Day 164

Today's Lesson:

Now are we one with Him Who is our Source.

What time but now can truth be recognized? The present is the only time there is. 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. He looks past time, and sees eternity as represented there. He hears the sounds the senseless, busy world engenders, yet He hears them faintly. For beyond them all He hears the song of Heaven, and the Voice for God more clear, more meaningful, more near.

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

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

We will not judge today. We will receive but what is given us from judgment made beyond the world. Our practicing today becomes our gift of thankfulness for our release from blindness and from misery. All that we see will but increase our joy, because its holiness reflects our own. We stand forgiven in the sight of Christ, with all the world forgiven in our own. 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.

Open the curtain in your practicing by merely letting go all things you think you want. 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. He has need of your most holy mind to save the world. Is not this purpose worthy to be yours? Is not Christ's vision worthy to be sought above the world's unsatisfying goals?

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

Miracles I'm noticing:

I have met the most incredible people at this training! I've just spent breakfast with the person who is teaching yoga on the beach, a woman who is transforming the inner city life of families near LA and a man who has studied this course for 2 1/2 years at a academy where they studied 4 hours a day, 6 days a week. I'm blessed and grateful to be in this space at this time.

I also hear for myself the power of today's lesson. As I give up and let go of the things I think I want, I can then accept the gifts offered to me. Acceptance does not equal suffering - I can choose to give that up. And the gifts of Spirit will be there to fill any voids I think there will be.

That is truly a miracle!