Lee Flynn
2011-06-05 13:19:06 UTC
ACIM Workbook Lesson 156 ~ June 5
http://courseinmiracles.com/workbook_lessons/part_1/lesson156.htm
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" Lesson 156 April 17, 1970
"I walk with God in perfect holiness."
- Today's idea but states the simple truth
[which] makes the thought of sin impossible.
It promises there is no cause for guilt,
and being causeless it [cannot] exist.
It follows [certainly] from the [idea]
so often mentioned in the text; [that thoughts]
leave not their source. If this <be> true, how can
you be apart from God? How could you walk
the world alone and separate from your Source?
- We are not inconsistent in the thoughts
<that we> present in our curriculum.
Truth must be true throughout if it be true.
It cannot contradict itself, nor be
in parts uncertain and in others sure.
You cannot walk the world apart from God
because you could not be without Him. He
is what your life is. Where you are He is.
There is one life. That life you share with Him.
Nothing can be apart from Him and live.
- Yet where He is there must be holiness
as well as life. No attribute of His
remains unshared by everything that lives.
What lives is holy as Himself, because
what shares His Life is part of holiness,
and could no more be sinful than the sun
could choose to be of ice; the sea elect
to be apart from water, or the grass
to grow with roots suspended in the air.
- There is a Light in you Which cannot die,
Whose Presence is so holy that the world
is sanctified because of you. All things
that live bring gifts to you, and offer them
in <gratitude and> gladness at your feet.
The scent of flowers is their gift to you.
The waves bow down before you, and the trees
extend their arms to shield you from the heat
and lay their leaves before you on the ground
that you may walk in softness, while the wind
sinks to a whisper round your holy head.
- The Light in you is what the universe
longs to behold. All living things are still
before you, for they recognize Who walks
with you. The Light you carry is their own,
and thus they see in you their holiness,
saluting you as Saviour and as God.
Accept their reverence, for it is due
to Holiness Itself Which walks with you,
transforming in its gentle Light all things
into its likeness and its purity.
- This is the way salvation works. As you
step back, the Light in you steps forward and
encompasses the world. It heralds not
the end of sin in punishment and death.
In lightness and in laughter is [it] gone
because its quaint absurdity is seen.
It is a foolish thought, a silly dream,
not frightening, ridiculous perhaps,
<but> who would waste an instant in approach
to God Himself for such a senseless whim?
- Yet you have wasted many, many years
on just this foolish thought. The past is gone,
with all its fantasies. They keep you bound
no longer. The approach to God is near.
And in the little interval of doubt
that still remains, you may perhaps lose sight
of your Companion, and mistake Him for
the <senseless> ancient dream that now is past.
- "Who walks with me?" This question should be asked
a thousand times a day, till certainty
has ended doubting and established peace.
Today let doubting cease. God speaks for you
in answering your question with these words:
"I walk with God in perfect holiness.
I light the world, I light my mind and all
the minds which God created one with me." "
~ Original Handscript of ACIM
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[ Hear Today's Lesson in I.P. ~ Voice & Music by Maz ]
http://www.acimradio.net/wkbk/156_UrWork_IWalkWithGodInPerfectHoliness.m3u
or via http://www.acimradio.net/urwork/
http://courseinmiracles.com/workbook_lessons/part_1/lesson156.htm
http://www.acimradio.net/urwork/
" Lesson 156 April 17, 1970
"I walk with God in perfect holiness."
- Today's idea but states the simple truth
[which] makes the thought of sin impossible.
It promises there is no cause for guilt,
and being causeless it [cannot] exist.
It follows [certainly] from the [idea]
so often mentioned in the text; [that thoughts]
leave not their source. If this <be> true, how can
you be apart from God? How could you walk
the world alone and separate from your Source?
- We are not inconsistent in the thoughts
<that we> present in our curriculum.
Truth must be true throughout if it be true.
It cannot contradict itself, nor be
in parts uncertain and in others sure.
You cannot walk the world apart from God
because you could not be without Him. He
is what your life is. Where you are He is.
There is one life. That life you share with Him.
Nothing can be apart from Him and live.
- Yet where He is there must be holiness
as well as life. No attribute of His
remains unshared by everything that lives.
What lives is holy as Himself, because
what shares His Life is part of holiness,
and could no more be sinful than the sun
could choose to be of ice; the sea elect
to be apart from water, or the grass
to grow with roots suspended in the air.
- There is a Light in you Which cannot die,
Whose Presence is so holy that the world
is sanctified because of you. All things
that live bring gifts to you, and offer them
in <gratitude and> gladness at your feet.
The scent of flowers is their gift to you.
The waves bow down before you, and the trees
extend their arms to shield you from the heat
and lay their leaves before you on the ground
that you may walk in softness, while the wind
sinks to a whisper round your holy head.
- The Light in you is what the universe
longs to behold. All living things are still
before you, for they recognize Who walks
with you. The Light you carry is their own,
and thus they see in you their holiness,
saluting you as Saviour and as God.
Accept their reverence, for it is due
to Holiness Itself Which walks with you,
transforming in its gentle Light all things
into its likeness and its purity.
- This is the way salvation works. As you
step back, the Light in you steps forward and
encompasses the world. It heralds not
the end of sin in punishment and death.
In lightness and in laughter is [it] gone
because its quaint absurdity is seen.
It is a foolish thought, a silly dream,
not frightening, ridiculous perhaps,
<but> who would waste an instant in approach
to God Himself for such a senseless whim?
- Yet you have wasted many, many years
on just this foolish thought. The past is gone,
with all its fantasies. They keep you bound
no longer. The approach to God is near.
And in the little interval of doubt
that still remains, you may perhaps lose sight
of your Companion, and mistake Him for
the <senseless> ancient dream that now is past.
- "Who walks with me?" This question should be asked
a thousand times a day, till certainty
has ended doubting and established peace.
Today let doubting cease. God speaks for you
in answering your question with these words:
"I walk with God in perfect holiness.
I light the world, I light my mind and all
the minds which God created one with me." "
~ Original Handscript of ACIM
------------------------------------------
[ Hear Today's Lesson in I.P. ~ Voice & Music by Maz ]
http://www.acimradio.net/wkbk/156_UrWork_IWalkWithGodInPerfectHoliness.m3u
or via http://www.acimradio.net/urwork/