IA´s Journal

LESSON 65

”My only function is the one Godgave me.”

The idea for today reaffirmsyour commitment to salvation. It also reminds you that you have no functionother than that. Both these thoughts are obviously necessary for a totalcommitment. Salvation cannot be the only purpose you hold while you stillcherish others. The full acceptance of salvation as your only functionnecessarily entails two phases; the recognition of salvation as your function,and the relingquishment of all the other goals you have invented for youself.This is the only way in which you can take your rightful place among thesaviors of the world. This is the only way in which you can say and mean, ”Myonly functiojn is the one God gave me.” This is the only way in which you canfind peace of mind. Today, and for anumber of days to follow, set aside ten to fifteen minutes for a more sustainedpractice period, in which you try to understand and accept what the idea forthe day really means. Today´s idea offers you escape from all your perceiveddifficulties. It places the key to the door of peace, which you have closedupon yourself, in your own hands. It gives you the answer to all the serchingyou have done since time began. Try, if possible, to undertake the dailyextended practice periods at approximately the same time each time. Try, also,to determine this time in advance, and then adhere to it as closely aspossible. The purpose of this is to arrange your day so that you have set apartthe time for God, as well as for all the trivial purposes and goals you willpursue. This is part of the long-range disciplinary training your mind needs,so that the Holy Spirit can use it consistently for the purpose He shares withyou. For the longer practice period, begin by reviewing the idea for the day.Then close your eyes, repeat the idea to yourself once again, and watch yourmind carefully to catch whatever thoughts cross it. At first, make no attemptto concentrate only on thoughts related to the idea for the day. Rather, try touncover each thought that arises to interfere with it. Note each one as it comesto you, with as little involvement or concern as possible, dismissing each oneby telling yourself:

”This thought reflects a goalthat is preventing me from accepting my only function.”

After a while, interferingthoughts will become harder to find. Try, however, to continue a minute or solonger, attempting to catch a few of the idle thoughts that escaped yourattention before, but do not strain or make undue effort in doing this. Thentell yourself:

”On this clean slate let my truefunction be written for me.”

You need not use these exactwords, but try to get the sense of being willing to have your illlusions ofpurpose be replaced by truth. Finally, repeat the idea for today once more, anddevote the rest of the practice period to trying to focus on its importance toyou, the relief its acceptance will bring you by resolving your conflicts onceand for all, and the extent to which you really want salvation in spite of yourown foolish ideas to the contrary. In the shorter practice periods, whichshould be undertaken at least once an hour, use this form in applying today´sidea:

”My only function is the one Godgave me. I want no other and I have no other.”

Sometimes close your eyes as youpractice this, and somethimes keep them open and look around you. It is whatyou see now that will be totally changed when you accept today´s ideacompletely.

Love

LESSON 66

”My happiness and my function are one.”

You have surely noticed an emphasis throughout our recent lessons on the connection between fulfilling your function and achieving happiness. This is because you do not really see the connection. Yet there is more than just a connection between them: they are the same. Their forms are different, but their content is completely one. The ego does constant battle with the Holy Spirit on the fundamental question of what your function is. So does it do constant battle with the Holy Spirit about what your happiness is. It is not a two way battle. The ego attacks and the Holy Spirit does not respond. He knows what your function is. He knows that it is your happiness. Today we will try to go past this wholly meaningless battle and arrive at the truth about your function. We will not engage in senseless arguments about what it is. We will not become hopelessly involved in defining happiness and determining the means for achieving it. We will not indulge the ego by listening to its attacks on truth. We will merely be glad that we can find out what truth is. Our longer practice period today has as its purpose your acceptance of the fact that not only is there a very real connection between the function Godd gave you and your happiness, but that they are actually identical. God gives you only happiness. Therefore, the function He gave you must be happiness, even if it appears to be different. Today´s exercises are an attempt to go beyond these differences is appearance, and recognize a common content where it exists in truth. Begin the ten to fifteen minute practice period by reviewing these thoughts:

”God gives me only happiness.
He has given my function to me.
Therefore my function must be happiness.”

Try to see the logic in this sequence, even if you do not yet accept the conclusion. It is only if the first two thoughts are wrong that the conclusion could be false. Let us, then, think about the premises for a while, as we are practicing. The first premise is that God gives you only happiness. This could be false, of course, but in order to be false it is necessary to define God as something He is not. Love cannot give evil, and what is not happiness is evil. God cannot give what He does not have, and He cannot have what He is not. Unless God gives you only happiness, He must be evil. And it is this definition of Him you are believing if you do not accept the first premise. The second premise is that God has given you your finction. We have seen that there are only two parts of your mind. One is ruled by the ego, and is made up of illusions. The other is the home of the Holy Spirit, where truth abides. There are no other guides but these to choose between, and no other outcomes possible as a result of your choice but the fear that the ego always engenders, and the love that the Holy Spirit always offers to replace it. Thus, it must be that your function is established by God through His Voice, or is made by the ego which you have made to replace Him. Which is true? Unless God gave your function to you, it must be the gift of the ego. Does the ego really have gifts to give, being itself and illusion and offering only the illusion of gifts? Think about this during the longer practice period today. Think alsso about the many forms the illusion of your function has taken in your mind and the many ways in which you tried to find salvation under the ego´s guidance. Did you find it? Were you happy? Did they bring you peace? We need great honesty today. Remember the outcomes farily, and consider also whether it was ever reasonable to expect happiness from anything the ego ever proposed. Yet the ego is the only alternative to the Holy Spirit´s Voice. You will listen to madness or hear the truth. Try to make this choice as you think about the premises on which our conclusion rests. We can share in this conclusion, but in no other. For God Himself shares it with us. Today´s idea is another giant stride in the perception of the same as the same, and the different as different. On one side stand all illusions. All truth stands on the other. Let us try today to realize that only the truth is true. In the shorter practice periods, which would be most helpful today if undertaken twice an hour, this form of the application is suggested:

”My happiness and function are one.
Because God has given me both.”

It will not take more than a minute, and probably less, to repeat these words slowly and think about them a little while as you say them.

Love

LESSON 67

”Love created me like itself.”

Today´s idea is a complete and accurat statement of what you are. This is why you are the light of the world. This is why God appointed you as the world´s savior. This is why the son of God looks to you for his salvation. He is saved by what you are. We will make every effort today to reach this truth about you, and to realize fully, if only for a moment, that it is the truth. In the longer practice period, we will think about your reality and its wholly unchanged and unchangeable nature. We will begin by repeating this truth about you, and then spend a few minutes adding some relevant thoughts, such as:

”Holiness created me holy.”
”Kindness created me kind.”
”Helpfulness created me helpful.”
”Perfection created me perfect.”

Any attribute which is in accord with God as He defines Himself is appropriate for use. We are trying today to undo your definition of God and replace it with His Own. We are also trying to emphasize that you are part of His definition of Himself. After you have gone over several such related thoughts, try to let all thoughts drop away for a brief preparatory interval, and then try to reach past all your images and preconceptions about yourself to the truth in you. If Love created you like Itself, this Self must be in you. And somewhere in your mind It is there for you to find. You may find it necessary to repeat the idea for today from time to time to replace distracting thoughts. You may also find that this is not sufficient, and that you need to continue adding other thoughts related to the truth about yourself. Yet perhaps you will succeed in going past that, and through the interval of thoughtlessness to the awareness of a blazing light in which you recongnize yourself as Love created you. Be confident that you will do much today to bring that awareness nearer, whether you feel you have succeeded or not. It will be particularly helpful today to practice the idea for the day as often as you can. You need to hear the truth about yourself as frequently as possible, because your mind is so preoccuopied with false self-images. Four or five times an hour, and perhaps even more, it would be most beneficial to remind yourself that Love created you like Itself. Hear the truth about yourself in this. Try to realize in the shorter practice periods that this is not your tiny, solitary voice that tells you this. This is the Voice of God, reminding you of your Father and of your Self. This is the Voice of truth, replacing everything that the ego tells you about yourself with the simple truth about the Son of God. You were created by Love like Itself.

Love

LESSON 68

”Love holds no grievances.”

You who were created by Lovelike Itself can hold no grievances and know your Self. To hold a grievance isto forget who you are. To hold a grievance is to see yourself as a body. Tohold a grievance is to let the ego rule your mind and to condemn the body todeath. Perhaps you do not yet fully realize just what holding grievances does toyour mind. It seems to split you off from your Source and make you unlike Him.It makes you believe that He is like what you think you have become, for no onecan conceive of his Creator as unlike himself. Shut off from your Self, Whichremains aware of Its likeness to Its Creator, your Self seems to sleep, whilethe part of your mind that weaves illusions in its sleep appears to be awake.Can all this arise from holding grievances? Oh, yes! For he who holdsgrievances denies he was created by Love, and his Creator has become fearful tohim in his dream of hate. Who can dream of hatred and not fear God? It is assure that those who hold grievances will redefine God in their own image, as itis certain that God created them like Himself, and defined them as part of Him.It is as sure that those who hold grievances will suffer guilt, as it iscertain that those who forgive will find peace. It is as sure that those whohold grievances will forget who they are, as it is certain that those whoforgive will remember. Would you not be willing to relinguish your grievancesif you believed all this were so? Perhaps you do not think you can let yourgrievances go. That, however, is simply a matter of motivation. Today we willtry to find out how you would feel without them. If you succeed even by ever solittle, there will never be a problem in motivation ever again. Begin today´sextended practice period by searching your mind for those against whom you holdwhat you regard as major grievances. Some of these will be quite easy to find.Then think of the seemingly minor grievances you hold against those you likeand event hink you love. It will quickly become apparent that there is no oneagainst whom you do not cherish grievances of some sort. This has left you alonein all the universe in your perception of yourself. Determine now to see allthese people as friends. Say to them all, thinking of each one in turn as youdo so:

”I would see you as my friend.
That I may remember you are partof me
And come to know myself.”

Spend the remainder of thepractice period trying to think of yourself as completely at peace witheveryone and everything, safe in a world that protects you and loves you, andthat you love in return. Try to feel safety surrounding you, hovering over youand holding you up. Try to believe, however briefly, that nothing can harm youin any way. At the end of the practice period tell yourself:

”Love holds no grievaces.
When I let all my gievances go
I will know I am perfectly safe.”

The short practice periodsshould include a quick application of today´s idea in this form, whenever anythought of grievance arises against anyone, physically present or not:

”Love hold no grievances.
Let me not betray my Self.”

In addition , repeat the ideaseveral times an hour in this form:

”Love holds no grievances.
I would wake to my Self
By laying all my grievancesaside
And waking in Him.”

Love

LESSON 69

”My grievances hide the light of the world in me.”

No one can look upon what your grievances conceal. Because your grievances are hiding the light of the world in you, everyone stands in darkness, and you beside him. But as the veil of your grievances is lifted, you are released with him. Share your salvation now with him who stood beside you when you were in hell. He is your brother in the light of the world that saves your both. Today let us make another real attempt to reach the light in you. Before we undertake this in our more extended practice period, le tus devote severral minutes to thinking about what we are trying to do. We are trying to let the veil be lifted, and to see the tears of God´s Son disappear in the sunlight. Let us begin our longer practice period today with the full realization that this is so, and with real determination to reach what is dearer to us than all else. Salvation is our only need. There is no other purpose here, and no other function to fulfill. Learning salvation is our only goal. Let us end the ancient search today by finding the light in us, and holding it up for everyone who searches with us to look upon and rejoice. Very quietly now, with your eyes closed, try to let go of all the content generally occupies your consciousness. Think of yoru mind as a vast circle, surrounded by a layer of heavy, dark clouds. You can see only the clouds because you seem to be standing outside the circle and quite apart from it. From where you stand, you can see no reason to believe there is a brilliant light hidden by the clouds. The clouds seem to be the only reality. They seem to be all there is to see. Therefore, you do not attempt to go through them and past them, which is the only way in which you would be rally convincend of their lack of substance. We will make this attempt today. After you have thought about the impotance of what you are trying to do for yourself and the world, try to settle down in perfect stillness, remembering only now much you want to reach the light in you today, - now! Determine to go past the clouds. Reach out and touch them in your mind. Brush them aside with your hand, feel them resting on your cheeks and forhead and eyelids as you go through them. Go on ; clouds cannot stop you. If you are doing the exercises properly, you will begin to feel a sense of being lifted up and carried ahead. Your little effort and small determination call on the power of the universe to help you, and God Himself will raise you from darkness into light. You are in accord with His Will. You cannot fail because your will is His. Have confidence in your Father today, and be certain that He has heard you and answered you. You may not recongize His answer yet, but you can indeed be sure that it is given you and you will yet to hold this confidence in your mind. Try to keep the thought clearly in mind that what you undertake with God must succeed. Then let the power of God work in you and through you, that His Will and yours be done. In the shorter practice periods, which you will want to do as often as possible in view of the importance of today´s idea to you and light of the world form your awareness. Remind yourself also that you are not searching for it alone, and that you do know where to look for it. Say, then:

”My grievances hide the light of the world in me.
I cannot see what I have hidden.
Yet I want to let it be revealed to me.
For my salvation and the salvation of the world.”

Also, be sure to tell yourself:

”If I hold this grievance the light of the world will be hidden from me.”

If you are tempted to hold anything against anyone today.

Love

LESSON 70

”My salvation comes from me.”

All temptation is nothing more than some form of the basic temptation not to believe the idea for today. Salvation seems to come from anywhere except from you. So, too, does the source of guilt. You see neither guilt nor salvation as guilt is solely an invention of your mind, you also realize that guilt and salvation must be in the same place. In understanding this you are saved. The seeming cost of accepting today´s idea is this: It means that nothing outside yourself can save you; nothing outside yourself can give you peace. But it also means that nothing outside yourself can hurt you, or disturb your peace or upset you in any way. Today´s idea places you in charge of the universe, where you belong because of what you are. This is not a role that can be partially accepted. And you must surely begin to see that accepting it is salvation. It may not, however, be clear to you why the recognition that guilt is in your own mind entails the realization that salvation is there as well. God would not have put the remedy for the sickness where it cannot help. That is the way your mind has worked, but hardly His. He wants you to be healed, so He has kept the Source of healing where the need for healing lies. You have tried to do just the opposite, making every attempt, however distorted and fantastic it might be, to separate healing from the sickness for which it was intended, and thus keep the sickness. Your purpose was to ensure that healing did not occur. God´s purpose was to ensure that it did. Today we practice realizing that God´s Will and ours are really the same in this. God wants us to be healed, and we do not really want to be sick, because it makes us unhappy. Therefore, in accepting the idea for today, we are really in agreement with God. He does not want us to be sick. Neither do we. He wants us to be healed. So do we. We are ready for two longer practice periods today, each of which should last some ten to fifteen minutes. We will, however, still let you decide when to undertake them. We will follow this practice for a number of lessons, and it would again be well to decide in advance when would be a good time to lay aside for each of them, and then adhering to your own decisions as closely as possible. Begin these practice periods by repeating the idea for today, adding a statement signifying your recognition that salvation comes from nothing outside of you. You might put it this way:

”My salvation comes from me.
It cannot come from anywhere else.”

Then devote a few minutes, with your eyes closed, to reviewing some of the eternal places where you have looked for salvation in the past;- in other people, in possessions, in various situations and events, and in self concepts that you sought to make real. Recognize that it is not there, and tell yourself:

”My salvation cannot come from any any of these things.
My salvation comes from me and only from me.”

Now we will try to reach the light in you, which is where your salvation is. You cannot find it in the clouds that surround the light, and it is in them you have been looking for it. It is not there. It is past the clouds and in the light beyond. Remember that you will have to go through the clouds before you canreach the light. But remember also that you have never found anything in the cloud patterns you imagined that endured, or that you wanted. Since all illusions of salvation have failed you, surely you do not want to remain in the clouds, looking vainly for idols there, when you could so easily walk on into the light of real salvation. Try to pass the clouds by whatever means appeals to you. If it helps you, think of me holding your hand and leading you. And I assure you this will be no idle fantasy. For the short and frequent practice periods today, remind yourself that your salvation comes from you, and nothing but your own thoughs can hamper your progress. You are free from all external interference. You are in charge of your salvation. You are in charge of the salvation of the world. Say, then:

”My salvation comes from me.
Nothing outside of me can hold me back.
Within me is the world´s salvation and my own.”

