Abba, Thy Will, not mine, be done. Show me Your Perspective and the Truth.

Let me drop my best definitions and be open to What Your Voice tells me. Beloved Abba: Please, show me Yourself w/in all I behold. Holy Spirit, You Who abide in me, teach me the eternal & divine truth. Thank you. I m determined to see only the evidence of Love (& Healing). I intend to Be the embodiment of Love (& Healing). H.S.:Choose for God for me.

Lesson 1 Nothing I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place) means anything. Now look slowly around you, and practice applying this idea very specifically to whatever you see:[4] This table does not mean anything. This chair does not mean anything. This hand does not mean anything. This pen does not mean anything. Then look farther away from your immediate area, and apply the idea to a wider range: That door does not mean anything. That body does not mean anything. That lamp does not mean anything. That sign does not mean anything. That shadow does not mean anything. Notice that these statements are not arranged in any order, and make no allowance for differences in the kinds of things to which they are applied. That is the purpose of the exercise. The statement is merely applied to anything you see. As you practice applying the idea for the day, use it totally indiscriminately. Do not attempt to apply it to everything you see, for these exercises should not become ritualistic. Only be sure that nothing you see is specifically excluded. One thing is like another as far as the application of the idea is concerned. Lesson 2 I have given everything I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place) all the meaning that it has for me. The exercises with this idea are the same as those for the first one. Begin with the things that are near you, and apply the idea to whatever your glance rests on. Then increase the range outward. Turn your head so that you include whatever is to either side. If possible, turn around and apply the idea to what was behind you. Remain as indiscriminate as possible in selecting subjects for its application, do not concentrate on anything in particular, and do not attempt to include everything in an area or you will introduce strain. Merely glance easily and fairly quickly around you, trying to avoid selection by size, brightness, color, material, or relative importance to you. Take the subjects simply as you see them. Try to apply the exercise with equal ease to a body or a button, a fly or a floor, an arm or an apple. The sole criterion for applying the idea to anything is merely that your eyes have lighted on it. Make no attempt to include anything in particular, but be sure that nothing is specifically excluded. Lesson 3 I do not understand anything I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place). Apply this idea in the same way as the previous ones, without making distinctions of any kind. Whatever you see becomes a proper subject for applying the idea. Be sure that you do not question the suitability of anything for the application of the idea. These are not exercises in judgment. Anything is suitable if you see it. Some of the things you see may have emotionally-charged meaning for you. Try to lay such feelings aside, and merely use these things exactly as you would anything else. The point of the exercises is to help you clear your mind of all past associations, to see things exactly as they appear to you now, and to realize how little you really understand about them. It is therefore essential that you keep a perfectly open mind, unhampered by judgment, in selecting the things to which the idea for the day is to be applied. For this purpose one thing is like another; equally suitable and therefore equally useful. Lesson 4 These thoughts do not mean anything. They are like the things I see in this room (on this street, from this window, in this place). Unlike the preceding ones, these exercises do not begin with the idea for the day. In these practice periods, begin with noting the thoughts that are crossing your mind for about a minute. Then apply the idea to them. If you are already aware of unhappy thoughts use them as subjects for the idea. Do not, however, select only the thoughts you think are bad. You will find, if you train yourself to look at your thoughts, that they represent such a mixture that, in a sense, none of them can be called good or bad. This is why they do not mean anything. In selecting the subjects for the application of today's idea, the usual specificity is required. Do not be afraid to use good thoughts as well as bad. None of them represent your real thoughts, which are being covered up by them. The good ones of which you are aware are but shadows of what lies beyond, and shadows make sight difficult. The bad ones are blocks to sight, and make seeing impossible. You do not want either. This is a major exercise, and will be repeated from time to time in somewhat different form. The aim here is to train you in the first steps toward the goal of separating the meaningless from the meaningful. It is a first attempt in the long-range purpose of learning to see the meaningless as outside you and the meaningful within. It is also the beginning of training your mind to recognize what is the same and what is different. In using your thoughts for application of the idea for today, identify each thought by the central figure or event it contains; for example: This thought about ___ does not mean anything. It is like the things I see in this room (or wherever you are) You can also use the idea for a particular thought which you recognize as harmful. This practice is useful, but is not a substitute for the more random procedures to be followed for the exercises. Do not, however, examine your mind for more than a minute or so. You are too inexperienced as yet to avoid a tendency to become pointlessly preoccupied. Further, since these exercises are the first of their kind, you may find the suspension of judgment in connection with thoughts particularly difficult. Do not repeat these exercises more than three or four times during the day. We will return to them later.

