Library of Christ Mind Teachings
ACIM Original Edition
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1 This is a day of silence and of trust. It is a special time
of promise in your calendar of days. It is a time Heaven has set apart
to shine upon and cast a timeless light upon this day when 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.
2 This is another crucial turning point in the curriculum. We
add a new dimension now—a fresh experience that sheds a light on all
that we have learned already and prepares us for what we have yet to
learn. It brings us to the door where learning ceases, and we catch a
glimpse of what lies past the highest reaches it can possibly attain. It
leaves us there an instant and we go beyond it, sure of our direction
and our only goal.
3 Today it will be given you to feel a touch of Heaven,
though you will return to paths of learning. Yet you have come far
enough along the way to alter time sufficiently to rise above its laws
and walk into eternity a while. This you will learn to do increasingly,
as every lesson, faithfully rehearsed, brings you more swiftly to this
holy place and leaves you for a moment to your Self.
4 He will direct your practicing today, for what you ask for
now is what He wills. And having joined your will with His this day,
what you are asking must be given you. Nothing is needed but today’s
idea to light your mind and let it rest in still anticipation and in
quiet joy wherein you quickly leave the world behind.
5 From this day forth, your ministry takes on a genuine
devotion and a glow that travels from your fingertips to those you touch
and blesses those you look upon. A vision reaches everyone you meet, and
everyone you think of, or who thinks of you. For your experience today
will so transform your mind that it becomes the touchstone for the holy
thoughts of God.
6 Your body will be sanctified today, its only purpose being
now to bring the vision of what you experience this day to light the
world. We cannot give experience like this directly. Yet it leaves a
vision in our eyes which we can offer everyone that he may come the
sooner to the same experience in which the world is quietly forgot and
Heaven is remembered for a while.
7 As this experience increases and all goals but this become
of little worth, the world to which you will return becomes a little
closer to the end of time, a little more like Heaven in its ways, a
little nearer its deliverance. And you who bring it light will come to
see the light more sure, the vision more distinct.
8 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
it has a purpose and will serve it well. Today we will embark upon a
course you have not dreamed of. But the Holy One, the Giver of the happy
dreams of life, Translator of perception into truth, the holy Guide to
Heaven given you has dreamed for you this journey which you make and
start today with the experience this day holds out to you to be your
own.
9 Into Christ’s Presence will we enter now, serenely unaware
of everything except His shining face and perfect Love. The vision of
His face will stay with you, but there will be an instant which
transcends all vision, even this, the holiest. This you will never
teach, for you attained it not through learning. Yet the vision speaks
of your remembrance of what you knew that instant and will surely know
again.