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LESSON 203
”I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”
183) ”I call upon God´s Name and on my own.”
”The Name of God is my deliverance
From every thought of evil and of sin,
Because it is my own as well as His.”
”I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”
Love
LESSON 204
”I am not body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”
184) ”The Name of God is my inheritance.”
”God´s Name reminds me that I am His Son,
Not slave to time, unbound by laws which rule
The world of sick illusions,free in God.
Forever and forever one with Him.”
”I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”
Love
LESSON 205
”I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”
185 ”I want the peace of God.”
”The peace of God is Everything I want.
The peace of God is my one goal;the aim
Of all my living here, the end I seek,
My purpose and my function and my life,
While I abide where I am not at home.”
”I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”
Love
LESSON 206
”I am not my body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”
186 ”Salvation of the World depends on me.”
”I am entrusted with the gifts of God,
Because I am His Son. And I would give
His gifts where He intended them to be.”
”I am not my body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”
Love
LESSON 207
”I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”
187 ”I bless the world because I bless myself.”
”God´s blessing shines upon me from within
My heart, where He abides, I need but turn
To Him, and every sorrow melts away,
As I accept His boundless Love for me.”
”I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”
Love
LESSON 208
”I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”
188 ”The peace of God is shining in me now.”
”I will be still, and let the earth be still
Along with me. And in that stillness we
Will find the peace of God. It is within
My heart, which witnesses to God Himself.”
”I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”
Love
LESSON 209
”I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God create dme.”
189) ” I feel the Love of God within me now.”
” The Love of God is what created me.
The Love of God is everything I am.
The Love of God proclaimed me as His Son.
The Love of God within me sets me free.”
”I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”
Love
LESSON 210
”I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”
190 ”I choose the joy of God instead of pain.”
”Pain is my own idea. It is not
A Thought of God, but one it hought apart
From Him and from His Will, His Will is joy,
And only joy for His beloved Son.
And that I choose, instead of what I made.”
”I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”
Love
LESSON 211
”I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”
191) ”I am the holy Son of God Himself.”
”In silence and in true humility
I seek God´s glory, to behold it in
The Son whom He created as my Self.”
”I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me.”
Love
LESSON 212
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
192) "I have a function God would have me fill."
"I seek a function that would set me free
From all the vain illusions of the World.
Only the function God has given me
Can offer freedom. Only this I seek.
And only this will I accept as mine."
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
Love
LESSON 213
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
193) "All things are lessons God would have me learn."
"A lesson is a miracle which God
offers to me, in Place of thoughts I made
That hurt me. What I learn of Him becomes
The way I am set free. And so I choose
To learn HIs lessons and forget my own."
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
Love
LESSON 214
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
194) " I Place the future in the Hands of God."
"The past is gone; the future is not yet.
Now am I free from both. For what God gives.
Can only be for good. And I accept.
But what He gives as what belongs to me."
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
Love
LESSON 215
"I am not my body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
195) "Love is the way I walk in Gratitude."
"The Holy Spirit is my only Guide.
He walks with me in love. And I give thanks
To Him for showing me the way to go."
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
Love
LESSON 216
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
196) "I can be but myself I crucify."
"All that I do I do unto myself.
If I attack, I suffer.But if I
Forgive, salvation will be given mw."
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
Love
LESSON 217
197 "It can be but my Gratitude I earn."
"Who should give thanks for my salvation but
Myself? And how but through salvation can
I find the Self to Whom my thanks are due?"
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
Love
LESSON 218
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
198 "Only my condemnation injures me."
"My condemnation keeps my vision dark,
And through my sightless Eyes I cannot see
The vision of my glory. Yet today
I can behold this glory and be glad."
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
Love
LESSON 219
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
199) "I am not a body, I am free."
"I am God´s Son. Be still, my mind, and Think
A moment upon this. And then return
To eart´h, without confusion as to what
My Father loves forever as His Son."
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
Love
LESSON 220
I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
200) "There is no Peace execpt the Peace of God."
"Let me not wander from the way of Peace,
For I am lost on other roads than this.
But let me follow Him Who leads me home,
And peace is certain as the Love of God."
"I am not a body. I am free.
For I am still as God created me."
Love
PART II
Words will mean little now. We use them but as guides on which we do not now depend. For now we seek direct experience of truth alone.
