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A Course in Miracles Lesson #187
“I bless the world because I bless myself.”
If we have something and give it away, our material belief is that we don't have it any longer. The truth as we are learning through these studies tells us that giving will increase what we possess. We are also learning that things represent thoughts. And we also are learning that when we give ideas away they become stronger in our own mind. The form is often changed in what we have given and what we receive, but it never leaves us lacking. While reading today's lesson, I’m remembering something from a few years back. I had loaned a friend quite a bit of money. After asking her to start paying me back, she wrote me a letter saying that this money would come back to me in some form since the laws of the universe demand it. It was a beautifully eloquent letter, detailing many metaphysical principles. But this response didn't seem to be of assistance in meeting the obligations knocking on my door. After a while I quit thinking of this situation as a loaning of money, un-repaid, but as a gift to a friend. This came to mind a year so or later when my gallery was on the verge of closing. Within a week's time, friends and people I barely knew had given me more than $17,000. What a perfect demonstration of what we're pondering today! Whether giving ideas and watching them multiply, or giving material things and seeing them as representations of Love, we can be assured of returns when we freely give.
Mary Baker Eddy quote:
“In the scientific relation of God to man, we find that whatever blesses one blesses all, as Jesus showed with the loaves and the fishes,--Spirit, not matter, being the source of supply.”
Science & Health, Page 206:15-18
