ACIM Workbook Lesson 122 ~ May 1
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" Lesson 122
"Forgiveness offers everything I want."
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
[that] 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 [which] 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.
(And they belong to me eternally.") "
~Urtext of ACIM
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