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5/30/2008 Lesson 122 forgiveness offers everything I want.1. What could you want forgiveness cannot give? Do you want peace? Forgiveness offers it. Do you want happiness, a quiet mind, a certainty of purpose, and a sense of worth and beauty that transcends the world? Do you want care and safely , and the warmth of sure protection always? Do you want a quietness that cannot be disturbed, a gentleness that never can be hurt, a deep, abiding comfort, and a rest so perfect it can never be upset?
2. All this forgiveness offers you, and more. It sparkles on your eyes as you awake, and gives you joy with which to meet the day. It smoothes your forhead while you sleep, and rests upon your eyelids so you see no dreams of fear and evil, malice and attack And when you wake again, if offers you another day of happiness and peace. All this forgiveness offers you, and more.
3. Forgiveness lets the veil be lifted up that hides the face of Christ from those who look with unforgiveness eyes upon the world. It lets you recognize the Son of God, and clears your memory of all dead thoughts so that remembrance of your Father can arise across the threshold of yoru mind. What would you want forgiveness cannot give? What gifts but these are worthy to be sought? What fancied value, trivial effect or transient promise, never to be kept, can hold more hope than what forgiveness brings?
4. Why would you seek an answer other than the answer that will answer everything? Here is the perfect answer, given to imperfect questions, meaningless requests, halfhearted willingness to hear, and less than halfway diligence and partial trust. Here is the answer! Seek for it no more. You will not find another one instead.
5. God's plan for your salvation cannot change, nor can it fail. Be thankful it remains exactly as He planned it. Changelessly it stands before you like an open door, with warmth and welcome calling from beyong the doorway, bidding you to enter in and make yourself at home, where you belong.
6. Here is the answer! Would you stand outside while all of Heaven waits for you within? Forgive and be forgiven. As you give you will receive. There is no plan but this for the salvation of Son of God. Let us today rejoice that this is so, for here we have an answer, clear and plain,beyond deceit in its simplicity. All the complexities the world has spun of fragile cobwebs dissappear before the power and the majesty of the extremely simple statement of the truth.
7. Here is the answer! Do not turn away in aimless wandering again. Accept salvation now. It is the gift of God, and not the world. The world can give no gifts of any value to a mind that has received what God has given as its own. God wills salvation be received today, and that the intricacies of your dreams no longer hid their nothingness from you.
8. Open your eyes today and look upon a happy world of safety and of peace. forgiveess is the means by which it comes to take the palce of hell. In quietness it rises up to greet your open eyes, and fill your heart with deep tranquility as ancient truths, forever newly born, arise in your awareness. What you will remember then can never be described. Yet your forgiveness offers it to you.
9. Remembering the gifts forgiveness gives, we undertake our practicing today with hope and faith that this will be the day salvation will be ours. Earnestly and gladly will we seek for it today, aware we hold the key within our hands, accepting Heaven's answer to the hell we made, but where we would remain no more.
10. Morning and evening do we gladly give a quarter of an hour to the search in which the end of hell is guaranteed. Begin in hopefulness, for we have reached the turning point at which the road becomes far easier. And now the way is short that yet we travel. We are close indeed to the appointed ending of the dream.
11. Sink into happiness as you begin these practice periods, for they hold out the sure rewards of questions answered and what your acceptance of the answer brings. Today it will be given you to feel the peace forgiveness offers, and the joy the lifting of the veil holds out to you.
12. Before the light you will receive today the world will fade until it disappears, and you will see another world arise you have no words to picture. Now we walk directly into light, and we receive the gifts that have been held in store for us since time began, kept waiting for today.
13. Forgiveness offers everything you want. Today all things you want are given you. Let not your gifts recede throughout the day, as you return again to meet a world of shifting change and bleak appearance. Retain your gifts in clear awareness as you see the changeless in the heart of change; the light of the truth behind appearances.
14. Be tempted not to let your gifts slip by and drift into forgetfulness, but hold them firmly in your mind by your attempts to think of them at least a minute as each quarter of an hour passes by, Remind yourself how precious are these gifts with this reminder, which has power to hold your gifts in your awareness through the day:
Forgiveness offers everything I want
Today I have accepted this as true.
Today I have received the gifts of God. 5/21/2008 Lesson 121 Forgiveness is the key to happiness1. Here is the answer to your search for peace. Here is the key to meaning in a world taht seems to make no sense. Here is the way to safety in apparent dangers that appear to threaten you at every turn, and bring uncertainty to all your hopes of every finding quietness and peace. Here are all questions answered; here the end of all uncertainty ensured at last.
