June 15, 2021
Lesson 166 –
I am entrusted with the gifts of God.
All things are given you. God’s trust in you is limitless. God knows You. God gives without exception, holding nothing back that can contribute to your happiness. And yet, unless your will is one with God’s, God’s gifts are not received. But what would make you think there is another will than God’s? W-pI.166.1:1-6
We have been given everything. What a statement this is. It testifies to the perfection of our creation. Yet, our denial of who we really are blocks to our awareness of this truth. This series of lessons is such a beautiful series that speaks to our holiness. It speaks to all that we are created to be. Yet we have believed that we are much less than we really are. It is a mistaken belief. It is a mistaken denial. We have made a habit of believing that our will is separate from God’s. We have believed that we are less than our creation and thus sinful and unworthy of all that God has given us. This belief is a result of our attachment to our past and the perceptions we have believed about all of our past. We have looked on our world with unseeing eyes that cannot understand the truth about ourselves and the world we think we see. Yet we have holy Vision with which we can see reality if we will simply allow ourselves to allow Spirit to show us what is real.
Yes, the world we seem to see before us now with all its trials and chaos is a world of our own making. It is a world we have perceived incorrectly. There is another way to see the world around us. We can let go of our attachment to everything we have deduced and believed about it and see again with fresh eyes – with Holy Vision. Creation is all about Love. There is nothing else that is real about Creation. It is filled with peace and joy. Creation reflects itself in a happy world – the Course calls it a happy dream. We are created One with God and thus share God’s will as our own. It is not imposed on us as we might believe, but comes from within us in a place that is loving and peaceful. This is the Grace and the Grandeur of our reality. It is eternal and cannot ever be removed. If we don’t see it, we have blocked our own awareness of it with our belief that we are less than holy and whole. And Spirit answers any doubt we might hold about our Creation and our true nature.
Yet God reminds you still of one thing more you had forgotten. For God’s touch on you has made you like Godself. The gifts you have are not for you alone. What God has come to offer you, you now must learn to give. This is the lesson that God’s giving holds, for God has saved you from the solitude you sought to make in which to hide from God. God has reminded you of all the gifts that God has given you. God speaks as well of what becomes your will when you accept these gifts, and recognize they are your own. W-pI.166.12:1-7
We are not doomed to this world of chaos. We may not understand, but we made this world through our perception void of Spirit’s interpretation. We always have another choice. We can choose to see differently. We can choose to see peace instead of whatever we think we see now. We never have to do it alone. The instant we choose to allow Spirt to guide our thoughts we experience a shift in the world. There is another way to see the world. It looks beyond the appearance of the world we think we see to a different reality of perception that lies beyond. We are lifted above the chaos to a place where we can see clearly. This is one of the gifts we receive.
The gifts are yours, entrusted to your care, to give to all who chose the lonely road you have escaped. They do not understand they but pursue their wishes. It is you who teach them now. For you have learned of Christ there is another way for them to walk. Teach them by showing them the happiness that comes to those who feel the touch of Christ, and recognize God’s gifts. Let sorrow not tempt you to be unfaithful to your trust. W-pI.166.13:1-6
Accept the gifts that are ours to remember. They have always been ours, even though we chose to block them from our awareness. We simply choose again to see they have always been there within us. This is our awakening This is our healing. This is the return to the awareness of who we really are and the gifts with which we have been entrusted.
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