What could you want forgiveness cannot give? Do you want peace? Forgiveness
offers it. Do you want happiness, a quiet mind, a certainty of purpose, and a
sense of worth and beauty that transcends the world? Do you want care and
safety, and the warmth of sure protection always? Do you want a quietness that
cannot be disturbed, a gentleness that never can be hurt, a deep, abiding
comfort, and a rest so perfect it can never be upset?
All this forgiveness offers you, and more. It sparkles in your eyes as you
awake, and gives you joy with which to meet the day. It soothes your forehead
while you sleep, and rests upon your eyelids so you see no dreams of fear and
evil, malice and attack. And when you wake again, it offers you another day of
happiness and peace. All this forgiveness offers you, and more.
Forgiveness lets the veil be lifted up which hides the Face of Christ from those
who look with unforgiving eyes upon the world. It lets you recognize the Son of
God, and clears your memory of all dead thoughts so that remembrance of your
Father can arise across the threshold of your mind.
What would you want forgiveness cannot give? What gifts but these are worthy to
be sought? What fancied value, trivial effect, or transient promise never to be
kept, can hold more hope than what forgiveness brings? Why would you seek an
answer other than the answer that will answer everything? Here is the perfect
answer, given to imperfect questions, meaningless requests, half-hearted
willingness to hear, and less than halfway diligence and partial trust.
Here is the answer! Seek for it no more. You will not find another one instead.
God's plan for your salvation cannot change, nor can it fail. Be thankful it
remains exactly as He planned it. Changelessly it stands before you, like an
open door with warmth and welcome calling from beyond the doorway, bidding you
to enter in and make yourself at home where you belong.
Here is the answer! Would you stand outside while all of Heaven waits for you
within? Forgive and be forgiven. As you give you will receive. There is no plan
but this for the salvation of the Son of God. Let us today rejoice that this is
so, for here we have an answer, clear and plain, beyond deceit in its
simplicity. All the complexities the world has spun of fragile cobwebs disappear
before the power and the majesty of this extremely simple statement of the
truth.
Here is the answer! Do not turn away in aimless wandering again. Accept
salvation now. It is the gift of God and not the world. The world can give no
gifts of any value to a mind which has
received what God has given as its own. God wills salvation be received today,
and that the intricacies of your dreams no longer hide their nothingness from
you.
Open your eyes today, and look upon a happy world of safety and of peace.
Forgiveness is the means by which it comes to take the place of hell. In
quietness it rises up to greet your open eyes, and fill your heart with deep
tranquility as ancient truths, forever newly born, arise in your awareness. What
you will remember then can never be described. Yet your forgiveness offers it to
you.
Remembering the gifts forgiveness gives, we undertake our practicing today with
hope and faith that this will be the day salvation will be ours. Earnestly and
gladly will we seek for it today, aware we hold the key within our hands,
accepting Heaven's answer to the hell we made, but where we would remain no
more.
Morning and evening do we gladly give a quarter of an hour to the search in
which the end of hell is guaranteed. Begin in hopefulness, for we have reached
the turning point at which the road becomes far easier. And now the way is short
that yet we travel. We are close indeed to the appointed ending of the dream.
Sink into happiness as you begin these practice periods, for they hold out the
sure rewards of questions answered, and what your acceptance of the answer
brings. Today it will be given you to feel the peace forgiveness offers, and the
joy the lifting of the veil holds out to you.
Before the light you will receive today the world will fade until it disappears,
and you will see another world arise you have no words to picture. Now we walk
directly into light, and we receive the gifts which have been held in store for
us since time began, kept waiting for today. Forgiveness offers everything you
want. Today all things you want are given you.
Let not your gifts recede throughout the day, as you return again to meet a
world of shifting change and bleak appearances. Retain your gifts in clear
awareness as you see the changeless in the heart of change; the light of truth
behind appearances. Be tempted not to let your gifts slip by, and drift into
forgetfulness but hold them firmly in your mind by your attempts to think of
them at least a minute as each quarter of an hour passes by.
Remind yourself how precious are these gifts with this reminder, which has power
to hold your gifts in your awareness through the day:
"Forgiveness offers everything I want. Today I have accepted this as true. Today I have received the gifts of God."
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