2. The unforgiving mind is full of fear, and offers love no room to be itself; no place where it can spread its wings in peace and soar above the turmoil of the world. The unforgiving mind is sad, without the hope of respite and release from pain. It suffers and abides in misery,peering about in darkness, seeing not, yet certain of the danger lurking there.
3. The unforgiving mind is torn with doubt, confused about itself and all it sees; afraid and angry, weak and blustering, afraid to go ahead, afraid to stay, afraid to waken or to go to sleep, afraid of every sound, yet more afraid of stillness; terrified of darkness, yet more terrified at the approach of light. What can the unforgiving mind perceive but its damnation? What can it hehold except the proof that all its sins are real?
4. The unforgiving mind see no mistakes, but only sins. It tooks upon the world with sightless eyes, and shrieks as it beholds its own projections rising to attack its miserable parody of life. It wants to live, yet wishes it were dead. It wants forgiveness, yet it sees no hope. It wants escape, yet can conveive of none because it sees the sinful everywhere.
5. The unforgiveness mind is in despair, without the prospect of a future which can offer anything but more depair. Yet it regards its judgment of the world as irreversible, and does not see it has condemned itself to this depair. It thinks it cannot change, for what it sees brears witness that its judgment is correct. It does not ask, because it thinks it knows. It does not question, certain it is right.
6. Forgiveness is acquired. It is not inherent in the mind, which cannot sin. As sin is an idea you taught yourself, forgiveness must be learned by you as well, but from a Teacher other than yourself, Who represents the other Self in you. Through Him you learn how to forgive the self yo think you made, and let it disappear. Thus you returen your mind as one to Him Who is your Self, and Who can never sin.
7. Each unforgiving mind presents you with an opportunity to teach your own how to forgive itself. Each one awaits release from hell through you, and turns to you imploringly for Heaven here and now. It has no hope, but you become its hope.And as its hope, do you become your own. The unforgiving mind must learn through your forgiveness that it has been saved from hell. And as you teaching and your learning will be not of you , but of the Teacher Who was given you to show the way to you.
8. Today we practice learning to forgive. If you are willing, you can learn today to take the key to happiness, and use it on your own behalf. We will devote ten minutes in the morning, and at night another ten, to learn how to give forgiveness and receive forgiveness, too.
9. The unforgiving mind does not belive that giving and receiving are the same. Yet we try to learn today that they are one through practicing forgivness toward one whom you think of as an empty, and one whome you consider as a friend. And as you learn to see them both as one, we will extend the lesson to yourself, and see that their escape included yours.
10. Begin the longer practice periods by thinking of someone you do not like, who seems to irritate you, or to cause regret in you if you should meet him; one you actively despise, or merely try to overlook. It does not matter what the form your anger takes. You probably have chosen him already. He will do.
11. Now close your eyes and see him in your mind, and look at him a while. Try to perceive some light in him somewhere; a little gleam which you had never noticed. Try to find some little spark of brightness shining through the ugly picture that you hold of him. Look at this picture till you see a light somewhere within it, and then try to let this light extend until it covers him, and makes the picture beautiful and good.
12. Look at this changed perception for a while, and turn your mind to one you call a friend. Try to transfer the light you learned to see around your fromer " enemy" to Him. Perceive him now as more than friend to you, for in that light his holiness shows you your savior, saved and saving, healed and whole.
13. Then let him offer you the light you see in him, and let your "enemy" and friend unite in blessing you with what you gave.Now are you one with them, and they with you. Now have you been forgiven by yourself. Do not forget, throughout the day, the role forgiveness plays in bringing happiness to every unforgiving mind, with yours among them. Every hour tell yourself:
Forgiveness is the key to happiness. I will awaken from the dream that I am mortal, fallible and full of sin, and know I am the perfect Son of God 5/9/2008 Lesson 120For morning and evening review:
1.(109) I rest in God
I rest in God today, and let Him work in me and thourgh me, while I rest in Him in quiet and in perfect certainty.
2.(110) I am as God created me
I am God's Son. Today I lay aside all sick illusions of myself, and let my Father tell me Who I really am.
3. On the hour
I rest in God
on the half hour
I am as God created me. Lesson 119For morning and evening review:
1.(107) Truth will correct all errors in my mind.
I am mistaken when I think I can be hurt in any way. I am God's Son, whose Self rests safely in the Mind of God.
2.(108) To give and to receive are one in truth
I will forgive all things today, that I may learn how to accept the truth in me, and come to recognize my sinlessness.
