 Welcome again, everyone. Welcome to A Course in Miracles Lessons Live. And today we have Workbook Lesson 123. I thank my father for his gifts to me. Today, let us be thankful. We have come to gentler pathways and to smooth the roads. There is no thought of turning back and no impeccable resistance to the truth. A bit of wavering remains, some small objections, and a little hesitance. But you can well be grateful for your gains, which are far greater than you realize. A day devoted now to gratitude will add the benefit of some insight into the real extent of all the gains which you have made, the gifts you have received. Be glad today in loving thankfulness. Your father has not left you to yourself, nor let you wander in the dark alone. Be grateful he has saved you from the self you thought you made to take the place of him and his creation. Give him thanks today. Give thanks that he has not abandoned you and that his love forever will remain shining on you. Forever without change. If thanks as well that you are changeless for the son he loves is changeless as himself. Be grateful you are saved. Be glad you have a function in salvation to fulfill. Be thankful that your value far transcends your meager gifts and petty judgments of the one whom God established as his son. Today, in gratitude, we lift our hearts above despair and raise our thankful eyes, no longer looking downward to the dust. We sing the song of thankfulness today in honor of the Christ self that God has willed to be our true identity in him. Today we smile on everyone we see and walk with light and footsteps as we go to do what is appointed us to do. We do not go alone. And we give thanks that in our solitude, a friend has come to speak the saving word of God to us. And thanks to you for listening to him. His word is soundless if it be not heard. In thanking him, the thanks are yours as well. An unheard message will not save the world. However mighty be the voice that speaks, however loving may the message be. Thanks be to you who heard for you become the messenger who brings his voice with you. And let's it echo round and round the world. Give the thanks of God today. As you give thanks to him. Or he would offer you the thanks you give since he receives your gifts in loving gratitude. And gives them back 1000 and 100,000 more than they were given. And you will bless your gifts by sharing them with you. And so they grow in power and in strength until they fill the world with gladness and with gratitude. Receive his thanks and offer yours to him for 15 minutes twice today. And you will realize to whom you offer thanks and whom he thinks as you are thanking him. This holy half an hour given him will be returned to you in terms of years for every second. Power to save the world eons more quickly for your thanks to him. Receive his thanks and you will understand how lovingly he holds you in his mind. How deep and limitless his care for you. How perfect is his gratitude to you. Remember hourly to think of him and give him thanks for everything he gave his son. That he might rise above the world remembering his father and his Christ self. So, wow, such a touching lesson this is today because it's basically saying that this is is a day devoted now to gratitude and and the gratitude. It just shines through us and in us and on us and around us. I always remember Jesus saying love cannot be far behind a grateful heart and a thankful mind. I love that it even rhymes. I feel like that is our, our salvation right there that when we express gratitude and we feel gratitude. Then we linked in and commune with our deep gratitude to our creator, which is beyond major beyond beyond words. I found myself this morning you know just feeling this unspeakable love in which the words are just hushed when we come into this deep deep love and gratitude when we are able to look around at everything and everyone we perceive and just feel a big thank you. I did a meditation this morning and Sava song thank you. The name of the song came on and just played and played that was the end of my meditation so it kind of the meditation ended in gratitude and then it just carries on throughout the day just this deep, deep, deep love. So, when you go on and you meet whoever you meet today or whoever you even think about today. Remember our lesson 123 I thank my father for his gifts to me, and just remember that we are showered with miracles and shared with gifts. Every single moment of every single day, and all we have to do is be open to be aware of them to see them to to share them to extend them to offer our blessing to every single person that we need that we think of all holy encounters as we go through the day. And this lesson comes on the heels of the two previous ones. Forgiveness is the key to happiness and yesterday, you know we realize forgiveness offers everything. Forgiveness offers everything to me. There is nothing else I need there is nothing else I could want the gift of forgiveness offers everything to me. Thank you. Be happy. Be well. Go shine your light and and feel the gratitude of love. God's love for us rolling swirling extending through our hearts. Love you.