Lesson 260

"Let me remember God created me."

"Father, I did not make myself, although in my insanity I thought I did. Yet, as Your Thought, I have not left my Source, remaining part of Who created me. Your Son, my Father, calls on You today. Let me remember You created me. Let me remember my Identity. And let sinlessness arise again before Christ's vision, through which I would look upon my brothers and myself today."

When we remember our Source, we at last find our real Identity. We are holy because our Source does not know any sin. We are His Sons and are all alike, and alike to Him as well.

What is the Body?

The body is a fence that the Son of God imagines he built to divide parts of himself from other parts. He thinks he lives within this fence and dies as it ages and falls. He thinks he is safe from love and identifies himself with the safety it brings. The body is just a dream among many that sometimes seem to feel happiness, but then become fearful. That is where dreams come from. Only love creates truth, and fear cannot be any part of that.

We must change what we think the body is for, it is used to return to sanity. It has the goal of Heaven instead of fencing us into hell. Identifying with love will keep us safe and we will find ourselves.

Lesson 261

"God is my refuge and security."

I choose to see myself as safe and secure, strong and shielded from attack. Today I will not look for security in danger or peacefulness in attack. In God I find safety and strength and my identity. He is everlasting peace and the only place that I remember Who I really am.

"Let me not seek for idols. I would come, my Father, home to You today. I choose to be as You created me, and find the Son whom You created as my Self."

Lesson 262

"Let me perceive no differences today."

"Father, You have one Son. And it is he that I would look upon today. He is Your one creation. Why should I perceive a thousand forms in what remains as one? Why should I give this one a thousand names, when only one suffices? For Your Son must bear Your Name, for You created him. Let me not see him as a stranger to his Father, nor as stranger to myself. For he is part of me and I of him, and we are part of You Who are our Source, eternally united in Your Love; eternally united in Your Love; eternally the holy Son of God."

We are all one and we recognize this truth about ourselves today. We come home and rest together. Peace is there and can be found nowhere else.

Lesson 263

"My holy vision sees all things as pure."

Father, Your Mind created all that is, Your Spirit entered into it, Your Love gave life to it. And would I look upon what You created as if it could be made sinful? I would not perceive such dark and fearful images. A madman's dream is hardly fit to be my choice, instead of all the loveliness with which You bless creation; all its purity, its joy and its eternal, quiet home in You."

Though we are outside of Heaven, we should try to see all through holy vision. All appearances look pure to us, passing them by in innocence and walk to our Father's house together as family and the holy Sons of God.

Lesson 264

"I am surrounded by the Love of God."

"Father, You stand before me and behind, beside me, in the place I see myself, and everywhere I go. You are in all the things I look upon, the sounds I hear, and every hand that reaches for my own. In You time disappears, and place becomes a meaningless belief. For what surrounds Your Son and keeps him safe is Love Itself. There is no Source but This, and nothing is that does not share Its holiness; that stands beyond Your one creation, or without the Love Which holds all things within Itself. Father, Your Son is like Yourself. We come to You in Your Own Name today, to be at peace within Your everlasting Love."

Let's join together as brothers to accomplish this today. This prayer is of salvation. We will join in to save the world along with ourselves.

Lesson 265

"Creation's gentleness is all I see."

I was deceived to think that what I feared was in the world instead of in my mind alone. There is no fear in the world I see today. There is no appearance of my sins that obscure the light of Heaven that shines on the world. The images I see reflect my thoughts. When my mind is one with God's, I can perceive creation's gentleness.

"In quiet would I look upon the world, which but reflects Your Thoughts, and mine as well. Let me remember that they are the same, and I will see creation's gentleness."

Lesson 266

"My holy Self abides in you, God's Son."

"Father, You gave me all Your sons, to be my saviors and my counselors in sight; the bearers of Your holy Voice to me. In them are You reflected, and in them does Christ look back upon me from my Self. Let not Your Son forget his holy Name. Let not Your Son forget his holy Source. Let not Your Son forget his name is Yours."

United in the holy Love of God we acknowledge our Self in each of us. We call upon God's name and enter into paradise. We cannot lose the way to God when he has filled the world with those who point to Him.