see because I know that is not real in an eternal sense, even though my brother’s ARE REAL.

4. Christ’s vision is the miracle in which all miracles are born. ²It is their source, remaining with each miracle you give, and yet remaining yours. ³It is the bond by which the giver and receiver are united in extension here on earth, as they are one in Heaven. ⁴Christ beholds no sin in anyone. ⁵And in His sight the sinless are as one. ⁶Their holiness was given by His Father and Himself.

* The vision of Christ that I receive from the Holy Spirit is a recognition of God’s Reality and brings the miracles to the confusion the Son of God has placed himself in through the belief in the possibility of separation from God.

5. Christ’s vision is the bridge between the worlds. ²And in its power can you safely trust to carry you from this world into one made holy by forgiveness. ³Things which seem quite solid here are merely shadows there; transparent, faintly seen, at times forgot, and never able to obscure the light that shines beyond them. ⁴Holiness has been restored to vision, and the blind can see.

* TWO WORLDS ARE SEEABLE, not as real, of course, but they are seen. “The blind can see,” YES, it is a wonderful place to be. And, tricky because at times you will feel that you are going insane because you still have a body in a world that insists that ERROR is Reality.

6. This is the Holy Spirit’s single gift; the treasure house to which you can appeal with perfect certainty for all the things that can contribute to your happiness. ²All are laid here already. ³All can be received but for the asking. ⁴Here the door is never locked, and no one is denied his least request or his most urgent need. ⁵There is no sickness not already healed, no lack unsatisfied, no need unmet within this golden treasury of Christ.

* Understand that this is real no matter what things may look or feel like. I KNOW it to be true.

7. Here does the world remember what was lost when it was made. ²For here it is repaired, made new again, but in a different light. ³What was to be the home of sin becomes the center of redemption and the hearth of mercy, where the suffering are healed and welcome. ⁴No one will be turned away from this new home, where his salvation waits. ⁵No one is stranger to him. ⁶No one asks for anything of him except the gift of his acceptance of his welcoming.

8. Christ’s vision is the holy ground in which the lilies of forgiveness set their roots. ²This is their home. ³They can be brought from here back to the world, but they can never grow in its unnourishing and shallow soil. ⁴They need the light and warmth and kindly care Christ’s charity provides. ⁵They need the love with which He looks on them. ⁶And they become His messengers, who give as they received.

* Christ’s vision sees God’s Love applied equally to All That Is and THIS is how I understand the definition of “charity” in Jesus’ language/usage today.

* How did we receive? From within. And from within, you may share this wonderful news to others by being aware of it yourself.

9. Take from His storehouse, that its treasures may increase. ²His lilies do not leave their home when they are carried back into the world. ³Their roots remain. ⁴They do not leave their source, but carry its beneficence with them, and turn the world into a garden like the one they came from, and to which they go again with added fragrance. ⁵Now are they twice blessed. ⁶The messages they brought from Christ have been delivered, and returned to them.

⁷And they return them gladly unto Him.

* As we “see” only Christ in All That Is, even the rough stuff (knowing that it is translated through God’s Love), we are able to ‘be in Heaven with God, the Father, in communion with Him, AND serve in the confusion the Son had believed was possible.

10. Behold the store of miracles set out for you to give. ²Are you not worth the gift, when God appointed it be given you? ³Judge not God’s Son, but follow in the way He has established. ⁴Christ has dreamed the dream of a forgiven world. ⁵It is His gift, whereby a sweet transition can be made from death to life; from hopelessness to hope. ⁶Let us an instant dream with Him. ⁷His dream awakens us to truth. ⁸His vision gives the means for a return to our unlost and everlasting sanctity in God.

* The majority of that sounds like it is speaking of someone outside of ourselves. Primarily because the scribes could not bring themselves to accept it, which is more than understandable considering the time in which they were living AND their ‘roles’ in the Universal Plan of Salvation. However, the last comment hones in on the truth without a doubt: “⁸His vision gives the means for a return to our unlost and everlasting sanctity in God.”

(ACIM, W-159.1:1–10:8)

Till next time, God bless, debi.