A Course in Miracles Lesson Insights

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Review: “God is but Love and therefore so am I.”
“Into His Presence would I enter now. Today I learn to give as I receive.”

“Into His Presence would I enter now” is another way of saying I would accept His Presence now. We are completely surrounded by and in God’s Love. It’s only our denial of His Love that makes It seem like we need to enter into It.

Here we are, completely immersed in Love, yet we wander the world seeking for love. It is because, in our desire for specialness, we try to keep some love for ourselves alone. This is the insane wish to have more than everything. Because Love by its nature must be extended, to know we are in Love’s Presence, we must give or share God’s Love. Trying to keep God’s Love for ourselves blocks our awareness of having and being It. That is why we need to learn to give as we receive.I enter into Love’s Presence by giving Love. Giving Love shows me that I have Love and am Love. Love is never depleted by giving It away. It is only expanded. To experience God’s Love flowing through me, I must remove the barriers to that flow. The barriers are judgment and guilt. Thus forgiveness is the means by which I enter into His Presence. In this world forgiveness is received by giving it. So forgiveness is Love’s reflection in this world. It opens my mind to become aware of God’s Presence.

Today I ask Holy Spirit’s help to recognize the barriers I put up against Love and to let them go so I may enter into His Presence and give as I receive.

Opening my mind to Love’s Presence is what the Course is all about. Opening my mind to the truth is opening my mind to God’s Love and my true Identity. I cannot open my mind and still have a closed mind. I cannot do both at the same time. It is either one or the other. Separation is the opposite of oneness. When I open my mind to seeing separation, my mind is closed to seeing Love’s oneness. When I open my mind to Love’s oneness, separation disappears. What I open my mind to is what I give.Today my practice is to open my mind to the truth, to Love’s oneness, Love’s peace, Love’s kind and gentle ways. How willing am I to open to Love’s oneness today? It is my decision moment by moment. What do I think I am? It is my decision moment by moment. Today my practice is to open to Love’s Presence again and again until it becomes a consistent habit.

The world of separation seems so familiar that I find myself slipping back into separation’s old and tired ways far too often. Thank goodness I have Holy Spirit right there in my mind to help me return to being aware of Love’s Presence, Love’s peace and Love’s joy.

Today I would practice opening to the truth. Love’s Presence is always there waiting for my willingness to return to the truth. Today I would give as I receive. I am determined to receive God’s gifts and in the process of receiving, give them away.

Today I rejoice because I just realized I’m finally beginning to accept the fact that I don’t need to go wandering endlessly looking for something I not only have, but I am, which is Love — and that is everything.

We do have an insane wish to have more than everything, but our definition of everything is money, looks, material things, and an endless list of nothingness of which there is no guarantee.

Today I rejoice because I know in my heart my Heavenly Father’s Love is guaranteed by my Heavenly Father Himself and that’s all I want and need. Today I open myself to receive my Father’s gift of Love and to give that Love to my brothers and sisters in abundance, the way it is given to me.

Thank you, Holy Spirit, for guiding me. Thank you, Jesus, for standing by me. Thank you, Father, for loving me, especially when I couldn’t love myself. Amen

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