lesson 293
“All fear is past, and only love is here.”All fear is past because its source is gone, and all its thoughts gone
with it. Love remains the only present state, whose Source is here
forever and forever. Can the world seem bright and clear and safe and
welcoming, with all my past mistakes oppressing it, and showing me
distorted forms of pain? Yet in the present love is obvious, and its
effects apparent. All the world shines in reflection of its holy light,
and I perceive a world forgiven at last.
“Father, let not Your holy world escape my sight today. Nor let my ears
be deaf to all the hymns of gratitude the world is singing underneath the
sounds of fear.There is a real world which the present holds safe from all past
mistakes. And I would see only this world before my eyes today.”
lesson 294
“My body is a wholly neutral thing.”I am a Son of God. And can I be another thing as well? Did God
create the mortal and corruptible? What use has God’s beloved Son
for what must die? And yet a neutral thing does not see death, for
thoughts of fear are not invested there, nor is a mockery of love
bestowed upon it. Its neutrality protects it while it has a use. And
afterwards, without a purpose, it is laid aside. It is not sick or old or
hurt. It is but functionless, unneeded and cast off. Let me not see it
more than this today; of service for a while and fit to serve, to keep its
usefulness while it can serve, and then to be replaced for greater good.
“My body, Father, cannot be Your Son. And what is not created cannot
be sinful or sinless; neither good nor bad. Let me, then, use this dream to help
Your plan that we awaken from all dreams we made.”
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