God is only Love, therefore, that is what I am.
1. W-161 “Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.” I
God is only Love, therefore, that is what I am.
2. W-162 “I am as God created me.” II
God is only Love, therefore, that is what I am.
I Bless me, brother, as I bless you!
II I have always been holy and always will be. I do not know, nor can I be, anything else.
To ask for the blessing of the Son of God is not a devotional act nor an elegant way of speaking about forgiveness. It is an uncompromising acknowledgment: the other is the Christ, and if you do not see him as such, you are seeing yourself in a distorted way. Jesus is not proposing here that you strive to be loving, but that you surrender to the evidence of what is. If the other is holy, so are you. If he is not, neither are you. It is that simple.
This lesson dismantles the spiritual narcissism that seeks to forgive without seeing innocence. “Give me your blessing” means: I recognize that I cannot be saved without you, because there is no “I” apart from you. Unity is not a beautiful state; it is the condition of what is real. And if we deny it, even in a single thought, we exile ourselves from the remembrance of God.
The second idea, “I am as God created me,” is not a gentle reminder. It is an absolute correction. Any image of yourself that is not the perfect creation of God is a lie. And all suffering comes from having believed it. You do not have to change anything about yourself—only release what you invented. The ego takes offense at this, for it loses its narrative. But the right mind recognizes it: there is nothing to do, only something to stop upholding.
This lesson is a call to true vision. Not to see with tenderness, but with precision. Not to be compassionate, but faithful. For he who sees his brother as holy is remembering himself.