Lesson 349.
Today I let Christ's vision look upon
All things for me and judge them not, but give
Each one a miracle of love instead.
So would I liberate all things I see, and give to them the freedom that I seek.
For thus do I obey the law of love, and give what I would find and make my own.
It will be given me, because I have chosen it as the gift I want to give.
Father, Your gifts are mine. Each one that I accept gives me a miracle to give.
And giving as I would receive, I learn Your healing miracles belong to me.
Our Father knows our needs. He gives us grace to meet them all. And so we trust
in Him to send us miracles to bless the world, and heal our minds as we return
to Him.
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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 349.
"Today I let Christ's vision look upon
All things for me and judge them not, but give
Each one a miracle of love instead."
*Our prayer, then, is that we not judge, which means that we not attack or
condemn our brothers. In so doing we attack ourselves, and thus we ask for help
that we look on the world through Christ's vision instead of our own, allowing
His miracle to rest on us.*
(1:1) "So would I liberate all things I see, and give to them the freedom that I
seek."
*By releasing you from the bondage of guilt I placed on you, I liberate you from
my dream. Within your dream you still must choose whether or not to accept that
freedom, but in my forgiveness I demonstrate that our guiding principle is not
<one or the other>, but <together, or not one at all>. That is how I come to
realize I am forgiven, too.*
(1:2-6) "For thus do I obey the law of love, and give what I would find and make
my own. It will be given me, because I have chosen it as the gift I want to
give. Father, Your gifts are mine. Each one that I accept gives me a miracle to
give. And giving as I would receive, I learn Your healing miracles belong to
me."
*I want to <give> the gift, because I want to <receive> the gift. If I really
wish to learn my sins are forgiven and that God loves me, all I need do is
extend that love through my forgiveness to others, who may yet believe
otherwise.*
(2) "Our Father knows our needs. He gives us grace to meet them all. And so we
trust in Him to send us miracles to bless the world, and heal our minds as we
return to Him."
*This is taken from the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew's gospel, where Jesus
explains that God knows our needs and loves us: indeed, <every> hair on our head
is counted, and He loves us even more than the lilies of the field (Matthew
6:8,28-30,32). Placing this within the teachings of A Course in Miracles, we
understand that God does not really know about our need, because He does not
know about us in a separated state. Yet has His Love come with us into the
illusion through the Holy Spirit, and thus the need "our Father knows" is to
undo our mistaken choice through the miracle. We have already seen that the
miracle's corrective nature reflects God's Love within the dream, which undoes
the ego's thought system and heals our bloodied nightmares of separation,
hopelessness, and death. The miracle that forgiveness brings can therefore, only
heal our brother and ourselves as one, the single need held by the world of hate
and guilt, for the miracle alone allows us to hear our Father's ancient clarion
call of grace:
"A miracle can offer nothing less to him than it has given unto you. So does
your healing show your mind is healed, and has forgiven what he did not do. And
so is he convinced his innocence was never lost, and healed along with you. Thus
does the miracle undo all things the world attests can never be undone. And
hopelessness and death must disappear before the ancient clarion call of life.
This call has power far beyond the weak and miserable cry of death and guilt.
The ancient calling of the Father to His Son, and of the Son unto His Own, will
yet be the last trumpet that the world will ever hear. Brother, there is no
death. And this you learn when you but wish to show your brother that you had no
hurt of him. He thinks your blood is on his hands, and so he stands condemned.
Yet it is given you to show him, by your healing, that his guilt is but the
fabric of a senseless dream." (T-27.II.6.) *
