Lesson 118

1 (105) God's peace and joy are mine.

Today I will accept God's peace and joy, in glad exchange for all the substitutes that I have made for happiness and peace.

2. (106) Let me be still and listen to the truth.

Let my own feeble voice be still, and let me hear the mighty Voice for Truth Itself assure me that I am God's perfect Son.

Lesson 117

(1) God, being Love, is also happiness.

Let me remember love is happiness, and nothing else brings joy. And so I choose to entertain no subsititutes for love.

(2)I seek but what belongs to me in truth.

Love is my heritage, and with it joy. These are the gifts my Father gave to me. I would accept all that is mine in truth.

To choose anything but the Love of God condemns us to a life of pain, depression, and suffering. Why am I choosing anything else if the Love of God is the only reality?

REVIEW III - LESSON 116

For morning and evening review:

1. (102) God's Will for me is perfect happiness.

God's Will is perfect happiness for me. And I can suffer but from the belief there is another will apart from His.

2. (102) I share God's Will for happiness for me.

I share my Father's Will for me, His Son. What He has given me is all I want. What He has given me is all there is.

3. On the hour:

God's Will for me is perfect happiness.

On the half hour:

I share God's Will for happiness for me.

REVIEW III - LESSON 115

For morning and evening review:

1. (99) Salvation is my only function here.

My function here is to forgive the world for all the errors I have made. For thus am I released from them with all the world.

2. (100) My part is essential to God's plan for salvation.

I am essential to the plan of God for the salvation of the world. For He gave me His plan that I might save the world.

3. On the hour:

Salvation is my only function here.

On the half hour:

My part is essential to God's plan for salvation.

REVIEW III - LESSON 114

For morning and evening review:

1. (97) I am spirit.

I am the Son of God. No body can contain my spirit, nor impose on me a limitation God created not.

2. (98) I will accept my part in God's plan for salvation.

What can my function be but to accept the Word of God, Who has created me for what I am and will forever be?

3. On the hour:

I am spirit.

On the half hour:

I will accept my part in God's plan for salvation.

REVIEW III - LESSON 113

1. (95) I am one Self, united with my Creator.

Serenity and perfect peace are mine, because I am one Self, completely whole, at one with all creation and with God.

2. (96) Salvation comes from my one Self.

From my one Self, Whose knowledge still remains within my mind, I see God's perfect plan for my salvation perfectly fulfilled.

3. On the hour:

I am one Self, united with my Creator.

On the half hour:
Salvation comes from my one Self.

REVIEW III - LESSON 112

1. (93) Light and joy and peace abide in me.

I am the home of light and joy and peace. I welcome them into the home I share with God, because I am a part of Him.

2. (94) I am as God created me.

I will remain forever as I was, created by the Changeless like Himself. And I am one with Him, and He with me.

3. On the hour: Light and joy and peace abide in me. On the half hour: I am as God created me.

REVIEW III - LESSON 111

For morning and evening review:

1. (91) Miracles are seen in light.

I cannot see in darkness. Let the light of holiness and truth light up my mind, and let me see the innocence within.

2. (92) Miracles are seen in light, and light and strength are one.

I see through strength, the gift of God to me. My weakness is the dark His gift dispels, by giving me His strength to take its place.

3. On the hour:

Miracles are seen in light.

On the half hour:

Miracles are seen in light, and light and strength are one.

Lesson 110

I'm as God created me.
His Son can suffer nothing.
And I am His Son.

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. It is not necessary to seek for what is true, but it is necessary to seek for what is false." (T-16.IV.6).

Learning to recognize false images so we can release them is what forgiveness does. The process of letting go is forgiveness.

“In this world the only remaining freedom is the freedom of choice; always between two choices or two voices. “ (C-1.7:1)

Lesson 109

I rest in God.

Addendum to Lessons 100-108

And now in all your doings be you blessed.
God turns to you for help to save the world.
Teacher of God, His thanks He offers you,
And all the world stands silent in the grace
You bring from Him.
You are the Son He Loves.
And it is give you to be the means
Through which His Voice is heard around the world,
To close all things of time; to end the sight
Of all things visible; and to undo all things that change. Through you is
Ushered in a world unseen, unheard, yet truly there.
Holy are you, and in your light the world
Reflects you holiness, for YOU ARE NOT
ALONE and FRIENDLESS. I give thanks for you,
And join your efforts on behalf of God,
Knowing they are on my behalf as well,
And for all those walk to God with me.
AMEN.

