[acimlessons_list] Lesson 329 - November 25

[Sue Carrier]

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Lesson 329 - November 25


"I have already chosen what You will."

PRACTICE SUMMARY 

(See Part II Practice Summary, and also Part II Introduction)

COMMENTARY

It is difficult for us to realize that we have already chosen God's
Will. Not only is choosing His Will the only way to find our true
autonomy (yesterday's lesson), <we have already made that choice>. We
may <think> we have wandered away from God's Will, defied it, and
broken its laws (1:1), but we have not. We cannot. Because <we are>
the Will of God, "extended and extending" (1:2,3).

When did we make this choice that we seem so unaware of? In the very
instant of our creation (1:5). God created us by extending His Will;
when we came into being we were the extension of His Will. Our choice
was already made, and "made for all eternity" (1:6). We cannot change
that. We can make up an illusion in which we appear to have a separate
will from God's, but we cannot make it real. Illusion is all we can
make if what we make contradicts God's Will.

This fact is our safety. It is our salvation as well, for it means
that we have not done what we thought we did; we have not defied God's
Will, we have only <imagined> it, only dreamed about it. The oneness
of God and His creation is unbroken, and it is this we can celebrate
today.


WHAT IS CREATION? (Part 9)

W-pII.11.5:1

"Our Father calls to us."

"Father" is a personal synonym for "Creator," the One Who gave us
being. Perhaps, after this time thinking about what creation is, the
word "Father" may have a little more meaning for us. Our Father is the
One Who thought us into existence. "Only Love creates" (1:2), and so
our Father is Love Itself, Which has created us like Itself. This One
desired to add to Love by Its extension, and so, out of that desire,
we were created, to be held forever in His holy Will.

That immortal desire of God still stands! With all that infinite
desire of His Will, He calls to us to be what He created us to be: the
extension of His Love, creating as He does through extending love,
forever one with His holy Will, sharing in It, glorying in It, exuding
it from every pore of our being. God's Love remains with us. Our minds
remember Him, remember our function. From within our minds He calls to
us, drawing us with His Love to be the very Love that draws us.

He is our Father, our Creator. We cannot escape that fact, nor can we
escape the fact of what we are. "I am as God created me" (W-pI.110).
He calls to us constantly, continually, patiently, unceasingly, and
until we end our mad attempt to be "something else," something other
than Love, and respond to His call, we can only delay our happiness
and postpone our joy.

Father, let me hear Your call today, and answer. 
 
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