January 2nd 2014 Lesson 289
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 281 - 290:7. What Is the Holy Spirit?
The Holy Spirit mediates between illusions and the truth. Since He must bridge the gap between reality and dreams, perception leads to knowledge through the grace that God has given Him, to be His gift to everyone who turns to Him for truth. Across the bridge that He provides are dreams all carried to the truth, to be dispelled before the light of knowledge. There are sights and sounds forever laid aside. And where they were perceived before, forgiveness has made possible perception's tranquil end.
The goal the Holy Spirit's teaching sets is just this end of dreams. For sights and sounds must be translated from the witnesses of fear to those of love. And when this is entirely accomplished, learning has achieved the only goal it has in truth. For learning, as the Holy Spirit guides it to the outcome He perceives for it, becomes the means to go beyond itself, to be replaced by the eternal truth.
If you but knew how much your Father yearns to have you recognize your sinlessness, you would not let His Voice appeal in vain, nor turn away from His replacement for the fearful images and dreams you made. The Holy Spirit understands the means you made, by which you would attain what is forever unattainable. And if you offer them to Him, He will employ the means you made for exile to restore your mind to where it truly is at home.
From knowledge, where He has been placed by God, the Holy Spirit calls to you, to let forgiveness rest upon your dreams, and be restored to sanity and peace of mind. Without forgiveness will your dreams remain to terrify you. And the memory of all your Father's Love will not return to signify the end of dreams has come.
Accept your Father's gift. It is a Call from Love to Love, that It be but Itself. The Holy Spirit is His gift, by which the quietness of Heaven is restored to God's beloved Son. Would you refuse to take the function of completing God, when all He wills is that you be complete?
Lesson 289
The past is over. It can touch me not.
- Unless the past is over in my mind, the real world must escape my sight. For I am really looking nowhere; seeing but what is not there. How can I then perceive the world forgiveness offers? This the past was made to hide, for this the world that can be looked on only now. It has no past. For what can be forgiven but the past, and if it is forgiven it is gone.
- Invitation Prayer: Father, let me not look upon a past that is not there. For You have offered me Your Own replacement, in a present world the past has left untouched and free of sin. Here is the end of guilt. And here am I made ready for Your final step. Shall I demand that You wait longer for Your Son to find the loveliness You planned to be the end of all his dreams and all his pain?
Insights/comments:
- There is only this present moment now in which we may act, so this moment is our moment of power, for what we choose in this moment will affect our future, and our perspective of the past. The past has served its purpose by bringing us to this moment of power, giving us now the opportunity to either stay on course, make a course correction, or even set sail in a new direction entirely. From this present moment perspective, our past has served us well so we can forgive the differences between how it turned out and how we would have liked that it turned out. This no longer matters for we are here now and can best serve our present and future by simply making the best choice we can from this present moment. This allows us to look with fresh eyes on the world that is here and now in our present, and choose, from all the things we can possibly do now, the one that is the most interesting and exciting, doing that for as long as we can without insisting that it must lead to a specific future outcome. This is called following our bliss. We choose the action, but Fate decides the outcome. So follow your bliss by choosing in this moment of power, the happiest, most interesting action we can, for happiness is our function here. Fate will organize the outcomes that will increase the joy, peace and fulfillment we are already enjoying from having chosen the most joyful action. And whatever the outcome, whether we like it or not, whether its what we expected or not, know that it is the shortest most efficient, most harmonious path to our destination, so we treat every outcome with a positive attitude and again choose the most interesting, most exciting action that we can from this present moment, performing it without any insistence on a particular outcome, letting Fate organize our life around the principle of our highest joy. If we do this every time we are faced with a choice, our life will be less stressful, more joyful and increasingly fulfilling
I and my Creator are One. 
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