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<center>'''God's peace and joy are mine.'''</center>
God's peace and joy are mine.
God's peace and joy are yours. Today we will accept them, knowing they
belong to us. And we will try to understand these gifts increase as we
receive them. They are not like to the gifts the world can give, in which the
giver loses as he gives the gift; the taker is the richer by his loss. Such are
not gifts, but bargains made with guilt. The truly given gift entails no loss. It
is impossible that one can gain because another loses. This implies a limit
and an insufficiency.
No gift is given thus. Such "gifts" are but a bid for a more valuable return; a
loan with interest to be paid in full; a temporary lending, meant to be a
pledge of debt to be repaid with more than was received by him who took
the gift. This strange distortion of what giving means pervades all levels of
the world you see. It strips all meaning from the gifts you give, and leaves
you nothing in the ones you take.
A major learning goal this course has set is to reverse your view of giving,
so you can receive. For giving has become a source of fear, and so you
would avoid the only means by which you can receive. Accept God's peace
and joy, and you will learn a different way of looking at a gift. God's gifts
will never lessen when they are given away. They but increase thereby.
As Heaven's peace and joy intensify when you accept them as God's gift to
you, so does the joy of your Creator grow when you accept His joy and
peace as yours. True giving is creation. It extends the limitless to the
unlimited, eternity to timelessness, and love unto itself. It adds to all that is
complete already, not in simple terms of adding more, for that implies that it
was less before. It adds by letting what cannot contain itself fulfill its aim of
giving everything it has away, securing it forever for itself.
Today accept God's peace and joy as yours. Let Him complete Himself as
He defines completion. You will understand that what completes Him must
complete His Son as well. He cannot give through loss. No more can you.
Receive His gift of joy and peace today, and He will thank you for your gift
to Him.
Today our practice periods will start a little differently. Begin today by
thinking of those brothers who have been denied by you the peace and joy
that are their right under the equal laws of God. Here you denied them to
yourself. And here you must return to claim them as your own.
Think of your "enemies" a little while, and tell each one, as he occurs to you:
<center>''My brother, peace and joy I offer you,''</center>
<center>''That I may have God's peace and joy as mine.''</center>
Thus you prepare yourself to recognize God's gifts to you, and let your
mind be free of all that would prevent success today. Now are you ready to
accept the gift of peace and joy that God has given you. Now are you ready
to experience the joy and peace you have denied yourself. Now you can say,
"God's peace and joy are mine," for you have given what you would
receive.
You must succeed today, if you prepare your mind as we suggest. For you
have let all bars to peace and joy be lifted up, and what is yours can come to
you at last. So tell yourself, "God's peace and joy are mine," and close your
eyes a while, and let His Voice assure you that the words you speak are
true.
Spend your five minutes thus with Him each time you can today, but do not
think that less is worthless when you cannot give Him more. At least
remember hourly to say the words which call to Him to give you what He
wills to give, and wills you to receive. Determine not to interfere today with
what He wills. And if a brother seems to tempt you to deny God's gift to
him, see it as but another chance to let yourself receive the gifts of God as
yours. Then bless your brother thankfully, and say:
<center>''My brother, peace and joy I offer you,''</center>
<center>''That I may have God's peace and joy as mine.''</center>
[[Category: Workbook I]]
<center>'''God's peace and joy are mine.'''</center>
God's peace and joy are mine.
God's peace and joy are yours. Today we will accept them, knowing they
belong to us. And we will try to understand these gifts increase as we
receive them. They are not like to the gifts the world can give, in which the
giver loses as he gives the gift; the taker is the richer by his loss. Such are
not gifts, but bargains made with guilt. The truly given gift entails no loss. It
is impossible that one can gain because another loses. This implies a limit
and an insufficiency.
No gift is given thus. Such "gifts" are but a bid for a more valuable return; a
loan with interest to be paid in full; a temporary lending, meant to be a
pledge of debt to be repaid with more than was received by him who took
the gift. This strange distortion of what giving means pervades all levels of
the world you see. It strips all meaning from the gifts you give, and leaves
you nothing in the ones you take.
A major learning goal this course has set is to reverse your view of giving,
so you can receive. For giving has become a source of fear, and so you
would avoid the only means by which you can receive. Accept God's peace
and joy, and you will learn a different way of looking at a gift. God's gifts
will never lessen when they are given away. They but increase thereby.
As Heaven's peace and joy intensify when you accept them as God's gift to
you, so does the joy of your Creator grow when you accept His joy and
peace as yours. True giving is creation. It extends the limitless to the
unlimited, eternity to timelessness, and love unto itself. It adds to all that is
complete already, not in simple terms of adding more, for that implies that it
was less before. It adds by letting what cannot contain itself fulfill its aim of
giving everything it has away, securing it forever for itself.
Today accept God's peace and joy as yours. Let Him complete Himself as
He defines completion. You will understand that what completes Him must
complete His Son as well. He cannot give through loss. No more can you.
Receive His gift of joy and peace today, and He will thank you for your gift
to Him.
Today our practice periods will start a little differently. Begin today by
thinking of those brothers who have been denied by you the peace and joy
that are their right under the equal laws of God. Here you denied them to
yourself. And here you must return to claim them as your own.
Think of your "enemies" a little while, and tell each one, as he occurs to you:
<center>''My brother, peace and joy I offer you,''</center>
<center>''That I may have God's peace and joy as mine.''</center>
Thus you prepare yourself to recognize God's gifts to you, and let your
mind be free of all that would prevent success today. Now are you ready to
accept the gift of peace and joy that God has given you. Now are you ready
to experience the joy and peace you have denied yourself. Now you can say,
"God's peace and joy are mine," for you have given what you would
receive.
You must succeed today, if you prepare your mind as we suggest. For you
have let all bars to peace and joy be lifted up, and what is yours can come to
you at last. So tell yourself, "God's peace and joy are mine," and close your
eyes a while, and let His Voice assure you that the words you speak are
true.
Spend your five minutes thus with Him each time you can today, but do not
think that less is worthless when you cannot give Him more. At least
remember hourly to say the words which call to Him to give you what He
wills to give, and wills you to receive. Determine not to interfere today with
what He wills. And if a brother seems to tempt you to deny God's gift to
him, see it as but another chance to let yourself receive the gifts of God as
yours. Then bless your brother thankfully, and say:
<center>''My brother, peace and joy I offer you,''</center>
<center>''That I may have God's peace and joy as mine.''</center>
[[Category: Workbook I]]
