A Course in Miracles Lesson 195 Love is the way I walk in gratitude.
Gratitude is a lesson hard to learn.
For those who look upon the world amiss,
The most that they can do is see themselves as better off than others.
They try to be content because another seems to suffer more than they do.
How pitiful and deprecating are such thoughts!
For who has cause for thanks while others have less cause?
And who could suffer less because they see another suffer more?
Our gratitude is due to God,
And gratitude can only be sincere if it be joined to love.
Say to yourself,
Repeat after me.
Love is the way I walk in gratitude.
Love is the way I walk in gratitude.
We offer thanks to God,
Our Father,
That in us all things will find their freedom.
Let your gratitude make room for all who will escape with you,
Those who are sick,
The weak,
The needy,
And afraid.
Make room for those who mourn a seeming loss,
For those who feel apparent pain.
Let your gratitude make room for those who suffer cold or hunger.
Let your gratitude make room for those who walk the way of hatred,
For those who tread the path of death.
All these go with you.
Let's not compare ourselves with them.
For in doing this,
We split them off from our awareness of the unity that we share with them,
From the unity they must share with us.
Say in your mind,
After me,
Love is the way I walk in gratitude.
Love is the way I walk in gratitude.
We thank our Father for one thing alone,
That we are separate from no living thing,
And therefore we are one with our Father.
We rejoice that no exceptions ever can be made,
Which would reduce our wholeness,
Nor impair or change our function,
Which is to complete God,
Who is himself completion.
We give thanks for every living thing,
Otherwise we offer thanks for nothing,
And we fail to recognize the gifts of God to us.
Then let our brothers and sisters lean their tired heads against our shoulders as they rest a while.
For thanks for them,
For if we can direct them to the peace that we would find,
The way is opening,
At last,
To us.
An ancient door is swinging free again.
A long-forgotten word re-echoes in our memory.
A long-forgotten word gathers clarity as we are willing once again to hear,
Love is the way I walk in gratitude.
Today we learn to think of gratitude in place of anger.
We learn to think of gratitude in place of malice and revenge.
We have been given everything,
Therefore if we refuse to recognize this,
We are not entitled to our bitterness.
We are not entitled to a self-perception which regards us to be in a place of merciless pursuit,
Where we are badgered ceaselessly,
Where we are pushed about without a thought or care for us or for our future.
Gratitude becomes the single thought we substitute for all of these insane perceptions.
Ponder on this.
Love is the way I walk in gratitude.
Love is the way I walk in gratitude.
God has cared for us and calls us his child.
Can there be more than this?
Our gratitude will pave the way to God.
Our gratitude will shorten our learning time by more than you could ever dream of.
Gratitude goes hand in hand with love.
Where gratitude is,
Love must be found.
Where love is,
Gratitude must be found.
Gratitude is but an aspect of the love which is the source of all creation.
God gives thanks to you,
His child,
For being what you are,
His own completion and the source of love along with him.
Your gratitude to God is one with his gratitude to you.
Love can walk no road except the way of gratitude.
In gratitude and with love we go.
We walk the way to God.
Love is the way I walk in gratitude.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