3. On the hour
Truth will correct all errors in my mind
on the half hour
To give and to receiv are one in truth Lesson 118For morning and evening review:
1.(105) God's peace and joy are mine.
Today I will accept God's peace and joy, in glad exchange for all the substitutes that I have made for happiness and peace.
2.(106). Let me be still and listen to the truth
Let my own feeble voice be still, and let me hear the mighty Vocie for Truth assure me that I am God's perfect Son.
3. On the hour
God's peace and joy are mine.
on the half hour
Let me be still and listen to the truth. Lesson 117For morning and evening review:
1.(103) God, being love, is also happiness
Let me remember love is happiness, and nothing else brings joy. And so I choose to entertain no substitutes for love.
2.(104) I seek but what belongs to me in truth
Love is my heritage, and with it joy. These are the gifts my Fater gave me. I would accept all that is mine in truth.
3. On the hour
God, being love, is also happiness
on the half hour
I seek but what belongs to me in truth. Lesson 1161.(106) God;s Will for me is perfect happiness
God's Will is perfect happiness for me. And I can suffer but from the belief there is another will apart form His.
2.(102) I share God's Will for happiness for me
I share my Father's Will for me, His Son. What He has given me is all I want. What He has given me is all there is.
3. On the hour
God's Will for me is perfect happiness
on the Half Hour
I share God's Will for happiness for me Lesson 115For morning and evening review:
1. (99) Salvation is my only function here.
My function here is to forgive the world for all the errors I have made. For thus am I released from them with all the world.
2.(100) My part is essential to God's plan for salvation.
I am essential to the plan of God for the salvation of the world. For he gave me His plan that I might save the world.
3. On the hour
Salvation is my only function here
on the half hour:
My part is essential to God's plan for salvation. Lesson 114For morning and evening review:
1.(97) I am spirit
I am the Son of God. No body can contain my spirit , nor impose on me a limitation God created not.
2.(98) I will accept my part in God's plan for salvation
what can my function be but to accept the Word of God, Who has created me for what I am and will forever be?
3. On the hour:
I am spirit.
on the half hour:
I will accept my part in God's plan for salvation. Lesson 113For morning and evening review:
1.(95) I am one Self, united with my Creator
Serenity and perfect peace are mine, because I am one Self, completely whole, at one with all creation and with God.
2.(96) Salvation comes from my one Self.
From my one Self, Whose knowlege still remains within my mind, I see God's perfect plan for my salvation perfectly fulfilled
3. On the hour
I am one Self, united with my Creator
On the half hour:
Salvation comes from my one Self.
Lesson 1121.(93) Light and jou and peace abide in me
I am the home of light and joy and peace. I welcome them into the home I sahre with God, because I am a part of Him.
2.(94) I am as God created me.
I will remain forever as I was, created by the changless like Himself. And I am one with Him, and He with me.
3. On the hour
Light and jou and peace abide in me.
On the half hour
I am as God created me. Lesson 111For morning and evening review:
1.(91) Miracles are seen in light.
I cannot see in darkness. Let the light of holiness and truth light up my mind, and let me see the innocence within.
2.(92) Miracles are seen in light, and light and stength are one
I see through strength, the gift of God to me. My weakness is the dark His gift dispels, by giving me His stenght to take its place.
3. On the hour:
Miracles are seen in light
On the half hour:
Miracles are seen in light, and light and strength are one.
REVIEW III Introduction1. Our next review begins today. We will review two recent lessons every day for ten successive days of practicing. We will observe a special format for those practice periods, that you are urged to follow just as closely as you can.
2. We understand, of course, that it may be impossible for you to under take what is suggested here as optimal each day and every hour of the day. Learning will not be hampered when you miss a practice period because it is impposible at the appointed time. Nor is it necessary that you make excessvie efforts to be srue that you catch up in terms of a numbers. rituals are not our aim, and would defeat our goal.
3. But learning will be hampered when you skip a practice period because you are unwilling to devote the time to it that you are asked to give. Do not deceive yourself in this. Unwillingness can be most carefully concealed behind a cloak of situations that are poorly suited to your practicing from those that you establish to uphold a camouflage for your unwillingness.
4. Those practice periods that you have lost because you did not want to do them, for whatever reason, should be done as soon as you have changed your mind about your goal. You are unwilling to cooperate in practicing salvation only if it interferes with goals you hold more dear. When you withdraw the value given them. allow your practice periods to be replacements for your litanies to them. They gave you nothing. But your practicing can offer everything to you. And so accept their offering and be at peace.
