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CH 15 "THE PURPOSE OF TIME"
IV. LITTLENESS VERSUS MAGNITUDE
 

You who have sought and found littleness, remember this: Every decision which you make stems from what you think you are and represents the value that you put upon yourself. Believe the little can content you, and by limiting yourself, you will not be satisfied. For your function is not little, and it is only by finding your function and fulfilling it that you can escape from littleness. 


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 L e s s o n 166
I am entrusted with the gifts of God.     

 
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   All things are given you. God's trust in you

   is limitless. He knows His Son. He gives

   without exception, holding nothing back

   that can contribute to your happiness.

   And yet, unless your will is one with His,

   His gifts are not received. But what would make

   you think there is another will than His?

  

   Here is the paradox that underlies

   the making of the world. This world is not

   the Will of God, and so it is not real.

   Yet those who think it real must still believe

   there is another will, and one which leads

   to opposite effects from those He wills.

   Impossible, indeed; but every mind

   which looks upon the world and judges it

   as certain, solid, trustworthy and true

   believes in two creators, or in one,

   himself alone. But never in One God.

 

   The gifts of God are not acceptable

   to anyone who holds such strange beliefs.

   He must believe that to accept God's gifts,

   however evident they may become,

   however urgently he may be called

   to claim them as his own, is being pressed

   to treachery against himself. He must

   deny their presence, contradict the truth,

   and suffer to preserve the world he made.

 

   Here is the only home he thinks be knows.

   Here is the only safety he believes

   that he can find. Without the world he made

   is he an outcast, homeless and afraid.

   He does not realize that it is here

   he is afraid indeed, and homeless too;

   an outcast wandering so far from home,

   so long away, he does not realize

   he has forgotten where he came from, where

   he goes, and even who he really is.

 

   Yet in his lonely, senseless wanderings

   God's gifts go with him, all unknown to him.

   He cannot lose them. But he will not look

   on what is given him. He wanders on,

   aware of the futility he sees

   about him everywhere, perceiving how

   his little lot but dwindles as he goes

   ahead to nowhere. Still he wanders on

   in misery and poverty, alone

   though God is with him, and a treasure his

   so great that everything the world contains

   is valueless before its magnitude.

 

   He seems a sorry figure, weary, worn,

   in threadbare clothing, and with feet that bleed

   a little from the rocky road he walks.

   No-one but has identified with him,

   for everyone who comes here has pursued

   the path he follows, and has felt defeat

   and hopelessness as he is feeling them.

   Yet is he really tragic when you see

   that he is following the way he chose,

   and need but realize Who walks with him

   and open up his treasures to be free?

 

   This is your chosen self, the one you made

   as a replacement for reality.

   This is the self you savagely defend

   against all reason, every evidence,

   and all the witnesses with proof to show

   this is not you. You heed them not. You go

   on your appointed way, with eyes cast down

   lest you might catch a glimpse of truth and be

   released from self-deception and set free.

 

   You cower fearfully lest you should feel

   Christ's touch upon your shoulder, and perceive

   His gentle hand directing you to look

   upon your gifts. How could you then proclaim

   your poverty and exile? He would make

   you laugh at this perception of yourself.

   Where is self-pity then? And what becomes

   of all the tragedy you sought to make

   for him whom God intended only joy?

 

   Your ancient fear has come upon you now,

   and justice has caught up with you at last.

   Christ's hand has touched your shoulder, and you feel

   that you are not alone. You even think

   the miserable self you thought was you

   may not be your identity. Perhaps

   God's Word is truer than your own. Perhaps

   His gifts to you are real. Perhaps He has

   not wholly been outwitted by your plan

   to keep His Son in deep oblivion,

   and go the way you chose without your Self.

 

   God's Will does not oppose. It merely is.

   It was not God you have imprisoned in

   your plan to lose your Self. He does not know

   about a plan so alien to His Will.

   There was a need He did not understand,

   to which He gave an Answer. That is all.

