Please take time this morning to read, “What is Forgiveness,” to contemplate Lesson 225, and to spend time in meditation. If you have 30-minutes for meditation and would like a gentle audio to guide you, I recommend this meditation by Michael Langford and Karen Worth:
God is my Father, and His Son loves Him.
Today’s tip begins, “Father, I must return Your Love for me.” This, the desire to give God back the love that He gave us, may seem difficult because God can seem to be abstract, but the truth is, God is Love, and as NTI 1 John 4 points out, “Love is everything. The thoughts of everything are these: acceptance, joy, gratitude, peace and welcome.” With these thoughts we can return our mind to God. NTI 1 John 1 says, [This return comes] “in a moment of peace when God is your only desire.” We give love back by giving attention to life-awareness by gratefully spending time in awareness-watching-awareness meditation. God, as awareness, exists within you. Experience that, accept that God is and you are one with that.
NTI 1 John 4 continues, “When any thought does not feel like love, you may put it aside as false. Love is all that there is. Thoughts that are not Love are thoughts such as these: lack, limits, competition, victimhood, personhood, strife, and fighting, sickness, death, rage, and sorrow, helplessness, hopelessness, control and loss. These are thoughts that imply separation, and separateness is illusion.” Next time you believe a brother has hurt you, stop, look and see, has awareness been hurt? We know that we are all a part of Love, or awareness-life-presence, and whether it is apparent or not our brothers’ interests are the same as ours and that is to know ourselves as the awareness-life-presence, or the Love that we truly are.