Day 126: All that I give is given to myself.

Our meditation for today reads as follows:

All that I give is given to myself.  The Help I need to learn that this is true is with me now.  And I will trust in Him.

We are all One, so what we give to others, we do give to ourselves.  This is the fundamental reason why giving and receiving are one and the same.  Now, that doesn’t mean if we give someone a pink pony that we will receive a pink pony.  It is not the thing that is given which we receive back, for that is an illusion of the physical world anyway.  The real gift is what we imbue with that item, and it is that which we will then receive.

The joy and love with which we give something will always come back to us.  And if, perchance, what we give is not received in love, it will wait until the recipient is ready to receive it.  As long as we make the honest effort, what we give will be returned to us, in some way, somehow, at some uncertain time.  We cannot control how someone receives our gifts, but we can choose to forgive them when they are resistant.  That in itself is a gift.

Forgiveness is seeing an error as corrected.  It is bridging what was divided to make whole.  It is healing the wound of another, and knowing that yours are then healed as well.  Forgiveness is the act of giving for oneself.  Where you see a situation as unsettling, give joy and peace so that it becomes serene.  Withholding forgiveness will only leave you unsettled.  Where another person has attacked you out of his misguided belief that you are separate from him, look into his eyes and silently let him know that you are but a reflection of who he is.  Thus you will restore your wholeness.  Thus you will receive the gift which you are giving.

With this knowledge today, let us give freely of ourselves, knowing that the Golden Carriage which delivers our gifts will return to us bearing even greater treasures.  For the Carriage is the Real gift.  What it carries is just its representation.  And God will bless all that is shared among His Children and infuse their gifts with exponential Joy.

Until tomorrow,
Journeyman