Library of Christ Mind Teachings
ACIM Original Edition
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1 What time but now can truth be recognized? The present is
the only time there is. And so today, this instant, now, we come to look
upon what is forever there—not in our sight, but in the eyes of Christ.
He looks past time and sees eternity as represented there. He hears the
sounds the senseless busy world engenders, yet He hears them faintly,
for beyond them all He hears the song of Heaven and the Voice of God
more clear, more meaningful, more near.
2 The world fades easily away before His sight. Its sounds
grow dim. A melody from far beyond the world increasingly is more and
more distinct—an ancient call to which He gives an ancient answer. You
will recognize them both. For they are but your answer to your Father’s
call to you. Christ answers for you, echoing your Self, using your voice
to give His glad consent, accepting your deliverance for you.
3 How holy is your practicing today, as Christ gives you His
sight and hears for you and answers in your name the call He hears. How
quiet is the time you give to spend with Him beyond the world. How
easily are all your seeming sins forgot and all your sorrows
unremembered. On this day is grief laid by, for sights and sounds which
come from nearer than the world are clear to you who will today accept
the gifts He gives.
4 There is a silence into which the world cannot intrude.
There is an ancient peace you carry in your heart and have not lost.
There is a sense of holiness in you the thought of sin has never
touched. All this today you will remember. Faithfulness in practicing
today will bring rewards so great and so completely different from all
things you sought before that you will know that here your treasure is
and here your rest.
5 This is the day when vain imaginings part like a curtain to
reveal what lies beyond them. Now is what is really there made visible,
while all the shadows which appeared to hide it sink to obscurity. Now
is the balance righted and the scales of judgment left to Him Who judges
true. And in His judgment will a world unfold in perfect innocence
before your eyes. Now will you see it with the eyes of Christ. Now is
its transformation clear to you.
6 Brothers, this day is sacred to the world. Your vision,
given you from far beyond all things within the world, looks back on
them in a new light. And what you see becomes the healing and salvation
of the world. The valuable and valueless are both perceived and
recognized for what they are. And what is worthy of your love receives
your love, while nothing to be feared remains.
7 We will not judge today. We will receive but what is given
us from judgment made beyond the world. Our practicing today becomes our
gift of thankfulness for our release from blindness and from misery. All
that we see will but increase our joy because its holiness reflects our
own. We stand forgiven in the sight of Christ, with all the world
forgiven in our own.
8 We bless the world as we behold it in the light in which
our Savior looks on us and offer it the freedom given us through His
forgiving vision, now our own. Open the curtain in your practicing by
merely letting go all things you think you want. Your trifling treasures
put away and leave a clean and open space within your mind where Christ
can come and offer you the treasure of salvation. He has need of your
most holy mind to save the world.
9 Is not this purpose worthy to be yours? Is not Christ’s
vision worthy to be sought above the world’s unsatisfying goals? Let not
today slip by without the gifts it holds for you receiving your consent
and your acceptance. We can change the world if you acknowledge them.
You may not see the value your acceptance gives the world. But this you
surely want—you can exchange all suffering for joy this very day.
Practice in earnest, and the gift is yours. Would God deceive you? Can
His promise fail? Can you withhold so little when His Hand holds out
complete salvation to His Son?