Lesson 122
- Forgiveness offers everything I want
- What could you want forgiveness cannot give?
- Do you want peace? Forgiveness offers it.
- Do you want happiness? A quiet mind,
- a certainty of purpose, and a sense
- of worth and beauty that transcends the world?
- Do you want care and safety, and the warmth
- of sure protection always? Do you want
- a quietness that cannot be disturbed?
- A gentleness that never can be hurt?
- A deep abiding comfort and a rest
- so perfect it can never be upset?
- All this forgiveness offers you and more.
- It sparkles on your eyes as you awake
- and gives you joy with which to meet the day.
- It soothes your forehead while you sleep and rests
- upon your eyelids so you see no dreams
- of fear and evil, malice and attack.
- And when you wake again it offers you
- another day of happiness and peace.
- All this forgiveness offers you and more.
- Forgiveness lets the veil be lifted up
- that hides the face of chirst from those who look
- with unforgiving eyes upon the world.
- It lets you recognize the son of god
- and clears your memory of all dead thoughts
- so that remembrance of your father can
- arise across the threshold of your mind.
- What would you want forgiveness cannot give?
- What gifts but these are worthy to be sought?
- What fancied value, trivial effect,
- or transient promise, never to be kept,
- can hold more hope that what forgiveness brings?
- Why would you seek an answer other than
- the answer that will answer everything?
- Here is the perfect answer given to
- imperfect questions, meaningless requests,
- halfhearted willingness to hear and less
- than halfway diligence and partial trust.
- Here is the answer! Seek for it no more –
- you will not find another one instead.
- God’s plan for your salvation cannot change,
- nor can it fail. Be thankful it remains
- exactly as he planned it. Changelessly
- it stands before you like an open door
- with warmth and welcome calling from beyond
- the doorway, bidding you to enter in
- and make yourself at home where you belong.
- Here is the answer! Would you stand outside
- while all of heaven waits for you within?
- Forgive and be forgiven; as you give
- you will receive. There is no plan but this
- for the salvation of the son of god.
- Let us today rejoice that this is so,
- for here we have an answer — clear and plain
- beyond deceit in its simplicity.
- All the complexities the world has spun
- of fragile cobwebs disappear before
- the power and the majesty of this
- extremely simple statement of the truth.
