What time but now can truth be recognized? The present is the only time there
is. And so today, this instant, now, we come to look upon what is forever there;
not in our sight, but in the eyes of Christ. He looks past time and sees
eternity as represented there. He hears the sound the senseless busy world
engenders, yet He hears them faintly, for beyond them all He hears the song of
Heaven and the Voice of God more clear, more meaningful, more near.
The world fades easily away before His sight. Its sounds grow dim. A melody from
far beyond the world increasingly is more and more distinct; an ancient Call to
Which He gives an ancient answer. You will recognize them both. For they are but
your answer to your Father's Call to you. Christ answers for you, echoing your
Self, using your voice to give His glad consent; accepting your deliverance for
you.
How holy is your practicing today, as He gives you His sight and hears for you,
and answers in your name the Call He hears. How quiet is the time you give to
spend with Him beyond the world. How easily are all your seeming sins forgot and
all your sorrows unremembered. On this day is grief laid by, for sights and
sounds which come from nearer than the world made clear to you who will today
accept the gifts He gives.
There is a silence into which the world can not intrude. There is an ancient
peace you carry in your heart and have not lost. There is a sense of holiness in
you the thought of sin has never touched. All this today you will remember.
Faithfulness in practicing today will bring rewards so great and so completely
different from all things you sought before, that you will know that here your
treasure is, and here your rest.
This is the day when vain imaginings part like a curtain, to reveal what lies
beyond them. Here is what is really here made visible, while all the shadows
which appeared to hide it sink to obscurity. Now is the balance righted, and the
scales of judgement left to Him Who judges true. And in His judgement will a
world unfold in perfect innocence before your eyes. Now will you see it with the
eyes of Christ. Now is its transformation clear to you.
Brothers, this day is sacred to the world. Your vision, given you from far
beyond all things within the world looks back on them in a new light. And what
you see becomes the healing and salvation of the world. The valuable and
valueless are both perceived and recognized for what they are. And what is
worthy of your love receives your love, while nothing to be feared remains.
We will not judge today. We will receive but what is given us from Judgement
made beyond the world. Our practicing today becomes our gifts of thankfulness
for our release from blindness and from misery. All that we see will but
increase our joy, because its holiness reflects our own. We stand forgiven in
the sight of Christ, with all the world forgiven in our own.
We bless the world as we behold it in the light in which our Savior looks on us,
and offer it the freedom given us through His forgiving vision, not our own.
Open the curtain in your practicing by merely letting go all things you think
you want. Your trifling treasures put away, and leave a clean and open space
within your mind where Christ can come, and offer you the treasure of salvation.
He has need of your most holy mind to save the world.
Is not this purpose worthy to be yours? Is not Christ's vision to be sought
above the world's unsatisfying goals? Let not today slip by without the gifts
it holds for you receiving your consent and your acceptance. We can change the
world if you acknowledge them. You may not see the value your acceptance gives
the world. But this you surely want; you can exchange all suffering for joy this
very day. Practice in earnest and the gift is yours. Would God deceive you? Can
His promise fail? Can you withhold so little when His Hand holds out complete
salvation to His Son?
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