Lesson 304 – Let not my world obscure the sight of Christ.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

I have drawn a shade with a mural of a world and people on it and pulled it down to block Christ’s Vision of Eternal Life and Infinite Heaven.  My perception mirrors the shade I have invented in my mind, and, unconsciously I have been living in this hall of mirrors.  But I am conscious now, and more than ready to choose the Holy Spirit as my teacher.  He shines true Light upon my painted curtains and more and more easily I see that what I thought was real is merely a wispy coating that can be rubbed away revealing All and Everything in Perfect Splendid Loving Truth.

LESSON 304

Let not my world obscure the sight of Christ.

I can obscure my holy sight, if I intrude my world upon it.  Nor can I behold the holy sights Christ looks upon, unless it is His vision that I use.  Perception is a mirror, not a fact.  And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.  I would bless the world by looking on it through the eyes of Christ.  And I will look upon the certain signs that all my sins have been forgiven me.

You lead me from the darkness to the light; from sin to holiness.  Let me forgive, and thus receive salvation for the world.  It is Your gift, my Father, given me to offer to Your holy Son, that he may find again the memory of You, and of Your Son as You created him.

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Lesson 303 – The holy Christ is born in me today.

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How lovely, how safe, to be surrounded by God’s holy Thoughts, to be surrounded by God’s angels.  What an enormous relief to let earthly sounds be quiet and to let the sights to which I am accustomed disappear.  How happy to experience the world through God’s vision–how pure, how innocent, how whole and holy.  Safe in my Father’s Arms it becomes so simple and clear that Christ is a brotherhood, a unionhood of everyone, and nothing but that is Real no matter how it seems.

LESSON 303

The holy Christ is born in me today.

Watch with me, angels, watch with me today. Let all God’s holy Thoughts surround me, and be still with me while Heaven’s Son is born. Let earthly sounds be quiet, and the sights to which I am accustomed disappear. Let Christ be welcomed where He is at home. And let Him hear the sounds He understands, and see but sights that show His Father’s Love. Let Him no longer be a stranger here, for He is born again in me today.

Your Son is welcome, Father. He has come to save me from the evil self I made. He is the Self that You have given me. He is but what I really am in truth. He is the Son You love above all things. He is my Self as You created me. It is not Christ that can be crucified. Safe in Your Arms let me receive Your Son.

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Lesson 302 – Where darkness was I look upon the light.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

The end and the means are the same.  One need not justify the other, because the only justice is equality for all … and equality for all is truth, is fact.  How do we become aware of this?  Choose the Light.  Choose the Holy Spirit as teacher.  Choose again, a better way, a loving way.  And so it is.

LESSON 302

Where darkness was I look upon the light.

Father, our eyes are opening at last. Your holy world awaits us, as our sight is finally restored and we can see. We thought we suffered. But we had forgot the Son whom You created. Now we see that darkness is our own imagining, and light is there for us to look upon. Christ’s vision changes darkness into light, for fear must disappear when love has come. Let me forgive Your holy world today, that I may look upon its holiness and understand it but reflects my own.

Our Love awaits us as we go to Him, and walks beside us showing us the way. He fails in nothing. He the End we seek, and He the Means by which we go to Him.

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Lesson 301 – And God Himself shall wipe away all tears.

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Let me see God’s world rather than the one I made up.  Let me see the world through God’s Vision rather than the ego’s eyesight.  Let me allow God to wipe away my tears, even as I sleep, that I may stir and gently awaken to His Comforter and realize He is me.  Along with that realization comes Union and Joy as all others are revealed as One and laughter replaces fear.

LESSON 301

And God Himself shall wipe away all tears.

Father, unless I judge I cannot weep. Nor can I suffer pain, or feel I am abandoned or unneeded in the world. This is my home because I judge it not, and therefore is it only what You will. Let me today behold it uncondemned, through happy eyes forgiveness has released from all distortion. Let me see Your world instead of mine. And all the tears I shed will be forgotten, for their source is gone. Father, I will not judge Your world today.

God’s world is happy. Those who look on it can only add their joy to it, and bless it as a cause of further joy in them. We wept because we did not understand. But we have learned the world we saw was false, and we will look upon God’s world today.

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9. What Is the Second Coming?

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

In Part II of the Workbook, every 10 lessons we are given an instruction.  It comes in the form of a question.  There are 14 of these questions all together, and each one of them corresponds to a set of 10 lessons, and is to be read every day for the next 10 days along with our lesson for the day.  “What Is the Second Coming?” is the ninth instruction and goes with Lessons 301 – 310.

9.  What Is the Second Coming?

Christ’s Second Coming, which is sure as God, is merely the correction of mistakes, and the return of sanity. It is a part of the condition that restores the never lost, and re-establishes what is forever and forever true. It is the invitation to God’s Word to take illusion’s place; the willingness to let forgiveness rest upon all things without exception and without reserve.

It is the all-inclusive nature of Christ’s Second Coming that permits it to embrace the world and hold you safe within its gentle advent, which encompasses all living things with you. There is no end to the release the Second Coming brings, as God’s creation must be limitless. Forgiveness lights the Second Coming’s way, because it shines on everything as one. And thus is oneness recognized at last.

The Second Coming ends the lessons that the Holy Spirit teaches, making way for the Last Judgment, in which learning ends in one last summary that will extend beyond itself, and reaches up to God. The Second Coming is the time in which all minds are given to the hands of Christ, to be returned to spirit in the name of true creation and the Will of God.

