Blessing

Reality cannot be partly appreciated.

Whenever you deny a blessing to a brother, you will feel deprived. This is because denial is as total as love. It is as impossible to deny parts of the Sonship as it is to love it in part. Nor is it possible to love it totally at times. You cannot be totally committed sometimes. Remember a very early lesson: Never underestimate the power of denial. It has no power in itself, but you can give it the power of your mind, whose power is without limit of any kind. If you use it to deny reality, reality is gone for you. Reality cannot be partly appreciated. That is why denying any part of it means you have lost awareness of all of it.

That is the negative side of the law as it operates in this world. But denial is a defense, and so it is as capable of being used positively as it is of being used destructively. Used negatively, it will be destructive because it will be used for attack. But, in the service of the Holy Spirit, the law becomes as beneficent as all of the laws of God. Stated positively, the law requires you only to recognize part of reality to appreciate all of it. Mind is too powerful to be subject to exclusion. You will never be able to exclude yourself from what you project.

When a brother acts insanely, he is offering you an opportunity to bless him.

When a brother acts insanely, he is offering you an opportunity to bless him. His need is yours. You need the blessing you can offer him. There is no way for you to have it except by giving it. This is the law of God and it has no exceptions. What you deny, you lack, not because it is lacking, but because you have denied it in another and, therefore, are not aware of it in you. Every response you make is determined by what you think you are. And what you want to be is what you think you are. Therefore, what you want to be determines every response you make.

You do not need God's blessing because that you have forever.

You do not need God's blessing because that you have forever. But you do need yours. The picture you see of yourselves is deprived, unloving, and very vulnerable. You cannot love this. But you can very easily escape from it, or better, leave it behind. You are not there, and that is not you. Do not see this picture in anyone or you have accepted it as you. All illusions about the Sonship are dispelled together, as they were made together. Teach no one that he is what you do not want to be. Your brother is the mirror in which you will see the image of yourself as long as perception lasts. And perception will last until the Sonship knows itself as whole.

The New Year Blessing from A Course In Miracles

The study of A Course In Miracles teaches that time does not exist in reality and reality is not the physical world we experience in bodies. Yet does Jesus address every season and holiday time. This is the New Year blessing and prayer that is given us in the text. Funny that I could not post this on any day other than January 6, the day traditionally known as The Epiphany. Yes! I want to Read the rest of this post ...