This is the place where Love melts away anything that is not-Love. There is no place but This. And This is not-a-place, where nothing-happens, being Beingness Itself. Heart opens, Love spreads, Stillness ripples, Isness Is.
LESSON 117
For morning and evening review:
(103) God, being Love, is also happiness.
Let me remember love is happiness, and nothing else brings joy. And so I choose to entertain no substitutes for love.
(104) I seek but what belongs to me in truth.
Love is my heritage, and with it joy. These are the gifts my Father gave to me. I would accept all that is mine in truth.
On the hour: God, being Love, is also happiness.
On the half hour: I seek but what belongs to me in truth.
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Make me more aware of the Light than the container. Relieve me of the delusion of “me.” Replace “me” with You. God’s Will for the real Me/You/Us as Great Rays is perfect happiness and this makes sense without belief in this seeming fence I’ve built around my Self.
LESSON 116
For morning and evening review:
(101) God’s Will for me is perfect happiness.
God’s Will is perfect happiness for me. And I can suffer but from the belief there is another will apart from His.
(102) I share God’s Will for happiness for me.
I share my Father’s Will for me, His Son. What He has given me is all I want. What He has given me is all there is.
On the hour: God’s Will for me is perfect happiness.
On the half hour: I share God’s Will for happiness for me.
The aroma of lilies is creamy sweet and very pleasing. Even more pleasing is that there are no flowers in the room. They are a clue that Jesus is present. They are His gift which is ever-present, a gift I am learning how to accept moment-to-moment. If I forgive the world for all the errors I have made, then I am not-guilty. If I fulfill my part in saving the world, then all are innocent and I with them. Happiness blossoms up, knowing this is true. Pure and immediate, free and easy, innocent release. Full, deep inhale; luxurious, relieving exhale … how beautiful to be Breathed by God.
LESSON 115
For morning and evening review:
(99) Salvation is my only function here.
My function here is to forgive the world for all the errors I have made. For thus am I released from them with all the world.
(100) My part is essential to God’s plan for salvation.
I am essential to the plan of God for the salvation of the world. For he gave me His plan that I might save the world.
On the hour: Salvation is my only function here.
On the half hour: My part is essential to God’s plan for salvation.
Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)
Streaks of light emanate in every direction, like a circular lightning burst. Sun of God, without limitation.
The Word of God is not made of letters. The Word is Formless, Changeless Spirit communicated by symbol to minds with amnesia, but Who, on accepting our part in God’s plan, find ourselves saved from our own delusions of separateness.
LESSON 114
For morning and evening review:
(97) I am spirit.
I am the Son of God. No body can contain my spirit, nor impose on me a limitation God created not.
(98) I will accept my part in God’s plan for salvation.
What can my function be but to accept the Word of God, Who has created me for what I am and will forever be?
On the hour: I am spirit.
On the half hour: I will accept my part in God’s plan for salvation.
Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)
Sitting quietly, early morning, eyes closed, with a feeling that the lesson is not coming when … just like that … the sun rises behind closed eyelids.
On the screen of the eyelids, from deep inside, there is a grand yet gentle saturated sunrise … deep dark fuchsia pink at bottom softening into peaches and yellows as it rises to the top of “my” mind. Whose mind?
Beauty and Peace replace amy-identity. Calm Evenness prevails. One Self, united with my Creator. Yes.
LESSON 113
For morning and evening review:
(95) I am one Self, united with my Creator.
Serenity and perfect peace are mine, because I am one Self, completely whole, at one with all creation and with God.
(96) Salvation comes from my one Self.
From my one Self, Whose knowledge still remains within my mind, I see God’s perfect plan for my salvation perfectly fulfilled.
On the hour: I am one Self, united with my Creator.
On the half hour: Salvation comes from my one Self.
Lying on my back with sun shining powerfully through the window, I am aware of how the Light is painfully bright and overpowering to my human eyes.
With eyes closed, it warms my eyelids and from the inside out I am illuminated. I see a saturated red flecked with gold … which changes to sunrise pink gold … then morphs into a peachy-orange … then mellows into a pale luminous yellow … light and joy and peace abide in me.
Light is me … and I am Light … and Light is the we-ness of me which is really Us.
LESSON 112
For morning and evening review:
(93) Light and joy and peace abide in me.
I am the home of light and joy and peace. I welcome them into the home I share with God, because I am a part of Him.
(94) I am as God created me.
I will remain forever as I was, created by the Changeless like Himself. And I am one iwth Him, and He with me.
A melting, a merging, a lifting, a floating … Miracles are seen in light … the spiritual eye arrives, and spreads, recedes, then fills my mind, swings back, and forth, purple in, gold out …
Miracles are seen in light, and light and strength are one. Light is strength. And strength is light. Strength is light. Gold in, gold out … a peaceful, happy feeling.
There is nothing to fear. Golden light spreading, merging, melting, floating, lifting me higher, sinking me deeper … golden God Light … there is nothing but God.
LESSON 111
For morning and evening review:
(91) Miracles are seen in light.
I cannot see in darkness. Let the light of holiness and truth light up my mind, and let me see the innocence within.
(92) Miracles are seen in light, and light and strength are one.
I see through strength, the gift of God to me. My weakness is the dark His gift dispels, by giving me His strength to take its place.
On the hour: Miracles are seen in light.
On the half hour: Miracles are seen in light, and light and strength are one.
I reach out and touch the hem of his garment. A gladness fills my heart, a gladness rich with recognition and relief. Humility and magnificence converge in sweeping waves of ever-spreading Wordlessness … I am as God created me.
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 therefore 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 occurred, 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 other minds, and only unity within your own.
The healing power of today’s idea is limitless. It is the birthplace of all 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 whoever touches 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 make a great advance to truth by letting idols go, and opening our hands and hearts and minds to God today.
We will remember Him throughout the day with thankful hearts 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.
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For most of this life, there was strong desire to speak the truth as “I” felt it within and saw it without. This was a good exercise in self-examination and honesty. It opened the mind until it was seen that there is only One Truth.
I am no longer afraid to circumvent the voices of the world. Walking lightly past their meaningless persuasion onward to the certainty of God is the only compassionate thing to do.
Memory of Truth makes appearances fade in Its Light. Fever dreams pass away and Stillness re-establishes Itself.
I rest in God. Who is this “I” that rests in God? Emanations of relief ripple through me, core to periphery, the Inner me pushing away the “outer” me. Off I go! And Here I Am 🙂
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 sees beyond appearances to that same 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 a while. 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 problem that it cannot solve. And no 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 your 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 through you.
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 still and 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 your rest today, a tired mind is suddenly made glad, a bird with broken wings begins to sing, a stream long dry begins 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 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 will be faithful to your trust today, forgetting no one, bringing everyone into the boundless circle of your peace, the holy sanctuary where you rest. Open the temple doors and let them come 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.”
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There is a Thought behind the light which … is a unified state of mind. The healing light of single perception brings third eye peace to all minds. Giving and receiving occur together as One Complete Thought.
One Thought unifies All Thought. One correction corrects all errors. Light is tranquility and in that peace is vision given.
A ray the size of a megaphone emerges from between my eyebrows and with it, within one instant, Quiet Peace. That is the pathway to Truth. A deep breath spreads my lungs, huge spacious butterfly breath … and “I am” but there is no longer any need for the person.
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 the 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 is 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 Thought whose truth does not depend on which is seen as first, nor which appears to be in second place. Here it is understood that both occur together, that the Thought remain complete. And in this understanding is the base on which all opposites are 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 the 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 circumstance 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 because 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 that 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 others, 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 will 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.”
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