“I am sustained by the Love of God…”
I AM as GOD IS “…I am as God created me~ Love which created me is what I am… and I am sustained by the Love of God…
Re-cognition dawns as realization … This is the way it is. And all my efforts are directed toward this real-ization… The place is set in heaven… The time is now… All my unworthiness, worry and regret dissolve into the sustenance which is my life…
See, my deal always seems to boil down to unworthiness… It’s one of those ‘hard-core’ drugs, with a serious addictive component. The hard sell sounds something like, “I @#$@!!-up this chance at life that I was given; took something perfectly innocent and messed it up, so I don’t deserve_____________!” Thank God for the perspective of error, instead of sin, which the Course so eloquently teaches. It is so easy to see now, once the practice of forgiveness is established. Here is one of my favorite mantra’s from the text: (chapter 18)
“I who am host to God am worthy of Him.
He Who established His dwelling place in me created it as He would have it be.
It is not needful that I make it ready for Him, but only that I do not interfere with His plan to restore to me my own awareness of my readiness, which is eternal.
I need add nothing to His plan.
But to receive it, I must be willing not to substitute my own in place of it.”
It goes on to say:
“And that is all. Add more, and you will merely take away the little that is asked. Remember you made guilt, and that your plan for the escape from guilt has been to bring Atonement to it, and make salvation fearful. And it is only fear that you will add, if you prepare yourself for love. The preparation for the holy instant belongs to Him Who gives it. Release yourself to Him Whose function is release. Do not assume His function for Him. Give Him but what He asks, that you may learn how little is your part, and how great is His.” (T-18.IV.5-6)
I am sustained by the Love of God… Just reading the words brings a feeling of safety and surety, yes?
This feeling was the Hope I experienced when was initiated by and through A Course in Miracles, all those many years ago.
It was an idea so pervasive, so compelling, so truly real ~it was worth the risk to attempt to believe it above all else, and perhaps even at the risk of losing all control in my so-called life as I had it wired up at the time~ I know; some sacrifice… ~like I had things running so well.
As inspired, it turned out to be a worthy investment of faith… And this faith became experience…And faith in the Experience of being sustained only by the love of God…
God’s Love is the sustenance sustaining our lives, and as we place our faith in His Love, it becomes increasingly obviously ‘more real, more substantial~ Trust is the natural out cropping of this faith…deep, rich, abiding trust… It is trust in this one idea and its increasing efficacy, which inspires one to trust the entire undoing, which forgiveness brings.
We trust the experience of unending love and joy and peace that now background our life. God’s Love sustains all Life… This is the soundtrack behind, beyond, within and through life; now, always, forever. Its perfect orchestration, does, as the lesson says, ‘transport us into a state of mind that nothing can threaten, nothing can disturb, and where nothing can intrude upon the eternal calm of the Son of God’…
Otherwise, why would we do it? Why question every belief ever held; every value set, putting up against the “test of perfect peace”, that it be released? Why surrender all judgments, and give ourselves over to the Holy Spirit? Every breathing moment~ be devoted to “accepting the Atonement for ourselves”? Because it feels true, right, good… home…
…Because, doing it works! ~
I AM SUSTAINED BY THE LOVE OF GOD…
Let’s wrap with the beautiful prayer from lesson 222:
God is with me. He is my Source of life, the life within, the air I breathe, the food by which I am sustained, the water which renews and cleanses me, He is my home, where I live and move; the Spirit Which directs my actions, offers me Its Thoughts, and guarantees my safety from all pain. He covers me with kindness and with care, and holds in love the Son He shines upon, who also shines on him. How still is he who knows the truth…” (W-L.222)
We walk joyously together, on the way that we must go, sustained by the love of God~ Thank you!
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