5. The format you should use for these reviews is this: Devote five minutes twice a day, or longer if you would prefore it, to considering the thoughts that ar assigned. rEad over the ideas and comments that are written down for each day's exercise. And then begin to think about them, while letting your mind relate them to your needs, your seeming problems and all your concerns.
6. Place the ideas within your mind, and lt it use them as it chooses. Give it faith that it will use them wisely, being helped in its decisions by the One Who gave the thoughts to you. What can you trust but what is in your mind? Have faith, in these reviews, the means the Holy Spirit uses will not fail. The wisdom of your mind will come to your assistance. Give direction at the outset; then lean back in quiet faith, and let the mind employ the thoughts you gave as they were given you for it to use.
7. You have been given them in perfect trust; in perfect confidence that you would use them well; in perfect faith that you would see their messages and use them for yourself. Offer them to your mind in that same trust and confidence and faith. It will not fail. It is the Holy Spirit's closen means for your salvation. Since it has His trust, His means must sureky merit yours as well.
8. We emphasize the benefits to you if you devote the first five minutes of the day to your reviews, and also give the last five minutes of your waking day to them. If this cannot be done,at least try ti divide them so you undertake one in the morning and the other in the hour just bfore you go to sleep.
9. The exercises to be doen thoughout the day are equally important, and perhaps of even greater value. You ahve been inclined to practice only at appointed times, and then go on your way to other things, without applying what you learned to them.
As a result, you have gained little reinforcement, and have not given your learning a fair chance to prove how great are its potential gifts to you. Here is another chance to use it well.
10. in thse reviews, we stress the need to let your learning not lie idly by between your longer practice periods. Attempt to give your daily two ideas a brief but serious review each hour. Use one on the hour, and the other one a half an hour later. You need not give more than just a moment to each one. Repeat it, and allow your mind to rest a liitle time in silence and in peace. Then turn to other things, but try to keep the thougth with you,a dn let it serve to help you keep you peace throughout the day as well.
11. If you are shaken, think of it again. These practice periods are planed to help you from the habit of applying what you learn each day to everything you do. Do not repeat the thought and lay it down. Its usefullness is limitless to you. And it is meant to serve you in all ways, all times and places, and whenever you need help of any kind. Try, then, to take it with you in the business of the day and make it holy, worthy of God's Son, acceptable to God and to your Self.
12. Each day's review assignmets will conclude with a restatement of the thought to use each hour, and the one to be applied on each half hour as well. Torget them not. This second chance with each ot these ideas will bring such large advances that we come from these revies with learning gains so great we will continue on more solid ground, with firmer footsteps and with stronger faith
Do not forget how little you have learned
Do not forget how much you can learn now
do not forget your Father's need of you
As you review these thoughts He gave to you. 5/2/2008 Lesson 110 I am as God created me.1. We will repeat today's idea from time to time. For this one thought would be enough to save you and the world, If you believed that it is true. Its truth means that you have made no changes in yourself that have reality, nor changed the universe so that what God created was replaced by fear and evil, misery and death. If you remain as God created you fear has no meaning, eveil is not real, and misery and death do not exist.
2. Today's idea is therefore all you need to let complete correction heal your mind, and give you perfect vision that will heal all the mistakes taht nay mind has made at any time or place. It is enough to heal the past and make the future free. It is enough to let the present be accepted as it is. It is enough to let time be the means for all the world to learn escape from time, and every change that time appears to bring in passing by.
3. If you remainn as God created you, appearances cannot replace the truth , health cannot turn to sickness, nor can death be substitute for life, or fear or love. All this has not occurred, if you remain as God created you. You need no thought but just this one , to let redemption come to light the world and free it from the past.
4. In this one thought is all the past undone; the present saved to quietly extend into a timeless future. If you ar as God created you, then there has been no separation of your mind from His, no split between your mind and other minds, and only unity within your own.
5. The healing power of today's idea is limiteless. It is the birth place of all miracles, the great restorer of the truth to the awareness of the world. Practice today's idea with gratitude. This is the truth that comes to set you free. This is the truth that God has promised you. This is the Word in which all sorrow ends
6. For your five-minute practice periods, begin with this quotation from the text:
I am as God created me. His son can suffer nothing. And I am His Son.
7. Then, with this statement firmly in your mind, try to discover in your mind the Self Who is the holy Son of God himself.
8. Seek Him within you Who is Christ in you, the Son of God and brother to the world; the Savior Who has been forever saved, with power to save whoever touches Him, however lightly, asking for the Word that tells him he is brother unto Him.
