IA´s Journal

LESSON 298

"I love You, Father, and I love Your Son."

My gratitude permits my love to be accepted without fear. And
thus am I restored to my Reality at last. All that intruded on my holy
sight forgiveness takes away. And I draw near the end of senseless
journeys, mad careers and artificial values. I accept instead what
God establishes as mine, sure that in that alone I will be saved; sure
that I go through fear to meet my Love.

"Fear, I come to You today, because I would not fallow any
way but Yours. You are beside me. Certain is Your way. And I am
greatful for Your holy gifts of certain sanctuary, and escape from
everything that would obscure my love for God my Father and His
holy Son."

Love

LESSON 299

"Eternal holiness abides in me."

My holiness is far beyond my own ability to understand or know.
Yet God, my Father, Who created it, acknowledges my holiness as
His. Our Will, together, understands it. And our Will, together,
knows that it is so.

"Father, my holiness is not of me. It is not mine to be destroyed
by sin. It is not mine to suffer from attack. Illusions can obscure it,
but can not put out its radiance, nor dim its light. It stands forever
perfect and untouched. In it are all things healed, for they remains as
You created them. And I can know my holiness. For Holiness Itself
created me, and I can know my Source because it is Your Will that
You be known."

Love

LESSON 300

"Only an instant does this World endure."

This is a thought which can be used to say that death and sorrow
are the certain lot of all who come here, for their joys are gone before
they are possessed, or even grasped. Yet this is also the idea that lets
no false perception keep us in its hold, nor represent more than a
passing cloud upon a sky eternally serene. And it is this serenity we
seek, unclouded, obvious and sure, today.

"We seek Your holy world today. For we, Your loving Sons, have
lost our way a while. But we have listened to Your Voice, and
learned exactly whqt to do to be restored to Heaven and our true
Identity. And we give thanks today the World endures but for an
instant. We would go beyond that tiny instant to eternity."

Love

WHAT IS THE SECOND COMMING?

Christ´s Second Comming, which is sure as God, is merely the
correction of mistakes, and the return of sanity. It is a part of the
condition that restores the never lost, and re-establishes what is
forever and forever true. It is the invitation to God´s Word to take
illusion´s place; the willingness to let forgiveness rest upon all things
without exception and without reserve.
It is the all-inclusive nature of Christ´s Second Coming that permits
it to embrace the world and hold you safe within its gentle advent,
which encompasses all living things with you. There is no end to the
release the Second Coming brings, as God´s creation must be
limitless. Forgiveness lights the Second Coming´s way, because it
shines on Everythings as one. And thus is oneness recongized at last.
The Second Coming ends the lessons that the Holy Spirit
teaches, making way for the Last Judgment, in which learning ends in
one last summary that will extend beyond itself, and reaches up to
God. The Second Coming is the time in which all minds are given to
the hands of Christ, to be returned to spirit in the name of true
creation and the Will of God.
The Second Coming is the one event in time which time itself can
not affect. For every one who ever came to die, or yet will come or
who is present now, is equally released from what he made. In this
equality is Christ restored as Identity, in Which the Sons of God
acknowledge that they all are one. And God the Father smiles upon
His Son, His one Creation and His only joy.
Pray that the Second Coming will be soon, but do not rest with
that. It needs your Eyes and ears and hands and feet. It needs your
voice. And most of all it needs your willingness. Let us rejoice that we
can do God´s Will, and join together in its holy light. Behold, the Son
of God is one in us, and we can reach our Father´s Love through Him.


LESSON 301

And God Himself shall wipe away all tears."

"Father, unless I judge I cannot weep. Nor can I suffer pain, or
feel I am abandoned or unneeded in the world. This is my home
because I judge it not, and therefore is it only what You will. Let me
today behold it uncondemned, through happy eyes forgiveness has
released from all distortion. Let me see Your world instead of mine.
And all the tears I shed will be forgotten, for their source is gone.
Father, I will not judge Your World today."

God´s world is happy. Those who look on it can only add their joy
to it, and bless it as a cause of further joy in them. We wept because
we did not understand. But we have learned the world we saw was
false, and we will look upon God´s world today.

Love

LESSON 302

"Where darkness was i look upon the light."

"Father, our eyes are opening at last. Your holy world awaits us,
as our sight is finally restored and we can see. We thought we
suffered. But we had forgoten the Son whom You created. Now we see
that darkness is our own imagining, and light is there for us to look
upon. Christ´s vision changes darkness into light, for fear must
disappear when love has come. Let me forgive Your holy world
today, that I may look upon its holiness and understand it but
reflects my own."

Our Love awaits us as we go to Him, and walks beside us showing
us the way. He fails in nothing. He the end we seek, and He the means
by which we go to Him.