The lessons that remain are merely introductions to the times in which we leave the world of pain, and go to enter peace. Now we begin
to reach the goal this course has set, and find the end toward which our practicing was Always geared. Now we attempt to let the experience
be merely a beginning. For we wait in quiet expectations for our God and Father. He has promised He will take the final stelp Himself. And we
are sure His promises are kept. He have come far along the road, andd now we wait for Him. We will continue spending time with Him each
morning and at night, as long as makes us happy. We will not consider time a matter of duration now. We use as much as we will need for the
result that we desire. Nor will we forget our hourly remembrance in between, Calling to God when we have need of Him as we are tempted to
forget our goal. We will continue with a central thought for all the days to come, and we will use that thought to introduce our times of rest, and
calm our minds at need. Yet we will not content ourselves with simple practicing in the remaining holy instants which conclude the year that we
have given God. We say some simple Words of welcome, and expect our Father to reveal Himself, as He ahs promised. We have called on Him,
and He has promised that His Son will not remain unanswered when he calls His Name. Now do we come to Him with but His Word upon our minds
and hearts, and wait for Him to take the step to us that He has told us, through His Voice. He would not fail to take when we invited Him. He has not
let left His Son in alll his madness, nor betrayed His trust in Him. Has not His faithfulness earned Him the invitation that He seeks to make us happy?
We will offer it, and it will be accepted. So our times with Him will now be spent. We say the words of invitation that His Voice suggests, and then we
wait for Him to come to us. Now is the time of prophesy fulfilled. Now are all ancient promises upheld and fully kept. No step remains for time to
separate from its accomplishment. For now we cannot fail. Sit silently and wait upon your Father. He has willed to come you when you have recognized
it is your will He do so. And you could have never come this far unless you saw, however dimly, that it is your will. I am so Close to you we cannot fail.
Father, we give these holy times to You, in Gratitude to Him Who taught us how to leave the World of sorrow in exchange for its replacement, given us
by You. We look not backward now. We look ahead, and fix our eyes upon the journey´s end. Accept these little gifts of thanks from us, as through Christ´s
vision we behold a world beyond the one we made, and take that world to be the full replacement of our own. And now we wait in silence, unafraid and
certain of Your coming. We have sought to find our way by following the Guide YOu sent to us. We did not know the way, but You did not forget us. And we
know that YOu will not forget us now. We ask but that Your ancient promises be kept which are Your Will to keep. We will with You in asking this. The Father
and the Son, Whose holy Will created all that is, can fail in nothing. In this certainty, we undertake these last few steps to You, and rest in confidence upon
Your Love, which will not fail the Son who calls to You. And so we start upon the final part of this one holy year, which we have spent together in the search
for truth and God, Who is its one Creator. We have found the way He chose for us, and made the choice to follow it as He would have us go. His Hand has
held us up. His Thoughts have lit the darkness of our minds. His Love has called to us unceasingly since time began. We had a wish that God would fail to
have the Son whom He created for Himself. We wanted God to change Himself, and be what we would make of Him. And we believed that our insane desires
were the truth. Now we are glad that this is all undone, and we no longer think illusions true. The memory of God is shimmering across the wide horizons of our
minds. A moment more, and it will rise again. A moment more, and we who are God´s Son´s are safely home, where He would have us be. Now is the need for
practice almost done. For in this final section, we will come to understand that we need only call to God, and all temptations disappear. Instead of words, we
need but feel His Love. Instead of prayers, we need but call His Name. Instead of judging, we need but be still and let all things be healed. We will accept the way
God´s plan will end, as we received the way it started. Now it is complete. This year has brought us to eternity. Our further use for Words we still retain. From time
to time, instructions on a theme of special relevance wil intersperse our daily lessons and the periods of wordless, deep experience which should come afterwards.
These special thoughts should be reviewed each day, each one of them to be continued till the next is given you. They should be slowly read and thought about a
little while, preceding one of the holy and blessed instants in the day. We give the first of these instructions now:
What is Forgiveness?
Forgiveness reconginzes what you thought your brother did to you has not occured. It does not pardon sins and make them real. It sees these was no sin.
And in theat view are all your sins forgiven. What is sin, except a false idea about God´s Son? Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go.
What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.
An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgment that it will not raise to doubt, althought it is not true. The mind is closed, and will not be released.
