October 28th 2014 Lesson 223
Part II Introduction
We will continue spending time with God each morning and night and at each waking hour, using all future lessons as introductions to the times in which we leave the world of pain, and go to enter peace, calling to God when we have need of Him as we are tempted to forget our goal. During these holy times, we will say some simple words of welcome, and expect our Father to reveal Himself to us, as He has promised that He would when we invited Him.
This is how our times with Him will now be spent: we say the words of invitation that His Voice suggests, and then we wait for Him to come to us. Sit silently and wait upon your Father. He has willed to come to you when you have recognized it is your will He do so. We need only call to God, and all temptations disappear. Instead of words, we need but feel His Love. Instead of prayers, we need but call His Name. Instead of judging, we need but be still and let all things be healed.
Our lessons will now be preceded by a theme of special relevance that we should review before each lesson until another is given us. They should be slowly read and thought about a little while, preceding one of the holy times we sit in silence and wait for God to reveal Himself to us. The first of these special thoughts follow and are relevant to lessons 221 - 230:1. What is Forgiveness
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.
An unforgiving thought is one which makes a judgment that it will not raise to doubt, although it is not true. The mind is closed, and will not be released. The thought protects projection, tightening its chains, so that distortions are more veiled and more obscure; less easily accessible to doubt, and further kept from reason. What can come between a fixed projection and the aim that it has chosen as its wanted goal?
An unforgiving thought does many things. In frantic action it pursues its goal, twisting and overturning what it sees as interfering with its chosen path. Distortion is its purpose, and the means by which it would accomplish it as well. It sets about its furious attempts to smash reality, without concern for anything that would appear to pose a contradiction to its point of view.
Forgiveness, on the other hand, is still, and quietly does nothing. It offends no aspect of reality, nor seeks to twist it to appearances it likes. It merely looks, and waits, and judges not. He who would not forgive must judge, for he must justify his failure to forgive. But he who would forgive himself must learn to welcome truth exactly as it is.
Do nothing, then, and let forgiveness show you what to do, through Him Who is your Guide, your Savior and Protector, strong in hope, and certain of your ultimate success. He has forgiven you already, for such is His function, given Him by God. Now must you share His function, and forgive whom He has saved, whose sinlessness He sees, and whom He honors as the Son of God.
Lesson 223
God is my life. I have no life but His.
- 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.
- Invitation Prayer: Our Father, let us see the face of Christ instead of our mistakes.
For we who are Your holy Son are sinless. We would look upon
our sinlessness, for guilt proclaims that we are not Your Son.
And we would not forget You longer. We are lonely here, and long
for Heaven, where we are at home. Today we would return. Our
Name is Yours, and we acknowledge that we are Your Son.
Insights/comments:
- It is impossible to imagine that we exist apart from the Creator of all that is. If God is omnipresent, then He is present every-where, every-when, and in every-one; there cannot be anything, anytime or anyplace that is apart from that which is omnipresent. God therefore is everything that I am, my life, my home, my breath and I have no existence apart from His. I am part of His life, but He is all of my life. Just as all the characters of a dream exist only in the mind of the dreamer, so everyone and everything in creation exists only in the mind of God.
I and my Creator are One.
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