Lee Flynn
2011-06-04 13:59:51 UTC
ACIM Workbook Lesson 155 ~ June 4
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" Lesson 155 April 15, 1970
"I will step back and let Him lead the way."
- There is a way of living in the world
that is not here, although it seems to be.
You do not change appearance, though you smile
more frequently. Your forehead is serene,
your eyes are quiet. And the ones who walk
the world as you do recognize their own.
Yet those who have not yet perceived the way
will recognize you also, and believe
that you are like them, as you were before.
- The world is an illusion. Those who choose
to come to it are seeking for a place
where they can be illusions, and avoid
their own Reality. Yet [as] they find
their own Reality is even here,
then they step back and let It lead the way.
What other choice is really theirs to make?
To let illusion walk ahead of truth
is madness. But to let illusion sink
behind the truth, and let the truth stand forth
as what it is, is [simple] sanity.
- This is the simple choice [you] make today.
The mad illusion will remain awhile
in evidence, for those to look upon
who chose to come, and have not yet rejoiced
to find they were mistaken in their choice.
They cannot learn directly from the truth
because they have denied that it is so.
And so they need a teacher who perceives
their madness, but who still can look beyond
illusion to the simple truth in them.
- If truth demanded they give up the world,
it would appear to them as if it asked
the sacrifice of something that is real.
Many have chosen to renounce the world
while still believing its reality,
and they have suffered from a sense of loss
and have not been released accordingly.
Others have chosen nothing but the world,
and they have suffered from a sense of loss
still deeper, which they did not understand.
- Between these paths there is another road
[which] leads away from loss of every kind,
for sacrifice and deprivation both
are quickly left behind. This is the way
appointed for you now. You walk this path
as others walk, nor do you seem to be
distinct from them, although you are indeed.
Thus can you serve them while you serve yourself,
and set their footsteps on the way [which] God
has opened up to you, and them through you.
- Illusion still appears to cling to you
that you may reach them. Yet it has stepped back,
and it is not illusion that they hear
you speak of, nor illusion which you bring
their eyes to look on and their minds to grasp.
Now can the truth, which walks ahead of you,
speak to them through illusion, for the road
leads past illusion now, while on the way
you call to them that they may follow you.
- All roads will lead to this one in the end.
For sacrifice and deprivation are
paths [which] lead nowhere, choices for defeat,
and aims [which] will remain impossible.
All this steps back as truth comes forth in you,
to lead your brothers from the ways of death,
and set them on the way to happiness.
Their suffering is but illusion. Yet
they need a guide to lead them out of it,
for they mistake illusion for the truth.
- Such is salvation's call, and nothing more.
It asks that you accept the truth, and let
It go before you, lighting up the path
of ransom from illusion. It is not
a ransom with a price. There is no cost,
but only gain. Illusion can but seem
to hold in chains the holy Son of God.
It is but from illusions he is saved.
As they step back he finds <his Self> again.|
- Walk safely now yet carefully, because
this path is new to you. And you [will] find
that you are tempted still to walk ahead
of truth, and let illusion be your guide.
Your holy brothers have been given you
to follow in your footsteps, as you walk
with certainty of purpose to the truth.
It goes before you now that they may see
something with which they can identify;
something they understand to lead the way.|
#Yet at the journey's ending [will there] be
no gap, no distance between truth and you.
And all illusions, walking in the way
you traveled, will be gone from you as well,
with nothing left to keep the truth apart
from God's completion, holy as Himself.
Step back in faith, and let truth lead the way.
You know not where you go. But One Who knows
goes with you. Let Him lead you with the rest.|
- When dreams are over, time has closed the door
on all the things that pass, and miracles
are purposeless, the holy Son of God
will make no journeys. There will be no wish
to be illusion rather than the truth.
And we step forth towards this, as we progress
along the way that truth points out to us.
This is our final journey, which we make
for everyone. We must not lose our way.
For as truth goes before us so it goes
before our brothers, who will follow us.
- We walk to God. Pause and reflect on this.
Could any way be holier, or more
deserving of your effort, of your love,
and of your full intent? What way could give
you more than everything, or offer less
and still content the holy Son of God?
We walk to God. The truth that walks before
us now is One with Him, and leads us to
where He has always been. What way but this
could be a path that [we] would choose instead?
- Your feet are safely set upon the [way]
that leads the world to God. Look not to ways
[which] seem to lead you elsewhere. Dreams are not
a worthy guide for you who are God's Son.
Forget not He has placed His hand in yours,
and given you your brothers' in His Trust
that you are worthy of His Trust in you.
He cannot be deceived. His Trust has made
your pathway certain and your goal secure.
You will not fail your brothers nor your Self.
- And now He asks but that you think of Him
a while each day, that He may speak to you
and tell you of His Love, reminding you
how great His Trust, how limitless His Love.
In your name and His Own, which are the same,
we practice gladly with this thought today:
"I will step back and let Him lead the way,
For I would walk along the road to Him." "
~ Urtext of ACIM
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" Lesson 155 April 15, 1970
"I will step back and let Him lead the way."
