[acimlessons_list] LESSON 310 - NOVEMBER 6

[Sue Roth]

LESSON 310 - NOVEMBER 6

"In fearlessness and love I spend today."

Practice instructions 

See complete instructions in separate document.  
A short summary:

* Read the commentary paragraph slowly and personally.

* Pray the prayer, perhaps several times.

* Morning and evening: Repeat the idea and then spend time in Open Mind
Meditation.

* Hourly remembrance: Repeat the idea and then spend a quiet moment in
meditation.

* Frequent reminders: Repeat the idea often within each hour.

* Response to temptation: Repeat the idea whenever upset, to restore peace.

* Read the "What Is" section slowly and thoughtfully once during the day.

Practice suggestion: Today's prayer is another of my absolute favorites. We
all have a longing for a day that is not of this world, a day spent in quiet
communion with God. This prayer captures and kindles that desire. It can be
the springboard for a different kind of day. I recommend praying it
repeatedly today. You may want to sit down every hour and go through it yet
again. To pray these Workbook prayers, I find it helpful to lay out each
sentence or phrase on a separate line, as I have done below. And then I will
read a line, fix it in my mind, close my eyes, and say it to God with as
much sincerity as I can, and then open my eyes and repeat this procedure
with the next line.

     This day, my Father, would I spend with You,
     As You have chosen all my days should be.
     And what I will experience is not of time at all.
     The joy that comes to me is not of days nor hours,
     for it comes from Heaven to Your Son.
     This day will be Your sweet reminder to remember You,
     Your gracious calling to Your holy Son,
     the sign Your grace has come to me,
     and that it is Your Will I be set free today.

Commentary

All my days are meant to be spent with You, Father, in fearlessness and love
(1:1). All of them. I seldom spend my day this way, but today, Father, I
would do so. I open my heart to give this day to You. Let it be so, as You
will. Let me know the joy that comes from Heaven, not from time (1:2-3). Let
the interfering voice in my mind be still, and let me hear Heaven's music
(2:2). I ask not for ecstatic visions that transport me out of this world
forever, but I do ask that today be something new, something higher, a
foretaste of what is in store for me at the end of time.

Let this day be "Your sweet reminder to remember You" (1:4). Gift me with
Your grace, Father. Let me experience something that will serve as a
continuing reminder to turn my mind to You again and again.

Let this day be "Your gracious calling to Your holy Son" (1:4). Open my
ears, and teach me to listen. Let me hear Your calling today. Let me feel
the drawing power of Your eternal Love.

Let this day be "the sign Your grace has come to me, and that it is Your
Will I be set free today" (1:4). May there be a fresh and poignant awareness
of Your working in my life, Your touch upon me. May I see signs that my
freedom is Your Will. May I find renewed confidence in the certainty of the
outcome that awaits me in Your plan.

Today let a song of thankfulness rise up within me. Increase my awareness
that I am joining an eternal song, sung by every part of Your creation. Let
me, as the psalmist said, "Sing unto the Lord a new song." Let me recognize
the rejoicing that is life itself, given by God, as all the world joins with
us in the song.

There is no room in us for fear today, for we have welcomed love into our
hearts.	(2:4)

WHAT IS THE SECOND COMING?

Part 10: W-pII.9.5:5-6

The third thing we can do in the light of what the Second Coming is, is to
become part of the Atonement ourselves, having received it.

Let us rejoice that we can do God's Will, and join together in its holy
light. Behold, the Son of God is one in us, and we can reach our Father's
Love through Him.	(5:5-6)

God's Will is Love. God's Will for us is perfect happiness. God's Will is
never-ending extension of the radiance of His Being. We can "do" that
because He created us to be that. We can reach our Father's Love <through>
His Son. It is our choice to join together in that oneness of the Son that
is the fulfillment of God's Will. Here, in our relationships within time, we
are beginning the process that culminates in the Second Coming, the
restoration of the single Identity of Christ. As we join in common purpose,
to forgive and to be forgiven, to love and to be loved, we shorten the time
until the Sonship is fully one in expression. As we give our relationships
to the Holy Spirit, to be used only for His purpose, to be transformed into
holy relationships through forgiveness, we are joining together in the
fulfillment of God's Will.

It is through one another that we reach God's Love. It is in one another
that we find God. "The whole reality of your relationship with Him lies in
our relationship to one another" (T-17.IV.16:7).