June 23, 2020
Lesson 175 – Review of lessons 159 and 160
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
(159) I give the miracles I have received.
God is but Love, and therefore so am I.
(160) I am at home. Fear is the stranger here.
God is but Love, and therefore so am I. W-pI.175.1:1-2:3
This set of review lessons frames each lesson review in the idea that God [Source or Oneness] is nothing but Love, and therefore so are we. The main teaching of the Course is that we are simply Love – nothing else. How would our view of ourselves, each other and the world change if we adopted and believed this idea? Perhaps we are even afraid to go there. But this is where the Course askes us to go. It asks us to set aside all our preconceived ideas and notions about ourselves and just be open to the idea that we might actually be whole and holy. Let’s look at each review lesson in this light.
Lesson 159 tells us that we give the miracles we have received. The Course teaches us that we have everything we need. It also teaches us we have been given an abundance of miracles – even limitless. Perhaps we have mistakenly blocked all those miracles from our awareness. Be assured they are there and they are real just waiting to be given. For as with all that is real, all is shared. We receive miracles by giving them. This idea is contrary to any belief in separation for separation believes in limitation.
You understand that you are healed when you give healing. You accept forgiveness as accomplished in yourself when you forgive. You recognize another as yourself, and thus do you perceive that you are whole. There is no miracle you cannot give, for all are given you. Receive them now by opening the storehouse of your mind where they are laid, and giving them away. W-pI.159.2:1-5
Miracles are Love and their result is Love. What else could we possibly want? Look then at lesson 160. The Course teaches us that Love and fear are opposites and cannot coexist. One of the sayings so famous from the Course is, “Love is letting go of fear.” When we align our minds with the miracle of Love, fear is the stranger to our mind and fades to nothingness. How many times have we been told to not be afraid? We have nothing to fear in the light of our wholeness and holiness. An open mind will find this idea completely plausible.
How simply, then, the question is resolved. Who fears has but denied themselves and said, “I am the stranger here. And so I leave my home to one more like me than myself, and give them all I thought belonged to me.” Now are they exiled of necessity, not knowing who they are, uncertain of all things but this; that they are not themselves, and that their home has been denied to them. W-pI.160.5:1-4
The gist of the problem is that we have denied who we really are and thus blocked our true identity and holiness from our minds. The solution is simply the reverse, to be willing to stop denying who we really are and allow the miracle of a shift in our minds to awaken us to our wholeness. Let this lesson bear its fruit in our minds. We are Love and nothing else in reality. We will see the world, ourselves and each other differently when we make this realization. Today we can realize the healing of our mind.
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