The thought protects projection, tightening its chains, so that distortions are more veiled and more obscure; less easily accessible to doubt, and further
kept from reason. What can come between a fixed projection and the aim that it has chosen as its wanted goal?
An unforgivning thought does many things. In frantic action it pursues its goal, twisting and overturning what it sees as interfering with its chosen path.
Distortions is its purpose, and the means by which it would accomplish it as well. It sets about its furious attempts to smash reality, without concern for
anything that would appear to pose a contradiction to its Point of view.
Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing. It offends no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist it to appearances it likes. It merely
looks, and waits, and judges not. He who would not forgive must judge, for he must justify his failure to forgive. But he who would forgive himself must
learn to welcome truth exactly as it is.
Do nothing, then, and let forgiveness show you what to do, through Him Who is your Guide, your Savior and Protector, strong in hope, and certain of
your ultimate success. He has forgiven you already, for such is His function, given Him by God. Now must you share His function, and forgive whom
He has saved, whose sinlessness He sees, and whom He honors as the Son of God.
Love
LESSON 221
"Peace to my mind. Let all my thoughts be still."
"Father, I come to You today to seek the Peace that You alone can
give. I come in silence. In the quiet of my heart, the deep recesses of
my mind. I wait and listen to Your Voice. My Father, speak to me
today. I come to hear Your Voice in silence and in certainty and
love, sure You will hear my call and answer me."
Now do we wait in quiet. God is here, because we wait together. I
am sure that He will speak to you, and you will hear. Accept my
confidence, for it is yours. Our minds are joined. We wait with one
intent; to hear our Father´s answer to our call, to let our thoughts be
still and find His peace, to hear Him speak to us of whast we are, and
to reveal Himself unto His Son.
Love
LESSON 222
"God is with me. I live and move in Him."
God is with me. He is my Source of life, the life within, the air I
breathe, the food by which I am sustained, the water which renews
and cleanses me. He is my home, wherein I live and move; the
Spirit Which directs my actions, offers me Its Thoughts, and
guarantees my safety from all pain. He covers me with kindness and
with care, and holds in love the Son He shines upon, who also shines
on Him. How still is he who knows the truth of what He speaks today!
"Father, we have no words except Your Name upon our lips and
in our minds, as we come quietly into Your Presence now, and ask
to rest with You in peace a while."
Love
LESSON 223
"God is my life. I have no life but His."
I was mistaken when I thought I lived apart from God, a separate
entity that moved in isolation, unattached, and housed within a
body. Now I know my life is God´s, I have no other home, and I
do not exist apart from Him. He has no Thoughts that are not part of
me, and I have none but those which are of Him.
"Our Father, let us see the face of Christ instead of our mistakes.
For we who are Your holy son are sinless. We would look upon our
sinlessness, for guilt proclaims that we are not Your Son. And we
would not forget You longer. We are lonely here, and long for
Heaven, where we are at home. Today we would return. Our Name
is Yours, and we acknowledge that we are Your Son."
Love
LESSON 224
"God is my Father, and He loves His Son."
My true Identity is so secure, so lofty, sinless, glorious and great,
wholly beneficent and free from guilt, that Heaven looks to It to give
it light.t lights the World as well. It is the gift my Father gave to me;
the one as well I give the world. There is no gift but This that can be
either given or received. This is reality, and only This. This is
illusion´s end. It is the truth.
"My Name, O Father, still is known to You. I have forgotten
it, and do not know where I am going, who I am, or what it is I do.
Remind me, Father, now, for I am weary of the world I see. Reveal
what You would have me see instead."
Love
LESSON 225
"God is my Father, and His Son loves Him."
"Father, I must return Your Love for me, for giving and receiving
and the same, and You have given all Your Love to me. I must return
it, for I want it mine in full awareness, blazing in my mind and
keeping it within its kindly light, inviolate, beloved, with fear
behind and only peace ahead. How still the way Your loving Son is
led along to You."
Brother, we find that stillness now. The way is open. Now we
follow it in peace together. You have reached your hand to me, and I
will never leave you. We are one, and it is but this oneness that we
seek, as we accomplish these few final steps which end a journey that
was not begun.
Love
LESSON 226
"My home awaits me. I will hasten there."
If I so choose. I can depart this World entirely. It is not death which
makes this possible, but it is change of mind about the purpose of the
world. If I Believe it has a value as I see it now, so will it still remain
for me. But if I see no value in the World as I behold it, nothing that I
want to keep as mine or search for as a goal, it will depart from me.
