For those who have not received Thank You notes yet.

How has the course been an ah-ha moment for you?

A Holiday message?

The following is from the Teacher’s Manual…

Until I read and studied this segment, I was little bit like any other ego running around demanding a “Thank You” note from my “Belief Systems of Injunctions,” busy giving advice on what to do with my gifts…

There was no Universal Trust going along with my gifts, just my *BS control, I thought…

My greatest teacher was my children’s grandmother, who would buy those beautiful Madame Alexander dolls for my daughters, then tell them not to play with them because they were so expensive. She came to mind loud and clear when I read this segment, and thus: she became my teacher.

…thus: it was easy for me then to see my own *BS in action.

The Course segment, “Is Healing Certain?” (pertained to me whether it is a gift or healing) …paragraph 4…

And what is time before the gifts of God? We have referred many times in the text to the storehouse of treasures laid up equally for the giver and the receiver of God's gifts. Not one is lost, for they can but increase. No teacher of God should feel disappointed if he has offered healing/gift and it does not appear to have been received. It is not up to the giver to judge when his gift should be accepted. Let him be certain it has been received, and trust that it will be accepted when it is recognized as a blessing and not a curse.

It is not the function of God's teachers to evaluate the outcome of their gifts. It is merely their function to give them. Once they have done that they have also given the outcome, for that is part of the gift. No one can give if he is concerned with the result of giving. That is a limitation on the giving itself, and neither the giver nor the receiver would have the gift. Trust is an essential part of giving; in fact, it is the part that makes sharing possible, the part that guarantees the giver will not lose, but only gain. Who gives a gift and then remains with it, to be sure it is used as the giver deems appropriate? Such is not giving but imprisoning.

It is the relinquishing of all concern about the gift that makes it truly given. And it is trust that makes true giving possible. Gifts/Healing is the change of mind that the Holy Spirit in the patient's mind is seeking for him. And it is the Holy Spirit in the mind of the giver Who gives the gift to him. How can it be lost? How can it be ineffectual? How can it be wasted? God's treasure house can never be empty. And if one gift is missing, it would not be full. Yet is its fullness guaranteed by God. at concern, then, can a teacher of God have about what becomes of his gifts? Given by God to God, who in this holy exchange can receive less than everything?

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