Love

LESSON 71

”Only God´s plan for salvationwill work.”

You may not realize that the egohas set up a plan for salvation in opposition to God´s. It is this plan inwhich you believe. Since it is the opposite of God´s you also believe that toaccept God´s plan in place of the ego´s is to be damned. This soundspreposterous, of course. Yet after we have considered just what the ego´s planis, perhaps you will realize that, however preposterous it may be, you dobelieve in it. The ego´s plan for salvation centers around holding grievances.It maintains that, if someone else spoke or acted differently, if some externalcircumstance or event were changed, you would be saved. Thus, the source of salvationis constantly perceived as outside yourself. Each grievance you hold is adeclaration, and an assertion in which you believe, that says, ”If this weredifferent, I would be saved.” The change of mind necessary for salvation isthus demanded of everyone and everything except yourself. The role assigned toyour own mind in this plan, then, is simply to determine what, other thanitself, must change if you are to be saved. According to this insane plan, anyperceived source of salvation is acceptable provided that it will not work.This ensures that the fruitless search will continue, for the illusion persiststhat, although this hope has always failed, there is still grounds for hope inother places and in other things. Another person will yet serve better; anothersituation will yet offer success. Such is the ego´s plan for your salvation.Surely you can see how it is in strict accord with the ego´s basic doctrine,”Seek but do not find.” For what could more surely guarantee that you will notfind salvation than to channelize all your efforts in searching for it where itis not? God´s plan for salvation works simply because, by following Hisdirection, you seek for salvation where it is. But if you are to succeed, asGod promises you will, you must be willing to seek there only. Otherwise, yourpurpose is divided and you will attempt to follow two plans for salvation thatare diametrically opposed in all ways. The result can only bring confusion,misery and a deep sense of failure and despair. How can you escape all this?Very simply. The idea for today is the answer. Only God´s plan for salvationwill work. There can be no real conflict about this, because there is nopossible alternative to God´s plan that will save you. His is the only planthat is certain in its outcome. His is the only plan that must succeed. Let us practicerecognizing this certainty today. And let us rejoice that there is an answer towhat seems to be a conflict with no resolution possible. All things are possibleto God. Salvation must be yours because of His plan, which cannot fail. Beginthe two longer practice periods for today by thinking about today´s idea, andrealizing that it contains two parts, each making equal contribution to thewhole. God´s plan for your salvation will work, and other plans will not. Donot allow yourself to become depressed or angry at the second part; it isinherent in the first. And in the first is your full release from all your owninsane attempts and mad proposals to free yourself. They have led to depressionand anger; but God´s plan will succeed. It will lead to release and joy.Remembering this, let us devote the remainder of the extended practice periodsto asking God to reveal His plan to us. Ask Him very specifically:

”What would You have med do?”
”Where would You have me go?”
”What would You have me say, andto whom?”

Give him full charge of the restof the practice period, and let Him tell you what needs to be done by you inHis plan for your salvation. He will answer in proportion to your willingnessto hear His Voice. Refuse not to hear. The very fact that you are doing theexercises proves that you have some willingness to listen. This is enough toestablish your claim to God´s answer. In the shorter practice periods, tellyourself often that God´s plan for salvation, and only His, will work. Be alertto all temptation to hold grievances today, and respond to ehtm with this formof today´s idea:

”Holding grievances is the oppositeof God´s plan for salvation. And only His plan will work.”

Try to remember today´s ideasome six or seven times and hour. There could be no better way to spend a halfminute or less than to remember the Source of your salvation, and to see Itwhere It is.

Love

LESSON 72

”Holding grievances is an attackon God´s plan for salvation.”

While we have recognized thatthe ego´s plan for salvation is the opposite of God´s, we have not yetemphasized that it is an active attack on Hiss plan, and a deliberate attemptto destroy it. In the attack, God is assigned the attributes which are actuallyassociated with the ego, while the ego appears to take on the attributes ofGod. The ego´s fundamental wish is to repleace God. In fact, the ego is thephysical embodiment of that wish. For it is that wish that seems to surroundthe mind with a body, keeping it separate and alone, and unable to reach other mindsexcept through the body that was mad to imprison it. The limit on communicationcannot be the best means to expand communication. Yet the ego would have youbelieve that it is. Although the attempt to keep the limitations that a bodywould impose is obvious here, it is perhaps not so apparent why holdinggrievances is an attack on God´s plan for salvation. But let us consider thekinds of things you are apt to hold grievances for. Are they not alwaysassociated with something a body does? A person says something you do not like.He does something that displeases you. He ”betrays” his hostile thoughts in hisbehavior. You are not dealing here with what the person is. On the contrary,you are exclusively concerned with what he does is a body. You are doing morethan failing to help in freeing him from the body´s limitations. You areactively trying to hold him to it by confusing it with him, and judging them asone. Herein is God attacked, for if His Son is only a body, so must He be aswell. A creator wholly unlike his creation is inconceivable. If God is a body,what must His plan for salvation be? What could it be but death? In trying topresent Himself as the Author of life and not of death, He is aliar and adeceiver, full of false promises and offering illusions in place of truth. Thebody´s apparent reality makes this view of God quite convincing. In fact, ifthe body were real, it would be difficult indeed to escape this conclusion. Andevery grievance that you hold insists that the body is real. It overlooksentirely what your brother is. It reinforces your belief that he is a body, andcondemns him for it. And it asserts that his salvatiojn must be death,projecting this attack onto God, and holding Him responsible for it. To thiscarefully prepared arena, where angry animals seek for prey and mercy cannotenter, the ego comes to save you. God made you a body. Very well. Let us acceptthis and be glad. As a body, do not let yourself be deprived of what the bodyoffers. Take the little you can get. God gave you nothing. The body is youronly savior. It is the death of God and your salvation. This is the universalbelief of the world you see. Some hate the body, and try to hurt and humiliateit. Others love the body, and try to glorify and exalt it. But while the bodystands at the center of your concept of yourself, you are attacking God´s planfor salvation, and holding your grievances against Him and His creation, thatyou may not hear the Voice of truth and welcome It as Friend. Your consensavior takes His place instead. It is your friend; He is your enemy. We willtry today to stop these senseless attacks on salvation. We will try to welcomeit instead. Your upside-down perception has been ruinous to your peace of mind.You have seen yourself in a body and the truth outside you, locked away fromyour awareness by the body´s limitations. Now we are going to try to see thisdifferently. The light of truth is in us, where it was placed by God. It is thebody that is outside us, and is not our concern. To be without a body is to bein our natural state. To recognize the light of truth in us is to recognizeourselves as we are. To see our Self as separate from the body is to end theattack on God´s plan for salvation, and to accept it instead. And wherever Hisplan is accepted, it is accomplished already. Our goal in the longer practiceperiods today is to become aware the God´s plan for salvation has already beenaccomplished is us. We are therefore attacking what we do not recongize. Now weare going to try to lay judgment aside, and ask what God´s plan for us is:

”What is salvation, Father?
I do not know.
Tell me, that I may understand.”

Then we will wait in quiet forHis answer. We have attacked God´s plan for salvation without waiting to hearwhat it is. We have shouted our grievances so loudly that we have not listenedto His Voice. We have used our grievances to close our eyes and stop our ears.Now we would see and hear and learn. ”What is salvation, Father?” Ask and youwill be answered. Seek and you will find. We are no longer asking the ego whatsalvation is and where to find it. We are asking it of truth. Be certain, then,that the answer will be true because of Whom you ask. Whenever you feel yourconfidence wane and your hope of success flicker and go out, repeat yourquestion and your request, remembering that you are asking of the infiniteCreator of infinity, Who created you like Himself:

”What is salvation, Father?
I do not know.
Tell me, that I may understand.”

He will answer. Be determined tohear. One or perhaps two shorter practice periods an hour will be enough fortoday, since they will be somewhat longer than usual. These exercises shouldbegin with this:

”Holding grievances is an attackon God´s plan for salvation.
Let me accept it instead.
What is salvation, Father?”

Then wait a minute or so insilence, preferably with your eyes closed, and listen for His answer.

Love

LESSON 73

”I will there be light.”

Today we are considering thewill you share with God. This is not the same as the ego´s idle wishes, out ofwhich darkness and nothingness airse. The will you share with God has all thepower of creation in it. The ego´s idle wishes are unshared, and therefore haveno power at all. Its wishes are not idle in the sense that they can make aworld of illusions in which your belief can be very strong. But they are idleindeed in terms of creation. They make nothing that is real. Idle wishes andgrievances are partners or co-makers in picturing the world you see. The wishesof the ego gave ruse to it, and the ego´s need for grievvances, which arenecessary to maintain it, peoples it with figures that seem to attack you and callfor ”righteous” judgment. There figures become the middlemen the ego employs totraffic in grievances. They stand between your awareness and your brother´sreality. Beholding them, you do not know your brother or your Self. Your willis lost to you in this strange bartering, in which guilt is traded back andforth, and grievances increase with each exchange. Can such a world have beencreated by the will the Son of God shares with his Father? Did God createdisaster for His Son? Creation is the Will of Both together. Would God create aworld that kills Himself? Todaywe will try once more to reach the world that isin accordance with your will. The light is in it because it does not oppose theWill of God. It is not Heaven, but the light of Heaven shines on it. Darknesshas vanished. The ego´s idle wishes have been withdrawn. Yet the light thatshines upon this world reflects your will, and so it must be in you that wewill look for it. Your picture of the world can only mirror what is within. Thesource of neither light nor darkness can be found without. Grievances darkenyour mind, and you look out on a darkened world. Forgiveness lifts thedarkness, reasserts your will, and lets you look upon a world of light. We haverepeatedly emphasized that the barrier of grievances is easily passed, andcannot stande between you and your salvation. The reason is very simple. Do youreally want to be in hell? Do you really want to weep and suffer and die?Forget the ego´s arguments which seek to prove all this is really Heaven. Youknow it is not so. You cannot want this for yourself. There is a point beyondwhich illusions cannot go. Suffering is not happiness, and it is happiness youreally want. Such is your will in truth. And so salvation is your will as well.You want to succeed in what we are trying to do today. We undertake it withyour blessing and your glad accord. We will succeed today if you remember thatyou want salvation for yourself. You want to accept God´s plan because youshare in it. You have no will that can really oppose it, and you do not want todo so. Salvation is for you. Above all else, you want the freedom to rememberwho you really are. Today it is the ego that stands powerless before your will.Your will is free, and nothing can prevail against it. Therefore, we undertakethe exercises for today in happy confidence, certain that we will find what itis your will to find, and remember what it is your will to remember. No idlewishes can detain us, nor deceive us with an illusion of strength. Today let yourwill be done, and end forever the insane belief that it is hell inplace ofHeaven that you choose. We will begin our longer practice periods with therecognition that God´s plan for salvation, and only His, is wholly in accordwith your will. It is not the purpose of an alien power, thrust upon youunwillingly. It is the one purpose here on which you and your Father are inperfect accord. You will succeed today, the time appointed for the release ofthe Son of God from hell and from all idle wishes. His will is now restored tohis awareness. He is willing this very day to look upon the light in him and besaved. After reminding yourself of this, and determining to keep your willclearly in mind, tell yourself with gentle firmness and quiet certainty:

”I will there be light.
Let me behold the light.
That reflects God´s Will andmine.”

Then let your will assertitself, joined with the power of God and united with your Self. Put the rest ofthe practice period under Their guidance. Join with Them as They lead the way.In the shorter practice periods, again make a declaration of what you reallywant. Say:

”I will there be light.
Darkness is not my will.”

This should be repeated severaltimes an hour. It is most important, however, to apply today´s idea in thisform immediately you are tempted to hold a grievance of any kind. This willhelp you let your grievances go, instead of cherishing them and hiding them indarkness.

Love

LESSON 74

”There is no will but God´s.”

The idea for today can beregarded as the central thought toward which all our exercises are directed.God´s is the only Will. When you have recognized this, you have recognized thatyour will is His. The belief that conflict is possible has gone. Peace hasreplaced the strange idea that you are torn by conflicting goals. As anexpression of the Will of God, you have no goal but His. There is great peacein today´s idea, and the exercises for today are directed towards finding it.The idea itself is wholly true. Therefore it cannot give rise to illusions.Without illusions conflict is impossible. Let us try to recognize this today,and experience the peace this recognition brings. Begin the longer practiceperiods by repeating these thourhts several times, slowly and with firmdetermination to understand what they mean, and to hold them in mind:

”There is no will but God´s.
I cannot be in conflict.”

Then spend several minutes inadding some related thoughts, such as:

”I am at peace.”
”Nothing can disturb me. My willis God´s.”
”My will and God´s are one.”
”God wills peace for His Son.”

During this introductory phase,be sure to deal quickly with any conflict thoughts that my cross your mind.Tell yourself immediately:

”There is no will but God´s.
These conflicts thoughts aremeaningless.”

If there is one conflict areathat seems particularly difficult to resolve, single it out for specialconsideration. Think about it briefly but very specifically, identify the particularperson or persons and the situation or situations involved, and tell yourself:

”There is no will but God´s-
I share it with Him.
My conflicts about……….cannot bereal.”

After you have cleared your mindin this way, close your eyes and try to experience the peace to which yourreality entitles you. Sink into it and feel it closing around you. There may besome temptation to mistake these attempts for withdrawal, but the difference iseasily detected. If you are succeeding, you will feel a deep sense of joy andan increased altertness, rather than a feeling of drowsiness and enervation.Joy characterizing peace. By this experience will you recongize that you havereached it. If you feel yourself slipping off into withdrawal, quickly repeat theidea for today and try again. Do this as often as necessary. There is definitegain in refusing to allow retreat into withdrawal, even if you do notexperience the peace you seek. In the shorter periods, which should beundertaken at regular and predetermined intervals today, say to yourself:

”There is no will but God´s.
I seek His peace today.”

Then try to find what you areseeking. A minute or two every half an hour, with eyes closed if possible,would be well spend on this today.

Love

LESSON 75

”The light has come.”

The light has come. You arehealed and you can heal. The light has come. You are saved and you can save. Youare at peace, and you bring peace with you wherever you go. Darkness andturmoil and death have disappeared. The light has come. Today we celebrate thehappy ending to your long dream of disaster. There are no dark dreams now. The lighthas come. Today the time of light begins for you and everyone. It is a new era,in which a new world is born. The old one has left no trace upon it in itspassing. Today we see a different world, because the light has come. Ourexercises for today will be happy ones, in which we offer thanks for thepassing of the old and the beginning of the new. No shadows from the pastremain to darken our sight and hide the world forgineness offers us. Today wewill accept the new world as what we want to see. We will be given what wedesire. We will to see the light; the light has come. Our longer practiceperiods will be devoted to looking at the world that our forgiveness shows us.This is what we want to see, and only this. Our single purpose makes our goalinevitable. Today the real world rises before us in gladness, to be seen at last.Sight is given us, now the light has come. We do not want to see the ego´sshadow on the world today. We see the light, and in it we see Heaven´sreflection lie across the world. Begin the longer practice periods by tellingyourself the glad tidings of your release:

”The light has come.
I have forgiven the world.”

Dwell not upon the past today.Keep a completely open mind, washed of all past ideas and clean of everyconcept you have made. You have forgiven the world today. You can look upon itnow as if you never saw it before. You do not know yet what it looks like. You merelywait to have it shown to you. While you wait, repeat several times, slowly andin complete patience:

”The light has come.
I have forgiven the world.”

