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How to Feel Blessed by Blessing

The truth maintains that giving will increase what you possess.

…things but represent the thoughts that make them. And you do not lack for proof that when you give ideas away, you strengthen them in your own mind.

Ideas must first belong to you, before you give them. If you are to save the world, you first accept salvation for yourself. …Now you can perceive that by your giving is your store increased.

Protect all things [ideas] you value by the act of giving them away, and you are sure that you will never lose them. What you thought you did not have is thereby proven yours. Yet value not its form. For [form] will change and grow unrecognizable in time, however much you try to keep it safe. No form endures. It is the [loving] thought behind the form of things that lives unchangeable.

Give [Love] gladly. You can only gain thereby. The [loving] thought remains, and grows in strength as it is reinforced by giving. (A Course in Miracles Workbook Lesson 187, W-pI.187.1:8;2:3-4;3:1-2,5;4;5:1-3. See also ACIM Lesson 187 Insights.)

Only Love, which has no form, is real. But we perceive ourselves in a world of form. Due to this self-imposed limitation, Love is represented by forms in the world. The Love behind these forms endures forever, though the forms may fade or change.

We learn that we have Love by giving Love. The form in which It is given varies according to the situation in which It is given. It may appear as a smile to someone we walk by on the sidewalk. It may be expressing appreciation for a store clerk’s service. Longer term relationships may be expressed as a life-long dedication to extend Love to each other.

All of these forms can change, including the form of life-long relationships. What remains eternal and unchanging is the Love behind the form. All these Thoughts of Love given freely bless us in the giving, for they remind us that we have the Love we are extending. We remember the blessings we have by appreciating and giving Love in the world.

Every day we have the opportunity to be blessed by blessing.

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