Lesson 124
- I Am One with God, with
- my Brothers, and with my Self
- Today we will again give thanks for our
- identity in god. Our home is safe,
- protection guaranteed in all we do,
- power and strength available to us
- in all our undertakings. We can fail
- in nothing; everything we touch takes on
- a shining light that blesses and that heals.
- At one with god and with the universe ,
- we go our way rejoicing with the thought
- that god himself goes everywhere with us.
- How holy are our minds! And everything
- we see reflects the holiness within
- the mind at one with god and with itself.
- How easily do errors disappear
- and death give place to everlasting life.
- Our shining footprints point the way to truth,
- for god is our companinion as we walk
- the world a little while, and those who come
- to follow us will recognize the way
- because the light we carry stays behind,
- yet still remains with us as we walk on.
- What we receive is our eternal gift
- to those who follow after and to those
- who went before or stayed with us awhile.
- And god, who loves us with the equal love
- in which we were created, smiles on us
- and offers us the happiness we gave.
- Today we will not doubt his love for us
- nor question his protection and his care.
- No meaningless anxieties can come
- between our faith and our awareness of
- his presence. We are one with him today
- in recognition and remembrance.
- We feel him in our hearts. Our minds contain
- his thoughts, our eyes behold his loveliness
- in all we look upon. Today we see
- only the loving and the lovable.
- We see it in appearances of pain,
- and pain gives way to peace. We see it in
- the frantic, in the sad and the distressed,
- the lonely and afraid, who are restored
- to the tranquility and peace of mind
- in which they were created. And we see
- it in the dying and the dead as well,
- restoring them to life. All this we see
- because we saw it first within ourselves.
- No miracle can ever be denied
- to those who know that they are one with god.
- No thought of theirs but has the pow’r to heal
- all forms of suffering in anyone,
- in times gone by and times as yet to come,
- as easily as in the ones who walk
- beside them now; their thoughts are timeless and
- apart from distance as apart from time.
- We join in this awareness as we say
- that we are one with god, for in these words
- we say as well that we are saved and healed –
- that we can save and heal accordingly.
- We have accepted and we now would give,
- for we would keep the gifts our father gave.
- Today we would experience ourselves
- at one with him, so that the world may share
- our recognition of reality.
- In our experience the world is freed.
- As we deny our separation from
- our father, it is healed along with us.
- Peace be to you today. Secure your peace
- by practicing awareness you are one
- with your creator, as he is with you.
- Sometime today, whenever it seems best,
- devote a half an hour to the thought
- that you are one with god. This is our first
- attempt at an extended period
- for which we give no rules nor special words
- to guide your meditation – we will trust
- god’s voice to speak as he sees fit today,
- certain he will not fail. Abide with him
- this half an hour; he will do the rest.
- Your benefit will not be less if you
- believe that nothing happens – you may not
- be ready to accept the gain today.
- Yet sometime, somewhere, it will come to you
- Nor will you fail to recognize it when
- it dawns with certainty upon your mind.
- This half an hour will be framed in gold,
- with every minute like a diamond set
- around the mirror that this exercise
- will offer you, and you will see christ’s face
- upon it, in reflection of your own.
- Perhaps today, perhaps tomorrow, you
- will see your own transfiguration in
- the glass this holy half an hour will
- hold out to you to look upon yourself.
- When you are ready you will find it there,
- within your mind and waiting to be found.
- You will remember then the thought to which
- you gave this half an hour, thankfully
- aware no time was ever better spent.
- Perhaps today, perhaps tomorrow, you
- will look into this glass and understand
- the sinless light you see belongs to you;
- the loveliness you look on is your own.
- Count this half hour as your gift to god,
- in certainty that his return will be
- a sense of love you cannot understand,
- a joy too deep for you to comprehend,
- a sight too holy for the body’s eyes
- to see, and yet you can be sure someday,
- perhaps today, perhaps tomorrow, you
- will understand and comprehend and see.
- Add further jewels to the golden frame
- that holds the mirror offered you today
- by hourly repeating to yourself,
- “Let me remember I am one with god,
- at one with all my brothers and my self,
- in everlasting holiness and peace.”
