Lesson 94:

I am as God created me… I am His Son eternally…

These simple statements are symbols that sweep me into the current of the purpose they represent and carry me into the presence of truth ~of God… So attractive is this idea, it is virtually irresistible... Can’t you just feel the appeal of the return to self? The desire to surrender to the current and be completely swallowed by the Self, the Son that God created as Himself, carries with it the mighty power of truth itself... Actually... resistance is futile… NOW is the closest approximation to eternity at our disposal while we still dream of a world and cosmos and time and space. NOW is where forgiveness surrenders us into itself and allows us to we see the face of Christ in every seeming sight and sound and person, place or thing as we look out upon a forgiven world where all is ONE. Ultimately, this lesson is the only one we learn; all others are merely part of the return to this one: “I am as God Created me”. This is our Fathers completion in Himself. Ours is to remember Him through the means He gave for our return to the eternal Now.
Why not give up every idea we ever made of who we are and what meaning is and no longer hold the past that we made up, against the presence of the eternal now? NOW is the eternal destination, the current, and the means for which to experience it. I love what the Course says about this in the section called ‘The Present Memory’. It is such a beautiful read and perfect companion to today's lesson experience...
We are as God created us… We are His Son eternally…
Can we slip past the idols and self-images and beliefs and concepts and values we have made, for just an instant… and dump out into the vast infinite eternity of peace and safety, in the still embrace of love?... This instant let us wholeheartedly accept the Atonement for ourselves and wait in silent expectancy for the truth… Feel the inevitability of God the Father and His Holy Son….
This is the experience where purpose and means are brought together in a single unified recognition of Reality… This one thing only could be all of all in truth. We but allow this holy recognition of our Self, but one instant, and trust is easy from here…
He has called and we have answered… We now but trust that the means for our full return to the eternal Self, whom God created as Himself, have been placed within every seemingly split off aspect of the mind that identified with a tiny mad idea and thought that separation of any sort, could be real... and further fantasized a world apart to house this idea, peopled by constructs and beliefs to substantiate its flimsy, fleeting existence. Certainly, the holographic composition of Creation is not without all the power of it Source… here, or ever… We but trust this Holy Source and allow the truth to reveal itself as we surrender completely to this one thought “I am as God Created me”… This IS the thought we think with God! This is the Way, the Truth and the Life…
What a relief… How can anything but gratitude be our middle name? I join with you in the praise of our Father and Creation as One: the effect and Cause have been brought together through the Atonement and ministered to the sleeping brothers by miracles…full return is as inevitable as God… We are the eternal Son Whom God created and we are not alone, being One… alwaysforevernow…