Dear Spiritual Family,
Happy Father’s Day! We take this precious moment to breathe and open our hearts wide to feel deep gratitude for our fathers and other father-figures in our lives.
Have you ever had a time when you had a very special gift to give to someone dear to you, and when the opportunity presented itself, the would-be receiver of this gift was reluctant to accept it? Or perhaps you never had the chance to give it?
Well, we all have a Father who has the most perfect gift for us – His abiding, unconditional love. It is a love that is beyond our comprehension in its completeness and its healing power. It is a love that brings peace to our minds and order to our lives.
From Lesson 224 in A Course in Miracles: “God is my Father and He loves His Son. My true Identity is so secure, so lofty, sinless, glorious and great, wholly beneficent and free from guilt, that Heaven looks to It to give it light. It lights the world as well. It is the gift my Father gave to me; the one as well I give the world. There is no gift but this that can be either given or received. This is reality and only This. This is illusion’s end. It is the truth.”
On this Father’s Day, as in every day, we are offered our Father’s Gift. Do we accept It or do we pretend that we are not worthy, or somehow, more time must pass, we must read another book, or listen to another sermon?
Jesus taught and teaches still, “The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. The fields are white with harvest now.” And wherever we are in our lives, with whatever and “whoever” is going on, we can ask ourselves in earnest, “Am I willing to accept God’s Gift today, this moment?”
We all are worthy, just as we are. And truthfully, what better time than now to be so touched and filled by our Father’s Love? What better gift can we give Him who gave us eternal life and all the love and light we ever need to enjoy it?
Our hope is that we all take time today to meditate deeply on this truth and to receive the blessing it brings to each of us and indeed, “the one as well I give the world.”
We Love You,
Rev. Steve and Mary