Lesson 261 – God is my refuge and security.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

God’s Light is refuge and security from a mistaken thought that never was.  God’s Light is mine and yours as One in brotherhood and Sonship as a child of God.  This is Reality, and Reality is Now.

LESSON 261

God is my refuge and security.

 I will identify with what I think is refuge and security.  I will behold myself where I perceive my strength, and think I live within the citadel where I am safe and cannot be attacked.  Let me today seek not security in danger, nor attempt to find my peace in murderous attack.  I live in God.  In Him I find my refuge and my strength.  In Him is my Identity.  In Him is everlasting peace.  And only there will I remember Who I really am.

Let me not seek for idols.  I would come, my Father, home to You today.  I choose to be as You created me, and find the Son whom You created as my Self.

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Lesson 260 – Let me remember God created me.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

The ego would have us believe in no uncertain terms that God made us in human form, but that’s not so.  The Course tells us God created us … yes, God created me like Himself and God is not in human form.  We are not miniatures of God — God is not a Big Man in the Sky.  I am We and We are He … we have inherited all His Timeless qualities of Infinite, Eternal Innocence, Love and Light.  Like Him, we are Formless, Changeless, Ever-expanding, Unified Peace and Joy.

Let this be remembered … let me know myself as I am … release this hold on time and place, on me and you, on idols, ambitions and personal glory.  That all leads nowhere.  I can play there as long as I like, but in the end it’s just a dream,  often bloody and gory, sweet at times, but never Reality.  And so it’s time to remember time is a human construct, unreal, not true, and completely unnecessary.  God created me and we are One Everlasting Whole.

LESSON 260

Let me remember God created me.

Father, I did not make myself, although in my insanity I thought I did.  Yet, as Your Thought, I have not left my Source, remaining part of Who created me.  Your Son, my Father, calls on You today.  Let me remember You created me.  Let me remember my Identity.  And let my sinlessness arise again before Christ’s vision, through which I would look upon my brothers and myself today.

Now is our Source remembered, and Therein we find our true Identity at last.  Holy indeed are we, because our Source can know no sin.  And we who are His Sons are like each other, and alike to Him.

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Lesson 259 – Let me remember that there is no sin.

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Love has no opposite.  There are no opposites, no polarities, no this and that.  Love is Love and I am Love and Love is Me and That is That.  Breath widens and smooths … there are no words … it’s true that beneath explanations, interpretations and many words there is just One … and this One is Quiet and True.  Remembering there is no sin undoes a long stream of thought that goes nowhere and is nothing.  We are not much longer here … because … we are not here.

LESSON 259

Let me remember that there is no sin.

 Sin is the only thought that makes the goal of God seem unattainable.  What else could blind us to the obvious, and make the strange and the distorted seem more clear?  What else but sin engenders our attacks?  What else but sin could be the source of guilt, demanding punishment and suffering?  And what but sin could be the source of fear, obscuring God’s creation; giving love the attributes of fear and attack?

Father, I would not be insane today.  I would not be afraid of love, nor seek for refuge in its opposite.  For love can have no opposite.  You are the Source of everything there is.  And everything that is remains with You, and You with it. 

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Lesson 258 – Let me remember that my goal is God.

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Everything but God is a little, senseless aim … God’s memory is hidden in our minds, obscured by meaningless nonsense which we have talked ourselves into believing.  Today is a clean slate day, a day of remembering what is just behind my eyes.  God is the only goal because God is what I am.  The time for senseless diversions, magnificent distractions and grand illusions is over.  The time has come for Eternity.  The time has come today.

LESSON 258

Let me remember that my goal is God.

All that is needful is to train our minds to overlook all little senseless aims, and to remember that our goal is God. His memory is hidden in our minds, obscured but by our pointless little goals which offer nothing, and do not exist. Shall we continue to allow God’s grace to shine in unawareness, while the toys and trinkets of the world are sought instead? God is our only goal, our only Love. We have no aim but to remember Him.

Our goal is but to follow in the way that leads to You. We have no goal but this. What could we want but to remember You? What could we seek but our Identity?

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Lesson 257 – Let me remember what my purpose is.

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Let me remember my goal, my purpose, my function today that I may unify my thoughts and actions meaningfully.  Forgiveness is my function here.  Forgiveness brings me happiness and peace.  For give ness is for giving everything I believe in to the Holy Spirit — I lay my beliefs as gifts on His altar and in so doing am restored wholly to What Already Is.

LESSON 257

Let me remember what my purpose is.