Lesson 108

To give and to receive is one in truth.
I will receive what I am giving now.

To everyone I offer quietness.
To everyone I offer peace of mind.
To everyone I offer gentleness.

"If he speaks not of Christ to you, you spoke not of Christ to him. You hear but your own voice, and if Christ speaks through you, you will hear Him (T-11.V.18).

Lesson 107

Truth will correct all errors in my mind.

And I will rest in Him Who is my Self.

Lesson 106

Let me be still and listen to the truth.

If you will lay aside the ego's voice, not accept its petty gifts that you really do not want, listen with an open mind, you will hear the mighty Voice of truth, quiet in power, strong in stillness, and completely certain in Its messages.

Hear one Voice today.

Hear Him today, and listen to the Word which lifts the veil that lies upon the earth, and wakes all those who sleep and cannot see. God calls to them through you. He needs your voice to speak to them, for who could reach God's Son except his Father calling through your Self?

Be ready for salvation. It is here, and will today be given unto you.

I will be still and listen to the truth.
What does it mean to give and to receive?
Let me be still and listen to the truth.
I am the messenger of God today.
My voice is His, to give what I receive.

Lesson 105

God's peace and joy are mine.

My brother, peace and joy I offer you,
That I may have God's peace and joy as mine.

Lesson 104

I seek but what belongs to me in truth.

And joy and peace are my inheritance.
God's gifts of joy and peace are all I want.

Lesson 103

God, being Love, is also happiness.

To fear Him is to be afraid of joy.
And it is happiness I seek today.
I cannot fail, because I seek the truth.

Lesson 102

I share God's Will for happiness for me.

...and I accept it as my function now.

You do not want to suffer. You may think it buys you something, and may still believe a little that it buys you what you want. This belief is surely shaken now, at least enough to let you question it, and to suspect it really makes no sense. Pain is purposeless, without a cause and with no power to accomplish anything. It cannot purchase anything at all. It offers nothing, and does not exist. And everything you think it offers you is lacking in existence, like itself. You have been slave to nothing. Be you free today to join the happy Will of God.

Be happy, for your only function here is happiness. Tell yourself that you have now accepted happiness as your one function. And be sure that you are joining with God's Will in doing this.

LESSON 101

God's Will for me is perfect happiness.

This is the truth, because there is no sin.

Lesson 100

My part is essential to God’s plan for salvation

God’s Will for you is perfect happiness. Why should you choose to go against His Will?

We will not let ourselves be sad today. For if we do, we fail to take the part that is essential to God’s plan, as well as to our vision. Sadness is the sign that you would play another part, instead of what has been assigned to you by God. Thus do you fail to show the world how great the happiness He wills for you. And so you do not recognize that it is yours.

Today we will attempt to understand joy is our function here. If you are sad your part is unfulfilled, and all the world is thus deprived of joy, along with you. God asks that you be happy, so the world can see how much He loves His Son, and wills no sorrow rises to abate his joy; no fear besets him to disturb his peace.

You are God’s messenger today. You bring His happiness to all you look upon; His peace to everyone who looks on you, and sees His message in your happy face. We will prepare ourselves for this today, in our five minute practice periods by feeling happiness arise in us according to our Father’s Will and ours.

Addendum to Lesson 99

“… forgiveness is the means by which I will recognize my innocence. It is the reflectionof God’s Love on earth. It will bring me near enough to Heaven that the Love of God can reach down to me and raise me up to Him.” (W-pL.60)

“Salvation now becomes a borderland between the truth and the illusion.” (L-99) It is described in Chapter 26 :

“There is a borderland of thought that stands between this world and Heaven. It is not a place, and WHEN you reach it is APART from time. Here is the meeting place where thoughts are brought TOGETHER; where conflicting values MEET, and ALL illusions are laid down beside the truth, where they are judged to be untrue. This borderland is just beyond the gate of Heaven. Here is every thought made pure and wholly simple. Here is sin denied, and everything that IS, received instead.

