What makes this world seem real except your own denial of the truth which lies
beyond? What but your thoughts of misery and death obscure the perfect happiness
and the Eternal Life your Father wills for you? And what could hide what cannot
be concealed except illusion? What could keep from you what you already have
except your choice to see it not, denying it is there?
The Thought of God created you. It left you not, nor have you ever been apart
from It an instant. It belongs to you. By It you live. It is your Source of
life, holding you One with It, and everything is one with you because It left
you not. The Thought of God protects you, cares for you, makes soft your resting
place and smooth your way, lighting your mind with happiness and love. Eternity
and Everlasting Life shine in your mind because the Thought of God has left you
not, and still abides with you.
Who would deny his safety and his peace, his joy, his healing and his peace of
mind, his quiet rest, his calm awakening, if he but recognized where they abide?
Would he not instantly prepare to go where they are found, abandoning all else
as worthless in comparison with them? And having found them, would he not make
sure they stay with him and he remains with them?
Deny not Heaven. It is yours today but for the asking. Nor need you perceive how
great the gift, how changed your mind will be before it comes to you. Ask to
receive and it is given you. Conviction lies within it. Till you welcome it as
yours, uncertainty remains. Yet God is fair. Sureness is not required to receive
what only your acceptance can bestow.
Ask with desire. You need not be sure that you request the only thing you want.
But when you have received you will be sure you have the treasure you have
always sought. What would you then exchange it for? What would induce you now to
let it fade away from your ecstatic vision? For this sight proves that you have
exchanged your blindness for the seeing eyes of Christ; your mind has come to
lay aside denial and accept the Thought of God as its inheritance.
Now is all doubting past, the journey's end made certain and salvation given
you. Now is Christ's power in your mind to heal as you were healed. For now
you are among the Saviors of the world. Your destiny lies there and nowhere
else. Would God consent to let His Son remain forever starved by his denial of
the nourishment he needs to live? Abundance dwells in him, and deprivation
cannot cut him off from God's sustained Love and from his home.
Practice today in hope. For hope indeed is justified. Your doubts are
meaningless, for God is certain. And the Thought of Him is never absent.
Sureness must abide within you who are host to Him. This course removes all
doubts which you have interposed between Him and your certainty of Him. We count
on God, and not upon ourselves, to give us certainty. And in His Name we
practice as His Word directs we do. His sureness lies beyond our every doubt.
His Love remains beyond our every fear. The Thought of Him is still beyond all
dreams, and in our minds according to His Will.
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