IA´s Journal

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LESSON 272

"How can illusions satisfy God´s Son?"

"Father, the truth belongs to me. My home is set in Heaven by
Your Will and mine. Can dreams content me? Can illusions brings me
happiness? What but Your memory can satisfy Your Son? I will
accept no less than You have given me. I am surrounded by Your
Love, forever still, forever gentle and forever safe. God´s Son must be
as You created him."

Today we pass illusions by. And if we hear temeptation call to us to
stay and linger in a dream, we turn aside and ask ourselves if we, the
Sons of God, could be content with dreams, when Heaven can be
chosen just as easily as hell, and love will happily replace all fear.

Love

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LESSON 273

"The stillness of the peace of God is mine."

Perhaps we are now ready for a day of undisturbed tranquility. If
this is not yet feasible, we are content and even more than satisfied to
learn how such a day can be achieved. If we give way to a
disturbance, let us learn how to dismiss it and return to peace. We
need but tell our minds, with certainty. "The stillness of peace of
God is mine," and nothing can intrude upon the peace that God
Himself has given to His Son.

"Father, Your peace is mine. What need have I to learn that
anything can rob me of what You would have me keep? I cannot lose
Your gifts to me. And so the peace You gave Your Son is with me still,
in quietness and in my own eternal love for You."

Love

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LESSON 274

"Today belongs to Love. Let me not fear."

"Father, today I would let all things be as You created them, and
give Your Son the honor due his sinlessness; the love of brother to his
brother and his Friend. Through this I am redeemed. Through this as
well the truth will enter where illusions were, light will replace all
darkness, and Your Son will know he is as You created him."

A special blessing comes to us today, from Him Who is our Father.
Give this day to Him, and there will be no fear today, because the day
is given unto Love.

Love

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LESSON 275

"God´s healing Voice protects all things today."

Let us today attend the Voice of God, Which speaks an ancient
lesson, no more true today than any other day. Yet has this day been
chosen, as the time when we will seek and hear and learn and
understand. Join me in hearing. For the Voice for God tells us of
things we cannot understand alone, nor learn apart. It is in this that
all things are protected. And in this the healing of the Voice for God is
found.

"Your healing Voice protects all things today, and so I leave all
things to You. I need be anxious over nothing. For Your Voice will
tell me what to do and where to go; to whom to speak and what to
say to him, what thoughts to think, what Words to give the world.
The safety that I bring is given me. Father, Your Voice protects all
things through me."

Love

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LESSON 276

"The Word of God is given me to speak."

What is the Word of God? "My Son is pure and holy as Myself."
And thus did God become the Father of the Son He loves, for thus
was he created. This the Word His Son did not create with Him,
because in this His Son was born. Let us accept His Fatherhood, and
all is given us. Deny we were created in His Love and we deny our
Self, to be unsure of who we are, of Who our Father is, and for what
purpose we have come. And yet, we need but to acknowledge Him
Who gave His Word to us in our Creation, to remember Him and so
recall our Self.

"Father, Your Word is mine. And it is this that I would speek to all
my brothers, who are given me to cherish as my own, as I am loved
and blessed and saved by You."

Love

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LESSON 277

"Let me not bind Your Son with laws I made."

"Your Son is free, my Father. Let me not imagine I have bound him
with the laws I made to rule the body. He is not subject to any laws I
made by which I try to make the body more secure. He is not changed
by what is changeable. He is not slave to any laws of time. He is as
You created him, because he knows no law except the law of love."

Let us not worship idols, nor believe in any law idoltary would
make to hide the freedom of the Son of God. He is not bound except
by his beliefs. Yet what he is, is far beyond his faith in slavery or
freedom. He is free because he is his Father´s Son. And he cannot be
bound unless God´s truth can lie, and God can will that He deceive
Himself.

Love

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LESSOM 278

"If I am bound, my Father is not free."

If I accept that I am prisoner within a body, in a world in which all
things that seem to live appear to die, then is my Father prisoner with
me. And this do I believe when I maintain the laws the world obeys
must I obey; the frailties and the sins which I perceive are real, and
cannot be escaped. If I am bound in any way, I do not know my
Father nor my Self. And I am lost to all reality. For truth is free, and
what is bound is not a part of truth.

"Father, I ask for nothing but the truth. I have made many foolish
thoughts about myself and my creation, and have brought a dream of
fear into my mind. Today, I would not dream. I choose the way to
You instead of madness and instead of fear. For truth is safe, and only
love is sure."

Love

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LESSON 279

"Creation´s freedom promises my own."

The end of dreams is promised me, because God´s Son is not
abandoned by His Love. Only in dreams is there a time when he
appears to be in prision, and awaits a future freedom, if it be at all.
Yet in reality his dreams are gone, with truth established in their
place. And now is freedom his already. Should I wait in chains which
have been severed for release, when God is offering me freedom
now!

"I will accept Your promises today, and give my faith to them. My
Father loves the Son Whom He created as His Own. Would You
withhold the gifts You gave to me?"

Love

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LESSON 280

"What limits can I lay upon God´s Son?"

Whom God created limitless is free. I can invent imprisonment for
him, but only in illusions, not in truth. No Thought of God has left its
Father´s Mind. No Thought of God is limited at all. No Thought of
God but is forever pure. Can I lay limits on the Son of God, whose
Father willed that be limitless, and like Himself in freedom and in
love?

"Today let me give honor to Your Son, for thus alone I find the
way to you. Father, I lay no limits on the Son You love and You
created limitless. The honor that I give to him is Yours, and what is
Yours belongs to me as well."

Love

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WHAT IS THE HOLY SPIRIT?

The Holy Spirit mediates between illusions and the truth. Since He
must bridge the gap between reality and dreams, perception leads to
knowledge through the grace that God has given Him, to be His gift
to everyone who turns to Him for truth. Across the bridge that He
provides are dreams all carried to the truth, to be dispelled before the
light of knowledge. There are sights and sounds forever laid aside.
And where they were perceived before, forgiveness has made
possible perception´s transquil end.
The goal the Holy Spirit´s teaching sets is just this end of dreams.
For sights and sounds must be translated from the witnesses of fear to
those of love. And when this is entirely accomplished, learning has
achieved the only goal it has in truth. For learning, as the Holy Spirit
guides it to the outcome He perceives for it, becomes the means to go
beyond itself, to be replaced by the Eternal Truth.
If you but knew how much your Father yearns to have you
recongize your sinlessness, you would not let His Voice appeal in
vain, nor turn away from His replacement for the fearful images and
dreams you made. The Holy Spirit understands the means you made,
by which you would attain what is forever unattainable. And if you
offer them to Him, He will employ the means you made for exile to
restore your mind to where it truly is at home.
From knowledge, where He has been placed by God, the Holy
Spirit calls to you, to let forgiveness rest upon your dreams, and be
restored to sanity and peace of mind. Without forgiveness will your
dreams remain to terrify you. And the memory of all your Father´s
Love will not return to signify the end of dreams has come.
Accept you Father´s gift. It is a call from Love to Love, that It be
but Itself. The Holy Spirit is His gift, by which the quietness of
Heaven is restored to God´s beloved Son. Would you refuse to take
the function of completing God, when all He wills is the you be
complete?

Love