You are at home in God, dreaming of exile but perfectly capable of awakening to reality.
Text-10. I. 2:1.
Whenever you question your value, say:
God Himself is incomplete without me.
The truth about you is so lofty that nothing unworthy of God is worthy of you.
Text-9. VII. 8:1-2, 4.
Father, our Name is Yours.
In It we are united with all living
things, and You Who are their one
Creator. What we made and call
by many different names is but a
shadow we have tried to cast
across Your Own reality. And we
are glad and thankful we
were wrong.
All our mistakes we give to You,
that we may be absolved from all
effects our errors seemed to have.
And we accept the truth You give,
in place of every one of them. Your
Name is our salvation and escape
from what we made. Your Name
unites us in the oneness which is
our inheritance and peace.
Amen.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 184. 15:1-9.
War is the condition in which fear is born, and grows and seeks to dominate.
Peace is the state where love abides, and seeks to share itself.
Text-23. I. 12:4-5.
The secret of salvation is but this: that you are doing this unto yourself.
No matter what the form of the attack, this still is true.
Whoever takes the role of enemy and of attacker, still is this the truth.
Whatever seems to be the cause of any pain and suffering you feel, this is still true.
For you would not react at all to figures in a dream you knew that you were dreaming.
Let them be as hateful and as vicious as they may, they could have no effect on you unless you failed to recognize it is your dream.
Text-27. VIII. 10:1-6.
Never forget you give but to yourself.
Who understands what giving means must laugh at the idea of sacrifice.
Nor can he fail to recognize the many forms which sacrifice may take.
He laughs as well at pain and loss, at sickness and at grief, at poverty, starvation and at death.
He recognizes sacrifice remains the one idea that stands behind them all, and in his gentle laughter are they healed.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 187. 6:1-5.
Why wait for Heaven?
Those who seek the light are merely covering their eyes.
The light is in them now.
Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 188. 1:1-4.
Father, we do not know the way
to You. But we have called, and
You have answered us. We will
not interfere. Salvation’s ways
are not our own, for they
belong to You. And it is unto
You we look for them. Our
hands are open to receive
Your gifts. We have no thoughts
we think apart from You, and
cherish no beliefs of what
we are, or Who created us.
Yours is the way that we
would find and follow. And we
ask but that Your Will, which
is our own as well, be done in
us and in the world, that
it become a part of Heaven
now. Amen.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 189. 10:1-10.
Pain is wrong perspective.
When it is experienced in any form, it is proof of self-deception.
It is not a fact at all.
There is no form it takes that will not disappear if seen aright.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 190. 1:1-4.
Be glad today how very easily is hell undone.
You need but tell yourself:
I am the holy Son of God Himself. I cannot suffer, cannot be in pain; I cannot suffer loss, nor fail to do all that salvation asks.
And in that thought is everything you look on wholly changed.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 191. 7:1-5.
The way is simple.
Every time you feel a stab of anger, realize you hold a sword above your head.
And it will fall or be averted as you choose to be condemned or free.
Thus does each one who seems to tempt you to be angry represent your savior from the prison house of death.
And so you owe him thanks instead of pain.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 192. 9:3-7.
This is the lesson God would have you learn:
There is a way to look on everything that lets it be to you another step to Him, and to salvation of the world.
To all that speaks of terror, answer thus:
I will forgive, and this will disappear.
To every apprehension, every care and every form of suffering, repeat these selfsame words.
And then you hold the key that opens Heaven’s gate, and brings the Love of God the Father down to earth at last, to raise it up to Heaven.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 193. 13:1-5.
I place the future in the Hands of God.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 194.
Today we learn to think of gratitude in place of anger, malice and revenge.
We have been given everything.
If we refuse to recognize it, we are not entitled therefore to our bitterness, and to a self-perception which regards us in a place of merciless pursuit, where we are badgered ceaselessly, and pushed about without a thought or care for us or for our future.
Gratitude becomes the single thought we substitute for these insane perceptions.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 195. 9:1-4.
It can be but myself I crucify.
When this is firmly understood and kept in full awareness, you will not attempt to harm yourself, nor make your body slave to vengeance.
