Lesson 338

"I am affected only by my thoughts."

No one can harm or endanger me. Only my thoughts can cause me harm or frighten me. I am the one who crucified myself. But I have the power to change my thoughts of fear and replace them with thoughts of happiness. God has planned that I will be redeemed.

Your plan is sure, my Father,—only Yours. All other plans will fail. And I will have thoughts that will frighten me, until I learn that You have given me that only Thought that leads me to salvation. Mine alone will fail, and lead me nowhere. But the Thought You gave me promises to lead me home, because it holds Your promise to Your Son."

Lesson 339

"I will receive whatever I request."

Everyone desires happiness. Yet, some believe happiness to be pain or pain to be happiness. In this way we become confused about what we truly want. Let us no longer confuse the true meaning of happiness and resolve to ask for it in our lives.

"Father, this is Your day. It is a day in which I would do nothing by myself, but hear Your Voice in everything I do; requesting only what You offer me, accepting only Thoughts You share with me."

Lesson 340

"I can be free of suffering today."

"Father, I thank You for today, and for the freedom I am certain it will bring. This day is holy, for today Your Son will be redeemed. His suffering is done. For he will hear Your voice directing him to find Christ's vision through forgiveness, and be free forever from all suffering. Thanks for today, my Father. I was born into this world but to achieve this day, and what it holds in joy and freedom for Your holy Son and for the world he made, which is released along with him today."

Today be full of joy, for Our Father has redeemed His Son. There will be none left in fear, for the Father will gather them all unto Himself and awaken them in the Heart of Love.

What is a Miracle?

A miracle is a new point of view that allows for correction. It paves the way for the release of fear and the returning of love's awakening. A miracle is the receiving of grace. It reveals the truth and allows perception to be restored to wholeness. Forgiveness opens us to miracles. Christ freely gives forgiveness to all He looks upon, and through it our perception is corrected. To ask for a miracle is to rely on faith. A miracle will justify one's faith, and show that faith rests on a world more real than what was previously known. Miracles bring healing water to a thirsty world. Now the world is alive and is shown that what has life has immortality.

Lesson 341

"I can attack but my own sinlessness, and it is only that which keeps me safe."

"Father, Your Son is holy. I am he on whom You smile in love and tenderness so dear and deep and still the universe smiles back on You, and shares Your Holiness. How pure, how safe, how holy, then, are we, abiding in Your Smile, with all Your Love bestowed upon us, living one with You, in brotherhood and Fatherhood complete; in sinlessness so perfect that the Lord of Sinlessness conceives us as His Son, a universe of Thought completing Him."

Sinlessness contains the Word of God. Therefore, let us not attack it. In it we are saved.

Lesson 342

"I let forgiveness rest upon all things, for thus forgiveness will be given me."

"I thank You, Father, for Your plan to save me from the hell I made. It is not real. And You have given me the means to prove its unreality to me. The key is in my hand, and I have reached the door beyond which lies the end of dreams. I stand before the gate of Heaven, wondering if I should enter in and be at home. Let me not wait again today. Let me forgive all things, and let creation be as You would have it be and as it is. Let me remember that I am Your Son, and opening the door at last, forget illusions in the blazing light of truth, as memory of You returns to me."

Brother, let us forgive each other and go to our home in God together. As we go, the world shall come as well.

Lesson 343

"I am not asked to make a sacrifice to find the mercy and the peace of God."

"The end of suffering can not be loss. The gift of everything can be but gain. You only give. You never take away. And You created me to be like You, so sacrifice becomes impossible for me as well as You. I, too, must give. And so all things are given unto me forever and forever. As I was created I remain. Your Son can make no sacrifice, for he must be complete, having the function of completing You. I am complete because I am Your Son. I cannot lose, for I can only give, and everything is mine eternally."

Salvation, mercy, and peace all have no cost. It is a gift that has been freely received and so must be freely given.

Lesson 344

"Today I learn the law of love; that what I give my brother is my gift to me."

"This is Your law, my Father, not my own. I have not understood what giving means, and thought to save what I desired for myself alone. And as I looked upon the treasure that I thought I had, I found an empty place where nothing ever was or will be. Who can share a dream? And what can an illusion offer me? Yet he whom I forgive will give me gifts beyond the worth of anything on earth. Let my forgiven brothers fill my store with Heaven's treasures, which alone are real. Thus is the law of love fulfilled. And thus Your Son arises and returns to You."

We are so near to one another as we move closer to God. God is so close to us. The ending of the dream of sin and the redemption of the Son of God is so near.