we continue today with chapter 8 the
gift of freedom if God's will for you is
complete peace and joy unless you
experience only this you must be
refusing to acknowledge his will his
well does not desolate being changeless
forever when you are not a piece
it can only be because you do not
believe you are in him yet he is all in
all his piece is complete and you must
be included in it
his laws governing you because they
govern everything you cannot exempt
yourself from his laws although you can
disobey them if you do and only if you
do you will feel lonely and helpless
because you are denying yourself
everything i am come as a light into a
world that does deny itself everything
it does this simply bide associating
itself from everything
it is therefore an illusion of isolation
maintained by fear of the same
loneliness that is its illusion i said
that i am with you always even unto the
end of time the world that is why I am
the light of the world if I am with you
in the loneliness of the world the
loneliness is gone you cannot maintain
the illusion of loneliness if you are
not alone my purpose then is still to
overcome the world
I do not attack it but my light must
dispel it because of what it is light
does not attack darkness but it does
shine it away if my light goes with you
everywhere you shine it away with me the
light becomes ours and you cannot abide
in darkness
any more than darkness can abide
wherever you go the remembrance of me is
the remembrance of yourself and of him
who sent me to you you were in darkness
until God's Will was done completely by
any part of the sonship when this was
done it was perfectly accomplished by
all
how else could be perfectly accomplished
my mission was simply to unite the world
of the sonship with the will of the
Father by being aware of the Father's
will myself this is the awareness i came
to give you and your problem in
accepting it is the problem of this
world spelling it is salvation and in
this sense i am the salvation of the
world the world must therefore the spies
and reject me because the world is the
belief that love is impossible if you
will accept the fact that i am with you
you are denying the world and accepting
God my will is his in your decision to
hear me is a decision to hear his voice
and abide in his will as God sent me to
you so i will send you to others and i
will go to them with you so we can teach
them peace and union do you not think
the world needs peace as much as you do
do you not want to give it to the world
as much as you want to receive it for
unless you do you will not receive it if
you want to habit of me
you must get healing does not come from
anyone else
you must accept guidance from within the
guidance must be what you want or will
be meaningless to you that is why
healing is a collaborative venture i
could tell you what to do but you must
collaborate by believing that I know
what you should do
only then will your mind choose to
follow me
how's this choice you could not be
healed because you would have decided
against healing and this rejection of my
decision for you makes healing
impossible healing reflects our joint
will this is obvious when you consider
what healing is for healing is the way
in which the separation is overcome
separation is overcome by union it
cannot be overcome by separating the
decision to night must be unequivocal
for the mind itself is divided and not
hold your mind is the means by which you
determine your own condition because
mind is the mechanism of decision it is
the power by which you separate or
drawing and experienced pain or joy
accordingly my decision cannot overcome
yours because yours is as powerful as
mine if it were not so the sons of God
would be unequal all things are possible
through our joint decision but mine
alone cannot help you
your will is free as mine and God
himself would not go against it i cannot
will what God does not will I can offer
my strength to make yours invincible but
i cannot oppose your decision without
competing with it and thereby violating
God's will for you
nothing God created can oppose your
decision has nothing God created can
oppose his will God gave your will
its power which I can only acknowledge
and honor of his if you want to be like
me I will help you knowing that we are
alike if you want to be different i will
wait until you change your mind I can
teach you but only you can choose to
listen to my teaching how else can it be
if God's kingdom is freedom freedom
cannot be learned by tyranny of any kind
and the perfect equality of all God's
sons
cannot be recognized through the dump
dominion of one mind over another
godson's are equal and we'll all being
the will of their father this is the
only lesson I came to teach if your will
were not mine it would not be our
fathers this would mean you have been
present chores and have not let it be
free of yourself you can do nothing
because of yourself you are nothing
I am nothing without the father and you
are nothing without me because by
denying the father you deny yourself I
will always remember you and in my
remembrance of you lies your remembrance
of yourself in our remembrance of each
other lies are remembrance of God and
then this remembrance lies your freedom
because your freedom is in him join then
with me in praise of him and you whom he
created this is our gift of gratitude to
him which he will share with all his
creations to whom he gives equally
whatever is acceptable to him because it
is acceptable to him
it is the gift of freedom which is his
will for all his sons by offering
freedom you will be free freedom is the
only gift you can offer to God sons
being an acknowledgement of what they
are and what he is freedom is creation
because it is love whom you seek to
imprison you do not love
therefore when you seek to imprison
anyone including yourself
you do not love him and you cannot
identify with him and you in prison
yourself you're losing sight of your
true identification with me and with the
father your identification is with the
father and I
the Sun it cannot be with one and not
the other
if you are part of one you must be part
of the other because they are one the
Holy Trinity is wholly because it is one
if you exclude yourself from this Union
you are perceiving the Holy Trinity is
separated you must be included in it
because it is everything unless you take
your place in it and fulfill your
function as part of it the Holy Trinity
is bereft as you are no part of it can
be imprisoned if its truth is to be known.
