Lesson 293

W-pII.293.1. All fear is past, because its source is gone, and all its thoughts gone with it. ² Love remains the only present state, whose Source is here forever and forever. ³ Can the world seem bright and clear and safe and welcoming, with all my past mistakes oppressing it, and showing me distorted forms of fear? ⁴ Yet in the present love is obvious, and its effects apparent. ⁵ All the world shines in reflection of its holy light, and I perceive a world forgiven at last.

W-pII.293.2. Father, let not Your holy world escape my sight today. ² Nor let my ears be deaf to all the hymns of gratitude the world is singing underneath the sounds of fear. ³ There is a real world which the present holds safe from all past mistakes. ⁴ And I would see only this world before my eyes today.