There is a light in you the world can not perceive. And with its eyes
you will not see this light, for you are blinded by the world. Yet you
have eyes to see it. It is there for you to look upon. It was not placed
in you to be kept hidden from your sight. This light is a reflection of
the thought we practice now. To feel the Love of God within you is to
see the world anew, shining in innocence, alive with hope, and blessed
with perfect charity and love.
Who could feel fear in such a world as this? It welcomes you, rejoices
that you came, and sings your praises as it keeps you safe from every
form of danger and of pain. It offers you a warm and gentle home in
which to stay a while. It blesses you throughout the day, and watches
through the night as silent guardian of your holy sleep. It sees
salvation in you, and protects the light in you in which it sees its
own. It offers you its flowers and its snow in thankfulness for your
benevolence.
This is the world the Love of God reveals. It is so different from the
world you see through darkened eyes of malice and of fear that one
belies the other. Only one can be perceived at all. The other one is
wholly meaningless. A world in which forgiveness shines on everything
and peace offers its gentle light to everyone is inconceivable to those
who see a world of hatred, rising from attack, poised to avenge, to
murder and destroy.
Yet is the world of hatred equally unseen and inconceivable to those who
feel God’s Love in them. Their world reflects the quietness and peace
that shines in them; the gentleness and innocence they see surrounding
them; the joy with which they look out from the endless wells of joy
within. What they have felt in them they look upon, and see Its sure
reflection everywhere.
What would you see? The choice is given you. But learn and do not let
your mind forget this law of seeing: you will look upon that which you
feel within. If hatred finds a place within your heart, you will
perceive a fearful world, held cruelly in death’s sharp-pointed, bony
fingers. If you feel the Love of God within you, you look out upon a
world of mercy and of love.
Today we pass illusions as we seek to reach to what is true in us, and
feel Its all-embracing tenderness, Its Love Which knows us perfect as
Itself, Its sight which is the gift Its Love bestows on us. We learn the
way today. It is as sure as Love Itself, to Which it carries us. For its
simplicity avoids the snares the foolish convolutions of the world’s
apparent reasoning but serve to hide.
Simply do this: Be still and lay aside all thoughts of what you are and
what God is; all concepts you have learned about the world; all images
you hold about yourself. Empty your mind of everything it thinks is
either true or false or good or bad; of every thought it judges worthy
and all the ideas of which it is ashamed. Hold onto nothing. Do not
bring with you one thought the past has taught, nor one belief you ever
learned before from anything. Forget this world, forget this course, and
come with wholly empty hands unto your God.
Is it not He Who knows the way to you? You need not know the way to Him.
Your part is simply to allow all obstacles that you have interposed
between the Son and God the Father to be quietly removed forever. God
will do His part in joyful and immediate response. Ask and receive. But
do not make demands, nor point the road to God by which He should appear
to you. The way to reach Him is merely to let Him be. For in that way is
your reality acclaimed as well.
And so today we do not choose the way in which we go to Him. But we do
choose to let Him come. And with this choice we rest. And in our quiet
hearts and open minds His Love will blaze Its pathway of Itself. What
has not been denied is surely there, if it be true, and can be surely
reached. God knows His Son, and knows the way to him. He does not need
His Son to show Him how to find His way. Through every opened door His
Love shines outward from Its home within, and lightens up the world in
innocence.
Father, we do not know the way to You. But we have called, and You
have answered us. We will not interfere. Salvation’s ways are not our
own for they belong to You. And it is unto You we look for them. Our
hands are open to receive Your gifts. We have no thoughts we think
apart from You, and cherish no beliefs of what we are or who created
us. Yours is the way that we would find and follow. And we ask but that
Your Will,Which is our own as well, be done in us and in the world,
that it become a part of Heaven now. Amen.