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Choosing to Receive God’s Gifts

This day is God’s. It is my gift to Him.

I will not lead my life alone today. ²I do not understand the world, and so to try to lead my life alone must be but foolishness. ³But there is One Who knows all that is best for me. ⁴And He is glad to make no choices for me but the ones that lead to God. ⁵I give this day to Him, for I would not delay my coming home, and it is He Who knows the way to God.

And so we give today to You. ²We come with wholly open minds. ³We do not ask for anything that we may think we want. ⁴Give us what You would have received by us. ⁵You know all our desires and our wants. ⁶And You will give us everything we need in helping us to find the way to You. (A Course in Miracles, W-242. See also ACIM Lesson 242 Insights.)

The ego is in constant competition with God. It has an endless list of demands for what it needs to maintain specialness. But these demands block us from receiving the gifts of limitless joy and Love that God extends to us. He holds nothing back but we must extend His gifts to know we have them. The ego wants only what it can keep for itself alone. This God cannot give.

God’s gifts are ours now and forever. To know that we have them we need to have an open mind free of demands that His gifts come in a form we like. Of ourself alone we do not know what will bring us happiness and peace, but the Holy Spirit does.

Today we ask the Holy Spirit with an open mind and welcoming hands to choose for us the gifts God that lead us Home.

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