Day 168: Your grace is given me. I claim it now.

Of today's lesson, A Course in Miracles says the following:

Today we ask of God the gift he has most carefully preserved within our hearts, waiting to be acknowledged.  This the gift by which God leans to us and lifts us up, taking salvation's final step Himself.  All steps but this we learn, instructed by His Voice.  But finally He comes Himself, and takes us in His Arms and sweeps away the cobwebs of our sleep.  His gift of grace is more than just an answer.  It restores all memories the sleeping mind forgot; all certainty of what Love's meaning is.

God loves His Son.  Request Him now to give the means by which this world will disappear, and vision first will come, with knowledge but an instant later.  For in grace you see a light that covers all the world in love, and watch fear disappear from every face as hearts rise up and claim the light as theirs.  What now remains that Heaven be delayed an instant longer?  What is still undone when your forgiveness rests on everything?

When we think of Grace, we do not think of struggle.  We think of ease, of comfort, of beauty and of elegance.  Such a word seems contradictory to the ways of this world.  But Grace is not of this world.  It is God's Gift from Heaven, and any grace experienced here is but a taste of what awaits us.

Grace is ours to claim, for it is our birthright.  Grace brings with it Peace and Joy and Love and Safety - all things one imagines that come naturally in Heaven.  Grace is the Light of God, and we see it evidenced in the simplest things in Life.

For instance, just today, during an after school workshop that I teach, the children were infused with a creative energy the likes that I had never seen in them before.  While in the process of improvising scenes for a play that they are writing, a certain joyful essence overtook them.  When they performed what they had written for their peers, the students watching sat in gleeful anticipation upon the edges of their seats.  They had a mighty task this day, and in the course of just a couple hours they had written ten new scenes.  I am confident this would not have been possible if it were not for God's Grace.

For Grace to bless us at our workshop on this day, we had to be collectively aligned and open to receive it.  The kids I teach are wonderful.  They've instilled within the group a sense of Trust, a sense of Safety, and a sense of Unity; for they truly understand the meaning of Ensemble.  Were it not for these established guidelines, we could not have accomplished what we did today.  That was Grace in action here on earth.  That was my taste of Heaven for today.

I pray that you receive your Gift of Grace which has been sent to you this day.  Be open to receiving it, and do so by placing yourself in a position where you can give to others.  That is how God's Grace will make itself known to you.  Claim it now, for it is yours, and Heaven sits by patiently for you to come and taste it.

Until tomorrow,
Journeyman