IA´s Journal

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