My thoughts* on Workbook Lesson 344 for December 8, 2024. Today I learn the law of love; that what I give my brother is my gift to me.

Today I learn the law of love; that what I give my brother is my gift to me.

* Understanding that ALL that is going on that is not of LOVE is NOT REAL.

* Seeing equality in others or seeing them as I do myself.

* Now, we do this “equality thing” at this time, it is just that outside of the True Forgiveness of the Atonement we think all the traumatic stuff we have done to ourselves and one another IS REAL and it is NOT.

* Seeing the Innocence of CHRIST, whom they ARE, in ALL is what will clear this up.

* That does not mean that we will not have to “deal with the false assumptions and the resulting situations or thought patterns.” But NOT SEEING THEM AS REAL will allow us to disengage a lot of emotional energy that we use feeling guilty or wanting what WE THINK is justice.

1. This is Your law, my Father, not my own.

* Amen.

²I have not understood what giving means, and thought to save what I desired for myself alone.

* Yeah, impossible.

³And as I looked upon the treasure that I thought I had, I found an empty place where nothing ever was or is or will be.

* Yet in Father all is us and ours.

⁴Who can share a dream?

⁵And what can an illusion offer me?

⁶Yet he whom I forgive will give me gifts beyond the worth of anything on earth.

* Do not forgive the error in form but the original error of belief in separation.

* This is where the ego has really snagged us.

* Without both of these critical understandings we are not able to see Father, and the Son and we are not able to begin the healing process that Father Guides us through by the Vision and Promptings of SPIRIT.

* Jesus says IF these things were real they would be horrible and impossible to forgive but they are NOT. THIS is a difference that we must recognize.

⁷Let my forgiven brothers fill my store with Heaven’s treasures, which alone are real.

* THIS is ALSO HEAVEN. Which we may obtain NOW and it IS INSIDE EACH OF US IN THE ATONEMENT.

⁸Thus is the law of love fulfilled.

⁹And thus Your Son arises and returns to You.

2. How near we are to one another, as we go to God.

²How near is He to us.

³How close the ending of the dream of sin, and the redemption of the Son of God.

* PRAISE GOD!

(ACIM, W-344.1:1–2:3)

Till next time, God Bless, debi.