Rest

Rest with Him frequently today.

For He was willing to become a little Child that you might learn of Him how strong is he who comes without defenses, offering only love's messages to those who think he is their enemy.

He holds the might of Heaven in His hand and calls them friend, and gives His strength to them, that they may see He would be Friend to them.

He asks that they protect Him, for His home is far away, and He will not return to it alone.

The Will of God

To fulfill the Will of God perfectly is the only joy and peace that can be fully known, because it is the only function that can be fully experienced.

When this is accomplished, then, there is no other experience.

Yet the wish for other experience will block its accomplishment, because God's Will cannot be forced upon you, being an experience of total willingness.

The Holy Spirit understands how to teach this, but you do not.

That is why you need Him, and why God gave Him to you.

Only His teaching will release your will to God's, uniting it with His power and glory and establishing them as yours.

You share them as God shares them, because this is the natural outcome of their being.

Joy

The constancy of joy is a condition quite alien to your understanding.

Yet if you could even imagine what it must be, you would desire it although you understand it not.

The constancy of happiness has no exceptions; no change of any kind. It is unshakable as is the Love of God for His creation.

Sure in its vision as its Creator is in what He knows, happiness looks on everything and sees it is the same. 

It sees not the ephemeral, for it desires everything be like itself, and sees it so.

Nothing has power to confound its constancy, because its own desire cannot be shaken.

It comes as surely unto those who see the final question is necessary to the rest, as peace must come to those who choose to heal and not to judge.

Truth (from Joel Goldsmith)

My mind imbued with Truth becomes the law of harmony unto my body, my business, my family.

 

If my mind is imbued or has received this truth that “I and my Father are One” and that spiritual reality is the only reality, then that mind imbued with Truth becomes the law unto my health, my supply, my body and my being.

       

The mind of the person not imbued with truth, the unillumined human mind, the mind that has never studied metaphysical truth, that mind can’t heal anything.

 

That mind can’t bless. That mind can’t bring about health, supply or harmony in your experience.

 

BUT, that same mind imbued with Truth becomes a Law of health and healing, not only to yourself, but to those that reach out to you!

Strength

It is possible to reach a state in which you bring your mind under my guidance without conscious effort, but this implies a willingness that you have not developed as yet.

The Holy Spirit cannot ask more than you are willing to do.
The strength to do comes from your undivided decision.

There is no strain in doing God's Will as soon as you recognize that it is also your own.

The lesson here is quite simple, but particularly apt to be overlooked. 
I will therefore repeat it, urging you to listen.

Only your mind can produce fear. It does so whenever it is conflicted in what it wants, producing inevitable strain because wanting and doing are discordant.

This can be corrected only by accepting a unified goal.

Health

We don’t create anyone’s health with our mind, but we can sit down in a listening attitude and become aware of the health that is omnipresent.

Health is seen as the natural state of everything when interpretation is left to the Holy Spirit,

Who perceives no attack on anything. Health is the result of relinquishing all attempts to use the body lovelessly.

Health is the beginning of the proper perspective on life under the guidance of the one Teacher Who knows what life is, being the Voice for Life Itself.

Peace

Do you not think the world needs peace as much as you do?

Do you not want to give it to the world as much as you want to receive it?

For unless you do, you will not receive it. If you want to have it of me, you must give it. Healing does not come from anyone else.

You must accept guidance from within. 

The guidance must be what you want, or it will be meaningless to you.

That is why healing is a collaborative venture. 
I can tell you what to do, but you must collaborate by believing that I know what you should do.

Only then will your mind choose to follow me.

Without this choice you could not be healed because you would have decided against healing, and this rejection of my decision for you makes healing impossible.

You

You and your brother ....every brother....will yet come together in my name, and your sanity will be restored.

I raised the dead by knowing that life is an eternal attribute of everything that the living God created.

Why do you believe it is harder for me to inspire the dis-spirited or to stabilize the unstable?

I do not believe that there is an order of difficulty in miracles; you do.

I have called and you will answer. I understand that miracles are natural, because they are expressions of love.

My calling you is as natural as your answer, and as inevitable.

Borderland

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.

Value

The value of the Atonement does not lie in the manner in which it is expressed.

In fact, if it is used truly, it will inevitably be expressed in whatever way is most helpful to the receiver.