9. You are as God created you. Today honor yourSelf. Let graven imagees you made to be the Son of God instead of what he is be worshipped not today. Deep in your mind the holy Christ in you is waiting your acknowlegment as you. And you are lost and do not know yourself while He is unacknowledged and unknow.
10. Seek Him today, and fin Him. He will be your Savior from all idols you have made. For when you find Him, you will understand hwo worthless are your idols, and how false the images which you believed were you. Today we make a great advance to truth by letting idols go, and opening your hands and hearts and minds to God today.
11. We will remember Him throughout the day with thankful hearts and loving thoughts for all who meet with us today. For it is thus that we remeber Him. And we will say, that we may be reminded of His Son, our holy Self, the Christ in each of us:
I am as God created me.
Let us declare this truth as often as we can. This is the Word of God that sets you free. This is the key that opens up the gate of Heaven, and that lets you enter in the peace of God and His eternity. Lesson 109 I rest in God1. We ask for rest today, and quietness unshaken by the world's appearances. We ask for peace and stillness, in midst of all the turmoil born of clashing dreams. We ask for safely and for happiness, although we seem to look on danger and on sorrows. And we have the thought that will answer our asking with what we request.
2. " I rest in God." This thought will bring to you the rest and quiet, peace and stillness, and the safely and the happiness you seek. " I rest in God." This thought has power to wake the sleeping truth in you, whose vision sees beyond appearances to that same truth in everyone and everything there is. Here is the end of suffering for all the world, and everyone who ever came and yet will come to linger for a while. Here is the thought in which the Son of God is born again, to recognize himself.
3. " I rest in God." Completely undismayed, this thought will carry you through storms and strife past misery and pain, past loss and death , and onward to the certainty of God. There is no suffering it cannot heal. There is no problem that it cannot slove.
And no appearance but will turn to truth before the eyes of you who rest in God.
4. This is the day of peace. You rest in God, and while the world is torn by winds of the hate your rest remains compelely undisturbed. Yours is the rest of truth . Appearances cannot untrude on you. You call to all to join you in your rest, and they will hear and come to you because you rest in God. They will not hear another voice than yours because you gave your voice to God, and now u rest in Him and let Him speak through you.
5. In Him you have no cares and no concerns, no burdens, no anxiety, no pain, no fear of future and no past regrets. In timelessness you rest , while time goes by without its touch upon you, for your rest can never change in any way at all. You rest today. And as you close your eyes, sink into stillness. Let these periods of rest and respite reassure your mind that all its frantic fantasies were but the dreams of fever that has passed away. Let it be still and thankfully accept its healing. Nor more fearful dreams will come, now that you rest in God. Take time today to slip away from dreams and into peace.
6. Each hour that you take your rest today, a tired mind us suddently made glad, a bird with broken wings begins to sing, a stream long dry begins to flow again. The word is born again each time you rest, and hourly remember that you came to bring the peace of God into the world, that it might take its rest along with you.
7. With each five minutes that ou rest today, the world is nearer walking. And the time when rest will be the only thing there is comes closer to all worn and tired minds, too weary now to go their way alone. And they will hear the bird begin to sing and see the stream begin to flow again, with hope reborn and energy restored to walk with lightened steps along the road that suddenly seems easy as they go.
8. You rest within the peace of God today, and call upon your brothers from your rest to draw them to their rest, along with you. You will be fainthful to your trust today, forgetting no one, bringing everyone into the boundless circle of your peace, the holy sanctuary where you rest. Open the temple doors and let them come from far across the world, and near as well; your distant brothers and your closest friends; bid them all enter here and rest with you.
9. You rest within the peace of God today, quiet and unafraid. Each brother comes to take his rest, and offer it to you. We rest together here, for thus our rest is made complete, and what we give today we have received already. Time is not the guardian of what I give today. We give to those unborn and those passed by, to every Thought of God, and to the Mind in which these Thoughts were born and where they rest. And we remind them of their resting place each time we tell ourselves, " I rest in God."
Lesson 108 To give and to receive are one in truth1. Vision depends upon today's idea. The light is in it, for it reconciles all seeming opposities. And what it light except the resolution, born of peace, of all your conflicts and mistaken thoughts into one concept which is wholly truth? Even that one will disappear, because the Thought behind it will appear instead to take its place. And now you are at peace forever, for the dream is over then.
2. True light that makes true vision possible is not the light the body's eyes behold. It is a state of mind that has become so unified that darkness cannot be perceived at all. And thus what is the same is seen as one, while what is not the same remains unnoticed, for it is not there.