Lesson 5 I am never upset for the reason I think. This idea, like the preceding one, can be used with any person, situation or event you think is causing you pain. Apply it specifically to whatever you believe is the cause of your upset, using the description of the feeling in whatever term seems accurate to you. The upset may seem to be fear, worry, depression, anxiety, anger, hatred, jealousy, or any number of forms, all of which will be perceived as different. This is not true. However, until you learn that form does not matter, each form becomes a proper subject for the exercises for the day. Applying the same idea to each of them separately is the first step in ultimately recognizing they are all the same. When using the idea for today for a specific perceived cause of an upset in any form, use both the name of the form in which you see the upset, and the cause which you ascribe to it. For example: I am not angry at ____ for the reason I think. I am not afraid of ____ for the reason I think. But again, this should not be substituted for practice periods in which you first search your mind for sources of upset in which you believe, and forms of upset which you think result. In these exercises, more than in the preceding ones, you may find it hard to be indiscriminate, and to avoid giving greater weight to some subjects than to others. It might help to precede the exercises with the statement: There are no small upsets. They are all equally disturbing to my peace of mind. Then examine your mind for whatever is distressing you, regardless of how much or how little you think it is doing so. You may also find yourself less willing to apply today's idea to some perceived sources of upset than to others. If this occurs, think first of this: I cannot keep this form of upset and let the others go. For the purposes of these exercises, then, I will regard them all as the same. Then search your mind for no more than a minute or so, and try to identify a number of different forms of upset that are disturbing you, regardless of the relative importance you may give them. Apply the idea for today to each of them, using the name of both the source of the upset as you perceive it, and of the feelings as you experience it. Further examples are: I am not worried about ____ for the reason I think. I am not depressed about ____ for the reason I think. Three or four times during the day is enough.
I am God's Son, complete and healed and whole, shining in the reflection of His Love. In me is His creation sanctified and guaranteed eternal life. In me is love perfected, fear impossible, and joy established without opposite. I am the holy home of God Himself. I am the Heaven where His Love resides. I am His holy Sinlessness Itself, for in my purity abides His own. Truth answers every call we make to God, responding first with miracles, and then returning unto us to be Itself. No call to God can be unheard or left unanswered. And of this I can be sure; His answer is the one I really want. God's answer is some form of peace. All pain is healed; all misery replaced with joy. All prison doors are opened. And all sin is understood as merely a mistake. Peace be to me, the holy Son of God. Peace to my brother, who is one with me. with peace through us. Let all the world be blessed

As we were reminded in the lesson yesterday, this process requires great honesty. If we are defending and justifying, we are not being

"This is the only thing that you need do for vision, happiness, release from pain, and the complete escape from sin, all to be given you. Say only this, but mean it with no reservations, for here the power of salvation lies: I am responsible for what I see. I choose the feelings I experience, and I decide upon the goal I would achieve. And everything that seems to happen to me I ask for, and receive as I have asked" (Chapter 21.II.2)
honest. Honesty requires that we take total responsibility.

I am the holy Son of God Himself. In immortality I live forever. Would I not return my mind to this? I am not a body. I am free. For I am still as God created me.
God is with me. I live and move in Him. God is with me. He is my Source of life, the life within, the air I breathe, the food by which I am sustained, the water which renews and cleanses me. He is my home, wherein I live and move; the Spirit which directs my actions, offers me Its Thoughts, and guarantees my safety from all pain. He covers me with kindness and with care, and holds in love the Son He shines upon, who also shines on Him. How still is he who knows the truth of what He speaks today!

