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Lesson 125. In quiet I receive God's Word today.

 

Lesson 125. In quiet I receive God's Word today.

(1) Let this day be a day of stillness and of quiet listening. Your Father wills
you hear His Word today. He calls to you from deep within your mind where He
abides. Hear Him today. No peace is possible until His Word is heard around the
world; until your mind, in quiet listening, accepts the message that the world
must hear to usher in the quiet time of peace.

(2) This world will change through you. No other means can save it, for God's
plan is simply this: The Son of God is free to save himself, given the Word of
God to be his Guide, forever in his mind and at his side to lead him surely to
his Father's house by his own will, forever free as God's. He is not led by
force, but only love. He is not judged, but only sanctified.

(3) In stillness we will hear God's Voice today without intrusion of our petty
thoughts, without our personal desires, and without all judgment of His holy
Word. We will not judge ourselves today, for what we are can not be judged. We
stand apart from all the judgments which the world has laid upon the Son of God.
It knows him not. Today we will not listen to the world, but wait in silence for
the Word of God.

(4) Hear, holy Son of God, your Father speak. His Voice would give to you His
holy Word, to spread across the world the tidings of salvation and the holy time
of peace. We gather at the throne of God today, the quiet place within the mind
where He abides forever, in the holiness that He created and will never leave.

(5) He has not waited until you return your mind to Him to give His Word to you.
He has not hid Himself from you, while you have wandered off a little while from
Him. He does not cherish the illusions which you hold about yourself. He knows
His Son, and wills that he remain as part of Him regardless of his dreams;
regardless of his madness that his will is not his own.

(6) Today He speaks to you. His Voice awaits your silence, for His Word can not
be heard until your mind is quiet for a while, and meaningless desires have been
stilled. Await His Word in quiet. There is peace within you to be called upon
today, to help make ready your most holy mind to hear the Voice for its Creator
speak.

(7) Three times today, at times most suitable for silence, give ten minutes set
apart from listening to the world, and choose instead a gentle listening to the
Word of God. He speaks from nearer than your heart to you. His Voice is closer
than your hand. His Love is everything you are and that He is; the same as you,
and you the same as He.

(8) It is your voice to which you listen as He speaks to you. It is your word He
speaks. It is the Word of freedom and of peace, of unity of will and purpose,
with no separation nor division in the single Mind of Father and of Son. In
quiet listen to your Self today, and let Him tell you God has never left His
Son, and you have never left your Self.

(9) Only be quiet. You will need no rule but this, to let your practicing today
lift you above the thinking of the world, and free your vision from the body's
eyes. Only be still and listen. You will hear the Word in which the Will of God
the Son joins in his Father's Will, at one with it, with no illusions interposed
between the wholly indivisible and true. As every hour passes by today, be still
a moment and remind yourself you have a special purpose for this day; in quiet
to receive the Word of God.

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The commentary on this lesson is an excerpt from Kenneth Wapnick's eight volume
series of
books, called: "Journey Through the Workbook of A Course in Miracles," which can
be purchased at the following site:??~ M. Street
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Lesson 125. In quiet I receive God's Word today."

*In this beautiful lesson Jesus talks about being still, reminiscent of the
line: "The memory of God comes to the quiet mind." (T.23.I.1.1) If we are truly
serious about our desire to remember God and return home, our minds must be
quiet. The problem is we have filled them with the static of the ego's raucous
shrieks -- its thought system of separation and individuality; sin, guilt, and
fear; specialness and attack -- which makes it impossible to hear the Holy
Spirit remind us of our Identity. If we are to be quiet and receive God's Word
-- the Atonement principle -- we need to look at our ego's interferences without
judgment, thus letting them go.*

(1:1-4) "Let this day be a day of stillness and of quiet listening. Your Father
wills you hear His Word today. He calls to you from deep within your mind where
He abides. Hear Him today."

*Deep within is the right mind, which we have sought to hide, and hide from. If
we want to reach the quiet place wherein dwells the Voice for our Father, we
have to return and unveil what we kept hidden. In the text we find this
beautifully evocative passage of the forgotten song, whose wondrous melody is
heard again, to the extent we can be quiet and listen:

"Listen, -perhaps you catch a hint of an ancient state not quite forgotten;
dim, perhaps, and yet not altogether unfamiliar, like a song whose name is long
forgotten; and the circumstances in which you heard completely unremembered. Not
the whole song has stayed with you, but just a little wisp of melody, attached
not to a person or a place or anything particular. But you remember, from just
this little part, how lovely was the song, how wonderful the setting where you
heard it, and how you loved those who were there and listened with you."

