Lesson 184. The Name of God is my inheritance.
Our current goals:
- Widen the horizons of our vision
- Take direct approaches to uncover the blocks that keep our vision narrow
- Lift those blocks, however briefly, in order to experience the sense of liberation that comes when the blocks are removed
- Intensify our motivation for freedom
Earlier this year in our Gentle Healing studies, we were asked to set a spiritual aspiration. The one I came up with seems relevant to today’s workbook lesson. My spiritual aspiration: Conduct your daily activities with little to no agenda.
I experience this aspiration like this: It feels appropriate to head to work in the mornings with the intention of actually arriving at work, but to be consistent with this aspiration, it feels inappropriate to make getting myself to work a priority over anybody else’s priorities. So my getting to work should not be more important than the guy driving in front of me who might appear as if he were sight seeing the backroads to town at 7:30 a.m.
If we believe in what we value, and we act from this belief, then living this aspiration encourages me to consistently look at what I value and what my motivations are. Aren’t my basic motivations the same as yours? ACIM’s principles of Miracles #43 says, “You can not behave appropriately unless you perceive accurately. And “the way to perceive [appropriate] behavior is to look out from the perception of your own holiness, and perceive the holiness of others.” The text says, “Whenever projection is used inappropriately, it always implies some emptiness or lack exists …”
Humans have a tendency to focus on differences. In fact, we typically define a thing based on its differences from another thing. We also define circumstances based on their differences from other circumstances and behaviors based on their differences.
Conducting my daily activities with little to no agenda makes me aware through my experiences that I am not separate from my brothers, or for that matter, from life. I do not have a separate will. My will is to know who I am in truth.
Today, we are asked to focus on the “One Identity which all things share.” We want to use the ‘Name of God’ mantra as a transition to focusing on the one identity instead of differences.
My aspiration is an expression of inner awareness of Christ and the one Identity. From this state of awareness I am in a state of grace and I naturally become gracious. I feel joy and I feel peace when I experience this Oneness and I know this is my inheritance.
