Lesson 284

W-pII.284.1. Loss is not loss when properly perceived. ² Pain is impossible. ³ There is no grief with any cause at all. ⁴ And suffering of any kind is nothing but a dream. ⁵ This is the truth, at first to be but said and then repeated many times; and next to be accepted as but partly true, with many reservations. ⁶ Then to be considered seriously more and more, and finally accepted as the truth. ⁷ I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt. ⁸ And I would go beyond these words today, and past all reservations, and arrive at full acceptance of the truth in them.

W-pII.284.2. Father, what You have given cannot hurt, so grief and pain must be impossible. ² Let me not fail to trust in You today, accepting but the joyous as Your gifts; accepting but the joyous as the truth.