I place the future in the Hands of God.
1. Today’s idea takes another step toward quick salvation, and a giant stride it is indeed!
²So great the distance is that it encompasses, it sets you down just short of Heaven, with the goal in sight and obstacles behind.
³Your foot has reached the lawns that welcome you to Heaven’s gate; the quiet place of peace, where you await with certainty the final step of God.
⁴How far are we progressing now from earth!
* The TERM used here should have been the “world.” The world of ego where no creator is allowed except you and your ego.
⁵How close are we approaching to our goal!
⁶How short the journey still to be pursued!
* I have to admit that I am witnessing a “disappearing” of things that would have defined my reality before that is hard to put into words but I hope will come to be seen as I do this work.
2. Accept today’s idea, and you have passed all anxiety, all pits of hell, all blackness of depression, thoughts of sin, and devastation brought about by guilt.
²Accept today’s idea, and you have released the world from all imprisonment by loosening the heavy chains that locked the door to freedom on it.
³You are saved, and your salvation thus becomes the gift you give the world, because you have received.
3. In no one instant is depression felt, or pain experienced or loss perceived.
²In no one instant sorrow can be set upon a throne, and worshipped faithfully.
³In no one instant can one even die.
⁴And so each instant given unto God in passing, with the next one given Him already, is a time of your release from sadness, pain and even death itself.
4. God holds your future as He holds your past and present.
²They are one to Him, and so they should be one to you.
³Yet in this world, the temporal progression still seems real.
⁴And so you are not asked to understand the lack of sequence really found in time.
* I would have made “really” into “only.” “… the lack of sequence “only” found in time. We can understand the meaning without having to change the word if we are listening with our “spiritual ears” because the Holy Spirit translates for us.
⁵You are but asked to let the future go, and place it in God’s Hands.
* Whew! What a WEIGHT off of my shoulders!!! 
⁶And you will see by your experience that you have laid the past and present in His Hands as well, because the past will punish you no more, and future dread will now be meaningless.
* This is something that I forget when the ego in my mind raises its “dying head.”
5. Release the future.
²For the past is gone, and what is present, freed from its bequest of grief and misery, of pain and loss, becomes the instant in which time escapes the bondage of illusions where it runs its pitiless, inevitable course.
³Then is each instant which was slave to time transformed into a holy instant, when the light that was kept hidden in God’s Son is freed to bless the world.
* The “LIGHT” is God’s Love and the miracles set forth by witnessing of It.
* This is something that I saw that Judy Whitson was able to move into, at least to the extent that she placed the welfare of the Course at the forefront of all of her attention and lived for the Course in the moment. I witnessed this toward the end of her life MANY times. This is why she felt no pain as she did the Course work whether it was interviews, podcasts, or setting the business affairs of the Course in order. Without the witness of the forgiveness that she needed to offer the Whole Christ, including herself and Jesus it would be only in the moment but that does not negate the blessings she will have pouring in once she connects the dots fully.
⁴Now is he free, and all his glory shines upon a world made free with him, to share his holiness.
6. If you can see the lesson for today as the deliverance it really is, you will not hesitate to give as much consistent effort as you can, to make it be a part of you.
²As it becomes a thought that rules your mind, a habit in your problem-solving repertoire, a way of quick reaction to temptation, you extend your learning to the world.
* Do NOT worry if you stumble and go back and forth with ego or at least seem to. Jesus is by your side cheering you on and the Holy Ghost helps you adjust your course as soon as you allow Him to.
³And as you learn to see salvation in all things, so will the world perceive that it is saved.
7. What worry can beset the one who gives his future to the loving Hands of God?
²What can he suffer?
³What can cause him pain, or bring experience of loss to him?
⁴What can he fear?
⁵And what can he regard except with love?
⁶For he who has escaped all fear of future pain has found his way to present peace, and certainty of care the world can never threaten.
⁷He is sure that his perception may be faulty, but will never lack correction.
⁸He is free to choose again when he has been deceived; to change his mind when he has made mistakes.
8. Place, then, your future in the Hands of God.
²For thus you call the memory of Him to come again, replacing all your thoughts of sin and evil with the truth of love.
³Think you the world could fail to gain thereby, and every living creature not respond with healed perception?
⁴Who entrusts himself to God has also placed the world within the Hands to which he has himself appealed for comfort and security.
⁵He lays aside the sick illusions of the world along with his, and offers peace to both.
9. Now are we saved indeed.
²For in God’s Hands we rest untroubled, sure that only good can come to us.
³If we forget, we will be gently reassured.
⁴If we accept an unforgiving thought, it will be soon replaced by love’s reflection.
⁵And if we are tempted to attack, we will appeal to Him Who guards our rest to make the choice for us that leaves temptation far behind.
* There is no need to attack an illusion. But you can want to remove yourself from the presence of someone who does not want to “play nice.” It can take some practice to listen to what the Holy Spirit has asked you to do and trust that His Guidance and Understanding will come to you.
⁶No longer is the world our enemy, for we have chosen that we be its friend.
(ACIM, W-194.1:1–9:6)
Till next time, God bless, debi.
Freedom Principles; At-One-Meant Now 
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