January 3rd 2014 Lesson 290
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 290
My present happiness is all I see.
- Unless I look upon what is not there, my present happiness is all I see. Eyes that begin to open see at last. And I would have Christ's vision come to me this very day. What I perceive without God's Own Correction for the sight I made is frightening and painful to behold. Yet I would not allow my mind to be deceived by the belief the dream I made is real an instant longer. This the day I seek my present happiness, and look on nothing else except the thing I seek.
- Invitation Prayer: With this resolve I come to You, and ask Your strength to hold me up today, while I but seek to do Your Will. You cannot fail to hear me, Father. What I ask have You already given me. And I am sure that I will see my happiness today.
Insights/comments:
- To find the happiness that we seek, requires that we first have some idea of where it is, or at least where it is not, so that we can focus our efforts on seeking for it where it really is. The world of our senses provide no examples of lasting peace and happiness, though it provides many philosophies and paths, both secular and religious, that claim to have the goal we seek or at least the means to it. Clearly, it would be unwise to seek for lasting happiness in this world that provides no evidence of it. But this world of our senses is the only world we seem to know, so what are we to do? In such a case, it would be wise to seek the highest council we can find, and that for us is our Creator, the One who created us in His image and likeness: perfect Spirit, free, and one with Himself. If anyone knows true happiness and the way to it, He will, and if He does not know, then no one knows, and our search is futile. Fortunately God is the source and goal of all that exists and is real. He is Happiness Itself, and so too are we, for He created us one with Himself. But having forgotten our true identity, we became lost in the imaginary world of our senses, blindly searching for that which we already are. Happiness is a fundamental part of our being because it is a fundamental part of God. Knowing this, the way is simple now, we need not search the world for the happiness we seek, all we need do is look deep inside ourselves, beyond our senses, mind, and even beyond our intellect and realize we are happiness itself. We can step away from the world of our senses, mind and intellect by bringing our attention again and again to the stillness within us. Be still and know that I am God is the formula. Sit quietly and let go of the world of the senses; let go of the thoughts and feelings that arise in our awareness; let go even of the impulse to judge or even manipulate anything and simply, Be, letting all things be as well. This is how we can return to our pristine state of being, the state in which God created us and the state in which we always reside, our home, and there reunite with our true Self and the happiness we are.
I and my Creator are One. 
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