For I have not sought for illusions to replace the truth.
"Father, my home awaits my glad return. Your Arms are open
and I hear Your Voice. What need have I to linger in a Place of vain
desires and of shattered dreams, when Heaven can so easily be
mine?
Love
LESSON 227
"This is my holy instant of release."
"Father, it is today that I am free, because my will is Yours. I
thought to make another will. Yet nothing that I thought apart from
You exists. And I am free because I was mistaken, and did not affect
my own reality at all by my illusions. Now I give them up, and lay
them down Before the feet of truth, to be removed forever from my
mind. This is my holy instant of release. Father, I know my will is
one with Yours."
And so today we find our glad return to Heaven, which we never
really left. The Son of God this day lays down his dreams. The Son of
God this day comes home again, released from sin and clad in
holiness, with his right mind restored to him at last.
Love
LESSON 228
"God has condemned me not. No more do I."
My Father knows my holiness. Shall I deny His knowledge, and
Believe in what His knowledge makes impossible? Shall I accept as
true what He proclaims as false? Or shall I take His Word for what I
am, since He is my Creator, and the One Who knows the true
condition of His Son?
"Father, I was mistaken in myself, because I failed to realize the
Source from Which I came, I have not left that Source to enter in a
body and to die. My holiness remains a part of me, as I am part of
You. And my mistakes about myself are Dreams. I let them go
today. And I stand ready to receive Your Word alone for what I
really am."
Love
LESSON 229
"Love, Which created me, is what I am."
I seek my own Identity, and find It in these Words: "Love, Which
created me, is what I am." Now need I seek no more. Love has
prevailed. So still It waited for my coming home, that I will turn
away no longer from the holy face of Christ. And what I look upon
attests the truth of the Identity I sought to lose, but Which my Father
has kept safe for me.
"Father, my thanks to You for what I am; for keeping my
Identity untouched and sinless, in the midst of all the thoughts of sin
my foolish mind made up. And thanks to You for saving me from
them. Amen.
Love
LESSON 230
"Now will I seek and find the peace of God."
In peace I was created. And in peace do I remain. It is not give me
to change my Self. How merciful is God my Father, that when He
created me He gave me Peace forever. Now I ask but to be what I am.
And can this be denied me, when it is forever true?
"Father, I seek the peace you gave as mine is my creation. What
was given then must be here now, for my creation was apart from
time, and still remains beyond all change. The peace in which Your
Son was born into Your Mind is shining there unchanged. I am as
You created me. I need but call on You to find the peace You gave.
It is Your Will that gave it to Your Son."
Love
What is Salvation?
Salvation is a promise, made by God, that you would find your
way to him at last. It cannot but be kept. It guarantees that time will
have an end, and all the thoughts that have been born in the time will end
as well. God´s Word is given every mind which Thinks that it has
separate thoughts, and will replace these thoughts conflikt with the
Thoughts of peace.
The Thought of peace was given to God´s Son the instant that his
mind had thgought of war. There was no need for such a Thought
before, for peace was given without opposite, and merely was. But
when the mind is split there is a need of healing. So the Thought that
has the power to heal the split became a part of every fragment of the
mind that still was one, but failed to recognize its oneness. Now it did
not know itself, and thought its own Identity was lost.
Salvation is undoing in the sense that it does nothing, failing to
support the world of Dreams and malice. Thus it lets illusions go. By
not supporting them, it merely lets then, quietly go down to dust.
And what they hid is now revealed; an altar to the holy Name of God
whereon His Word is written, with the gifts of your forgiveness laid
before it, and the memory of God not far behind.
Let us come Daily to this holy place, and spend a while together.
Here we share our final Dream. It is a Dream in which there is no
sorrow, for it holds a hint of all the glory given us by God. The grass
is pushing through the soil, the trees are budding now, and birds have
come to live within their branches. Earth is being born again in new
perspective. Night has gone, and we have come together in the light.
From here we give salvation to the world, for it is here salvation
was received. The song of our rejoicing is the call to all the world that
freedom is returned, that time is almost over, and God´s Son has but
an instant more to wait until his Father is remembered, dreams are
done, eternity has shined away the world, and only Heaven now
exists at all.
LESSON 231
"Father, I will but to remember You."
