VI. The Treasure of God
4 Listen to the story of the prodigal son, and learn what God’s treasure is and yours: This son of a loving father left his home and thought he had squandered everything for nothing of any value, although he had not understood its worthlessness at the time. He was ashamed to return to his father, because he thought he had hurt him. Yet when he came home the father welcomed him with joy, because the son himself was his father’s treasure. He wanted nothing else.
Of course his Father welcomes him home! I would welcome my child regardless of what he had done, and I barely know anything about love. My Father, Who is Love, certainly does as well as I. Here is a difference though; I love my children in spite of their mistakes, and my Father sees no mistakes. He sees only his perfect creations acting from their perfect freedom. There is that difference because I sometimes still see with the ego mind that believes in sin.
God does not wait for us to make ourselves better or to atone for our sins. He does not need us to replace the treasure we squandered. He treasures us, just as we are, because we are as God created us. He loves us and wants for us only our joy and freedom. It is the ego mind that believes we have sinned and needs to atone, and believes that God holds our sins against us so we must make up for it somehow.
The ego tells us we must fix ourselves so we have something holy to offer God. Then it tells us we cannot fix ourselves and so must stay in hiding. But in truth there is nothing to fix. The undoing that we are dedicated to is only for the purpose of choosing to awaken. We are learning we want to wake up and learning what it is we have to let go of in order to awaken.
All this work we do, all the dedication and devotion to the process is for us. We are allowing the untrue thoughts to be removed from our mind so that we become aware of what we are, and always have been, and always will be. We are not trying to make of ourselves something different, but just getting stuff out of the way so that we can have what we are revealed to us. God does not need anything from us.
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