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<center>'''I will step back and let Him lead the way.'''</center>
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 illusions 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 merely 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 their 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.
If truth demanded they give up the world, it would appear to them as if it
asked the sacrifice of something that is real. Many have chosen to renounce
the world while still believing its reality. And they have suffered from a
sense of loss, and have not been released accordingly. Others have chosen
nothing but the world, and they have suffered from a sense of loss still
deeper, which they did not understand.
Between these paths there is another road that leads away from loss of every
kind, for sacrifice and deprivation both are quickly left behind. This is the
way appointed for you now. You walk this path as others walk, nor do you
seem to be distinct from them, although you are indeed. Thus can you serve
them while you serve yourself, and set their footsteps on the way that God
has opened up to you, and them through you.
Illusion still appears to cling to you, that you may reach them. Yet it has
stepped back. And it is not illusion that they hear you speak of, nor illusion
that you bring their eyes to look on and their minds to grasp. Nor can the
truth, which walks ahead of you, speak to them through illusions, for the
road leads past illusion now, while on the way you call to them, that they
may follow you.
All roads will lead to this one in the end. For sacrifice and deprivation are
paths that lead nowhere, choices for defeat, and aims that 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 illusions
be your guide. Your holy brothers have been given you, to follow in your
footsteps as you walk with certainty of purpose to the truth. It goes before
you now, that they may see something with which they can identify;
something they understand to lead the way.
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 travelled 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.
When dreams are over, time has closed the door on all the things that pass
and miracles are purposeless, the holy Son of God will make no journeys.
There will be no wish to be illusion rather than the truth. And we step forth
toward this, as we progress along the way that truth points out to us. This is
our final journey, which we make for everyone. We must not lose our way.
For as truth goes before us, so it goes before our brothers who will follow
us.
We walk to God. Pause and reflect on this. Could any way be holier, or
more deserving of your effort, of your love and of your full intent? What
way could give you more than everything, or offer less and still content the
holy Son of God? 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 that you would choose instead?
Your feet are safely set upon the road that 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. Forget not He has placed His Hand in yours, and
given you your brothers in His trust that you are worthy of His trust in you.
He cannot be deceived. His trust has made your pathway certain and your
goal secure. You will not fail your brothers nor your Self.
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:
<center>''I will step back and let Him lead the way,''</center>
<center>''For I would walk along the road to Him.''</center>
[[Category: Workbook I]]
<center>'''I will step back and let Him lead the way.'''</center>
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 illusions 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 merely 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 their 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.
If truth demanded they give up the world, it would appear to them as if it
asked the sacrifice of something that is real. Many have chosen to renounce
the world while still believing its reality. And they have suffered from a
sense of loss, and have not been released accordingly. Others have chosen
nothing but the world, and they have suffered from a sense of loss still
deeper, which they did not understand.
Between these paths there is another road that leads away from loss of every
kind, for sacrifice and deprivation both are quickly left behind. This is the
way appointed for you now. You walk this path as others walk, nor do you
seem to be distinct from them, although you are indeed. Thus can you serve
them while you serve yourself, and set their footsteps on the way that God
has opened up to you, and them through you.
Illusion still appears to cling to you, that you may reach them. Yet it has
stepped back. And it is not illusion that they hear you speak of, nor illusion
that you bring their eyes to look on and their minds to grasp. Nor can the
truth, which walks ahead of you, speak to them through illusions, for the
road leads past illusion now, while on the way you call to them, that they
may follow you.
All roads will lead to this one in the end. For sacrifice and deprivation are
paths that lead nowhere, choices for defeat, and aims that 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 illusions
be your guide. Your holy brothers have been given you, to follow in your
footsteps as you walk with certainty of purpose to the truth. It goes before
you now, that they may see something with which they can identify;
something they understand to lead the way.
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 travelled 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.
When dreams are over, time has closed the door on all the things that pass
and miracles are purposeless, the holy Son of God will make no journeys.
There will be no wish to be illusion rather than the truth. And we step forth
toward this, as we progress along the way that truth points out to us. This is
our final journey, which we make for everyone. We must not lose our way.
For as truth goes before us, so it goes before our brothers who will follow
us.
We walk to God. Pause and reflect on this. Could any way be holier, or
more deserving of your effort, of your love and of your full intent? What
way could give you more than everything, or offer less and still content the
holy Son of God? 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 that you would choose instead?
Your feet are safely set upon the road that 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. Forget not He has placed His Hand in yours, and
given you your brothers in His trust that you are worthy of His trust in you.
He cannot be deceived. His trust has made your pathway certain and your
goal secure. You will not fail your brothers nor your Self.
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:
<center>''I will step back and let Him lead the way,''</center>
<center>''For I would walk along the road to Him.''</center>
[[Category: Workbook I]]
