Day 166: I am entrusted with the gifts of God.

Entrust (from http://dictionary.reference.com/)

1. to charge or invest with a trust or responsibility; charge with a specified office or duty involving trust: We entrusted him with our lives.
2. to commit (something) in trust to; confide, as for care, use, or performance: to entrust a secret, money, powers, or work to another.

Let us consider the above as we reflect upon our meditation for today:

I am entrusted with the gifts of God.

A Course in Miracles introduces today's lesson with the following:

All things are given you.  God's trust in you is limitless.  He knows His Son.  He gives without exception, holding nothing back that can contribute to your happiness.  And yet, unless your will is one with His, His gifts are not received.  But what would make you think there is another will than His?

What we can deduce from this is that when we commit our will to God's, we will be able to recognize all the Gifts that He has given us.  These Gifts carry with them a responsibility, a special purpose to which we have been charged.  Can you guess what that responsibility may be?

The Course has emphasized many times that giving and receiving are one in Truth.  We have been entrusted, then, to give the Gifts of God which we receive.

What Gifts do you believe these are?  Certainly they cannot be of temporary value; and everything of this world, as we know, is temporary.  What can they be then?  Love?  Joy?  Life?  Harmony?  Immortality?  Peace?  Compassion?  Power?  Strength?  Yes, all these things and more are Gifts that God has given us.  All these things and more are ours already, if we have the Sight to See them.  If we commit our will to God's, which simply means that we begin to See each other as We Really Are - One with Him and One with one another, as sinless and as Pure as God created us - then we will have received His Gifts as ours.

As God has given all His Gifts to everyone already, how are we to pass them on as we have been entrusted? Our gift becomes the Gift of Vision, the Gift of Remembrance of Who We Really Are.  When we turn our Brothers and Sisters toward the Light that shines within themselves, they will then receive the Gifts that God has given all of us.

Forgiveness is the key to Seeing this Light within ourselves and one other.  Amid the violence and the greed and the evils of this world, how else are we to perceive each other as sinless but through Forgiveness?  If we can just take stock of all the Holy Gifts that await us, we will set our destination firmly in our minds, and thus align ourselves along the path of our Salvation through Forgiveness.  To know that we can never die will help us on our way, for this is proof that nothing of this world could ever harm us.  No harm, no foul, right?  So let's forgive each other for the missteps we have made, and recognize that though things may appear quite dark indeed, it all is an illusion.  For nothing here or anywhere could take away the Life, the Love, the Peace, the Strength, the Joy, or any Gift from God with which we are entrusted.

Until tomorrow,

Journeyman