All gifts I give my brothers are my own.
As every gift my brothers give is mine, so every gift I give belongs to me. ²Each one allows a past mistake to go, and leave no shadow on the holy mind my Father loves. ³His grace is given me in every gift a brother has received throughout all time, and past all time as well. ⁴My treasure house is full, and angels watch its open doors that not one gift is lost, and only more are added. ⁵Let me come to where my treasures are, and enter in where I am truly welcome and at home, among the gifts that God has given me.
Father, I would accept Your gifts today. ²I do not recognize them. ³Yet I trust that You Who gave them will provide the means by which I can behold them, see their worth, and cherish only them as what I want. (A Course in Miracles, W-316. See also ACIM Lesson 316 Insights.)
We do not recognize our Creator’s gift to us because of our wish for specialness. Because of this wish, we don’t recognize His gift of Love. We see what we want to see. So we don’t see God’s gift of all of His Love to all equally. His Gift is unacceptable, so we deny It.
This is why forgiveness is essential for us to recognize the value of God’s one Gift of Everything. When we are able to forgive a judgment, a mistaken perception, it is a gift given to both our brother and ourself because we are one in God’s Love. It does not matter whether we believe we are forgiving ourselves or our brother. Our brothers are always reflecting back to us what we believe we are.
Today we dedicate to giving the gift of forgiveness, for in that gift, we awaken to our treasure in the Heart of God.
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