3. This is the light that shows no opposites, and vision, being healed, has power to heal. This is the light that brings your peace of mind to other minds, to share it and be glad that they are one with you and with themselves. this is the light that heals because it brings single perception, based upon one frame of reference, from which one meaning comes.
4. Here are both giving and receiving seen as different aspects of one Thought whose truth does not depend on which is seen as first, nor which appears to be in second place. Here it is understood that both occur together, that the Thought remain complete. And in this understanding is the base on which all opposites are reconciled, because they are perceived from the same frame of reference which unifies this Thought.
5. One thought, completely unified, will serve to unify all thought. this is the same as saying one correction will suffice for all correction, or that to forgive one brother wholly is enough to bring salvation to all minds. For these are but some special cases of one law which holds for every kind of learning, if it be directed by One Who knows the truth.
6. To learn that giving and receiving are the same has special usefulness, because it can be tired so easily and seen as true. And when this special case has proved it always works, in every circumstance where it is tired, the thought behind it can be generalized to other areas of doubt and double vision. And from there it will extend, and finally arrive at the one Thought which underlines them all.
7. Today we practice with the special case of giving and receiving. We will use this simple lesson in the obvious because it has results we cannot miss. To give is to receive. Today we will attempt to offer peace to everyone, and see how quickly peace returns to us. Light is tranquility, and in that peace is vision given us, and we can see.
8. So we begin the practice periods with the instruction for today, and say:
to give and to receive are one in truth
I will receive what I am giving now
Then close ur eyes, and for five minutes think of what you would hold out to everyone, to have it yours. You might , for instance, say:
To everyone I offter quietness
To everyone I offter peace of mind
To everyone I offer gentleness
9. Say each one slowly and then pause a while, expecting to receive the gift you gave. And it will come to you in the amount in which you gave it. You will find you have exact return, for that is what you asked. It might be helpful, too, to think of one to whom to give your gifts. He represents the others, and through him you give to all.
10. Our very simple lesson for today will each you much. Effect and cause will be far better understood from this time on, and we will make much faster progress now. Think of the exercises for today as quick advances in your learning, made still faster and more sure each time you say, " To give and to receive are one in truth." 5/1/2008 Lesson 107 Truth will correct all errors in my mind1. what can correct illusions but the truth? And what are errors but illusions that remain unrecognized for what they are? Where truth has entered errors disappear. They merely vanish, leaving not a trace by which to be remember. They are gone because , without belief, they have no life. And so they disappear to nothingness, returning whence they came.
2. Can you imagine what a state of mind without illusions is? How it would feel? Try to remember when there was a time,--- perhaps a minute, maybe even less--when nothing came to interrupt ur peace; when you were certian you were loved and safe. then try to picture what it would be like to have that moment be extended to the end of time and to eternity. Then let the sense of quiet that you felt be multiplied a hundred times, and then be multiplied another hundred more.
3. And now you have a hint, not more than just the faintest intimation of the state your mind will rest in when the ruth has come. without illusions there could be no fear, no doubt and no attack. when truth has come all pain is over, for there is no room for transitory thoughts and dead ideas to linger in your mind. Truth occupies your mind completely, liberating you from all beliefs in the ephemeral . they have no place because the truth has come, and they are nowhere. They can not be found, for truth is everywhere forever , now.
4. When truth has come it does not stay a while, to disappear or change to something else. It does not shift and alter in its form, nor come and go and go and come again. It stays exactly as it always was, to be depended on in every need, and trusted with a perfect trust in all the seeming difficulties and the doubts that the appearances the world presents engender. They will merely blow away, when truth corrects the eerrors in your mind.
5. When truth has come it harbors in its wings the gift of perfect constancy, and love which does not falter in the face of pain, but looks beyond it, steadily and sure. Here is the gift of healing, for the truth needs no defese, and therefore no attack is possible. Illusions can be brought to truth to be corrected. But the truth stands far beyond illusions, and can not be brought to them to turn them into truth.
6. Truth does not come and go nor shift nor change, in this appearance now and then in that, evading capture and escaping grasp. It does not hide. It stands in open light, in obvious accessibility. It is impossible that anyone could seek it truly, and would not succeed. Today belongs to truth. Give truth its due, and it will give you yours. You were not meant to suffer and to die. Your Father wills these dreams be gone. Let truth correct them all.
7. We do not ask for what we do not have. We merely ask for what belongs to us, that we may recognize it as our own. today we parctice on the happy note of certainty that has been born of truth. The shaky and unsteady footsteps of illusion are not our approach today. We are as certain of success as we are sure we live and hope and breathe and think. We do not doubt we walk with truth today, and count on it to enter into all the exercises that we do this day.
