Lesson 234. Father, today, I am Your Son again.

I wrote two entries commenting on the lesson for yesterday, but did not have time to post them, so here they are a day later!

Son? Father? I know for many these words feel like big obstacles, especially for all us daughters of Goddess.  But really whether we are male or female is irrelevant, because our gender is already part of duality, part of separation.

Mother, today, I am your Daughter again.  It doesn’t matter about the words….. they are second or third hand removed from Truth anyway…. It’s the feeling ~ of an all loving, caring, nurturing, protective, omnipresent, powerful, strong presence, that gave us birth and who only wants happiness and loving experiences for us.

Language itself is part of separation, so I am not going to be offended by a word:~ that Son is used, (note capital S) to describe the presence of Love that I am, and is inside every human being, dead or alive. In fact is in the only thing about us that is real, that endures, that exists in eternity, beyond time and space.

Son of God, One of God. I like that Son rhymes with One. The Holy One of God. There is only One of us here.

Second thought….

The prayer today is a prayer of gratitude:~

“We thank You, Father, that we cannot lose the memory of You and of Your Love…. We give thanks for all the gifts you have bestowed on us”.

In fact, as Ken Wapnick says in commentary on today’s lesson:~ “The only thing missing is our awareness of God’s Love”.

And through practicing Gratitude, our Heart’s Door opens to Love. It really works if we do it!  (Robert Holden also suggests writing One Hundred Gratitudes:~ things we are grateful for, and why, in his wonderful new book Be Happy).

One of the deep blessings of my life is that, as a child, my mother (in photo with me above, a few years ago)  would come and kneel with me at bedtime, by my bed, (and get my Dad to come too!) and we would say a short prayer. It always began with “Thank you God, for a lovely day!” What a wonderful gift in the education of the habit life of my mind.

Thank you God. Because You Are, I Am. Because of You, I Live! Thank You God, for creating me like You, the Loving Presence that pervades all things.  Thank You God, for all the countless blessings of my life.

Thank you God, for the freedom You have given me, so that whatever I think, I create. “I am resonsponsible for the life I see”.

Thank you God, for the everything that I am. “I already have everything because I am everything”.

Thank you God, for giving me the gift of the Holy Spirit.  That presence in my mind who understands my separate ego self, and how knows how to take me Home, and is doing so in the perfect way for me.

Thank you God for giving me the gift of Peace. That already exists in me and pervades my world and brings eternity and Heaven right here.

Thank you God, for the Oneness that I am.  That as far as my mind can reach, in my imagination, as I picture this world, and all the myriad people and situations and aspects of nature, there I Am.

Thank you God, that I have nothing to fear, because when I look out into the world, there is only Love, looking back at me.

Thank you God, for Bella, who showed me how to start this blog, and encouraged me to do this.

And thank you to all of you who are reading this, and sharing in the journey of opening to Love’s Presence.

Annie.