"What can I seek for, Father, but Your Love? Perhaps I think I
seek for something else; a something I have called by many names.
Yet is Your Love the only thing I seek, or ever sought. For there is
nothing else that I could ever really want to find. Let me remember
You. What else could I desire but the truth about myself?"
This is your will, my brother. And you share this will with me, and
with the One as well Who is our Father. To remember Him is Heaven.
This we seek. And only this is what it will be given us to find.
Love
LESSON 232
"Be in my mind, my Father, through the day."
"Be in my mind, my Father, when I wake, and shine on me
throughout the day today. Let every minute be a time in which I
dwell with You. And let me not forget my hourly thanksgiving that
You have remained with me, and Always will be there to hear my
call to You and answer me. As evening comes, let all my thoughts
be still of You and of Your Love. And let me sleep sure of my safety,
certain of Your care, and happily aware I am Your Son."
This is as every day should be. Today, practice the end of fear.
Have faith in Him Who is your Father. Trust all things to Him. Let
Him reveal all things to you, and be you undismayed because you are
His Son.
Love
LESSON 233
"I give my life to God to guide today."
"Father, I give You all my thoughts today. I would have none of
mine. In Place to them, give me Your Own. I give You all my acts as
well, that I may do Your Will instead of seeking goals which cannot
be obtained, and wasting time in vain imaginings. Today, I come to
You. I will step back and merely follow you. Be You the Guide, and
I the follower who questions not the wisdom of the Infinite, nor
Love whose tenderness I cannot comprehend, but which is yet Your
perfect gift to me."
Today we have one Guide to lead us on. And as we walk together,
we will give this day to Him with no reserve at all. This is His day.
And so it is a day of countless gifts and mercies unto us.
Love
LESSON 234
"Father, today I am Your Son again."
Today we will anticipate the time when dreams of sin and guilt are
gone, and we have reached the holy peace we never left. Merely a
tiny instant has elapset between eternity and timelessness. So brief
the interval there was no lapse in continuity, nor break in thoughts
which are forever unified as one. Nothing has ever happened to
disturb the peace of God the Father and the Son. This we accept as
wholly true today.
"We thank you, Father, that we cannot lose the memory of You
and of Your Love. We recognize our safety, and give thanks for all
the gifts You have bestowed on us, for all the loving help we have
received, for Your eternal patience, and the Word which You have
given us that we are saved."
Love
LESSON 235
"God in His mercy wills that I be saved."
I need but look upon all things that seem to hurt me, and with
perfect certainty assure myself, "God wills that I be saved from this,"
and merely watch them disappear. I need but keep in mind my
Father´s Will for me is only happiness, to find that only happiness has
come to me. And I need but remember that God´s Love surrounds His
Son and keeps his sinlessness forever perfect, to be sure that I am
saved and safe forever in His Arms. I am the Son He loves. And I am
saved because God in His mercy wills it so.
"Father, Your holiness is mine. Your Love created me, and made
my sinlessness forever part of You. I have no guilt nor sin in me. for
there is none in You."
Love
LESSON 236
"I rule my mind, which I alone must rule."
I have a kingdom I must rule. At times, it does not seem I am its
king at all. It seems to triumph over me, and tell me what to think,
and what to do and feel. And yet it has been given me to serve
whatever purpose I perceive in it. My mind can only serve. Today I
give its service to the Holy Spirit to employ as He sees fit. I thus direct
my mind, which I alone can rule. And thus I see it free to do the Will
of God.
"Father, my mind is open to Your Thoughts, and closed today to
every thought but Yours. I rule my mind, and offet it to You.
Accept my gift, for it is Yours to me."
Love
LESSON 237
"Now would I be as God created me."
Today I will accept the truth about myself. I will arise in glory, and
allow the light in me to shine upon the World throughout the day. I
bring the world the tidings of salvation which I hear as God my
Father speaks to me. And I behold the world that Christ would have
me see, aware it ends the bitter dream of death; aware it is my
Father´s call to me.
"Christ is my eyes today, and He the ears that listen to the Voice
for God today. Father, I come to You through Him Who is Your
Son, and my true Self as well. Amen."
Love
LESSON 238
"On my decision all salvation rests."
"Father, Your trust in me has been so great, I must be worthy.
