IA´s Journal

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LESSON 262

"Let me perceive no differences today."

"Father, You have one Son. And it is he that I would look upon
today. He is Your one Creation. Why should I perceive a thousand
forms in what remains as one? Why should I give this one a thousand
names, when only one suffices? For Your Son must bear Your Name,
for You created him. Let me not see him as a stranger to his Father,
nor a stranger to myself. For he is part of me and I of him, and we are
part of You Who are our Source, eternally United in Your Love;
eternally the holy Son of God."

We who are one would recognize this day the truth about
ourselves. We would come home, and rest in unity. For there is
peace, and nowhere else can Peace be sought and found.

Love

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LESSON 263

"My vision sees all things as pure."

"Father, Your Mind created all that is. Your Spirit entered into it,
Your Love gave life to it. And would I look upon what You created as
if it could be made sinful? I would not perceive such dark and fearful
images. A madman´s dream is hardly fit to be my choice, instead of
all the loveliness with which You bless creation; all its purity, its joy,
and its eternal, quiet home in You."

And while we still remain outside the gate of Heaven, let us look on
all we see though holy vision and eyes of Christ. Let all
appearances seem pure to us, that we may pass them by in innocence,
and walk together to our Father´s house as brothers and the holy Sons
of God.

Love

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LESSON 264

"I am surrounded by the Love of God."

"Father, You stand before me and behind, besides me, in the Place I
see myself, and everywhere I go. You are in all the things I look upon,
the sounds I hear, and every hand that reaches for my own. In You
time disappears, and place becomes a meaningless belief. For what
surrounds Your Son and keeps him safe is Love Itself. There is no
Source but This, and nothing is that does not share Its holiness; that
stands beyond Your one creation, or without the Love Which holds
all things within Itself. Father, Your Son is like Yourself. We come to
You in Your Own Name today, to be at peace within Your
everlasting Love."

My brothers, join with me in this today. This is salvation´s
prayer. Must we not join in what will save the world, along with us?

Love

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LESSON 265

"Creation´s gentleness is all I see."

I have indeed misunderstood the world, because I laid my sins on it
and saw them looking back at me. How fierce they seemed! And now
deceived was I to think that what I feared was in the world, instead of
in my mind alone. Today I see the world in the celestial gentleness
with which Creation shines. There is no fear in it. Let no appeareance
of my sins obscure the light of Heaven shining on the world. What is
reflected there is in God´s Mind. The images I see reflect my thoughts.
Yet is my mind at one with God´s. And so I can perceive creation´s
gentleness.

"In guiet would I look upon the world, which but reflects Your
Thoughts, and mine as well. Let me remember that they are the same,
and I will see creation´s gentleness.

Love

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LESSON 266

"My holy Self abides in you, God´s Son."

"Father, You gave all Your Sons, to be my saviors and my
counselors in sight; the bearers of Your holy Voice to me. In them are
Your reflected, and in them does Christ look back upon me from my
Self. Let not Your Son forget Your holy Name. Let not Your Son
forget his holy Source. Let not Your Son forget his name is Yours."

This day we enter into paradise, calling upon God´s Name and on
our own, acknowledging our Self in each of us; united in the holy
Love of God. How many saviors God has given us! How can we lose
the way to Him, when He has filled the world with those who Point to
Him, and given us the sight to look on them?

Love

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LESSON 267

"My heart is beating in the place of God."

Surrounding me is all the life that God created in His Love. It calls
to me in every heartbeat and in every breath; in every action and in
every thought. Peace fills my heart, and floods my body with the
purpose of forgiveness. Now my mind is healed, and all I need to save
the World is given me. Each heartbeat brings me peace; each breath
infuses me with strength. I am a meassenger of God, directed by His
Voice, sustained by Him in love, and held forever quiet and at peace
within His loving Arms. Each heartbeat calls His Name, and every
one is answered by His Voice, assuring me I amat home in Him.

"Let me attend Your Answer, not my own. Father, my heart is
beating in the peace the Heart of Love created. It is there and only
there that I can be at home."

Love

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LESSON 268

"Let all things be exactly as they are."

