The Holy Spirit always sides with you and with your strength.
As long as you avoid His guidance in any way, you want to be weak.
Text-7. X. 5:1-2.
Your peace surrounds me,
Father. Where I go, Your peace
goes there with me. It sheds its
light on everyone I meet. I bring
it to the desolate and lonely and
afraid. I give Your peace to
those who suffer pain, or grieve
for loss, or think they are bereft
of hope and happiness.
Send them to me, my Father.
Let me bring Your peace with me.
For I would save Your Son, as
is Your Will, that I may come
to recognize my Self.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 245. 1:1-8.
Let me not think that I can find the way to God, if I have hatred in my heart.
Let me not try to hurt God’s Son, and think that I can know his Father or my Self.
Let me not fail to recognize myself, and still believe that my awareness can contain my Father, or my mind conceive of all the love my Father has for me, and all the love which I return to Him.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 246. 1:1-3.
And all that stood between your image of yourself and what you are, forgiveness washes joyfully away.
Text-30. V. 6:2.
Whatever suffers is not part of me.
What grieves is not myself.
What is in pain is but illusion in my mind.
What dies was never living in reality, and did but mock the truth about myself.
Now I disown self-concepts and deceits and lies about the holy Son of God.
Now am I ready to accept him back as God created him, and as he is.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 248. 1:3-8.
Forgiveness paints a picture of a world where suffering is over, loss becomes impossible and anger makes no sense.
Attack is gone, and madness has an end. What suffering is now conceivable? What loss can be sustained?
The world becomes a place of joy, abundance, charity and endless giving.
It is now so like to Heaven that it quickly is transformed into the light that it reflects.
And so the journey which the Son of God began has ended in the light from which he came.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 249. 1:1-7.
Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him?
And who would place his faith in the shabby offerings of the ego when the gifts of God are laid before him?
Manual for Teachers. 4. I. 2:2-3.
All that I sought before I needed not, and did not even want.
My only need I did not recognize. But now I see that I need only truth.
In that all needs are satisfied, all cravings end, all hopes are finally fulfilled and dreams are gone.
Now have I everything that I could need.
Now have I everything that I could want.
And now at last I find myself at peace.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 251. 1:3-9.
My Self is holy beyond all the thoughts of holiness of which I now conceive.
Its shimmering and perfect purity is far more brilliant than is any light that I have ever looked upon.
Its love is limitless, with an intensity that holds all things within it, in the calm of quiet certainty.
Its strength comes not from burning impulses which move the world, but from the boundless Love of God Himself.
How far beyond this world my Self must be, and yet how near to me and close to God!
Workbook-p II. Lesson 252. 1:1-5.
“Except ye become as little children” means that unless you fully recognize your complete dependence on God, you cannot know the real power of the Son in his true relationship with the Father.
Text-1. V. 3:4.
Let every voice but God’s be still in me.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 254.
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.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 255. 1:6.
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.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 256. 1:9 & 2:1-2.
Let me remember what my purpose is.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 257.
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.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 258. 1:1-5.
We are free to choose our joy instead of pain, our holiness in place of sin, the peace of God instead of conflict, and the light of Heaven for the darkness of the world.
Workbook-p I. Lesson 190. 11:2.
You do not walk alone.
God’s angels hover near and all about.
His Love surrounds you, and of this be sure; that I will never leave you comfortless.
Workbook-p II. Epilogue. 6:6-8.
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.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 261. 1:4-8.
Father, You have one Son. And it is
he that I would look upon today.
He is Your one creation.
Why should I perceive a thousand
forms in what remains as one?
Why should I give this one a thousand
names, when only one suffices?
For Your Son must bear Your Name,
for You created him.
Let me not see him as stranger to
his Father, nor as stranger to myself.
For he is part of me and I of him, and
we are part of You Who are our
Source, eternally united in Your Love;
eternally the holy Son of God.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 262. 1:1-8.
There is no miracle you cannot have when you desire healing.
But there is no miracle that can be given you unless you want it.
Text-30. VIII. 4:5-6.
I am surrounded by the Love of God.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 264.
In quietness are all things answered, and is every problem quietly resolved.
Text-27. IV. 1:1.
I am here only to be truly helpful. I am here to represent Him Who sent me. I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do, because He Who sent me will direct me. I am content to be wherever He wishes, knowing He goes there with me. I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal.
Text-2. V. 18:2-6.
My heart is beating in the peace of God.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 267.
In love was I created, and in love will I remain forever. What can frighten me, when I let all things be exactly as they are?
Workbook-p II. Lesson 268. 1:5-6.
Today I choose to see
a world forgiven, in which
everyone shows me the
face of Christ, and
teaches me that what I look
upon belongs to me;
that nothing is, except
Your holy Son.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 269. 1:5.
Christ is our eyes today.
And through His sight we offer healing to the world through Him, the holy Son whom God created whole; the holy Son whom God created One.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 270. 2:2-3.
Each day, each hour, every instant, I am choosing what I want to look upon, the sounds I want to hear, the witnesses to what I want to be the truth for me.
Today I choose to look upon what Christ would have me see, to listen to God’s Voice, and seek the witnesses to what is true in God’s creation.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 271. 1:1-2.
Father, the truth belongs to me.
My home is set in Heaven by
Your Will and mine.
Can dreams content me?
Can illusions bring me happiness?
What but Your memory can
satisfy Your Son?
I will accept no less than You
have given me.
I am surrounded by Your Love,
forever still, forever gentle and
forever safe.
God’s Son must be as
You created him.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 272. 1:1-8.
Father, Your peace is mine.
What need have I to fear that
anything can rob me of what
You would have me keep?
I cannot lose Your gifts to me.
And so the peace You gave
Your Son is with me still,
in quietness and in my own
eternal love for You.
Workbook-p II. Lesson 273. 2:1-4.