Realize that your forgivenessentitles you to vision. Understand that the Holy Spirit never fails to give thegift of sight to the forgiving. Believe He will not fail you now. You haveforgiven the the world. He will be with you as you watch and wait. He will showyou what true vision sees. It is His Will, and you have joined with Him. Waitpatiently for Him, He will be there. The light has come. You have forgiven theworld. Tell Him you know you cannot fail because you trus in Him. And tellyourself you wait in certainty to look upon the world He promised you. Fromthis time forth you will see differently. Today the light has come. And youwill see the world that has been promised you since time began, and in which isthe end of time ensured. The shorter practice periods, too, will be joyfulreminders of your release. Remind yourself every quarter of an hour or so thattoday is a time for special celebration. Givet hanks for mercy and the Love ofGod. Rejoice in the power of forgiveness to heal your sight completely. Beconfident that on this day there is a new beginning. Without the darkness ofthe past upon your eyes, you cannot fail to see today. And what you see will beso welcome that you will gladly extend today forever. Say, then:

”The light has come.
I have forgiven the world.”

Should you be tempted, say toanyone who seems to pull you back into darkness:

”The light has come.
I have forgiven you.”

We dedicate this day to theserenity in which God would have you be. Keep it in your awareness of yourselfand see it everywhere today, as we celebrate the beginning of your vision andthe sight of the real world, which has come to replace the unforgiven world youthought was real.

Love

LESSON 76

”I am under no laws but God´s.”

We have obsserved before howmany senseless things have seemed to you to be salvation. Each has imprisonedyou with laws as senseless as itself. You are not bound by them. Yet tounderstand that this is so, you must first realize salvation lies not there.While you would seek for it in things that have no meaning, you bind yourselfto laws that make no sense. Thus do you seek to prove salvation is where it isnot. Today we will be glad you cannot prove it. For if you could, you wouldforever seek salvation where it is not, and never find it. The idea for todaytells you once again how simple is salvation. Look for it where it waits foryou, and there it will be found. Look nowhere else, for it is nowhere else.Think of the freedom in the recognition that you are not bound by all thestrange and twisted laws you have set up to save you. You really think that youwould starve unless you have stacks of green paper strips and piles of metaldiscs. You really think a small round pellet or some fluid pushed into yourveins through a sharpened needle will ward of disease and death. You reallythink you are alone unless another body is with you. It is insanity that thinksthese things. You call them laws, and put then under different names in a longcatalogue of rituals that have no use and serve no purpose. You think you mustobey the ”laws” of medicine, of economics and of health. Protect the body, andyou will be saved. These are no laws, but madness. The body is endangered bythe mind that hurts itself. The body suffers just in order that the mind willfail to see it is the victim of itself. The body´s suffering is a mask the mindholds up to hide what really suffers. It would not understand it is its ownenemy; that it attacks itself and wants to die. It is from this your ”laws ”wouldsave the body. It is for this you think you are a body. There are no lawsexcept the laws of God. This needs repeating, over and over, until you realizeit applies to everything that you have made in opposition to God´s Will. Yourmagic has no meaning. What it is meant to save does not exist. Only what it ismeant to hide will save you. The laws of God can never be replaced. We willdevote today to reejoicing that this is so. It is no longer a truth that wewould hide. We realize instead it is a truth that keeps us free forever. Magicimprisons, but the laws of God make free. The light has come because there areno laws but His. We will begin the longer practice periods today with a shortreview of the different kinds of ”laws” we have believed we must obey. Thesewould include, for example, the ”laws” of nutrition, of immunization, ofmedication, and of the body´s protection in innumerabel ways. Think further;you believe in the ”laws” of friendship, of ”good” relationships andreciprocity. Perhaps you event hink that there are laws which set forth what isGod´s and what is yours. Many ”religions” have been based on this. They wouldnot save but damn in Heaven´s name. Yet they are no more strange than other ”laws”you hold must be obeyed to make you safe. . There are no laws but God´s.Dismiss all foolish magical beliefs today, and hold your mind in silentreadiness to hear the Voice That speaks the truth to you. You will be listeningto One Who says there is no loss under the laws of God. Payment is neithergiven nor received. Exchange cannot be made; there are no substitutes; andnothing is replaced by something else. God´s laws forever give and never take.Hear Him Who tells you this, and realize how foolish are the ”laws” you thoughtupheld the world you thought you saw. Then listen futher. He will tell youmore. About the Love your Father has for you. About the endless joy He offersyou. About His yearning for His only Son, created as His channel for creation;denied to Him by his belief in hell. Let us today open God´s channels to Him,and let His Will extend through us to Him. Thus is creation endlesslyincreased. His Voice will spek of this to us, as well as of the joys of Heavenwhich His laws keep limitless forever. We will repeat today´s idea until wehave listened and understood there are no laws but God´s. Then we will tellourselves, as a dedication with which the practice period concludes:

”I am under no laws but God´s.”

We will repeat this dedicationas often as possible today; at least four or five times an hour, as well as inresponse to any temptation to experience ourselves as subject to other lawsthroughout the day. It is our statement of feedom from all danger and alltyranny. It is our acknowledment that God is our Father, and that His Son issaved.

Love

LESSON 77

”I am entitled to miracles.”

You are entitled to miraclesbecause of what you are. You will receive miracles because of what God is. Andyou will offer mireacles because you are one with God. Again, how simple issalvation! It is merely a statement of your true Identity. It is this that wewill celelbrate today. Your claim to miracles does not lie in your illusionsabout yourself. It does not depend on any magical powers you have ascribed to yourself,nor on any of the rituals you have devised. It is inherent in the truth of whatyou are. It is implicit in what God your Father is. It was ensured in yourcreation, and guaranteed by the law of God. Today we will claim the miracleswhich are your right, since they belong to you. You have been promised fullrelease from the world you made. You have been assured that the Kingdom of Godis within you, and can never be lost. We ask no more that what belongs to us intruth. Today, however, we will also make sure that we will not contentourselves with less. Begin the longer practice period by telling yourself quiteconfidently that you are entitled to miracles. Closing your eyes, remindyourself that you are asking only for what is rightfully yours. Remind yourselfalso that miracles are never taken from one and given to another, and that inasking for your rights, you are upholding the rights of everyone. Miracles donot obey the laws of this world. They merely follow from the laws of God. Afterthis brief introductory phase, wait quietly for the assurance that your requestis granted. You have asked for the salvation of the world, and for your own. Youhave requested that you be given the means by which this is accomplished. You cannotfail to be assured in this. You are but asking that the Will of God be done. Indoing this, you do not really ask for anything. You state a fact that cannot bedenied. The Holy Spirit cannot but assure you that your request is granted. Thefact that you accepted must be so. There is no room for doubt and uncertaintytoday. We are asking a real question at last. The answer is a simple statementof a simple fact. You will receive the assurance that you seek. Our shorterpractice periods will be frequent, and will also be devoted to a reminder of asimple fact. Tell yourself often today:

”I am entitled to miracles.”

Ask for them whenever asituation arises in which they are called for. You will recognize thesesituations. And since you are not relying on yourself to find the miracle, youare fully entitled to receive it whenever you ask. Remember, too, not to besatisfied with less than the perfect answer. Be quick to tell yourself, shouldyou be tempted:

”I will not trade miracles forgrievances.
I want only what belongs to me.
God has established miracles asmy right.”

Love

LESSON 78

”Let miracles replace allgrievances.”

Perhaps it is not yet quiteclear to you that each decision that you make is one between a grievance and amiracle. Each grievance stand lika a dark shield of hate before the miracle itwould conceal. And as you raise it up before you eyes, you will not see themiracle beyond. Yet all the while it waits for you in light, but you beholdyour grievances instead. Today we go beyond the grievances, to look upon themiracle instead. We will reverse the way you see by not allowing sight to stopbefore it sees. We will not wait before the shield of hate, but lay it down andgently lift our eyes in silence to behold the Son of God. He waits for youbehind your grievances, and as you lay them down he will appear in shininglight where each one stood before. For every grievvance is a block to sight,and as it lifts you see the Son of God where he has always been. Hes tands inlight, but you were in the dark. Each grievance made the darkness deeper, andyou could not see. Today we will attempt to see God´s Son. We will not letourselves be blind to him; we will not look upon our greivances. So is theseeing of the world reversed, as we look out toward truth, away from fear. Wewill select one person you have used as target for your grievances, and lay thegreivances aside and look at him. Someone, perhaps, you fear and even hate;someone you think you love who angered you; someone you call a friend, but whomyou see as difficult at times or hard to please, demanding,, irritating oruntrue to the ideal he should accept as his, according to the role you set forhim. You know the one to choose; his name has crossed your mind already. Hewill be the one of whom we ask God´s Son be shown to you. Through seeing himbehind the grievances that you have held against him, you will learn that whatlay hidden while you saw him not is there in everyone, and can be seen. He whowas enemy is more than friend when he is freed to take the holy role the HolySpirit has assigned to him. Let him be savior unto you today. Such is his rolein God your Father´s plan. Our longer practice periods today will see him inthis role. You will attempt to hold him in your mind, first as you now considerhim. You will review his faults, the difficulties you have had with him, thepain he caused you, his neglect, and all the little and the larger hurts hegave. You will regard his body with its flaws and better points as well, andyou will think of his mistakes and ever of his ”sins”. Then let us ask of HimWho knows this Son of God in his reality and truth, that we may look on him adifferent way, and see our savior shining in the light of true forgiveness,given unto us. We ask Him in the holy Name of God and of His Son, as holy asHimself:

”Let me behold my savior in thisone
You have appointed as the onefor me
To ask to lead me to the holylight
In which he stands, that I mayjoin with him.”

The body´s eyes ae closed, andas you think of him who grieved you, let your mind be shown the light in himbeyond your grievances. What you have asked for cannot be denled. Your saviorhas been waiting long for this. He would be free, and make his freedom yours.The Holy Spirit leans from him to you, seeing no separation in God´s Son. Andwhat you see through Him will free you both. Be very quiet now, and look uponyour shining savior. No dark grievances obscure the sight of him. You haveallowed the Holy Spirit to express through him the role God gave Him that yourmight be saved. God thanks you for these quiet times today in which you laidyour images aside, and looked upon the miracles of love the Holy Spirit showedyou in their place. The world and Heaven join in thanking you, for not oneThought of God but must rejoice as you are saved, and all the world with you.We will remember this throughout the day, and take the role assigned to us aspart God´s salvation plan, and not our own. Temptation falls away when we alloweach one we meet to save us, and refuse to hide his light behind ourgrievances. To everyone you meet, and to the ones you think of or remember fromthe past, allow the role of savior to be given, that you may share it with him.For you both, and all the sightless ones as well, we pray:

”Let miracles replace allgrievances.”

Love

LESSON 79

”Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved.”

A problem cannot be solved if you do not know what it is. Even if it is really solved already you will still have the problem, because you will not recongize that it has been solved. This is the situation of the world. The problem of separation, which is really the only problem, has already been solved. Yet the solution is not recongize dbecause the problem is not recongized. Everyone in this world seems to have his own special problems. Yet they are all the same, and must be recongnized as one if the one solution that solves them all is to be accepted. Who can see that a problem has been solved if het hinks the problem is something else? Even if he is given the answer, he cannot see its relevance. That is the position in which you find yourself now. You have the answer, but you are still uncertain about what the problem is. A long series of different problems seems to confront you,and as one is settled the next one and the next arise. There seems to be no end to them. There is no time in which you feel completely free of problems and atpeace. The temptation to regard problems as many is the temptation to keep theproblem of separation unsolved. The world seems to present you with a vastnumber of problems, each requiring a different answer. This perception placesyou in a position in which your problem-solvning must be inadequate, andfailure is inevitable. No one could solve all the problems the world appears tohold. They seemto be on so many levels, in such varying forms and with suchvaried content, that they confront you with an impossible situation. Dismay anddepression are inevitable as you regard them. Some spring up unexpectedly, justas you think you have resolved the prevvious ones. Others remain unsolved undera cloud of denial, and rise to haunt you from time to time, only to be hiddenagain but still unsolved. All this complexity is but a desperate attempt not torecognize the problem, and therefore not to let it be resolved. If you couldrecognize that your only problem is separation, no matter what form it takes,you could accept the answer because you would see its relevance. Perceiving theunderlying constancy in all the problems that seem to confront you, you wouldunderstand that you have the means to solve them all. And you would use themeans, because you recognize the problem. In our longer practice periods todaywe will ask what the problem is, and what is the answer to it. We will notassume that we already know. We will try to free our minds of all the manydifferent kinds of problems we think we have. We will try to realize that wehave only one problem, which we have failed to recognize. We will ask what itis, and wait for the answer. We will be told. Then we will ask for the solutionto it. And we will be told. The exercises for today will be successful to theextent to which you do not insist on defining the problem. Perhaps you will notsucceed in letting all your preconceived notions go, but that is not necessary.All that is necessary is to entertain some doubt about the reality of yourversion of what your problem are. You are trying to recognize that you havebeen given the answer by recognizing the problem, so that the problem and theanswer can be brought together and you can be at peace. The shorter practiceperiods for today will not be set by time, but by need. You will see manyproblems today, each one calling for an answer. Our efforts will be directedtoward recognizing that there is only one problem and one answer. In thisrecognition are all problems resoved. In this recognitioon there is peace. Benot deceived by the form of problems today. Whenever any difficulty seems to rise,tell yourself quickly:

”Let me recognize this problemso it can be solved.”

Then try to suspend all judgmentabout what the problem is. If possible, close your eyes for a moment and askwhat it is. You will be heard and you will be answered.

Love

LESSON 80

”Let me recognize my problem have been solved.”

If you are willing to recognize your problems, you will recognize that you have no problem. Your one central problem has been answered, and you have no other. Therefore, you must be at peace. Salvation thus depends on recognizing this one problem, and understanding that it has been solved. One problem, one solution. Salvation is accomplished. Freedom from conflict has been given you. Accept that fact, and you are ready to take your rightful place in God´s plan for salvation. Your only problem has been solved! Repeat this over and over to yourself today, with gratitude and conviction. You have recognized your only problem, opening the way for the Holy Spirit to give you God´s answer. You have laid deception aside, and see the light of truth. You have accepted salvation for yourself by bringing the problem to the answer. And you can recognize the answer, because the problem has been identified. You are entitled to peace today. A problem that has been resolved cannot trouble you. Only be certain you do not forget that all problems are the same. Their many forms will not deceive you while you remember this. One problem, one solution. Accept the peace this simple statement brings. In our longer practice periods today, we will claim the peace that must be ours when the problem and the answer have been brought together. The problem must be gone, because God´s answer cannot fail. Having recognized one, you have recognized the other. The solution is inherent in the problem. You are answered, and have accepted the answer. You are saved. Now let the peace that your acceptance brings be given you. Close your eyes, and receive your reward. Recognize that your problems have been solved. Recognize that you are out of conflict; free and at peace. Above all, remember that you have one problem, and that the problem has one solution. It is in this that the simplicity of salvation lies. It is because of this that it is guaranteed to work. Assure yourself often today that your problem have been solved. Repeat the idea with deep conviction, as frequently as possible. And be particularly sure to apply the idea for today to any specific problem that may arise. Say quickly:

”Let me recognize this problem has been solved.”

Let us be determined not to collect grievances today. Let us be determined to be free of problems that do not exist. The means is simple honesty. Do not deceive yourself about what the problem is, and you must recongize it has been solved.

Love

REVIEW II


We are now ready for another review. We will begin where our last review left off, and cover two ideas each day. The earlier part of each day will be developed to one of these ideas, and the latter part of the day to the other. We will have one longer exercise period, and frequent shorter ones in which we practice each of them. The longer practice periods will follow this general form: Take about fifteen minutes for each of them, and begin by thinking about the ideas for the day, and the comments that are included in the assignment. Devote some three or four minutes to reading them over slowly, several times if you wish, and then close your eyes and listen. Repeat the first phase of the exercise period if you find your mind wandering, but try to spend the major part of the time listening quietly but attentively. There is a message waiting for you. Be confident that you will receive it. Remember that it belongs to you, and that you want it. Do not allow your intent to waver in the face of distracting thoughts. Realize that, whatever form such thoughts may take, they have no meaning and no power. Replace them with your determination to succeed. Do not forget that your will has power over all fantasies and dreams. Trust it to see you through, and carry you beyond them all. Regard them practice periods as dedications to the way, the truth and the life. Refuse to be sidetracked into detours, illusions and thoughts of death. You are dedicated to salvation. Be determined each day not to leave your function unfulfilled. Reaffirm your determination in the shorter practice periods as well, using the original form of the idea for general applications, and more specific forms when needed. Some specific forms are included in the comments which follow the statement of the ideas. These, however, are merely suggestions. It is not the particular words you use the matter.

