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Study of Text, C 14: I. The Conditions of Learning, P 1. 1-30-17

I. The Conditions of Learning, P 1

1 If you are blessed and do not know it, you need to learn it must be so. The knowledge is not taught, but its conditions must be acquired for it is they that have been thrown away. You can learn to bless, and cannot give what you have not. If, then, you offer blessing, it must have come first to yourself. And you must also have accepted it as yours, for how else could you give it away? That is why miracles offer you the testimony that you are blessed. If what you offer is complete forgiveness you must have let guilt go, accepting the Atonement for yourself and learning you are guiltless. How could you learn what has been done for you, unknown to you, unless you do what you would have to do if it had been done for you?

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An example of this is my relationship with my ex-husband. We had a very contentious marriage and the break-up was even worse in some ways. I spent a long time looking at each unforgiven thought about him and forgiving it as quickly and as completely as I could. Eventually, I had forgiven him, myself, and the situation. I knew it was forgiven when I offered him a miracle.

We still worked for the same company, and sometimes found ourselves, of necessity, working together. This time we were at an awards banquet and for a few minutes everyone else from the company had left the table to do other things. Out of nowhere I heard myself telling him that I was sorry for my part in our problems.

For so many years I had not considered me to be a problem. He seemed so obviously guilty, you see. ~smile~ It wasn’t until I said those words that I knew they were true. The miracle for him was in hearing them said. I saw his antagonism, whatever was left of it, simply melt away. It happened right there before my eyes. I knew that I must have accepted the Atonement for my grievances because I saw myself sharing that blessing with him. How could I have shared it if I had not received it?

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