This is a day of silence and of trust. It is a special time of promise in your
calendar of days. It is a time Heaven has set apart to shine upon, and cast a
timeless light upon this day when echoes of eternity are heard. This day is
holy, for it ushers in a new experience, a different kind of feeling and
awareness. You have spent long days and nights in celebrating death. Today you
learn to feel the joy of life.
This is another crucial turning point in the curriculum. We add a new dimension
now; a fresh experience that sheds a light on all that we have learned already,
and prepares us for what we have yet to learn. It brings us to the door where
learning ceases, and we catch a glimpse of what lies past the highest reaches it
can possibly attain. It leaves us there an instant and we go beyond it, sure of
our direction and our only goal.
Today it will be given you to feel a touch of Heaven, though you will return to
paths of learning, yet you have come far enough along the way to alter time
sufficiently to rise above its laws, and walk into eternity a while. This you
will learn to do increasingly, as every lesson, faithfully rehearsed, brings you
more swiftly to this holy place and leaves you, for a moment, to your Self.
He will direct your practicing today, for what you ask for now is what He wills.
And having joined your will with His this day, what you are asking must be given
you. Nothing is needed but today's idea to light your mind, and let it rest in
still anticipation and in quiet joy wherein you quickly leave the world behind.
From this day forth your ministry takes on a genuine devotion, and a glow that
travels from your fingertips to those you touch, and blesses those you look
upon. A vision reaches everyone you meet, and everyone you think of, or who
thinks of you. For your experience today will so transform your mind that it
becomes the touchstone for the holy Thoughts of God.
Your body will be sanctified today, its only purpose being now to bring the
vision of what you experience this day to light the world. We cannot give
experience like this directly. Yet it leaves a vision in our eyes which we can
offer everyone, that he may come the sooner to the same experience in which the
world is quietly forgot, and Heaven is remembered for a while.
As this experience increases and all goals but this become of little worth, the
world to which you will return becomes a little closer to the end of time; a
little more like Heaven in its ways; a little nearer its deliverance. And you
who bring it light will come to see the light more sure; the vision more
distinct.
The time will come when you will not return in the same form in which you now
appear, for you will have no need of it. Yet now it has a purpose, and will
serve it well. Today we will embark upon a course you have not dreamed of. But
the Holy One, the Giver of the happy dreams of life, Translator of perception
into truth, the holy Guide to Heaven given you, has dreamed for you this journey
which you make and start today, with the experience, this day holds out to you
to be your own.
Into Christ's Presence will we enter now serenely unaware of everything except
His shining face and perfect Love. The vision of His Face will stay with you,
but there will be an instant which transcends all vision, even this, the
holiest. This you will never teach, for you attained it not through learning.
Yet the vision speaks of your remembrance of what you knew that instant, and
will surely know again.
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