Holy Shift! (9 page)

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?

Workbook-p II. Lesson 231. 1:1-6.

 

Be in my mind, my Father, when

I wake, and shine on me

throughout the day today. Let

every minute be a time in which

I dwell with You. And let me not

forget my hourly thanksgiving

that You have remained with me,

and always will be there to hear

my call to You and answer me.

As evening comes, let all my

thoughts be still of You and of

Your Love. And let me sleep sure

of my safety, certain of Your

care, and happily aware I am

Your Son.

Workbook-p II. Lesson 232. 1:1-5.

 

Father, I give You all my

thoughts today. I would have

none of mine. In place of them,

give me Your Own. I give You

all my acts as well, that I may

do Your Will instead of seeking

goals which cannot be obtained,

and wasting time in vain

imaginings. Today I come to

You. I will step back and merely

follow You. Be You the Guide,

and I the follower who questions

not the wisdom of the Infinite,

nor Love whose tenderness I

cannot comprehend, but which

is yet Your perfect gift

to me.

Workbook-p II. Lesson 233. 1:1-7.

 

Today we will anticipate the time when dreams of sin and guilt are gone, and we have reached the holy peace we never left.

Merely a tiny instant has elapsed between eternity and timelessness.

So brief the interval there was no lapse in continuity, nor break in thoughts which are forever unified as one.

Nothing has ever happened to disturb the peace of God the Father and the Son.

This we accept as wholly true today.

Workbook-p II. Lesson 234. 1:1-5.

 

Father, Your Holiness is mine.

Your Love created me, and made my sinlessness forever part of You.

I have no guilt nor sin in me, for there is none in You.

Workbook-p II. Lesson 235. 2:1-3.

 

Father, my mind is open to Your Thoughts, and closed today to every thought but Yours.

I rule my mind, and offer it to You.

Accept my gift, for it is Yours to me.

Workbook-p II. Lesson 236. 2:1-3.

 

You need to learn to lay all fear aside, and know your Self as Love which has no opposite in you.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 99. 9:8.

 

When you have learned how to decide with God, all decisions become as easy and as right as breathing.

There is no effort, and you will be led gently as if you were being carried down a quiet path in summer.

Text-14. IV. 6:1-2.

 

We thank You, Father,

for the light that shines

forever in us. And

we honor it, because

You share it with us.

We are one, united in

this light and one with

You, at peace with

all creation and

ourselves.

Workbook-p II. Lesson 239. 2:1-3.

 

Let us not be deceived today.

We are the Sons of God.

There is no fear in us, for we are each a part of Love Itself.

Workbook-p II. Lesson 240. 1:6-8.

 

Forgiveness recognizes what you thought your brother did to you has not occurred.

It does not pardon sins and make them real. It sees there was no sin.

And in that view are all your sins forgiven.

What is sin, except a false idea about God's Son?

Forgiveness merely sees its falsity, and therefore lets it go.

What then is free to take its place is now the Will of God.

Workbook-p II. 1. 1:1-7.

 

I will not lead my life alone today.

I do not understand the world, and so to try to lead my life alone must be but foolishness.

But there is One Who knows all that is best for me. And He is glad to make no choices for me but the ones that lead to God.

I give this day to Him, for I would not delay my coming home, and it is He Who knows the way to God.

Workbook-p II. Lesson 242. 1:1-5.

 

A dream of judgment came into the mind that God created perfect as Himself.

And in that dream was Heaven changed to hell, and God made enemy unto His Son.

How can God's Son awaken from the dream?

It is a dream of judgment. So must he judge not, and he will waken.

Text-29. IX. 2:1-5.

 

The Holy Spirit always sides with you and with your strength.

As long as you avoid His guidance in any way, you want to be weak.

Text-7. X. 5:1-2.

 

Your peace surrounds me,

Father. Where I go, Your peace

goes there with me. It sheds its

light on everyone I meet. I bring

it to the desolate and lonely and

afraid. I give Your peace to

those who suffer pain, or grieve

for loss, or think they are bereft

of hope and happiness.

Send them to me, my Father.

Let me bring Your peace with me.

For I would save Your Son, as

is Your Will, that I may come

to recognize my Self.

Workbook-p II. Lesson 245. 1:1-8.

 

Let me not think that I can find the way to God, if I have hatred in my heart.

Let me not try to hurt God's Son, and think that I can know his Father or my Self.

Let me not fail to recognize myself, and still believe that my awareness can contain my Father, or my mind conceive of all the love my Father has for me, and all the love which I return to Him.

Workbook-p II. Lesson 246. 1:1-3.

 

And all that stood between your image of yourself and what you are, forgiveness washes joyfully away.

Text-30. V. 6:2.

 

Whatever suffers is not part of me.

What grieves is not myself.

What is in pain is but illusion in my mind.

What dies was never living in reality, and did but mock the truth about myself.

