These thoughts stood out to me in this workbook lesson.
Ideas must first belong to you, before you give them.
Protect all things you value by the act of giving them away, and you are sure that you will never lose them. Yet value not its form. It is the thought behind the form that lives unchangeable.
Never forget you give but to yourself. Likewise, what you deny to others you are denying to yourself.
The thought of sacrifice gives rise to all the forms that suffering appears to take. And sacrifice is an idea so ludicrous that sanity dismisses it at once. If the thought occurs, its very presence proves that error has arisen and correction must be made. Your blessing will correct it. Given first to you, it now is yours to give as well.
No form of sacrifice and suffering can long endure before the face of one who has forgiven and has blessed himself.
The lilies (of forgiveness) that your brother offers you are laid upon your altar, with the ones you offer him beside them.
The great illusion of the fear of God diminishes to nothingness before the purity that you will look on here.
The blessedness you will behold will take away all thought of form, and leave instead the perfect gift forever there, forever to increase, forever yours, forever given away.
And as we look within, we see the purity of Heaven shine in our reflection of our Father’s Love.
Now are we blessed, and now we bless the world. What we have looked upon we would extend, for we would see it everywhere. For where we see it, it will be returned to us in form of lilies we can lay upon our altar, making it a home for Innocence Itself, [Christ] Who dwells in us and offers us His Holiness as ours.
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