You created me, and know me as I am. And yet You placed Your
Son´s salvation in my hands, and let it rest on my decision. I must be
beloved of You indeed. And I must be steadfast in holiness as well,
that You would give Your Son to me in certainty that he is safe Who
still is part of You, and yet is mine, because He is my Self."
And so, again today, we pause to think how much our Father loves
us. And how dear His Son, created by His Love, remains to Him
Whose Love is made complete in him.
Love
LESSON 239
"The glory of my Father is my own."
Let not the truth about ourselves today be hidden by a false
humility. Let us instead be thankful for the gifts our Father gave us.
Can we see in those with whom He shares His glory any trance of sin
and guilt? And can it be that we are not among them, when He loves
His Son forever and with perfect constancy, knowing he is as He
created him?
"We thank you, Father, for the light that shines forever in us.
And we honor it, because You share it with us. We are one,united
in this light and one with You, at peace with all creation and
ourselves."
Love
LESSON 240
"Fear is not justified in any form."
Fear is deception. It attests that you have seen yourself as you
could never be, and therefore look upon a world which is impossible.
Not one thing in this world is true. It does not matter what the form in
which it may appear. In witnesses but to your own illusions of
yourself. Let us not be deceived today. We are the Sons of God.
There is no fear in us, for we are each a part of Love Itself.
"How foolish are our fears! Would You allow Your Son to suffer?
Give us faith today to recognize Your Son, and set him free. Let us
forgive him in Your Name, that we may understand his holiness,
and feel the love for him which is Your Own as well."
Love
WHAT IS THE WORLD?
The world is false perception. It is born of error, and it has not left
its source. It will remain no longer than the thought that gave it birth
is cherished. When the thought of separation has been changed to one
of true forgiveness, will the world be seen in quiet another light; and
one which leads to truth, where all the world must disappear and all
its errors vanish. Now its source has gone, and its effects are gone as
well.
The world was made as an attack on God. Its symbolizes fear. And
what is fear execpt love´s absence? Thus the world was meant to be a
Place where God could enter not, and where His Son could be apart
from Him. Here was perception born, for knowledge could not cause
such insane thoughts. But eyes deceive, and ears hear falsely. Now
mistakes become quite possible, for certainty has gone.
The mechanisms of illusion have been born instead. And now they
go to find what has been given them to seek. Their aim is to fulfill the
purpose which the World was made to witness and make real.They
see in its illusions but a solid base where truth exists, upheld apart
from lies. Yet Everything that they report is but illusion which is kept
apart from truth.
As sight was made to lead away from truth, it can be redirected.
Sounds become the call of God, and all perception can be given a new
purpose by the One Whom God appointed. Savior to the world.
Follow His Light, and see the World as He beholds it. Hear His Voice
alone in all that speaks to you. And let Him give you peace and
certainty, which you have thrown away, but Heaven has preserved
for you in Him.
Let us not rest content until the world has joined our changed
perception. Let us not be satisfied until forgiveness has been made
complete. And let us not attempt to change our function. We must
save the world. For we who made it must behold it through the Eyes
of Christ, that what was made to die can be restored to everlasting
life.
LESSON 241
"This holy instant is salvation come."
What joy there is today! It is a time of special celebration. For
today holds out the instant to the darkened world where its release is
set. The day has come when sorrows pass away and pain is gone. The
glory of salvation Dawns today upon a World set free. This is the time
of hope for countless millions. They will be united now, as you
forgive them all. For I will be forgiven by you today.
"We have forgiven one Another now, and so we come at last to
You again. Father, Your Son, who never left, returns to Heaven and
his home. How glad are we to have our sanity restored to us, and to
remember that we all are one."
Love
LESSON 242
"This day is God´s. It is my gift to Him."
I will not lead my Life alone today. I do not understand the world,
and so to try to lead my life alone must be but foolishness. But there is
One Who knows all that is best for me. And He is glad to make no
choices for me but the ones that lead to God. I give this day to Him,
for I would not delay my coming home, and it is He Who knows the
way to God.
"And so we give today to you. We come with wholly open minds.
We do not ask for anything that we may think we want. Give us
what You would have received by us. You know all our desires and
our wants. And You will give us Everything we need in helping us to
find the way to You."
Love
LESSON 243
"Today I will judge nothing that occurs."
