Trials are but lessons that you failed to learn presented once again, so where you made a faulty choice before you now can make a better one, and thus escape all pain that what you chose before has brought to you.
In every difficulty, all distress, and each perplexity Christ calls to you and gently says, “My brother, choose again.”
Text-31. VIII. 3:1-2.
The Holy Spirit will always guide you truly, because your joy is His.
This is His Will for everyone because He speaks for the Kingdom of God, which is joy.
Following Him is therefore the easiest thing in the world, and the only thing that is easy, because it is not of the world.
It is therefore natural.
Text-7. XI. 1:1-4.
The Holy Spirit is my only Guide.
He walks with me in love.
And I give thanks to Him for showing me the way to go.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 215. 1:2-4.
All that I do I do unto myself.
If I attack, I suffer.
But if I forgive, salvation will be given me.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 216. 1:2-4.
Let us be glad that we can walk the world, and find so many chances to perceive another situation where God’s gift can once again be recognized as ours!
And thus will all the vestiges of hell, the secret sins and hidden hates be gone.
And all the loveliness which they concealed appear like lawns of Heaven to our sight, to lift us high above the thorny roads we travelled on before the Christ appeared.
Text-31. VIII. 9:1-3.
The holiest of all the spots on earth is where an ancient hatred has become a present love.
Text-26. IX. 6:1.
Temptation has one lesson it would teach, in all its forms, wherever it occurs.
It would persuade the holy Son of God he is a body, born in what must die, unable to escape its frailty, and bound by what it orders him to feel.
It sets the limits on what he can do; its power is the only strength he has; his grasp cannot exceed its tiny reach.
Would you be this, if Christ appeared to you in all His glory, asking you but this:
Choose once again if you would take your place among the saviors of the world, or would remain in hell, and hold your brothers there.
Text-31. VIII. 1:1-5.
Let me not wander from the way of peace, for I am lost on other roads than this.
But let me follow Him Who leads me home, and peace is certain as the Love of God.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 220. 1:2-3.
Father, I come to You today
to seek the peace that
You alone can give.
I come in silence.
In the quiet of my heart,
the deep recesses of my mind,
I wait and listen for Your Voice.
My Father, speak to me today.
I come to hear Your Voice
in silence and in certainty and love,
sure You will hear my call
and answer me.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 221. 1:1-5.
God is with me.
He is my Source of life, the life within, the air I breathe, the food by which I am sustained, the water which renews and cleanses me.
He is my home, wherein I live and move; the Spirit which directs my actions, offers me Its Thoughts, and guarantees my safety from all pain.
He covers me with kindness and with care, and holds in love the Son He shines upon, who also shines on Him.
How still is he who knows the truth of what He speaks today!
Workbook-p II. Lesson 222. 1:1-5.
I was mistaken when I thought I lived apart from God, a separate entity that moved in isolation, unattached, and housed within a body.
Now I know my life is God’s, I have no other home, and I do not exist apart from Him.
He has no Thoughts that are not part of me, and I have none but those which are of Him.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 223. 1:1-3.
My true Identity is so secure, so lofty, sinless, glorious and great, wholly beneficent and free from guilt, that Heaven looks to It to give it light.
It lights the world as well.
It is the gift my Father gave to me; the one as well I give the world.
There is no gift but this that can be either given or received.
This is reality, and only this. This is illusion’s end. It is the truth.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 224. 1:1-7.
Prayer is the greatest gift with which God blessed His Son at his creation.
It was then what it is to become; the single voice Creator and creation share; the song the Son sings to the Father, Who returns the thanks it offers Him unto the Son.
Endless the harmony, and endless, too, the joyous concord of the Love They give forever to Each Other.
And in this, creation is extended.
Song of Prayer-1. Intro. 1:1-4.
Prayer is a ladder reaching up to Heaven.
At the top there is a transformation much like your own, for prayer is part of you.
The things of earth are left behind, all unremembered.
There is no asking, for there is no lack.
Identity in Christ is fully recognized as set forever, beyond all change and incorruptible.
The light no longer flickers, and will never go out.
Song of Prayer-1. II. 7:1-6.
Father, it is today that I am free,
because my will is Yours. I
thought to make another will.
