\u201c<\/em><\/strong>Vision depends upon today\u2019s idea. The light is in it, for it reconciles all seeming opposites.\u201d<\/em> [CE W-108.1:1-2]<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first paragraph of the lesson felt like a major one for me. What it is telling me is that Christ vision opens when I see in the light. This light comes from Truth, when I let go of resistance and argument in defense of my limited perception this world provides. The idea of giving and receiving being the same is a doorway into \u2018single perception\u2019 (mentioned in 3.3).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Single perception is true perception where we have left behind a split mind, no longer having \u2018level confusion\u2019 as we gave up identification with a body for our eternal spiritual Self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And, (thanks HS for the nudge) I was reminded that my spiritual Self will not be mine, as in individual, but happily joined in Oneness, a collective mind. So, this is how giving and receiving are the same as gains and losses are impossible from the perspective of One True Self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To everyone I offer laughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have found it easier to give this past week. Something has shifted within — more light is flowing into and through me. And I am receiving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My trust in God feels stronger. The things I am wanting, I know they will come in the most benevolent way. For a long time, I was withholding \u2013 thinking that I was lacking and needed to hold onto the little I had. I built walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Right there in the middle of the great River of Love I built my enclosure. It leaked a bit, so Love\u2019s light got in occasionally. Still, I gave only as much as my mind calculated that I needed to do to survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We so quickly forget we are surrounded by what we most desire<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m thinking of those childhood wounds that had me begin placing the blocks of my enclosure. Was there another way to proceed if I had known giving and receiving are the same?<\/p>\n\n\n\n At a tender age I was ridiculed by siblings. I don\u2019t think I could have done better unless I had help from another. With support from another to listen to my embarrassment and hurt feelings, bringing them into the light, so that they did not turn into shame. The light was needed. It is always needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lord, guide me to offer the light to others. I don\u2019t want others to be hidden in the darkness of their own creation just as I don\u2019t want this for myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We are asked in the practice to offer to everyone what we would have as ours. Through God\u2019s Love I want peace in the form of a \u2018stable base\u2019, a loving and secure place to be. Not ‘safety’ because I have put in protective forces, but secure in the peace and joy that God\u2019s Love insures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the practice I sent loving-kindness to a community which is important to my family. As I completed my giving loving-kindness to the people and the land, my mind brought forward the prayer of Saint Francis. In Hollie\u2019s notes she offered, \u201cIt is through giving that we receive.\u201d<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n My mind popped to this line …<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMake me a channel of your peace.\u201d<\/em> This is what I want for myself. _\/\\_<\/p>\n\n\n\n I will receive what I am giving now.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I did the practice and found my attention on how my body felt as I sent out my offerings. I noticed the good feeling rise. Then I felt I was doing something wrong as my attention was on what I was receiving instead of my giving \u2026 guilt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n St. Francis: \u201cfor it is in the giving that we receive.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m certainly not the first one in history to know there are personal rewards to giving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2018You reap what you sow.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I must just go with it instead of turning it into something negative, to be blocked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I have observed how I block receiving<\/a>. I will not block giving and will be open to receiving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am worthy of gifts from others, my Self, God, and the Universe!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To give and receive are one in Truth. 4-18-2026 \u201cVision depends upon today\u2019s idea. The light is in it, for it reconciles all seeming opposites.\u201d [CE W-108.1:1-2] The first paragraph of the lesson felt like a major one for me. … Continue reading 4-18-2024<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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