And from the workbook, lesson 59
the following ideas are for review today God
goes with me wherever I go
how can I be alone when God always goes
with me
how can I be doubtful and unsure of
myself when perfect certainty abides in
him
how can I be disturbed by anything when
he rest in me in absolute peace how can
I suffer when love and joy surround me
through him
let me not cherish illusions about
myself i am perfect because God goes
with me wherever I go
god is my strength vision is his gift
let me not look to my own eyes to see
today let me be willing to exchange my
pitiful illusion of seeing for the
vision that is given by God
Christ vision is his gift and he has
given it to me
let me call upon this gift today so that
the stay may help me to understand
eternity
god is my source i cannot see apart from
him i can see what God wants me to see I
can't see anything else beyond his will
why only illusions it is these I choose
when I think I can see apart from him
it is these I choose when i try to see
through the body size yet the vision of
Christ has been given me to replace them
it is through this vision that I choose
to see God is the light in which I see
I cannot see in darkness
God is the only light therefore if i am
to see it must be through him I have
tried to define what seeing is and i
have been wrong
now it is given me to understand that
God is the light in which I see let me
welcome vision and the happy world it
will show me God is the mind with which
i think i have no thoughts I do not
share with god I had no thoughts apart
from him because i have no mind apart
from his as part of his mind
my thoughts are his and his thoughts are
mine
So today
is a day of opening to unification
and identification with God.
It's an opening to freedom.
By offering the gift of freedom to all of God sons
as an acknowledgement of what they are
and what He is,
then freedom is given me.
The ego has been the attempt to imprison myself,
and everyone.
When you imprison yourself you're losing sight of your true identification.
Identification with Christ.
Identification with God.
As the Trinities unified,
so the Father and Son are One.
I and the father are one.
Everything must be unified to be known.
Truth is all that can be known.
Self as Christ at one with God,
is all that can be known.
And healing reflects our joint will,
separation is overcome by union.
The decision to unite must be an equivocal,
or the mind itself is divided and not whole.
Mind is the mechanism of decision.
I must join my decision with the Christ.
And accepting myself as God created me,
all things are possible through this joint decision.
My will is free because my will is God's.
I must accept God's will for me.
And so we join with the mind of Christ.
We listened with great attentiveness
as Jesus extends this lovely invitation
of eternal life.
If you want to be like me I will help you,
knowing that we are like.
If you want to be different, I will wait until you change your mind.
I can teach you but only you can choose to listen to my teaching.
How else can it be,
if God's kingdom is freedom?
So we practice,
we practice today,
with the thoughts that are giving us.
The thoughts of peace,
the thoughts of freedom.
God goes with me wherever I go.
God is my strength vision is his gift
God is my source I cannot see apart from him.
God is the light in which I see
God is the mind with which I think
Amen