Rejoice

Rejoice in the power of forgiveness to heal your sight completely.  

Be confident that on this day there is a new beginning.  Without the darkness of the past upon your eyes, you cannot fail to see today.  

And what you see will be so welcome that you will gladly extend today forever.

       

Say, then: The light has come.  I have forgiven the world.

Circle of Light

So should it be with the dark clouds of guilt, no more

impenetrable and no more substantial. 

You will not bruise yourself against them in traveling through. 

Let your Guide teach you their unsubstantial nature as He leads you past

them, for beneath them is a world of light whereon they

cast no shadows. 

Their shadows lie upon the world beyond them, still further from the light.

 Yet from them to the light their shadows cannot fall

Miracles

Miracles fall like drops of healing rain from Heaven on a dry and dusty world, where starved and thirsty creatures come to die. 

Now they have water. 

Now the world is green. 

And everywhere the signs of life spring up, to show that what is born can never

die, for what has life has immortality.

Brother, take not one step in the descent to hell. 

For having taken one, you will not recognize the rest for what they are. 

And they will follow. 

Attack in any form has placed your foot upon the twisted stairway that leads from Heaven. 

Yet any instant it is possible to have all this undone. 

How can you know whether you chose the stairs to Heaven or the way to hell? 

Quite easily. How do you feel? Is peace in your awareness?


Are you certain which way you go? And are you sure the goal of Heaven can be
reached? 

If not, you walk alone. 

Ask, then, your Friend to join with you, and give you certainty of where you go.

Looking Within

Real vision is not only unlimited by space and distance, but it does not depend on the body's eyes at all. 

The mind is its only source. 

To aid in helping you to become more accustomed to this idea as well, devote several practice periods to applying today's idea with your eyes closed, using whatever subjects come to mind, and looking within rather than without.

Today's idea applies equally to both.

Dreams

Forgiveness sweeps all other dreams away, and though it is itself a dream, it breeds no others. 

All illusions save this one must multiply a thousandfold.
 

 But this is where illusions end. 

Forgiveness is the end of dreams, because it is a dream of waking. 

It is not itself the truth. 

Yet does it point to where the truth must be, and gives direction with the certainty of God Himself. 

It is a dream in which the Son of God awakens to his Self and to his Father, knowing They are One..

In God's Hands

Now are we saved indeed. 

For in God's Hands we rest untroubled, sure that only good can come to us. 

If we forget, we will be gently reassured. 

If we accept an unforgiving thought, it will be soon replaced by love's reflection.