Love

LESSON 81

Our ideas for review today are:

61)”I am the light of the world.”

How holy am I, who have been given the function of lighting up the world! Let me be still before my holiness. In its calm light let all my conflicts disappear. In its peace let me remember who I am. Some specific forms for applying this idea when special difficulties seem to arise might be:

”Let me not obscure the light of the world in me.”
”Let the light of the world shine through this appearance.”
”This shadow will vanish before the light.”

62)”Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.”

It is through accepting my function that I will see the light in me. And in this light will my function stand clear and perfectly unambiguous before my sight. My acceptance does not depend on my recognizing what my function is, for I do not yet understand forgiveness. Yet I will trust that, in the ligh, I will see it as it is. Specific forms for using this idea might include:

”Let this help me learn what forgiveness means.”
”Let me not separate my function from my will.”
”I will not use this for an alien purpose.”

Love

LESSON 82

We review these ideas today:

63)”The light of the worldbrings peace to every mind through my forgiveness.”

My forgiveness is the means bywhich the light of the world finds expression through me. My forgiveness is themeans by which I become aware of the light of the world in me. My forgivenessis the means by which the world is healed, together with myself. Let me, then,forgive the world, that it may be healed along with me. Suggestions forspecific forms for applying this idea are:

”Let peace extend from my mindto yours, (name).”
”I share the light of the worldwith you, (name).”
”Through my forgiveness I cansee this as it is.”

64)”Let me not forget myfunction.”

I would not forget my function,because I would remember my Self. I cannot fulfill my function if I forget it.And unless I fulfill my function, I will not experience the joy that Godintends for me. Suitable specific form of this idea include:

”Let me not use this to hide myfunction from me.”
”I would use this as anopportunity to fulfill my function.”
”This may threaten my ego, butcannot change my function in any way.”

Love

LESSON 83

Today let us review these ideas:

65)”My only function is the oneGod gave me.”

I have no function but the oneGod gaveme. This recognition releases me from all conflict, because it means Icannot have conflicting goals. With one purpose only, I am always certain whatto do, what to say and what to think. All doubt must disappear as I acknowledgethat my only function is the one God gave me. More specific applications ofthis idea might taket hese forms:

”My perception of this does notchange my function.”
”This does not give me afunction other than the one God gave me.”
”Let me not use this to justifya function God did not give me.”

66)”My happiness and my functionare one.”

All things that come from Godare one. They come from Oneness, and must be received as one. Fulfilling myfunction is my happiness because both come from the same Source. And I mustlearn to recognize what makes me happy, if I would find happiness. Some usefulforms for specific applications of this idea are:

”This cannot separate myhappiness from my function.”
”The oneness of my happiness andmy function remains wholly unaffected by this.”
”Nothing, including this, canjustify the illusion of happiness apart from my function.”

Love

LESSON 84

There are the ideas for today´s review:

67)”Love created me like itself.”

I am in the likeness of my Creator, I cannot suffer, I cannot experience loss and I cannot die. I am not a body, I would recognize my reality today, I will worship no idols, nor raise my own self concept to replace my Self, I am in the likeness of my Creator. Love created me like itself. You might find these sepcific forms helpful in applying the idea:

”Let me not see an illusion of myself in this.”
”As I look on this, let me remember my Creator.”
”My Creator did not create this as I see it.”

68 ”Love holds no grievances.”

Grievances are completely alien to love. Grievances attack love and keep its light obscure. If I hold grievances I am attacking love, and therefore attacking my Self. My Self thus becomes alien to me. I am determined not to attack my Self today, so that I can remember who I am. These specific forms for applying this idea would be helpful:

”This is no justification for denying my Self.”
”I will not use this to attack love.”
”Let this not tempt me to attack myself.”

Love

LESSON 85

Today´s review will cover these ideas:

69) ”My grievances hide the light of the world in me.”

My grievances show me what is not there, and hide from me what I would see. Recongizing this, what do I want my grievances for? They keep me in darkness and hide the light. Grievances and light cannot go together, but light and vision must be joined for me to see. To see, I must lay grievances aside. I want to see, and this will be the means by which I will succeed. Specific applications of this idea might be made in these forms:

”Let me not use this as a block to sight.”
”The light of the world will shine all this away.”
”I have no need for this, I want to see.”

70) ”My salvation comes from me.”

Today I will recognize where my salvation is. It is in me because its Source is there. It has not left its Source, and so it cannot have left my mind. I will not look for it outside myself. It is not found outside and then brought in. But from within me it will reach beyond, and everything I see will but reflect the light that shines in me and in itself. These forms of the idea are suitable for more specific applications:

”Let this not tempt me to look away from me for my salvation.”
”I will not let this interfere with my awareness of the Source of my salvation.”
”This has no power to remove salvation from me.”

Love

LESSON 86

These ideas are for review today:

71) ”Only God´s plan for salvation will work.”

It is senseless for me to search wildly for salvation. I have seen it in many people and in many things, but when I reached for it, it was not there. I was mistaken about where it is. I was mistaken about what it is. I will undertake no more idle seeking. Only God´s plan for salvation will work. And I will rejoice becase His plan can never fail. These are some suggested forms for applying this idea specifically:

”God´s plan for salvation will save me from my perception of this.”
”This is no exeption in God´s plan for my salvation.”
”Let me perceive this only in the light of God´s plan for salvation.”

72) ”Holding grievances is an attack on God´s plan for salvation.”

Holding grievances is an attempt to prove that God´s plan for salvation will not work. Yet only His plan will work. By holding grievances, I am therefore excluding my only hope of salvation from my awareness. I would no longer defeat my own best interests in this insane way. I would accept God´s plan for salvation, and be happy. Specific applications of this idea might be in these forms:

”I am choosing between misperception and salvation as I look on this.”
”If I see grounds for grievances in this, I will not see the grounds for my salvation.”
”This calls for salvation, not attack.”

Love

LESSON 87

Our review today will cover these ideas:

73) ”I will there be light.”

I will use the power of my will today. It is not my will to grope about in darkness, fearful of shadows and afraid of things unseen and unreal. Light shall be my guide today. I will follow it where it leads me, and I will look only on what it shows me. This day I will experience the peace of true perception. These forms of this idea would be helpful for specific applications:

”This cannot hide the light I will to see.”
”You stand with me in light, (name).”
”In the light this will look different.”

74) ”There is no will but God´s.”

I am safe today because there is no will but God´s. I can become afraid only when I believe there is another will. I try to attack only when I am afraid, and only when I try to attack can I believe that my eternal safety is threatened. Today I will recognize that all this has not occured. I am safe because there is no will but God´s. These are some useful forms of this idea for specific applications:

”Let me perceive this in accordance with the Will of God.”
”It is God´s Will you are His Son, (name), and mine as well.”
”This is part of God´s Will for me, however, I may see it.”

Love

LESSON 88
Today we will review these ideas:

75) ”The light has come.”

In choosing salvation rather than attack, I merely choose to recognize what is already there. Salvation is a decision made already. Attack and greivances are not there to choose. That is why I always choose between truth and illusion; between what is there and wha tis not. The light has come. I can but choose the light, for it has no alternative. It has replaced the darkness, and the darkness has gone. These would proveuseful forms for specific applications of this idea:

”This cannot show me darkness,for the light has come.”
”The light in you is all that I would see, (name).”
”I would see in this only what is there.”

76) ”I am under no laws but God´s.”

Here is the perfect statement of my freedom. I am under no laws but God´s. I am constantly tempted to make up other laws and givet hem power over me. I suffer only because of my belief in them. They have no real effect on me at all. I am perfectly free of the effects of all laws save God´s. And His are the laws of freedom. For specific forms in applying this idea, these would be useful:

”My perception of this shows me I believe in laws that do not exist.”
”I see only the laws of God at work in this.”
”Let me allow God´s law to work in this, and not my own.”

Love

LESSON 89

These are our review ideas for today:

77) ”I am entitled to miracles.”

I am entitled to miracles because I am under no laws but God´s. His laws release me from all grievances,and replace them with miracles. And I would accept the miracles in place of the grievances, which are but illusions that hide the miracles beyond. Now I would accept only what the laws of God entitle me to have, that I may use it on behalf of the function. He has given me. You might use these suggestions for specific applications of this idea:

”Behind this is a miracle to which I am entitled.”
”Let me not hold grievanceagainst you, (name), but offer you the miracle that belongs to you instead.”
”Seen truly, this offers meamiracle.”

78 ”Let miracle replace all grievances.”

By this idea do I unite my will with the Holy Spirit´s, and perceive them as one. By this idea do I accept my release from hell. By this idea do I express my willingness to have all my illusions by replaced with truth, according to God´s plan for my salvation. I would make no exceptions and no substitutes. I want all of Heaven and only Heaven, as God wills me to have. Useful specific forms for applying this idea would be:

”I would not hold this grievance apart from my salvation.”
”Let our grievances be replaced by miracles, (name).”
”Beyond this is the miracle by which all my grievances are replaced.”

Love

LESSON 90

For this review we will use these ideas:

79) ” Let me recognize the problem so it can be solved.”

Let me realize today that the problem is always some form of grievance that I would cherish. Let me also understand that the solution is always a miracle with which I let the grievance be replaced. Today I would remember the simplicity of salvation by reinforcing the lesson that there is one problem and one solution. The problem is a grievance; the solution is a miracle. And I invite the solution to come to me through my forgiveness of the grievance, and my welcome of the miracle that takes its place. Specific applications of this idea might be in these forms:

”This presents a problem to me which I would have resolved.”
”The miracle behind this grievance will resolve it for me.”
”The answer to this problem is the miracle that it comceals.”

80) ”Let me recognize my problems have been solved.”

I seem to have problems only because I am misusing time. I believe that the problem comes first, and time must elapse before it can be worked out. I do not see the problem and the answer as simultaneous in their occurrence. That is because I do not yet realize that God has placed the answer together with the problem, so tht they cannot be separated by time. The Holy Spirit will teach me this, if I will let Him. And I will understand it is impossible that I could have a problem which has not been solved already. These forms of the idea will be useful for specific application:

”I need not wait for this to be resolved.”
”The answer to this problem is already given me, if I will accept it.”
”Time cannot separate this problem from its solution.”

Love

LESSON 91

”Miracles are seen in light.”

It is important to remember thatmiracles and vision necessarily go together. This needs repeating, and frequentrepeating. It is a central idea in your new thought system, and the perceptionthat it produces. The miracle is always there. Its presence is not caused byyour vision; its absence is not the result of your failure to see. It is onlyyour awareness of miracles that is affected. You will see them in the light;you will not see them in the dark. To you, then, light is crusial. While youremain in darkness, the miracle remains unseen. Thus you are convinced it isnot there. This follows from the premises from which the darkness comes. Denialof light leads to failure to perceive it. Failure to perceive light is toperceive darkness. The light is useless to you then, even though it is there.You cannot use it because its presence is unknown to you. And the seemingreality of the darkness makes the idea of light meaningless. To be told thatwhat you do not see is there sounds like insanity. It is very difficult tobecome convinced that it is insanity not to see what is there, and to see whatis not there instead. You do not doubt that the body´s eyes can see. You do notdoubt the images they show you are reality. Your faith lies in the darkness,not the light. How can this be reversed? For you it is impossible, but you arenot alone in this. Your efforts, however little they may be, have strongsupport. Did you but realize how great this strength, you dobuts would vanish.Today we will devote ourselves to the attempt to let you feel this strength.When you have felt the strength in you, which makes all miracles within youreasy reach, you will not doubt. The miracles you sense of weakness hides willleap into awareness as you feel the strength in you. Three times today, setaside about then minutes for a quiet time in which you try to leave yourweakness behind. This is accomplished very simply, as you instruct yourselfthat you are not a body. Faith goes to what you want, and you instruct yourmind accordingly. Your will remains your teacher, and your will has all thestrength to do what it desires. You can escape the body if you choose. You canexperience the strength in you. Begin the longer practice periods with thisstatement of true cause and effect relationships:

”Miracles are seen in light.
The body´s eyes do not perceivethe light.
But I am not a body. What am I?”

The question will which thisstatement ends is needed for our exercises today. What you think you are is abelief to be undone. But what you really are must be revealed to you. Thebelief you are a body calls for correction, being a mistake. The truth of whatyou are calls on the strength in yhhou to bring to your awareness what themistake conceals. If you are not a body, what are you? You need to be aware ofwhat the Holy Spirit uses to replace the image of a body in your mind. You needto feel something to put your faith in, as you lift it from the body. You needa real experience of something else, something more solid and more sure; moreworthy of your faith, and really there. If you are not a body, what are you?Ask this in honesty, and then devote several minutes to allowing your mistakenthoughts about your attributes to be corrected, and their opposites to taketheir place. Say, for example:

”I am not weak, but strong.”
”I am not helpless, but allpowerful.”
I am not limited, but unlimited.”
I am not doubtful, but certain.”
”I am not an illusion, but areality.”
”I cannot see in darkness, butin light.”

In the second phase of theexercise period, try to experience these truths about yourself. Concentrateparticularly on the experience of strength. Remember that all sense of weaknessis associated with the belief you are a body, a belief that is mistaken anddeserves no faith. Try to remove your faith from it, if only for a moment. Youwill be accustomed to keeping faith with the more worthy in you as we go along.Relax for the rest of the practice period, confident that your efforts, howevermeager, are fully supported by the strength of God and all His Thoughts. It isfrom Them that your strength will come. It is through Their strong support thatyou will feel the strength in you. They are united with you in this practiceperiod, in which you share a purpose like Their own. Theirs is the light inwhich you will see miracles, because Their strength is yours. Their strengthbecomes your eyes, that you may see. Five or six times an hour, at reasonablyregular intervals, remind yourself that miracles are seen in light. Also, besure to meet temptation with today´s idea. This form would be helpful for thisspecial purpose:

”Miracles are seen in light.
Let me not close my eyes becauseof this.”

Love

LESSON 92

”Miracles are seen in light, andlight and strength are one.”

