Lesson 264 ~ I am surrounded by the Love of God.

Father, You stand before and behind me, beside me in the place I see myself, and everywhere I go.  You are in every hand that reaches for my own.  In You, "time" disappears and  "place" becomes a meaningless belief.  Your Love surrounds Your Son and keeps him Safe.  There is nothing that does not share Your Holiness.  Nothing exists beyond Your Creation.  In You is my Reality.  I come to be at Peace within Your Everlasting Love.  There is nothing and no one outside myself.  There is One Son and he is Safe in Heaven, dreaming a dream of "separation from" His Father.  Anything that seems to be "outside" me is not Real.  Eternity is within me, and I am within the Father. 

Lesson 263 ~ Holy Vision sees all things Right

Father, Your Mind created All That Is.  Your Spirit entered into It and Your Love gave Life to It.  How could I have thoughts of sin and death?  How could it be possible that I am "separated from" You?  Your Love does not allow for anything but Perfection for Your Son. I will lay aside the dark and fearful images.  A madman's dream is hardly fit to be my choice in place of the Loveliness of Your Creation, with all its Purity and Joy; my Eternal, Quiet Home in You.  While I remain "outside" the Gate of Heaven and seem to see a world outside me, I will lay aside these dreams in my mind and instead embrace Truth.  There is nothing and no one "outside" me.  It has all been a dream and that dream is already over.  While I seem to see "others," I will see them in Innocence and walk with them together to our Father's house.  The Son of God is One with His Father.  The Son of God is Safe in Heaven dreaming of exile to a world "apart from" God.  Today I will Awaken and be glad, for the dream comes to an end.

Lesson 262 ~ There is only the One.

Father, You have One Son.  I am he.  Why should I perceive a thousand forms in what is One?  Why should I give a thousand names, when only One name will do?  Your Son bears Your Name and Your Inheritance, for You created him.  I will see no strangers today.  All seeming "brothers" are part of me and I of them, as we are part of You Who are our Source.  We are Eternally United in Your Love, Safe in Heaven with You Father, dreaming of exile to a world apart.  I will recognize the Truth about myself today.  I will be Home and rest in Unity.  In the State of Mind known as Heaven, exists Eternal Peace, Love, Joy, and Truth..........and nowhere else can this be found. 

Lesson 261 ~ God is my Refuge.

I identify with what I desire and what I think will bring me happiness and success.  I can continue to search in dreams, or I can search where the only True Happiness and Satisfaction can be found.  Today, I live in God.  In Him I find my Refuge, Strength, and Happiness.  In God is my Identity.  In God I will find Peace and Satisfaction.  Father, I come Home to You today. I choose to be as You created me:  Your Holy Son.  I can continue dreaming of a world apart from You.....or I can Awaken and be Happy. 

Lesson 260 ~ God created me. I am with Him now.

Father, I did not create a world apart from You.  In my "unconscious" insanity, I thought I did.  Yet I am Your Creation and I have not left my Source.  I call on You today, Father.  Let me remember that You created me.  Let me remember my Identity as Your Son.  There is no "world,"  there are no "others."  I am not a "body."  Any "others" I see, are thoughts of separation from You projected "outside" me, no matter how "good and noble," or how "bad" they seem to be.  Illusion in any form, is a thought of separation projected "outside" me.  The Son of God lives in Peace,  Love, and Oneness with his Father.  If I experience anything other than Eternal and Everlasting Peace and Love,  I am dreaming.  My Identity is in my Father.  I am One with Him and He with me.  Perfect Innocence is my Reality.

Lesson 259 ~ "Sin" and my fantasy-world do NOT exist.

God is my goal. "Sin" is the thought that makes the goal of God seem unachievable.  What else could make the strange and distorted appear "clear?"  What else could make attack seem reasonable?  What else could be the source of guilt and fear?  What else could demand sacrifice, punishment, and suffering?  What but "sin" could give "love" the attributes of jealousy and pain?  I seemingly created an existence "apart from" God.  In Reality this is impossible, but in fantasy, anything is possible.  "Sin" is the glue that holds my fantasy-world together.  Father, You are the Source of Everything There Is.  Everything There Is remains with You and You with It.  I will not be insane today.  I will not be afraid of Love, nor seek for comfort in Love's opposite.  For Love can have no opposite.  "Sin" and my fantasy-world do not exist. 

Lesson 258 ~ My goal is God.

