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<center>'''Forgiveness offers everything I want.'''</center>
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 on 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 that will answer
everything? Here is the perfect answer, given to imperfect questions,
meaningless requests, halfhearted 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 that 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 that 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:
<center>''Forgiveness offers everything I want.''</center>
<center>''Today I have accepted this as true.''</center>
<center>''Today I have received the gifts of God.''</center>
[[Category: Workbook I]]
<center>'''Forgiveness offers everything I want.'''</center>
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 on 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 that will answer
everything? Here is the perfect answer, given to imperfect questions,
meaningless requests, halfhearted 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 that 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 that 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:
<center>''Forgiveness offers everything I want.''</center>
<center>''Today I have accepted this as true.''</center>
<center>''Today I have received the gifts of God.''</center>
[[Category: Workbook I]]
