Lesson 288

"Let me forget my brother's past today."

"This is the thought that leads the way to You, and brings me to my goal. I cannot come to You without my brother. And to know my Source, I first must recognize what You created one with me. My brother's is the hand that leads me on the way to You. His sins are in the past along with mine, and I am saved because the past is gone. Let me not cherish it within my heart, or I will lose the way to walk to You. My brother is my savior. Let me not attack the savior You have given me. But let me honor him who bears Your Name, and so remember that It is my own."

Forgive today and behold your brother in the light of holiness. You are equal.

Lesson 289

"The past is over. It can touch me not."

When you forgive the past, it is gone. Let the past be over in your mind.

"Father, let me not look upon a past that is not there. For You have offered me Your Own replacement, in a present world the past has left untouched and free of sin. Here is the end of guilt. And here am I made ready for Your final step. Shall I demand that You wait longer for Your Son to find the loveliness You planned to be the end of all his dreams and all his pain?"

Lesson 290

"My present happiness is all I see."

What I perceive without God's Own Correction for the sight I made is frightening and painful. I do not allow my mind to be deceived by believing the dream I made as real. My eyes begin to see Christ's vision.

"With this resolve I come to You, and ask Your strength to hold me up today, while I but seek to do Your Will. You cannot fail to hear me, Father. What I ask have You already given me. And I am sure that I will see my happiness today."

What is the Real World?

The real world stands for what is opposite to what you made your perception of it. The real world can only be perceived through the eyes of forgiveness, where terror is impossible and there are no witnesses to fear. The real world shows a world seen through quiet eyes and a peaceful mind. Only happy sights and sounds can reach the mind that has forgiven itself. The real world symbolizes that the dream of sin and guilt is over. God's Son is awake and his eyes see the pure reflection of his Father's Love. Time has no purpose in the real world and disappears. It leaves the truth to be itself.

Lesson 291

"This is a day of stillness and of peace."

Christ's vision looks through me today. Through his sight I see all things forgiven and at peace. We see and recognize the Holiness of God surrounding us.

"This day my mind is quiet, to receive the Thoughts You offer me. And I accept what comes from You, instead of from myself. I do not know the way to You. But You are wholly certain. Father, guide Your Son along the quiet path that leads to You. Let my forgiveness be complete, and let the memory of You return to me."

Lesson 292

"A happy outcome to all things is sure."

God's promises make no exceptions. He also guarantees that only joy can be the final outcome for all existence. It is up to us when this is reached.

"We thank you, Father, for Your guarantee of only happy outcomes in the end, Help us not interfere, and so delay the happy endings You have promised us for every problem that we can perceive; for every trial we think we still must meet."

Lesson 293

"All fear is past and only love is here."

The source of fear is gone, meaning all fear is past, along with all its thoughts. Love's source is here forever in the present. I perceive a world forgiven, shining in the reflection of love's holy light.

"Father, let not Your Holy world escape my sight today. Nor let my ears be deaf to all the hymns of gratitude the world is singing underneath the sounds of fear. There is a real world which the present holds safe from all past mistakes. And I would see only this world before my eyes today."

Lesson 294

"My body is a wholly neutral thing."

I am a son of God. A neutral thing does not see death. Thoughts of fear are not invested here.

"My body, Father, cannot be Your Son. And what is not created cannot be sinful nor sinless; neither good nor bad. Let me, then, use this dream to help Your plan that we awaken from all dreams we made."