ARCIM

Daily Lesson 327 ~
November 23

I need only call and the Divine will answer me.

What is Creation?

 

I am asked only to accept awakening on the basis of my clear experience, not on an unsupported faith. For the Divine has promised It will hear my call, and answer me Itself. Let me just learn from my experience that this is true, and faith in my Creator must surely come to me.

This is the faith that will endure, and take me further and still further on the Road that leads me Home. For thus I will be sure that the Divine has always been faithful to me, and loves me still, only awaiting my invitation to give me all the Help I need to come to It.

 

Creator, I thank You that Your Promises will always prove true in my experience, if I just allow Them to be. Let me seek therefore simply to experience Them, and to judge Them not. Your Word of Truth and Love is One with You. You give the Means whereby Conviction comes, and Surety of Your abiding Presence is gained at last.

 

Corresponding Manual for Teachers Section

 

Chapter 2: Characteristics of the Teachers of the Divine

 

7. Generosity

The term “generosity” has unique meaning to the Teacher of the Divine, which isn’t the usual meaning of the word. In fact, it is a meaning that must be learned, and learned very carefully. Like all the other attributes of the Divine’s Teachers who have advanced in their own learning, this one rests ultimately on Trust, for without Trust no one can be generous in the true sense. To the world, generosity means “giving away” in the sense of “giving up.” To the Teachers of the Divine, it means “giving away” in order to keep.

This idea has been emphasized throughout this Course’s Text and Workbook for Students, but it is perhaps more alien to the thinking of the world than many other ideas in our curriculum. Its greater strangeness rests merely in the obviousness of its reversal of the world’s thinking. In the clearest way possible and at the simplest of levels, the word “generosity” means the exact opposite to the Teachers of the Divine and to the world.

The Teacher of the Divine is generous out of Self-interest. This does not, however, refer to the self that the world venerates. The Teachers of the Divine do not want anything they cannot give away because they realize it would be valueless to them by definition. What would they want it for? They could only lose because of it; they could not gain. Therefore they do not seek what only they could keep, because that would be a guarantee of loss. They don’t want to suffer. Why should they ensure themselves pain? But they do want to keep for themselves all Things that are of the Divine, and therefore for Its Children. These are the Things that belong to all. These they can give away in true generosity, protecting Them forever for themselves.