A Course in Miracles Lesson 193 All things are lessons God would have me learn.
When I forgive,
I will see all events differently.
All things are lessons God would have me learn.
These are the words which give you power over all events.
You see all events rightly when you hold these words in full awareness,
When you do not forget that these words apply to everything you see,
Or any brother or sister you look upon incorrectly.
How can you tell when you are seeing wrong?
How can you tell when someone else is failing to perceive the lesson they should learn?
Does pain seem real?
If it does,
Be sure the lesson is not learned.
The lesson is not learned if there remains unforgiveness hiding in the mind that sees the pain through the eyes the mind directs.
All things are lessons God would have me learn.
When I forgive,
I will see all things differently.
You will attempt today to overcome a thousand seeming obstacles to peace in just one day.
Time was made for this.
Use it today for what its purpose is.
Morning and night,
Devote as much time as you can to serve its proper aim.
Do not let the time be less than meets your deepest need.
Give all the time you can,
Then give a little more.
For now,
We would arise in haste and go into our father's house.
We have been gone too long,
And we would linger here no more.
As we practice,
Let's think about all the things we save to settle by ourselves and kept apart from healing.
Let's give all these things we save to our higher self.
Our higher self knows the way to look upon them so that they will disappear.
Do this now.
Identify the things you save to settle without forgiveness.
I'll be silent.
All things are lessons God would have me learn.
When I forgive,
I will see all things differently.
What things have you saved to settle without forgiveness?
Identify them now.
What have you identified that you have saved to settle without forgiveness?
Truth is the message of our higher self.
Truth is our higher self's teaching.
The lessons of our higher self are the lessons God would have us learn.
Each hour,
Spend a little time today,
And in the days to come,
Practicing the lesson in forgiveness in the form established for the day.
Try to apply the lesson to the happenings the hour brought,
So that the next lesson is free of the previous lesson.
The chains of time are easily unloosed in this way.
Let no one hour cast its shadow on the one that follows.
When that hour goes,
Let everything that happened in its course go with it.
Thus,
You remain unbound.
You remain in peace,
Eternal,
In the world of time.
This is the lesson God would have you learn.
There is a way to look on everything that lets it be to you another step to God,
Another step to the salvation of the world.
To all that speaks of terror,
Say to yourself,
And answer thus,
I will forgive,
And this will disappear.
I will forgive,
And this will disappear.
It is certain that all distress does not appear to be anything but unforgiveness,
Yet that is the content underneath the form.
To every apprehension,
To every care,
To every form of suffering,
Repeat these self-same words,
I will forgive,
And this will disappear.
Repeat these words,
And you hold the key that opens heaven's gate.
These words bring the love of God,
The Father,
Down to earth,
At last,
To raise earth up to heaven.
God will take this final step himself.
Do not deny the little steps God asks you to take to him.
All things are lessons God would have me learn.
I will forgive,
And this will disappear.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