Love

LESSON 303

"The holy Christ is born in me today."

Watch with me, angels, watch with me today. Let all God´s holy
Thoughts surround me, and be still with me while Heaven´s Son is
born. Let earthly sounds be quiet, and the sights to which I am
accustomed disappear. Let Christ be welcomed where He is at home.
And let Him hear the sounds He understands, and see but sights that
show His Father´s Love. Let Him no longer be a stranger here, for He
is born again in me today.

"Your Son is welcome, Father. He has come to save me from the
evil self I made. He is the Self That You have given me. He is but
what I really am in truth. He is the Son You love above all things,
He is my Self as You created me. It is not Christ That can be
crucified. Self in Your Arms let me recieve Your Son."

Love

LESSON 304

"Let not my world obscure the sight of Christ."

I can obscure my holy sight, if I intrude my world upon it. Nor can
I behold the holy sights Christ looks upon, unless it is His vision that I
use. Perception is a mirror, not a fact. And what I look on is my state
of mind, reflected outward. I would bless the world by looking on it
through the eyes of Christ. And I will look upon the certain signs that
all my sins have been forgiven me.

"You lead me from the darkness to the light; from sin to holiness.
Let me forgive, and thus receive salvation for the World. It is Your
gift, my Father, given me to offer to Your holy Son, that he may
find again the memory of You, and of Your Son as You created
him."

Love

LESSON 305

"There is a peace that Christ bestows on us."

Who uses but Christ´s vision finds a peace so deep and quiet,
undisturbable and wholly changeless, that the world contains no
counterpart. Comparrisons are still before this peace. And all the
world departs in silence as this peace envelops it, and gently carries it
to truth, no more to be the home of fear. For love has come, and
healed the world by giving it Christ´s peace.

"Father, the peace of Christ is given us, because it is Your Will
that we be saved. Help us today but to accept Your gift, and judge it
not. For it has come to us to save us from our judgment on ourselves"

Love

LESSON 306

"The gift of Christ is all I seek today."

What but Christ´s vision would I use today, when it can offer me a
day in which I see a world so like to Heaven that an ancient memory
returns to me? Today I can forget the world I made. Today I can go
past all fear, and be restored to love and holiness and peace. Today I
am redeemed, and born anew into a world of mercy and of care; of
loving kindness and the peace of God.

"And so, our Father, we return to You, remembering we never
went away; remembering Your holy gifts to us. In gratitude and
thankfulness we come, with empty hands and open hearts and
minds, asking but what You give. We cannot make an offering
sufficient for Your Son. But in Your Love the gift of Christ is his."

Love

LESSON 307

"Conflicting wishes cannot be my will."

"Father, Your Will is mine, and only that. There is no other will
for me to have. Let me not try to make another will, for it is
senseless and will cause me pain. Your Will alone can bring me
happiness, and only Your exists. If I would have what only You
can give. I must accept Your Will for me, and enter into peace
where conflict is impossible. Your Son is one with You in being and
in will, and nothing contradicts the holy truth that I remain as You
created me."

And with this prayer we enter silently into a state where conflict
cannot come, because we join our holy will with God´s, in
recognition that they are the same.

Love

LESSON 308

"This instant is the only time there is."

I have conceived of time in such a way that I defeat my aim. If I
elect to reach past time to timelessness. I must change my perception
of wht time is for. Time´s purpose cannot be to keep the past and
future one. The only interval in which I can be saved from time is
now. For in this instant has forgiveness come to set me free. The birth
of Christ is now, without a past or future. He has come to give His
present blessing to the world, restoring it to timlessness and love.
And love is ever-present, here and now.

"Thanks for this instant, Father. It is now I am redeemed. This
instant is the time You have appointed for Your Son´s release, and
for salvation of the world in him."

Love

LESSON 309

"I will not fear to look within today."

Within me is Eternal Innocence, because it is God´s Will that it be
there forever and forever. I, His Son, whose will is limitless as is His
Own, can will no change in this. For to deny my Father´s Will is to
deny my own. To look within is but to find my will as God created it,
and as it is. I fear to look within because I Think I made Another will
that is not true, and made it real. Yet it has no effects. Within me is the
holiness of God. Within me is the memory of Him.

"The step I take today, my Father, is my sure release from idle
dreams of sin. Your altar stands serene and undefiled. It is the holy
altar of my Self, and there I find my true Identity."

Love

LESSON 310

"In fearlessness and love I spend today."

"This day, my Father, would I spend with You, as You have
chosen all my days should be. And what I will expereince is not of
time at all. The joy that comes to me is not of days nor hours, for it
comes from Heaven to Your Son. This day will be Yours sweet
reminder to remember You. Your gracious calling to Your holy
Son, the sign Your grace has come to me, and that it is Your Will I
be set free today."