8. Begin by asking Him Who goes with you upon this undertaking that He be in your awareness as you go with Him. You are not made of flesh and blood and bone, but were created by the selfsame Throught which gave the gift of life to him as well. He is your Brother, and so like to you your Father knows that You are both the same. It is your Self you ask to go with you, and how could He be absent where you are?
9. Truth will correct all errors in your mind which tell you you could be apart from Him. You speak to Him today, and make your pledge to let His function be fulfilled through you. To share His function is to share His joy. His confidence is with you, as you say:
Truth will correct all errors in my mind.
And I will rest in Him Who is my Self.
then let Him lead you gently to the truth,which will envelop you and give you peace so deep and tranquil that you will return tp the familiar world reluctantly.
10. And yet you will be glad to look again upon this world. For you will bring with you the promise of the changes which the truth that goes with you will carry to the world. They will increase with every gift u give of five small minutes, and the errors that surround the world will be corrected as you let them be corrected in your mind.
11. Do not forget your function for today. Each time you tell yourself with confidence," Truth will correct all errors in my mind," you speak for all the world and Him Who would release the world, as He would set you free. Lesson 106 Let me be still and listen to the truth.1. If you will lay aside the ego's voice, however loudly it may seem to call; if you will not accept its petty gifts that give you nothing that you really want; if you will listen with an open mind, that has not told you what salvation is; then you will hear the mighty Voice of truth, quiet in power, strong in stillness, and completely certain in Its message.
2. Listen, and hear your Father speak to you through His appointed Voice, which silences the thunder of the meanlingless, and shows the way to peace to those who cannot see. Be still today and listen to the truth. Be not deceived by voices of the dead, which tell you they have found the source of life and offter it to you for your belife. Attend them not, but listen to the ruth.
3. Be not afraid today to circumvent the voice of the world. Walk lightly past their meaningless persuasion. Hear them not. Be still today and listen to the truth. God past all things which do not speak of Him Who holds your happoness within His Hand. held out to you in welcome and in love. Hear only Him today, and do not wait to reach Him longer. Hear one Voice today.
4. Today the promise of God's Word is kept. Hear and be silent. He would speak to you. He comes with miracles a thousand times as happy and as wonderful as those you ever dreamed or wished for in your dreams. This miracles are true. They will not fade when dreaming ends. They end the dream instead; and last forever, for they come from God to His dear Son, whose other name is you. Prepare yourself for miracles today. Today allow your Father's ancient pledge to you and all your brothers to be kept.
5. Hear Him today, and listen to the Word which lifts the veil that lies upon the earth, and wakes all those who sleep and cannot see. God calls to them through you. He needs your voice to speak to them, for who could reach God's Son except his Father, calling through your Self? Hear Him today, and offer Him your voice to speak to all the multitude who wait to hear the Word that He will speak today.
6. Be ready for salvation. It is here, and will today be given unto you. And you will learn your function from the One Who chose it in your Father's Name for you. Listen today, and you will hear a Voice which will resound throughout the world through you. The bringer of all miracles has need that you receive them first, and thus become the joyous giver of what you received.
7. Thus does salvation start and thuse it ends; when everything is yours and everything is given away, it will remain with you forever. And the lesson has been learnd. Today we practice giving, nor the way you understand it now, but as it is. each hour's exercise should begin with this request for your enlightenedment:
I will be still and listen to the truth.
What does it mean to give and to recive?
Ask and expect an answer. Your request is one whose answer has been waiting long to be received by you. It will begin the ministry for which you came, and which will free the world from thinking giving is a way to lise. And so the world becomes ready to understand and to receive.
9. Be still and listen to the truth today. For each five minutes spent in listening, a thousand minds are opened to the truth and they will hear the holy Word you hear. And when the hour is past, you will again release a thousand more who pause to ask that truth be given them, along with you.
10. Today the holy Word of God is kept through your receiving it to give away, so you can teach the world what giving means by listening and learning if of Him. do not forget today to reinforce your choice to hear and to receive the Word by this reminder, given to yoruself as often as it possible today:
Let me be still and listen to the truth
I am the messenger of God today
My voice is His, to give what I receive. 4/30/2008 Lesson 105 God's peace and joy are mine1. God's peace and joy are yours. Today we will accept them, knowing they belong to us. And we will try to understand these gifts increase as we receive them. They are not like to the gifts , the world can give, in which the giver loses as he gives the gift; the taker is the richer by his loss.Such are not gifts, but bargains made with guilt. The truly given gift entails no loss. It is impossible that one can gain because another loses.
