God is My Inheritance

"The Thought of God created You. It left You not, nor have You ever been apart from it an instant. It belongs to You. By it you Live. It is your Source of Life, holding You One with it, and everything is One with You because it left You not. The Thought of God protects You, cares for You, makes soft Your resting place and smooth Your way, lighting Your mind with happiness and Love. Deny not Heaven. It is yours today, but for the asking." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook 165, 2:1-6, 4:1-2

"What makes this world seem real except your own denial of the Truth that lies beyond? What but your thoughts of misery and death obscure the perfect happiness and the eternal life your Father wills for you? And what could hide what cannot be concealed but illusion? What could keep from you what you already have except your choice to see it not, denying it is there? Your mind has come to lay aside denial, and accept the Thought of God as your inheritance." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook 165, 1:1-4, 5:6

We all accept and take pride in our heritage. Even when we come from the humblest of earthly origins, we are fascinated with our ancestors, who they were and how they lived, as if somehow that gives meaning to us, that we can figure out what we have inherited from them. And now with DNA testing, we are eager to explore whether we share dysfunctional tendencies for disease. But really, what's the difference if we're looking for admirable qualities or dysfunctional ones? It's all a mockery of our true heritage.

The fact that we are not who we think we are, not bodies that come from the earth and return to it, is central to Awakening. And it's a sticking point for most of us. Who am I? Who are my parents? Where did I go to school? What are my personal habits? What are my spiritual beliefs? These are the types of things people want to know about us when getting to know us... and we do the same with them. But none of this matters, none of it has anything to do with my reality, or yours. Jeshua ben Joseph could walk among total strangers from vastly different socioeconomic and religious groups without differentiating. To Him, all were Perfect Ideas in the Mind of God, longing to Remember their true Inheritance. End of story.

God is my true heritage, my True Inheritance. I am as God created me, and have not left the Mind of God. In Him I live and move and have my Being. As do You.

"Would God consent to let His Son remain forever starved by his denial of the nourishment he needs to live? Abundance dwells in him, and deprivation cannot cut him off from God's sustaining Love and from his Home." -- A Course in Miracles; Workbook 165, 6:5-6