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346: Today the peace of God envelops me

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Lesson 346 “Today the peace of God envelops me, And I forget all things except His Love.”

“Father, I wake today with miracles correcting my perception of all things.  And so begins a day I share with You as I will share eternity, for time has stepped aside today.  I do not seek the things of time, and so I will not look upon them.  What I seek today transcends all laws of time and things perceived in time.  I would forget all things except Your Love.  I would abide in You, and know no laws except Your law of Love.  And I would find the peace which You created for Your Son, forgetting all the foolish toys I made as I behold Your glory and my own.”

And when the evening comes today, we will remember nothing but the peace of God.  For we will learn today what peace is ours when we forget all things except Godʹs Love.

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343: I am not asked to make a sacrifice

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Lesson 343 “I am not asked to make a sacrifice to find the mercy and the peace of God.”

“The end of suffering can not be loss.  The gift of everything can but be gain.  You only give.  You never take away.  And You created me to be like You, so sacrifice becomes impossible for me as well as You.  I, too, must give, and so all things are given unto me forever and forever. As I was created, I remain.  Your Son can make no sacrifice, for he must be complete, having the function of completing You.  I am complete because I am Your Son.  I cannot lose, for I can only give.  And everything is mine eternally.”

The mercy and the peace of God are free.  Salvation has no cost. It is a gift that must be freely given and received, and it is this that
we would learn today.

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336: Forgiveness lets me know that minds are joined.”

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Lesson 336 “Forgiveness lets me know that minds are joined.”

Forgiveness is the means appointed for perceptionʹs ending.  Knowledge is restored after perception first is changed, and then gives way entirely to what remains forever past its highest reach.  For sights and sounds, at best, can serve but to recall the memory that lies beyond them all.  Forgiveness sweeps away distortions, and opens the hidden altar to the truth.  Its lilies shine into the mind, and call it to return and look within, to find what it has vainly sought without.  For here, and only here, is peace of mind restored, for this the dwelling‐place of God Himself.

“In quiet may forgiveness wipe away my dreams of separation and of sin.  Then let me, Father, look within and find Your promise of my sinlessness is kept; Your Word remains unchanged within my mind, Your Love is still abiding in my heart.”

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306: The gift of Christ is all I seek today

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Lesson 306 “The gift of Christ is all I seek today.”

What but Christʹs vision would I use today, when it can offer me a day in which I see a world so like to Heaven that an ancient memory returns to me?  Today I can forget the world I made. Today I can go past all fear, and be restored to love and holiness and peace.  Today I am redeemed, and born anew into a world of mercy and of care; of loving kindness and the peace of God.

“And so, our Father, we return to You, remembering we never went away; remembering Your holy gifts to us.  In gratitude and thankfulness we come, with empty hands and open hearts and minds, asking but what You give.  We cannot make an offering sufficient for Your Son.  But in Your Love the gift of Christ is his.”

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290: My present happiness is all I see.

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Lesson 290 “My present happiness is all I see.”


Unless I look upon what is not there, my present happiness is all I see.  Eyes that begin to open see at last.  And I would have Christʹs vision come to me this very day.  What I perceive without Godʹs own correction for the sight I made is frightening and painful to behold.  Yet I would not allow my mind to be deceived by the belief the dream I made is real an instant longer.  This the day I seek my present happiness, and look on nothing else except the thing I seek.

“With this resolve I come to You, and ask Your strength to hold me up today, while I but do Your Will.  You cannot fail to hear me, Father.  What I ask have You already given me, and I am sure that I will see my happiness today.”

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289: The past is over. It can touch me not.

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Lesson 289 “The past is over.  It can touch me not.”

Unless the past is over in my mind, the real world must escape my sight.  For I am really looking nowhere; seeing but what is not there.  How can I then perceive the world forgiveness offers? This the past was made to hide, for this the world that can be looked on only now.  It has no past.  For what can be forgiven but the past, and if it is forgiven it is gone.

“Father, let me not look upon a past that is not there.  For You have offered me Your own replacement, in a present world the past has left untouched and free of sin.  Here is the end of guilt.  And here am I made ready for Your final step.  Shall I demand that You wait longer for Your Son to find the loveliness You planned to be the end of all his dreams and all his pain?”

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288: Let me forget my brother’s past today.

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“Let me forget my brotherʹs past today.”

“This is the thought that leads the way to You, and brings me to my goal.  I cannot come to You without my brother.  And to know my Source, I first must recognize what You created one with me.  My brotherʹs is the hand that leads me on the way to You.  His sins are in the past along with mine, and I am saved because the past is gone. Let me not cherish it within my heart, or I will lose the way to walk to You.  My brother is my Savior.  Let me not attack the Savior You have given me.  But let me honor him who bears Your Name, and so remember that It is my own.”


Forgive me, then, today.  And you will know you have forgiven me if you behold your brother in the light of holiness.  He cannot be less holy than can I, and you can not be holier than he.

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287: You are my goal, my Father. Only You.

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Lesson 287 “You are my goal, my Father.  Only You.”

Where would I go but Heaven?  What could be a substitute for happiness?  What gift could I prefer before the peace of God?  What treasure would I seek and find and keep that can compare with my Identity?  And would I rather live with fear than love?

“You are my goal, my Father.  What but You could I desire to have?  What way but that which leads to You could I desire to walk?  And what except the memory of You could signify to me the end of dreams and futile substitutions for the truth?  You are my only goal.  Your Son would be as You created Him.  What way but this could I expect to recognize my Self, and be at one with my Identity?”

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284: I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt

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Lesson 284 “I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.”
Loss is not loss when properly perceived.  Pain is impossible.  There is no grief with any cause at all and suffering of any kind is nothing but a dream.  Such is the truth, at first to be but said, and then repeated many times, and next to be accepted as but partly true, with many reservations, then to be considered seriously more and more, and finally accepted as the truth.  I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.  And I would go beyond the words today, go past all reservations, and arrive at full acceptance of the truth in them.

“Father, what You have given cannot hurt, and grief and pain must be impossible.  Let me not fail to trust in You today, accepting but the joyous as Your gifts; accepting but the joyous as the truth.

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

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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 or 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.”