Lesson 278 – If I am bound, my Father is not free.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

God behind bars.  In prison stripes.  Peering out at the world helpless and bound.  Humans like to twist the story in this way and pretend it’s not their story, it’s the way things are.  God is not behind bars.  We are.  God is not sliced and diced into time and space (prison stripes).  We are.  ” … a world in which all things that seem to live appear to die” … seeming appearances are not the Truth.  The Truth is we are formless, boundless Love just like our Father–let’s stop pretending we’re orphans and rub the sleep out of our eyes: Our Father is Free and We are like Our Father.

LESSON 278

If I am bound, my Father is not free.

If I accept that I am prisoner within a body, in a world in which all things that seem to live appear to die, then is my Father prisoner with me.  And this do I believe, when I maintain the laws the world obeys must I obey; the frailties and the sins which I perceive are real, and cannot be escaped.  If I am bound in any way, I do not know my Father nor my Self.  And I am lost to all reality.  For truth is free, and what is bound is not a part of truth.

Father, I ask for nothing but the truth.  I have had many foolish thoughts about myself and my creation, and have brought a dream of fear into my mind.  Today, I would not dream.  I choose the way to You instead of madness and instead of fear.  For truth is safe, and only love is sure.

 

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