Lesson 358.
No call to God can be unheard nor left
Unanswered. And of this I can be sure;
His answer is the one I really want.
You Who remember what I really am alone remember what I really want. You speak
for God, and so You speak for me. And what You give me comes from God Himself.
Your Voice, my Father, then is mine as well, and all I want is what You offer
me, in just the form You choose that it be mine. Let me remember all I do not
know, and let my voice be still, remembering. But let me not forget Your Love
and care, keeping Your promise to Your Son in my awareness always. Let me not
forget myself is nothing, but my Self is all.
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Commentary on this lesson is by Kenneth Wapnick, from his book set: "Journey
Through the Workbook of A Course in Miracles," and may be purchased at the
following site: ~ M. Street
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Lesson 358.
"No call to God can be unheard nor left
Unanswered. And of this I can be sure;
His answer is the one I really want."
*This lesson presumes we have realized our mistaken choice and acknowledged
there must be another way. We thus know our call to God will be answered,
because the answer is already within us -- and now we choose it. Interestingly,
the beginning of the prayer is addressed to the Holy Spirit -- another
indication that Jesus is not rigid about form.*
(1:1-3) "You Who remember what I really am alone remember what I really want.
You speak for God, and so You speak for me. And what You give me comes from God
Himself."
*Here we address the Holy Spirit, Who speaks for God; His Voice we choose
instead of the ego's. In the next sentence, God returns as the object of our
prayer:*
(1:4) "Your Voice, my Father, then is mine as well, and all I want is what You
offer me, in just the form You choose that it be mine."
*Strictly speaking, we are the ones who choose the form. The ego speaks first
and writes its script of special relationships, which become the form in which
we practice the special function that is God's gift to us -- forgiveness of our
insane projections onto Him:
"Your special function is the special form in which the fact that God is
not insane appears most sensible and meaningful to you. The content is the same.
The form is suited to your special needs, and to the special time and place in
which you think you find yourself, and where you can be free of place and time,
and all that you believe must limit you." (T-25.VII.7:1-3)*
(1:5) "Let me remember all I do not know, and let my voice be still,
remembering."
*Once again we hear an echo of Psalm 46: "Be still and know that I am God." Thus
our prayer to ourselves to let the ego's voice be quiet. If we still its
discordant sounds, we will remember the love we denied because we were afraid of
its truth.*
(1:6) "But let me not forget Your Love and care, keeping Your promise to Your
Son in my awareness always."
*Thus I want to forget what my ego taught me, and choose to remember only what
the Holy Spirit has held out to me as the truth. Above all: *
(1:7) "Let me not forget myself is nothing, but my Self is all."
*This wonderful line strikes terror in our hearts, for it tells us that we, who
think of ourselves as important and meaningful, are truly nothing. We actually
think, for example, that Jesus gave this course to us as individuals, each of us
with a name and personal identity. He has been teaching us, however, that we
must ultimately realize this separated self is an illusion. At present, our
bodily selves are the classrooms in which we learn the holy lesson that teaches
us their nothingness, but that our true Self as Christ is everything -- the
realization of which is the ultimate goal and purpose of our learning.*
