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I am entrusted with the gifts of God.
1. All things are given you.
²God’s trust in you is limitless.
* Imagine that! It took me 30 years in the LDS/Mormon Church to gain the confidence to trust the Spirit within me because I had chosen a family of origin who would tell me I had no redeeming qualities except to look after them. I am not promoting that Church but I will say that there was an attitude that the average person could do things that anyone could, including public speaking and HEAR the Holy Spirit.
³He knows His Son.
⁴He gives without exception, holding nothing back that can contribute to your happiness.
* I can vouch for both of these things and I am very grateful!
⁵And yet, unless your will is one with His, His gifts are not received.
* I have witnessed this. The need to hold a grudge is what I have seen to be a prominent block of Father’s blessings.
⁶But what would make you think there is another will than His?
2. Here is the paradox that underlies the making of the world.
²This world is not the Will of God, and so it is not real.
* “The world” in the language of Jesus of Nazareth always means that which does not acknowledge God. This is not about form. It is about Will/will, Source/source, Power/power, and Strength/strength.
³Yet those who think it real must still believe there is another will, and one that leads to opposite effects from those He wills.
* This is something we can release within ourselves without money, ritual, or another person, except maybe Jesus who is already there and is our guide and brother. He will gladly hold your hand in the process if you want him to.
⁴Impossible indeed; but every mind that looks upon the world and judges it as certain, solid, trustworthy and true believes in two creators; or in one, himself alone.
⁵But never in one God.
* I was raised in this tradition of two creators. Those who sinned made a world and then there was the lofty separate God Who could not tolerate OUR presence because of our wickedness.
3. The gifts of God are not acceptable to anyone who holds such strange beliefs.
²He must believe that to accept God’s gifts, however evident they may become, however urgently he may be called to claim them as his own, is to be pressed to treachery against himself.
* In other words, a denial of God.
³He must deny their presence, contradict the truth, and suffer to preserve the world he made.
4. Here is the only home he thinks he knows.
* We are speaking about the CRIMINALLY INSANE ego=god mentality here.
* The truthfulness of its CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR is going to be revealed more and more in every neighborhood until it becomes undeniable to those who have any connection to their heart of hearts understanding.
²Here is the only safety he believes that he can find.
³Without the world he made is he an outcast; homeless and afraid.
⁴He does not realize that it is here he is afraid indeed, and homeless, too; an outcast wandering so far from home, so long away, he does not realize he has forgotten where he came from, where he goes, and even who he really is.
5. Yet in his lonely, senseless wanderings, God’s gifts go with him, all unknown to him.
²He cannot lose them.
³But he will not look at what is given him.
⁴He wanders on, aware of the futility he sees about him everywhere, perceiving how his little lot but dwindles, as he goes ahead to nowhere.
⁵Still he wanders on in misery and poverty, alone though God is with him, and a treasure his so great that everything the world contains is valueless before its magnitude.
* Reminds me of the millionaires I live among who live as if they are paupers, or at the very least eclectics.
* Personally, I am one of the richest people I know BECAUSE of what I know.
6. He seems a sorry figure; weary, worn, in threadbare clothing, and with feet that bleed a little from the rocky road he walks.
²No one but has identified with him, for everyone who comes here has pursued the path he follows, and has felt defeat and hopelessness as he is feeling them.
* We have all done this, even Jesus.
³Yet is he really tragic, when you see that he is following the way he chose, and need but realize Who walks with him and open up his treasures to be free?
* Even Jesus’ birth is no more miraculous than the rest of ours, nor his death. What sets him apart at the moment is that he acknowledges God and his NEED of the Holy Spirit for guidance and instruction.
* There is not a one of us who does not have need of this Advisor. (the (W)holy Spirit)
7. This is your chosen self, the one you made as a replacement for reality.
²This is the self you savagely defend against all reason, every evidence, and all the witnesses with proof to show this is not you.
* THIS is the self that you no longer see as real when you accept the TOTAL FORGIVENESS of the Atonement.
³You heed them not.
⁴You go on your appointed way, with eyes cast down lest you might catch a glimpse of truth, and be released from self-deception and set free.
8. You cower fearfully lest you should feel Christ’s touch upon your shoulder, and perceive His gentle hand directing you to look upon your gifts.
* No, no, NO!!! You must feel the Father’s Touch TELLING you that you are His Son along with All That Is.
* Do you see how a simple misinterpretation sends you on a very different path?
²How could you then proclaim your poverty in exile?
³He would make you laugh at this perception of yourself.
* Christ doesn’t make you do anything, nor does God, or the Holy Spirit.
* Awareness of God and yourself as His Son makes you chuckle at the absurdity of your ‘CRIMINALLY INSANE ego=god mentality and stories.
⁴Where is self-pity then?
⁵And what becomes of all the tragedy you sought to make for him whom God intended only joy?
* Remember that this is not YOU Jesus is speaking of, it is the CRIMINALLY INSANE ego=god mentality that you have been taught and are clinging to because of an intrinsic belief that separation is possible.