All that is needed to train my mind to overlook the world of dreams, is to remember that my goal is God.  My mind has hidden His Memory, which is obscured by my pointless little goals in a world that does not exist.  Will I continue to let God's Grace shine in unawareness, while I preoccupy my mind with glitter and dust in the world of dreams?  God is my only goal today. He is my only Love.  I have no agenda except to remember Him.  Father, my goal is to follow the way that leads to You.  This is my one and only goal today.  What could satisfy all my needs and desires except to be Home in You?

Lesson 257 ~ Forgiveness is my purpose.

If I remember this one goal, I will never be unsure of anything.  If I forget this goal I will experience deep distress and great depression.  I have one choice to make:  do I want dreams, illusions and hell, or I do want Reality, Truth, and Heaven?  Despite the many choices I seem to have in the world of dreams, there is only ONE.  Today I will unify my thoughts and actions, remember my one goal and purpose, and achieve what God would have me do.  Father, the means for my salvation is forgiveness.   I am Safe in Heaven, dreaming of exile from my only True Home.  Forgiveness will lead to my Awakening.

Lesson 255 ~ Today I choose Peace.

It does not seem to me that I can choose to have only Peace.  But I can.  God assures me that His Son (me) is like Himself.  Today I will have faith in Him Who says I am God's Son.  Today I choose Peace, and the result will bear witness to the Truth of what God tells me.  God's Son has no cares and remains Forever in the Peace of Heaven.  In God's Name, I offer this day to finding what my Father Wills for me, accepting it as mine and offering it all to those I see, while I seem to see a world outside me.  Father, let me pass this day with You.  The Peace You gave Your Son is still in his mind, and It is there I choose to spend today.  No matter what the "world" presents me today, I still choose Peace.

Lesson 254 ~ ***** Let every voice but God's be still.

Today I will let no worldly thoughts, or "ego-thoughts," direct my words or actions.  When they do occur, I will pause to look at them, and then let them go.  I do not want what they would bring me.  In the Stillness of the Quiet in my mind, God speaks to me and tells me of His Love.  Father I hear only Your Voice today.  In Quiet and Stillness, I come to You today to receive Truth.

Lesson 253 ~ Reality is a choice.

I am the dreamer of the dream.  The "world" or universe is a dream in my mind.  There is nothing and no one outside me.  It is impossible that anything in the world comes to me by chance or accident.  In the world of dreams, I rule my destiny.  What seems to happen is exactly what I desire (separation from God), even though I may not be consciously aware of it.  What does not happen is what I do not want to happen.  I must accept this.  I can only desire two things:  a world seemingly apart from God, OR an existence with God.  Illusions or Truth.  Hell or Heaven.  Fantasy or Reality........ Understanding and accepting this, I am lead past the world of dreams to Heaven where I live as God's Son, with Him Who created me.  I am Safe in Heaven with my Father having a dream of being apart from Him.  Heaven is all around and within me.  I have blinded myself to It by creating a fantasy of being "separated from" God.  In order for me to Awaken to Reality, I must do my part by replacing all false thoughts with Thoughts of Truth and my Father will do the rest. 

Lesson 252 ~ I am the Holy Son of God

The Son of God is my Identity; Holy beyond all earth-bound thoughts of holiness.  My Holiness is Shimmering, Pure, and more Brilliant that any sight I have ever seen in the world of dreams.  Its Love is Limitless, Calm, Certain, and holds all things within It.  Its Strength does not come from the burning impulses which run the world, but from the Boundless Love of God Himself.  There is nothing and no one "outside" myself.  The world I seem to experience is a dream in my mind.  Yet, while I see this dream-world, I must treat all I see with the Love and Respect due the creation ~ or miscreation ~ of the Holy Son of God.  All that seems to attack, sadden, grieve, or bother me in any way, shape, or form, is a creation of my own making to "prove" to me that I am "separated from" God.  I can NEVER be separated from God.  I am Safe with my Father dreaming a dream of "separation from" my Father, a dream which can never be.  Yet in fantasy, anything is possible.  Today I will lay aside any thought or feeling which is not Eternal Peace, Love, or Joy.......and embrace only Truth.  I will do my part in my Awakening and God will do the rest.  How unlike the dream-world is my True Identity as Son of God.  Father, You know my True Identity as Your Son.  I will do my part of laying aside ~ or forgiving ~ illusions.  And You will reveal to me my Identity as Your Son that I may Awaken to Truth in You, and Know that Heaven is restored to me.