God’s peace and joy are mine.
(By “default” of the fact that I am a part of HIS SON. 😉 )
* WHEN WE ACKNOWLEDGE GOD’S EXISTENCE and OUR INNOCENCE.
* And because HE travels with me in ALL WAYS. (This is what the photo says to me, even though others cannot see HYMN, HE walks with me, and all that I witness as real.)
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.
* When you see gifts as coming from people, they come with strings attached. I had to get out of that attitude very early in my adult years. Even our attachments with our parents or caregivers can be seen like this and may even be what makes us the “familial” attachments, those by blood or those “chosen.”
⁶The truly given gift entails no loss.
* What FATHER GIVES, HE GOES WITH, and in our acknowledging HYMN, we claim our own inheritance as a part of all that is.
⁷It is impossible that one can gain because another loses.
⁸This implies a limit and an insufficiency.
* In FATHER there is no such thing.
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.
* Could this be where the attitude of entitlement has come in relationships?
³This strange distortion of what giving means pervades all levels of the world you see.
⁴It strips all meaning from the gifts you give, and leaves you nothing in the ones you take.
* In other words, it is part of the construct of separation.
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.
³Accept God’s peace and joy, and you will learn a different way of looking at a gift.
⁴God’s gifts will never lessen when they are given away.
⁵They but increase thereby.
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.
²True giving is creation.
* I want to HEAR this! Because here is where relationships between the parts of Christ are real and blessed with the Presence of Father.
* I know that the ability to give is huge and that it does fill up the spirit of the giver.
* I have witnessed a lifetime of holiday gatherings, and you can “feel” when a gift is given and when strings are attached. You can also tell when gifts are not received, and you have fallen short of whatever it was you were supposed to be in the giving of it.
³It extends the limitless to the unlimited, eternity to timelessness, and love unto itself.
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.
5. Today accept God’s peace and joy as yours.
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.
* Could this be the definition of a reciprocal relationship? Might we want to teach this one to another? Better yet, allow it to become a part of our culture and social witness one to another?
* I will add that this would be easy for ego to play with and manipulate us as a society.
* I will go a step further and suggest that this is exactly what has happened today in our society, and WHY we have the turmoil in the social climate of the West. I would even suggest that ACIM is that which taught those who would take the freedoms away from individuals HOW to do it. Through the construct of “nice.” Holding to just enough truth, that it blinds those who REFUSE to acknowledge our inter-dependence on FATHER, and places us WILLING to believe that we must be burdened with suffering and lack. Basically, that is everything that FATHER is NOT and what HE WOULD NOT GIVE HIS SON.
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.
³Here you denied them to yourself.
⁴And here you must return to claim them as your own.
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.
* BEAR IN MIND HERE, THAT IT IS NOT YOUR PEACE AND JOY THAT YOU ARE OFFERING BUT FATHER’S. This is where A Course in Miracles has been misinterpreted and “mistaught.” AND WHERE IT MUST BE CORRECTED.
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.
* AND EVERYONE.
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.
* I do this as I “walk away” from relationships that insist on placing me in a role that is abusive or submissive. I give them to God and to HIS EMBRACE that embodies the joy and peace that they cannot receive from me because I am not the source of it.
* I suspect this is at the core of what Jesus meant when he said to pray for those who would abuse you.
8. You must succeed today, if you prepare your mind as we suggest.
* You WILL SUCCEED in “FINDING GOD” today, IF you acknowledge HYMN.
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.
* I do not know if it will make sense to you or not but this is how I can stand as one of the “richest” women on the planet today. RICH is the witness that GOD IS and that ALL That IS is HIS Son.
(ACIM, W-105.1:1–9:6)
To Father be ALL Glory and Praise Given AS His Son, debi.
Photo: posted by Heathr M Kabaniec 12 Feb 2024
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