The idea for today in anextension of the previous one. You do not think of light in terms of strength,and darkness in terms of weakness. That is because your idea of what seeingmeans is tied up with the body and its eyes and brain. Thus you believe thatyou can change what you see but putting little bits of glass before your eyes.This is among the many magical beliefs that come from the conviction you are abody, and the body´s eyes can see. You also believe the body´s brain can think.If you but understood the nature of thought, you could but laugh at this insaneidea. It is as if you thought you held the match that lights the sun and givesit all its warmth; or that you held the match that lights the sun and gives itall its warmth; or that you held the world within your hand, securely bounduntil you let it go. Yet this is no more foolish than to believe the body´seyes can see; the brain can think. It is God´s strength in you that is thelight in which you see, as it is His Mind with which you think. His strengthdenies your weakness. It is your weakness that sees through the body´s eyes,peering about in darkness to behold the likeness of itself; the small, theweak, the sickly and the dying, those in need, the helpless and afraid, thesad, the poor, the starving and the joyless. These are seen through eyes thatcannot see and cannot bless. Strength overlooks these things by seeing past appearances.It keeps its steady gaze upon the light that lies beyond them. It unites withlight, of which it is a part. It sees itself. It brings the light in which yourSelf appears. In darkness you perceive a self that is not there. Strength isthe truth about you; weakness is an idol falsely worshipped and adored thatstrength may be dispelled, and darkness rule where God appointed that thereshould be light. Strength comes from truth, and shines with light its Sourcehas given it; weakness reflects the darkness of its maker. It is sick and lookson sickness, which is like itself. Truth is a savior and can only will forhappiness and peace for everyone. It gives its strength to everyone who asks,in limitless supply. It sees that lack in anyone would be a lack in all. And soit gives its light that all may see and benefit as one. Its strength is sharedis shared, that it may bring to all the miracle in which they will unite inpurpose and forgiveness and in love. Weakness, which looks in darkness, cannotsee a purpose in forgiveness and in love. It sees all others different fromitself, and nothing in the world that it would share. It judges and condemns,but does not love. In darkness it remains to hide itself, an dreams that it isstrong and conquering, a victor over limitations that but grow in darkness toenormous size. It fears and it attacks and hates itself, and darkness coverseverything it sees, leaving it dreams as fearful as itself. No miracles arehere, but only hate. It separates itself from what it sees, while light andstrength perceive themselves as one. The light of strength is not the light yousee. It does not change and flicker and go out. It does not shift from night today, and back till the morning comes again. The light of strength is constant,sure as love, forever glad to give itself away, because it cannot give but toitself. No one can ask in vain th share its sight, and none who enters itsabode can leave without a miracle before his eyes, and strength and lightabides in his heart. The strength in you will offer you the light, and guideyour seeing so you do not dwell on idle shadows that the body´s eyes providefor self-deception. Strength and light unite in you, and where they meet, yourSelf stands ready to embrace you as Its Own. Such is the meeting place we trytoday to find and rest in, for the peace of God is where your Self, His Son, iswaiting now to meet Itself again, and be as one. Let us give twenty minutestwice today to join this meeting. Let yourself be brought unto your Self. Itsstrength will be the light in which the gift of sight is given you. Leave,then, the dark a little while today, and we will practice seeing in the light,closing the body´s eyes and asking truth to show u show to find the meetingplace of slef and Self, where light and strength are one. Morning and eveningwe will practice thus. After the morning meeting, we will use the day inpreparation for the time at night when we will meet again in trust. Let us repeatas often as we can the idea for today, and recognize that we are beingintroduced to sight, and led away from darkness to the light where onlymiracles can be perceived.

Love

LESSON 92

”Miracles are seen in light, andlight and strength are one.”

The idea for today in anextension of the previous one. You do not think of light in terms of strength,and darkness in terms of weakness. That is because your idea of what seeingmeans is tied up with the body and its eyes and brain. Thus you believe thatyou can change what you see but putting little bits of glass before your eyes.This is among the many magical beliefs that come from the conviction you are abody, and the body´s eyes can see. You also believe the body´s brain can think.If you but understood the nature of thought, you could but laugh at this insaneidea. It is as if you thought you held the match that lights the sun and givesit all its warmth; or that you held the match that lights the sun and gives itall its warmth; or that you held the world within your hand, securely bounduntil you let it go. Yet this is no more foolish than to believe the body´seyes can see; the brain can think. It is God´s strength in you that is thelight in which you see, as it is His Mind with which you think. His strengthdenies your weakness. It is your weakness that sees through the body´s eyes,peering about in darkness to behold the likeness of itself; the small, theweak, the sickly and the dying, those in need, the helpless and afraid, thesad, the poor, the starving and the joyless. These are seen through eyes thatcannot see and cannot bless. Strength overlooks these things by seeing pastappearances. It keeps its steady gaze upon the light that lies beyond them. Itunites with light, of which it is a part. It sees itself. It brings the lightin which your Self appears. In darkness you perceive a self that is not there.Strength is the truth about you; weakness is an idol falsely worshipped andadored that strength may be dispelled, and darkness rule where God appointedthat there should be light. Strength comes from truth, and shines with lightits Source has given it; weakness reflects the darkness of its maker. It issick and looks on sickness, which is like itself. Truth is a savior and canonly will for happiness and peace for everyone. It gives its strength toeveryone who asks, in limitless supply. It sees that lack in anyone would be alack in all. And so it gives its light that all may see and benefit as one. Itsstrength is shared is shared, that it may bring to all the miracle in whichthey will unite in purpose and forgiveness and in love. Weakness, which looksin darkness, cannot see a purpose in forgiveness and in love. It sees allothers different from itself, and nothing in the world that it would share. Itjudges and condemns, but does not love. In darkness it remains to hide itself,an dreams that it is strong and conquering, a victor over limitations that butgrow in darkness to enormous size. It fears and it attacks and hates itself,and darkness covers everything it sees, leaving it dreams as fearful as itself.No miracles are here, but only hate. It separates itself from what it sees,while light and strength perceive themselves as one. The light of strength isnot the light you see. It does not change and flicker and go out. It does notshift from night to day, and back till the morning comes again. The light ofstrength is constant, sure as love, forever glad to give itself away, becauseit cannot give but to itself. No one can ask in vain th share its sight, andnone who enters its abode can leave without a miracle before his eyes, andstrength and light abides in his heart. The strength in you will offer you thelight, and guide your seeing so you do not dwell on idle shadows that the body´seyes provide for self-deception. Strength and light unite in you, and wherethey meet, your Self stands ready to embrace you as Its Own. Such is themeeting place we try today to find and rest in, for the peace of God is whereyour Self, His Son, is waiting now to meet Itself again, and be as one. Let usgive twenty minutes twice today to join this meeting. Let yourself be broughtunto your Self. Its strength will be the light in which the gift of sight isgiven you. Leave, then, the dark a little while today, and we will practiceseeing in the light, closing the body´s eyes and asking truth to show u show tofind the meeting place of slef and Self, where light and strength are one.Morning and evening we will practice thus. After the morning meeting, we willuse the day in preparation for the time at night when we will meet again intrust. Let us repeat as often as we can the idea for today, and recognize thatwe are being introduced to sight, and led away from darkness to the light whereonly miracles can be perceived.

Love

LESSON 92

”Miracles are seen in light, andlight and strength are one.”

The idea for today in anextension of the previous one. You do not think of light in terms of strength,and darkness in terms of weakness. That is because your idea of what seeingmeans is tied up with the body and its eyes and brain. Thus you believe thatyou can change what you see but putting little bits of glass before your eyes.This is among the many magical beliefs that come from the conviction you are abody, and the body´s eyes can see. You also believe the body´s brain can think.If you but understood the nature of thought, you could but laugh at this insaneidea. It is as if you thought you held the match that lights the sun and givesit all its warmth; or that you held the match that lights the sun and gives itall its warmth; or that you held the world within your hand, securely bounduntil you let it go. Yet this is no more foolish than to believe the body´seyes can see; the brain can think. It is God´s strength in you that is thelight in which you see, as it is His Mind with which you think. His strengthdenies your weakness. It is your weakness that sees through the body´s eyes,peering about in darkness to behold the likeness of itself; the small, theweak, the sickly and the dying, those in need, the helpless and afraid, thesad, the poor, the starving and the joyless. These are seen through eyes thatcannot see and cannot bless. Strength overlooks these things by seeing pastappearances. It keeps its steady gaze upon the light that lies beyond them. Itunites with light, of which it is a part. It sees itself. It brings the lightin which your Self appears. In darkness you perceive a self that is not there.Strength is the truth about you; weakness is an idol falsely worshipped andadored that strength may be dispelled, and darkness rule where God appointedthat there should be light. Strength comes from truth, and shines with lightits Source has given it; weakness reflects the darkness of its maker. It issick and looks on sickness, which is like itself. Truth is a savior and canonly will for happiness and peace for everyone. It gives its strength toeveryone who asks, in limitless supply. It sees that lack in anyone would be alack in all. And so it gives its light that all may see and benefit as one. Itsstrength is shared is shared, that it may bring to all the miracle in whichthey will unite in purpose and forgiveness and in love. Weakness, which looksin darkness, cannot see a purpose in forgiveness and in love. It sees allothers different from itself, and nothing in the world that it would share. Itjudges and condemns, but does not love. In darkness it remains to hide itself,an dreams that it is strong and conquering, a victor over limitations that butgrow in darkness to enormous size. It fears and it attacks and hates itself,and darkness covers everything it sees, leaving it dreams as fearful as itself.No miracles are here, but only hate. It separates itself from what it sees,while light and strength perceive themselves as one. The light of strength isnot the light you see. It does not change and flicker and go out. It does notshift from night to day, and back till the morning comes again. The light ofstrength is constant, sure as love, forever glad to give itself away, becauseit cannot give but to itself. No one can ask in vain th share its sight, andnone who enters its abode can leave without a miracle before his eyes, andstrength and light abides in his heart. The strength in you will offer you thelight, and guide your seeing so you do not dwell on idle shadows that the body´seyes provide for self-deception. Strength and light unite in you, and wherethey meet, your Self stands ready to embrace you as Its Own. Such is themeeting place we try today to find and rest in, for the peace of God is whereyour Self, His Son, is waiting now to meet Itself again, and be as one. Let usgive twenty minutes twice today to join this meeting. Let yourself be broughtunto your Self. Its strength will be the light in which the gift of sight isgiven you. Leave, then, the dark a little while today, and we will practiceseeing in the light, closing the body´s eyes and asking truth to show u show tofind the meeting place of slef and Self, where light and strength are one.Morning and evening we will practice thus. After the morning meeting, we willuse the day in preparation for the time at night when we will meet again intrust. Let us repeat as often as we can the idea for today, and recognize thatwe are being introduced to sight, and led away from darkness to the light whereonly miracles can be perceived.

Love

LESSON 93

”Light and joy and peace abides in me.”

You think you are the home for evil, darkness and sin. You think if anyone could see the truth about you he would be repelled, recoiling from you as if from a poisonous snake. You think if what is true about you were revealed to you, you would be struck with horror so intense that you would rush to death by your own hand, living on after seeing this being impossible. There are beliefs so firmly fixed that it is difficult to help you see that they are based on nothing. That you have made mistakes is obvious. That you have sought salvation in strange ways, - have bean deceived, deciving and afraid of foolish fantasies and savage dreams; and have bowed down to idols made of dust, - all this is true by what you now believe. Today we question this, not from the point of view of what you think, but from a very different reference point, from which such idle thoughts are meaningless. These thoughts are not according to God´s Will. These weird beliefs He does not share with you. This is enough to prove that they are wrong, but you do not perceive that this is so. Why would you not be overjoyed to be assured that all the evil that you think you did was never done, that all your sins are nothing, that you are as pure and holy as you were created, and that light and joy and peace abide in you? Your image of yourself cannot withstand the Will of God. You think that this is death, but it is life. You think you are destroyed, bu you are saved. The self you made is not the Son of God. Therefore, this self does not exist at all. And anything it seems to do and think means nothing. It is neither bad nor good. It is unreal, and nothing more than that. It does not battle with the Son of God. It does not hurt him, nor attack his peace. It has not changed creation, nor reduced eternal sinlessness to sin, and love to hate. What power can this self you made possess, what it would contradict the Will of God? Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God. Over and over this must be repeated, until it is accepted. It is true. Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God. Nothing can touch it, or change what God created as eternal. The self you made, evil and full of sin, is meaningless. Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God, and light and joy and peace abide in you. Salvation requires the acceptance of but one thought; - you are as God created you, not what you made of yourself. Whatever evil you mnay think you did, you are as God created you. Whatever mistakes you made, the truth about you is unchanged. Creation is eternal and unalterable. Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God. You are and will forever be exactly as you were created. Light and joy and peace abide in you because God put them there. In our longer exercise periods today, which would be most profitable if done for the first five minutes of every waking hour, begin by stating the truth about your creation:

”Light and joy and peace abides in me.
My sinlessness is guaranteed by God.”

Then put away your foolish self-images, and spend the rest of the practice period in trying to experience what God has given you, in place of what you have decreed for yourself. You are what God created ore what you made. On Self is true; the other is not there. Try to experience the unity of your one Self. Try to appreciate Its holiness and the Love from Which It was created. Try not to interfere with the Self Which God created as you, by hiding Its majesty behind the tiny idols of evil and sinfulness you have made tp replace it. Let It come into Its Own. Here you are; This is you. And light and joy and peace abide in you because this is so. You may not be willing or even able to use the first five minutes of each hour for these exercises. Try, however, to do so when you can. At least remember to repeat these thoughts each hour:

”Light and joy and peace abide in me.
My sinlessness is guaranteed by God.”

Then try to devote at least a minute or so to closing you eyes and realizing that this is a statement of the truth about you. If a situation arises that seems to be disturbing, quickly dispel the illusion of fear by repeating these thoughts again. Should you be tempted to become angry with someone, tell him silently:

”Light and joy and peace abides in you.
Your sinlessness is guaranteed by God.”

You can do much for the world´s salvation today. You can do much today to bring you closer to the part in salvation that God has assigned to you. And you can do much today to bring the conviction to your mind that the idea for the day is true indeed.

Love

LESSON 94

”I am as God created me.”

Today we continue with the one idea which brings complete salvation; the one statement which makes all forms of temptation powerless; the one thought which renders the ego silent and entirely undone. You are as God created you. The sounds of this world are still, the sights of this world disappear, and all the thoughts that this would ever held are wiped away forever by this one idea. Here is salvation accomplished. Here is sanity restored. True light is strength, and strength is sinlessness. If you remain as God created you, you must be strong and light must be in you. He Who ensured your sinlessness must be the guarantee of strength and light as well. You are as God created you. Darkness cannot obscure the glory of God´s Son. You stand in light, strong in the sinlessness in which you were created, and in which you will remain throughout eternity. Today we will again devote the first five minutes of each waking hour to the attempt to feel the truth in you. Begin these times of searching with these words:

”I am as God created me.
I am His son eternally.”

Now try to reach the Son of God in you. This is the Self That never sinned, nor made an image to replace reality. This is the Self That never left Its home in God to walk the world uncertainly. This is the Self That knows no fear, nor could conceive of loss or suffering or death. Nothing is required of you to reach this goal except to lay all idols and self-images aside; go past the list of attributes, both good and bad, you have ascribed to yourself; and wait in silent expectancy for the truth. God has Himself promised that it will be revvealed to all who ask for it. You are asking now. You cannot fail because He cannot fail. If you do not meet the requirement of practicing for the first five minutes of every hour, at least remind yourself hourly:

”I am as God created me.
I am His Son eternally.”

Tell yourself frequently today that you are as God created you. And be sure to respond to anyone who seems to irritate you with these words:

”You are as God created you.
You are His Son eternally.”

Make every effort to do the hourly exercises today. Each one you do will be a giant stride toward your release, and a milestone in learning the thought system which this course sets forth.

Love

LESSON 95


"Iam one Self, united with myCreator.”