   And you who have this Answer given you

   have need no more of anything but this.

 

   Now do we live, for now we cannot die.

   The wish for death is answered, and the sight

   which looked upon it now has been replaced

   by vision which perceives that you are not

   what you pretend to be. One walks with you

   Who gently answers all your fears with this

   one merciful reply, "It is not so."

   He points to all the gifts you have each time

   the thought of poverty oppresses you,

   and speaks of His Companionship when you

   perceive yourself as lonely and afraid.

 

   Yet He reminds you still of one thing more

   you had forgotten. For His touch on you

   has made you like Himself. The gifts you have

   are not for you alone. What He has come

   to offer you, you now must learn to give.

   This is the lesson which His giving holds,

   for He has saved you from the solitude

   you sought to make in which to hide from God.

   He has reminded you of all the gifts

   that God has given you. He speaks as well

   of what becomes your will when you accept

   these gifts and recognize they are your own.

 

   The gifts are yours, entrusted to your care

   to give to all who chose the lonely road

   you have escaped. They do not understand

   they but pursue their wishes. It is you

   who teach them now. For you have learned of Christ

   there is another way for them to walk.

   Teach them by showing them the happiness

   that comes to those who feel the touch of Christ

   and recognize God's gifts. Let sorrow not

   tempt you to be unfaithful to your trust.

 

   Your sighs will now betray the hopes of those

   who look to you for their release. Your tears

   are theirs. If you are sick you but withhold

   their healing. What you fear but teaches them

   their fears are justified. Your hand becomes

   the giver of Christ's touch; your change of mind

   becomes the proof that who accepts God's gifts

   can never suffer anything. You are

   entrusted with the world's release from pain.

  

   Betray it not. Become the living proof

   of what Christ's touch can offer everyone.

   God has entrusted all His gifts to you.

   Be witness by your happiness to how

   transformed the mind becomes which chooses to

   accept His gifts, and feel the touch of Christ.

   Such is your mission now. And God entrusts

   the giving of God's gifts to all who have

   received them. He has shared His joy with you.

   And now you go to share it with the world.

 

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LESSON 166
I am entrusted with the gifts of God.
      
Sarah's Commentary:

This Lesson has a wonderful way of carrying the image like a story. It is a rather sad story of how we have chosen to be outcasts, far from home, homeless and afraid, but we don't remember that we made this choice. We try desperately to make this faraway domicile as comfortable as possible. Like a homeless person, we make the best of our circumstances.  We go nowhere, feeling very alone. Perhaps you don't identify with this picture, yet this Lesson says, "everyone who comes here [to this world] has pursued the path he follows, and has felt defeat and hopelessness..." (W.166.6.2) When we are tempted to feel victimized by our situation, Jesus reminds us that we are the ones who made the choice for our situation. "Yet is he really tragic, when you see that he is following the way he chose, and need but realize Who walks with him and open up his treasures to be free?" (W.166.6.3) Why would we continue to choose this when we now have an opportunity to choose abundance and happiness instead? "All things are given you. God's trust in you is limitless.  He knows His Son.  He gives without exception, holding nothing back that can contribute to your happiness." (W.166.1.1-4) If we can choose God's gifts at any time we want, can we be tragic figures or are we just mistaken?
 
The irony of it all is that while we are wandering alone, miserable, sad, and seemingly without a home for safety and support, God's gifts of infinite value go with us. We are never alone for God is always there with us. If this is our life, why are we denying His ever-present gifts? Because, Jesus says, as long as we have allegiance to our will and what we have made of ourselves and the world, we will reject God's gifts. "He must deny their presence, contradict the truth, and suffer to preserve the world he made." (W.166.3.3) Thus, we are hanging onto our specialness, uniqueness, individuality, and the world and making ourselves miserable in the process, while refusing to look at what God has given us. (W.166.5.3) This treasure is "so great that everything the world contains is valueless before its magnitude." (W.166.5.5) While we are refusing to look at this treasure, we continue in our sorry state. We may not like what we have made, but it is of our making, and thus we are committed to it, although we can change our minds. We can make another decision. Our condition of seeming homelessness is simply a denial of the truth of what we have and what we are.
 
