Into His Presence would I enter now.
* I have to admit that it is really difficult being in His Presence and being with those who do not accept this as yet.
1. This is a day of silence and of trust.
²It is a special time of promise in your calendar of days.
³It is a time Heaven has set apart to shine upon, and cast a timeless light upon this day, when echoes of eternity are heard.
⁴This day is holy, for it ushers in a new experience; a different kind of feeling and awareness.
⁵You have spent long days and nights in celebrating death.
⁶Today you learn to feel the joy of life.
2. This is another crucial turning point in the curriculum.
* I can only wish that the past 50 years had been spent knowing it was talking about the Atonement. Imagine where we would be. But, better late than never. Thankfully, never is an impossibility, even if it takes us millions of years for us each to come to this understanding.
²We 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.
³It brings us to the door where learning ceases, and we catch a glimpse of what lies past the highest reaches it can possibly attain.
⁴It leaves us here an instant, and we go beyond it, sure of our direction and our only goal.
* Our goal = God’s Presence witnessed by the Son, which is each of us UNITED. The witness of the truth from this by the Holy Spirit makes this bearable and does not take our joy, peace, and happiness that comes from knowing it will come to all.
3. Today it will be given you to feel a touch of Heaven, though you will return to paths of learning.
²Yet you have come far enough along the way to alter time sufficiently to rise above its laws, and walk into eternity a while.
³This 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.
²And having joined your will with His this day, what you are asking must be given you.
³Nothing 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. ²A vision reaches everyone you meet, and everyone you think of, or who thinks of you. ³For your experience today will so transform your mind that it becomes the touchstone for the holy Thoughts of God.
* You have this IF you have released all from the idea of sin and separation.
* It is where I exist from anymore. He doesn’t tell me how others receive what I am or know but I know where I AM.
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.
* That does not mean you will have a different body than you did before it means that you have given you “space and place” in the world that does not know of God’s Presence a witness of it through your story and each of us has a different one to offer.
²We cannot give experience like this directly.
³Yet 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.
* Love this! 
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.
* This occurs NOT necessarily by drawing you out of fellowship with people, though it did with me for a while, but being able to be accepted without allowing yourself to become a “pawn” in their stories serves the Sonship as well and possibly to many more; even though, yes, I understand that we are ONE.
* I am not saying that it is always easy but it is “worth it” and you have the constant companionship of God and the Holy Spirit. AND, YES, you are still going to make mistakes.
²And you who bring it light will come to see the light more sure; the vision more distinct.
* This happens as we share our witness of God. I have had it happen. YOU have seen it in me. 
³The 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.
* To me this is a hint at the reality for the need of reincarnation which I expect to continue for quite some time though that is solely dependent on each of us.
⁴Yet now it has a purpose, and will serve it well.
8. Today we will embark upon a course you have not dreamed of.
²But 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.
* ‘See’ this with your spiritual eyes.
²The vision of His face will stay with you, but there will be an instant which transcends all vision, even this, the holiest.
* I dare say that this might be something that you may experience in you sleeping dreams or in meditation. It can happen when you are doing something that you do not have to think about like dishes and such. Again, this is meant to be ‘figurative’ language and is a feeling or a knowing rather than seeing a face, remember that God is more like energy and is definitely not a ‘body’ that we would truly see because God IS ALL OF CREATION Eternally. How would He put that in form? Though a hologram vision of sunlike magnitude is not impossible for me to envision.
³This you will never teach, for you attained it not through learning.
⁴Yet the vision speaks of your remembrance of what you knew that instant, and will surely know again.
(ACIM, W-157.1:1–9:4)
Till next time, God bless, debi.
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