Today´s idea accuratelydescribes you as God created you. You are one within yourself, and one withHim. Yours is the unity of all creation. Your perfectly unity makes change inyou impossible. You do not accept this, and you fail to realize it must be so,only because you believe that you have changed yourself already. You seeyourself as a ridiculous parody on God´s creation; weak, vicious, ugly andsinful, miserable and beset with pain. Such is your version of yourself; a selfdivided into many warring parts, separate from God, and tenuously held togetherby its erratic and capricious maker, to which you pray. It does not hear yourprayers, for it is deaf. It does not see the oneness in you, for it is blind.It does not understand you are the Son of God, for it is senseless andunderstanding nothing. We will attempt today to be aware only of what can hearand see, and what makes perfect sense. We will again direct our exercisestowards reaching your one Self, Which is united with Its Creator. In patienceand in hope we try again today. The use of the first five minutes of everywaking hour for practicing the idea for the day has special advantages at thestage of learning in which you are at present. It is difficult at this pointnot to allow your mind to wander, if it undertakes extended practice. You havesurely realized this by now. You have seen the extend of your lack of mentaldiscipline, and of your need for mind training. It is necessary that you beaware of this, for it is indeed a hindrance to your advance. Frequent butshorter practice periods have other advantage for you at this time. In additionto recognizing your difficulties with sustained attention, you must also havenoticed that, unless you are reminded of your purpose frequently, you tend toforget about it for long periods of time. You often fail to remember the shortapplications of the idea for the day, and you have not yet formed the habit ofusing the idea as an automatic response to temptation. Structure, then, isnecessary for you at this time, planned to include frequent reminders of yougoal and regular attempts to reach it. Regularity in terms of time is not theideal requirment for the most beneficial form of practice in salvation. It isadvantageous, however, for those whose motivation is inconsistent, and whoremain heavily defended against learning. We will, therefore, keep to the fiveminutes an hour practice periods for a while, and urge you to omit as few aspossible. Using the first five minutes of the hour will be paritcularlyhelpful, since it imposes firmer stucture. Do not, however, use your lapsesfrom this schedule as an excuse not to return to it again as soon as you can.There may well be a temptation to regard the day as lost becasue you havealready failed to do what is required. This should, however, merely berecognized as what it is; a refusal to let your mistake be corrected, and anunwillingness to try again. The Holy Sprit is not delayed in His teaching byyour mistakes. He can be held back only by your unwillingness to let them go. Letus therefore be determined, particularly for the next week or so, to be willingto forgive ourselves for our lapses in diligence, and our failures to followthe instructions for practicing the day´s idea. This tolerance for weaknesswill enable us to overlook it, rather than give it power to delay our learning.If we give it power to do this, we are regardingit as strength, and areconfusing strength with weakness. When you fail to comply with the requirementof this course, you have merely made a mistake. This calls for correction, andfor noting else. To allow a mistake to continue is to make additional mistakes,based on the first and reinforcing it. It is this process that must be laidaside, for ti is but another may in which you woulddefend illusions against thetruth. Let all these errors go by recognizing them for what they are. They areattempts to keep you unaware you are one Self, united with the Creator, at onewith every aspect of creation, and limitless in power and in peace. This is thetruth, and nothing else is true. Today we will affirm this truth again, and tryto reach the place in you in which there is no doubt that only this is true.Begin the practice periods today with this assurance, offered to your mind withall the certainty that you can give:

”I am one Self, united with myCreator,
At one with every aspect ofcreation,
And limitless in power and inpeace.”

Then close your eyes and tellyourself again, slowly and thoughtfully, attempting to allow the meaning of thewords to sink into your mind, replacing false ideas:

”I am one Self.”

Repeat this several times, andthen attempt to feel the meaning that the words convey. You are one Self,united and secure in light and joy and peace. You are God´s Son, one Self, withone Creator and one goal; to bring awareness of this oneness to all minds, thattrue creation may extend the Allness and the Unity of God. You are one Self,complete and healed and whole, with power to lift the veil of darkness from theworld, and let the light in you come through to teach the world the truth abouryourself. You are one Self, in perfect harmony with all there is, and all thatthere will be. You are one Self, that holy Son of God, united with yourbrothers in that Self, the Son of God Himself, sinless as Its Creator, with Hisstrength within you and His Love forever yours. You are one Self, and it isgiven you to feel this Self within you, and to cast all your illusions out ofthe one Mind that is this Self, the holy truth in you. Do not forget today. Weneed your help; your little part in bringing happiness to all the world. AndHeaven looks to you in confidence that you will try today. Share, then, itssurely, for it is yours. Be vigilant. Do not forget today. Throughout the daydo not forget your goal. Repeat today´s idea as frequently as possible, andunderstand each time you do so, someone hears the voice of hope, the stirringof the truth within his mind, the gentle rustling of the wings of peace. Yourown acknowledgment you are one Self, united with your Father, is a call to allthe world to be at one with you. To everyone you meet today, be sure to givethe promise of today´s idea and tell him this:

”You are one Self with me,
United with our Creator in thisSelf.
I honor you because of what Iam,
And what He is, Who loves usboth as one.”

Love

LESSON 96

”Salvation comes from my oneSelf.”

Although you are one Self, youexperience yourself as two; as both good and evil, loving and hating, mind andbody. This sense of being split into opposites induces feelings of acute andconstant conflict, and leads to frantic attempts to reconcile the contradictoryaspects of this self-perception. You have sought many such solutions, and noneof them has worked. The opposites you see in you will never be compatible. But oneexists. The fact that truth and illusion cannot be reconciled, no matter howyou try, what means you use and where you see the problem, must be accepted ifyou would be saved. Until you have accepted this, you will attempt an endlesslist of goals you cannot reach; a senseless series of exxpenditures of time andeffort, hopefullness and duoubt, each one as futile as the one before, andfailing as the next one surely will. Problems that have no meaning cannot beresolved within the framework they are set. Two selves in conflict could not beresolved, and good and evil haveno meeting place. The self you made can neverbe your Self, nor can your Self be split in two, and still be what It is andmust forever be. A mind and body cannot both exist. Make no attempt toreconcile the two, for one denies the other can be real. If you are physical,your mind is gone from your self concept, for it has no place in which it couldbe really part of you. If you are spirit, then the body must be meaningless toyour reality. Spirit makes use of mind as means to find its Self-expression.And the mind which serves the spirit it as peace and filled with joy. Its powercomes from spirit, and it is fulfilling happily its function here. Yet mind canalso see itself divorced from spirit, and perceive itself within a body itdonfuses with itself. Without its function then it has no peace, and happinessis alien to its thoughts. Yet mind apart from spirit cannot think. It hasdenied its Source of strength, and sees itself as helpless, limited and weak.Dissociated from its function now, it thinks it is alone and separate, attackedby armies massed against itself and hiding in the body´s frail support. Nowmust it reconcile unlike with like, for this iw what it thinks that it is for.Waste no more time on this. Who can resolve the senseless conflicts which adream presents? What could the resolution mean in truth? What purpose could itserve? What is it for? Salvation cannot make illusions real, nor solve aproblem that does not exist. Perhaps you hope it can. Yet would you have God´splan for the release of His dear Son bring pain to him, and fail to set himfree? Your Self retains Its thoughts, and they remain within your mind and inthe Mind of God. The Holy Spirit holds salvation in your mind, and offers itthe way to peace. Salvation is a thought you share with God, because His Voiceaccepted it for you and answered in your name that it was done. Thus issalvation kept among the thoughts your Self holds dear and cherishes for you.We will attempt today to find this thought, whose presence in your mind isguaranteed by Him Who speaks to you from your one Self. Our hourly five minutepracticing will be a search for Him within your mind. Salvation comes from thisone Self through Him Who is the bridge between your mind and It. Wait patiently, and let Him speak to you about yourSelf, and what your mind can do, restored to It and free to serve Its Will.Begin with saying this:

”Salvation comes from my oneSelf.
Its thoughts are mine to use.”

Then seek Its thoughts, andclaim them as your own. These are your own real thoughts you have denied, andlet your mind go wandering in a world of dream, to find illusions in theirplace. Here are your thoughts, the only ones you have. Salvation is among them;find it there. If you succeed, the thoughts that come to you will tell you youare saved, and that your mind has found the function that it sought to lose. YourSelf will welcome it and give it peace. Restored in strength, it will againflow out from spirit to the spirit in all things created by the Spirit asItself. Your mind will bless all things. Confusion done, you are restored, foryou have found your Self. Your Self knows that you cannot fail today. Perhapsyour mind remains uncertain yet a little while. Be not dismayed by this. Thejoy your Self experiences It will save for you, and it will yet be yours infull awareness. Every time you spend five minutes of the hour seeking Him Whojoins your mind and Self, you offer Him another treasure to be kept for you.Each time today you tell your frantic mind salvation comes from your one Self,you lay another treasure in your growing store. And all if it is given everyonewho asks for it, and will accpet the gift. Think, then, how much is given untoyou to give this day, that it be given you!

Love

LESSON 97

”I am spirit.”

Today´s idea identifies you withour one Self. It accepts no split identity, nor tries to weave opposing factorsinto unity. It simply states the truth. Practice this truth today as often asyou can, for it will bring your mind from conflict to the quiet fields ofpeace. No chill of fear can enter, for your mind has been absolved frommadness, letting go illusions of a split identity. We state again the the truthabout your Self, the holy Son of God Who rests in you; Whose mind has beenrestored to sanity. You are the spirit lovingly endowed with all your Father´sLove and peace and joy. You are the spirit which completes Himself, and sharesHis function as Creator. He is with you always, as you are with Him. Today wetry to bring reality still closer to your mind. Each time your practice,awareness is brought a little nearer at least; sometimes a thousand years ormore are saved. The minutes which you give are multiplied over and over, forthe miracle makes use of time, but is not ruled by it. Salvation is a miracle,the first and last; the first that is the last, for it is one. You are thespirit in whose mind abides the miracle in which all time stands still; themiracle in which a minute spent in using these ideas becomes a time that has nolimit and that has no end. Give, then, these minutes willingly, and count onHim Who promised to lay timelessness beside them. He will offer all Hisstrength to every little effort that you make. Give Him the minutes which Heneeds today, to help you understand with Him you are the spirit that abides inHim, and that calls through His Voice to every living thing; offers His sightto everyone who asks; replaces error with the simple truth. The Holy Spirit wilbe glad to take five minutes of each hour from your hands, and carry themaround this aching world where pain and misery appear to rule. He will notoverlook one open mind that will accept the healing gifts they bring, and Hewill lay them everywhere He knows they will be welcome. And they will increasein healing power each time someone accepts them as his thoughts, and uses themto heal. Thus will each gift to Him be multiplied a thousand-fold and tens ofthousands more. And when it is returned to you, it will surpass in might thelittle gift you gave as much as does the radiance of the sun outshine the tinygleam a firefly makes an uncertain moment and goes out. The steady brillianceof this light remains and leads you out of darkness, nor will you be able toforget the way again. Begin these happy exercises with the words the HolySpirit speaks to you, and lett hem echo round the world through Him:

”Spirit am I, a holy Son of God,
Free of all limits, safe andhealed and whole,
Free to forgive, and free tosave the world.”

Expressed through you, the HolySpirit will accept this gift that you received of Him, increase its power andgive it back to you. Offer each practice period today gladly to Him. And He willspeak to you, reminding you that you are spirit, one with Him and God, yourbrothers and your Self. Listen for His assurance every time you speak the wordsHe offers you today, and let Him tell your mind that they are true. Use themagainst temptation, and escape its sorry consequences if you yield to thebelief that you are something else. The Holy Spirit gives you peace today.Receive His words, and offer them to Him.

Love

LESSON 98

”I will accept my part in God´s plan for salvation.”

Today is a day of special dedication. We take a stand on but one side today. We side with truth and let illusions go. We will not vacillate between the two, but take a firm position with the One. We dedicate ourselves to truth today, and to salvation as God planned it be. We will not argue it is something else. We will not seek for it where it is not. In gladness we accept it as it is, and take the part assigned to us by God. How happy to be certain! All our doubts we lay aside today, and take our stand with certainty of purpose, and with thanks that dobut is gone and surety has come. We have a mighty purpose to fulfill, and have been given everything we need with which to reach the goal. Not one mistake stands in ourway. For we have been absolved from errors. All our sins are washed away by realizing they were but mistakes. The guiltless have no fear, for they are safe and recongize their safety. They do not appeal to magic, nor invent escapes from fancied threats without reality. They rest in quiet certainty that they will do what it is given them to do. They do not doubt their own ability because they know their function will be filled completely in the perfect time and place. They took the stand which we will take today, that we may share their certainty and thus increase it by accepting it ourselves. They wil be with us; all who took the stand we take today will gladly offer us all that they learned and every gain they made. Those still uncertain, too, will join with us, and, borrowing our certainty, will make it stronger still. While those as yet unborn will hear the call we heard, and answer it when they have come to make their choice again. We do not choose but for ourselves today. It is not worth five minutes of your time each hour to be able to accept the happiness that God has given you? It is not worth five mintues hourly to recognize your special function here? It is not five minutes but a small request to make in terms of gaining a reward so great it has no measure? You have made a thousand losing bargains at the least. Here is an offer guaranteeing you your full release from pain of every kind, and joy the world does not contain. You can exchange a little of your time for peace of mind and certainty of purpose, with the promise of complete success. And since time has no meaning, you are being asked for nothing in return for everything. Here is a bargain that you cannot lose. And what you gain is limitless indeed! Each hour today give Him your tiny gift of but five mintes. He will give the words you use in practicing today´sidea the deep conviction and the certainty you lack. His words will join with yours, and make each repetition of today´s idea a total dedication, made in faithas perfect and as sure as His in you. His confidence in you will bring the light to all the words you say, and you will go beyond their sound to what theyr eally mean. Today you practice with Him, as you say:

”I will accept my part in God´s plan for salvation.”

In each five minutes that you spend with Him, He will accept your words and givet hem back to you all bringht with faith and confidence so strong and steady they will light the world with hope and gladness. Do not lose one chance to be the glad reciever of His gifts,that you may givet hem to the world today. Give Him the words, and He will do the rest. He will enable you to understand your special function. He will open up the way to happiness, and peace and trust will be His gifts; His answer to your words. He will respond with all His faith and joy and certainty that what you say is true. And you will have conviction then of Him Who knows the function that you have on earth as well as Heaven. He will be with you each practice period you share with Him, exchanging every instant of the time you offer Him for timelessness and peace. Throughout the hour, let your time be spent in happy preparation for the next five minutes you will spend again with Him. Repeat today´s idea while you wait for the glad time to come to you again.Repeat it often, and do not forget each time you do so, you have let your mind be readied for the happy time to come. And when the hour goes and He is there once more to spend a little time with you, be thankful and lay down all earthly tasks, all little thoughts and limited ideas, and spend a happy times again with Him. Tell Him once more that you accept the part that He would have you take and help you fill, and He will make you sure you want this choice, which He has made with you and you with Him.

Love

LESSON 99

”Salvation is my only function here.”

Salvation and forgiveness are the same. They both imply that something has gone wrong; something to be saved from, forgiven for; something amiss that needs corrective change; something apart or different from the Will of God. Thus do both terms imply a thing impossible but yet which has occured, resulting in a state of conflict seen between what is and what could never be. Truth an illusions both are equal now,for both have happened. Theim possible becomes the thing you need forgiveness for, salvation from. Salvation now becomes the borderland between the truth and the illusion. It reflects the truth because it is the means by which you can escape illusions. Yet it is not yet the truth because it undoes what was never done. How could there be a meeting place at all where earth and Heaven can be reconciled within a mind where both of them exists? The mind that sees illusions Thinks them real. They have existence in that they are thoughts. And yet they are not real, because the mind that thinks these thoughts is separate from God. What joins the separated mind and thoughts with Mind and Thought which are forever one? ’What plan could hold the truth inviolate, yet recognize the need illusions bring, and offer means by which they are undone without attack and with no touch of pain? What but a Thought of God could be this plan, by which the never done is overlooked, and sins forgotten which were never real? The Holy Spirit holds this plan of God exactly as it was received of Him within the Mind of God and in your own. It is apart from time in that its Source is timeless. Yet it operates in time, because of your belief that time is real.Unshaken does the Holy Spirit look on what you see; on sin and pain and death,on grief and separation and on loss. Yet does He know one thing must still be true; God is still Love, and this is not His Will. This is the Thought that brings illusions to the truth, and sees them as appearances behind which is the changeless and the sure. This is the Thought that saves and that forgives,because it lays no faith in what is not created by the only Source it knows.This is the Thought whose function is to save by giving you its function as your own. Salvation is your function, with the One to Whom the plan was given.Now are you entrusted with this plan, along with Him. He has one answer to appearences; regardless of their form, their size, their depth or any attribute they seem to have:

”Salvation is my only function here.
God still is Love, and this is not His Will.”

You who will yet work miracles,be sure you practice well the idea for today. Try to perceive the strength in what you say, for these are words in which your freedom lies. Your Father loves you. All the world of pain is not His Will. Forgive yourself the thought He wanted this for you. Then let the Thought with which He has replaced all your mistakes enter the darkened place of your mind that thought the thoughts that never were His Will. This part belongs to God, as does the rest. It does not think its solitary thoughts, and make them real by hiding them from Him.Let in the light, and you will look upon no obstacles to what He wills for you.Open your secrets to His kindly light, and see how bright this light still shines in you. Practice His Thought today, and let His light seek out and lighten up all darkened spots, and shine through them to joint hem to the rest.It is God´s Will your mind be one with His. It is God´s Will that He has but one Son. It is God´s Will that His one Son is you. Think of these things in practicing today, and start the lesson that we learn today with this instruction in the way of truth:

”Salvation is my only function here.
Salvation and forgiveness are the same.”

