Lesson 195 – Love Is the Path

"Love is the path I walk with gratitude"

This lesson from A Course in Miracles offers a powerful antidote to suffering: gratitude, when united with Love. But not just any gratitude, it is a gratitude that does not compare, exclude, or rest on the suffering of another.

The world has taught us to be thankful for "being better off than someone else," or "having more than others." But such comparative gratitude is false, born of separation, scarcity, and competition. The Course invites us to a different kind of gratitude, one that arises from recognizing our unity with all living beings, and that is offered sincerely to God, who has freed us from the illusion of pain and guilt.

The key lies in corrected vision. Only when we cease to see our brothers and sisters as rivals, as thieves of our peace, as obstacles to our happiness, can we genuinely give thanks. Love makes no comparisons, and where comparison ends, guilt, envy, and separation dissolve.

True gratitude can only bloom in the soil of spiritual equality.

Many still see gratitude as a consolation in the face of suffering. But in this lesson, we learn that it is not possible to be genuinely grateful while believing pain to be real or inevitable. God does not ask us to give thanks for suffering, but for the healing, for the path back to joy He offers, for the reminder that we are not alone, and that no one can be saved alone.

A deep and meditative summary of Lesson 195 – A Course in Miracles

Gratitude must extend to everyone, there can be no exceptions. I cannot be grateful for my own freedom while wishing for another’s imprisonment or punishment. I cannot find peace while denying someone else’s right to be free as well. This is why the path of Love can only be walked with a gratitude that is universal, sincere, inclusive, and humble.

God has given us everything. If we forget that, we start living in lack, fear, and resentment.

But if we remember that we were created as expressions of eternal Love, then there is no room for complaints, judgments, or self-pity. Every grievance, every outrage, every “injustice” dissolves in the simple truth: we have been loved from the beginning. This lesson teaches that Love is the way home, and that gratitude is the steady step that keeps us firmly on that path.

Gratitude does not depend on external circumstances, but on an inner decision:

• To stop comparing.

• To stop judging.

• To stop postponing peace.

When we let our tired brothers rest their heads upon our shoulders, something opens. An ancient door that once seemed closed cracks open gently. And a sacred remembrance rises again: we are not separate, never were. The voice of Love, long silenced, begins to whisper again within us.

It reminds us that complete forgiveness leads to total gratitude. And that, in the end, all will be recognized as Love—because all was born of Love.

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