Lesson 161

Give me your blessing, holy Son of God.

Today take a stand against our anger that our fears may disappear and offer room to love.

Lesson 160

I am at home. Fear is the stranger here.

Fear is a stranger to love. Identify with fear, and you are a stranger to yourself. You are unknown to you. Your Self is alien to the part of you which thinks that it is real, but different from yourself. Who could be sane in such a circumstance? Who but a madman could believe he is what he is not, and judge against himself?

Love and fear cannot coexist. If you are love and real, then fear must be the stranger, the illusion. If fear is real, then you do not exist at all.

A stranger to himself can find no home wherever he may look, for he has made return impossible. His way is lost, except a miracle will search him out and show him that he is no stranger now. The miracle will come. For in his home his Self remains.

God's certainty suffices. Hear His Voice, quietly and sure, that you are not a stranger to your Father, nor is your Creator stranger to you. At home in Him, no stranger to Himself.

Christ's vision sees no strangers, joyously uniting with them. They see Him as a stranger, for they do not recognize themselves. Yet as they give Him welcome, they remember. And He leads them gently home again, where they belong.

Not one does Christ forget. Not one He fails to give you to remember, that your home may be complete and perfect as it was established. He has not forgotten you. But you will not remember Him until you look on all as He does. Who denies his brother is denying Him, and thus refusing to accept the gift of sight by which his Self is clearly recognized, his home remembered and salvation come.

Lesson 159

I give the miracles I have received.

No one can give what he has not received. You understand that you are healed when you give healing. You accept forgiveness as accomplished in yourself when you forgive. You recognize your brother as yourself, and thus do you perceive that you are whole. There is no miracle you cannot give, for all are given you. Receive them now by opening the storehouse of your mind where they are laid, and giving them away.

Lesson 158

Today I learn to give as I receive.

You have been given the knowledge that you are a mind, in Mind and purely mind, sinless forever, wholly unafraid, because you were created out of love. You have never left your Source.

Time is set already. There is no step along the road that anyone takes but by chance. It has already been taken by him, although he has not yet embarked on it. Time seems to go in one direction, but our journey is already over. It just seems like we have a future unknown to us.

Time is a trick, an illusion in which figures come and go, yet there is a plan behind appearances that does not change. The script is written. When experience will come to end your doubting has been set.

A teacher does not give experience, because he did not learn it. It revealed itself to him at its appointed time. But vision is his gift. This he can give directly, for Christ's knowledge is not lost, because He has a vision He can give to anyone who asks.

Here is a quiet place within the world made holy by forgiveness and by love. All contradictions reconciled, for here the journey ends. Experience - unlearned, untaught, unseen - is merely there. This is beyond our goal, for it transcends what needs to be accomplished. Our concern is with Christ's vision. This we can attain.

Christ's vision has one law. It beholds a light beyond the body, pure, free from error and fearful thoughts of guilt from dreams of sin. It sees no separation. And it looks on everyone, on every circumstance, all happenings and all events, without the slightest fading of the light it sees.

This can be taught; and must be taught by all who would achieve it. It requires the recognition that the world cannot give anything that can compare with this in value. And this you give today. See no one as a body. Greet him as the Son of God he is, acknowledging that he is one with you in holiness.

Thus are his sins forgiven him, for Christ has vision that has power to overlook them all. In His forgiveness are they gone.

Thus do you learn to give as you receive. And thus Christ's vision looks on you as well. This lesson is not difficult to learn, if you remember in your brother you but see yourself. If he is lost in sin, so must you be; if you see light in him, your sins have been forgiven by yourself. Each brother whom you meet today provides another chance to let Christ's vision shine on you and offer you the peace of God.

It doesn't matter when revelation comes, for that is not of time. Yet time has still one gift to give, in which true knowledge is reflected in a way so accurate its image shares its unseen holiness; its likeness shines with its immortal love. We practice seeing with the eyes of Christ today. And by the holy gifts we give, Christ's vision looks upon ourselves as well.

Lesson 157

Into His Presence would I enter now.