Then turn to Him Who shares your function here, and let Him teach you what you need to learn to lay all fear aside, and know your Self as love which has no opposite in you. Forgive all thoughts which would oppose the truth of your completion, unity and peace. You cannot lose the gift your Father gave. You do not want to be another self. You have no function that is not of God. Forgive yourself the one you think you made.Forgiveness and salvation are the same. Forgive what you have made and you are saved. There is a special message for today which has the power to remove all forms of doubt and fear forever from your mind. If you are tempted to Believe them true, remember that appeareances can not withstand the truth these mighty words contain:

”Salvation is my only functionhere.
God still is Love, and this is not His Will.”

Your only function tells you you are one. Remind yourself of this between the times you give five minutes to be shared with Him Who shares God´s plan with you. Remind yourself:

”Salvation is my only function here.”

Thus do you lay forgiveness on your mind and let all fear be gently laid aside, that love may find its rightful place in you and show you that you are the Son of God.

Love

LESSON 100

”My part is essential to God´splan for salvation.”

Just as God´s Son completes his Father, so your part in it completes your Father´s plan. Salvation must reverse the mad belief in separate thoughts and separate bodies, which lead separate lives and go their separate ways. One function shared by separate minds unites them in one purpose, for each one of them is equally essential to them all.God´s Will for you is perfect happiness. Why should you choose to go against His Will? The part that He has saved for you to take in working out His plan is given you that you might be restored to what He wills. This part is asessential to His plan as to your happiness. Your joy must be complete to let His plan be understood by those to whom He sends you. They will see their function in your shining face, and hear God calling to them in your happy laugh. You are indeed essential to God´s plan. Without your joy, His joy is incomplete. Without your smile, the world cannto be saved. While you are sad, the light that God Himself appointed as the means to save the world is dim and lusterless, and no one laughs because all laughter can but echo yours. You are indeed essential to God´s plan. Just as your light increases every light that shines in Heaven, so your jou on earth calls to all minds to let their sorrows go, and take their place beside you in God´s plan. God´s messengers are joyous,and their joy heals sorrow and despair. They are the proof that God wills perfect happiness for all who will accept their Father´s gifts as theirs. We will not let ourselves be sad today. For if we do, we fail to take the part that is essential to God´s plan, as well as to our vision. Sadness is the sign that you would play another part, instead of what has been assigned to your by God. Thus do you fail to show the world how great the happiness He wills for you. And so you do not recognize that it is yours. Today we will attempt to understand joy is our function here. If you are sad, your part is unfulfilled,and all the world is thus deprived of joy, along with you. God asks you to be happy,so the world can see how much He loves His Son, and wills no sorrow rises to abate his joy; no fear besets him to disturb his peace. You are God´s Messenger today. You bring His happiness to all you look upon; His peace to everyone who looks on you and sees His message in your happy face. We will prepare ourselves for this today, in our five minute practice periods, by feeling happiness arise in us according to our Father´s Will and ours. Begin the exercises with the thought today´s idea contains. Then realize your part is to be happy. Only this is asked of you or anyone who wants to take his place among God´s messengers.Think what this means. You have indeed been wrong in your belief that sacrifice is asked. You but receive according to God´s plan, and never lose or sacrifice or die. Now let us try to find that joy that proves to us and all the World God´s Will for us. It is your function that you find it here, and that you find it now. For this you came. Let this one be the day that you succeed! Look Deep within you, undismayed by all the little thoughts and foolish goals you pass as you ascend to meet the Christ in you. He will be there. And you can reach Him now. What could you rather look upon in place of Him Who waits that you may look on Him? What little thought has power to hold you back? What foolish goal can keep you from success when He Who calls top you is God Himself? He will be there. You are essential to His plan. You are His messenger today. And you must find what He would have you give. Do not forget the idea for today between your hourly practice periods. It is your Self Who calls to you today. And it is Him you answer, every time you tell yourself you are essential to God´s plan for the salvation of the world.

Love

LESSON 101

”God´s Will for me is perfect happiness.”

Today we will continue with the theme of happiness. This is a key idea in understanding what salvation means. You still believe it asks for suffering as penance for your ”sins”. This is not so.Yet you must think it so while you believe that sin is real, and that God´s Son can sin. If sin is real, then punishment is just and cannot be escaped.Salvation thus cannot be purchased but through suffering. If sin is real, then happiness must be illusion, for they cannot both be true. The sinful warrant only death and pain, and it is this key ask for. For they know it waits for them, and it will seek them out and find them somewhat, sometime, in some form that evens the account they owe to God. They would not escape Him in their fear. And yet He will pursue, and they can not escape. If sin is real,salvation must be pain. Pain is the cost of sin, and suffering can never be escaped, if sin is real. Salvation must be feared, for it will kill, but slowly, taking everything away before it grants the welcome boon of death to victims who are little more than bones before salvation is appeased. Its Wrath is boundless, merciless, but wholly just. Who would seek out such savage punishment? Who would not flee salvation, and attempt in every way he can to drown the Voice Which offers it to him? Why would he try to listen and accept Its offering? If sin is real, its offering is death, and meted out in cruel form to match the vicious wishes in which sin is born. If sin is real,salvation has become your bitter enemy, the curse of God upon you who have crucified His Son. You need the practice periods today. The exercises teach sin is not real, and all that you believe must come from sin will never happen, forit has no cause. Accept Atonement with an open mind, which cherishes no lingering belief that you have made a devil of God´s Son. There is no sin. We practice with this thought as often as we can today, because it is the basis for today´s idea. God´s Will for you is perfect happiness because there is nosin, and suffering is causeless. Joy is just, and pain is but the sign you have misunderstood yourself. Fear not the Will of God. But turn to it in confidence that it will set you free from the consequences sin has wrought in feverish imagination. Say:

”God´s Will for me is perfect happiness.
There is no sin, it has no consequence.”

So should you start your practice periods, and then attmept again to find the joy these thoughts will introduce into your mind. Givet hese five minutes gladly, to remove the Heavy load you lay upon yourself with the insane belief that sin is real. Today escape from madness. You are set on freedom ´s road and now today´s idea brings wings to speed you on, and hope to go still faster to the waiting goal of peace. There is no sin. Remember this today, and tell yourself as often as you can:

”God´s Will for me is perfect happiness.
This is the truth, because there is no sin.”

Love

LESSON 102

”I share God´s Will for happiness for me.”

You do not want to suffer. You may think it buys you something, and may still beleive a little that it buys you what you want. Yet this belief is surely shaken now, at least enough to let you question it, and to suspect it really makes no sense. It has not gone as yet, but lacks the roots that once secured it tightly to the dark and hidden secret places of your mind. Today we try to loose its weakened hold still futher, and to realize that pain is purposeless, without a cause and with no power to accomplish anything. It cannot purchase anything at all. It offers nothing, and does not exist. And everything you think it offers you is lackingin existence, like itself. You have been slave to nothing. Be you free today to join the happy Will of God. For several days we will continue to devote ourperiods of practicing to exercises planned to help you reach the happiness God´s Will has placed in you. Here is your home, and here your safety is. Here is your peace, and here there is no fea. Here is salvation. Here is rest atlast. Begin your practice periods today with this acceptance of God´s Will for you:

”I share God´s Will for happiness for me,
And I accept it as my function now.”

Then ask this function deep within your mind, for it is there, awaiting but your choice. You cannot fail to find it when you learn it is your choice, and that you share God´s Will. Be happy, for your only function here is happiness. You have no need to be less loving to God´s Son than He Whose Love created him as loving as Himself.Besides these hourly five minutes rests, pause frequently today, to tell yourself that you havenow accepted happiness as your one function. And be sure that you are joining with God´s Will in doing this.

Love

LESSON 103

”God, being Love, is also happiness.”

Happiness is an attribute of love. It cannot be apart from it. Nor can it be experienced where love is not.Love has no limits, being everywhere. And therefore joy is everywhere as well.Yet can the mind deny that this is so, believing there are gaps in love where sin can enter, bringing pain instead of joy. This strange belief would limit happiness by redefining love as limited, and introducing opposition in what has no limit and no opposite. Fear is associated then with love, and its results become the heritage of minds that think what they have made is real. These images, with no reality in truth, bear witness to the fear of God, forgetting being Love, He must be joy. This basic error we will try again to bring to truth today, and teach ourselves:

”God, being Love, is also happiness.
To fear Him is to be afraid of joy.”

Begin your periods of practicing today with this association, which corrects the false belief that God is fear.It also emphasizes happiness belongs to you, because of what He is. Allow this one correction to be placed within your mind each waking hour today. Then welcome all the happiness it brings as truth replaces fear, and joy becomes what you expect to take the place of pain. God being Love, it will be given you. Bolster this expectation frequently throughout the day, and quiet all your fears witht his assurance, kind and wholly true:

”God, being Love, is also happiness.
And it is happiness I seek today.
I cannot fail, because I seek the truth.”

Love

LESSON 104

”I seek but what belongs to me in truth.”

Today´s idea continues with the thought that joy and peace are not but idle dreams. They are your right,because of what you are. They come to you from God, Who cannot fail to give you what He wills. Yet must there be a place made ready to receive His gifts. They are not welcomed gladly by a mind that has instead recieved the gifts it made where His belong, as substitutes for them. Today we would remove all meaningless and self-made gifts which we have placed upon the holy altar whereGod´s gifts belong. His are the gifts that are our own in truth. His are the gifts that we inherited before time was, and that will still be ours when time has passed into eternity. His are the gifts that are within us now, for they are limitless. And we need not wait to have them. They belong to us today.Therefore, we choose to havet hem now, and know, in choosing them in place of what we made, we but unite our will with what God wills, and recognize the same as being one. Our longer practice periods today, the hourly five minutes given truth for your salvation, should begin with this:

”I seek but what belongs to me in truth.
And joy and peace are my inheritance.”

Then lay aside the conflicts of the world that offer gifts and other goals made of illusions, witnessed to by them, and sought for only in a world of dreams. All this we lay aside, and seek instead that which is truly ours, as we ask to recognize what God has given us.We clear a holy place within our minds before His altar, where His gifts of peace and joy are welcome, and to which we come to find what has been given us by Him. We come in confidence today, aware that what belongs to us in truth is what He gives. And we would wish for nothing else, for nothing else belongs to us in truth. So do we clear the way for Him today by simply recognizing that His Will is done already, and that joy and peace belong to us as His eternal gifts.We will not let ourselves lose sight of them between the times we come to seek for them where He has laid them. This reminder will we bring to mind as often as we can:

”I seek but what belongs to me in truth.
God´s gifts of joy and peace are all I want.”

Love

LESSON 105

”God´s peace and joy are mine.”

God´s peace and joy are yours.Today we will accept them, knowing they belong to us. And we wil try tounderstand these gifts increase as we receive them. They are not like to the gifts the world can give, in which the giver loses as he gives the gift; the taker is the richer by his loss. Such are not gifts, but bargains made with guilt. The truly given gift entails no loss. It is impossible that one can gain because another loses. This implies a limit and an insufficiency. No gift is given thus. Such ”gifts” are but a bid fo a more valuable return; a loan with interest to be paid in full; a temporary leading, means to be a pledge of debt to be repaid with more than was received by him who took the gift. This strange distortion of what giving means pervades all levels of the world you see. It strips all meaning from the gift you give, and leaves you nothing in the ones you take. A major learning goal this course has set is to reverse your view of giving, so you can receive. Accept God´s peace and joy, and you will learn a different way of looking at a gift. God´s gifts will never lessen when they are given away. They but increase thereby. As Heaven´s peace and joy intensify when you accept them as God´s gift to you, so does the joy of your Creator grow when you accept His joy and peace as yours. True giving is creation. It extends the limitless to the unlimited, eternity to timelessness, and love unto itself. It adds to all that is complete already, not in simple terms of adding more, forthat implies that it was less before. It adds by letting what cannot contain itself fulfill its aim of giving everything it has away, securing it forever for itself. Today accept God´s peace and joy as yours. Let Him complete Himself as He defines completion. You will understand that what completes. Him must complete His Son as well. He cannot give through loss. No more can you. Receive His gift of joy and peace today, and He will thank you for your gift to Him.Today our practice periods will start a little differently. Begin today by thinking of those brothers who have been denied by you the peace and joy that are their right under the equal laws of God. Here you denied them to yourself.And here you must return to claim them as your own. Think of your ”enemies” a little while, and tell each one, as he occurs to you:

”My brother, peace and joy I offer you.
That I may have God´s peace and joy as mine.”

Thus you prepare yourself to recognize God´s gifts to you, and let your mind be free of all that would prevent success today. Now are you ready to accept the gift of peace and joy that God has given you. Now you can say, ”God´s peace and joy are mine,” for you have given what you would receive. You must succeed today, if you prepare your mind as we suggest. For you have let all bars to peace and joy be lifted up, and what is yours can come to you at last. So tell yourself, ”God´s Peace and joy are mine,” and close your eyes a while, and let His Voice assure you that the words you speak are true. Spend your five minutes thus with Him each time you can today, but do not think that less is worthless when you cannot give Him more. At least remember hourly to say the words which call to Him to give you what He wills to give, and wills you to recieve . Determine not toi nterfer today with what He wills. And if a brother seems to tempt you to deny God´s gift to him, see it as but another chance to let yourself receive the gifts of God as yours. Then bless your brother thankfully, and say:

”My brother, peace and joy I offer you.
That I may have God´s peace and joy as mine.”

Love

LESSON 106

”Let me be still and listen to the truth.”

If you will lay aside the ego´s voice, however loudly it may seem to call, if you will not accept its petty gifts that give you nothing that you really want; if you will listen with an open mind, that has not told you what salvation is; then you will hear the mighty Voice of truth, quiet in power, strong in stillness, and completely certain in Its messages. Listen, and hear your Father speak to you through His appointed Voice, Which silences the thunder of the meaningless, and shows the way to peace to those who cannot see. Be still today and listen to the truth.Be not deceived by voices of the dead, which tell you they have found the source of life and offer it to you for your belief. Attend them not, but listen to the truth. Be not afraid to circumvent the voices of the world. Walk lightly past their meaningless persuasion. Hear them not. Be still today and listen to the truth. Go past all things which do not speak of Him Who holds your happiness within His hand, held out to you in welcome and in love. Hear only Him today,and do not wait to reach Him longer. Hear one Voice today. Today the promise of God´s Word is kept. Hear and be silent. He would speak to you. He comes with miracles a thousand times as happy and as wonderful as those you ever dreamed or wished for in your dreams. His miracles are true. They will not fade when dreaming ends. They end the dream instead; and last forever, for they come from God to His dear Son, whose other name is you. Prepare yourself for miracles today. Today allow your Father´s ancient pledge to you and all your brothers tobe kept. Hear Him today, and listen to the Word which lifts the veil that lies upon the earth, and wakes all those who sleep and cannot see. God calls to them through you. He needs your voice to speak to them, for who could reach God´s Son except his Father, calling through your Self? Hear Him today, and offer Him your voice to speak to all the multitude who wait to hear the Word that He will speak today. Be ready for salvation. It is here, and will today be given unto you. And you will learn your function from the One Who chose it in your Father´s Name for you. Listen today, and you will hear a Voice Which will resound throughout the world through you. The Bringer of all miracles has need that you recieve them first, and thus become the joyous giver of what you received. Thus does salvation start and thus it ends; when everything is yours and everything is given away, it will remain with you forever. And the lesson has been learned. Today we practice giving , not the way you understand it now, but as it is. Each hour´s exercises should begin with this request for your enlightement:

”I will be still and listen to the truth.
What does it mean to give and to recieve?:”

Ask and expect an answer. Your request is one whose answer has been waiting long to be received by you. It will begin the ministry for which you came, and which will free the world from thinking giving is a way to lose. And so the world becomes ready to understandand to receive. Be still and listen to the truth today. For each five minutes spent in listening, a thousand minds are opened to the truth and they will hea rthe holy Word you hear. And whn the hour is past, you will again release a thousand more who pause to ask that truth be given them, along with you. Today the holy Word of God is kept through your receiving it to give away, so you can teach the world what giving means by listening and learning it of Him. Do not forget today to reinforce your choice to hear and to recieve the Word by this reminder, given to yourself as often as is possible today:

”Let me be still and listen to the truth.
’I am the messenger of God today.
My voice is His, to give what I receive.”

