Carrie
2010-04-02 13:45:29 UTC
LESSON 92.
Miracles are seen in light, and light and strength are one.
The idea for today is an extension of the previous one. You do not think of
light in terms of strength, and darkness in terms of weakness. That is
because your idea of what seeing means is tied up with the body and its eyes
and brain. Thus you believe that you can change what you see by putting
little bits of glass before your eyes. This is among the many magical
beliefs that come from the conviction you are a body, and the body's eyes
can see.
You also believe the body's brain can think. If you but understood the
nature of thought, you could but laugh at this insane idea. It is as if you
thought you held the match that lights the sun and gives it all its warmth;
or that you held the world within your hand, securely bound until you let it
go. Yet this is no more foolish than to believe the body's eyes can see;
the brain can think.
It is God's strength in you that is the light in which you see, as it is His
Mind with which you think. His strength denies your weakness. It is your
weakness that sees through the body's eyes, peering about in darkness to
behold the likeness of itself; the small, the weak, the sickly and the
dying, those in need, the helpless and afraid, the sad, the poor, the
starving and the joyless. These are seen through eyes that cannot see and
cannot bless
Strength overlooks these things by seeing past appearances. It keeps its
steady gaze upon the light that lies beyond them. It unites with light, of
which it is a part. It sees itself. It brings the light in which your Self
appears. In darkness you perceive a self that is not there. Strength is
the truth about you; weakness is an idol falsely worshipped and adored that
strength may be dispelled, and darkness rule where God appointed that there
should be light.
.Strength comes from truth, and shines with light its Source has given it;
weakness reflects the darkness of its maker. It is sick and looks on
sickness, which is like itself. Truth is a savior and can only will for
happiness and peace for everyone. It gives its strength to everyone who
asks, in limitless supply. It sees that lack in anyone would be a lack in
all. And so it gives its light that all may see and benefit as one. Its
strength is shared, that it may bring to all the miracle in which they will
unite in purpose and forgiveness and in love.
Weakness, which looks in darkness, cannot see a purpose in
forgiveness and in love. It sees all others different from itself, and
nothing in the world that it would share. It judges and condemns, but does
not love. In darkness it remains to hide itself, and dreams that it is
strong and conquering, a victor over limitations that but grow in darkness
to enormous size.
It fears and it attacks and hates itself, and darkness covers
everything it sees, leaving its dreams as fearful as itself. No miracles
are here, but only hate. It separates itself from what it sees, while light
and strength perceive themselves as one. The light of strength is not the
light you see. It does not change and flicker and go out. It does not
shift from night to day, and back to darkness till the morning comes again.
.. The light of strength is constant, sure as love, forever glad to
give itself away, because it cannot give but to itself. No one can ask in
vain to share its sight, and none who enters its abode can leave without a
miracle before his eyes, and strength and light abiding in his heart.
. The strength in you will offer you the light, and guide your
seeing so you do not dwell on idle shadows that the body's eyes provide for
self-deception. Strength and light unite in you, and where they meet, your
Self stands ready to embrace you as Its Own. Such is the meeting place we
try today to find and rest in, for the peace of God is where your Self, His
Son, is waiting now to meet Itself again, and be as One.
Let us give twenty minutes twice today to join this meeting.
Let yourself be brought unto your Self. Its strength will be the light in
which the gift of sight is given you. Leave, then, the dark a little while
today, and we will practice seeing in the light, closing the body's eyes and
asking truth to show us how to find the meeting place of self and Self,
where light and strength are one.
. Morning and evening we will practice thus. After the morning
meeting, we will use the day in preparation for the time at night when we
will meet again in trust. Let us repeat as often as we can the idea for
today, and recognize that we are being introduced to sight, and led away
from darkness to the light where only miracles can be perceived.
Miracles are seen in light, and light and strength are one.
The idea for today is an extension of the previous one. You do not think of
light in terms of strength, and darkness in terms of weakness. That is
because your idea of what seeing means is tied up with the body and its eyes
and brain. Thus you believe that you can change what you see by putting
little bits of glass before your eyes. This is among the many magical
beliefs that come from the conviction you are a body, and the body's eyes
can see.
You also believe the body's brain can think. If you but understood the
nature of thought, you could but laugh at this insane idea. It is as if you
thought you held the match that lights the sun and gives it all its warmth;
or that you held the world within your hand, securely bound until you let it
go. Yet this is no more foolish than to believe the body's eyes can see;
the brain can think.
It is God's strength in you that is the light in which you see, as it is His
Mind with which you think. His strength denies your weakness. It is your
weakness that sees through the body's eyes, peering about in darkness to
behold the likeness of itself; the small, the weak, the sickly and the
dying, those in need, the helpless and afraid, the sad, the poor, the
starving and the joyless. These are seen through eyes that cannot see and
cannot bless
Strength overlooks these things by seeing past appearances. It keeps its
steady gaze upon the light that lies beyond them. It unites with light, of
which it is a part. It sees itself. It brings the light in which your Self
appears. In darkness you perceive a self that is not there. Strength is
the truth about you; weakness is an idol falsely worshipped and adored that
strength may be dispelled, and darkness rule where God appointed that there
should be light.
.Strength comes from truth, and shines with light its Source has given it;
weakness reflects the darkness of its maker. It is sick and looks on
sickness, which is like itself. Truth is a savior and can only will for
happiness and peace for everyone. It gives its strength to everyone who
asks, in limitless supply. It sees that lack in anyone would be a lack in
all. And so it gives its light that all may see and benefit as one. Its
strength is shared, that it may bring to all the miracle in which they will
unite in purpose and forgiveness and in love.
Weakness, which looks in darkness, cannot see a purpose in
forgiveness and in love. It sees all others different from itself, and
nothing in the world that it would share. It judges and condemns, but does
not love. In darkness it remains to hide itself, and dreams that it is
strong and conquering, a victor over limitations that but grow in darkness
to enormous size.
It fears and it attacks and hates itself, and darkness covers
everything it sees, leaving its dreams as fearful as itself. No miracles
are here, but only hate. It separates itself from what it sees, while light
and strength perceive themselves as one. The light of strength is not the
light you see. It does not change and flicker and go out. It does not
shift from night to day, and back to darkness till the morning comes again.
.. The light of strength is constant, sure as love, forever glad to
give itself away, because it cannot give but to itself. No one can ask in
vain to share its sight, and none who enters its abode can leave without a
miracle before his eyes, and strength and light abiding in his heart.
. The strength in you will offer you the light, and guide your
seeing so you do not dwell on idle shadows that the body's eyes provide for
self-deception. Strength and light unite in you, and where they meet, your
Self stands ready to embrace you as Its Own. Such is the meeting place we
try today to find and rest in, for the peace of God is where your Self, His
Son, is waiting now to meet Itself again, and be as One.
Let us give twenty minutes twice today to join this meeting.
Let yourself be brought unto your Self. Its strength will be the light in
which the gift of sight is given you. Leave, then, the dark a little while
today, and we will practice seeing in the light, closing the body's eyes and
asking truth to show us how to find the meeting place of self and Self,
where light and strength are one.
. Morning and evening we will practice thus. After the morning
meeting, we will use the day in preparation for the time at night when we
will meet again in trust. Let us repeat as often as we can the idea for
today, and recognize that we are being introduced to sight, and led away
from darkness to the light where only miracles can be perceived.