This is a day of silence and of trust. You have spent long days and nights in celebrating death. Today you learn to feel the joy of life. Light your mind, and let it rest.

Lesson 156

I walk with God in Perfect holiness.

I walk with God in perfect holiness. I light the world, I light my mind and all the minds which God created one with me.

Lesson 155

I will step back and let Him lead the way.

To let illusions walk ahead of truth is madness. But to let illusion sink behind the truth and let the truth stand forth as what it is, is merely sanity.

I will step back and let Him lead the way,

For I would walk along the road to Him.

Lesson 154

I am among the ministers of God.

Let us today be neither arrogant nor falsely humble. We cannot judge, nor need to. These are but attempts to hold decision off, and to delay commitment to our function. What we think is weakness can be strength; what we believe to be our strength is often arrogance.

A messenger is not the one who writes the message he delivers. It is enough that he accept it, give it to the ones for whom it is intended, and fulfill his role in its delivery. If he determines what the messages should be, or what their purpose is, or where they should be carried, he is failing to perform his proper part as bringer of the Word.

No one can receive and understand he has received until he gives. For in the giving is his own acceptance of what he received.

I am among the ministers of God, and I am grateful that I have the means by which to recognize that I am free.

Lesson 153

In my defenselessness my safety lies.

Lesson 152

The power of decision is my own.

The power of decision is my own. This day I will accept myself as what my Father's Will created me to be.

In patience wait for Him. God's Voice will answer. He will substitute the peace of God for all you frantic thoughts, the truth of God for self-deceptions, and God's Son for your illusions of yourself.

Lesson 151

All things are echoes of the Voice for God.

Let Him be Judge as well of everything that seems to happen to you in this world. His lessons will enable you to bridge the gap between illusions and the truth.

He will reinterpret all you see that seems to touch on you in any way from His one frame of reference, wholly unified and sure. And you will see the love beyond the hate, the constancy in change, the pure in sin, and only Heaven's blessing on the world.

Such is your resurrection, for your life is not a part of anything you see. Beyond the body and the world, you will see the holy face of Christ in everything, and hear in everything no sound except the echo of God's Voice.

Now has our ministry begun at last, to carry round the world the joyous news that truth has no illusions, and the peace of God, through us, belongs to everyone.

Lesson 150

My mind holds only what I think with God.

(139) I will accept Atonement for myself.

(140) Only salvation can be said to cure.

Lesson 149

My mind holds only what I think with God.

(137) When I am healed I am not healed alone.

(138) Heaven is the decision I must make.

Lesson 148

My mind holds only what I think with God.

(135) If I defend myself I am attacked.

(136) Sickness is a defense against the truth.

Lesson 147

My mind holds only what I think with God.

(133) I will not value what is valueless.

(134) Let me perceive forgiveness as it is.

Lesson 146

My mind holds only what I think with God.

(131) No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth.

(132) I loose the world from all I thought it was.

Lesson 145

My mind holds only what I thing with God. (129) Beyond this world there a world I want. (130) It is impossible to see two worlds.

Lesson 144

My mind holds only what I think with God.

(127) There is no love but God's.

(128) The world I see holds nothing that I want.

Lesson 143

My mind holds only what I think with God.

(125) In quiet I receive God's Word today.

(126) All that I give is given to myself.

Lesson 142

My mind holds only what I think with God.

(123) I thank my Father for His gifts to me.
(124) Let me remember I am one with God.

Lesson 141

My mind holds only what I think with God.

(121) Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
(122) Forgiveness offers everything I want.

Lesson 140

Only salvation can be said to cure.
Atonement heals with certainty, and cures all sickness. Atonement takes away the guilt that makes sickness possible. Today we seek to change our minds about the source of sickness, for we seek a cure for all illusions, not another shift among them. Today we hear a single Voice which speaks to us of truth, where all illusions end, and peace returns to the eternal, quiet home of God.

With nothing in our hands to which we cling, with lifted hearts and listening minds we pray:

Only salvation can be said to cure.
Speak to us, Father, that we may be healed.

Lesson 139

I will accept Atonement for myself.

I will accept Atonement for myself, for I remain as God created me.