Love

LESSON 107

”Truth will correct all errors in my mind.”

What can correct illusions but the truth? And what are errors but illusions that remain unrecongnized for what they are? Where truth has entered errors disappeared. They merely vanish,leaving not a trace by which to be remembered. They are gone because, without belief, they have no life. And so they disappear to nothingness, returning whence they came. From dust to dust they come and go, for only truth remains.Can you imagine what a state of mind without illusions is? How it would feel?Try to remember when there was a time, - perhaps a minute, maybe even less –when nothing came to interrupt your peace; when you were certain you were loved and safe. Then try to picture when it would be like to have that moment be extended to the end of time and to eternity. Then let the sense of quiet that you felt be multioplied a hundred times, and then be multioplied Another hundred more. And now you have a hint, not more than just the faintestintimation of the state your mind will rest in when the truth has come. Without illusions there could be no fear, no doubt and no attack. When truth has come all pain is over, for ther is no room for transitory thoughts and dead ideas to linger in your mind. Truth occupies your mind completely, liberating you from all beliefs in the ephemeral. They have no place because the truth has come,and they are nowhere. They can not be found, for truth is everywhere forever,now. When truth has come it does not stay a while, to disappear or change to something else. It does not shift and alter in its form, nor come and go and go and come again. It stays exactly as it always was, to be depended on in every need, and trusted with a perfect trust in all the seeming difficulties and the doubts that the appearances the world presents engender. They will merely blow away, when truth corrects the errors in your mind. When truth has come it harbors in it swings the gift of perfect constancy, and love which does not falter in the face of pain, but looks beyond it, stedily and sure. Here is the gift of healing, for the truth needs no defense, and therefore no attack is possible. Illusions can be brought to truth to be corrected. But the truth stands far beyond illusions, and can not be brought to them to turn them into truth. Truth does not come and go nor shift nor change, in this appearance no wand then in that, evading capture and escaping grasp. It does not hide. It standin open light, in obvious accessibility. It is impossible that anyone could seek it truly, and would not succeed. Today belongs to truth. Give truth its due, and it will give you yours. You were not meant to suffer and to die. Your Father wills these dreams to be gone. Let truth correct them all. We do not ask for what we do not have. We merely ask for what belongs to us, that we may recognize it as our own. Today we practice on the happy note of certainty that has been born of truth. The shaky and unsteady foot steps of illusions are notour approach today. We are as certain of success as we are sure we live and hope and breath and think. We do not doubt we walk with truth today, and Count on it to enter into all the exercises that we do this day. Begin by asking Him Who goes with you upon this undertaking that He be in your awareness as you go with Him. You are not made of flesh and blood and bone, but were created by theself-same Thought which gave the gift of life to Him as well. He is your Brother, and so like to you your Father knows that you are both the same. It is your Self you ask to go with you, and how could He be absent where you are?Truth will correct all errors in your mind which tell you you could be apart from Him. You speak to Him today, and make your pledge to let His function be fulfilled through you. To share His function is to share His joy. His confidence is with you, as you say:

”Truth will correct all errors in my mind.
And I will rest in Him Who is my Self.”

Then let Him lead you gently to the truth, which will envelop you and give you peace so deep and tranquil that you will return to the familiar would reluctantly. And yet you will be glad to look again upon this world. For you will bring with you the promise of the changes which the truth that goes with you will carry to the world. They will increase with every gift of five small minutes, and the errors that surround the world will be corrected as you lett hem be corrected in your mind. Do not forget your function for today. Each time you tell yourself with confidence, ”Truth will correct all errors in my mind,” you speak for all the world and Him Who would release the world, as He would set you free.

Love

LESSON 108

”To give and to receive are one in truth.”

Vision depends upon today´s idea. The light is in it, for it reconciles all seeming opposites. And what is light except the resolution, born of peace, of all your conflicts and mistaken thoughts into one concept which is wholly true? Even that one will disappear,because for Thought behind it will appear instead to take its place. And now you are at peace forever, for the dream is over then. True light that makes true vision possible is not the light the body´s eyes behold. It is a state of mind that has become so unified that darkness cannot be perceived at all. And thus what is the same it seen as one, while what is not the same remains unnoticed, for it is not there. This is the light that shows no opposites, and vision, being healed, has power to heal. This is the light that brings your peace of mind to other minds, to share it and be glad that they are one with you and with themselves. This is the light that heals because it brings single perception, based upon one frame of reference, from which one meaning comes.Here are both giving and receiving seen as different aspects of one Those whose truth does not depend on which is seen as as first, nor which appears to be insecond place. Here it is understood that both occur together, that the Thought remain complete. And in this understanding is the base on which all oppositesare reconciled, because they are perceived from the same frame of reference which unifies this Thought. One thought, completely unified, will serve to unify all thought. This is the same as saying one correction will suffice for all correction, or that to forgive one brother wholly is enough to bring salvation to all minds. For these are but some special cases of one law which holds for every kind of learning, if it be directed by the One Who knows the truth.To learn that giving and receiving are that same has special usefulness, because it can be tried so easily and seen as true. And when this special case has proved it always works, in every cicurmstance where it is tried, the thought behind it can be generalized to other areas of doubt and double vision. And from there it will extend, and finally arrive at the one Thought which underlies them all. Today we practice with the special case of giving and receiving. We will use this simple lesson in the obvious becuse it has results we cannot miss. To give is to receive. Today we will attempt to offer peace to everyone, and see how quickly peace returns to us. Light is tranquility, and in the peace is vision given us, and we can see. So we begin the practice periods with the instruction for today, and say:

”To give and to receive are one in truth.
I will receive what I am giving now.”

Then close your eyes, and for five minutes think of what you would hold out to everyone, to have it yours.You might, for instance, say:

”To everyone I offer quietness.”
”To everyone I offer peace of mind.”
”To everyone I offer gentleness.”

Say each one slowly, and then pause a while, expecting to receive the gift you gave. And it will come to you in the amount in which you gave it. You will find you have exact return, for that is what you asked. It might be helpful, too, to think of one to whom to give your gifts. He represents the other, and through him you give to all. Our very simple lesson for today will teach you much. Effect and cause will be far better understood from this time on, and we wilol make much faster progress now. Think of the exercises for today as quick advances in your learning, made still faster and more sure each time you say, ”To give and to receive are one in truth.”

Love

LESSON 109

”I rest in God.”

We ask for rest today, and quietness unshaken by the world´s appearances. We ask for peace and stillness,in the midst of all the turmoil born of clashing dreams. We ask for safety and for happiness, although we seem to look on danger and on sorrow. And we have the thought that will answer our asking with what we request. ”I rest in God.”This thought will bring to you the rest and quiet, peace and stillness, and the safety and the happiness you seek. ”I rest in God.” This thought has power to wake the sleeping truth in you, whose vision see beyond appearsnces to tha tsame truth in everyone, and everything there is. Here is the end of suffering for all the world, and everyone who ever came and yet will come to linger for awhile. Here is the thought in which the Son of God is born again, to recognize himself. ”I rest in God.” Completely undismayed, this thought will carry you through storms and strife, past misery and pain, past loss and death, and onward to the certainty of God. There is no suffering it cannot heal. There is no problems that it cannot solve. And so appearance but will turn to truth before the eyes of you who rest in God. This is the day of peace. You rest in God, and while the world is torn by winds of hate you rest remains completely undisturbed. Yours is the rest of truth. Appearances cannot intrude on you. You call to all to join you in your rest, and they will hear and come to you because you rest in God. They will not hear another voice than yours because you gave your voice to God, and now you rest in Him and let Him speak throughyou. In Him you have no cares and no concerns, no burdens, no anxiety, no pain,no fear of future and no past regrets. In timelessness you rest, while time goes by without its touch upon you, for your rest can never change in any way at all. You rest today. And as you close your eyes, sink into stillness. Let these periods of rest and respite reassure your mind that all its frantic fantasies were but the dreams of fever that has passed away. Let it be stil land thankfully accept its healing. No more fearful dreams will come, now that you rest in God. Take time today to slip away from dreams and into peace. Each hour that you take you rest today, a tired mind is suddenly made glad, a bird with broken wings begin to sing, a stream long dry begin to flow again. The world is born again each time you rest, and hourly remember that you came to bring the peace of God into the world, that it might take its rest along with you. With each five minutes that you rest today, the world is nearer waking. And the time then when rest will be the only thing there is comes closer to all worn and tired minds, too weary now to go their way alone. And they will hear the bird begin to sing and see the stream begin to flow again, with hope reborn and energy restored to walk with lightened steps along the road that suddenly seems easy as they go. You rest within the peace of God today, and call upon your brothers from your rest to draw them to their rest, along with you. You willbe faithful to your trust today, forgetting no one, bringing everyone into the boundless circle of your peace, and holy sanctuary where you rest. Open the temple doors and let them come from from far across the world, and near as well; your distant brothers and your closest friends; bid them all enter here and rest with you. You rest within the peace of God today, quiet and unafraid.Each brother comes to take his rest, and offer it to you. We rest together here, for thus our rest is made complete, and what we give today we have received already. Time is not the guardian of what we give today. We give to those unborn and those passed by, to every Thought of God, and to the Mind in which these Thoughts were born and where they rest. And we remind them of their resting place each time we tell ourselves, ”I rest in God.”

Love

LESSON 110

”I am as God created me.”

We will repeat today´s idea from time to time. For this one thought would be enough to save you and the world, if you believed that it is true. Its truth would mean that you have made no changes in yourself that have reality, nor changed the universe so that what God created was replaced by fear and evil, misery and death. If you remain as God created you fear has no meaning, evil is not real, and misery and death do not exist. Today´s idea is there fore all you need to let complete correction heal your mind, and give you perfect vision that will heal all the mistakes that any mind has made at any time or place. It is enough to heal the past and make the future free. It is enough to let the present be accepted as it is. It is enough to let time be the means for all the world to learn escape from time,and every change that time appears to bring in passing by. If you remain as God created you, appearances cannot replace the truth, health cannot turn to sickness, nor can death be substitute for life, or fear for love. All this has not occured, if you remain as God created you. You need no thought but just this one, to let redemption come to light the world and free it from the past. In this one thought is all the past undone; the present saved to quietly extend into a timeless future. If you are as God created you, then there has been no separation of your mind from His, no split between your mind and others minds, and only unity within your own. The healing power of today´s idea is limitless. It is the birth place ofall miracles, the great restorer of the truth to the awareness of the world.Practice today´s idea with gratitude. This is the truth that comes to set you free. This is the truth that God has promised you. This is the Word in which all sorrow ends. For your five minute practice periods, begin with this quotation from the text:

”I am as God created me. His Son
Can suffer nothing. And I am His Son.”

Then, with this statement firmly in your mind, try to discover in your mind the Self Who is the holy Son of God Himself. Seek Him within you who is Christ in you, the Son of God and brother to the world; the Savior Who has been forever saved, with power to save who evertoughes Him, however lightly, asking for the Word that tells him he is brother unto Him. You are as God created you. Today honor your Self. Let graven images you made to be the Son of God instead of what he is be worshipped not today.Deep in your mind the holy Christ in you is waiting your acknowledgment as you. And you are lost and do not know yourself while He is unacknowledged and unknown. Seek Him today, and find Him. He will be your Savior from all idols you have made. For when you find Him, you will understand how worthless are your idols, and how false the images which you believed were you. Today we makea great advance to truth by letting idols go, and opening our hands and heart sand minds to God today. We will remember Him throughout the day with thank fulhearts and loving thoughts for all who meet with us today. For it is thus that we remember Him. And we will say, that we may be reminded of His Son, our holy Self, the Christ in each of us:

”I am as God created me.”

Let us declare this truth as often as we can. This is the Word of God that sets you free. This is the key that opens up the gate of Heaven, and that lets you enter in the peace of God and His eternity.

Love

REVIEW III

Our next review begins today. Wewill review two recent lessons every day for ten successive days of practicing.We will observe a special format for these practice periods. That you are urgedto follow just as closely as you can. We understand, of course, that it may beimpossible for you to undertake what is suggested here as optimal each day andevery hour of the day. Learning will not be hampered when you miss a practiceperiod because it is impossibble at the appointed time. Nor is it necessarythat you make excessive efforts to be sure that you catch up in terms ofnubers. Rituals are not our aim, and would defeat our goal. But learning willbe hampered when you skip a practice period because you are unwilling to devotethe time to it that you are asked to give. Do not deceive yourself in this.Unwillingness can be most carefully concealed behind a cloak of situations youcannot control. Learn to distinguish situations that are poorly suited to yourpracticing from those that you establish to uphold a camouflage for yourunwillingness. Those practice periods that you have lost because you did notwant to do them, for whatever reason, should be done as soon as you havechanged your mind about your goal. You are unwilling to cooperate in practicingsalvation only if it interferes with goals you hold more dear. When youwithdraw the value given them, allow your practice periods to be replacementsfor your litanies to them. They gave you nothing. But your practicing can offereverything to you. And so accept their offering and be at peace. The format youshould use for these reviews is this: Devote five minutes twice a day, orlonger if you would prefer it, to considering that are written down for eachday´s exercise. And then begin to think about them, while letting your mindrelate them to your needs, your seeming problems and all your concerns. Placethe ideas within your mind, and let it use them as it chooses. Give it faiththat it will use them wisely, begin helped in its decisions by the One Who gavethe thoughts to you. What can you trust but what is in your mind? Have faith,in these reviews, the means the Holy Spirit uses will not fail. The wisdom ofyour mind will come to your assistance. Give direction at the outset; then leanback in quiet faith, and let the mind employ the thoughts you gave as they weregiven you for it to use. You have been given them in perfect trust; in perfectconfidence that you would use them well; in perfect faith that you would seethis messages and use them for yourself. Offer them to your mind in that sametrust and confidence and faith. It will not fail. It is the Holy Spirit´schosen means for your salvation. Since it has His trust, His means must surelymerit yours as well. We emhazise the benefits to you if you devote the firstfive minutes of the day to your reviews, and also give the last five minutes ofyour waking day to them. If this cannot be done, at least try to divide them soyou undertake one in the morning, and the other in the hour just before you goto sleep. The exercises to be done throughout the day are equally important,and perhaps of even greater value. You have been inclined to practice only atappointed times, and then go on your way to other things, without applying whatyou learned to them. As a result, you have gained little reinforcement, andhave not given your learning a fair chance to prove how great are itspotiential gifts to you. Here is another chance to use it well. In thesereviews, we stress the need to let your learning not lie idly by between yourlonger practice periods. Attempt to give your daily two ideas a brief butserious review each hour. Use one on the hour, and the other one a half an hourlater. You need not give more than just a moment to each one. Repeat it, andallow your mind to rest a little time in silence and in peace. Then turn toother things, but try to keep the thought with you, and let it serve to helpyou keep your peace throughout the day as well. If you are shaken, think of itagain. These practice periods are planned to help you form the habit ofapplying what you learn each day to everything you do. Do not repeat thethrought and lay it down. Its usefullness is limitless to you. And it is meantto serve you in all ways, all times and places, and whenever you need help ofany kind. Try, then, to take it with you in the business of the day and make itholy, worthy of God´s Son, acceptable to God and to your Self. Each day´sreview assignments will conclude with a restament of the thought to use eachhour, and the one to be applied on each half hour as well. Forget them not.This second chance with each of these ideas will bring such large advances thatwe come from these reviews with learning gains so great we will continue onmore solid ground, with firmer footsteps and with stronger faith.

Do not forget how little youhave learned.
Do not forget how much you canlearn now.
Do not forget your Father´s needof you,
As you review these thoughts Hegave to you.

Love