September 1, 2020
Lesson 246 –
To love my Creator is to love the One Child.
This group of lessons addresses the question, “What is the world?” The Course has taught us that the world is an illusion – it is not real. Yet, the Course also teaches that the world, though an illusion, has a purpose on our spiritual journey. The world is where we are presented with situations designed to teach us lessons. These lessons include learning to recognize who we really are, who those we journey with really are, that we are all One, and that we are complete, holy, whole and loved. We are to return to the awareness of who we really are. We are to relearn to love unconditionally and that giving and receiving love are the same. As we love our Creator, we also love each other and ourselves as we are all joined in Oneness. There is no “other” in reality. The text of this lesson tells us this:
Let me not think that I can find the way to Oneness, if I have hatred in my heart. Let me not try to hurt the Creator’s One Child, and think that I can know their Creator or my Self. Let me not fail to recognize myself, and still believe that my awareness can contain my Creator, or my mind conceive of all the love my Creator has for me, and all the love which I return to my Creator [Oneness]. W-pII.246.1:1-3
There is a way for us to find our journey home to the awareness of who we really are. It is part of a divine plan that can take any form, but a form that is unique for each of us. Every one we meet, every situation we find ourselves in has a purpose in our journey if we will allow ourselves to recognize it. We might ask ourselves a simple question when we are faced with a challenging situation or person. “How can I see this differently?” We tend to jump to conclusions when we find ourselves challenged. Yet, we have everything we need to handle whatever is facing us. Take a step away to look at it differently. Let your mind open to other possibilities through the lens of love. There are other possibilities and choices when we allow ourselves to be open to them. The Course gives us this prayer:
I will accept the way You choose for me to come to You, my Creator. For in that will I succeed, because it is Your Will. And I would recognize that what You will is what I will as well, and only that. And so I choose to love Your One Child. Amen. W-pII.246.2:1-5
You see, as we are One with our Creator and each other, we cannot have divided wills. What we really want for ourselves is also what the Creator wants for us. And it’s Love and more Love. The endless supply of abundant unconditional Love. Ask, open your spirit eyes [your mind] and you will see.
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