Lesson 123

  • Be Grateful, Be Thankful, Be Glad
  • Today let us be thankful. We have come
  • to gentler pathways and to smoother roads.
  • There is no thought of turning back and no
  • implacable resistance to the truth.
  • A bit of wavering remains – some small
  • objections and a little hesitance.
  • But you can well be grateful for your gains,
  • which are far greater than you realize.
  • A day devoted now to gratitude
  • will add the benefit of some insight
  • into the real extent of all the gains
  • which you have made, the gifts you have received.
  • Be glad today in loving thankfulness.
  • Your father has not left you to yourself,
  • nor let you wander in the dark alone.
  • Be grateful he has saved you from the self
  • you thought you made to take the place of him
  • and his creation. Give him thanks today.
  • Give thanks that he has not abandoned you
  • and that his love forever will remain
  • shining on you , forever without change.
  • Give thanks as well that you are changeless, for
  • the son he loves is changeless as himself.
  • Be grateful you are saved. Be glad you have
  • a function in salvation to fulfill.
  • Be thankful that your value far transcends
  • your meager gifts and petty judgments of
  • the one whom god established as his son.
  • Today in gratitutde we lift our hearts
  • above despair, and raise our thankful eyes,
  • no longer looking downward to the dust.
  • We sing the song of thankfulness today,
  • in honor of the self that god has willed
  • to be our true identity in him.
  • Today we smile on everyone we see
  • and walk with lightened footsteps as we go
  • to do what is appointed us to do.
  • We do not go alone, and we give thanks,
  • that in our solitude a friend has come
  • to speak the saving word of god to us.
  • And thanks to you for listening to him.
  • His word is soundless if it be not heard.
  • In thanking him the thanks are yours as well.
  • An unheard message will not save the world,
  • however mighty be the voice that speaks,
  • however loving may the message be.
  • Thanks be to you who heard, for you become
  • the messenger who brings his voice with you,
  • and lets it echo round and round the world.
  • Receive the thanks of god today, as you
  • give thanks to him. For he would offer you
  • the thanks you give, since he receives your gifts
  • in loving gratitude, and gives them back
  • a thousand and a hundred thousand more
  • than they were given. He will bless your gifts
  • by sharing them with you. And so they grow
  • in power and in strength, until they fill
  • the world with gladness and with gratitude.
  • Receive his thanks and offer yours to him
  • for fifteen minutes twice today.. And you
  • will realize to whom you offer thanks,
  • and whom he thanks as you are thanking him.
  • This holy half an hour given him
  • will be returned to you in terms of years
  • for every second; power to save the world
  • eons more quickly for your thanks to him.
  • Receive his thanks and you will understand
  • how lovingly he holds you in his mind,
  • how deep and limitless his care for you,
  • how perfect is his gratitude to you.
  • Remember hourly to think of him,
  • and give him thanks for everything he gave
  • his son, that he might rise above the world,
  • remembering his father and his self.

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