Re: The First in Eternity is God the Father

Miracles Are Seen In Light wrote:

> > "The first in time means nothing, but the First in eternity is God the
> > Father, Who is both First and One.  Beyond the First there is no other,
> > for there is no order, no second or third, and nothing but the First."
> > 
> > "You who belong to the First Cause, created by him like unto himself and
> > part of him, are more than merely guiltless.  The state of guiltlessness
> > is only the condition in which what is not there has been removed from
> > the disordered mind that thought it was.  This state, and only this,
> > must you attain, with God beside you.  For until you do, you will still
> > think that you are separate from him."
> > 
> > "When you have let all that obscured the truth in your most holy mind be
> > undone for you, and therefore stand in grace before your Father, he will
> > give himself to you as he has always done.  Giving himself is all he
> > knows, and so it is all knowledge.  For what he knows not cannot be, and
> > therefore cannot be given.  Ask not to be forgiven, for this has already
> > been accomplished.  Ask, rather, to learn how to forgive, and to restore
> > what always was to your unforgiving mind.  Atonement becomes real and
> > visible to those who use it.  On earth this is your only function, and
> > you must learn that it is all you want to learn."
> > 
> > "You need not understand creation to do what must be done before that
> > knowledge would be meaningful to you.  God breaks no barriers; neither
> > did he make them.  When you release them they are gone.  God will not
> > fail, nor ever has in anything.  Decide that God is right and you are
> > wrong about yourself.  He created you out of himself, but still within
> > him.  He knows what you are.  Remember that there is no second to him.
> > There cannot, therefore, be anyone without his holiness, nor anyone
> > unworthy of his perfect love.  Fail not in your function of loving in a
> > loveless place made out of darkness and deceit, for thus are darkness
> > and deceit undone.  Fail not yourself, but instead offer to God and you
> > his blameless Son.  For this small gift of appreciation for his love,
> > God will himself exchange your gift for his."
> > 
> > 
> > "Before you make any decisions for yourself, remember that you have
> > decided against your function in Heaven, and then consider carefully
> > whether you want to make decisions here.  Your function here is only to
> > decide against deciding what you want, in recognition that you do not
> > know.  How, then, can you decide what you should do?  Leave all
> > decisions to the One Who speaks for God, and for your function as he
> > knows it.  So will he teach you to remove the awful burden you have laid
> > upon yourself by loving not the Son of God, and trying to teach him
> > guilt instead of love.  Give up this frantic and insane attempt that
> > cheats you of the joy of living with your God and Father, and of waking
> > gladly to his love and holiness that join together as the truth in you,
> > making you one with him."
> > 
> > "Unless you are guiltless you cannot know God, Whose Will is that you
> > know him.  Therefore, you must be guiltless.  Yet if you do not accept
> > the necessary conditions for knowing him, you have denied him and do not
> > recognize him, though he is all around you.  He cannot be known without
> > his Son, whose guiltlessness is the condition for knowing him. Accepting
> > his Son as guilty is denial of the Father so complete, that knowledge is
> > swept away from recognition in the very mind where God himself has
> > placed it.  If you would but listen, and learn how impossible this is!
> > Do not endow him with attributes you understand.  You made him not, and
> > anything you understand is not of him."
> > 
> > "Your task is not to make reality.  It is here without your making, but
> > not without you. You who have tried to throw yourself away and valued
> > God so little, hear me speak for him and for yourself.  You cannot
> > understand how much your Father loves you, for there is no parallel in
> > your experience of the world to help you understand it.  There is
> > nothing on earth with which it can compare, and nothing you have ever
> > felt apart from him resembles it ever so faintly.  Would you know of One
> > Who gives forever, and Who knows of nothing except giving?"
> > 
> > - A Course in Miracles, Chapter 14, Section 4 (5pdf)
> > "Teaching for Truth," "Your Function in the Atonement"
> > https://tinyurl.com/A-Course-In-Miracles-pdf
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May I suggest a nice Balsamic Vinaigrette?