I am seeing '15 April 2008' date in 'related pages' in google groups.
It is stuck there even though it is 9 may 2008. Hope this will send
message to google employees.
Allthough I still don't understand this lesson even after one year.
" Lesson 155 April 15, 1970
"I will step back and let Him lead the way."
There is a way of living in the world
that is not here, although it seems to be.
You do not change appearance, though you smile
more frequently. Your forehead is serene;
your eyes are quiet. And the ones who walk
the world as you do recognize their own.
Yet those who have not yet perceived the way
will recognize you also, and believe
that you are like them, as you were before.
The world is an illusion. Those who choose
to come to it are seeking for a place
where they can be illusions, and avoid
their own Reality. Yet when they find
their own Reality is even here,
then they step back and let It lead the way.
What other choice is really theirs to make?
To let illusion walk ahead of truth
is madness, but to let illusion sink
behind the truth, and let the truth stand forth
as what it is, is simple sanity.
This is the simple choice we make today.
The mad illusion will remain awhile
in evidence, for those to look upon
who chose to come, and have not yet rejoiced
to find they were mistaken in the choice.
They cannot learn directly from the truth,
because they have denied that it is so.
And so they need a Teacher Who perceives
their madness, but Who still can look beyond
illusion to the simple truth in them.
....
All roads will lead to this one in the end.
For sacrifice and deprivation are
paths which lead nowhere, choices for defeat,
and aims which will remain impossible.
All this steps back as truth comes forth in you
to lead your brothers from the ways of death,
and set them on the way to happiness.
Their suffering is but illusion. Yet
they need a guide to lead them out of it,
for they mistake illusion for the truth.
Such is salvation's call, and nothing more.
It asks that you accept the truth, and let
It go before you, lighting up the path
of ransom from illusion. It is not
a ransom with a price. There is no cost,
but only gain. Illusion can but seem
to hold in chains the holy Son of God.
It is but from illusions he is saved.
As they step back he finds himself again.
Walk safely now yet carefully, because
this path is new to you. And you may find
that you are tempted still to walk ahead
of truth, and let illusion be your guide. ....
Yet at the journey's ending there will be
no gap, no distance between truth and you.
And all illusions walking in the way
you traveled will be gone from you as well,
with nothing left to keep the truth apart
from God's completion, holy as Himself.
Step back in faith, and let truth lead the way.
You know not where you go, but One Who knows
goes with you. Let Him lead you with the rest.
....
We walk to God. Pause and reflect on this. ....
We walk to God. The truth that walks before
us now is One with Him, and leads us to
where He has always been. What way but this
could be a path which you would choose instead?
Your feet are safely set upon the road
which leads the world to God. Look not to ways
that seem to lead you elsewhere. Dreams are not
a worthy guide for you who are God's Son. ....
And now He asks but that you think of Him
a while each day, that He may speak to you
and tell you of His Love, reminding you
how great His Trust; how limitless His Love.
In your name and His Own, which are the same,
we practice gladly with this thought today:
"I will step back and let Him lead the way,
For I would walk along the road to Him." "
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