We spend this day together, you and I. And all the world joins with
us in our song of thankfulnesss and joy to Him Who gave salvation to
us, and Who set us free. We are restored to peace and holiness. There
is no room in us for fear today, for we have welcomed love into our hearts.

Love

WHAT IS THE LAST JUDGMENT?

Christ´s Second Coming gives the Son of God this gift: To hear
the Voice of God proclaim that what is false is false, and what is
true has never changed. And this the judgment is in which perception
ends. At fist you see a world that has accepted this as true, projected
from a now corrected mind. And with this holy sight, perception
gives a silent blessing and then disappears, its goal accomplished and
its mission done.
The Final Judgment on the world contains no condemnation. For it
sees the world as totally forgiven, without sin and wholly purposless.
Without a cause, and now without a function in Christ´s sight, it merely
slips away to nothingness. There it was born, and there it ends as well.
And all the figures in the dream in which the world began go with it.
Bodies now are useless, and will therefore fade away, because the
Son of God is limitless.
You who believed that God´s Last Judgment would condemn the
world to hell along with you, accept this holy truth: God´s Judgment
is the gift of the Correction He bestowed on all your errors, freeing
you from them, and all effects they ever seemed to have. The fear
God´s saving grace is but to fear complete release from suffering,
return to peace, security and happiness, and union with your own
Identity.
God´s Final Judgment is as merciful as every step in His appointed
plan to bless His Son, and call him to return to the eternal peace
He shares with him. Be not afraid of love. For it alone can heal all
sorrow, wipe away all tears, and gently waken from his dream of
pain the Son whom God acknowledges as His. Be not afraid of this.
Salvation asks you give it welcome. And the world awaits your glad
acceptance, which will set it free.
This is God´s Final Judgment: "You are still My Holy Son, forever
innocent, forever loving and forever loved, as limitless as your
Creator, and completely changeless and forever pure. Therefore
awaken and return to Me. I am Your Father and you are My Son."

LESSON 311

"I judge all things as I would have them be."

Judgment was made to be a weapon used against the truth. It
separates what it is being used against, and sets it off as if it were a
thing apart. And then it makes of it what you would have it be. It
judges what it cannot understand, because it cannot see totality and
therefore judges falsely. Let us not use it today, but make a gift of it to
Him Who has a different use for it. He will relieve us of the agony of
all the judgment we have made against ourselves, and re-establish
peace of mind by giving us God´s Judgment of His Son.

"Father, we wait with open mind today, to hear Your Judgment
of the Son You love. We do not know him, and we cannot judge.
And so we let Your Love decide what he whom You created as Your
Son must be."

Love

LESSON 312

"I see all things as I would have them be."

Perception follows judgmen. Having judged, we therefore see
what we would look upon. For sight can merely serve to offer us what
we would have. It is impossible to overlook what we would see, and
fail to see what we have chosen to behold. How surely, therefore,
must the real world come to greet the holy sight of anyone who takes
the Holy Spirit´s purpose as his goal for seeing. And he cannot fail to
look upon what Christ would have him see, and share Christ´s Love
for what he looks upon.

"I have no purpose for today except to look upon a liberated
world, set free from all the judgment I have made. Father, this is
Your Will for me today, and therefore it must be my goal as well."

Love

LESSON 313

"Now let a new perception come to me."

"Father, there is a vision which beholds all things as sinless, so
that fear has gone, and where it was is love invited in. And love will
come wherever it is asked. This vision is Your gift. The eyes of
Christ look on a world forgiven. In His sight are all its sins forgiven,
for He sees no sin in anything He looks upon. Now let His true
perception come to me, that I may waken from the dream of sin and
look within upon my sinlessness, which You have kept completely
undefiled upon the altar of Your holy Son, the Self with Which I
would identify."

Let us today behold each other in the sight of Christ. How
beautiful we are! How holy and how loving! Brother, come and join
with me today. We save the world when we have joined. For in our
vision it becomes as holy as the light in us.

Love

LESSON 314

"I seek a future different from the past."

From new perception of the world there comes a future very
different from the past. The future now is recongized as but extention
of the present. Past mistakes can cast no shadow on it, so that fear
has lost its idols and its images, and being formless, it has no effects.
Death will not claim the future now, for Life is now its goal, and all the
needed means are happily provided. Who can grieve or suffer when
the present has been freed, extending its security and peace into a
quiet future filled with joy.

"Father, we were mistaken in the past, and choose to use the
present to be free. Now do we leave the future in Your Hands, leaving
behind our past mistakes, and sure that You will keep Your present
promises, and guide the future in their holy light."

Love

LESSON 315

"All gifts my brothers give belong to me."

