What could you want forgiveness cannot give? Do you want peace?
Forgiveness offers it. Do you want happiness, a quiet mind, a certainty
of purpose, and a sense of worth and beauty that transcends the world?
Do you want care and safety, and the warmth of sure protection always?
Do you want a quietness that cannot be disturbed, a gentleness that
never can be hurt, a deep, abiding comfort, and a rest so perfect it can
never be upset?
All this forgiveness offers you, and more. It sparkles in your eyes as
you awake, and gives you joy with which to meet the day. It soothes your
forehead while you sleep, and rests upon your eyelids so you see no
dreams of fear and evil, malice and attack. And when you wake again, it
offers you another day of happiness and peace. All this forgiveness
offers you, and more.
Forgiveness lets the veil be lifted up which hides the Face of Christ
from those who look with unforgiving eyes upon the world. It lets you
recognize the Son of God, and clears your memory of all dead thoughts so
that remembrance of your Father can arise across the threshold of your
mind.
What would you want forgiveness cannot give? What gifts but these are
worthy to be sought? What fancied value, trivial effect, or transient
promise never to be kept, can hold more hope than what forgiveness
brings? Why would you seek an answer other than the answer that will
answer everything? Here is the perfect answer, given to imperfect
questions, meaningless requests, half-hearted willingness to hear, and
less than halfway diligence and partial trust.
Here is the answer! Seek for it no more. You will not find another one
instead. God’s plan for your salvation cannot change, nor can it fail.
Be thankful it remains exactly as He planned it. Changelessly it stands
before you, like an open door with warmth and welcome calling from
beyond the doorway, bidding you to enter in and make yourself at home
where you belong.
Here is the answer! Would you stand outside while all of Heaven waits
for you within? Forgive and be forgiven. As you give you will
receive. There is no plan but this for the salvation of the Son of God.
Let us today rejoice that this is so, for here we have an answer, clear
and plain, beyond deceit in its simplicity. All the complexities the
world has spun of fragile cobwebs disappear before the power and the
majesty of this extremely simple statement of the truth.
Here is the answer! Do not turn away in aimless wandering again. Accept
salvation now. It is the gift of God and not the world. The world can
give no gifts of any value to a mind which has received what God has
given as its own. God wills salvation be received today, and that the
intricacies of your dreams no longer hide their nothingness from you.
Open your eyes today, and look upon a happy world of safety and of
peace. Forgiveness is the means by which it comes to take the place of
hell. In quietness it rises up to greet your open eyes, and fill your
heart with deep tranquility as ancient truths, forever newly born, arise
in your awareness. What you will remember then can never be
described. Yet your forgiveness offers it to you.
Remembering the gifts forgiveness gives, we undertake our practicing
today with hope and faith that this will be the day salvation will be
ours. Earnestly and gladly will we seek for it today, aware we hold the
key within our hands, accepting Heaven’s answer to the hell we made, but
where we would remain no more.
Morning and evening do we gladly give a quarter of an hour to the search
in which the end of hell is guaranteed. Begin in hopefulness, for we
have reached the turning point at which the road becomes far easier. And
now the way is short that yet we travel. We are close indeed to the
appointed ending of the dream.
Sink into happiness as you begin these practice periods, for they hold
out the sure rewards of questions answered, and what your acceptance of
the answer brings. Today it will be given you to feel the peace
forgiveness offers, and the joy the lifting of the veil holds out to
you.
Before the light you will receive today the world will fade until it
disappears, and you will see another world arise you have no words to
picture. Now we walk directly into light, and we receive the gifts which
have been held in store for us since time began, kept waiting for today.
Forgiveness offers everything you want. Today all things you
want are given you.
Let not your gifts recede throughout the day, as you return again to
meet a world of shifting change and bleak appearances. Retain your gifts
in clear awareness as you see the changeless in the heart of change; the
light of truth behind appearances. Be tempted not to let your gifts slip
by, and drift into forgetfulness but hold them firmly in your mind by
your attempts to think of them at least a minute as each quarter of an
hour passes by.
Remind yourself how precious are these gifts with this reminder, which
has power to hold your gifts in your awareness through the day:
“Forgiveness offers everything I want.
Today I have accepted this as
true. Today I have received the gifts of God.”