Commentary on ACIM Lesson 224

©2010 Rev. David Seacord

God is my Father, and He loves His Son.

I love the last line of the lesson's prayer... "God, reveal what you would have me see". For me, it ties in with some of the Course Text material that I have been led to that I am finding very timely also. In Chapter 2 Section 6 Fear and Conflict there is a wonderful conversation about our responsibility for our personal thoughts and habitual thinking.... and the need to be willing to allow God to guide it. And further in fact, that Fear of any kind is a sure sign that we have not done that (allowed God to guide our thinking).

I pray for my own surrender to be deep enough for this, as I am recognizing that this is the only Way (for me) to be (using 12 step language) 'relieved of my character defects'..... i.e., to have God guiding my thoughts moment to moment. Gangaji has said "the revelation is endless" and on this journey of purifying the mind to be in continual alignment with the Christ Mind, it is the nature of the curriculum that we deal with the revelation of our blindness. In fact, that is the whole point. God brings us to the precipice edge where we stand naked, not to Him (Her, too) but to ourselves. The unholiness that we have been is what there is to see. And forgive ourselves/be responsible for. And Remember that we are One with 'the Beloved'. If we can do that, we move on to the next challenge. If we are unable to face ourselves, or admit our past unwholeness, if we fear that....we recycle ourselves back into more of the same curriculum we just traversed.

Not like a failure (although we may have to past through that feeling too) but simply for 'more ripening time'. When our time IS ripe, we will fly. That is just how it will be.

When that time is will be our our chosing, a function of our willingness to be (using Landmark language) 'Cause, in the matter' of our life, the gift of our Source.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 224

God is my Father, and He loves His Son.

My true Identity is so secure, so lofty, sinless, glorious and great, wholly beneficent and free from guilt, that Heaven looks to It to give it light. It lights the world as well. It is the gift my Father gave to me; the one as well I give the world. There is no gift but this that can be either given or received. This is reality, and only this. This is illusion's end. It is the truth.

My Name, O Father, still is known to You. I have forgotten It, and do not know where I am going, who I am, or what it is I do. Remind me, Father, now, for I am weary of the world I see. Reveal what You would have me see instead.