Each day a thousand treasures come to me with every passing
moment. I am blessed with gifts throughout the day, in value far
beyond all things of which I can conceive. A brother smiles upon
another, an my heart is gladdened. Someone speaks a word of
gratitude or mercy, and my mind receives this gift and takes it as its
own. And everyone who finds the way to God becomes my savior,
pointing out the way to me, and giving me his certainty that what he
learnes is surely mine as well.

"I thank You, Father, for the many gifts that come to me today and
every day from every Son of God. My brothers are unlimited in all
their gifts to me. Now may I offer them my thankfulness, that
gratitude to them may lead me on to my Creator and His memory."

Love

LESSON 316

"All gifts I give my brother are my own."

As every gift my brothers give is mine, so every gift I give belongs
to me. Each one allows a past mistake to go, and leave no shadow on
the holy mind my Father loves. His grace is given me in every gift a
brother has received throughout all time, and past all time as well.
My treasure house is full, and angels watch its open doors that not
one gift is lost, and only more are added. Let me come to where my
treasures are, and enter in where I am truly welcome and at home,
among the gifts that God has given me.

"Father, I would accept Your gifts today. I do not recongize them.
Yet I trust that You Who gave them will provide the means by which I
can behold them, see their worth, and cherish only them as what I
want."

Love

LESSON 317

"I follow in the way appointed me."

I have a special place of to fill; a role for me alone. Salvation waits
until I take this part as what I choose to do. I make this choice. I
am the slave of time and human destiny. But when I willingly and
gladly go the way my Father´s plan appointed me to go, then will I
recognize salvation is already here, already given all my brothers and
already mine as well.

"Father, Your way is what I choose today. When it would lead me
do I choose to go; what it would have me do I choose to do. Your
way is certain, and the end secure.The memory of You awaits me
there. And all my sorrows end in Your embrace, which You have
promised to Your Son, who thought mistakenly that he had
wandered from the sure protection of Your loving Arms."

Love

LESSON 318

"In me salvation´s means and end are one."

In me, God´s holy Son, are reconciled all parts of Heaven´s plan to
save the world. What could conflict, when all the parts have but one
purpose and one aim? How could there be a single part that stands
alone, or one of more or less importance than the rest? I am the means
by which God´s Son is saved, because salvation´s purpose is to find
the sinlessness that God has placed in me, I was created as the thing I
seek. I am the goal the World is searsing for. I am God´s Son, His one
eternal Love. I am salvation´s means and end as well.

"Let today, my Father, take the role You offer me in Your
request that I accept Atonement for myself. For thus does what is
thereby reconciled in me become as surely reconciled to You."

Love

LESSON 319

"I came for the salvation of the world."

Here is a thought from which all arrogance has been removed, and
only truth remains. For arrogance opposes truth. But when there is
no arrogance the truth will come immediately, and fill up the space
the ego left unoccupied by lies. Only the ego can be limited, and
therefore it must seek for aims which are curtailed and limiting. The
ego thinks that what one gains, totality must lose. And yet it is the
Will of God I learn that what one gains is given unto all.

"Father, Your Will is total. And the goal which stems from it shares
its totality. What aim but the salvation of the world could You have
given me? And what but this could be the Will my Self has shared
with You."

Love

LESSON 320

"My Father gives all power unto me."

The Son of God is limitless. There are no limits on his strength, his
Peace, his joy, nor any attributes his Father gave in his creation.
What he wills with his Creator and Redeemer must be done. His holy
will can never be denied, because his Father shines upon his mind,
and lays before it all the strength and love in Earth and Heaven. I am
he to whom all this is given. I am he in whom the power of my
Father´s Will abides.

"Your Will can do all things in me, and then extend to all the world
as well through me. There is no limit on Your Will. And so all power
has been given to Your Son."

Love



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WHAT IS CREATION?

Creation is the sum of all God´s Thoughts, in number infinite, and
everywhere without all limit. Only Love creates, and only like Itself.
There was no time when all that It created was not there. Nor will
there be a time when anything that It created suffers any loss. Forever
and forever are God´s Thoughts exactly as they were and as they are,
unchanged though time and after time is done.
God´s Thoughts are given all the power that their own Creator has.
For He would add to Love by its extension. Thus His Son shares in
creation, and must therefore share in power to create. What God has
willed to be forever one will still be one when time is over; and will
not be changed throughout the course of time, remaining as it was
before the thought of time began.
Creation is the opposite of all illusions, for Creation is the truth.
Creation is the holy Son of God, for in Creation is His Will complete
in every aspect, making every part container of the Whole. Its
oneness is forever guaranteed inviolate; forever held within His holy
Will, beyond all possibility of harm, of separation, imperfection and
of any spot upon its sinlessness.
We are creation; we the Sons of God. We seem to be discrete, and
unaware of our eternal unity with Him. Yet back of all our doubts,
past all our fears, there still is certainty. For Love remains with all Its
Thoughts, Its sureness being theirs. God´s memory is in our holy
minds, which know their oneness and their unity with their Creator.
Let our function be only to let this memory return, only to let God´s
Will be done on Earth, only to be restored to sanity, and to be but as
God created us.
Our Father calls to us. We hear His Voice, and we forgive Creation
in the Name of its Creator, Holiness Itself, Whose holiness His Own
creation shares; Whose holiness is still a part of us.

