The Gifts of Fatherhood

Chapter 11 – 2 – The Gifts of Fatherhood
 
You have learned your need of healing. Would you bring anything else to
the Sonship, recognizing your need of healing for yourself? For in this lies
the beginning of the return to knowledge; the foundation on which God will
help build again the thought system you share with him. Not one stone you
place upon it but will be blessed by him, for you will be restoring the holy
dwelling place of his son, where he wills his son to be and where he is. In
whatever part of the mind of God’s Son you restore this reality, you restore
it to yourself. You dwell in the Mind of God with your brother, for God
himself did not will to be alone.
 
To be alone is to be separated from infinity, but how can this be if infinity
has no end? No one can be beyond the limitless, because what has no limits
must be everywhere. There are no beginnings and no endings in God, whose
universe is himself. Can you exclude yourself from the universe, or from
God Who is the universe? I and my Father are one with you, for you are
part of Us. Do you really believe that part of God can be missing or lost to
him?
 
If you were not part of God, his will would not be unified. Is this
conceivable? Can part of his mind contain nothing? If your place in his
mind cannot be filled by anyone except you, and your filling it was your
creation, without you there would be an empty place in God’s Mind.
 
Extension cannot be blocked, and it has no voids. It continues forever,
however much it is denied. Your denial of its reality may arrest it in time,
but not in eternity. That is why your creations have not ceased to be
extended, and why so much is waiting for your return.
 
Waiting is possible only in time, but time has no meaning. You who made
delay can leave time behind simply by recognizing that neither beginnings
nor endings were created by the Eternal, Who placed no limits on his
creation or upon those who create like him. You do not know this simply
because you have tried to limit what he created, and so you believe that all
creation is limited. How, then, could you know your creations, having
denied infinity?
 
The laws of the universe do not permit contradiction. What holds for God
holds for you. If you believe you are absent from God, you will believe that
he is absent from you. Infinity is meaningless without you, and you are
meaningless without God. There is no end to God and his son, for we are
the universe. God is not incomplete, and he is not childless. Because he did
not will to be alone, he created a Son like himself. Do not deny him his Son,
for your unwillingness to accept his fatherhood has denied you yours. See
his creations as his Son, for yours were created in honor of him. The
universe of love does not stop because you do not see it, nor have your
closed eyes lost the ability to see. Look upon the glory of his creation, and
you will learn what God has kept for you.
 
God has given you a place in his mind that is yours forever. Yet you can
keep it only by giving it, as it was given you. Could you be alone there,
when it was given you because God did not will to be alone? God’s Mind
cannot be lessened. It can only be increased, for everything he creates has
the function of creating. Love does not limit, and what it creates is not
limited. To give without limit is God’s Will for you, because only this can
bring you the joy that is his and that he wills to share with you. Your love is
as boundless as his because it is his.
 
Could any part of God be without his love, and could any part of his love be
contained? God is your heritage, because his one gift is himself. How can
you give except like him if you would know his gift to you? Give, then,
without limit and without end, to learn how much he has given you. Your
ability to accept him depends on your willingness to give as he gives. Your
fatherhood and your Father are One. God wills to create, and your will is
his. It follows, then, that you will to create, since your will follows from his.
 
And being an extension of his will, yours must be the same.
 
Yet what you will you do not know. This is not strange when you realize
that to deny is to “not know. “God’s will is that you are his Son. By denying
this you deny your own will, and therefore do not know what it is. You
must ask what God’s Will is in everything, because it is yours. You do not
know what it is, but the Holy Spirit remembers it for you. Ask him,
therefore, what God’s will is for you, and he will tell you yours. It cannot be
too often repeated that you do not know it. Whenever what the Holy Spirit
tells you appears to be coercive, it is only because you have not recognized
your will.
 
The projection of the ego makes it appear as if God’s Will is outside
yourself, and therefore not yours. In this interpretation it seems possible for
God’s Will and yours to conflict. God, then, may seem to demand of you
what you do not want to give, and thus deprive you of what you want.
 
Would God, Who wants only your will, be capable of this? Your will is his
life, which he has given to you. Even in time you cannot live apart from
him. Sleep is not death. What he created can sleep, but cannot die.
Immortality is his will for his Son, and his Son’s will for himself. God’s Son
cannot will death for himself because his Father is life, and his Son is like
him. Creation is your will because it is his.
 
You cannot be happy unless you do what you will truly, and you cannot
change this because it is immutable. It is immutable by God’s Will and
yours, for otherwise his will would not be extended. You are afraid to know
God’s Will, because you believe it is not yours. This belief is your whole
sickness and your whole fear. Every symptom of sickness and fear arises
here, because this is the belief that makes you want not to know. Believing
this you hide in darkness, denying that the light is in you.
 
You are asked to trust the Holy Spirit only because he speaks for you. he is
the Voice for God, but never forget that God did not will to be alone. He
shares his will with you; he does not thrust it upon you. Always remember
that what he gives he keeps, so that nothing he gives can contradict him.
 
You who share his life must share it to know it, for sharing is knowing.
 
Blessed are you who learn that to hear the Will of your Father is to know
your own. For it is your will to be like him, whose will it is that it be so.
 
God’s Will is that his Son be one, and united with him in his oneness. That
is why healing is the beginning of the recognition that your will is his.