Lesson 306. The gift of Christ is all I seek today.
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Lesson 306. The gift of Christ is all I seek today.
What but Christ's vision would I use today, when it can offer me a day in which
I see a world so like to Heaven that an ancient memory returns to me? Today I
can forget the world I made. Today I can go past all fear, and be restored to
love and holiness and peace. Today I am redeemed, and born anew into a world of
mercy and of care; of loving kindness and the peace of God.
And so, our Father, we return to You, remembering we never went away;
remembering Your holy gifts to us. In gratitude and thankfulness we come, with
empty hands and open hearts and minds, asking but what You give. We cannot make
an offering sufficient for Your Son. But in Your Love the gift of Christ is his.
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Below, is from Kenneth Wapnick's commentaries on this lesson, from "Journey
Through the Workbook of A Course in Miracles," which can be purchased at the
following site: ~ M. Street
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Lesson 306. "The gift of Christ is all I seek today."
*Again, the gift of Christ's vision: looking at the world through the Holy
Spirit's eyes that see no justification for separation.*
(1:1) "What but Christ's vision would I use today, when it can offer me a day in
which I see a world so like to Heaven that an ancient memory returns to me?"
*This is the real world, which, though illusory, reflects Heaven's oneness since
it opposes nothing. It is the state of mind that symbolizes the truth that is
just beyond our dreams of separation.*
(1:2-3) "Today I can forget the world I made. Today I can go past all fear, and
be restored to love and holiness and peace."
*This is yet another way of saying we are wrong and the Holy Spirit is right. By
choosing our new Teacher, we forget the thought system we made and the world
that arose from it. In their place in our awareness dawn the gifts of love,
holiness, and peace -- harbingers of the awakening of our Self.*
(1:4) "Today I am redeemed, and born anew into a world of mercy and of care; of
loving kindness and the peace of God."
*We are born anew when we choose the Teacher of forgiveness, Who reminds us that
our brother's sinlessness illuminates our own.
"Yet every instant can you be reborn, and given life again. His holiness
gives life to you, who cannot die because his sinlessness is known to God; and
can no more be sacrificed by you than can the light in you be blotted out
because he sees it not." (T-26.1.7:1-2).*
(2:1) "And so, our Father, we return to You, remembering we never went away;
remembering Your holy gifts to us."
*We believe we went away from Heaven, which is the meaning of sin -- the thought
we separated from God and destroyed His Love so we could exist. That is the
source of the ego's gift of guilt, which we now choose to replace with Heaven's
gifts of love and eternal life.*
(2:2-4) "In gratitude and thankfulness we come, with empty hands and open
hearts and minds, asking but what You give. We cannot make an offering
sufficient for Your Son. But in Your Love the gift of Christ is his."
*We discussed earlier the theme of thankfulness, the core of which is our
gratitude that we were wrong and the Holy Spirit was right. It is essential we
realize the scope of our mistake. We have been wrong about absolutely
everything: all we ever thought about ourselves or anyone else -- bodies, life
and death, the meaning of the universe, etc. -- is wrong. We experience this
gratitude, however, only when we come with "empty hands and open hearts and
minds," as expressed in the lovely prayer in Lesson 189 (W-pI.189.7). This
emptiness means we hold our hands and cling to; otherwise, the letting go makes
no sense. Thus we bring our offerings of guilt and hate to the altar, where they
are gently replaced by Christ's gift of innocence. Gratefully and happily we are
born again!*
Love and Blessings,
Lyn Johnson 719-369-1822
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