Chers Retreat of Tranquility

11/19/2025

11/15/2025

Cheryl Ann Cross

11/15/2025

Cheryl Ann Cross🙏🦋

WORKBOOK: Lesson #319: "I came for the salvation of the world."

This lesson teaches that our spiritual purpose extends far beyond our own personal growth or the well-being of those close to us. It challenges the ego’s tendency to limit our goals, affirming instead that God’s will—and therefore our true mission—is unlimited: the salvation of the entire world. Recognizing this universal calling isn’t arrogance but humility, as it reflects acceptance of God’s boundless love and our shared role in extending it to all beings.

11/12/2025

Cheryl Ann Cross🙏🦋

WORKBOOK: Lesson 316: "All gifts I give my brothers are my own."

This is one of the most oft-repeated ideas in the Course. It's easy to read this lesson as being about the importance of giving--and it is. But it's mainly about giving to others as the way to receive God's gifts to us. When the prayer says that we don't recognize God's gifts, but that He will provide the means to "behold them, see their worth, and cherish only them as what I want," the means being referred to is giving. Do we want God's gifts to us? Do we want to recognize that those gifts are already ours? Then we must spend our days giving to others.