Lesson 340. I can be free of suffering today.
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Lesson 340. I can be free of suffering today.
Father, I thank You for today, and for the freedom I am certain it will bring.
This day is holy, for today Your Son will be redeemed. His suffering is done.
For he will hear Your Voice directing him to find Christ's vision through
forgiveness, and be free forever from all suffering. Thanks for today, my
Father. I was born into this world but to achieve this day, and what it holds in
joy and freedom for Your holy Son and for the world he made, which is released
along with him today.
Be glad today! Be glad! There is no room for anything but joy and thanks today.
Our Father has redeemed His Son this day. Not one of us but will be saved today.
Not one who will remain in fear, and none the Father will not gather to Himself,
awake in Heaven in the Heart of Love.
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Below, is from Kenneth Wapnick's commentaries on this lesson, from "Journey
Through the Workbook of A Course in Miracles," which can be purchased at the
following site:??~ M. Street.
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Lesson 340. "I can be free of suffering today."
*This lesson provides us with another clear statement of what our experience can
be if we choose the Teacher of freedom instead of the teacher of suffering.*
(1:1-2) "Father, I thank You for today, and for the freedom I am certain it will
bring. This day is holy, for today Your Son will be redeemed."
*Our gratitude is not for whatever pain we experience this day -- that would be
masochism. We thank our Father for His Love, which, through the Holy Spirit's
Presence in our hurtful dream, reminds us that we can choose again. Our
suffering is the effect of the mind's mistaken choice for a teacher, but we can
change the cause to the Cause that alone will free us from our prison house of
pain. Forgiveness is the Holy Spirit's means to liberate us from hell, for it
reflects the Will of Heaven, the only Source of joy.*
(1:3-6) "His suffering is done. For he will hear Your Voice directing him to
find Christ's vision through forgiveness, and be free forever from all
suffering. Thanks for today, my Father. I was born into this world but to
achieve this day, and what it holds in joy and freedom for Your holy Son and for
the world he made, which is released along with him today."
*Choosing the Voice of forgiveness instead of the voice of guilt marks the end
of suffering. There is no other way to remember our pain-free Self than to
recognize that suffering's end comes with the separation's end, expressed
through not seeing another's interests as separate from our own -- the essence
of forgiveness. As Jesus reminds us in Psychotherapy :
"Hear a brother call for help and answer him ... There is no other way to
hear His Voice. There is no other way to seek His Son. There is no other way to
find your Self." (P-2.V.8:4,6-8)*
(2) "Be glad today! Be glad! There is no room for anything but joy and thanks
today. Our Father has redeemed His Son this day. Not one of us but will be saved
today. Not one who will remain in fear, and none the Father will not gather to
Himself, awake in Heaven in the Heart of Love."
*The only right-minded purpose for being here is to learn that suffering comes
from a wish that in turn gives rise to a thought. This, then, gives rise to a
projected experience. Recall these important lines from the text:
"Perception seems to teach you what you see. Yet it but witnesses to what
you taught. It is the outward picture of a wish; an image that you wanted to be
true." (T-24.VII.8.8-10).
If I am not happy with my suffering, I can return to my mind's decision maker
and say: "I no longer wish this." Yet to say I no longer wish this pain must
also mean I no longer wish its cause -- the decision to be on my own and
separate from the Love of God. Thus I joyfully allow myself to hear God's loving
Judgment on me, His Son:
"Holy are you, eternal, free and whole, at peace forever in the Heart of
God." (M-15.1:11) *
Love and Blessings,
Lyn Johnson 719-369-1822
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