ACIM Daily Lesson 315 All gifts my brothers give belong to me.1. Each day a thousand treasures come to me with every passing moment.

Lesson 315

All gifts my brothers give belong to me.

1. Each day a thousand treasures come to me with every passing moment. ²I am blessed with gifts throughout the day, in value far beyond all things of which I can conceive. ³A brother smiles upon another, and my heart is gladdened. ⁴Someone speaks a word of gratitude or mercy, and my mind receives this gift and takes it as its own. ⁵And everyone who finds the way to God becomes my savior, pointing out the way to me, and giving me his certainty that what he learned is surely mine as well.

2. I thank You, Father, for the many gifts that come to me today and every day from every Son of God. ²My brothers are unlimited in all their gifts to me. ³Now may I offer them my thankfulness, that gratitude to them may lead me on to my Creator and His memory.

I love when I read about someone receiving unexpected help.

For instance, a woman walked miles to work every day because she couldn’t afford a car. Someone noticed and cared and gave her a car. Those kinds of stories give me so much joy. They are love in action. I read about a father who gave up his life as he rescued his drowning children. Once again, love in action.

Sometimes this active love is more subtle and never makes the headlines but touches me just as much. I see my daughter giving her time and energy to her daughter even when she is tired and frustrated. My neighbor walks through our neighborhood doing little favors for people who need her. She takes care of things and walks away without anyone noticing. The world is full of love heroes whether we notice it or not.

When someone is upset with me, and I look past the attack to the sweet being they truly are, I am his gift, and he is mine. We each played a part in that opportunity to share love. I don’t need anyone to know it happened, not even the person who thought I was his enemy. It is enough that love flowed from me. That love flows both ways.

I went to a neighborhood café today. I was standing in line waiting to be served. A kind woman noticed an elderly man patiently waiting for me to move ahead so he could sit down. I realized what was happening when she squeezed past me. She took his walker and made room for him to sit. When she turned, our eyes met, and we smiled at each other, both happy this man was taken care of. Truly, there is love everywhere if we care to notice.

Similarly, one act of love stands out to me every time.

This is when one of us becomes aware of a belief that causes suffering and chooses to forgive it. And so forgiveness has become stronger in the mind. Likewise, suffering has been weakened. This exchange in energy has now become available for all of us and makes our shifts easier to accomplish. It is a beautiful gift and benefits the entire Sonship.

I am truly grateful for all of God’s gifts and for all the gifts my brothers make available to me every day. I am grateful to those who make me laugh and as well to those whose love brings tears to my eyes. As well, I am grateful to everyone for doing the best they can. I am also grateful for their forgiveness when I fail to act in a loving manner. And though I might resist it, I am even grateful for the ones who poke at my wounded self. After all, how would I know that something needed healing if it didn’t hurt? How could we fail to wake up when we have so many opportunities, and so much help, so much love?

I am also grateful to each of my teachers who have found their way to God.

I am grateful to the ones I learn from directly and those who I don’t know but whose words have been shared with me through books. Also, I am grateful for those who have awakened that I don’t know because their awakening made it easier for me through the one mind that we are.

Yesterday, my brother came to my house to fix a problem I was having. Afterward, we sat and talked for a while. I could not take my eyes off his face. There was such kindness there, softness and love. I have not seen this in him before, and I am grateful for the clarity of vision that I have now.

Regina’s Tips

Regina talked about the last judgment.

“When we read that perception, the world and bodies all disappear in the final awakening, a thought might cross the mind that says something like, “I don’t want that!” I know I’ve seen this idea, and I suspect you have too.”

She talked about how it is hard to think about letting go when things seem to be going well, but pointed out that this never lasts. Life is like a pendulum. It swings to the right, and life is pretty good, but then it always swings to the left, and things are not so good, and we suffer. Regina suggests that we not wait for suffering but take advantage of this opportunity to let go of the self now.

Regina also encourages us to look at the gifts our brother gives us that don’t feel like gifts and to write about them.

What gift is present in my life now that I do not see as a gift?
What would you tell me about it?

My focus right now is to let go of self, the idea of me that is separate from and different from others.

So, I have asked to be made aware of when I am clinging to self. It is coming up in subtle ways, or perhaps the subtlety is simply that which I was not interested in seeing before. I notice a prick of irritation when someone wants me to do something I prefer not to do. That request is a gift because it helps me to let go of the self who has preferences.

Another gift came when someone failed to email an answer, and I was left hanging while I waited. Again, there was a pinprick of irritation, and I got a chance to let go of another bit of self. Someone interrupted my schedule, and it bothered me. This was a reason for gratitude. I am discovering the many little ways I have established a self that is Myron, ways I had not noticed before or thought about as my way of preserving my separateness.

Sometimes I am so filled with gratitude for my brother I cannot even express it.

I feel grateful to the brother who expresses love in whatever way, directly or indirectly. I walk into a store, and someone holds the door for me; someone else looks me in the eye and smiles at me. The clerk doesn’t just tell me where the item is located but takes me to it. I feel the love that we all are, and it just pours over me and awakens the love in my heart, and I return it. How could I not feel grateful?

I am grateful to my brother who presents me with an opportunity to practice forgiveness. It is always myself I forgive for the stories I weave around my brother. Even when someone seems to be attacking me directly, in forgiving him, I am still only forgiving myself for the meaning I gave his actions. So I am grateful to all who present me with a chance to forgive myself. What a gift!

I used to play the victim even when I had learned it was not true. Each time I did this, I needed a victimizer, and some brother obligingly provided this for me. I am grateful to him because it gave me another chance to look at the victim/victimizer dynamic and see it for the farce that it is. This was how I learned I could not be a victim of the world I see. I am truly grateful for that gift.

Each time someone asks me for help, I am grateful.

They may ask for words or actions; it does not matter. It is an opportunity to go within, to ask the Holy Spirit what would be truly helpful in this moment. It is an opportunity to remember that as I serve others, I serve myself. Every gift to a brother is a gift to me.

Even the ones who do not come in direct contact with me are adding to my store of gratitude. Truly our minds are one so that when any of us step forward on the path, we do it for all. Every smile, every choice for truth, and every remembrance of any brother is a gift to us all.

Even those who don’t know they are on a path, who have not yet decided to take this journey Home, who are unaware there is even the possibility, even they are doing their part as they live their lives, and are a blessing to us all. No one is outside my gratitude.

Contemplation 2025

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