Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Lesson 178:

God is but Love, and therefore so am I…

Let not my mind deny the thought of God…

God is but Love, and therefore so am I…

I am entrusted with the gifts of God…

God is but Love, and therefore so am I…

As I was meditating with today’s lesson, the section at the beginning of chapter 11 called ‘God Or The Ego’ seemed resident in my mind. This entire section of the text is perfect for review and study in conjunction with the lesson for today. The following is excerpted from it:

Nothing alive is Fatherless, for life is creation. Therefore, your decision is always an answer to the question, "Who is my father?" And you will be faithful to the father you choose… If you were not part of God, His Will would not be unified. Is this conceivable? Can part of His Mind contain nothing? If your place in His Mind cannot be filled by anyone except you, and your filling it was your creation, without you there would be an empty place in God's Mind. Extension cannot be blocked, and it has no voids. It continues forever, however much it is denied. Your denial of its reality may arrest it in time, but not in eternity… The laws of the universe do not permit contradiction. What holds for God holds for you. If you believe you are absent from God, you will believe that He is absent from you. Infinity is meaningless without you, and you are meaningless without God. There is no end to God and His Son, for we the universe. God is not incomplete, and He is not childless. Because He did not will to be alone, He created a Son like Himself. Do not deny Him His Son, for your unwillingness to accept His Fatherhood has denied you yours… God has given you a place in His Mind that is yours forever. Yet you can keep it only by giving it, as it was given you. Could you be alone there, when it was given you because God did not will to be alone? God's Mind cannot be lessened. It can only be increased, for everything He creates has the function of creating. Love does not limit, and what it creates is not limited. To give without limit is God's Will for you, because only this can bring you the joy that is His and that He wills to share with you. Your love is as boundless as His because it His… Could any part of God be without His Love, and could any part of His Love be contained? God is your heritage, because His one gift is Himself. How can you give except like Him if you would know His gift to you? Give, then, without limit and without end, to learn how much He has given you. Your ability to accept Him depends on your willingness to give as He gives… Yet what you will you do not know. This is not strange when you realize that to deny is to "not know." God's Will is that you are His Son. By denying this you deny your own will, and therefore do not know what it is. You must ask what God's Will is in everything, because it is yours. You do not know what it is, but the Holy Spirit remembers it for you. Ask Him, therefore, what God's Will is for you, and He will tell you yours. It cannot be too often repeated that you do not know it… You cannot be happy unless you do what you will truly, and you cannot change this because it is immutable. It is immutable by God's Will and yours, for otherwise His Will would not be extended. (T-11.in.1; T-11.I.3-10)

~L O V E is what I am. Therefore, love is the answer; love is also meaning for each seeming happening in my life in time, which has denied the truth. So if love is the answer, what is the question? The ego thought system imposed the first question, “what am I?” Then bombarded the mind with a myriad of ‘special answers’ designed to distract the mind … This must be the hypnotic mantra that lulls the mind of the perfectly complete, into a dream of fragmented mazes and puzzles. The flipside of the ‘what am I’ coin however, is the fear of finding out…

What a racket, eh? What a freakin’ trap the ego has set! The ego convinces us that we have to hide ourselves from ‘The Rath’ for the guilty~ as if we were guilty! And we bought it. So we go blindly about protecting our lie-self from our Self (which alone knows Love to be itself in God)…

And where did the seductive ego-lure originate? With the idea that one could make a life apart from God, which could only represent what God and all creation is not. ~Death~ Since God is all life… It seems ludicrous when you look at it honestly. But like the Course says, the ego never looks at anything honestly.

It also reminds us though, that the belief that there is another way of perceiving is the loftiest idea of which ego thinking is capable and that is because it contains a hint of recognition that the ego is not the Self… This is why it is so crucial to question the validity of what we believe; question every value that we hold within the dream… and chose once again… Beneath the covers of the false identity, which the ego dream has pulled over the mind, sits the quiet knowing of the truth. The inevitable dissatisfaction with the dream of ‘being the boss of a world in which you’re the victim of it, begins to ruffle the bedcovers, and we just have to take a peek into the light… Deep in the center of the mind, rests the Holy Spirit, unmoved by the false, awaiting but our slightest invitation to realize the truth of what we are and who our Father is.

Each aspect of the dream, He has already given a new interpretation, which awakens and unites. Every shade and color; all persons and situations are seen as elements of healing the split-mind and re-member-ing the One Son of one God, the Father… This ability for full remembrance and awakening is always already within us awaiting change of mind… We are, after all, the dreamer of the dream of ‘not remembering who we are’.

Let us not deny the mind of God…

We deny instead, the denial of God, and accept the Atonement for ourselves… This allows us to recognize…

We are entrusted with the gifts of God…

And now we give as we were meant to give; through extending the love that we are. The happy dreams forgiveness render reflect our joyous, one purpose; bring to present-mind, the love of God, which is our one self…

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