Commentary on ACIM Lesson 314

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

In this writing moment I find myself 'living in Gratitude', for the universe has so continually loved me today that there is no place in my present-time heart for anything else. I know this to be a gift of grace, as of course I do have plenty of memories of the historical 'torment between the ears'. Therefore, what my guidance is showing me is a choice of possible near-term futures, if I am now finally willing to have it be so. And of course, the purpose of the Course is to bring us to that willingness.

That I say I am willing is, however, not the same as actually being willing. For in the willingness to follow God must be the willingness to release all that holds me to my habituated self-idea. God would have us be fully healed beings, for to be one of His saviors that is necessary. In my Sufi lineage of teachers, one once said: "Shatter your ideals upon the rock of truth". I am seeing this shattering is only the beginning. By the time we are egoically purified we are truly just 'star-dust', being many times shattered and refined and re-ground, until we are a fully malleable clay which the Divine Power may made into anything necessary. It is the ultimate selflessness, I think, to be willing to become anything God would have us be. However, have no fear, for we are not asked to commit to it prematurely, we are only asked to allow it to incrementally arise within us, just as our gratitude naturally arises as we receive daily blessings that provide us with all our current needs.

On a true spiritual path, those needs will diminish gradually until we discover we need nothing. And that will be the same moment that we also discover we have finally surrendered our lives to the once unspeakable 'full trust of God'.

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 314

I seek a future different from the past.

From new perception of the world there comes a future very different from the past. The future now is recognized as but extension of the present. Past mistakes can cast no shadows on it, so that fear has lost its idols and its images, and being formless, it has no effects. Death will not claim the future now, for life is now its goal, and all the needed means are happily provided. Who can grieve or suffer when the present has been freed, extending its security and peace into a quiet future filled with joy?

Father, we were mistaken in the past, and choose to use the present to be free. Now do we leave the future in Your Hands, leaving behind our past mistakes, and sure that You will keep Your present promises, and guide the future in their holy light.