Lesson 350.
Miracles mirror God's eternal Love.
To offer them is to remember Him,
And through His memory to save the world.
What we forgive becomes a part of us, as we perceive ourselves. The Son of God
incorporates all things within himself as You created him. Your memory depends
on his forgiveness. What he is, is unaffected by his thoughts. But what he looks
upon is their direct result. Therefore, my Father, I would turn to You. Only
Your memory will set me free. And only my forgiveness teaches me to let Your
memory return to me, and give it to the world in thankfulness.
And as we gather miracles from Him, we will indeed be grateful. For as we
remember Him, His Son will be restored to us in the reality of Love.
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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 350.
"Miracles mirror God's eternal Love.
To offer them is to remember Him,
And through His memory to save the world."
*The way we remember God's Love is to forgive, withdrawing the projections
placed on the world. Since it is one with our thought, as the thought of
separation is healed, the world is healed as well.*
(1:1-2) "What we forgive becomes a part of us, as we perceive ourselves. The Son
of God incorporates all things within himself as You created him."
*My attack teaches you are different and separate from me; not a part of my
self. That is the ego's purpose for specific bodies -- to perceive people as
separate and different: "You are sinful and I sinless. Thus you are not a part
of me and I shun your presence, lest your sins contaminate my innocence." When I
let that insane thinking go, I begin to understand that you and I are one, and I
cannot return home to God's Love unless I first realize we are the same -- in
illusion and in truth. This undoes our wrong-minded attempts to separate all
things from ourselves. The correction -- the miracle's gift -- helps us remember
our inherent oneness as God's Son.*
(1:3-5) "Your memory depends on his forgiveness. What he is, unaffected by his
thoughts. But what he looks upon is their direct result."
*Recall what amounts to a formula in A Course in Miracles: We see the face of
Christ in our brother and remember God. To see the face of Christ is to forgive,
which allows the memory of God's Love to return to us. The Son of God's true
Identity has never been affected by his insane thinking, but what we believe we
are and perceived with our eyes is a direct result of the ego's thoughts. When
we indulge these thoughts we make them real, project them out, and believe we
see them all around us instead of in ourselves. Yet is our true reality
unaffected by what we think -- the meaning of the Atonement. However, because we
think these thoughts of separation are real, we remain asleep, believing our
dreams to be reality. Our physical and psychological experiences as bodies are
the witnesses that "prove" that what we are dreaming is really there. It is from
that dream of insanity that the miracle helps us gently to awake.*
(1:6-8) "Therefore, my Father, I would turn to You. Only Your memory will set me
free. And only my forgiveness teaches me to let Your memory return to me, and
give it to the world in thankfulness."
*The only way the memory of God will return to me and I will realize I <am> His
Son is by changing my thought system of separation and specialness. I accomplish
this through letting go of my investment in its effects -- the projections I
have placed onto everyone around me, which have imprisoned the world, along with
me.*
(2) "And as we gather miracles from Him, we will indeed be grateful. For as we
remember Him, His Son will be restored to us in the reality of Love."
*That Son is the Oneness of Christ. As the text says, the Son's Oneness
transcends the sum of its parts (T-2.VII.6:3). It is not you, me, and everyone
else adding up to one glorious whole, for the wholeness of Christ is its
undivided unity and absence of individuality. Remembering that Identity through
forgiveness is the birthplace of our gratitude and return to sanity.*
