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<center>'''Final Lessons - Introduction'''</center>
Our final lessons will be left as free of words as possible. We use them but
at the beginning of our practicing, and only to remind us that we seek to go
beyond them. Let us turn to Him Who leads the way and makes our
footsteps sure. To Him we leave these lessons, as to Him we give our lives
henceforth. For we would not return again to the belief in sin that made the
world seem ugly and unsafe, attacking and destroying, dangerous in all its
ways, and treacherous beyond the hope of trust and the escape from pain.
His is the only way to find the peace that God has given us. It is His way
that everyone must travel in the end, because it is this ending God Himself
appointed. In the dream of time it seems to be far off. And yet, in truth, it is
already here; already serving us as gracious guidance in the way to go. Let
us together follow in the way that truth points out to us. And let us be the
leaders of our many brothers who are seeking for the way, but find it not.
And to this purpose let us dedicate our minds, directing all our thoughts to
serve the function of salvation. Unto us the aim is given to forgive the
world. It is the goal that God has given us. It is His ending to the dream we
seek, and not our own. For all that we forgive we will not fail to recognize
as part of God Himself. And thus His memory is given back, completely
and complete.
It is our function to remember Him on earth, as it is given us to be His Own
completion in reality. So let us not forget our goal is shared, for it is that
remembrance which contains the memory of God, and points the way to
Him and to the Heaven of His peace. And shall we not forgive our brother,
who can offer this to us? He is the way, the truth and life that shows the way
to us. In him resides salvation, offered us through our forgiveness, given
unto him.
We will not end this year without the gift our Father promised to His holy
Son. We are forgiven now. And we are saved from all the wrath we thought
belonged to God, and found it was a dream. We are restored to sanity, in
which we understand that anger is insane, attack is mad, and vengeance
merely foolish fantasy. We have been saved from wrath because we learned
we were mistaken. Nothing more than that. And is a father angry at his son
because he failed to understand the truth?
We come in honesty to God and say we did not understand, and ask Him to
help us to learn His lessons, through the Voice of His Own Teacher. Would
He hurt His Son? Or would He rush to answer him, and say, "This is My
Son, and all I have is his"? Be certain He will answer thus, for these are His
Own words to you. And more than that can no one ever have, for in these
words is all there is, and all that there will be throughout all time and in
eternity.
[[Category: Workbook II]]
<center>'''Final Lessons - Introduction'''</center>
Our final lessons will be left as free of words as possible. We use them but
at the beginning of our practicing, and only to remind us that we seek to go
beyond them. Let us turn to Him Who leads the way and makes our
footsteps sure. To Him we leave these lessons, as to Him we give our lives
henceforth. For we would not return again to the belief in sin that made the
world seem ugly and unsafe, attacking and destroying, dangerous in all its
ways, and treacherous beyond the hope of trust and the escape from pain.
His is the only way to find the peace that God has given us. It is His way
that everyone must travel in the end, because it is this ending God Himself
appointed. In the dream of time it seems to be far off. And yet, in truth, it is
already here; already serving us as gracious guidance in the way to go. Let
us together follow in the way that truth points out to us. And let us be the
leaders of our many brothers who are seeking for the way, but find it not.
And to this purpose let us dedicate our minds, directing all our thoughts to
serve the function of salvation. Unto us the aim is given to forgive the
world. It is the goal that God has given us. It is His ending to the dream we
seek, and not our own. For all that we forgive we will not fail to recognize
as part of God Himself. And thus His memory is given back, completely
and complete.
It is our function to remember Him on earth, as it is given us to be His Own
completion in reality. So let us not forget our goal is shared, for it is that
remembrance which contains the memory of God, and points the way to
Him and to the Heaven of His peace. And shall we not forgive our brother,
who can offer this to us? He is the way, the truth and life that shows the way
to us. In him resides salvation, offered us through our forgiveness, given
unto him.
We will not end this year without the gift our Father promised to His holy
Son. We are forgiven now. And we are saved from all the wrath we thought
belonged to God, and found it was a dream. We are restored to sanity, in
which we understand that anger is insane, attack is mad, and vengeance
merely foolish fantasy. We have been saved from wrath because we learned
we were mistaken. Nothing more than that. And is a father angry at his son
because he failed to understand the truth?
We come in honesty to God and say we did not understand, and ask Him to
help us to learn His lessons, through the Voice of His Own Teacher. Would
He hurt His Son? Or would He rush to answer him, and say, "This is My
Son, and all I have is his"? Be certain He will answer thus, for these are His
Own words to you. And more than that can no one ever have, for in these
words is all there is, and all that there will be throughout all time and in
eternity.
[[Category: Workbook II]]