I recently visited with friends who are coming to the end of their careers and are very frightened by the prospect of what to do with their lives. They are casting about for options of how to spend their time and how to find meaning. The options seem limited to volunteering, traveling, getting future contracts for more work, or entertaining themselves with various pastimes. Their perspective is one of killing time. To me it seemed sad. While there is nothing wrong with any of these activities, there is no joy in them if they simply serve as a distraction. It is not what we are doing in the world that is not important, but what is in our minds, and whether what we are doing is undertaken with the ego as our guide or with the Holy Spirit.

Are we devoted to seeking for happiness in the world, which is what the ego counsels, or to awakening from this dream? In other words, do we look at everything with the ego as the teacher, or do we choose the Holy Spirit to reinterpret everything for us? The question is, "What is the purpose of what we choose to do?" As Jesus counsels us, "In all these diversionary tactics, however, the one question that is never asked by those who pursue them is, 'What for?'" (T.4.V.6.7)(ACIM OE T.4.VI.77) Jesus shows us the way out of this futile cycle, where the purpose for the ego is to keep us rooted in the illusory world, constantly looking for our peace and happiness where it is not.  
 
Why do we continue to choose to be these tragic figures instead of accepting the gifts that await us? Why not laugh at this foolishness? Is there something noble in victimhood? Is there something special about us if we can suffer what we think others can't withstand? Understand this is not conscious, although we need to consider this question carefully. When we hold this perception of ourselves and take it seriously, we are not seeing the absurdity of it all. "He would make you laugh at this perception of yourself." (W.166.8.3) While we live a tragic story, a sad story, a story of heartbreak, God only wants joy for us. Yet we fear His touch. (W.166.8.1) If we accept the truth about ourselves, we can no longer claim our victimhood. Thus, His Presence is a great threat to us, which is why we resist it. We still want to be authors of our own lives. It seems, as Milton wrote, we would rather rule in hell than serve in Heaven.
  
Can this be true about us? This Lesson tells us our misery and poverty, in a spiritual sense, is worth it if we could be the authors of it ourselves. We indulge in our misery, believing no one can understand us as we feel sorry for ourselves. If we could step back and laugh at the silliness of this notion, then Jesus wonders, "Where is self pity then?" (W.166.8.4) We are the dreamers of this dream. We can choose to examine our decision to stay in misery. However, this does not seem to be a decision we make when we forget that our minds, not the world, are the cause. That is why we savagely defend our situation when we see the cause outside of our own minds. It is how we maintain the independent, separate self. Indulging in self-pity points the responsibility outside of ourselves.
 
It is difficult to accept that we are choosing our own victimhood. Initially, we will probably feel attacked and get defensive at the suggestion that we are choosing to be victims. We get extremely defensive at the idea that the circumstances of our lives are not inflicted on us, but chosen by us. We seem to prefer to proclaim our condition as we see it because we are attached to our story, and thus we fear Christ's touch because that would change everything.

Our stories of victimhood are designed to make others responsible for our circumstances. This is because we prefer to see ourselves as innocent, while those who perpetrated our situation as we see it can then be punished by God for their "crimes" against us, and we can continue as their innocent victims.

"You cower fearfully lest you should feel Christ's touch upon your shoulder, and perceive His gentle hand directing you to look upon your gifts. How could you then proclaim your poverty in exile?" (W.166.8.1-2) How indeed? We would then have to see the insanity of our attachment to our will, and we could no longer hang onto the tragic story of our lives and wallow in self-pity in defiance of the gifts God has given us. The seeming rewards of victimhood trump God's gifts in our view. It is my will I want to hold onto in spite of what it is costing me. It truly is insanity.
 