 If I forget my goal I can be but confused, unsure of what I am, and thus conflicted in my actions.  No one can serve contradicting goals and serve them well.  Nor can he function without deep distress and great depression.  Let us therefore be determined to remember what we want today, that we may unify our thoughts and actions meaningfully, and achieve only what God would have us do this day.

Father, forgiveness is Your chosen means for our salvation.  Let us not forget today that we can have no will but Yours.  And thus our purpose must be Yours as well, if we would reach the peace You will for us.

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Lesson 256 – God is the only goal I have today.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

Simple and clear: God is the only goal I have today.  His sacred Word is the only Word to listen to and hear. Forgiveness asks that we pay attention to what is real.  Now dreaming is used for awakening, moment by moment, until there is no dream to awaken from.  Bull’s eye.

LESSON 256

God is the only goal I have today.

The way to God is through forgiveness here.  There is no other way.  If sin had not been cherished by the mind, what need would there have been to find the way to where you are?  Who would still be uncertain?  Who could be unsure of who he is?  And who would yet remain asleep, in heavy clouds of doubt about the holiness of him whom God created sinless?  Here we can but dream.  But we can dream we have forgiven him in whom all sin remains impossible, and it is this we choose to dream today.  God is our goal; forgiveness is the means by which our minds return to Him at last.

And so, our Father, would we come to You in Your appointed way.  We have no goal except to hear Your Voice, and find the way Your sacred Word has pointed out to us.

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Lesson 255 – This day I choose to spend in perfect peace.

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A thought has come into my mind more strongly than ever before these past few months: it is easy to recognize the true Self and see through the illusion.  It is easy to know “myself” as Formless Love and not be fooled by the body.  It is easy to experience a shift in perception and see the world a holy new way.  This change of mind, this Wholesome thought is a bit ahead of my experience, just as lightning signals thunder.  This day is chosen to spend in perfect peace because that is What Already Is.  It is the logical outcome of yesterday’s lesson: Let every voice but God’s be still in me.  And the only reason is the Voice of Reason, the only reality is God’s Reality.  This is what God chooses for “me” today, and “I” accept!

LESSON 255

This day I choose to spend in perfect peace.

It does not seem to me that I can choose to have but peace today.  And yet, my God assures me that His Son is like Himself.  Let me this day have faith in Him Who says I am God’s Son.  And let the peace I choose be mine today bear witness to the truth of what He says.  God’s Son can have no cares, and must remain forever in the peace of Heaven.  In His Name, I give today to finding what my Father wills for me, accepting it as mine, and giving it to all my Father’s Sons, along with me.

And so, my Father, would I pass this day with You.  Your Son has not forgotten You.  The peace You gave him still is in his mind, and it is there I choose to spend today.

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Lesson 254 – Let every voice but God’s be still in me.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

My mind expands as an all-encompassing circle and I realize I leave no one behind when I  let every voice but God’s go still … we go together as we un-merge from separation into the unified wholeness of Loving Expansion that we already are.  We are the Wordless; we share God’s Nameless Name; we are Unchanging Stillness.

LESSON 254

Let every voice but God’s be still in me.

 Father, today I would but hear Your Voice.  In deepest silence I would come to You, to hear Your Voice and to receive Your Word.  I have no prayer but this: I come to You to ask you for the truth.  And truth is but Your Will, which I would share with You today.

Today we let no ego thoughts direct our words or actions.  When such thoughts occur, we quietly step back and look at them, and then we let them go.  We do not want what they would bring with them.  And so we do not choose to keep them.  They are silent now.  And in the stillness, hallowed by His Love, God speaks to us and tells us of our will, as we have chosen to remember Him.

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Lesson 253 – My Self is ruler of the universe.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

What happens is what I desire … I get to choose.  I can choose Higher Power, my True Self, or ego willpower.  There’s no contest!  Ego willpower has gotten me nothing.  Connecting my will with God’s Will has been the most natural, effortless lift in the world.  I don’t have to know how to do this — I just need to be willing to be willing to connect with Will 🙂  And off I go with God’s Wind beneath my Sails. This world really is full of comic book characters — you gotta laugh!

LESSON 253

My Self is ruler of the universe.

It is impossible that anything should come to me unbidden by myself. Even in this world, it is I who rule my destiny. What happens is what I desire. What does not occur is what I do not want to happen. This must I accept. For thus am I led past this world to my creations, children of my will, in Heaven where my holy Self abides with them and Him Who has created me.

You are the Self Whom You created Son, creating like Yourself and One with You. My Self, which rules the universe, is but Your Will in perfect union with my own, which can but offer glad assent to Yours, that it may be extended to Itself.

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