LESSON 321

"Father, my freedom is in You alone."

"I did not understand what made me free, nor what my freedom is,
nor where to look to find it. Father, I have searched in vain until I
Heard Your Voice directing me. Now I would guide myself no more.
For I have neither made nor understood that way to find my freedom.
But I trust in You. You Who endowed me with my freedom as Your
holy Son will not be lost to me. Your Voice directs me, and the way to
You is opening and clear to me at last, Father, my freedom is in You
alone, Father, it is my will that I return."

Today we answer for the world, which will be freed alone with us.
How glad are we to find our freedom though the certain way our
Father has established. And how sure is all the world´s salvation,
when we learn our freedom can be found in God alone.

Love

LESSON 322

"I can give up but what was never real."

I sacrifice illusions; nothing more. And as illusions go I find the
gift illusions tried to hide, awaiting me in shining welcome, and in
readiness to give God´s ancient messages to me. His memory abides
in every gift that I receive of Him. And every dream serves only to
conceal the Self Which is God´s only Son, the likeness of Himself, the
Holy One Who still abides in Him forever, as He still abides in me.

"Father, to You all sacrifice remains forever inconceivable. And so
I cannot sacrifice execpt in dreams. As You created me. I can give up
nothing You gave me. What You did not give has no reality. What
loss can I anticipate except the loss of fear, and the return of love into
my mind?"

Love

LESSON 323

"I gladly make the `sacrifice`of fear."

"Here is the only `sacrifice`You ask Your beloved Son; You ask
him to give up all suffering, all sense of loss and sadness, all anxiety
and doubt, and freely let Your Love come streaming in to his
awareness, healing him of pain, and giving him Your Own eternal
joy. Such is the `sacrifice`You ask of me, and one I gladly make; the
only `cost`of restoration of Your memory to me, for the salvation of
the world."

And as we pay the debt we owe to truth, - a debt that merely is the
letting go of self-deceptions and of images we worshipped falsely -
truth returns to us in wholeness and in joy. We are deceived no
longer. Love has now returned to our awareness. And we are at peace
again, for fear has gone and only love remains.

Love

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ACIM

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LESSON 324

"I merely follow, for I would not lead."

"Father, You are the One Who gave the plan for my salvation to
me. You have set the way I am to go, the role to take, and every step
is my appointed path. I cannot lose the way. I can but choose to
wander off a while, and then return. Your loving Voice will always
call me back, and guide my feet aright. My Brothers all can follow in
the way I lead them. Yet I merely follow in the way to You, as You
direct me and would have me go."

So let us follow One Who knows the way. We need not tarry, and
we cannot stray except an instant from His loving hand. We walk
together, for we follow Him. And it is He Who makes the ending
sure, and guarantees a safe returning home.

Love

LESSON 325

"All things I Think I see reflect ideas."

This is salvation´s keynote: What I see reflects a process in my
mind, which starts with my idea of what I want. From there, the mind
makes up an image of the things the mind desires, judges valuable, and
therefore seeks to find. The images are then projected outward,
looked upon, esteemed as real and guarded as one´s own. From
insane wishes comes an insane world. From judgment comes a
world condemned. And from forgiving thoughts a gentle world
comes forth, with mercy for the holy Son of God, to offer him a
kindly home where he can rest a while Before he journeys on, and
help his Brothers walk ahead with him, and find the way to Heaven
and to God.

"Our Father, Your ideas reflect the truth, and mine apart from
Yours but make up Dreams. Let me behold what only Your reflect,
for Yours and Yours alone establish truth."

Love

LESSON 326

"I am forever an Effect of God."

"Father, I was created in Your Mind, a holy Thought that never left
its home. I am forever Your Effect, and You forever and forever are
my Cause. As You created me I have remained. Where You
established me I still abide. And all Your attributes abide in me,
because it is Your Will to have a Son so like his Cause that Cause and
Its Effect are indistinguishable. Let me know that I am an Effect of
God, and so I have the Power to create like You. And as it is in
Heaven, so on earth. Your plan I follow here, and at the end I know
¨that You will gather Your effects into the tranquil Heaven of Your
Love, where Earth will vanish, and all separate thoughts unite in
glory as the Son of God."

