Day 231

What Is Salvation?

Salvation is a promise, made by God, that we would find our way to Him at last. It cannot but be kept. It guarantees that time will have an end, and all the thoughts that have been born in time will end as well. God's Word is given every mind which thinks that it has separate thoughts, and will replace these thoughts of conflict with the Thought of peace.

The Thought of peace was given to God's Son the instant that his mind had thought of war. There was no need for such a Thought before, for peace was given without opposite, and merely was. But when the mind is split there is a need of healing. So the Thought that has the power to heal the split became a part of every fragment of the mind that still was one, but failed to recognize its oneness. Now it did not know itself, and thought its own Identity was lost.

Salvation is undoing in the sense that it does nothing, failing to support the world of dreams and malice. Thus it lets illusions go. By not supporting them, it merely lets them quietly go down to dust. And what they hid is now revealed; an altar to the holy Name of God whereon His Word is written, with the gifts of your forgiveness laid before it, and the memory of God not far behind.

Let us come daily to this holy place, and spend a while together. Here we share our final dream. It is a dream in which there is no sorrow, for it holds a hint of all the glory given us by God. The grass is pushing through the soil, the trees are budding now, and birds have come to live within their branches. Earth is being born again in new perspective. Night has gone, and we have come together in the light.

From here we give salvation to the world, for it is here salvation was received. The song of our rejoicing is the call to all the world that freedom is returned, that time is almost over, and God's Son has but an instant more to wait until his Father is remembered, dreams are done, eternity has shined away the world, and only Heaven now exists at all.

Today's Lesson:

Father, I will but to remember You.

What can I seek for, Father, but Your Love? Perhaps I think I seek for something else; a something I have called by many names. yet is Your Love the only thing I seek, or ever sought. For there is nothing else that I could ever really want to find. Let me remember You. What else could I desire but the truth about myself?

This is your will, my brother. And you share this will with me, and with the One as well Who is our Father. To remember Him is Heaven. This we seek. And only this is what it will be given us to find.

Miracles I'm noticing:

I spent the afternoon and evening yesterday with good friends and good food. We had planned to make a trip to their lake place and play with their boat and outdoor activities, but it was rainy and chilly, so we went over to their house instead. I noticed that I really enjoy my time with my friends; but I've been making conscious healthy eating choices in the past month, and I don't feel so well today. It's almost like a food hangover! The food was outstanding - but I haven't been eating as much as I did last night and I can feel it today!

The miracle for me is in noticing how, without really realizing it, I had been feeling better by eating better. This relapse really let me know that. Instead of feeling depressed and upset for "falling off the wagon," I can simply use this as a reminder that I want to continue to eat healthy, and in reasonable portions.

Just the ability to shift my thinking to me is a miracle. Love instead of fear (or disappointment) is a much more happy way to live!

I also really like what the introduction to our next set of lessons tells us today. By simply doing nothing (not giving attention to that which we don't want), we are given salvation or undoing. It is in our doing nothing that illusions disappear. As we don't support the things we don't want, they will go away and what was hidden beneath or behind them is what we really want - the Word of God and His will for us.

Sounds like a miracle to me!