December 8, 2020
Lesson 344 –
Today I learn the law of love; that what
I give another is my gift to me.
This lesson is about learning the law of love. Since the Course teaches us that love is all there is, this is at the heart of the Course. We are love and nothing else. God, Source, or Oneness is love. The Ones we travel with in this world are also love. And as love we are all One. We are all connected, inseparable no matter how hard we try to be or believe we are separate. No thought is independent. Each thought we think affects our perception of the world and who we see ourselves and others to be. There is incredible power in these thoughts, for they determine how we perceive ourselves and each other. Even though the Course teaches us that love is all there is, we can block the awareness of love in our consciousness by which thoughts we believe to be true. This lesson describes the law of love as follows:
This is Your law, my Creator, not my own. I have not understood what giving means, and thought to save what I desired for myself alone. And as I looked upon the treasure that I thought I had, I found an empty place where nothing ever was or is or will be. Who can share a dream? And what can an illusion offer me? Yet the one whom I forgive will give me gifts beyond the worth of anything on earth. Let my forgiven companions fill my store with Heaven’s treasures, which alone are real. Thus is the law of love fulfilled. And thus Your One Child arises and returns to You. W-pII.344.1:1-9
The law of love teaches us what giving really means. We have learned that giving and receiving are the same. There is no difference whatsoever. All that is real – love – is completely shared. It cannot be divined. In fact, love can only be increased. What we give to another is also received. If we give attack to another, we attack ourselves, as we reinforce the idea we are not One with each other. This serves only to separate us in our own mind. No one else need see this way for us to see ourselves separate. We can choose to deny the awareness of the love offered us, but we cannot destroy the love we are. We do no more than block our awareness of the love we receive. Who in their right mind would ever do this? The solution is to allow our mind to accept the law of love and step into the awareness of who we really are. We are so near to the awareness of our true being. It is no more than a thought away when we allow Spirit within us to guide our thoughts. And when we do, we will recognize this Spirit as our real Self.
How near we are to one another, as we go to Oneness. How near is Oneness to us. How close the ending of the dream of sin, and the redemption of the One Holy Child of Oneness. W-pII.344.2:1-3
This mind shift is so near. We can taste it as it resonates in the ancient song we hear in our mind. Rest in this ancient song. Allow it to rise and fill our being with the beautiful melodies of Oneness. This is the Song of Heaven that fills and surrounds us. May we allow our minds to dwell in this place of peace and love where we live by the law of love in everything we think and do. This is our destiny, This is home.
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