Today we will review the following:

11 “My meaningless thoughts are showing me a meaningless
world.”

Since the thoughts of which I am aware do not mean anything, the world
which pictures them can have no meaning.What is producing this world is
insane, and so is what it produces. Reality is not insane, and I have
real thoughts as well as insane ones. I can therefore see a real world,
if I look to my real thoughts as my guide for seeing.

12 “I am upset because I see a meaningless world.”

Insane thoughts are upsetting, they produce a world in which there is no
order anywhere. Only chaos rules a world which represents chaotic
thinking, and chaos has no laws. I cannot live in peace in such a world.
I am grateful that this world is not real, and that I need not see it at
all unless I choose to value it. And I do not choose to value what is
totally insane and has no meaning.

13 “A meaningless world engenders fear.”

The totally insane engenders fear because it is completely undependable,
and offers no grounds for trust. Nothing in madness is dependable. It
holds out no safety and no hope. But such a world is not real. I have
given it the illusion of reality, and have suffered from my belief in
it. Now I choose to withdraw this belief, and place my trust in reality.
In choosing this, I will escape all the effects of the world of fear
because I am acknowledging that it does not exist.

14 “God did not create a meaningless world.”

How can a meaningless world exist if God did not create it? He is the
Source of all meaning, and everything that is real is in His Mind. It is
in my mind too, because He created it with me. Why should I continue to
suffer from the effects of my own insane thoughts, when the perfection
of creation is my home? Let me remember the power of my decision, and
recognize where I really abide.

15 “My thoughts are images which I have made.”

Whatever I see reflects my thoughts. It is my thoughts which tell me
where I am and what I am.The fact that I see a world in which there
is suffering and loss and death shows me that I am seeing only the
representation of my insane thoughts, and am not allowing my real
thoughts to cast their beneficent light on what I see.Yet God’s way is
sure.The images I have made cannot prevail against Him because it is not
my will that they do so. My will is His, and I will place no other gods
before Him.