Lesson 164

Now are we one with Him Who is our Source.

p1. What time but now can truth be recognized? 2
The present is the only time there is. 3 And
so today, this instant, now, we come to look upon what is forever there;
not in our sight, but in the eyes of Christ. 4
He looks past time, and sees eternity as represented there. 5
He hears the sounds the senseless, busy world engenders, yet He hears them
faintly. 6 For beyond them all He hears the
song of Heaven, and the Voice for God more clear, more meaningful, more
near.

p2. The world fades easily away before His sight. 2
Its sounds grow dim. 3 A melody from far beyond
the world increasingly is more and more distinct; an ancient call to which
He gives an ancient answer. 4 You will recognize
them both, for they are but your answer to your Father’s Call to you. 5
Christ answers for you, echoing your Self, using your voice to give His
glad consent; accepting your deliverance for you.

p3. How holy is your practicing today, as Christ gives you His
sight and hears for you, and answers in your name the Call He hears! 2
How quiet is the time you give to spend with Him, beyond the world. 3
How easily are all your seeming sins forgot, and all your sorrows unremembered.
4 On this day is grief laid by, for sights and
sounds that come from nearer than the world are clear to you who will today
accept the gifts He gives.

p4. There is a silence into which the world can not intrude. 2
There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost. 3
There is a sense of holiness in you the thought of sin has never touched.
4 All this today you will remember. 5
Faithfulness in practicing today will bring rewards so great and so completely
different from all things you sought before, that you will know that here
your treasure is, and here your rest.

p5. This is the day when vain imaginings part like a curtain, to
reveal what lies beyond them. 2 Now is what
is really there made visible, while all the shadows which appeared to hide
it merely sink away. 3 Now is the balance righted,
and the scale of judgment left to Him Who judges true. 4
And in His judgment will a world unfold in perfect innocence before your
eyes. 5 Now will you see it with the eyes of
Christ. 6 Now is its transformation clear to
you.

p6. Brother, this day is sacred to the world. 2
Your vision, given you from far beyond all things within the world, looks
back on them in a new light. 3 And what you
see becomes the healing and salvation of the world. 4
The valuable and valueless are both perceived and recognized for what they
are. 5 And what is worthy of your love receives
your love, while nothing to be feared remains.

p7. We will not judge today. 2 We will
receive but what is given us from judgment made beyond the world. 3
Our practicing today becomes our gift of thankfulness for our release from
blindness and from misery. 4 All that we see
will but increase our joy, because its holiness reflects our own. 5
We stand forgiven in the sight of Christ, with all the world forgiven in
our own. 6 We bless the world, as we behold
it in the light in which our Savior looks on us, and offer it the freedom
given us through His forgiving vision, not our own.

p8. Open the curtain in your practicing by merely letting go all
things you think you want. 2 Your trifling treasures
put away, and leave a clean and open space within your mind where Christ
can come, and offer you the treasure of salvation. 3
He has need of your most holy mind to save the world. 4
Is not this purpose worthy to be yours? 5 Is
not Christ’s vision worthy to be sought above the world’s unsatisfying goals?

p9. Let not today slip by without the gifts it holds for you receiving
your consent and your acceptance. 2 We can change
the world, if you acknowledge them. 3 You may
not see the value your acceptance gives the world. 4
But this you surely want; you can exchange all suffering for joy this very
day. 5 Practice in earnest, and the gift is
yours. 6 Would God deceive you? 7
Can His promise fail? 8 Can you withhold so
little, when His Hand holds out complete salvation to His Son?

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Lesson 164

Now are we one with Him Who is our Source.

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