Lesson 125
- The World Will Change Through You
- Let this day be a day of stillness and
- of quiet listening. Your father wills
- you hear his word today. He calls to you
- from deep within your mind where he abides.
- Hear him today. No peace is possible
- until his word is heard around the world,
- until your mind, in quiet listening,
- accepts the message that the world must hear
- to usher in the quiet time of peace.
- This world will change through you. No other means
- can save it, for god’s plan is simply this:
- the son of god is free to save himself,
- given the word of god to be his guide,
- forever in his mind and at his side
- to lead him surely to his father’s house
- by his own will, forever free as god’s.
- He is not led by force, but only love.
- He is not judged, but only sanctified.
- In stillness we will hear god’s voice today
- without intrusion of our petty thoughts,
- without our personal desires, and
- without all judgment of his holy word.
- We will not judge ourselves today, for what
- we are cannot be judged. We stand apart
- from all the judgments which the world has laid
- upon the son of god. It knows him not.
- Today we wil not listen to the world
- but wait in silence for the word of god.
- Hear, holy son of god, your father speak.
- His voice would give to you his holy word
- to spread across the world the tidings of
- salvation and the holy time of peace.
- We gather at the throne of god today,
- the quiet place within the mind where he
- abides forever in the holiness
- that he created and will never leave.
- He has not waited until you return
- your mind to him to give his word to you.
- He has not hid himself from you while you
- have wandered off a little while from him.
- He does not cherish the illusions which
- you hold about yourself. He knows his son
- and will that he remain as part of him
- regardless of his dreams, regardless of
- his madness that his will is not his own.
- Today he speaks to you. His voice awaits
- your silence for his word cannot be heard
- until your mind is quiet for awhile
- and meaningless desires have been stilled.
- Await his word in quiet. There is peace
- within you to be called upon today
- to help make ready your most holy mind
- to hear the voice for its creator speak.
- Three times today, at times most suitable
- for silence, give ten minutes set apart
- from listening to the world and choose instead
- a gentle listening to the word of god.
- He speaks from nearer than your heart to you.
- His voice is closer than your hand. His love
- is everything you are and that he is:
- the same as you and you the same as he.
- It is your voice to which you listen as
- he speaks to you; it is your word he speaks.
- It is the word of freedom and of peace,
- of unity of will and purpose, with
- no separation nor division in
- the single mind of father and of son.
- In quiet listen to your self today
- and let him tell you god has never left
- his son and you have never left your self.
- Only be quiet. You will need no rule
- but this to let your practicing today
- lift you above the thinking of the world
- and free your vision from the body’s eyes.
- Only be still and listen. You will hear
- the word in which the will of god the son
- joins in his father’s will, at one with it,
- with no illusions interposed between
- the wholly indivisible and true.
- As every hour passes by today,
- be still a moment and remind yourself
- you have a special purpose for this day –
- in quiet to receive the word of god.
