IA´s Journal

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