The light has come. You are healed and you can heal. The light has come. You are
saved and you can save. You are at peace and you bring peace with you wherever
you go. Darkness and turmoil and death have disappeared. The light has come.
Today we celebrate the happy ending to your long dream of disaster. There are no
dark dreams now. The light has come. Today the time of light begins for you and
everyone. It is a new era, in which a new world is born. The old one has left no
trace upon it in its passing. Today we see a different world because the light
has come.
Our exercises for today will be happy ones, in which we offer thanks for the
passing of the old and the beginning of the new. No shadows from the past remain
to darken our sight and hide the world forgiveness offers us. Today we will
accept the new world as what we want to see. We will be given what we desire. We
will to see the light; the light has come.
Our longer practice periods will be devoted to looking at the world which our
forgiveness shows us. This is what we want to see, and only this. Our single
purpose makes our goal inevitable. Today the real world rises before us in
gladness, to be seen at last. Sight is given us, now that the light has come.
We do not see the ego's shadow on the world today. We see the light, and in it
we see Heaven's reflection lie across the world. Begin the practice period by
telling yourself the glad tidings of your release:
"The light has come. I have forgiven the world."
Dwell not upon the past today. Keep a completely open mind, washed of all past ideas and clean of every concept you have made. You have forgiven the world today. You can look upon it now as if you never saw it before. You do not know yet what it looks like. You merely wait to have it shown to you. While you wait, repeat several times slowly and in complete patience:
"The light has come. I have forgiven the world."
Realize that your forgiveness entitles you
to vision. Understand that the Holy Spirit never fails to give the gift of sight
to the forgiving. Believe He will not fail you now. You have forgiven the world.
He will be with you as you watch and wait. He will show what true vision sees.
It is His Will, and you have joined with Him. Wait patiently for Him. He will be
there. The light has come. You
have forgiven the world.
Tell Him you know you cannot fail because you trust in Him. Tell yourself you
wait in certainty to look upon the world He promised you. From this time forth
you will see differently. Today the light has come. And you will see the world
that has been promised you since time began, and in which is the end of time
ensured.
The shorter practice periods, too, will be joyful reminders of your release.
Remind yourself every quarter of an hour or so that today is a time for special
celebration. Give thanks for mercy and the Love of God. Rejoice in the power of
forgiveness to heal your sight completely. Be confident that on this day there
is a new beginning. Without the darkness of the past upon your eyes, you cannot
fail to see today. And what you see will be so welcome that you will gladly
extend today forever. Say, then:
"The light has come. I have forgiven the world."
Should you be tempted, say to anyone who seems to pull you back to darkness:
"The light has come. I have forgiven you."
We dedicate this day to the serenity in
which God would have you be. Keep it in your awareness of yourself and see it
everywhere today, as we celebrate the beginning of your vision, and the sight of
the real world which has come to replace the unforgiven world you thought was
real.
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