This is a day of silence and of trust. It is a special time of promise
in your calendar of days. It is a time Heaven has set apart to shine
upon, and cast a timeless light upon this day when echoes of eternity
are heard. This day is holy, for it ushers in a new experience, a
different kind of feeling and awareness. You have spent long days and
nights in celebrating death. Today you learn to feel the joy of life.
This is another crucial turning point in the curriculum. We add a new
dimension now; a fresh experience that sheds a light on all that we have
learned already, and prepares us for what we have yet to learn. It
brings us to the door where learning ceases, and we catch a glimpse of
what lies past the highest reaches it can possibly attain. It leaves us
there an instant and we go beyond it, sure of our direction and our only
goal.
Today it will be given you to feel a touch of Heaven, though you will
return to paths of learning, yet you have come far enough along the way
to alter time sufficiently to rise above its laws, and walk into
eternity a while. This you will learn to do increasingly, as every
lesson, faithfully rehearsed, brings you more swiftly to this holy place
and leaves you, for a moment, to your Self.
He will direct your practicing today, for what you ask for now is what
He wills. And having joined your will with His this day, what you are
asking must be given you. Nothing is needed but today’s idea to light
your mind, and let it rest in still anticipation and in quiet joy
wherein you quickly leave the world behind.
From this day forth your ministry takes on a genuine devotion, and a
glow that travels from your fingertips to those you touch, and blesses
those you look upon. A vision reaches everyone you meet, and everyone
you think of, or who thinks of you. For your experience today will so
transform your mind that it becomes the touchstone for the holy Thoughts
of God.
Your body will be sanctified today, its only purpose being now to bring
the vision of what you experience this day to light the world. We cannot
give experience like this directly. Yet it leaves a
vision in our eyes which we can offer everyone, that he may come the
sooner to the same experience in which the world is quietly forgot, and
Heaven is remembered for a while.
As this experience increases and all goals but this become of little
worth, the world to which you will return becomes a little closer to the
end of time; a little more like Heaven in its ways; a little nearer its
deliverance. And you who bring it light will come to see the light more
sure; the vision more distinct.
The time will come when you will not return in the same form in which
you now appear, for you will have no need of it. Yet now it has a
purpose, and will serve it well. Today we will embark upon a course you
have not dreamed of. But the Holy One, the Giver of the happy dreams of
life, Translator of perception into truth, the holy Guide to Heaven
given you, has dreamed for you this journey which you make and start
today, with the experience this day holds out to you to be your own.
Into Christ’s Presence will we enter now serenely unaware of everything
except His shining face and perfect Love. The vision of His Face will
stay with you, but there will be an instant which transcends all vision,
even this, the holiest. This you will never teach, for you attained it
not through learning. Yet the vision speaks of your remembrance of what
you knew that instant, and will surely know again.