The insanity of the ego really shows up for us in obvious ways when we are ready and willing to watch our thoughts. For every gift of God, the ego seeks to make a counterfeit form that is a 'substitute' gift yet is truly a trap. We trade off the gifts that God offers for what the ego offers instead, and these 'gifts' offer only pain. Until we see that no substitute for God's gifts can bring us what we seek, we will continue to look to the world for our happiness. It takes courage and willingness to take responsibility for our lives and everything that seems to happen to us. With it comes the realization that we have done all this to ourselves. We are the ones who chose this. And now Jesus asks that we look at the irony of our position, where we cry about our situation yet have deliberately chosen it. "He would make you laugh at this perception of yourself. Where is self-pity then? And what becomes of all the tragedy you sought to make for him whom God intended only joy?" (W.166.8.3-5) What I take from this is that one thing we might do more is laugh at the ego, which we can only do when we realize we are not really this character in the dream but actually the dreamer of the dream. It is all our script, and we have written the role for the characters in it whom we blame for our circumstances.
 
Can you see the possibility that perhaps "the miserable self you thought was you may not be your Identity? Perhaps God's Word is truer than your own." (W.166.9.3-4) Just maybe our plan for our lives is starting to fail and our foolishness is slowly, but surely, becoming more apparent to us. Just maybe we are not who we have thought we were. Just maybe, with Christ's hand touching our shoulder, we feel not quite so alone anymore and start to believe that maybe these gifts of God are real and His Word truer than our own. This puts us between worlds, where we start to see the possibility that we are not the poor, miserable, homeless guy. Now our sight is being replaced by vision "which perceives that you are not what you pretend to be." (W.166.11.2) We become aware that maybe our pain does not come from outside of us, but comes from our opposition to the truth of who we are.  "One walks with you Who gently answers all your fears with this one merciful reply, 'It is not so.'" (W.166.11.3) He is telling us that everything we think is not the truth.
 
After my husband died in 1993, I was experiencing what Jesus is talking about in this Lesson. I was feeling very alone, indulging myself in my story of victimhood, loss, and sadness. As I lay in bed, crying, feeling abandoned by love, a gentle voice within asked quietly, "How much longer do you need to cry?" It startled me because now I had a question in my mind that seemed to require an answer. The answer I gave this Voice was perhaps, "Ten minutes more,"  yet the absurdity of it all made me smile and I simply could no longer feel sorry for myself. It was a recognition that I could make a choice in that moment to believe the ego version of events or see that there was perhaps another way of seeing this situation. And as the thoughts of sadness and suffering emerged, with each one I heard the response, "It is not so." I could either choose to believe my own thoughts about this situation, or trust Jesus that my thoughts were wrong.

It is just such a reassuring Presence that is always available to us. We no longer need to continue on this aimless wandering and this feeling of aloneness. We can call on His strength in every turmoil, every uncertainty and know that He will always answer.

Having been entrusted with the gifts, we are now called to extend them to our brothers, so that we could be the one to tap them on the shoulder, as Christ has touched ours. We could show them there is another way than the way they are going, since we have been down those same roads and have learned they lead nowhere, but to death. "For you have learned of Christ there is another way for them to walk." (W.166.13.4) Yet how do we do this? He says, "Teach them by showing them the happiness that comes to those who feel the touch of Christ, and recognize God's gifts." (W.166.13.5) In other words, we show them by example of the choice we have made for ourselves.
 
"Your sighs will now betray the hopes of those who look to you for their release. Your tears are theirs." (W.166.14.1-2) And when we change our minds "Your hand becomes the giver of Christ's touch; your change of mind becomes the proof that who accepts God's gifts can never suffer anything. You are entrusted with the world's release from pain." (W.166.14.5-6) It is all about choice. Last night I was feeling like a martyr and doing a lot of sighing about my lot as I took on a job for Don, who was struggling to meet his obligations to a volunteer organization. I quickly realized how I was exemplifying victimhood and was doing exactly what this lesson says, by showing him he had the power to make me suffer. I had to laugh at my foolishness. Watching my thoughts helped me realize that the choices I make in every moment either open me to God's gifts or cast me back in the self-made role of the homeless person all by my own decision.
 