Yet nothing that I thought apart
from You exists. And I am free
because I was mistaken, and
did not affect my own reality at all
by my illusions. Now I give them
up, and lay them down before
the feet of truth, to be removed
forever from my mind. This is
my holy instant of release.
Father, I know my will is one
with Yours.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 227. 1:1-7.
God has condemned me not.
No more do I.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 228. 2:1-6.
I seek my own Identity, and find It in these words:
“Love, which created me, is what I am.”
Now need I seek no more.
Love has prevailed.
So still It waited for my coming home, that I will turn away no longer from the holy face of Christ.
And what I look upon attests the truth of the Identity I sought to lose, but which my Father has kept safe for me.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 229. 1:1-5.
Father, I seek the peace You
gave as mine in my creation.
What was given then must be
here now, for my creation was
apart from time, and still
remains beyond all change.
The peace in which Your Son
was born into Your Mind is
shining there unchanged.
I am as You created me.
I need but call on You to find
the peace You gave.
It is Your Will that gave it
to Your Son.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 230. 2:1-6.
What can I seek for, Father, but
Your Love? Perhaps I think I
seek for something else; a
something I have called by many
names. Yet is Your Love the only
thing I seek, or ever sought. For
there is nothing else that I could
ever really want to find. Let me
remember You. What else could
I desire but the truth about
myself?
Workbook-p II. Lesson 231. 1:1-6.
Be in my mind, my Father, when
I wake, and shine on me
throughout the day today. Let
every minute be a time in which
I dwell with You. And let me not
forget my hourly thanksgiving
that You have remained with me,
and always will be there to hear
my call to You and answer me.
As evening comes, let all my
thoughts be still of You and of
Your Love. And let me sleep sure
of my safety, certain of Your
care, and happily aware I am
Your Son.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 232. 1:1-5.
Father, I give You all my
thoughts today. I would have
none of mine. In place of them,
give me Your Own. I give You
all my acts as well, that I may
do Your Will instead of seeking
goals which cannot be obtained,
and wasting time in vain
imaginings. Today I come to
You. I will step back and merely
follow You. Be You the Guide,
and I the follower who questions
not the wisdom of the Infinite,
nor Love whose tenderness I
cannot comprehend, but which
is yet Your perfect gift
to me.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 233. 1:1-7.
Today we will anticipate the time when dreams of sin and guilt are gone, and we have reached the holy peace we never left.
Merely a tiny instant has elapsed between eternity and timelessness.
So brief the interval there was no lapse in continuity, nor break in thoughts which are forever unified as one.
Nothing has ever happened to disturb the peace of God the Father and the Son.
This we accept as wholly true today.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 234. 1:1-5.
Father, Your Holiness is mine.
Your Love created me, and made my sinlessness forever part of You.
I have no guilt nor sin in me, for there is none in You.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 235. 2:1-3.
Father, my mind is open to Your Thoughts, and closed today to every thought but Yours.
I rule my mind, and offer it to You.
Accept my gift, for it is Yours to me.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 236. 2:1-3.
You need to learn to lay all fear aside, and know your Self as Love which has no opposite in you.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 99. 9:8.
When you have learned how to decide with God, all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing.
There is no effort, and you will be led gently as if you were being carried down a quiet path in summer.
Text-14. IV. 6:1-2.
We thank You, Father,
for the light that shines
forever in us. And
we honor it, because
You share it with us.
We are one, united in
this light and one with
You, at peace with
all creation and
ourselves.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 239. 2:1-3.
Let us not be deceived today.
We are the Sons of God.
There is no fear in us, for we are each a part of Love Itself.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 240. 1:6-8.
Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred.
It does not pardon sins and make them real. It sees there was no sin.
And in that view are all your sins forgiven.
What is sin, except a false idea about God’s Son?
Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go.
What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.
Workbook-p II. 1. 1:1-7.
I will not lead my life alone today.
I do not understand the world, and so to try to lead my life alone must be but foolishness.
But there is One Who knows all that is best for me. And He is glad to make no choices for me but the ones that lead to God.
I give this day to Him, for I would not delay my coming home, and it is He Who knows the way to God.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 242. 1:1-5.
A dream of judgment came into the mind that God created perfect as Himself.
And in that dream was Heaven changed to hell, and God made enemy unto His Son.
How can God’s Son awaken from the dream?
It is a dream of judgment. So must he judge not, and he will waken.
Text-29. IX. 2:1-5.