Day 361

FINAL LESSONS

Introduction

Our final lessons will be left as free of words as possible. We use them but at the beginning of our practicing, and only to remind us that we seek to go beyond them. Let us turn to Him Who leads the way and makes our footsteps sure. To Him we leave these lessons, as to Him we give our lives henceforth. For we would not return again to the belief in sin that made the world seem ugly and unsafe, attacking and destroying, dangerous in all its ways, and treacherous beyond the hope of trust and the escape from pain.

His is the only way to find the peace that God has given us. It is His way that everyone must travel in the end, because it is this ending God Himself appointed. In the dream of time it seems to be far off. And yet, in truth, it is already here; already serving us as gracious guidance in the way to go. Let us together follow in the way that truth points out to us. And let us be the leaders of our many brothers who are seeking for the way, but find it not.

And to this purpose let us dedicate our minds, directing all our thoughts to serve the function of salvation. Unto us the aim is given to forgive the world. It is the goal that God has given us. It is His ending to the dream we seek, and not our own. For all that we forgive we will not fail to recognize as part of God Himself. And thus His memory is given back, completely and complete.

It is our function to remember Him on earth, as it is given us to be His Own completion in reality. So let us not forget our goal is God, and points the way to Him and to the Heaven of His peace. And shall we not forgive our brother, who can offer this to us? He is the way, the truth and life that shows the way to us. In him resides salvation, offered us through our forgiveness, given unto him.

We will not end this year without the gift our Father promised to his holy Son. We are forgiven now. And we are saved from all the wrath we thought belonged to God, and found it was a dream. We are restored to sanity, in which we understand that anger is insane, attack is mad, and vengeance merely foolish fantasy. We have been saved from wrath because we learned we were mistaken. Nothing more than that. And is a father angry at his son because he failed to understand the truth?

We come in honesty to God and say we did not understand, and ask Him to help us to learn His lessons, through the Voice of His Own Teacher. Would He hurt His Son? Or would He rush to answer him, and say, "This is My Son, and all I have is his"? Be certain He will answer thus, for these are His Own words to you. And more than that can no one ever have, for in these words is all there is, and all that there will be throughout all time and in eternity.

Today's Lesson:

This holy instant would I give to You.
Be You in charge. For I would follow You,
Certain that Your direction gives me peace.

And if I need a word to help me, He will give it to me. If I need a thought, that will He also give. And if I need but stillness and a tranquil, open mind, these are the gifts I will receive of Him. He is in charge by my request. And He will hear and answer me, because He speaks for God my Father and His holy Son.

Miracles I'm noticing:

This is such an appropriate way to close out this fabulous year of 2007. To reduce our last days of study - and the last days of this blog - to stillness.

I will still notice the miracles all around me, and for the last few days of this year I will let you know what I see. But it is not for my ego - it is simply to point out that through this year of study, we are all able to see the miracles that abound in all our lives. My hope is that you, too, can see in your own lives, all that wonderful beauty God has placed here for us. We may call them coincidences or luck or chance, but deep down we know there are no such things as coincidences. As Wayne Dyer says, and I've said here before, in mathematical terms, coincidental angles are those angles that fit together perfectly. No mistakes, no luck, no chance.

My miracle yesterday was a call I received from a radio host here in town whom I have know for many years. He called to see if I could come in and be on his show this morning to talk about New Years' Resolutions. I spoke about this very topic in Minneapolis on December 6, so I'm well prepared for it, even with very little notice. As we talked on the phone, he mentioned that he has some other dreams for his life that he isn't living out, and he asked if we could meet after the show and talk about some of those. It turns out that his dream is an area of my business that I need help with as well, so there's a strong possibility that we may be able to support each other in growing our dreams through barter, so neither of us has to put out any cash. If that's not something that fits together perfectly, I don't know what is.

Miracles are simply shifts in perception from fear to love. And that's what showed up in my space yesterday, and will show up today and every day that I ask God to help me learn His lessons, through the Voice of the Holy Spirit.

Enter the Peace that surpasses all human understanding, but is perfect in the eyes of Spirit.