No-one can give what he has not received. To give a thing requires first
you have it in your own possession. Here the laws of Heaven and the
world agree. But here they also separate. The world believes that to
possess a thing it must be kept. Salvation teaches otherwise. To give is
how to recognize you have received. It is the proof that what you have
is yours.
You understand that you are healed when you give healing. You accept
forgiveness as accomplished in yourself when you forgive. You recognize
your brother as yourself and thus do you perceive that you are
whole. There is no miracle you cannot give, for all are given you.
Receive them now by opening the storehouse of your mind where they are
laid and giving them away.
Christ’s vision is a miracle. It comes from far beyond itself, for it
reflects Eternal Love and the rebirth of love which never died, but has
been kept obscure. Christ’s vision pictures Heaven, for it sees a world
so like to Heaven that what God created perfect can be mirrored there.
The darkened glass the world presents can show but twisted images in
broken parts. The real world pictures Heaven’s innocence.
Christ’s vision is the miracle in which all miracles are born. It is
their source, remaining with each miracle you give, and yet remaining
yours. It is the bond by which the giver and receiver are united in
extension here on earth as they are one in Heaven. Christ beholds no sin
in anyone, and in His sight the sinless are as one. Their holiness was
given by His Father and Himself.
Christ’s vision is the bridge between the worlds. And in its power can
you safely trust to carry you from this world into one made holy by
forgiveness. Things which seem quite solid here are merely shadows
there, transparent, faintly seen, at times forgot, and never able to
obscure the light that shines beyond them. Holiness has been restored to
vision, and the blind can see.
This is the Holy Spirit’s single gift; the treasurehouse to which you
can appeal with perfect certainty for everything that can
contribute to your happiness. All are laid here already. All can be
received but for the asking. Here the door is never locked, and no-one
is denied his least request or his most urgent need. There is no
sickness not already healed. No lack unsatisfied, no need unmet, within
this golden treasury of Christ.
Here does the world remember what was lost when it was made. For here it
is repaired, made new again but in a different light. What was to be the
home of sin becomes the center of redemption and the hearth of mercy,
where the suffering are healed and welcome. No-one will be turned away
from this new home where his salvation waits. No-one is stranger to him.
No-one asks for anything of him except the gift of his acceptance of his
welcoming.
Christ’s vision is the holy ground in which the lilies of forgiveness
set their roots. This is their home. They can be brought from here back
to the world, but they can never grow in its unnourishing and shallow
soil. They need the light and warmth and kindly care Christ’s charity
provides. They need the love with which He looks on them. And they
become His messengers who give as they received.
Take from His storehouse that its treasures may increase. His lilies do
not leave their home when they are carried back into the world. Their
roots remain. They do not leave their source, but carry its beneficence
with them, and turn the world into a garden like the one they came from
and to which they go again with added fragrance. Now are they twice
blessed. The messages they brought from Christ have been delivered and
returned to them. And they return them gladly unto Him.
Behold the store of miracles set out for you to give. Are you not worth
the gift when God appointed it be given you? Judge not God’s Son, but
follow in the way He has established. Christ has dreamed the dream of a
forgiven world. It is His gift whereby a sweet transition can be made
from death to life; from hopelessness to hope. Let us an instant dream
with Him. His dream awakens us to truth. His vision gives the means for
a return to our unlost and everlasting sanctity in God.