"The notes are nothing. Yet you have kept them with you, not for themselves,
but as a soft reminder of what would make you weep if you remembered how dear it
was to you. You could remember, yet you are afraid, believing you would lose the
world you learned since then. And yet you know that nothing in the world you
learned is half so dear as this. Listen, and see if you remember an ancient song
you knew so long ago and held more dear than any melody you taught yourself to
cherish since." (T.21.I.6-7).*

(1:5) "No peace is possible until His Word is heard around the world; until your
mind, in quiet listening, accepts the message that the world must hear to usher
in the quiet time of peace."

*When Jesus speaks of the world, he does not refer to the external world of the
body, but the world that exists in the mind. Since <ideas leave not their
source>, the idea of a separated world has never left its source in the mind.
When, therefore, we are healed of the thought of separation by releasing our
investment in specialness, God's Word can be heard around the world, for the
Sonship is one. The world -- being nothing but the mind's projection of
separation -- has been healed, and so Jesus does not advocate preaching his holy
word to a world that is already saved, but only accepting it -- the Atonement
--within our minds.*

(2:1) "This world will change through you."

*Repeating the central idea, if the world is a projection of the thought of
separation, and this thought is healed, the world is healed, too. External
change is irrelevant, for only changing the mind's thought is important.
Otherwise there would be no hope. That is the premise underlying Jesus' words in
the opening pages of the manual for teachers:

"Into this hopeless and closed learning situation, which teaches nothing but
despair and death, God sends His teachers. And as they teach His lessons of joy
and hope, their learning finally becomes complete."
"Except for God's teachers there would be little hope of salvation, for the
world of sin would seem forever real." (M.IN.4.7-5:1)

"Yet it is time alone that winds on wearily, and the world is very tired
now. It is old and worn and without hope. There was never a question of outcome,
for what can change the Will of God? But time, with its illusions of change and
death, wears out the world and all things in it. Yet time has an ending, and it
is this that the teachers of God are appointed to bring about. For time is in
their hands. Such was their choice, and it is given them." (M.1.4.4-10).*

All of us are called to be a teacher of God and to accept the Atonement and by
our healing is the world healed. What had heretofore been tired, worn, and
without hope, now is radiant in the gentle light of forgiveness and ablaze with
the hope of salvation.*
(3:1) "In stillness we will hear God's Voice today without intrusion of our
petty thoughts, without our personal desires, and without all judgment of His
holy Word."

*We experience the Holy Spirit and remember His Love by letting go of all things
that interfere with it. Here Jesus refers to these blocks as "petty thoughts,"
"personal desires" and "all judgment." This means becoming aware of them, for
otherwise we cannot choose against them. We learn of these ego defenses as we
see their manifestations: our special relationships with each other expressing
the mind's special relationship with the ego. As we become increasingly aware of
the guilt and hatred expressed in our bodies -- special hate and special love --
we learn that what we are experiencing outside is the shadow of what we have
first made real in our minds. This is the first clue that there is a mind, which
allows us to be aware it is our thoughts that have to change, not anything
external.*

(4:1-2) "Hear, holy Son of God, your Father speak. His Voice would give to you
His holy Word, to spread across the world the tidings of salvation and the holy
time of peace."

*To repeat, Jesus is not talking about the external. His point is that the world
exists only in our minds. When we accept Jesus as our teacher -- for however
brief a period -- that decision is made for the whole Sonship, because the Son
of God is one. This becomes an increasingly important theme as we proceed: The
Voice of Oneness speaks only for oneness.*

(5:1)"He has not waited until you return your mind to Him to give His Word to
you."

*Salvation has traditionally been seen as our doing our part, <before> God does
His. If we suffer, sacrifice, say our prayers, obey rituals, and be good boys
and girls, God will reward us. In other words, God waits for us to atone for our
sin. Here we are told the exact opposite -- God has already given us the loving
Word of His Atonement plan, and we but return to the mind to accept it. God does
nothing other than love, a Love that is not conditional upon anything we do or
practice. Our lack of awareness was the problem, and we remember His Word when
we choose it.*

(6:1) "Today He speaks to you. His Voice awaits your silence, for His Word can
not be heard until your mind is quiet for a while, and meaningless desires have
been stilled."

*The truth is that God speaks all the time. The problem is we do not listen, for
if we did, we would lose our specialness. That is what frightens us.*

(6:2) "Await His Word in quiet."

