Miracles News
July - September, 2006
Infinite Gifts
I am discovering through my immersion in A Course in Miracles that I receive infinite gifts. I am continually aware that the Text and Lessons of ACIM offers me a framework that I choose for my life in these days. This, in itself, is profound and leaves me full of awe. Right now what centers in my mind as very poignant are moments of bringing my attention to some aspect of my life and allowing the Course to give me what I need.
This is how I do it. I notice my thoughts and my feelings at a given time and it is like I am asking for guidance. I reverently hold my Text of ACIM and just open it. In front of me is my gift. I am discovering that what I receive is what I need. Two recent experiences illustrate this very clearly.
Last week I was reflecting on my health. My gift on that day was Lesson 250 from the ACIM Workbook, “Let me not see myself as limited.” As I read, “Let me not try to obscure the holy light in him, and see his strength diminished and reduced to frailty; nor perceive the lacks in him with which I even attack his sovereignty,” (W-pII.250.1:2) I was wondering how this gift could be the ‘perfect fit’ for me, how these words could speak so directly to my ego consciousness and offer me an opportunity to shift my thinking.
I do not even need an answer to this question. I accept the gift and the amazing synchronicity of this experience. I slowly found myself in a transformation and I continued to read. “And today I would behold his gentleness instead of my illusions. He is what I am, and as I see him so I see myself.” (W-pII.250.2:2-3)
I felt comforted in these perceptions and I was letting go of my illusions and connecting with the Light. Just reading the worlds created a shift in me. “Of course, I do not need to see myself as limited, and of course the light and strength of Spirit are my light and strength,” I thought to myself.
On another day as I was beginning my day, I was aware of doubting myself, questioning, judging myself and allowing feelings to block my light. I was wondering why the shadow is so strong and it came to me “to show me the light.” The gift on this day came from Lesson 193, which is titled, “All things are lessons God would have me learn.”
In this lesson I found, “There is a way to look on everything that lets it be to you another step to Him, and to salvation of the world. To all that speaks of terror, answer thus: I will forgive, and this will disappear. To every apprehension, every care and every form of suffering, repeat these selfsame words. And then you hold the key that opens Heaven’s gate, and brings the Love of God the Father down to earth at last, to raise it up to Heaven.” (W-pI.193.13:1-5)
“Always gifts and more gifts,” I say to myself. I experience an endless source of gifts returning me to the joy and Love I am, always filled with gratitude. Every gift brings me closer to Love. “Gratitude goes hand in hand with Love, and where one is the other must be found.” (W-pI.195.10:2)
Rev. Colleen McNally is a Pathways of Light minister living in Crystal Lake, Illinois.
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