This implies a litmit and an insufficiency
2. No gift is given thus. Such "gifts" are but a bid for a more valuable return; a loan with interest to be paid in full; a temporary lending, meant to be a pledge of debt to be repaid with more than was received by him who took the gift. This strange distortion of what giving means pervades all levels of the world you see. It strips all meaning from the gifts you give, and leaves you nothing in the ones you take.
3. A major learning gaol this course has set is to reverse your view of giving, so you can receive.For giving has become a source of fear, and so you would avoid the only means by which you can receive. Accept God's peace and joy, and you will learn a different way of looking at a gift. God's gifts will never lessen when they are given away. They but increase thereby.
4. As Heaven's peace and joy intensify when you accept them as God's gift to you, so does the joy of your Creator grow when you accept His joy and peace as Yours. True giving is creation. It extends the limitless to the unlimited, eternity to timelessness, and love unto itself. It adds to all that is complete already, not in simple terms of adding more, for that implies that it was less before. It adds by letting what cannot contain itself fulfull its aim of giving everything it has away, securing if forever for itself.
5. Today accept God's peace and joy as yours. Let Him complete Himself as He defines completeion. You will understand that what completes Him must complete His Son as well. He cannot give through loss. No more can you. Receive His gift of joy and peace today, and He will thank you for your gift to Him.
6. Today our practice periods will start a little differently. Begin today by thinking of those brothers who have been denied by you the peace and joy that are their right under the equal laws of God. Here you denied them to yourself. And here you must return to claim them as your own.
7. Think of your "enermoes" a little while, and tell each one, as he occurs to you.
My brother, peace and joy I offer you,
That I may have God's peace and joy as mine.
Thus you prepare yourself to recognize God's gifts to you, and let your mind be free of all that would prevent success today. Now are you ready to accept the gift of peace and joy that God have given you. Now are you ready to experience the joy and peace you have denied yourself. Now you can say, " God's peace and joy are mine," for you have given what you would receive.
8. You must succeed today, if you prepare your mind as we suggest. For you have let all bars to peace and joy be lifted yo, and what is yorus can come to you at last. So tell yourself, " God's peace and joy are mine," and close your eyes a while, and let His Voice assure you that the words you speak are true.
9. Spend your five minutes thus with Him each time you can today, but do not think that less is worthless when you cannot give Him more. At least remember hourly to say the words which call to Him to give you what He wills to give,and wills you to receive. Determine not to interfere today with that He wills. And if a brother seems to tempt you to deny God's gift to him,see it as but another chance to let yourself rreceive the gifts of God as yours. Then bless your brother thankfully, and say:
My brother, peace and joy I offer you,
That I may have God's peace and joy as mine.
Lesson 104 I see but what belongs to me in truth1. Today's idea continues with the thought that joy and peace are not but idle dreams. They are your right, because of what you are. They come to you from God, Who cannot fail to give you what He wills. Yet must there be a place made ready to recive His gifts. They are not welcomed gladly by a mind that has instead received the gifts it made where His belong, as substitutes for them.
2. Today we would remove all meaningless and self-made gifts which we have placed upon the holy altar where God's gifts belong. His are the gifts that are our own in truth. His are the gifts that we inherited before time was, and that will still be ours when time has passed into eternity. His are the gifts that are within us now, for they are timeless. And we need not wait to have them. They belong to us today.
3. Therefore, we choose to have them now, and know, in choosing them in place of what we made, we but unite our will with what God wills, and recognize the same as being one. our longer practice periods today, the hourly five minutes given truth for your salvation, should begin with this:
I seek but waht belongs to me in truth,
and joy and oeace are my inheritance.
Then lay aside the conflicts of the world that offer other gifts and other goals made of illusions, witnessed to by them, and sought for only in a world of dreams.
4. All this we lay aside, and seek instead that which is truly ours, as we ask to recognize what God has given us. We clear a holy place within our minds before His ater, where His gifts of peace and joy are welcome, and to which we come to find what has been given us by Him. We come in confidence today, aware that belongs to us in truth is what He gives. And we would wish for nothing else, for nothing else belongs to us un truth.
5. So do we clear the way for Him today by simply recognizing that His Will is done already, and that joy and peace belong to us as His eternal gifts. We will not let ourselves lose sight of them between the times we come to seek for them where He has laid them. This reminder will we bring to mind as often as we can:
I seek but what belongs to me in truth,
God's gifts of joy and peace are all I want
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