My thoughts* on Workbook Lesson 294 for October 19, 2024. I am a (*PART OF THE) Son of God

My body is a wholly neutral thing.

* This is an important understanding in the transition that we are seeking that will bring us into remembrance of who we truly are.

1. I am a Son of God.

* Well, I am A PART OF THE SON OF GOD because the Son of God is ALL THAT IS OR EVER COULD BE. THERE IS A COLLECTIVE OF WITNESSES THAT MAKE UP THE BODY OF THE SON OF GOD AND YOU AND I ARE A PART OF THIS CONSCIOUSNESS.

²And can I be another thing as well?

³Did God create the mortal and corruptible?

⁴What use has God’s beloved Son for what must die?

⁵And yet a neutral thing does not see death, for thoughts of fear are not invested there, nor is a mockery of love bestowed upon it.

* “… a mockery of love” if that isn’t how the world behaves at this time as we come into this world through “miscreation” and celebrate death as if it were a marker or symbol of life. Where is life and existence in this? What meaning does it have to us other than to ward off what will kill us or pile up possessions and property as if that somehow replaced the death toll that we place before ourselves at every turn?

* With all my heart I seek to be an example of living in the Presence of God and knowing that He Is and that I am a part of His Son created that I might have joy in being. That expression is lost on those who would look through a lens of death as the meaning of life.

⁶Its neutrality protects it while it has a use.

* It is the body that we are speaking of here.

⁷And afterwards, without a purpose, it is laid aside.

⁸It is not sick nor old nor hurt.

⁹It is but functionless, unneeded and cast off.

* This thought is what brought me to my computer at 1:30 in the morning: What I think of as “MY LIFE” is God doing His Best to Gently Wake Up His Son and let him know that Father is still here and would never leave him.

* It seems appropriate to this lesson as I see the body for what it is intended, a temporary tool or vessel to ‘house’ the Spirit of the Father and the Son to ‘speak’ of their Love One to Another.

¹⁰Let me not see it more than this today; of service for a while and fit to serve, to keep its usefulness while it can serve, and then to be replaced for greater good.

* Here that. “Replaced for greater good.” The Universal Plan of Salvation has many ‘acts’ and many ‘roles’ to be filled until the Son of God is roused fully out of the sleepy dream of separation from His Father. We have all volunteered to participate in this and bear witness that the Son of God cannot be harmed or have lack.

* Think about that. The Son of God cannot be harmed or have lack. THIS IS A TRUTH WHICH WE HAVE The OPPORTUNITY TO CLAIM FOR THE SON AS A WHOLE BY ACCEPTING OUR ROLE IN THE ATONEMENT BY FORGIVING THE BELIEF IN SEPARATION FROM GOD (THE ORIGINAL, UNIVERSAL, CREATOR/FATHER) AND ONE ANOTHER. This is an action of the consciousness and the heart/feelings, not of any attachment to the body or form, per se.

2. My body, Father, cannot be Your Son.

²And what is not created cannot be sinful nor sinless; neither good nor bad.

* I would read this carefully and not jump to conclusions about its meaning.

* The body is not the Son but what it represents is; a part of the Body of Christ.

* In other words, do not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Do not cast out your ‘existence’ altogether.

³Let me, then, use this dream to help Your plan that we awaken from all dreams we made.

* Do you see how it allows that God is moving through us to speak to His Son of which we are a part?

(ACIM, W-294.1:1–2:3)

Till next time, God bless, debi.