In
early 1978 Jesus dictated messages of love for
the dying,
the sick, the sad, the lonely, the grieving, those racked with
pain,
each frightened voice that calls to God in whispered agony.
each frightened voice that calls to God in whispered agony.
The
messages of love are a healing focus of The
Song of Prayer. Because
God's Son can yet be more merciful on himself, these messages convey
the blessing of true healing to the minds of those who are ill or
near death.
The
Gifts of God “Poem”
How
five of the messages of love were published as a poem entitled The
Gifts of God is described in the Absence from Felicity
biography of Helen, in Chapters 14 and 15.
- These last messages of
love are published as
“a long blank verse poem in five sections printed in prose form”.
- Section five of the long
blank verse poem is
not as scribed.
- someone who read some of
the Text or is reading the Workbook or who read the Manual or
someone generally familiar with Course concepts and not offended
by less psychoanalytic detail and
- someone familiar with
the ladder of prayer and The Song of Prayer
The
same set of messages are as germane to death as they are to sickness
because, as explained in the The Picture of Crucifixion (Text
Chapter 27 section I paragraph 4)
Sickness
is but a “little” death;
a form of vengeance not yet total.
a form of vengeance not yet total.
Each
message of love is born of the content
of what salvation is. Illusions are let go, never supported. The poem
sections differ in form according to where each one lies along the
ladder of prayer and align with the ladder in this way
upper
rungs
Our
Gift to God
and The
Father's Love
rising
The
Ending of the Dream
ladder
search, bottom rung The
Dream of Fear, The Two Gifts
The
messages of love show us how living
the song of prayer strengthens our faith and holds us up as we
“ascend the shining stairway to the lawns of Heaven and the gate of
peace”.
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