<Father, we have no words except Your Name upon our lips and in our minds, as we come quietly into Your Presence now, and ask to rest with You in peace a while.>
I am not a body. I am free. I hear the Voice that God has given me, and it is only This (Voice) my mind obeys. Peace to all seeking hearts today. The light has come to offer miracles to bless the tired world. It will find rest today, for we will offer what we have received.

I am curious to hear Your Voice guide me through out the day. Lead me to where I should go, what I should do, & who I should meet. Give me the means to get there and do what is appointed to me. Help me to see my brothers through the eyes of truth and not of judgment. Let me remember that Your Will is mine. I would be the channel that You work Your miracles through. Your healing Voice protects all things today, and so I leave all things to You. I need be anxious over nothing. For Your Voice will tell me what to do and where to go; to whom to speak and what to say to him, what thoughts to think, what words to give the world. The safety that I bring is given me. Father, Your Voice protects all things through me.

Be comforted. You are not asked to do anything. There is a time when to step back is all that is asked of you. It is a time of rest and not of strain; a time of peace and not a time of conflict. That time is almost here. It seems fearful because it is not under your control. But think a minute; stop and think honestly about what your control has done; what it has brought to you. You have been caught in a trap from which you never could escape. Conflict, guilt and fear have come with you and never left your side. Each one of you has done this differently, yet each has come to the same place; the same impasse. And now it seems to each of you that there is no escape. For it is true that you cannot escape alone. Your stories seem to differ, for they do take different forms. Yet their one content makes you brothers. Dwell not upon the differences or you are lost. It is in recognizing the common content; the common need, that you are saved! The mess that is your lives is an illusion. What can the form of dreams resolve? There is no answer to a question not yet asked, for it would not be recognized. Ask only this: Will I fulfill the function given me? What else is there to ask? Why must I know the form in which the answer comes to me? God answers, "Yes" and it is done. No more than this is meaningful to you. It is not He Who would withhold the future and leave you fearful. You could not accept His "yes" in forms you would not understand. Things still in time unfold as is appointed them, and many things remain undone as yet. Plans based upon intangibles cannot be fully shown to you. And what has not as yet occurred must be intangible. This phase of learning has a single lesson for all the forms your problems seem to take. To God all things are possible, but you must ask His answer only of Himself. Perhaps you think you do, but be you sure that if you had (did) you would be quiet now and wholly undismayed by anything. Do not attempt to guess His Will for you. Do not assume that you are right because an answer seems to come from Him. Be sure you ask, and then be still and let Him speak. There is no problem He cannot resolve, for it is never He Who keeps apart some questions to be solved by someone else. You cannot share the world with Him and make half of it His while half belongs to you. Truth makes no compromise. To keep apart a little is to keep all separate. Your life, complete and whole, belongs to God or none of it is His. There is no thought in all the world that seems more terrible. Yet it is only when this thought appears in perfect clarity that there is hope in peace and safety for the mind so long kept dark and twisted to avoid the light. This is the light. Step back and do