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Happy Sunday! I\u2019m doing something new today by combining a Sunday blog post with an ACIM CE Text notes for today, Day 194. Some big personal insights came to me from this section of the Text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ACIM CE Text notes \u2013 Day 194<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

T-15-III Littleness Versus Magnitude.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

“Love is not little, and love dwells in you, for you are host to Him.\u201d<\/em> (9.5)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou know not what love means, because you have sought to purchase it with little gifts, thus valuing it too little to be able to understand its magnitude.”<\/em> (9.8)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is my habit to choose littleness As I reflect on the past two years in a loving spiritual community of seminary, I recognize today that my struggles with sharing were my choosing to be little. There were also moments of connection, where I opened my heart and said ‘Yes’ to what HS was guiding me to share. I felt the glory and saw the magnitude in how thing were received by others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even now I am sensing that giving credit to HS is choosing littleness. It might be better to say “higher self for me to move toward claiming my magnitude. As I write this, and consider my resistance to claiming my holiness\/glory, the thought of the Course’s teaching on levels<\/a> came to mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which consciousness am I choosing, the ego\/small self\u2019s will or God\u2019s Will for me to be a mirror of Loving Glory? I am not of service to Love when I choose to be small.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Loving small.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

My childhood family never said ‘I love you’ to each other but this improved as the family matured. Still, through my adult life I have only said it when I really felt the emotion, and even then, I might hold back if I the timing was awkward. I told myself that I was making it special to say it, and that I was correct not to say what I wasn’t feeling. I was not giving what I truly want to receive. I control love. I keep it little — something I think I can manage so my world is planned how I expect it to be. Am I afraid of the big love that may come back if I put big Love out?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes. I won’t know what will happen so that is scary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Love means.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Back on Day 155<\/a>, Jesus got my attention by saying I don’t realize how much I hate my brother. I understood this to mean that I needed to look at my special relationship. I don’t feel hate but there are plenty of other lower emotions that come up in our relationship. This section is giving me some understanding of feelings I hold, like resentment<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love is not little, but I give out only meager amounts. Still, I long for true love of big magnitude to satisfy the hole in my soul. I can’t receive what I am unwilling to give, and I blame the person closest to me — guilt by association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know what love means but I am willing to open to the flow of it through me. I say ‘yes’ to loving bigger, however that may appear in my life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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