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Lesson 315 ”All gifts my brothers give belong to me.”
Reframe: What others offer in love enriches us all.
Suggested Practice:
From now on:
Once in the morning and once in the evening for however many minutes feels sufficient. Then every hour remember/recite the idea for the day.
Prayer For today:
(feel free to swap out the wording to whatever resonates with you best)
“I thank You, Father, for the many gifts that come to me today and every day from every Son of God. ²My brothers are unlimited in all their gifts to me. ³Now may I offer them my thankfulness, that gratitude to them may lead me on to my Creator and His memory.” (ACIM, W-315.2:1-3)
OR… “I welcome with gratitude the gifts I receive from others.”
For Lessons 311-320: What is the Last Judgment? is the theme for the next 10 days. Read the whole article here.
”Christ’s Second Coming gives the Son of God this gift: to hear the Voice for God proclaim that what is false is false, and what is true has never changed. ²And this the judgment is in which perception ends. ³At first you see a world that has accepted this as true, projected from a now corrected mind. ⁴And with this holy sight, perception gives a silent blessing and then disappears, its goal accomplished and its mission done.” (ACIM, W-pII.10.1:1-4) … “The final judgment on the world contains no condemnation. ²For it sees the world as totally forgiven, without sin and wholly purposeless.” (ACIM, W-pII.10.2:1-2)
OR put another way…
”It’s when we accept the truth of who we truly are: sinless, holy, whole and complete, just as Love created us.”
From the PART II Introduction: Read the whole introduction here.
“Words will mean little now. ²We use them but as guides on which we do not now depend. ³For now we seek direct experience of truth alone. ⁴The lessons that remain are merely introductions to the times in which we leave the world of pain, and go to enter peace. ⁵Now we begin to reach the goal this course has set, and find the end toward which our practicing was always geared.” (ACIM, W-pII.in.1:1-5)
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Message
I needed help with this Lesson. I get it in theory, but in practice I don’t see how it works. Most people I talk with don’t even know about the Course, let alone the workbook or this Lesson. So how are they giving God’s gifts when they don’t even know they have a gift to give? And how can they give something that already belongs to me?
So I went to Kenneth Wapnick’s Journey through the Workbook of ACIM. In it he writes that this and the next Lesson focus on “the theme that giving and receiving are the same, a concept grounded in the oneness of God’s Son.” He further writes:
“In A Course in Miracles, Jesus usually goes the other way, telling us that our change of mind is the healing gift to our brother. However, in reversing the direction of forgiveness here, he reflects that whether I give the gift to you, or you to me, it is God’s Son giving it to himself. It is the gift that says we can make another choice, for our love and peace tell each other and ourselves that we can choose again.”
I’m probably making this more complicated for myself than it needs to be. Thinking about it more, here’s what I came up with.
We are all one as the Son of God. We’ve been given the gifts of peace, love, and joy. We also have the gift of forgiveness, which allows us to choose again how we perceive each other: through the eyes of the ego mind or Divine Mind. Per today’s Lesson, when someone gives any of those gifts to me, I see it as a reminder that it already belongs to me — and of our connectedness. So the gift isn’t transferred between separate people — it’s recognized as already shared.
I’m not sure I understand it all completely, but for now this is the best I can do. How about any of you? What’s your take on this Lesson?
“At every moment, I either perceive the world from love or from my ego.” — “The Course in Miracles Experiment” by Pam Grout
Blessings & Peace,
Maureen,
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