Lesson 346.
Today the peace of God envelops me,
And I forget all things except His Love.
Father, I wake today with miracles correcting my perception of all things. And
so begins the day I share with You as I will share eternity, for time has
stepped aside today. I do not seek the things of time, and so I will not look
upon them. What I seek today transcends all laws of time and things perceived in
time. I would forget all things except Your Love. I would abide in You, and know
no laws except Your law of love. And I would find the peace which You created
for Your Son, forgetting all the foolish toys I made as I behold Your glory and
my own.
And when the evening comes today, we will remember nothing but the peace of God.
For we will learn today what peace is ours, when we forget all things except
God's 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 346.
"Today the peace of God envelops me,
And I forget all things except His Love."
*This is another important lesson that can be helpful as you go through your
day. Realize how much you forget His Love and seek to remember everything else.
If it is His Love you really want to remember, your specialness needs will
recede into the background and His Love, as reflected through Jesus' teachings
of forgiveness, will come to the foreground. If you realize that the purpose of
this day is not to satisfy your ego's needs, but rather to be a classroom in
which your only need of forgiveness is satisfied, that purpose will be in the
foreground, and the daily events and relationships will reflect that changed
purpose. They will thus have become the curriculum in which you learn the
lessons that will speed you along your Atonement path. That is the meaning of "I
forget all things except His Love." Jesus does not mean that you literally have
to think of God's Love throughout the day; but he asks that you think of the
gift Love's reflection offers you in very specific ways -- the opportunity of
learning lessons in your classroom of forgiveness.*
(1:1-2) "Father, I wake today with miracles correcting my perception of all
things. And so begins the day I share with You as I will share eternity, for
time has stepped aside today."
*When I choose the holy instant I am outside time. That is how it has stepped
aside. This does not mean I deny that I live in a world of time and space. It
simply means that the world recedes into the background, its place taken by the
lesson that comes from timelessness -- my reality is outside the dream. I now
understand I chose the dream because I desired to keep my special dream figure
alive and well, but am ready and willing to learn something else.*
(1:3-4) "I do not seek the things of time, and so I will not look upon them.
What I seek today transcends all laws of time and things perceived in time."
*That is not meant to imply that you do not watch a news program, read a
newspaper, or listen to someone's sad story, but that you look at them through
Jesus' eyes. Remember that before you realize the perceptual world is an
illusion, you first must reverse the perceived figure and ground. You do not
want to skip steps, meaning that before you realize the illusory nature of
everything, including yourself, you first must pay careful attention to what
goes on here, but seen with a different purpose. The world of specialness,
instead of being front and center, becomes the background of your new purpose.
Thus what emerges in the forefront is Jesus' teaching that will help you realize
that you can look on the world another way.*
(1:5-7) "I would forget all things except Your Love. I would abide in You, and
know no laws except Your law of love. And I would find the peace which You
created for Your Son, forgetting all the foolish toys I made as I behold Your
glory and my own."
*These foolish toys, as we have seen elsewhere, are the ego's thoughts of sin
and attack.*
(2) "And when the evening comes today, we will remember nothing but the peace of
God. For we will learn today what peace is ours, when we forget all things
except God's Love."
*This is the thought with which we should awaken, keep with us throughout the
day, and with which we go to bed; namely, our only purpose here is learning we
are not here. Our loving teacher helps us to remember this purpose when we
forget.*
