Lesson 64

"Let me not forget my function."

Every day we must program ourselves to make the right decisions. We face countless decisions during the day, which affect our current and future happiness. Decisions based on love and forgiveness put us in the light, the stream of divine consciousness. Happiness is intrinsic in learning to flow with our higher power, which loves us unconditionally. When we love and forgive ourselves we can transfer that same acceptance to others, creating a ripple effect of love and light throughout the world.

The prayer:

"Let me not forget my function."
"Let me not try to substitute mine for God's."
"Let me forgive and be happy."

Ten or fifteen minutes daily concentrating on these words of truth will help you remember your higher purpose. Another prayer which should be repeated twice daily or as often as needed, is:

"This is the world, it is my function to save."

This one can be repeated with the eyes open, taking in all your surroundings.

Lesson 65

"My only function is the one God gave me."

In our daily practice, ten or fifteen minutes scheduled at approximately the same time over the course of a week, spent in contemplation of these words of truth enable us to escape the traps our self-defeating negative thoughts can generate. It's part and parcel of devoting our lives to service that we make time for practicing that which will make us whole functioning humans. If interfering thoughts arise as you do this prayer:

"This thought reflects a goal that is preventing me from accepting my only function."

That should temporarily reduce or stop the flow of unwanted thoughts, should they continue, repeat silently or aloud:

"On this clean slate let my true function be written for me."

If these particular words do not seem to work for you, get the sense of losing your illusions to the bright light of truth.

Once an hour, apply today's idea in this form:

"My only function is the one God gave me. I have no other."

With eyes closed sometimes and open sometimes, look about while practicing the prayer. When you are able to embrace this idea totally your vision will be transformed.

Lesson 66

"My happiness and my function are one."

In recent lessons there has been a connection drawn between fulfilling your function and achieving happiness. They are one and the same. In our daily practice, we begin the first ten to fifteen minutes by repeating this prayer:

"God gives me only happiness.
He has given my function to me.
Therefore my function must be happiness."

Allow the truth of these words to permeate your mind where the ego resides. The truth is that God gives you only happiness, therefore the function He gave is also happiness even if it appears different. God gives you only happiness. This is the truth, for if it is false it is necessary to define God as something He is not. Love cannot give evil, and what is not happiness is evil. God also has given us our function. Thus, it must be that your function is established by God through His Voice, or it is made by the ego which you have made to replace Him. Which is true? Think about this during the longer practice period today. Ask yourself about the times that you have tried to find salvation. Did you find it? Were you happy? Did you find peace? Today's idea is another giant stride in understanding the truth. On one side stands illusions and all truth stands on the other. Let us try today to realize that only the truth is true.

In shorter practice periods, which would be most helpful today if undertaken twice an hour, repeat the following affirmation:

"My happiness and function are one, because God has given me both."

Lesson 67

"Love created me like Itself."

Today's insight is about who and what you are; that you are the world savior, appointed by God, and this is the truth about you.

"Holiness created me holy.
Kindness created me kind.
Helpfulness created me helpful.
Perfection created me perfect."

Let all thoughts drop away. Reach past all of your ideas about yourself to the truth that resides in you. Love created you and is in you, therefore it is there for you to find inside. Use this realization in place of distracting thoughts. Practice the idea as many times as you can today, for frequency of repetition will help you live the truth in you. Replace your tiny human voice with the voice of God, truth, and realize you were created by love in its own image.

Lesson 68

"Love holds no grievances."

Because you were created by Love it is impossible to hold grievances and know yourself. Grievances separate you from the Source and make you believe the lie that you are separate from Him, and being human, you naturally identify the Creator with yourself, mistaking your grievances and hatred as His. This negativity leads to fear of the Creator, which in turn leads to redefining the Creator in a human image. A sign of this malaise is guilt and forgetting your Divine nature. Accepting these premises, some people wonder if it is possible to let their grievances go. Motivation is the issue and once any success is accomplished the peace and your ability to remember your connection to the Creator will remove any obstacles in your path. Begin your meditation practice today reviewing your relationships in which you hold major grievances. From there let yourself find the minor grievances you hold to those friends and relationships around you. This undertaking will help you see there are few people you do not lavish resentments towards, therefore you now perceive yourself as alone and disconnected in the universe. Decide now to see all of these relationships as friends, thinking:

"I would see you as my friend,
That I may remember you are part of me
And come to know myself."

Think of yourself as at peace with each person and with everything, where safety and nurturance holds you up, and harm does not exist for you. End your practice with:

"Love holds no grievances. When I let all my grievances go I will know I am perfectly safe."

It is important to have a quick useful application of this idea if any resentments and grievances come up for anyone in your presence or elsewhere:

"Love holds no grievances. Let me not betray my Self."

Also, you can repeat this idea as many times as you need as follows:

"Love holds no grievances.I would wake to my Self
By laying all my grievances aside
And wakening in Him."

Lesson 69

"My grievances hide the light of the world in me."

The grievances you hold onto keep you in darkness to yourself and others who are standing next to you in darkness as well. As you release your grievances you help the one standing next to you to shed their darkness and share in salvation too. Salvation is the heart of our need. Today's lesson is about God's Son's goal: the salvation of the world. For today's exercise see your mind as a large circle covered by thick dark clouds. You stand separate observing this image as if apart from it all. The heaviness of the clouds present the illusion of hiding the brilliant light within and therefore you make no effort to dive through the clouds to find this light. Today's goal is to open to the light and the salvation of the world. Settle into stillness for you and the world's sake knowing the light is within your reach. In your mind scoop the clouds away. Feel them move away from your fingertips and brush across your cheeks, forehead, and eyelids as you move through them. You will feel yourself carried forward and uplifted from darkness into the light because your will is aligned with God's Will. As you go beyond the clouds and find the light remember that what is God's Will brings only success. The fruit of your needs will be answered because you have allowed God's Will to work through you. During your short practice periods remind yourself that your grievances are in the way of your accessing the world's light in your consciousness and that your search is a collective search with a path to follow. Say:

"My grievances hide the light of the world in me. I cannot see what I have hidden. Yet I want to let it be revealed to me. For my salvation and the salvation of the world."

Then tell yourself:

"If I hold this grievance the light of the world will be
Hidden from me."

if today you hold resentments against others.

Lesson 70

"My salvation comes from me."

Salvation and its' opposite, guilt come from the same internal place, source. They exist only in our minds and only by permission and invitation. When we realize that only we are solely responsible for our inner landscape and can be disrupted by outside forces only by choice, we can make the choice to be saved. For your practice today use the following prayer:

"My salvation comes from me. It cannot come from anywhere else."

Meditate, eyes closed on this truth. Perhaps you will see where you have given your power away in the past, looking for salvation outside yourself. Call back the power you have given away by saying:

"My salvation cannot come from any of these things."
"My salvation comes from me and only me. "

Now we will travel to our own source of inner light. Go past the clouds that diminish its' shining. Perhaps imagine your guide taking you by the hand to lead you past any obstacles in your path. Then you will be able to say:

"My salvation comes from me."
"Nothing outside of me can hold me back."
"Within me is the world's salvation and my own."