September 29th 2014 Lesson 195
Love is the way I walk in gratitude.
- Intention: To remember that gratitude goes hand in hand with love, and where one is the other must be found. For gratitude is but an aspect of the Love which is the Source of all creation.
- Practice:
Twice today, let us go to that quiet place within our hearts and minds
where the Light and Love and Joy of God abides. In that place of safety, let us remember with gratitude the oneness we share with Him who is our Creator and with all of creation. And when we return to the world of
form, let us with gratitude, give a little time each hour to practice forgiveness in the form
of today's lesson, applying it to whatever is happening in that hour and
releasing all concerns when the hour passes, so that the next hour is
free of the one before.
- Application: We offer thanks to God our Father that in us all things will find their freedom. It will never be that some are loosed while others still are bound. Therefore give thanks, but in sincerity. And let your gratitude make room for all who will escape with you; the sick, the weak, the needy, and afraid, and those who mourn a seeming loss or feel apparent pain, who suffer cold or hunger, or who walk the way of hatred and the path of death. All these go with you. Let us not compare ourselves with them, for thus we split them off from our awareness of the unity we share with them, as they must share with us.
We thank our Father for one thing alone; that we are separate from no living thing, and therefore one with Him. And we rejoice that no exceptions ever can be made which world reduce our wholeness, nor impair or change our function to complete the One Who is Himself completion. We give thanks for every living thing, for otherwise we offer thanks for nothing, and we fail to recognize the gifts of God to us. When our forgiveness is complete we will have total gratitude, for we will see that everything has earned the right to love by being loving, even as our Self.
Today we learn to think of gratitude in place of anger, malice and revenge. We have been given everything, so we practice being thankful for everything. Gratitude becomes the single thought we substitute for these insane perceptions. God has cared for us, and calls us Son. Can there be more than this? God gives thanks to you, His Son being what you are; His Own completion and the Source of love along with Him. Your gratitude to Him is one with His to you. For love can walk no road except the way of gratitude, and thus we go who walk the way to God.
Insights/comments:
- The understanding of our inherent oneness with all things and with God is the basis for our gratitude to God. The deeper we understand this oneness the deeper is our appreciation and gratitude. And the deeper is our love for God who is but Love. To walk in gratitude then is to walk in the awareness of our eternal oneness and the appreciation of that oneness. In this state of awareness, all that we interact with is as holy as our Self, and so there is no room for comparison, for fear, anger, revenge and death. We, the created, are all One, united with our Creator, perfect, Spirit, free. All is unified as one and in this knowing all become Love.
I and my Creator are One.
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