Each time we choose to forgive and feel the peace, we extend this to others who don't understand that their suffering is coming from their own choice. Our choice  requires that we notice the game we are playing and stay vigilant in watching our thoughts.

We demonstrate another way of being in the world by not being of it. We increasingly recognize that it is no longer the circumstances of our lives that bring us sorrow, but only the interpretations that we give to these situations. Jesus says we can't, in fact, tell our advances from our retreats. This reminds me of a wonderful movie called "The Ultimate Gift." It clearly demonstrates this truth. Now we are being called to become a living demonstration of His love, seeing our interests as the same as that of every brother. Our shared reality is outside of this dream. Our reality is one.

In our morning and evening practice, we give five minutes, minimum, and up to thirty or more, and spend the time bringing our attention to our thoughts, our fears, our investments in our ego-self, and hearing the response from God that "It is not so." (T.14.II.5.8)(ACIM OE T.13.VII.60) Jesus pleads with us not to choose what the ego has to offer over the gifts of the Holy Spirit. He means that we have to let go of what we are holding onto so tightly. He means that we have to admit we are wrong about the way we are seeing and interpreting everything. Jesus reminds us that the meaning we give to everything is not the truth. What we are experiencing is what we have chosen. It is our dream.
 
We remember today that our interests are not separate from those of our brothers. We are one. What I do to you I am doing to myself. My happiness cannot be bought at your expense. And today, I am thankful that Christ's touch is on my shoulder, and that this is not my home.
 
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Chapter Fifteen

IV. Littleness versus Magnitude                  

22 Be not content with littleness, but be sure you understand what littleness is and why you could never be content with it. Littleness is the offering you gave yourself. You offered this in place of magnitude, and you accepted it. Everything in this world is little because it is a world made out of littleness in the strange belief that littleness can content you. When you strive for anything in this world with the belief that it will bring you peace, you are belittling yourself and blinding yourself to glory. Littleness and glory are the choices open to your striving and your vigilance. You will always choose one at the expense of the other.

 

23 Yet what you do not realize each time you choose is that your choice is your evaluation of yourself. Choose littleness and you will not have peace, for you will have judged yourself unworthy of it. And whatever you offer as a substitute is much too poor a gift to satisfy you. It is essential that you accept the fact, and accept it gladly, that there is no form of littleness that can ever content you. You are free to try as many as you wish, but all you will be doing is to delay your homecoming. For you will be content only in magnitude, which is your home.

 

24 There is a deep responsibility you owe yourself, and one which you must learn to remember all the time. The lesson will seem hard at first, but you will learn to love it when you realize that it is true and constitutes a tribute to your power. You who have sought and found littleness, remember this: Every decision which you make stems from what you think you are and represents the value that you put upon yourself. Believe the little can content you, and by limiting yourself, you will not be satisfied. For your function is not little, and it is only by finding your function and fulfilling it that you can escape from littleness.

 

25 There is no doubt about what your function is, for the Holy Spirit knows what it is. There is no doubt about its magnitude, for it reaches you through Him from Magnitude. You do not have to strive for it because you have it. All your striving must be directed against littleness, for it does require vigilance to protect your magnitude in this world. To hold your magnitude in perfect awareness in a world of littleness is a task the little cannot undertake. Yet it is asked of you in tribute to your magnitude and not your littleness. Nor is it asked of you alone.

 

26 The power of God will support every effort you make on behalf of His dear Son. Search for the little, and you deny yourself His power. God is not willing that His Son be content with less than everything. For He is not content without His Son, and His Son cannot be content with less than His Father has given him. We asked you once before, "Would you be hostage to the ego or host to God?" Let this question be asked you by the Holy Spirit in you every time you make a decision. For every decision you make does answer this and invites sorrow or joy accordingly.

