Lesson 280 – What limits can I lay upon God’s Son?

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

It is a harmless exercise to box in God’s creation by boxing God out.  Building walls, avoiding Reality, making up riddles about who we are … all of this is nothing but an idle thought until we take it seriously.  Nothing can destroy God’s limitless nature and all we have to do is change our mind about who we think we are to realize that.  Occupy your mind with the question, “What limits can I lay upon God’s Son?” and feel the walls fly away into the nothingness from which they came.

 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 he 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.

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Lesson 278 – If I am bound, my Father is not free.

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God behind bars.  In prison stripes.  Peering out at the world helpless and bound.  Humans like to twist the story in this way and pretend it’s not their story, it’s the way things are.  God is not behind bars.  We are.  God is not sliced and diced into time and space (prison stripes).  We are.  ” … a world in which all things that seem to live appear to die” … seeming appearances are not the Truth.  The Truth is we are formless, boundless Love just like our Father–let’s stop pretending we’re orphans and rub the sleep out of our eyes: Our Father is Free and We are like Our Father.

LESSON 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 had 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.

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Lesson 277 – Let me not bind Your Son with laws I made.

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God is our Source and His law is Love.  He is the Starting Point and we are His Continuation.  He Begins and we Neverend.  He Creates and we Collaborate.  Little laws made by dreaming men change nothing.  We are not human doings, we are spiritual beings and the sooner we undo/unbind, the sooner Beingness becomes obvious.

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 idolatry 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.

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Lesson 276 – The Word of God is given me to speak.

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And so it is.  I lean back into my meditation and am willing to know myself as God’s Word, God’s Light.  For a little while, seemingly nothing.  Then … a rhythmic expanding of “me” … like a sunburst widening and unwidening, expand, slightly contract, expand more, slightly contract … very pleasant, effortless.  And next … speed, a sense of speed, speed with pleasure–no fear.  “I” am still in shadow–none of this is happening in Light … yet.  And then I “hear”:  You are as pure and holy as Your Father.  You are the Word of God.  The “hearing” comes in the form of feeling–it is a felt-sense of knowing the meaning of these words.  And there is nothing more to say.

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 speak to all my brothers, who are given me to cherish as my own, as I am loved and blessed and saved by You.

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Lesson 275 – God’s healing Voice protects all things today.

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I am you and you are me.  The ego perceives this as impossible and unbearable–the ego wants to experience itself as separate.  The problem with the ego is that it takes out unpleasant feelings on the “other guy”: it shames and blames another to avoid facing itself.  If the ego faced itself, it would find it is a figment of its own imagination–a picture of separation, but not a fact.  God’s Unified Love is the One Fact that is true.  And in that Fact is perfect safety, for not even protection is necessary as we realize we are All the Same One.

LESSON 275

God’s healing Voice protects all things today.

Let us today attend the Voice for 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.

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Lesson 274 – Today belongs to love. Let me not fear.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

Stop interpreting and start accepting God’s Way.  Honor my innocence and I honor your innocence.  Honor Innocence and  accept the love of God’s Holy Spirit, our Friend.  We are the same as our Friend and this is our redemption.  Illusions are shined away, fear is undone, special blessings illuminate the truth: that All Is as It always Is.  Amen.

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.

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Lesson 273 – The stillness of the peace of God is mine.

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The instructions are crystal clear.  All that is needed is the willingness.  It is helpful to realize that we don’t have to try, just allow.  And we don’t have to be motivated, just willing.  We don’t even have to be sincere, though sincerity will greatly accelerate our “progress” — progress back to where we’ve always been 🙂

Therefore, “The stillness of the peace of God is mine” is mine to return to all day today and every day.  The stillness of the peace of God is mine — even at this stage of the Workbook, three-quarters through, this can move from imploring to outrage to a quiet statement of fact.  That’s okay.  It doesn’t change the Truth: The stillness of the peace of God is mine; this peace is our inheritance, our legacy, our nature, our Source. Case closed 🙂

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 the 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 fear 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.

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Lesson 272 – How can illusions satisfy God’s Son?

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Tears, used well, wash away illusions.  Tears wash away dark layers, cataract-like coverings dissolve, and Vision is revealed.  Tears are purifying baptisms. Today we pass illusions by, and tears become juicy with joy.  The truth belongs to us.  We are surrounded by God’s Love, forever still, forever gentle and forever safe.  We are as God created us … every only One of us.

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 bring 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 temptation 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.

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Lesson 271 – Christ’s is the vision I will use today.

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God’s memory is restored to me as I witness light instead of darkness.  I don’t have to like personalities … your personality and mine dissolve and intermingle as I choose to behold God’s light.  Christ’s vision and God’s light meet as I see you as your invisible essence briefly made visible in the spirit of unbuttoning a covering that never was.  Christ’s vision melts away all sense of separation and, undone, we are One.

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 want to hear, the witnesses 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 witnesses 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, remembering 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.

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