This is the journey's end. We have referred to it as the "real world." And yet there is a contradiction here, in that the words imply a LIMITED reality, a PARTIAL truth, a SEGMENT of the universe made true. This is because knowledge makes NO attack upon perception. They are brought together, and only ONE continues past the gate where Oneness is. Salvation IS a borderland, where place and time and choice have meaning still, and yet it can be seen that they are temporary, OUT of place, and EVERY choice has been ALREADY made. “ (T-26.III)

“The mind that sees illusions thinks them real. The have existence in that they are thoughts. And yet they are not real, because the mind that thinks these thoughts is separated from God.” (L-99)

“I think, therefore I’m” is the famous Descartes’s statement. Well, according to the course “I think therefore I’m not” (K.Wapnick). What is being and existence then?

“Existence as well as being rests on communication. Existence is SPECIFIC in how, what, and with whom communication is worth undertaking. Being is completely without these distinctions. It is a state in which the mind IS in communication with everything that is real, including its own Soul. To whatever extent you permit this state to be curtailed, you are limiting your sense of your OWN reality, which becomes total only by recognizing ALL reality in the glorious context of its real relationship to YOU. This IS your reality. Do not desecrate it or recoil from it. It is your real home, your real temple, and your real self. “ (T-4.V-VII)

LESSON 99

Salvation is my only function here.

God still is Love, and this is not His Will.
Salvation and forgiveness are the same.

Truth and illusions are equal now, for both have happened. Salvation now becomes the borderland between truth and illusion. It reflects the truth because it is the means by which you can escape illusions. Yet it is not yet the truth because it undoes what was never done. HS looks on what you see; on sin and pain and death, on grief and separation and on loss. Yet does He know one thing must still be true; God is still Love, and this is not His Will. This is the Thought that brings illusions to truth, that saves and that forgives, because it lays no faith in what is not created by the only Source it knows.

This is the Thought whose function is to save by giving you its function as your own. Salvation is your function, with the One to Whom the plan was given. Now are you entrusted with this plan, along with Him. He has one answer to appearances; regardless of their form, their size, their depth or any attribute they seem to have:

Salvation is my only function here.
God still is Love, and this is not His Will.
Salvation and forgiveness are the same.

LESSON 98

I will accept my part in God's plan for salvation.

We take a stand on but one side today. We side with truth and let illusions go. We dedicate ourselves to truth today, and to salvation as God planned it be. How happy to be certain! All our sins washed away by realizing they were but mistakes. Is it not worth 5 minutes of your time each hour to accept the happiness that God has given you, to recognize your special function here? His confidence in you will bring the light to all the words you say, and you will go beyond their sound to what they really mean. Do not lose one chance to be the glad receiver of His gifts, that you may give them to the world today.

LESSON 97

I am spirit.

Spirit am I, a holy Son of God, free of all limits, safe and healed and whole, free to forgive, and free to save the world.

No fear can enter, for your mind has been absolved from madness, letting go illusions of a split identity. HS will be glad to take five minutes of each hour from your hands, and carry them around this aching world where pain and misery appear to rule. Listen for His assurance every time you speak the words He offers you today, and let Him tell your mind that they are true. Use them against temptation, and escape its sorry consequences if you yield to the belief that you are something else. HS gives you peace today. Receive His words, and offer them to Him.

LESSON 96

Salvation comes from my one Self.

You experience yourself as two, both good and evil, loving and hating, mind and body. This induces feelings of acute and constant conflict, and leads to frantic attempts to reconcile the contradictory aspects of this self-perception. You've sought many solutions, and none work. The opposites you see in you will never be compatible. But one exists.

You must accept that truth and illusion cannot be reconciled if you are to be saved. Until you accept this, you will attempt an endless list of goals you cannot reach; wasted time and effort, hopefulness and doubt, each one as futile as the one before, and failing as the next one surely will.

Two selves could not be resolved, and good and evil have no meeting place. The self you made can never be your Self, nor can you Self be split in two, and still be what It is and must forever be. A mind and body cannot both exist. Make no attempt to reconcile the two, for one denies the other can be real.

The mind that serves the spirit is at peace and filled with joy. Seeing itself divorced from spirit it perceives itself within a body and gets confused. Without its function then it has no peace, and happiness is alien to its thoughts.

Your Self retains Its Thoughts, and they remain within your mind and in the Mind of God. The HS holds salvation in your mind, and offers it the way to peace. Salvation is a thought you share with God, because His Voice accepted it for you and answered in your name that it was done. Salvation is kept among the Thoughts your Self holds dear and cherishes for you.