Lee Flynn
2011-05-24 17:52:01 UTC
3153. Who can feel desolation except NOW? A FUTURE
cause as yet HAS no effects. And therefore MUST it be that,
if you fear, there is a PRESENT cause. And it is THIS that
needs correction, NOT a future state. The plans YOU make
for safety all are laid within the future, where you CANNOT
plan. No purpose has been GIVEN it as yet, and what WILL
happen has as yet no cause. Who can predict effects without
a cause? And who could fear effects UNLESS he thought they
had BEEN caused, and judged disastrous NOW? **Belief in
sin arouses fear, and like its cause, is looking forward;
looking back, but OVERLOOKING what is here and now.**
3154. Yet only here and now its cause must be, if its
effects ALREADY have been judged as fearful. And, in
overlooking THIS, is it protected and kept separate from
healing. For a miracle is NOW. It stands ALREADY there,
in present grace, within the only interval of time which
sin and fear have overlooked, but which is all there IS to
time. The working out of ALL correction takes no time at
all. But the ACCEPTANCE of the working out can SEEM to
take forever. The change of purpose the Holy Spirit brought
to your relationship has IN it all effects that you will see.
They can be looked at NOW. Why wait till they unfold in
time, and fear they may NOT come, although already
THERE?
3155. **You have been told that everything brings good
that comes from God. And yet it SEEMS as if this is not so.
Good in disaster's form is difficult to credit in advance.**
Nor is there really SENSE in this idea. Why SHOULD the
good appear in evil's form? And is it not deception if it
does? Its CAUSE is here, if it appears at all. Why are not its
effects apparent, then? Why in the future? And you seek to
be content with sighing, and with "reasoning," you do not
understand it now, but WILL some day. And THEN its
meaning will be clear. This is NOT reason, for it is unjust,
and clearly hints at punishment until the time of liberation
is at hand.
3156. **Given a change of purpose for the good, there is
NO reason for an interval in which disaster strikes, to be
perceived as good some day, but now in form of pain. This
is a SACRIFICE of now, which COULD not be the cost the
Holy Spirit asks for what he gave WITHOUT a cost at all.**
Yet this illusion has a cause which, though untrue, must be
ALREADY in your mind. And THIS illusion is but one effect
which it engenders, and one form in which its outcome is
perceived. This interval in time, when retribution is
perceived to be the form in which the good appears, is but
one aspect of the little space that lies between you,
unforgiven still.
3157. **Be not content with future happiness. It has NO
meaning, and is NOT your just reward. For you have cause for
freedom NOW.** What profits freedom in a prisoner's form?
Why SHOULD deliverance be disguised as death? Delay is
senseless, and the "reasoning" which would maintain effects
of PRESENT cause must be delayed until a FUTURE time
is merely a denial of the fact that consequence and cause
MUST come as one. Look not to time, but to the little space
between you still, to be delivered FROM. And do not let it
be DISGUISED as time, and so preserved BECAUSE its form
is changed, and what it IS cannot be recognized. **The Holy
Spirit's purpose NOW is yours. Should not His happiness be
yours as well?**
~ Urtext of T-26.VIII.6-9
cause as yet HAS no effects. And therefore MUST it be that,
if you fear, there is a PRESENT cause. And it is THIS that
needs correction, NOT a future state. The plans YOU make
for safety all are laid within the future, where you CANNOT
plan. No purpose has been GIVEN it as yet, and what WILL
happen has as yet no cause. Who can predict effects without
a cause? And who could fear effects UNLESS he thought they
had BEEN caused, and judged disastrous NOW? **Belief in
sin arouses fear, and like its cause, is looking forward;
looking back, but OVERLOOKING what is here and now.**
3154. Yet only here and now its cause must be, if its
effects ALREADY have been judged as fearful. And, in
overlooking THIS, is it protected and kept separate from
healing. For a miracle is NOW. It stands ALREADY there,
in present grace, within the only interval of time which
sin and fear have overlooked, but which is all there IS to
time. The working out of ALL correction takes no time at
all. But the ACCEPTANCE of the working out can SEEM to
take forever. The change of purpose the Holy Spirit brought
to your relationship has IN it all effects that you will see.
They can be looked at NOW. Why wait till they unfold in
time, and fear they may NOT come, although already
THERE?
3155. **You have been told that everything brings good
that comes from God. And yet it SEEMS as if this is not so.
Good in disaster's form is difficult to credit in advance.**
Nor is there really SENSE in this idea. Why SHOULD the
good appear in evil's form? And is it not deception if it
does? Its CAUSE is here, if it appears at all. Why are not its
effects apparent, then? Why in the future? And you seek to
be content with sighing, and with "reasoning," you do not
understand it now, but WILL some day. And THEN its
meaning will be clear. This is NOT reason, for it is unjust,
and clearly hints at punishment until the time of liberation
is at hand.
3156. **Given a change of purpose for the good, there is
NO reason for an interval in which disaster strikes, to be
perceived as good some day, but now in form of pain. This
is a SACRIFICE of now, which COULD not be the cost the
Holy Spirit asks for what he gave WITHOUT a cost at all.**
Yet this illusion has a cause which, though untrue, must be
ALREADY in your mind. And THIS illusion is but one effect
which it engenders, and one form in which its outcome is
perceived. This interval in time, when retribution is
perceived to be the form in which the good appears, is but
one aspect of the little space that lies between you,
unforgiven still.
3157. **Be not content with future happiness. It has NO
meaning, and is NOT your just reward. For you have cause for
freedom NOW.** What profits freedom in a prisoner's form?
Why SHOULD deliverance be disguised as death? Delay is
senseless, and the "reasoning" which would maintain effects
of PRESENT cause must be delayed until a FUTURE time
is merely a denial of the fact that consequence and cause
MUST come as one. Look not to time, but to the little space
between you still, to be delivered FROM. And do not let it
be DISGUISED as time, and so preserved BECAUSE its form
is changed, and what it IS cannot be recognized. **The Holy
Spirit's purpose NOW is yours. Should not His happiness be
yours as well?**
~ Urtext of T-26.VIII.6-9