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with the eyes of Christ today. And by the holy gifts we give, Christ’s vision looks
withered hand; all
irrelevant to what is seen as physical. A thought is in the
your mind about yourself. It is the reason
The
review, we will have recognized the words we
LESSON 174. God is but Love, and therefore so am I. (157) Into His Presence would I enter now. God is but Love, and therefore so am I. (158) Today I learn to give as I receive. God is but Love, and therefore so am I. LESSON 175. God
hardly remembered, actively dismissed, but
error. We are lost in mists of shifting dreams
you
is
finding happiness
guides on which we do not now depend. For now we seek direct experience of truth alone. The lessons that
and now we wait for Him. We will continue spending
need for the result that we desire. Nor will we forget our hourly remembrance in between, calling to God when we have need of Him as we are tempted to forget our goal. We will continue with a central thought for all the days to come, and we will use that thought to introduce our times of rest, and calm our minds at need. Yet we will not content ourselves with simple practicing in the remaining holy instants which conclude the year that we have given God. We say some simple words of welcome, and expect our Father to reveal Himself, as He has promised. We have called on Him, and He has promised
...more
home awaits me. I will hasten there. If I so choose, I can depart this world entirely. It is not death which
goal,
aware it
everyone
and
Heaven been exchanged for the pursuit of hell. The Son of God extends his hand to reach his brother, and to help him walk along the road with him. Now is the body holy.
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
not
no law except the law of love. Let us not worship idols, nor...
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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.
world in which all things that seem to live appear to die, then is my Father prisoner
perceive are real, and
Spirit?
end. The goal the Holy Spirit’s teaching sets is just this
the
today. Today I wake with joy, expecting but the happy things of God to come to me. I ask but them to come, and realize my
forgiven me if you behold your brother in the light of holiness.
waits but that one instant more for God to take
to receive the Thoughts You offer me. And I accept what comes
Forgiveness is the only gift I give, because it is the only gift I want. And everything I give
awaiting me in shining welcome, and in readiness
“sacrifice” of fear. Here is the only “sacrifice” You ask of Your beloved Son; You ask him to give up all suffering, all sense of loss and sadness, all anxiety
each other and our Source. We have no will apart
LESSON 332. Fear binds the world. Forgiveness sets
that
Miracles mirror God’s eternal Love. To
perceive
is my brother
Creator, and his Love.
they have the potential for a holy relationship. They are ready for each other.
the
acquired the deeper characteristics that will establish them as what they are. God gives special
with
degree, however small, is worth achieving. Readiness, as the text notes, is not mastery.
in joy so glorious they could never have conceived of such a change.
which the valuelessness of sickness is recognized. One need but say, “There
