November 30, 2021
Lesson 334 –
Today I claim the gifts forgiveness gives.
Did you ever imagine that forgiveness would bring gifts? Well, it’s true.
Forgiveness brings us the gift of freedom. Forgiveness releases us from all the baggage we carry with us. It releases us from blame, guilt, regret, anxiety,and so much more that weighs our mind down. It takes a great deal of effort to carry all that baggage around with us. And it all distracts us from our true nature; from the peace, love, and joy within us. All that baggage is based on misperceptions and mistaken thoughts. We have chosen to believe that a whole slew of illusions are true and that we need to get rid of them one by one, and by doing so we remain attached to these unreal thoughts. It’s time to release them and turn to the grace that is real. Turn to the unconditional love that is reality. And, it’s available to us right now, no waiting unless we choose to put it off.
I will not wait another day to find the treasures that my Creator offers me. Illusions are all vain, and dreams are gone even while they are woven out of thoughts that rest on false perceptions. Let me not accept such meager gifts again today. My Creator’s Voice is offering the peace of Oneness to all who hear and choose to follow. This is my choice today. And so I go to find the treasures my creator has given me. W-pII.334.1:1-6
We have been letting the Course teach us new ideas; peaceful and loving ideas. We have been learning to allow Spirit to guide our perception and our thoughts in a miraculous shift in our thinking. Perhaps, over the last year, we have been practicing the lessons the Workbook for Students offers us. We are nearing the end of those lessons and are ready to make the shift in thinking we have been preparing for. Perhaps we have already glimpsed the happiness Oneness offers us. It’s all within us. It is our rightful choice to see that this bliss is already in us waiting for us to recognize it is already ours. If we need a little help, this lesson offers the following prayer to help us make this change.
I seek but the eternal. For Your One Child can be content with nothing less than this. What, then, can be their solace but what You are offering to their bewildered mind and frightened heart, to give them certainty and bring them peace? Today I would behold my friend sinless. This Your Will for me, for so will I behold my sinlessness. W-pII.334.2:1-5
What is true and real is eternal. Eternal Oneness is what we are offered. Even so, it is already ours and always has been. Yet we deny it again and again. Release all that is false and rest in the peace of our reality. No more need we be anxious and scared. Peace, love, and joy are our inheritance. Claim it now.
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