December 24th 2014 Lesson 280
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 next of these special thoughts follow and are relevant to lessons 271 - 280:6. What Is the Christ?
Christ is God's Son as He created Him. He is the Self we share, uniting us with one another, and with God as well. He is the Thought which still abides within the Mind that is His Source. He has not left His holy home, nor lost the innocence in which He was created. He abides unchanged forever in the Mind of God.
Christ is the link that keeps you one with God, and guarantees that separation is no more than an illusion of despair, for hope forever will abide in Him. Your mind is part of His, and His of yours. He is the part in which God's Answer lies; where all decisions are already made, and dreams are over. He remains untouched by anything the body's eyes perceive. For though in Him His Father placed the means for your salvation, yet does He remain the Self Who, like His Father, knows no sin.
Home of the Holy Spirit, and at home in God alone, does Christ remain at peace within the Heaven of your holy mind. This is the only part of you that has reality in truth. The rest is dreams. Yet will these dreams be given unto Christ, to fade before His glory and reveal your holy Self, the Christ, to you at last.
The Holy Spirit reaches from the Christ in you to all your dreams, and bids them come to Him, to be translated into truth. He will exchange them for the final dream which God appointed as the end of dreams. For when forgiveness rests upon the world and peace has come to every Son of God, what could there be to keep things separate, for what remains to see except Christ's face?
And how long will this holy face be seen, when it is but the symbol that the time for learning now is over, and the goal of the Atonement has been reached at last? So therefore let us seek to find Christ's face and look on nothing else. As we behold His glory, will we know we have no need of learning or perception or of time, or anything except the holy Self, the Christ Whom God created as His Son.
Lesson 280
What limits can I lay upon God's Son?
- Whom God created limitless is free. I can invent imprisonment for him, but only in illusions, not in truth. No Thought of God has left its Father's Mind. No Thought of God is limited at all. No Thought of God but is forever pure. Can I lay limits on the Son of God, whose Father willed that he be limitless, and like Himself in freedom and in love?
- Invitation Prayer: Today let me give honor to Your Son, for thus alone I find the way to You. Father, I lay no limits on the Son You love and You created limitless. The honor that I give to him is Yours, and what is Yours belongs to me as well.
Insights/comments:
- We can lay no limits upon God's Son for he is as limitless as his Father, and we are that unified Son of God, His single creation. Granted that this truth goes against the apparent perception that we are separate beings, living our lives apart from each other and from our Creator? But is this not the same perception we have with respect to the characters in our dreams? Don't they too seem to be living separate lives apart from each other and from their creator, myself? Whatever characteristics my dream characters exhibit comes only from me, for they are the unified creation of my single mind, just as we, are the unified creation of God’s single mind. And just as each character in our dream inherits all our qualities but display only a particular subset of these qualities, just so do we inherit all of God's Qualities, even though we display only a particular subset of them. So as the holy children of God, we are as limitless and free as our Creator, even though we don't express, remember or deny our limitlessness. We can now better understand that as the holy children of God we are all limitless and free, regardless of the particular qualities we each display or don't display, and so should honor each other for who we are, not what we seem to do or not do. Knowing our inherent limitlessness we need not invent or impose limits on ourselves or on each other, but instead allow each to express the particular characteristics we are inspired or destined to express while in this dream world. And look forward to the day that we can all re-member our true identity and express our limitless freedom completely, as the unified son of God that we inherently are..
I and my Creator are One. 
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