Day 131

Today's Lesson:

No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth.

Goals that are meaningless are not attained. There is no way to reach them, for the means by which you strive for them are meaningless as they are. Pursuit of the imagined leads to death because it is the search for nothingness, and while you seek for life you ask for death. You look for safety and security, while in your heart you pray for danger and protection for the little dream you made.

Yet searching is inevitable here. For this we came, and we will surely do the thing we came for. But the world can not dictate the goal for which we search, unless we give it power to do so. Otherwise we are still free to choose a goal that lies beyond the world and every worldly thought, and one that comes to us from an idea relinquished yet remembered, old yet new; an echo of a heritage forgot, yet holding everything we really want.

Be glad that we search. Be glad as well to learn we search for Heaven, and must find the goal we really want. No one can fail to want this goal and reach it in the end. God's Son can not seek vainly, though he try to force delay, deceive himself and think that it is hell he seeks. When he is wrong, he finds correction. When he wanders off, he is led back to his appointed task.

No one remains in hell, for no one can abandon his Creator, nor affect His perfect, timeless and unchanging Love. We will find Heaven. Everything we seek but this will fall away. Yet not because it has been taken from us. It will go because we do not want it. We will reach the goal we really want as certainly as God created us in sinlessness.

God does not suffer conflict. Nor is His creation split in two. How could it be His Son could be in hell, when God Himself established him in Heaven? Could he lose what the Eternal Will has given him to be his home forever? Let us not try longer to impose an alien will upon God's single purpose. He is here because He wills to be, and what He wills is present now, beyond the reach of time.

Leave foolish thoughts behind today, and turn your mind to true ideas instead. No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth, and it is truth we seek to reach today. We will devote ten minutes to this goal three times today, and we will ask to see the rising of the real world to replace the foolish images that we hold dear, with true ideas arising in the place of thoughts that have no meaning, no effect, and neither source nor substance in the truth.

Begin our practice periods today with this:

I ask to see a different world, and think a different kind of thought from those I made. The world I seek I did not make alone, the thoughts I want to think are not my own.

For several minutes watch your mind and see, although your eyes are closed, the senseless world you think is real. Review the thoughts as well which are compatible with such a world, and which you think are true. Then let them go, and sink below them to the holy place where they can enter not. There is door beneath them in your mind, which you could not completely lock to hide what lies beyond.

Seek for that door and find it. But before you try to open it, remind yourself no one can fail who seeks to reach the truth. And it is this request you make today. Nothing but this has any meaning now; no other goal is valued now nor sought, nothing before this door you really want, and only what lies past it do you seek.

Put out your hand and see how easily the door swings open with your one intent to go beyond it. Angels light the way, so bright and clear that you can understand all things you see. A tiny moment of surprise, perhaps, will make you pause before you realize the world you see before you in the light reflects the truth you knew, and did not quite forget in wandering away in dreams.

We cannot fail today. There walks with us the Spirit Heaven sent us, that we might approach this door some day, and through His aid slip effortlessly past it, to the light. Today that day has come. Today God keeps His ancient promise to His hold Son, as does His Son remember his to Him. This is a day of gladness, for we come to the appointed time and place where we will find the goal of all our searching here, and all the seeking of the world, which end together as we pass beyond the door.

Today is set by Heaven itself to be a time of grace for us and for the world. If we forget this happy fact, we can be reminded with this:

Today I seek and find all that I want.
My single purpose offers it to me.
No one can fail who seeks to reach the truth.

Miracles I'm noticing:

I wonder if people have to come to a place in their lives where they realize there must be a better way to see the world than the one they are currently experiencing. Does there have to be a moment of truth or can people make a conscious choice to see things differently without that pivotal trigger?

I've been teaching a class in Job Relations all week and these supervisors are working in manufacturing plants, trying to keep their production up while they supervise others to get the work done. I think through our class this week many of them may have come to the realization that the way they have been trying to get people to do their jobs may not be the most effective. I share with them four questions that may give them new insight:

1) What do you/I want?
2) What are/am you/I doing to get that?
3) How is it working?
4) What might you/I do differently?

The questions are to be asked - or ourselves or of others - totally objectively without judgment. The intention is simply to get the answer to #3 to be "wonderful," or "outstanding," or "great" or something like that. If it's working, keep doing it. But if it's not, there must be a better way.

Today's lesson is like that. Our ego thoughts are foolish. God does not suffer conflict. He would not create the conflict we are choosing. There must be a better way. If we can see beyond our ego, which wants to be and fights to be right, we can see that that world we see is not real. That door in our minds is there - we only need to give up control to enter it.

As we enter that door, we realize that we already knew this stuff! There is a faint recognition of the wonder of this world. God tells us we cannot fail by remembering and searching for the truth. How reassuring! All we need to do is remember what we already know, and be willing to give up the ego's hold on this world.

It's very simple, really. Know there must be a better way, and then be quiet and remember it. That's certainly a miracle!