Welcome to active meditation.
A Course in Miracles Lesson 99 Salvation is my only function here.
Salvation and forgiveness are the same.
They both imply that something has gone wrong,
Something to be saved from,
Forgiven for,
Something amiss that needs corrective change,
Something apart or different from the will of God.
This to both terms imply the thing impossible,
But yet which has occurred,
Resulting in a state of conflict seen between what is and what could never be.
Death and illusions both are equal now,
For both have happened.
The impossible becomes the thing you need,
Forgiveness for,
Salvation from.
Salvation now becomes the borderland between the truth and the illusion.
Salvation reflects the truth because it is the means by which you can escape illusions.
Yet it is not yet the truth,
Because salvation undoes what was never done.
How could there be a meeting place at all,
Where earth and heaven can be reconciled,
Within a mind where both earth and heaven exist?
The mind that sees illusions thinks them real.
Illusions have existence in that they are thoughts.
And yet illusions are not real,
Because the mind that thinks these thoughts is separate from God.
What plan could hold the truth inviolate,
Yet recognize the need illusions bring,
And offer means by which illusions are undone,
Without attack and with no touch of pain?
What but a thought of God could be this plan,
By which the never done is overlooked,
And sins forgotten,
Sins which were never real?
The Holy Spirit holds this plan of God,
Exactly as it was received of God,
Within the mind of God,
And in your own mind.
This plan is apart from time,
In that its source is timeless.
Yet the plan operates in time,
Because of your belief that time is real.
When shaken,
Does the Holy Spirit look on what you see,
On sin,
And pain,
And death,
On grief,
And separation,
And on loss?
Yet,
Does the Holy Spirit know one thing must still be true?
God is still love,
And what you see is not God's will.
This is the thought that brings illusions to the truth,
And sees illusions as appearances,
Behind which is the changeless and the sure.
This is the thought that saves,
And that forgives,
Because this thought lays no faith on what is not created by the only source it knows.
This is the thought whose function is to save,
By giving you its function as your own.
Salvation is your function,
With the one to whom the plan was given.
How are you entrusted with this plan,
Along with the Holy Spirit?
The Holy Spirit has one answer to appearances,
Regardless of their form,
Their size,
Their religion,
Or any attribute they seem to have.
Salvation is my only function here.
God still is love,
And this is not God's will.
You who will yet work miracles,
Be sure you practice well the idea for today.
Let's practice.
Say to yourself,
Repeat in your mind,
Salvation is my only function here.
God still is love,
And this is not God's will.
Try to perceive the strength in what you say.
For these are words in which your freedom lies.
God loves you.
All the world of pain is not God's will.
Forgive yourself the thought that God wanted this for you.
Then let the thought with which God has replaced all your mistakes enter the darkened places of your mind.
That thought,
The thoughts that never were,
God's will.
God still is love,
And this is not God's will.
Forgive yourself now.
This part belongs to God,
As does the rest.
It does not think its solitary thoughts and make them real by hiding them from God.
Let in the light,
And you will look upon no obstacle to what God wills for you.
Open your secrets to God's kindly light,
And see how bright this light still shines in you.
Practice God's thought today.
Let God's light seek out and lighten up all darkened spots.
Let God's light shine through these darkened spots to join them to the rest.
It is God's will,
Your mind be one with God.
It is God's will that God has but one child.
It is God's will that this one child is you.
Think of these things in practicing today,
And start the lesson that we learned today with this instruction in the way of truth.
Salvation is my only function here.
Salvation and forgiveness are the same.
Then,
Turn to the one who shares your function here,
And let God teach you what you need to learn to lay all fear aside.
And know yourself as love,
Which has no opposite in you.
Forgive all thoughts which would oppose the truth of your completion,
Your unity,
And your peace.
You cannot lose the gifts God gave.
You do not want to be another self.
You have no function that is not of God.
Believe yourself,
The one you think you made.
Forgiveness and salvation are the same.
Believe what you have made,
And you are saved.
Let God show you what you need to learn to lay all fear aside.
Let God help you to know yourself as love,
Which has no opposite in you.
Forgive all thoughts which oppose the truth of your unity and your peace.
Share oneness with God.
You cannot lose the gifts God gave.
You do not want to be another self.
You have no function that is not of God.
Forgive yourself,
The one you think you made.
Forgiveness and salvation are the same.
Forgive all thoughts which oppose the truth of your unity and your peace.
There is a special message for today which has the power to remove all forms of doubt and fear forever from your mind,
If you are tempted to believe them true.
Remember that appearances cannot withstand the truth these mighty words contain.
Salvation is my only function here.
God still is love,
And this is not God's will.
Your only function tells you,
You are one.
Remind yourself of this.
Between the times you give five minutes,
Be shared with the one who shares God's plan with you.
Remind yourself,
Salvation is my only function here.
Thus,
Do you lay forgiveness on your mind,
And let all fear be gently laid aside.
That love may find its rightful place in you,
And show you that you are the child of God.
Salvation is my only function here.
God still is love,
And this is not God's will.
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God.
