Commentary on ACIM Lesson 306

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

"...asking but what You give....". These beautiful words demonstrate a mind completely at peace and living in total trust. They actually ask for nothing.... only that the blessings always being poured upon us continue, in certainly that they will, and that they will meet all our needs.

Is that not already your true experience, especially anytime you drop below the surface froth and currents of phenomenal life? Do you not, as you become mentally and emotionally quieter, naturally and automatically re-adjust the us-them/right-wrong tussling of the world---- refocusing on the absolute perfection of everything that is occurring--- no matter how broad you expand your awareness--- is this not where the true peace is found?

Here then is the challenge to our lives.... if we are able to access this peace by dropping under the fray of the mind, where is the barrier to being in the same connection to the Divine while fully in the world? My Sufi teacher Pir Vilayat Khan called this 'Samadhi with Open Eyes'....

It is gained, as the Course teaches, by training the mind. Not with shackles or restrictions, which our ego's will rebel against and resist just like we did in our 'terrible two's'.... but with the crystal clarity of true love. For only such love is irresistible, and carries no two-edged sword.

This is all any of us really desires.... to be fully seen by an absolute love. It is easily possible to see who knows they have been. They simply trust God to guide their lives.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 306

The gift of Christ is all I seek today.

What but Christ's vision would I use today, when it can offer me a day in which I see a world so like to Heaven that an ancient memory returns to me? Today I can forget the world I made. Today I can go past all fear, and be restored to love and holiness and peace. Today I am redeemed, and born anew into a world of mercy and of care; of loving kindness and the peace of God.

And so, our Father, we return to You, remembering we never went away; remembering Your holy gifts to us. In gratitude and thankfulness we come, with empty hands and open hearts and minds, asking but what You give. We cannot make an offering sufficient for Your Son. But in Your Love the gift of Christ is his.