"Let me not be Your critic, Lord, today, and judge against You. Let
me not attempt to interfere with Your Creation, and distort it into
sickly forms. Let me be willing to withdraw my wishes from its unity,
and thus to let it be as You created it. For thus will I be able, too, to
recognize my Self as You created me. In Love was I created, and in
Love will I remain forever. What can frighten me, when I let all things
be exactly as they are?"

Let not our sight be blasphemous today, nor let our ears attend to
lying tongues. Only reality is free of pain. Only reality is free of loss.
Only reality is wholly safe. And it is only this we seek today.

Love

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LESSON 269

"My sight goes forth to look upon Christ´s face."

"I ask Your blessing on my sight today. It is the means which You
have chosen to become the way to show me my mistakes, and look
beyond them. It is given me to find a new perception through the
Guide You gave to me, and through His lessons to surpass perception
and return to truth. I ask for the illusion which trancends all those I
made. Today I choose to see a world forgiven, in which everyone
shows me the face of Christ, and teaches me that what I look upon
belongs to me; that nothing is, except Your holy Son."

Today our sight is blessed indeed. We share one vision, as we look
upon the face of Him Whose Self is ours. We are one because of Him
Who is the Son of God; of Him Who is our own Identity.

Love

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LESSON 270

"I will not use the body´s eyes today."

"Father, Christ´s vision is Your gift to me, and it has power to
translate all that the body´s eyes behold into the sight of a forgiven
world. How glorious and gracious is this world! Yet how much more
will I preceive in it than sight can give. The world forgiven signifies
Your Son acknowledges his Father, lets his dreams be brought to
truth, and waits expectantly the one remaining instant more of time
which ends forever, as Your memory returns to him. And now his
will is one with Yours. His function now is but Your Own, and every
thought except Your Own is gone."

The quiet of today will bless our hearts, and through them peace
will come to everyone. Christ is our eyes today. And through His
sight we offer healing to the world through Him, the holy Son whom
God created whole; the holy Son whom God created one.

Love

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WHAT IS CHRIST?

Christ is God´s Son as He created him. He is the Self we share,
uniting us with one another,and with God as well. He is the Thought
Which still abides within the Mind that is His Source. He has not left
His holy home, nor lost the innocence in which He was created. He
abides unchanged forever in the Mind of God.
Christ is the link that keeps you one with God, and guarantees that
separation is no more than an illusion of despair, for hope forever
will abide in Him. Your mind is part of His, and His of yours. He is
the part in which God´s Answer lies; where all decisions are already
made, and dreams are over. He remains untouched by anything the
body´s Eyes perceive. For though in Him His Father placed the means
for your salvation, yet does He remain the Self Who, like His Father,
knows no sin.
Home of the Holy Spirit, and at home in God alone, does Christ
remain at Peace within the heaven of your holy mind. This is the only
part off you that has reality in truth. The rest is dreams. Yet will these
dreams be given unto Christ, to you at last.
The Holy Spirit reaches from the Christ in you to all your dreams,
and bids them come to Him, to be translated into truth. He will
Exchange them for the final dream which God appointed as the end of
dreams. For when forgiveness rests upon the world and peace has
come to every Son of God, what could there be to keep things
separate, for what remains to see except Christ´s face?
And how long will this holy face be seen, when it is but the symbol
that the time for Learning now is over, and the goal of the Atonement
has been reached at last? So therefore let us seek to find Christ´s face
and look on nothing else. As we behold His glory, will we know we
have no need of Learning or perception or of time, or anything except
the holy Self, the Christ Whom God created as His Son.


LESSON 271

"Christ´s is the vision I will use today."

Each day, each hour, every instant, I am choosing what I want to
look upon, the sounds I wnat to hear, the witness to what I want to
be the truth for me. Today I choose to look upon what Christ would
have me see, to listen to God´s Voice, and seek the wintnesses to what
is true in God´s Creation. In Christ´s sight, the world and God´s
Creation meet, and as they come together all perception disappears.
His kindly sight redeems the World from death, for nothing that He
looks on but must live, rememering the Father and the Son; Creator
and Creation unified.

"Father, Christ´s vision is the way to You. What He beholds invites
Your memory to be restored to me. And this I choose to be what I
would look upon today."

Love