not dwell upon the forms that seem to keep you bound. You will fulfill your function. And will have whatever you will need. God does not fail. But lay no limits on what you would give to Him to be resolved. For He cannot offer a thousand answers when but one is all there is. Accept this one of Him, and not one question will remain to ask. Do not forget if you attempt to solve a problem, you have judged it for yourself and so you have betrayed your proper role. Grandeur, which comes from God, establishes that judgment is impossible for you. But grandiosity insists you judge, and bring to this all problems that you have. And what is the result? Look carefully upon your life and let it speak for you. Is this frail breath and deep uncertainty your choice for you? Or would you rather rest in surety, certain you would not fail in your request to have all problems happily resolved? Do not mistake the fine disguises you can use to cover judgment. It appears as charity, as mercy and as love; as pity, understanding and as care. And yet you know it is not what it seems because the problem still remains unsolved, and comes to haunt your mind in evil dreams. What have you kept from God that you would hide behind your judgment? What have you concealed beneath the cloak of kindness and concern? Use no one for your needs, for that is "sin," and you will pay the penalty in guilt. Remember you need nothing, but you have an endless store of loving gifts to give. But teach this lesson only to yourself. Your brother will not learn it from your words or from the judgments you have laid on him. You need not even speak a word to him. You cannot ask, "What shall I say to him?" and hear God's answer. Rather ask instead, "Help me to see this brother through the eyes of truth and not of judgment," and the help of God and all His angels will respond. For only here we rest. We cast away our little judgments and our petty words; our tiny problems and our false concerns. We have attempted to be master of our destiny and thought that peace lay there. Freedom and judgment is impossible. But by your side is One Who knows the way. Step back for Him and let Him lead you to the rest and silence of the Word of God. God I am willing to release my judgments of myself and accept your love. I have not left You to enter in a body and to die. Now "I stand ready to receive Your Word alone for what I really am." Now we turn to another Guide, the Holy Spirit who offers us the memory of God's Love for us and now we have another choice. He teaches us that the only really meaningful choice we can make in time is to allow His purpose to guide us whenever we make a decision and instead of looking for the perfect ego dream, we now learn to release our own judgments on how everything should be and what outcomes should look like. And that requires stepping back outside of the dream and looking from above the battleground. The lesson offers beautiful opportunity today to use as a practice when we are tempted to get upset. If I see something disturbing to my mind, I can immediately respond with God wills that I be saved from this. And when we choose peace, what was hidden is now revealed. It is the beautiful altar of peace that is within us. When we withdraw support from the illusions of war and malice, they go down to dust and we see the beauty of our innocence. Lets go through the day in confidence that God is on the side of our happiness. I need but look upon all things that seem to hurt me and with perfect certainty and conviction say God wills that I be saved from this. Anything that is causing you pain and unhappiness is grist for application of this lesson. Tell yourself with assurance that God would not have you suffer. God only wants your happiness. Now watch your upset disappear. Gods power trumps anything you are concerned about. He only wants our happiness,

