Welcome to Active Meditation,
A Course in Miracles,
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?
The warmth of sure protection always?
Do you want quietness and not be disturbed?
A gentleness that can never be hurt?
Do you want a deep abiding comfort and a rest so perfect?
All this forgiveness offers you.
Forgiveness sparkles on your eyes as you awake and gives you joy with which to meet the day.
Forgiveness soothes your forehead and rests upon your eyelids so you see no dreams of fear and evil,
Malice.
And when you wake again,
Forgiveness offers you another day of happiness and peace.
All this forgiveness offers you.
Forgiveness lets the veil be lifted up that hides the face of Christ.
From those who look with unforgiving eyes,
Forgiveness lets you recognize the child of God and clears your memory of all dead thought so that remembrance of God across the threshold.
What would you want?
Forgiveness cannot give.
What gifts but these are worthy to be sought?
What fancy 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,
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.
God's plan for your salvation cannot change,
Nor can it fail.
Be thankful it remains exactly as God planned it,
Changelessly.
God's plan 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 child 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,
The fragile cobwebs,
Disappear before the power and the majesty of this extremely simple statement.
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 can give no gifts of any value to a mind that has received what God has given.
God wills salvation be received today.
God wills that the intricacies of your dreams no longer hide their nothingness.
Open your eyes today and look upon a happy world of safety and of peace.
This is the means by which peace and safety come 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 practice today with hope and faith that this will be the day salvation will be ours.
Earnestly and gladly we will seek for salvation today,
Aware that 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,
But 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,
So let's practice,
Let's move directly into light,
And we receive the gifts that have been held in store for us since time began,
Kept waiting for today.
We can detect this light as warm friendly light that moves from above downward swirling around us,
Moving through us,
It brings a feeling of peace,
Of benevolence,
And quiet joy.
As this benevolent light of love and joy moves through us,
It also works to clean us of negativity,
To remove bits of anger and resentment and replace them with peace and love.
This compassionate light continues to move through us,
Swirling around us,
Moving through our memories,
Soothing old conflicts,
Repairing our emotional wounds,
Calming our fears.
This energy of the light of love continues to cleanse us of any tendencies to give in to despair or anger by filling our hearts and minds with a pervasive sense of peace.
Surrender to this benevolent light of love and peace,
Which continues to pour through us and about us.
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.
Believe yourself how precious are these gifts with this reminder which has power to hold your gifts in your awareness through the day.
Repeat after me.
Forgiveness offers everything I want.
Today I have accepted this as true.
Today I have received the gifts of God.
Ponder on this.
Forgiveness offers everything I want.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace.