Let us today behold earth disappear, at first transformed, and
then, forgiven, fade entirely into God´s holy Will.

Love

LESSON 327

"I need but call and You will answer me."

I am not asked to take salvation on the basis of an unsupported
faith. For God has promised He will hear my call, and answer me
Himself. Let me but learn from my experience that this is true, and
faith in Him must surely come to me. This is the faith that will
endure, and take me farther and still farther on the road that leads to
Him. For thus I will be sure that He has not abandoned me and loves
me still, awaiting but my call to give me all the help I need to come to
Him.

"Father, I thank You that Your promise will never fail in my
experience, if I but test them out. Let me attempt therefore to try
them, and to judge them not. Your Word is one with You. You give
¨the means whereby conviction comes, and surety of Your abiding
Love is gained at last."

Love

LESSON 328

"I choose the second place to gain the first."

What seems to be the second place is first, for all things we perceive
are upside down until we listen to the Voice of God. It seems that we
will gain autonomy but by our striving to be separate, and that our
independence from the rest of God´s creation is the way in which
salvation is obtained. Yet all we find is sickness, suffering and loss
and death. This is not what our Father wills for us, nor is there any
second to His Will. To join with His is but to find our own. And since
our will is His, it is to Him that we must go to recongnize our will.

"There is no will but Yours. And I am glad that nothing I imagine
contradicts what You would have me be. It is Your Will that I be
wholly safe, eternally at peace. And happily I share that Will which
You, my Father, gave as part of me."

Love

LESSON 329

"I have already chosen what You will."

"Father, I thought I wandered from Your Will, defied it, broke its
laws, and interposed a second will more powerful than Yours. Yet
what I am in truth is but Your Will, extended and extending. This am
I, and this will never change. As You are One, so am I one with You.
And this I chose in my creation, where my will became forever one
with Yours. That choice was made for all eternity. It cannot change,
and be in opposition to itself. Father, my will is Yours. And I am safe,
untroubled and serene, in endless joy, because it is Your Will that it
be so."

Today we will accept our union with each other and our Source.
We have no will apart from His, and all of us are one because His Will
is shared by all of us. Through it we recognize that we are one.
Through it we find our way at last to God.

Love

LESSON 330

"I will not hurt myself again today."

Let us this day accept forgiveness as our only function. Why
should we attack our minds, and give them images of pain? Why
should we teach them they are powerless, when God holds out His
Power and His Love, and bids them take what is already theirs? The
mind that is made willing to accept God´s gifts has been restored to
spirit, and extends its freedom and its joy, as is the Will of God ünited
with its own. The Self Which God created cannot sin, and therefore
cannot suffer. Let us choose today that He be our Identity, and thus
escape forever from all things the dream of ferar appears to offer us.

"Father, Your Son can not be hurt. And if we think we suffer, we
but fail to know our one Identity we share with You. We would
return to It today, to be made free forever from all our mistakes, and
to be saved from what we thought we were."

Love

WHAT IS THE EGO?

The ego is idolatry; the sign of limited and separated self, born in a
body, doomed to suffer and to end its Life in death. It is the "will" that
sees the Will of God as enemy, and takes a form in which it is
denied. The ego is the "proof" that strength is weak and love is
fearful, life is really death, and what opposes God alone is true.
The ego is insane. In fear it stands beyond the Eveywhere, apart
from All, in separation from the Infinite. In its insanity it thinks it
has become a victor over God Himself. And in its terrible autonomy
it "sees" the Will of God has been destroyed. It dreams of
punishment, and trembles at the figures in its dreams; its enemies,
who seek to murder it before it can ensure its safety by attacking
them.
The Son of God is egoless. What can he know of madness and the
death of God, when he abides in Him? What can he know of sorrow
and of suffering, when he lives in eternal joy? What can he know of
fear and punishment, of sin and guilt, of hatered and attack, when all
there is surrounding him is everlasting peace, forever conflict-free
and undisturbed, in deepest silence and tranquility?
To know reality is not to see the ego and its thoughts, its works,
its acts, its laws and its beliefs, its dreams, its hopes, its plans for its
salvation, and the cost belief in it entails. In suffering, the price for¨
faith in it is so immense that crusifixion of the Son of God is offered
daily at its darkened shrine, and blood must flow before the altar
where its sickly followers prepare to die.
Yet will one lily of forgiveness change the darkness into light; the
altar to illusions to the shrine of Life Itself. And peace will be
restored forever to the holy minds which God created as His Son,
His dweling place, His joy, His love, completely His, completely
one with Him.

LESSON 331

"There is no conflict, for my will is Yours."

