Welcome to Active Meditation,
A course in miracles.
Lesson 157.
Into God's Presence Would I Enter Now.
This is a day of silence and a day of trust.
It is a special time in your calendar of days.
It is a time heaven has set apart to shine upon and cast a timeless light upon this day and echoes of eternity are heard.
This day is holy for it ushers in a new experience,
A different kind of feeling and awareness.
You have spent long days and nights in celebrating death.
Today you learn to feel the joy of life.
This is another crucial turning point in the curriculum.
We add a new dimension now,
A fresh experience,
An experience that sheds a light on all that we have learned already,
An experience that prepares us for what we have yet to learn,
An experience that brings us to the door where learning ceases,
That brings us to where we catch a glimpse of what lies past the highest reaches it can possibly attain.
It leaves us here an instant and we go beyond,
Sure of our direction,
Sure of our only goal.
Today it will be given you to feel a touch of heaven,
Though you will return to paths of learning.
You have come far enough along the way to alter time sufficiently,
To rise above the laws of time and to walk into eternity.
This you will learn to do increasingly as every one of these lessons faithfully rehearsed brings you more swiftly to this holy place and leaves you to your higher self.
God will direct your practicing today for what you ask for now is what God wills and having joined your will with his,
That which you are asking must be given you.
Nothing is needed but today's idea to light your mind into God's presence would I enter now.
This idea will let your mind rest in still anticipation,
Joy wherein you quickly leave the world behind.
From this day forth your ministry takes on a genuine devotion.
From this day forth your ministry takes on a glow,
Travels from your fingertips to those you touch,
Takes on a glow that blesses those you look upon.
A vision reaches everyone you meet and everyone you think of,
Everyone who thinks of you.
Your experience today will so transform your mind that it becomes a touchstone,
A holy thought.
Your body will be sanctified today.
Your body's only purpose being now to bring the vision of what you experience this day to light the world.
We cannot give experience like this yet it leaves a vision in our eyes we can for everyone that they may come sooner to the same experience in which the world is quietly forgot,
In which heaven is remembered for a while.
Say say in your mind into God's presence would I enter.
Into God's presence would I enter now.
Ponder on this into God's presence.
As this experience increases all goals but this become of little worth.
A world to which you will return becomes a little closer to the end of time.
The world in which you return becomes a little more like heaven in its ways,
Becomes a little nearer its deliverance.
You who bring this world light will come to see the light more to see the vision distinct.
The time will come when you will not return in the same form in which you now appear for you will have no need of it yet now this form has a purpose and it will serve its purpose.
Well today you will embark upon a course you have not yet done.
The holy one,
The giver of the happy dreams of life,
The holy one,
The translator of perception into truth,
The holy guide to heaven given you.
This holy one has dreamed for you this journey which you make and start today.
The holy one has dreamed for you the experience this day holds out to you to be your own.
Surrender to your higher self.
As you say in your mind into God's presence would I enter now.
Into God's presence would I enter now.
Into Christ's presence will we enter now.
Serenely unaware of everything except his shining face.
Serenely unaware of everything except his perfect love.
The vision of Christ's face will stay with you.
It will be an instant which transcends even this vision which is the holiest.
This you will never teach for you attained it not through learning.
Yet the vision speaks of your remembering of what you knew at that transcendent instant and will surely know again.
Repeat to yourself into God's presence would I enter now.
Into God's presence would I enter now.
I will rejoin you in a few moments.
Into God's presence nothing real can be threatened nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