You will not attack yourself, and you will realize that to attack another is but to attack yourself.
You will be free of the insane belief that to attack a brother saves yourself.
And you will understand his safety is your own, and in his healing you are healed.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 196. 1:1-4.
What is Heaven but a song of gratitude and love and praise by everything created to the Source of its creation?
The holiest of altars is set where once sin was believed to be.
And here does every light of Heaven come, to be rekindled and increased in joy.
For here is what was lost restored to them, and all their radiance made whole again.
Text-26. IV. 3:5-8.
Today we practice letting freedom come to make its home with you.
The truth bestows these words upon your mind, that you may find the key to light and let the darkness end:
Only my condemnation injures me. Only my own forgiveness sets me free.
Do not forget today that there can be no form of suffering that fails to hide an unforgiving thought.
Nor can there be a form of pain forgiveness cannot heal.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 198. 9:1-6.
And God Himself extends His Love and happiness each time you say:
I am not a body. I am free. I hear the Voice that God has given me, and it is only this my mind obeys.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 199. 8:6-9.
No one who truly seeks the peace of God can fail to find it.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 185. 11:1.
I am not a body.
I am free.
For I am still as God created me.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 201.
There is one thing that you have never done; you have not utterly forgotten the body.
It has perhaps faded at times from your sight, but it has not yet completely disappeared.
You are not asked to let this happen for more than an instant, yet it is in this instant that the miracle of Atonement happens.
Afterwards you will see the body again, but never quite the same.
And every instant that you spend without awareness of it gives you a different view of it when you return.
Text-18. VII. 2:1-5.
Who hangs an empty frame upon a wall and stands before it, deep in reverence, as if a masterpiece were there to see?
Yet if you see your brother as a body, it is but this you do.
The masterpiece that God has set within this frame is all there is to see.
The body holds it for a while, without obscuring it in any way.
Yet what God has created needs no frame, for what He has created He supports and frames within Himself.
His masterpiece He offers you to see. And would you rather see the frame instead of this? And see the picture not at all?
Text-25. II. 5:1-8.
Your mission is very simple.
You are asked to live so as to demonstrate that you are not an ego.
Text-4. VI. 6:2-3.
You believe that without the ego, all would be chaos.
Yet I assure you that without the ego, all would be love.
Text-15. V. 1:6-7.
When I said “I am with you always,” I meant it literally.
I am not absent to anyone in any situation.
Because I am always with you, you are the way, the truth and the life.
Text-7. III. 1:7-9.
God’s blessing shines upon me from within my heart, where He abides.
I need but turn to Him, and every sorrow melts away, as I accept His boundless Love for me.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 207. 1:2-3.
I will be still, and let the earth be still along with me.
And in that stillness we will find the peace of God.
It is within my heart, which witnesses to God Himself.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 208. 1:2-4.
The Love of God is what created me.
The Love of God is everything I am.
The Love of God proclaimed me as His Son.
The Love of God within me sets me free.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 209. 1:2-5.
Remember the sorrowful story of the world, and the glad tidings of salvation.
Remember the plan of God for the restoration of joy and peace.
And do not forget how very simple are the ways of God:
You were lost in the darkness of the world until you asked for light. And then God sent His Son to give it to you.
Psychotherapy-3. III. 8:9-13.
When God gave Himself to you in your creation, He established you as host to Him forever.
He has not left you, and you have not left Him.
All your attempts to deny His magnitude, and make His Son hostage to the ego, cannot make little whom God has joined with Him.
Every decision you make is for Heaven or for hell, and brings you the awareness of what you decided for.
Text-15. III. 5:4-7.
Would you be hostage to the ego or host to God?
You will accept only whom you invite.
You are free to determine who shall be your guest, and how long he shall remain with you.
Yet this is not real freedom, for it still depends on how you see it.
The Holy Spirit is there, although He cannot help you without your invitation.
And the ego is nothing, whether you invite it in or not.
Real freedom depends on welcoming reality, and of your guests only the Holy Spirit is real.
Text-11. II. 7:1-7.