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Lesson 316 ”All gifts I give my brothers are my own.”
Reframe: What I give in love returns to me.
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)
“Father, I would accept Your gifts today. ²I do not recognize them. ³Yet I trust that You Who gave them will provide the means by which I can behold them, see their worth, and cherish only them as what I want.” (ACIM, W-316.2:1-3)
OR… “What I give, I receive because it’s already mine.”
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
“As every gift my brothers give is mine, so every gift I give belongs to me. Each one allows a past mistake to go, and leave no shadow on the holy mind my Father loves.” (ACIM, W-316.1:1-2)
Contrary to yesterday’s Lesson, this one makes more sense to me. The idea of allowing ‘a past mistake to go, and leave no shadow’ is what the Course calls giving the gift of forgiveness. It’s about choosing to see others, as well as ourselves, in the Light. The idea is simple. In practice it can be challenging, especially if our ego minds want to hold onto grievances. By doing so, we create suffering mostly in ourselves—and there’s an excellent chance the people we hold grievances against aren’t even aware of it. So when we forgive them by changing our minds about the grievances, we experience our own Light as well as seeing theirs.
My car needed repairs this week. Some of the people I interacted with were helpful, others were not. At one point I was told a new part I had to order couldn’t be calibrated—it was broken. They could fix it, but it would cost me more money and time. I decided the whole thing was unfair, and I admit I let my ego mind take the reins. I wanted everyone involved to know how upset I was, yet I didn’t want to attack. So I let it fester inside me—let the suffering begin. The others had no idea I was angry or resentful, so they weren’t suffering.
I’m not sure exactly what helped me change my mind. It seemed like everything I’ve learned from the Course was percolating in the background overnight: I don’t want to suffer, I need to see this differently, is this worth losing my peace over? It also involved giving myself the gift of forgiveness for my mistake of reacting and losing my peace.
Because of that, when I went to pick up the car this morning, I was able to see the whole situation differently without the need to attack. I was calm. I still plan to let the appropriate people know my issues with how things were handled, but I can do so from a place of peace.
My biggest takeaway is noticing how quickly I let the ego mind take charge when something doesn’t go my way. Had I been mindful, present with Divine Mind, I could have responded from a place of peace.
“Okay, so I had a less-than-stellar day. So what ? I used my magic words (‘It’s Okay’) and shrugged it off as the perfect unfoldment and realization that I’m on the right path.” — “The Course in Miracles Experiment” by Pam Grout
Blessings & Peace,
Maureen,
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