Commentary on ACIM Lesson 351

© 2010 Rev. David Seacord

I woke up this morning with a 'where to from here, God?' question in me. A bit later in the shower I received a gift from my father. Just a simple thing. A doo-dad that he had put on a ledge in the never quite finished 'washhouse' (where the guest shower and loo are) caught my eye. It was just what I needed.... a spray nozzle for the end of the hose that I use to water my new very young winter garden with. Dad had always been 'a collector of useful things' from mostly, garage sales...., and of course, once collected, something had to be done with them, so they'd get put somewhere where hopefully they could be remembered and found when 'the time came'.

This is, you know, a great spiritual principle.... that for everything 'a time will come' for it to fulfill the purpose of its existence. My father left this world with many things 'undone'.... yet somehow I am getting a sense that that is all 'lawful'. Just as it is lawful that I, by using the nozzle, am the completion of his intention. We all pass on our hearts to each other in many different ways.

It is like in the Course, where Voice for God/Holy Spirit is assisting us to GET that we ARE the Sons/Suns of 'the Godness'. When I picked up up the nozzle, claiming it for the use I see for it in my life, I innately understood it was 'my right to do so', as I know in my being that 'what was my fathers is, and always was, mine also'. That is the core bonding principle in the mystical reality called 'family'.

Well, we are 'children of God', i.e., part of the family of God. What blindness have we been living in that would have us not see that what is God's is also likewise ours?

Namaste,

David

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Lesson 351

Section 14. What Am I?

I am God's Son, complete and healed and whole, shining in the reflection of His Love. In me is His creation sanctified and guaranteed eternal life. In me is love perfected, fear impossible, and joy established without opposite. I am the holy home of God Himself. I am the Heaven where His Love resides. I am His holy Sinlessness Itself, for in my purity abides His Own.

Our use for words is almost over now. Yet in the final days of this one year we gave to God together, you and I, we found a single purpose that we shared. And thus you joined with me, so what I am are you as well. The truth of what we are is not for words to speak of nor describe. Yet we can realize our function here, and words can speak of this and teach it, too, if we exemplify the words in us.

We are the bringers of salvation. We accept our part as saviors of the world, which through our joint forgiveness is redeemed. And this, our gift, is therefore given us. We look on everyone as brother, and perceive all things as kindly and as good. We do not seek a function that is past the gate of Heaven. Knowledge will return when we have done our part. We are concerned only with giving welcome to the truth.

Ours are the eyes through which Christ's vision sees a world redeemed from every thought of sin. Ours are the ears that hear the Voice for God proclaim the world as sinless. Ours the minds that join together as we bless the world. And from the oneness that we have attained we call to all our brothers, asking them to share our peace and consummate our joy.

We are the holy messengers of God who speak for Him, and carrying His Word to everyone whom He has sent to us, we learn that it is written on our hearts. And thus our minds are changed about the aim for which we came, and which we seek to serve. We bring glad tidings to the Son of God, who thought he suffered. Now is he redeemed. And as he sees the gate of Heaven stand open before him, he will enter in and disappear into the Heart of God.

Lesson 351

My sinless brother is my guide to peace.
My sinful brother is my guide to pain.
And which I choose to see I will behold.

Who is my brother but Your holy Son? And if I see him sinful I proclaim myself a sinner, not a Son of God; alone and friendless in a fearful world. Yet this perception is a choice I make, and can relinquish. I can also see my brother sinless, as Your holy Son. And with this choice I see my sinlessness, my everlasting Comforter and Friend beside me, and my way secure and clear. Choose, then, for me, my Father, through Your Voice. For He alone gives judgment in Your Name.