Welcome to Active Meditation,
A Course in Miracles.
Lesson 155.
I will step back and let God 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.
You smile more frequently.
Your forehead is serene.
Your eyes are quiet.
The people who walk the world as you do recognize those who have not yet perceived the way,
Who recognize you also and believe that you are like them as you were before,
Is an illusion.
Those who choose to come to it are seeking for a place where they can be illusioned and avoid that when they find their own reality is even here,
They step back and let it lead the way.
What other choice is really theirs to make?
To let illusions walk ahead of truth,
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 remain a while in evidence.
For those of us,
The mad illusion will remain for those who chose to come and have not yet reached the truth.
For those who chose to come and have not yet rejoiced to find they were mistaken in their choice.
They cannot learn directly because they have denied that the truth is so.
They need a teacher who perceives their madness,
A teacher who still can look beyond illusion to the simple truth in them.
Truth demanded they give up the world.
It would appear to them as if it asks real.
Many of us have chosen to renounce the world,
Still believing its reality.
They have suffered from a sense of loss and have not been released accordingly.
Others have chosen nothing but the world.
They have suffered as well from a sense of loss which they did not understand.
Between these two paths,
There is another road that leads away from loss of every kind.
A path of death or sacrifice and deprivation.
Both are left quickly behind.
This is the way appointed for you now.
We practice gladly with this thought today.
Say to yourself,
I will step back and let God lead the way,
For I would walk along the road to God.
You walk this path as others walk.
You do not seem to be distinct from them,
Although you are indeed.
Thus,
You conserve them while you serve yourself.
Thus,
Can you set their footsteps on the way that God has opened up to you on the way that God has opened to them through you.
Illusion still appears to cling to you that you may reach them.
Yet,
Illusion has stepped back.
It is not illusion that they hear you speak of.
It is not illusion that you bring their eyes to look on.
It is not illusion that you bring their mind to grasp.
The truth which walks ahead of you cannot speak to them through illusion.
For the road leads past illusion.
The way you call to them,
That they may follow you.
All roads will lead to this one road in the end.
For sacrifice and deprivation are paths that lead nowhere.
Sacrifice and deprivation are choices for defeat.
They are aims that will remain impossible.
All this steps back as truth comes forth in you.
To lead your brothers and sisters from the ways of death,
To set them on the way to happiness,
Their suffering is but illusion.
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.
Salvation's call asks that you accept the truth and let the truth go before you,
Lighting up the path of ransom.
It is not a ransom with a price.
There is no cost,
But only gain.
Illusion can seem to hold in chains the holy child of God.
It is from illusions the child is saved.
As illusions step back,
God's children find themselves again.
Walk safely now.
Walk 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 and sisters have been given to you to follow in your footsteps as you walk with certainty of purpose to the truth.
Truth goes before you now that they may see something with which they can identify.
Something they understand leads the way.
At this journey's end,
There will be no gap,
No distance between truth and you.
All illusions walking in the way you traveled will be gone from you as well.
Nothing will be 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 God lead you.
The rest.
When dreams are over,
When time has closed the door on all the things that pass,
When miracles have no purpose,
The holy child of God will make no more journeys.
There will be no wish to be an illusion rather than the truth and we will 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,
It also goes before our brothers and sisters who will follow us.
We walk to God.
Repeat after me.
I will step back.
I will let God lead the way.
I would walk along the road to God.
Pause and reflect on that.
I will step back.
I will let God lead the way.
I would walk along the road to God.
I will step back.
I will let God lead the way.
I would walk along the road to God.
Could any way be holier or more deserving of your effort?
Could any way be more deserving of your love,
More deserving of your full intent?
What way could give you more than everything?
What way could offer less and still please the holy child of God?
We walk to God.
The truth that walks before us now is one with God.
This truth leads us to where God 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 child.
Forget not God has placed his hand in yours,
Given you your brothers and sisters in his trust that you are worthy of his trust in you.
God cannot be deceived.
God's trust has made your pathway certain,
Your goal secure.
You will not fail your brothers and sisters nor will you fail yourself.
Now God 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 is God's trust,
How limitless is God's will in your name and God's own which are.
We practice gladly after me.
I will step back.
I will let God lead the way.
I will walk along the road.
I will step back.
I will let God lead the way.
I will walk along the road to God.
Ponder on.
I will step back.
I will let God lead the way.
I would walk along the road to God.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace.