- There is a way of living in the world
that is not here, although it seems to be.
You do not change appearance, though you smile
more frequently. Your forehead is serene,
your eyes are quiet. And the ones who walk
the world as you do recognize their own.
Yet those who have not yet perceived the way
will recognize you also, and believe
that you are like them, as you were before.
- The world is an illusion. Those who choose
to come to it are seeking for a place
where they can be illusions, and avoid
their own Reality. Yet [as] they find
their own Reality is even here,
then they step back and let It lead the way.
What other choice is really theirs to make?
To let illusion walk ahead of truth
is madness. But to let illusion sink
behind the truth, and let the truth stand forth
as what it is, is [simple] sanity.
- This is the simple choice [you] make today.
The mad illusion will remain awhile
in evidence, for those to look upon
who chose to come, and have not yet rejoiced
to find they were mistaken in their choice.
They cannot learn directly from the truth
because they have denied that it is so.
And so they need a teacher who perceives
their madness, but who still can look beyond
illusion to the simple truth in them.
- If truth demanded they give up the world,
it would appear to them as if it asked
the sacrifice of something that is real.
Many have chosen to renounce the world
while still believing its reality,
and they have suffered from a sense of loss
and have not been released accordingly.
Others have chosen nothing but the world,
and they have suffered from a sense of loss
still deeper, which they did not understand.
- Between these paths there is another road
[which] leads away from loss of every kind,
for sacrifice and deprivation both
are quickly left behind. This is the way
appointed for you now. You walk this path
as others walk, nor do you seem to be
distinct from them, although you are indeed.
Thus can you serve them while you serve yourself,
and set their footsteps on the way [which] God
has opened up to you, and them through you.
- Illusion still appears to cling to you
that you may reach them. Yet it has stepped back,
and it is not illusion that they hear
you speak of, nor illusion which you bring
their eyes to look on and their minds to grasp.
Now can the truth, which walks ahead of you,
speak to them through illusion, for the road
leads past illusion now, while on the way
you call to them that they may follow you.
- All roads will lead to this one in the end.
For sacrifice and deprivation are
paths [which] lead nowhere, choices for defeat,
and aims [which] will remain impossible.
All this steps back as truth comes forth in you,
to lead your brothers from the ways of death,
and set them on the way to happiness.
Their suffering is but illusion. Yet
they need a guide to lead them out of it,
for they mistake illusion for the truth.
- Such is salvation's call, and nothing more.
It asks that you accept the truth, and let
It go before you, lighting up the path
of ransom from illusion. It is not
a ransom with a price. There is no cost,
but only gain. Illusion can but seem
to hold in chains the holy Son of God.
It is but from illusions he is saved.
As they step back he finds <his Self> again.|
- Walk safely now yet carefully, because
this path is new to you. And you [will] find
that you are tempted still to walk ahead
of truth, and let illusion be your guide.
Your holy brothers have been given you
to follow in your footsteps, as you walk
with certainty of purpose to the truth.
It goes before you now that they may see
something with which they can identify;
something they understand to lead the way.|
#Yet at the journey's ending [will there] be
no gap, no distance between truth and you.
And all illusions, walking in the way
you traveled, will be gone from you as well,
with nothing left to keep the truth apart
from God's completion, holy as Himself.
Step back in faith, and let truth lead the way.
You know not where you go. But One Who knows
goes with you. Let Him lead you with the rest.|
- When dreams are over, time has closed the door
on all the things that pass, and miracles
are purposeless, the holy Son of God
will make no journeys. There will be no wish
to be illusion rather than the truth.
And we step forth towards this, as we progress
along the way that truth points out to us.
This is our final journey, which we make
for everyone. We must not lose our way.
For as truth goes before us so it goes
before our brothers, who will follow us.
- We walk to God. Pause and reflect on this.
Could any way be holier, or more
deserving of your effort, of your love,
and of your full intent? What way could give
you more than everything, or offer less
and still content the holy Son of God?
We walk to God. The truth that walks before
us now is One with Him, and leads us to
where He has always been. What way but this
could be a path that [we] would choose instead?
- Your feet are safely set upon the [way]
that leads the world to God. Look not to ways
[which] seem to lead you elsewhere. Dreams are not
a worthy guide for you who are God's Son.
Forget not He has placed His hand in yours,
and given you your brothers' in His Trust
that you are worthy of His Trust in you.
He cannot be deceived. His Trust has made
your pathway certain and your goal secure.
You will not fail your brothers nor your Self.
- And now He asks but that you think of Him
a while each day, that He may speak to you
and tell you of His Love, reminding you
how great His Trust, how limitless His Love.
In your name and His Own, which are the same,
we practice gladly with this thought today:
"I will step back and let Him lead the way,
For I would walk along the road to Him." "
~ Urtext of ACIM
------------------------------------------
[ Hear Today's Lesson Read to You ]
http://www.acimradio.net/wkbk/155_UrWork_IWillStepBackAndLetHimLeadTheWay.wma
or via http://www.acimradio.net/urwork/