The Second Coming is the one event in time which time itself can not affect. For every one who ever came to die, or yet will come or who is present now, is equally released from what he made. In this equality is Christ restored as one Identity, in which the Sons of God acknowledge that they all are one. And God the Father smiles upon His Son, His one creation and His only joy.

Pray that the Second Coming will be soon, but do not rest with that. It needs your eyes and ears and hands and feet. It needs your voice. And most of all it needs your willingness. Let us rejoice that we can do God’s Will, and join together in its holy light. Behold, the Son of God is one in us, and we can reach our Father’s Love through Him.

Remember, in Part II of the Workbook, every 10 lessons we are given an instruction.  It comes in the form of a question.  There are 14 of these questions all together, and each one of them corresponds to a set of 10 lessons, and is to be read every day for the next 10 days along with our lesson for the day.  “What Is the Second Coming?” is the ninth instruction and goes with Lessons 301 – 310.

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Lesson 300 – Only an instant does this world endure.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

This lesson removes all the pressure from “Life is short so live it to the fullest.”  No need to worry about that!  The Course tells us that “life,” as we know it, is merely a passing cloud upon a sky eternally serene.  When we are willing to shift our perception from clouds to Heaven (which signifies eternal Life, not death as the ego would have us believe), we behold a holy world–the real world–the transition from illusion to Reality which only takes a holy instant to undo.

LESSON 300

Only an instant does this world endure.

This is a thought which can be used to say that death and sorrow are the certain lot of all who come here, for their joys are gone before they are possessed, or even grasped.  Yet this is also the idea that lets no false perception keep us in its hold, nor represent more than a passing cloud upon a sky eternally serene.  And it is this serenity we seek, unclouded, obvious and sure, today.

We seek Your holy world today.  For we, Your loving Sons, have lost our way a while.  But we have listened to Your Voice, and learned exactly what to do to be restored to Heaven and our true Identity.  And we give thanks today the world endures but for an instant.  We would go beyond that tiny instant to eternity.

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Lesson 299 – Eternal holiness abides in me.

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Eternal holiness is the answer to the riddle the ego has posed.  It is the Vibrant, Loving, No-Thing behind the meaningless images the ego has made.  Loving Holiness and Heavenly Light prevails.

LESSON 299

Eternal holiness abides in me.

My holiness is far beyond my own ability to understand or know. Yet God, my Father, Who created it, acknowledges my holiness as His. Our Will, together, understands it. And Our Will, together, knows that it is so.

Father, my holiness is not of me. It is not mine to be destroyed by sin. It is not mine to suffer from attack. Illusions can obscure it, but can not put out its radiance, nor dim its light. It stands forever perfect and untouched. In it are all things healed, for they remain as You created them. And I can know my holiness. For Holiness Itself created me, and I can know my Source because it is Your Will that You be known.

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Lesson 298 – I love You, Father, and I love Your Son.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

Forgiveness removes the blockages to the awareness of Love’s presence.  There is no need to struggle with personalities when within and beyond personalities is the Light Source from which we spring and what we truly are.  Love conquers all–it is the one-edged sword: all calls for Love are answered with Love, and Love is answered with Love. Loving our brothers is realizing we are the Same One.

LESSON 298

I love You, Father, and I love Your Son.

My gratitude permits my love to be accepted without fear. And thus am I restored to my reality at last. All that intruded on my holy sight forgiveness takes away. And I draw near the end of senseless journeys, mad careers and artificial values. I accept instead what God establishes as mine, sure that in that alone I will be saved; sure that I go through fear to meet my Love.

Father, I come to You today, because I would not follow any way but Yours. You are beside me. Certain is Your way. And I am grateful for Your holy gifts of certain sanctuary, and escape from everything that would obscure my love for God my Father and His holy Son.

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Lesson 297 – Forgiveness is the only gift I give.

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Forgiveness, salvation, Atonement … same thing.  Undoing is a simple formula and returns my mind to the collective “I am” Identity.  All I want is to be an empty vessel through which Love flows, ultimately undoing Identity as well.

LESSON 297

Forgiveness is the only gift I give.

Forgiveness is the only gift I give, because it is the only gift I want. And everything I give I give myself. This is salvation’s simple formula. And I, who would be saved, would make it mine, to be the way I live within a world that needs salvation, and that will be saved as I accept Atonement for myself.

Father, how certain are Your ways; how sure their final outcome, and how faithfully is every step in my salvation set already, and accomplished by Your grace. Thanks be to You for Your eternal gifts, and thanks to You for my Identity.

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Lesson 296 – The Holy Spirit speaks through me today.

Commentary (full lesson beneath commentary)

There is no greater pleasure than words falling from my lips that are completely unexpected, filled with wisdom, comforting to others, and illuminating to me.  By now, it has happened many times.  I call it, “Words come to me.” and many others have shared they have the same experience.  May the Holy Spirit speak through me and you today and everyday until it is obvious that there is no time at all.

LESSON 296

The Holy Spirit speaks through me today.

The Holy Spirit needs my voice today, that all the world may listen to Your Voice, and hear Your Word through me. I am resolved to let You speak through me, for I would use no words but Yours, and have no thoughts which are apart from Yours, for only Yours are true. I would be savior to the world I made. For having damned it I would set it free, that I may find escape, and hear the Word Your holy Voice will speak to me today.

We teach today what we would learn, and that alone. And so our learning goal becomes an unconflicted one, and possible of easy reach and quick accomplishment. How gladly does the Holy Spirit come to rescue us from hell, when we allow His teaching to persuade the world, through us, to seek and find the easy path to God.

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