 

27 When God gave Himself to you in your creation, He established you as host to Him forever. He has not left you, and you have not left Him. All your attempts to deny His magnitude and make His Son hostage to the ego cannot make little whom God has joined with Him. Every decision you make is for Heaven or for hell and will bring you awareness of what you decided for. The Holy Spirit can hold your magnitude, clean of all littleness, clearly and in perfect safety in your minds, untouched by every little gift the world of littleness would offer you. But for this, you cannot side against Him in what He wills for you.

 

28 Decide for God through Him. For littleness and the belief that you can be content with littleness are the decisions you have made about yourself. The power and the glory that lie in you from God are for all who, like you, perceive themselves as little and have deceived themselves into believing that littleness can be blown up by them into a sense of magnitude that can content them. Neither give littleness, nor accept it. All honor is due the host of God. Your littleness deceives you, but your magnitude is of Him Who dwells in you and in Whom you dwell. Touch no one, then, with littleness, in the name of Christ, eternal Host unto His Father.

 

29 In this season (Christmas), which celebrates the birth of holiness into this world, join with me, who decided for holiness for you. It is our task together to restore the awareness of magnitude to the host whom God appointed for Himself. It is beyond all your littleness to give the gift of God, but not beyond you. For God would give Himself through you. He reaches from you to everyone and beyond everyone to His Son's creations, but without leaving you. Far beyond your little world but still in you, He extends forever. Yet He brings all his extensions to you as host to Him.

 

30 Is it a sacrifice to leave littleness behind and wander not in vain? It is not sacrifice to wake to glory. But it is a sacrifice to accept anything less than glory. Learn that you must be worthy of the Prince of Peace, born in you in honor of Him Whose host you are. You know not what love means because you have sought to purchase it with little gifts, thus valuing it too little to be able to understand its magnitude. Love is not little, and love dwells in you, for you are host to Him. Before the greatness that lives in you, your poor appreciation of yourself and all the little offerings you have given slip into nothingness. Holy Child of God, when will you learn that only holiness can content you and give you peace?

 

31 Remember that you learn not for yourself alone, no more than I did. It is because I learned for you that you can learn of me. I would but teach you what is yours, so that together we can replace the shabby littleness that binds the host of God to guilt and weakness with the glad awareness of the glory that is in him. My birth in you is your awakening to grandeur. Welcome me not into a manger but into the altar to holiness, where holiness abides in perfect peace. My Kingdom is not of this world because it is in you. And you are of your Father. Let us join in honoring you, who must remain forever beyond littleness.

 

32 Decide with me, who have decided to abide with you. I will as my Father wills, knowing His Will is constant and at peace forever with Itself. You will be content with nothing but His Will. Accept no less, remembering that everything I learned is yours. What my Father loves, I love as He does, and I can no more accept it as what it is not than He can. And no more can you. When you have learned to accept what you are, you will make no more gifts to offer to yourselves, for you will know you are complete, in need of nothing, and unable to accept anything for yourself. But you will gladly give, having received. The host of God need not seek to find anything.

 

33 If you are wholly willing to leave salvation to the plan of God and unwilling to attempt to grasp for peace yourself, salvation will be given you. Yet think not you can substitute your plan for His. Rather, join with me in His that we may release all those who would be bound, proclaiming together that the Son of God is host to Him. Thus will we let no one forget what you would remember. And thus will you remember it.

 

34 Call forth in everyone only the remembrance of God and of the Heaven that is in him. For where you would help your brother be, there will you think you are. Hear not his call for hell and littleness, but only his call for Heaven and greatness. Forget not that his call is yours, and answer him with me. God's power is forever on the side of His host, for it protects only the peace in which He dwells. Lay not littleness before His holy altar, which rises above the stars and reaches even to Heaven because of what is given it.  

 

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