August 4, 2020
Lesson 218 – Review of Lesson 198
I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.
(198) Only my condemnation injures me. My condemnation keeps my vision dark, and through my sightless eyes I cannot see the vision of my glory. Yet today I can behold this glory and be glad.
I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me. W-pI.218.1:1-6
There is nothing that keeps us unaware of our wholeness and holiness other than our own conflicting thoughts. This is not to blame ourselves. Nor is it to make us feel worse about ourselves. This lesson is meant to show us we have another choice. We have a choice to see ourselves, each other and the world differently. Our real, natural world is one of peace and joy. Yet, our mistaken thoughts and beliefs can keep the real world from our eyes. We have the choice to simply change our mind and see differently, and thus find our world transformed. I am reminded of the prayer response, “ What I believe I will see.”
Injury is impossible. And yet illusion makes illusion. If you can condemn, you can be injured. For you have believed that you can injure, and the right you have established for yourself can be now used against you, till you lay it down as valueless, unwanted and unreal. Then does illusion cease to have effects, and those it seemed to have will be undone. Then are you free, for freedom is your gift, and you can now receive the gift you gave. W-pI.198.1:1-6
Forgiveness is the key to changing our thoughts. Forgiveness is truly a change of mind, a changing of our thoughts we believe to more correct thoughts. We are meant to see ourselves as we really are, whole, complete and holy. We re also meant to see each other whole, complete and holy, for that is our real Self in Oneness. All the seeming hurtful conditions we think we see are mistaken dreams our egoic thought system has made up to reinforce the belief we hold that we are fragmented and incomplete and somehow unclean. Nothing could be further from the truth. Take a step back and be still for a moment.
The stillness of your Self remains unmoved, untouched by thoughts like these, and unaware of any condemnation which could need forgiveness. Dreams of any kind are strange and alien to the truth. And what but truth could have a Thought which builds a bridge to it that brings illusions to the other side? W-pI.198.8:1-3
This bridge is ours to take any time we wish. We can cross it many times. We can see it in many ways, many forms. It is revealed to us in a perfect way whenever we need it and when we allow ourselves to see it. The other side is our home, our Heaven on earth and in this world. Our forgiveness, even just our willingness to welcome forgiveness, reveals this bridge and the truth of our value and worth beyond it. Willingly step onto this bridge and the peace, love and joy we’ve been seeking with rise within us in healing memory.
Now is there silence all around the world. Now is there stillness where before there was a frantic rush of thoughts that made no sense. Now is there tranquil light across the face of earth, made quiet in a dreamless sleep. W-pI.198.11:1-3
All that remains upon the world we see is the truth of what is real. Only that quiet stillness can be perceived an instant longer. Now symbols are done, and everything we ever thought we made completely vanishes from the mind that our Creator knows forever to be Us. We no longer have any need of thoughts of condemnation or injury. They are meaningless in this world of perfect love and peace. And now the joy of freedom to be who we really are blesses us with the infinite peace and love we truly are. Step on that bridge and cross over now. Happiness is waiting just over this bridge.
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