Lesson 328 – I choose the second place to gain the first.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

Feeling separate and alone are merely wild imaginings.  Separate and alone is not possible.  Mistaken thoughts can lead to strong beliefs, but that does not make these beliefs true.  It is my Father’s Will that I be safe and eternally at peace and so I am.  It is my will that I connect with my Father’s Will to know that this is so.  Despite upside down perceptions, I am still joined with my brothers and safe at Home with my Father because there is no second place, only First.

LESSON 328

I choose the second place to gain the first.

What seems to be the second place is first, for all things we perceive are upside down until we listen to the Voice for God.  It seems that we will gain autonomy but by our striving to be separate, and that our independence from the rest of God’s creation is the way in which salvation is obtained.  Yet all we find is sickness, suffering and loss and death.  This is  not what our Father wills for us, nor is there any second to His Will.  To join with His is but to find our own.  And since our will is His, it is to Him that we must go to recognize our will.

There is no will but Yours.  And I am glad that nothing I imagine contradicts what You would have me be.  It is Your Will that I be wholly safe, eternally at peace.  And happily I share that Will which You, my Father, gave as part of me.

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