What I Give is a Gift to Me

“Today I learn the law of love; that what I give my brother is my gift to me.” ACIM Workbook Lesson #344. With some brothers, I feel a loving unity; others seem to elicit fear and anger in me. I have bought into the idea of separation, and so I think there is something I need to forgive in those I find fearsome. It is a beautiful gift, this opportunity to see our innocence in another’s purity! We have been given a mega-mirror in which to view ourselves reflected in others, moment by moment -- and this may seem like a curse at times! We are all changeless and pure in our spiritual reality, and every time I see this in my brother, I take another step out of separation and one more step closer to my true Being. When I give separation, I receive separation. Giving Love and receiving unity seems like a far better thing to do! 

“Today I learn the law of love; that what I give my brother is my gift to me. This is Your law, my Father, not my own. I have not understood what giving means, and thought to save what I desired for myself alone. And as I looked upon the treasure that I thought I had, I found an empty place where nothing ever was or is or will be. Who can share a dream? And what can an illusion offer me? Yet he whom I forgive will give me gifts beyond the worth of anything on earth. Let my forgiven brothers fill my store with Heaven’s treasures, which alone are real. Thus is the law of love fulfilled. And thus Your Son arises and returns to You.

“How near we are to one another, as we go to God. How near is He to us. How close the ending of the dream of sin, and the redemption of the Son of God.”

A Course in Miracles W-344.1:1–2:3

Mary Baker Eddy quote: “Truth has no consciousness of error. Love has no sense of hatred. Life has no partnership with death. Truth, Life, and Love are a law of annihilation to everything unlike themselves, because they declare nothing except God.” Science & Health Page 243:25-29