9. Your ancient fear has come upon you now, and justice has caught up with you at last.
* That sounds like a fear tactic to me and Jesus would not use that ‘except in jest’ or as a joke so do not take it any other way. You are as God Created YOU perfect and innocent. That pre-fab egomaniac that you thought you were is NOT what you see now because you KNOW yourself to be part of the Body of Christ.
²Christ’s hand has touched your shoulder, and you feel that you are not alone.
* This simply cannot happen and is a metaphor at best. You are the Christ becoming aware of yourself and that would be the metaphor of Christ’s hand which would be better described as God’s Hand and have a lot more meaning and power.
³You even think the miserable self you thought was you may not be your Identity.
⁴Perhaps God’s Word is truer than your own.
⁵Perhaps His gifts to you are real.
⁶Perhaps He has not wholly been outwitted by your plan to keep His Son in deep oblivion, and go the way you chose without your Self.
* This you, you, you crap actually annoys me. And that makes sense because it is not who I am or who you are as part of the Body of Christ.
10. God’s Will does not oppose.
²It merely is.
³It is not God you have imprisoned in your plan to lose your Self.
⁴He does not know about a plan so alien to His Will.
* YES, He does and He made a remedy for it in the Atonement.
⁵There was a need He did not understand, to which He gave an Answer.
* All-knowing or omniscient does not agree with this. God knows and guides us along the way.
* ²The advanced therapist in no way can ever doubt the power that is in him. ³Nor does he doubt its Source. ⁴He understands all power in earth and Heaven belongs to him because of who he is. ⁵And he is this because of his Creator, Whose Love is in him and Who cannot fail. ⁶Think what this means; he has the gifts of God Himself to give away. ⁷His patients are God’s saints, who call upon his sanctity to make it theirs. ⁸And as he gives it to them, they behold Christ’s shining face as it looks back at them. (ACIM, P-2.VII.6:2–8)
⁶That is all.
⁷And you who have this Answer given you have need no more of anything but this.
11. Now do we live, for now we cannot die.
²The wish for death is answered, and the sight that looked upon it now has been replaced by vision which perceives that you are not what you pretend to be.
³One walks with you Who gently answers all your fears with this one merciful reply, “It is not so.”
⁴He points to all the gifts you have each time the thought of poverty oppresses you, and speaks of His Companionship when you perceive yourself as lonely and afraid.
12. Yet He reminds you still of one thing more you had forgotten.
²For His touch on you has made you like Himself.
³The gifts you have are not for you alone.
⁴What He has come to offer you, you now must learn to give.
⁵This is the lesson that His giving holds, for He has saved you from the solitude you sought to make in which to hide from God.
⁶He has reminded you of all the gifts that God has given you.
⁷He speaks as well of what becomes your will when you accept these gifts, and recognize they are your own.
13. The gifts are yours, entrusted to your care, to give to all who chose the lonely road you have escaped.
²They do not understand they but pursue their wishes.
³It is you who teach them now.
⁴For you have learned of Christ (*AS ALL THAT IS and realize) there is another way for them (*The Sonship of Christ) to walk.
⁵Teach them by showing them the happiness that comes to those who feel the touch of Christ, and recognize God’s gifts.
⁶Let sorrow not tempt you to be unfaithful to your trust.
* This can be a tuffy! Sorrow over what humanity appears to have done to itself can become a burden that is too heavy to bear and it must be given over to the 
holy Spirit to carry.
14. Your sighs will now betray the hopes of those who look to you for their release.
²Your tears are theirs.
³If you are sick, you but withhold their healing.
⁴What you fear but teaches them their fears are justified.
* DO NOT LET ANY OF THE ABOVE CAUSE YOU TO FEEL GUILTY!
⁵Your hand becomes the giver of Christ’s (*NO, it is God’s) touch (*through Christ); your change of mind becomes the proof that who accepts God’s gifts can never suffer anything.
⁶You are entrusted with the world’s release from pain.
15. Betray it not.
²Become the living proof of what Christ’s (*God’s Touch through you as a part of Christ) touch can offer everyone.
³God has entrusted all His gifts to you.
⁴Be witness in your happiness to how transformed the mind becomes which chooses to accept His gifts, and feel the touch of Christ.
* Let’s take that one apart! One: Happiness comes from knowing that ALL ARE FREE because they are Christ. This we have learned from previous lessons.
⁵Such is your mission now.
⁶For God entrusts the giving of His gifts to all who have received them.
* You are to share them in other words.
⁷He has shared His joy with you.
⁸And now you go to share it with the world.
* Just as Jesus did and you know where that got him. Lol
* Seriously, though! You cannot help but want to share what you have because of the joy that it does bring. Even if the world you find yourself in LOVES to wallow in MISERY.
* I know that I do!
(ACIM, W-166.1:1–15:8)
Till next time, God bless, debi.
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