Now I disown self-concepts and deceits and lies about the holy Son of God.

Now am I ready to accept him back as God created him, and as he is.

Workbook-p II. Lesson 248. 1:3-8.

 

Forgiveness paints a picture of a world where suffering is over, loss becomes impossible and anger makes no sense.

Attack is gone, and madness has an end. What suffering is now conceivable? What loss can be sustained?

The world becomes a place of joy, abundance, charity and endless giving.

It is now so like to Heaven that it quickly is transformed into the light that it reflects.

And so the journey which the Son of God began has ended in the light from which he came.

Workbook-p II. Lesson 249. 1:1-7.

 

Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him?

And who would place his faith in the shabby offerings of the ego when the gifts of God are laid before him?

Manual for Teachers. 4. I. 2:2-3.

 

All that I sought before I needed not, and did not even want.

My only need I did not recognize. But now I see that I need only truth.

In that all needs are satisfied, all cravings end, all hopes are finally fulfilled and dreams are gone.

Now have I everything that I could need.

Now have I everything that I could want.

And now at last I find myself at peace.

Workbook-p II. Lesson 251. 1:3-9.

 

My Self is holy beyond all the thoughts of holiness of which I now conceive.

Its shimmering and perfect purity is far more brilliant than is any light that I have ever looked upon.

Its love is limitless, with an intensity that holds all things within it, in the calm of quiet certainty.

Its strength comes not from burning impulses which move the world, but from the boundless Love of God Himself.

How far beyond this world my Self must be, and yet how near to me and close to God!

Workbook-p II. Lesson 252. 1:1-5.

 

“Except ye become as little children” means that unless you fully recognize your complete dependence on God, you cannot know the real power of the Son in his true relationship with the Father.

Text-1. V. 3:4.

 

Let every voice but God's be still in me.

Workbook-p II. Lesson 254.

 

In His Name, I give today to finding what my Father wills for me, accepting it as mine, and giving it to all my Father's Sons, along with me.

Workbook-p II. Lesson 255. 1:6.

 

God is our goal; forgiveness is the means by which our minds return to Him at last.

And so, our Father, would we come to You in Your appointed way. We have no goal except to hear Your Voice, and find the way Your sacred Word has pointed out to us.

Workbook-p II. Lesson 256. 1:9 & 2:1-2.

 

Let me remember what my purpose is.

Workbook-p II. Lesson 257.

 

All that is needful is to train our minds to overlook all little senseless aims, and to remember that our goal is God.

His memory is hidden in our minds, obscured but by our pointless little goals which offer nothing, and do not exist.

Shall we continue to allow God's grace to shine in unawareness, while the toys and trinkets of the world are sought instead?

God is our only goal, our only Love. We have no aim but to remember Him.

Workbook-p II. Lesson 258. 1:1-5.

 

We are free to choose our joy instead of pain, our holiness in place of sin, the peace of God instead of conflict, and the light of Heaven for the darkness of the world.

Workbook-p I. Lesson 190. 11:2.

 

You do not walk alone.

God's angels hover near and all about.

His Love surrounds you, and of this be sure; that I will never leave you comfortless.

Workbook-p II. Epilogue. 6:6-8.

 

I live in God.

In Him I find my refuge and my strength.

In Him is my Identity.

In Him is everlasting peace.

And only there will I remember Who I really am.

Workbook-p II. Lesson 261. 1:4-8.

 

Father, You have one Son. And it is

he that I would look upon today.

He is Your one creation.

Why should I perceive a thousand

forms in what remains as one?

Why should I give this one a thousand

names, when only one suffices?

For Your Son must bear Your Name,

for You created him.

Let me not see him as stranger to

his Father, nor as stranger to myself.

For he is part of me and I of him, and

we are part of You Who are our

Source, eternally united in Your Love;

eternally the holy Son of God.

Workbook-p II. Lesson 262. 1:1-8.

 

There is no miracle you cannot have when you desire healing.

But there is no miracle that can be given you unless you want it.

Text-30. VIII. 4:5-6.

 

I am surrounded by the Love of God.

Workbook-p II. Lesson 264.

 

In quietness are all things answered, and is every problem quietly resolved.

Text-27. IV. 1:1.

 

I am here only to be truly helpful. I am here to represent Him Who sent me. I do not have to worry about what to say or what to do, because He Who sent me will direct me. I am content to be wherever He wishes, knowing He goes there with me. I will be healed as I let Him teach me to heal.

Text-2. V. 18:2-6.

 

My heart is beating in the peace of God.

Workbook-p II. Lesson 267.

 

In love was I created, and in love will I remain forever. What can frighten me, when I let all things be exactly as they are?

Workbook-p II. Lesson 268. 1:5-6.

 

Today I choose to see

a world forgiven, in which

everyone shows me the

face of Christ, and

teaches me that what I look

upon belongs to me;

that nothing is, except