I will be honest with myself today. I will not think that I already
know what must remain behyond my present grasp. I will not think I
understand the whole from bits of my perception, which are all
that I can see. Today I recognize that this is so. And so I am relieved
of judgments that I cannot make. Thus do I free myself and what I
look upon, to be in peace as God created us.
"Father, today I leave creation free to be itself. I honor all its
parts, in which I am included. We are one because each part
contains Your memory, and truth must shine in all of us as one."
Love
LESSON 244
"I am in danger nowhere in the world."
"Your Son is safe wherever he may be, for You are there with
him. He need but call upon Your Name, and he will recollect his
safety and Your Love, for they are one. How can he fear or doubt or
fail to know he cannot suffer, be endangered, or experience
unhappiness, when he belongs to You, beloved and loving, in the
safety of Your Fatherly embrance?"
And there we are in truth. No storms can come into the hallowed
haven of our home. In God we are secure. For what can come to
threaten God Himself, or make afraid what will forever be a part of
Him?
Love
LESSON 245
"Your peace is with me, Father. I am safe."
"Your peace surrounds me, Father. Where I go. Your peace goes
there with me. It sheds its light on everyone I meet. I bring it to the
desolate and lonely and afraid. I give Your peace to those who
suffer pain, or grieve for loss, or think they are bereft of hope and
happiness. Send them to me, my Father. Let me bring Your Peace
with me. For I would save Your Son, as is Your Will, that I may
come to recognize my Self."
And so we go in peace. To all the world we give the message that
we have received. And thus we come to hear the Voice for god, Who
speaks to us as we relete His Word; Whose Love we recognize
because we share the Word that He has given unto us.
Love
LESSON 246
"To love my Father is to love His Son."
Let me not think that I can find the way to God, if I have hatred in
my heart. Let me not try to hurt God´s Son, and think that I can know
his Father or my Self. Le me not fail to recognize myself, and still
believe that my awareness can contain my Father, or my mind
conceive of all the love my Father has for me, and all the love which I
return to Him.
"I will accept the way You choose for me to come to You, my
Father. For in that will I succeed, because it is Your Will. And I
would recognize that what You will is what I will as well, and only
that. And so I choose to love Your Son. Amen."
Love
LESSON 247
"Without forgiveness I will still be blind."
Sin is the symbol of attack. Behold it anywhere, and I will suffer.
For forgiveness is the only means whereby Christ´s vision comes to
me. Let me accept what His sight shows me as the simple truth, and I
am healed completely. Brother, come and let me look on you. Your
loveliness reflects my own. Your sinlessness is mine. You stand
forgiven, and I stand with you.
"So would I look on everyone today. My Brothers are Your Sons.
Your Fatherhood created them, and gave them all to me as part of
You, and my own Self as well. Today I honor You through them,
and thus I hope this day to recognize my Self."
Love
LESSON 248
"Whatever suffers is not part of me."
I have disowned the truth. Now let me be as faithful in disowning
falsity. Whatever suffers is not part of me. What grieves is not
myself. What is in pain is but illusion in my mind. What dies was
never living in reality, and did but mock the truth about myself. Now
I disown self-concepts and deceits and lies about the holy Son of God.
Now am I ready to accept him back as God created him, and as he is.
"Father, my ancient love for You returns, and lets me love Your
Son again as well. Father, I am as You created me. Now is Your Love
remembered, and my own. Now do I understand that they are one."
Love
LESSON 249
"Forgiveness ends all suffering and loss."
Forgiveness paints a picture of a world where suffering is over, loss
becomes impossible and anger makes no sense. Attack is gone, and
madness has an end. What suffering is now conceivable? What loss
can be sustained? The world becomes a place of joy, abudance,
charity and endless giving. It is now so like to Heaven that it quickly
is transformed into the light that it reflects. And so the journey which
the Son of God began has ended in the light from which he came.
"Father, we would return our minds to You. We have betrayed
them, held them in a vise of bitterness, and frightened them with
thoughts of violance and death. Now would we rest again in You, as
You created us."
Love
LESSON 250
"Let me not see myself as limited."
Let me behold the Son of God today, and witness to his glory. Let
me not try to obscure the holy light in him, and see his strength
diminished and reduced to frailtyt; nor perceive the lack in him with
which I would attack his sovereighnty.
"He is Your Son, my Father. And today I would behold his
gentleness instead of my illusions. He is what I am, and as I see him
so I see myself. Today I would see truly, that this day I may at last
identify with him."
Love