When we believe we must give something to get something, we are thinking in terms of sacrifice. Some may think of it as an exchange or bartering, you give to get.
According to ACIM, and I believe this is truth, it is the belief in sacrifice. The ego believes it must sacrifice something of value to receive something else it values. We sacrifice our time, doing work to receive money, which we exchange or trade for goods and services, which we aquire and store or use, which we then need to work more to replenish.
The ritual of sacrifice isn't just religious, we all prescribe to various forms of sacrificial thoughts - mostly about money and goods but it can be love, time, our youth, our creativity, or a million other things.
When we accept everything is the same substance in various forms, we see the folly of thinking there is any actual exchange, the only thing exchanged is our perception of the form the energy takes, and to do that we needn't have to give up anything at all - only our thoughts, we simply change our mind and see things differently.
This is an offering - you offer a different thought which changes your perceptions and allows the thing you desire to manifest into form.
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I didn't write this, but now I think about it.......of course I did.
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Max
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