keeping us safe. Feel His protection and safety all through the day and when it seems to disappear, remind yourself again and again about His kindness and love for you.

Be in my mind, my Father, through the day. <Be in my mind, my Father, when I wake, and shine on me throughout the day today. Let every minute be a time in which I dwell with You. And let me not forget my hourly thanksgiving that You have remained with me, and always will be there to hear my call to You and answer me. As evening comes, let all my thoughts be still of You and of Your Love. And let me sleep sure of my safety, certain of Your care, and happily aware I am Your Son.>
This is as every day should be. Today, practice the end of fear. Have faith in Him Who is your Father. Trust all things to Him. Let Him reveal all things to you, and be you undismayed because you are His Son.

God in His mercy wills that I be saved.

I need but look upon all things that seem to hurt me, and with perfect certainty assure myself, "God wills that I be saved from this," and merely watch them disappear. I need but keep in mind my Father's Will for me is only happiness, to find that only happiness has come to me. And I need but remember that God's Love surrounds His Son and keeps his sinlessness forever perfect, to be sure that I am saved and safe forever in His Arms. I am the Son He loves. And I am saved because God in His mercy wills it so. <Father, Your Holiness is mine. Your Love created me, and

made my sinlessness forever part of You. I have no guilt nor sin in me, for there is none in You.> <Father, we do not know the way to You. But we have called, and You have answered us. We will not interfere. Salvation's ways are not our own, for they belong to You. And it is unto You we look for them. Our hands are open to receive Your gifts. We have no thoughts we think apart from You, and cherish no beliefs of what we are, or Who created us. Yours is the way that we would find and follow. And we ask but that Your Will, which is our own as well, be done in us and in the world, that it become a part of Heaven now. Amen.>
Holy Spirit, I offer my mind and body to you today. My thoughts I give you. Cleanse them of false beliefs, that they may express only your Love. Direct my words, my hands, my feet, that I may bring this message of Love to all my brothers in perfect peace. I am a holy Son of God. I am worthy of His peace and with His peace comes perfect health, for what is illness but an outer demonstration of an inner conflict? I give my mind over to You, Holy Spirit, to direct. That is my desire, my will. I would follow You, knowing that you lead me on the path of Light that brings me to the peace of God. I stand in gratitude and joy to receive Your gifts and share them with all the world. Amen. We need to see that every belief in our own limits is a belief that God is limited; every belief that I am imprisoned or trapped in some way is a belief that God is imprisoned and trapped. Notice what we are doing. Acknowledge we are doing it. And simply tell God, for instance, "I'm seeing You as limited and blocked, and You are not limited and blocked. Help me to see that." And that is all.

Father, I ask for nothing but the truth. I have had many foolish thoughts about myself and my creation, and have brought a dream of fear into my mind. Today, I would not dream. I choose the way to You instead of madness and instead of fear. For truth is safe, and only love is sure. That is all. Acknowledge that you have had "foolish thoughts" (not "sinful thoughts"), and ask for the truth. That's all.
In Chapter 20. IV "Entering the Ark" he says "You may wonder how you can be at peace when, while you are in time, there is so much that must be done before the way to peace is open. Perhaps that seems impossible to you. But ask yourself if it is possible that God would have a plan for your salvation that does not work. Once you accept His plan (His perspective, regaining sanity) as the one function that you would fulfill, there will be nothing else the Holy Spirit will not arrange for you without your effort. He will go before you making straight your path, and leaving in your way no stones to trip on, and no obstacles to bar your way. Nothing you need will be denied you. Not one seeming difficulty but will melt away before you reach it. You need take thought for nothing, careless of everything except the only purpose that you would fulfill. As that was given you, so will its fulfillment be. God's guarantee will hold against all obstacles for it rests on certainty and not contingency. It rests on you. And what can be more certain than a Son of God". Jesus recognizes our instability on this path when he says "you who are sometimes sad and sometimes angry; who sometimes feel your just due is not given you, and your best efforts meet with lack of appreciation and even contempt; give up these foolish thoughts! They are too small and meaningless to occupy your holy mind an instant longer. God's judgment waits for you to set you free" (M. 15.3.1) And what is God's judgment of us? That we are holy never sinned and are forever innocent. I think that when we begin to grasp that what we really want is peace-in every situation-things start to fall into proper perspective. Say it looks like I may lose my job, or a relationship that I believe I need. Say it looks as if I don't have enough money. I find myself, more or less, praying for that job, or that relationship, or that money. Or perhaps I'm not up to prayer so I just obsess about the situation. I'm thinking this is what I want. If, when that happens, I can begin to recognize that what I really want is some form of peace, I've made a giant step. It isn't the job I want; it's the form of peace I think it brings. It isn't the relationship I really want;

it's the peace I think lies in it. It isn't the money I need; it is the peace of mind I think it buys me. The prayer of the heart does not really ask for concrete things. It always requests some kind of experience, the specific things asked for being the bringers of the desired experience in the opinion of the asker. (M-21.2:4-5) When I begin to realize that I am not really asking for things but for the experience of peace I think they bring me, I can start to ask for peace directly, bypassing my (perhaps) mistaken opinion that a certain "thing" will bring me that experience. I can open my mind to the possibility that God will bring me the peace of mind I seek through another avenue than the one I see. Once I can begin to let go of my insistence that the answer must come in a certain form, I will much more quickly be aware of God's answer. I may find I can experience the peace of God completely independent of form. I may find that the peace comes to me in a form I could never have anticipated. I will lose my anxiety over whether or not the form I first envisioned as what I needed ever comes to me at all. If peace of mind comes, I am satisfied because this is all I really ever want.