The Father's Love pp 126
The Father's Love message is shorter than what was printed in the 1982 book, The Gifts of God. The difference is explained in the Absence from Felicity biography. As this message is applied, we approach the top of the ladder of prayer just this side of Heaven. The text below is what Jesus dictated and Helen scribed on 4/11/78:
“There is a secret place in everyone in which God's gifts are laid, and his to Him. It is not secret to the eyes of Christ Who sees it plainly and unceasingly. Yet it is hidden to the body's eyes, and to those still invested in the world and caring for the petty gifts it gives, esteeming them and thinking they are real. Illusions' gifts will hide the secret place where God is clear as day, and Christ with Him. O let this not be secret to the world so full of sorrow so wracked with pain. You could relieve its grief and pain, and let the peace of God envelop it as does a mother rock a tired child until it sighs and slips away to rest.
Rest could be yours because of what God is. He loves you as a mother loves her child; her only one, the only love she has, her all-in-all, extension of herself, as much a part of her as breath herself. He loves you as a brother loves his own; born of one father, still as one in him, and bonded with a seal that cannot break. He loves you as a lover loves his own; his chosen one, his joy, his very life, the one he seeks when she has gone away, and brings him peace again on her return. He loves you as a father loves his son, without whom would his self be incomplete, whose immortality completes his own, for in him is the chain of love complete- a golden circle that will never end, a song that will be sung throughout all time and after-wards, and always will remain the deathless sound of loving and of love.
O be at peace, beloved of the Lord! What is your life but gratitude to Him Who loves you with an everlasting Love? What is your purpose here but to recall into His loving Arms the Son He loves, who has forgotten Who his Father is? What is your only goal, your only hope, your only need, the only thing you want, but to allow the secret place of peace to burst upon the world in all its joy, and let the Voice within it speak of Him whose love shines out and in and in- between, through all the darkened places, to embrace all living things within its golden peace?”
“You are my Son, and I do not forget the secret place in which I still abide, knowing you will remember. Come, My Son, open your heart and let me shine on you, and on the world through you. You are My light and dwelling place. You speak for me to those who have forgotten. Call them now to Me My Son, remember now for all the world. I call in love, as you will answer me, for this the only language that we know. Remember love, so near you cannot fail to touch its heart because it beats in you.
Do not forget. Do not forget, My child. Open the door before the hidden place, and let me blaze upon a world made glad in sudden ecstasy. I come, I come. Behold Me. I am here for I am You; in Christ, for Christ, My Own beloved Son, the glory of the infinite, the joy of Heaven and the holy peace of earth, returned to Christ and from His hand to Me. Say now Amen, My Son, for it is done. The secret place is now open at last. Forget all things except My changeless love. Forget all things except that I am here.”
The last page of The Song of Prayer is as if God said:
“The universe is waiting your release because it is its own. Be kind to it and to yourself, and then be kind to Me. I ask but this; that you be comforted and live no more in terror and in pain. Do not abandon Love. “
Here we are encouraged to embrace our Loving nature and allow it to reflect in the illusion. Nestled within The Father's Love message is the mighty force of communion. In the last two paragraphs of The Father's Love, Jesus uses metaphor, as the Father knows us only in truth not in illusion. Speaking “as God” gives greater emphasis.
The last two sentences point to another mighty force, the little fish. Centuries ago Jesus spoke to his disciples about “The Wise Fisherman”, Saying #8 in the Gospel of Thomas. Jesus sometimes spoke in a cloaked way so that a Roman Centurion listening nearby might not report him as a rabble rouser (well at least that worked for awhile):
“A wise fisherman cast his net into the sea.
When he drew it up it was full of little fish.
Among them he discovered a large, fine fish.
He threw all the little fish back into the sea, and he chose the large fish.
Anyone here with two good ears should listen."
This saying is not about Tilapia in the Sea of Galilee. Jesus explains what happens when we are self-aware, observant of the ebb and flow of our thoughts. Every thought is born of love or born of something else e. g. fear, guilt, anger. These something else thoughts are deceptive and will lead us astray, away from peace. When we observe the flow of our thoughts for a while we may see an abundance of thoughts of the "something else" variety .... these are like the little fish. Amidst these will be a true thought, one whose genesis is Love, a gift from the Mind of God ... this is the large, fine fish.
To toss all the little fish back means we only need the God thoughts, we can ignore all the other thoughts, just toss them away. In the last two sentences of The Father's Love message Jesus mentions two large, fine fish:
What once was best taught by parable is now more overt. The messages of love are a way our process of forgetting gradually but surely happens. The little fish mighty force is part of that process.
Application: Communion