*The onus is on us, and we need be aware that everything we think is part of the
ego static that seeks to drown out God's Voice and keep His Love hidden. Thus we
have to pay careful attention to what we feel throughout the day, becoming aware
of our petty desires, judgments, and hopes. Recall this important passage from
the text on the power of specialness to silence God's quiet Voice:

"What answer that the Holy Spirit gives can reach you, when it is your
specialness to which you listen, and which asks and answers? Its tiny answer,
soundless in the melody that pours from God to you eternally in loving praise of
what you are, is all you listen to. And that vast song of honor and of love for
what you are seems silent and unheard before its "mightiness". You strain your
ears to hear its soundless voice, and yet the Call of God Himself is soundless
to you." (T-24:II.4:3-6).

Given the fact of the "power" of specialness, how could our ego's resist the
temptation to choose its special love over the love of Jesus?*

(6:3 --7:1) "There is peace within you to be called upon today, to help make
ready your most holy mind to hear the Voice for its Creator speak."
"Three times today, at times most suitable for silence, give ten minutes set
apart from listening to the world, and choose instead a gentle listening to the
Word of God."

*We are asked to be aware of how much we listen to the world, and understand
this means listening to our projected thought system. That is why we must choose
against the ego, which we cannot do if we are not aware of it. Thus our daily
vigilance, so crucial to hearing God's Voice. This point needs constant
reiteration, as in this statement from the text:

"You may wonder why it is so crucial that you look upon your hatred and
realize its full extent. You may also think that it would be easy enough for the
Holy Spirit to show it to you, and to dispel it without the need for you to
raise it to awareness yourself." (T-13.III.1:1-2).

Exercises like today's help lead us through our hatred to the love beyond the
world, reflected in our split minds by God's Word, His Voice that speaks in
quiet and peace for the Atonement.*

(8:1-2) "It is your voice to which you listen as He speaks to you. It is your
word He speaks."

*In the right mind, our voice and the Holy Spirit's are one. As Jesus was the
manifestation of the Holy Spirit, we are asked to be His manifestation, too.
When we are wrong minded, however, we need an experience of love that is outside
our self. Releasing the interference to that love allows us to join with it, and
thus realize our self and love are not separate. God's Voice speaks only one
Word, and that Word is Who we are.*

(9:1-3) "Only be quiet. You will need no rule but this, to let your practicing
today lift you above the thinking of the world, and free your vision from the
body's eyes. Only be still and listen."

*That is the only rule we need; not just this day, but every day. We need be
quiet, which means, once again, becoming aware of the mind's noise in choosing
to drown out the still, small Voice that tells us our dreams, thoughts, and
feelings are made up -- part of a single illusion, the purpose of which is to
keep us from remembering our Identity as God's Son:

"This course attempts to teach no more than that the power of decision
cannot lie in choosing different forms of what is still the same illusion and
the same mistake." (T.31.IV.8.3)

Thus we are asked to make the simple choice between the one illusion of
separation and the one reflected truth of forgiveness.*

(9:4) "You will hear the Word in which the Will of God the Son joins in his
Father's Will, at one with it, with no illusions interposed between the wholly
indivisible and true."

*To repeat this simple truth. Our reality is oneness which we remember by
looking at how we keep ourselves separate from each other. Such vigilance
constitutes the daily practice of A Course in Miracles -- becoming aware of the
subtle, and sometimes not so subtle ways we put barriers between ourselves and
others, either through special love or special hate: judging, holding
grievances, building alliances, and being sure that we are right. We recognize
the importance of shifting from the world's perception of separate interests --
<my gain is your loss> -- to the Holy Spirit's perception of shared interests.
Thus we learn it cannot be that we and our brothers are different -- we are one
in loss or gain, depending on our decision:

"All choices in the world depend on this; you choose between your brother
and yourself, and you will gain as much as he will lose, and what you lose is
what is given him. How utterly opposed to truth is this, when all the lesson's
purpose is to teach that what your brother loses you have lost, and what he
gains is what is given you." (T.31.IV.8.4-5)

Thus we choose today for <all> God's Sons, recognizing their inherent sameness.*

(9:5) "As every hour passes by today, be still a moment and remind yourself you
have a special purpose for this day; in quiet to receive the Word of God."

*You should do this not only every hour, but as often as you can, especially
when aware of your attempts to say: "My brother and I are <not> one." It is your
special purpose today to remember the ego's, and to choose against it and for
the Voice that speaks the quiet Word of forgiveness and truth. This shift from
the ego's false forgiveness to the Holy Spirit's true forgiveness is the theme
of the next lesson.*



Love and Blessings,

Lyn Johnson
719-369-1822

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