"How foolish, Father, to beleive Your Son could cause himself to
suffer! Could he make a plan for his damnation, and be left without a
certain way to his release? You love me, Father. You could never
leave me desolate, to die within a world of pain and cruelty. How
could I think that Love has left Itself? There is no will except the Will
of Love. Fear is a dream, and has no will that can conflict with Yours,
Conflicts is sleep, and peace awakening. Death is illusion; Life, eternal
truth. There is no opposition to Your Will. There is no conflict, for
my will is Yours."

Forgineness shows us that God´s Will is one, and that we share it.
Let us look upon the holy sights forgiveness shows today, that we
may find the peace of God. Amen.

Love

LESSON 332

"Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets it free."

The ego makes illusions. Truth undoes its evil dreams by shining
them away. Truth never makes attack. It merely is. And by its
presence is the mind recalled from fantasies, awaking to the real.
Forgiveness bids this presence enter in, and takes its rightful place
within the mind. Without forgiveness is the mind in chanins,
believing in its own futility. Yet with forgiveness does the light shine
through the dream of darkness, offering it hope, and giving it the
means to realize the freedom that is its inheritance.

"We would not bind the world again today. Fear holds it prisoner.
And yet Your Love has given us the means to set it free. Father, we
would release it now. For as we offer freedom, it is given us. And we
would not remain as prisoners, while You are holding freedom out to
us."

Love

LESSON 333

"Forgiveness ends the dream of conflict here."

Conflict must be resolved. It cannot be evaded, set aside, denied,
disquised, seen somewhere else, called by another name, or hidden
by deceit of any kind, if it would be escaped. It must be seen exactly
as it is, where it is thought to be, in the reality which has been given
it, and with the purpose that the mind accorded it. For only then are
its defenses lifted, and the truth can shine upon it as it disappears.

"Father, forgiveness is the light You chose to shine away all
conflict and all doubt, and light the way for our return to You. No
light but this can end our evil dream. No light but this can save the
world. For this alone will never fail in anything being Your gift to
Your beloved Son."

Love

LESSON 334

"Today I claim the gifts forgiveness gives."

I will not wait Another day to find the treasures that my Father
offers me. Illusions are all vain, and dreams are gone even while
they are woven out of thoughts that rest on false preceptions. Let
me not accept such meager gifts again today. God´s Voice is offering
the peace of God to all who hear and choose to follow Him. This is
my choice today. And so I go to find the treasures God has given
me.

"I seek but the eternal. For Your Son can be content with nothing
less than this. What, then, can be his solace but what You are offering
to his bewildered mind mind and frightened heart, to give him certainty
and bring him peace? Today I would behold my brother sinless. This
Your Will for me, for so will I behold my sinlessness."

Love

LESSON 335

I choose to see my brother´s sinlessness."

Forgiveness is a choice. I never see my brother as he is, for that is
far beyond perception. What I see in him is merely what I wish to
see,because it stands for what I want to be the truth. It is to this
alone I respond, however much I seem to be impelled by ourside
happenings.I choose to see what I would look upon, and this I see,
and only this. My brother´s sinlessness shows me that I would look
upon my own. And I will see it, having choosen to behold my brother
in its holy light.

"What could restore Your memory to me, except to see my
brother´s sinlessness? His holiness reminds me that he was created
one with me, and like myself. In him I find my Self, and in Your Son I
find the memory of You as well."

Love

LESSON 336

"Forgiveness lets me know that minds are joined."

Forgiveness is the means appointed for perception´s ending.
Knowledge is restored after perception first is changed, and then
gives way entirely to what remains forever past its highest reach.
For sights and sounds, at best, can serve but to recall the memory
that lies beyond them all. Forgiveness sweeps away distortions, and
opens the hidden altar to the truth. Its lilies shine into the mind, and
call it to return and look within, to find what it has vainly sought
without. For here, and only here, is peace of mind restored, for this
the dwelling place of God Himself.

"In quiet may forgiveness wipe away my Dream of separation and
of sin. Then let me, Father, look within, and find Your promise of my
sinlessness is kept. Your Word remains unchanged within my mind.
Your Love is still abiding in my heart."

Love

LESSON 337

"My sinlessness protects me from all harm."

My sinlessness ensures me perfect peace, eternal safety, everlasting
love, freedom forever from all thought of loss; complete deliverance
from suffering. And only happiness can be my state, for only happiness
is given me. What must I do to know all this is mine? I must accept
Atonement for myself, and nothing more. God has already done all things
that need be done. And I must learn I need do nothing of myself, for I need
but accept my Self, my sinlessness, created for me, now already mine, to
feel God´s Love protecting me from harm, to understand my Father loves
His Son; to know I am the Son my Father loves.