This means that a miracle, to attain its full efficacy, must be expressed in a language that the recipient can understand without fear.

This does not necessarily mean that this is the highest level of communication of which he is capable.

It does mean, however, that it is the highest level of communication of which he is capable now.

The whole aim of the miracle is to raise the level of communication, not to lower it by increasing fear.

Advice

It is surely good advice to tell you not to judge what you do not understand.

  No one with a personal investment is a reliable witness, for truth to him has become what he wants it to be.

If you are unwilling to perceive an appeal for help as what it is, it is because you are unwilling to give help and to receive it.

To fail to recognize a call for help is to refuse help. 

Would you maintain that you do not need it?

Yet this is what you are maintaining when you refuse to recognize a brother's appeal, for only by answering his appeal can you be helped.

Deny him your help and you will not recognize God's Answer to you.

The Holy Spirit does not need your help in interpreting motivation, but you do need His.

Guide

You cannot be your guide to miracles, for it is you who made them necessary.

And because you did, the means on which you can depend for miracles has been provided for you.

God's Son can make no needs His Father will not meet, if he but turn to Him ever so little.

Yet He cannot compel His Son to turn to Him and remain Himself.
It is impossible that God lose His Identity, for if He did, you would lose yours.

And being yours He cannot change Himself, for your Identity is changeless.

The miracle acknowledges His changelessness by seeing His Son as he always was, and not as he would make himself.

A Link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTNGF_6kY5A

Forever

The unforgiven is a voice that calls from out a past forevermore gone by.

And everything that points to it as real is but a wish that what is gone could be made real again and seen as here and now, in place of what is really now and here.

Is this a hindrance to the truth the past is gone, and cannot be returned to you?

And do you want that fearful instant kept, when Heaven seemed to disappear and God was feared and made a symbol of your hate?

Lessons

Trials are but lessons that you failed to learn presented once again, so where you made a faulty choice before you now can make a better one, and thus escape all pain that what you chose before has brought to you. 

In every difficulty, all distress, and each perplexity Christ calls to you and gently says, "My brother, choose again." 

He would not leave one source of pain unhealed, nor any image left to veil the truth. 

He would remove all misery from you whom God created altar unto joy. 

He would not leave you comfortless, alone in dreams of hell, but would release your mind from everything that hides His face from you. 

His holiness is yours because He is the only Power that is real in you. 

His strength is yours because He is the Self That God created as His only Son.

Ask not the sparrow

Those who choose freedom will experience only its results.

Their power is of God, and they will give it only to what God has given, to share with them.

Nothing but this can touch them, for they see only this, sharing their power according to the Will of God.

And thus their freedom is established and maintained. It is upheld through all temptation to imprison and to be imprisoned.

It is of them who learned of freedom that you should ask what freedom is.

  Ask not the sparrow how the eagle soars, for those with little wings have not accepted for themselves the power to share with you.

Beginning

As you approach the Beginning, you feel the fear of the destruction of your thought system upon you as if it were the fear of death.

There is no death, but there is a belief in death.

The branch that bears no fruit will be cut off and will wither away.

Be glad! The light will shine from the true Foundation of life, and your own thought system will stand corrected.

It cannot stand otherwise. You who fear salvation are choosing death. Life and death, light and darkness, knowledge and perception, are irreconcilable.

To believe that they can be reconciled is to believe that God and His Son can not. Only the oneness of knowledge is free of conflict. 

Unique

In Heaven reality is shared and not reflected.

By sharing its reflection here, its truth becomes the only perception the Son of God accepts.

And thus, remembrance of his Father dawns on him, and he can no longer be satisfied with anything but his own reality.

You on earth have no conception of limitlessness, for the world you seem to live in is a world of limits.

In this world, it is not true that anything without order of difficulty can occur.

The miracle, therefore, has a unique function, and is motivated by a unique Teacher Who brings the laws of another world to this one.

The miracle is the one thing you can do that transcends order, being based not on differences but on equality.

Dedication

Let, then, your dedication be to the eternal, and learn how not to interfere with it and make it slave to time.

For what you think you do to the eternal you do to you.

Whom God created as His Son is slave to nothing, being lord of all, along with his Creator.

You can enslave a body, but an idea is free, incapable of being kept in prison or limited in any way except by the mind that thought it.

For it remains joined to its source, which is its jailer or its liberator, according to which it chooses as its purpose for itself.