Lesson 329. I have already chosen what You will.
Father, I thought I wandered from Your Will, defied it, broke its laws, and
interposed a second will more powerful than Yours. Yet what I am in truth is but
Your Will, extended and extending. This am I, and this will never change. As You
are One, so am I one with You. And this I chose in my creation, where my will
became forever one with Yours. That choice was made for all eternity. It cannot
change, and be in opposition to itself. Father, my will is Yours. And I am safe,
untroubled and serene, in endless joy, because it is Your Will that it be so.
Today we will accept our union with each other and our Source. We have no will
apart from His, and all of us are one because His Will is shared by all of us.
Through it we recognize that we are one. Through it we find our way at last to
God.
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Below, is from Kenneth Wapnick's commentaries on this lesson, from his book set:
"Journey Through the Workbook of A Course in Miracles," which can be
purchased at the following site: ~ M. Street.
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Lesson 329. "I have already chosen what You will."
*We come to another lesson on the theme of oneness -- the unity of our will and
God's. Our Creator has willed we forever be a part of Him, not separate, and
what He wills can never not be so.*
(1:1-4) "Father, I thought I wandered from Your Will, defied it, broke its laws,
and interposed a second will more powerful than Yours. Yet what I am in truth is
but Your Will, extended and extending. This am I, and this will never change. As
You are One, so am I one with You."
*We believed we accomplished the impossible in the separation, having wandered
into the ego's far country of separate wills. Our guilt, born of the thought we
had sinned against our Father, caused us to become its children instead of
Love's. The truth, however, is that is that as an extension of God's Will we
never left our Source, and so we gladly recognize the mistake of having believed
in illusions, happily accepting the truth of our creation in their place.*
(1:5) "And this I chose in my creation, where my will became forever one with
Yours."
*I earlier referred to the important section "The Secret Vows," where Jesus
speaks of God's promise to us that we would forever be His Son, always one with
His Love. The Son forgot "he replied 'I will," though in that promise he was
born (T-28.VI.6:4-6). In that lovely passage, Jesus poetically expresses what
happened at our creation, and he refers to it here as well -- we, as God's Son,
are eternally at one with His Will.*
(1:6-7) "That choice was made for all eternity. It cannot change, and be in
opposition to itself."
*We can dream we are in opposition to God and His Will, but in truth nothing
happened to disturb our dwelling place in Heaven:
"Think not that you can change Their [God and His Son's] dwelling place. For
your Identity abides in Them, and where They are, forever must you be. The
changelessness of Heaven is in you, so deep within that nothing in this world
but passes by, unnoticed and unseen." (T-29.V.2.1-3) *
(1:8-9) "Father, my will is Yours. And I am safe, untroubled and serene, in
endless joy, because it is Your Will that it be so."
*What greater joy can there be in our world of separation than learning we are
perfectly safe -- anywhere and everywhere -- because our will and God's are
one.*
(2) "Today we will accept our union with each other and our Source. We have no
will apart from His, and all of us are one because His Will is shared by all of
us. Through it we recognize that we are one. Through it we find our way at last
to God."
*If we are sincere in our desire to return home and awaken to our Identity as
God's Son, we cannot see ourselves as separate from anyone else. The Sonship of
God is one, on earth as it is in Heaven, and remembering this happy fact <is>
the way to reach our Father's house.*