"You Who created me in sinlessness are not mistaken about what I am.
I was mistaken when I thought I sinned, but I accept Atonement for
myself. Father, my Dream is ended now. Amen.

Love

LESSON 338

"I am affected only by my thoughts."

It needs but this to let salvation come to all the world. For in this
single thought is everyone released at last from fear. Now has he
learned that no one frightens him, and nothing can endanger him.
He has no enemies, and he is safe from all external things. His
thoughts can frighten him, but since these thoughts belong to him
alone, he has the power to change them and exchange each fear
thought for a happy thought of love. He crucified himself. Yet God
has planned that His beloved Son will be redeemed.

"Your plan is sure, my Father, - only Yours. All other plans will
fail. and I will have thoughts that will frighten me, until I learn that
You have given me the only Thought that leads me to salvation.
Mine alone will fail, and lead me nowhere. But the Thought You
gave me promised to lead me home, because it holds Your promise
to Your Son."

Love

LESSON 339

"I will receive whatever I request."

No one desires pain. But he can think that pain is pleasure. No
one would avoid his happiness. But he can think that joy is painful,
threatening and dangerous. Everyone will recieve what he requests.
But he can be confused indeed about the things he wants; the state he
would attain. What can he then request that he would want when he
recieves it? He has asked for what will frighten him, and bring him
suffering. Let us resolve today to ask for what we really want, and
only this, that we may spend this day in fearlessness, without
confusing pain with joy, or fear with love.

"Father, this is Your day. It is a day in which I would do nothing
by myself, but hear Your Voice in everything I do; requesting only
what You offer me, accepting only Thoughts You share with me."

Love

..ia...i love that one...yes...yes. ty ;)

LESSON 340

"I can be free of suffering today."

"Father, I thank You for today, and for the freedom I am certain
it will bring. This day is holy, for today Your Son will be redeemed.
His suffering is done. For he will hear Your Voice directing him to
find Christ´s vision through forgiveness, and be free forever from all
suffering. Thanks for today, my Father. I was born into this world
but to achieve this day, and what it holds in joy and freedom for
Your holy Son and for the world he made, which is released along
with him today."

My father died yesterday 17.55.

Be glad today! Be glad! There is no room for anything but joy and
thanks today. Our Father has redeemed His Son this day. Not one of
us but will be saved today. Not one who will remain in fear, and none
the Father will not gather to Himself, awake in Heaven in the Heart
of Love

Love

..ia...I'm sorry for your loss. 555

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Originally Posted by Timothy

..ia...I'm sorry for your loss. 555

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Thank you Tim.

Yes, father did get to leave the way he wished, he did leave at an instant, and his appearence was ...total peace, almost a smile on his lips.

Hi had said to mother in his youth, I will leave on a beautiful friday..and he did.

I did see his energy it was beautiful.

Do you know what 555 has for meaning??

Love
ia

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Originally Posted by IA56

Thank you Tim.

Yes, father did get to leave the way he wished, he did leave at an instant, and his appearence was ...total peace, almost a smile on his lips.

Hi had said to mother in his youth, I will leave on a beautiful friday..and he did.

I did see his energy it was beautiful.

Do you know what 555 has for meaning??

Love
ia

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Well..I was interpreting 17.55. as 555 or VVV.

Life IS 5 - Who? What? When? Where? Why? ~ All answered with !!!You!!!

555 ~ The energy of Change, neither bad nor good. Overall meaning - Embracing Change ... (Life 3 Fold/Triune) Death & Birth inwardly meet where Life ever IS. Death~>Life<~Birth

VVV ~ Victory~>Spirit<~Peace

Y

LOVE ~ 15 - !!!How!!!

How=You and(et) You=How

Love Oriented and(et) Orienting Love

One ~ Orientation IS...Isness (HaYaH);even still aHYaH - The Spirit within walking within Spirit.

The Living One
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Aleph;Elaph...Same Same

Simple answer: Awe~>Child<~Wonder

The Awe in Victory over Death

The Child of Spirit as Life

The Wonder at Peace following Birth

How that Love is You

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Is I over Death, my Self as Life, Is Me following Birth, All that is You.

Is I the Awe, my Self the Child, Is Me the Wonder, How is You.

Is I in Victory, my Self of Spirit, Is Me at Peace, Love is You.
~

For what You look for has already come, You just hAve not seen it.

Ave Maria... http://youtu.be/IXyVItsjYmU

The Spirit and the bride say, come. And let him that heareth say, come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. Rev.22:17

For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory.

Lest You done...altogether Be, don't merely go...JUST...keep coming.

P.S. and that is the short answer.;)

Condolences also IA for your loss.
Comforting for you that he passed in that way.