THE  GREAT  AWAKENING

 PART I

CHAPTER 9

God's Son is indeed in need of comfort, for he knows not what he does, believing his will is not his own.  The Kingdom is his, and yet he wanders homeless.  At Home in God he is lonely, and amid all his brothers he is friendless.  Would God let this be real, when He did not will to be alone Himself?  And if your will is His it cannot be true of you, because it is not true of Him.  Whom God has joined cannot be separated, and God has joined all His Sons with Himself.  Can you be separated from your Life and your Being?  The journey to God is merely the reawakening of the knowledge of where you are always, and what you are forever.  The Kingdom cannot be found alone.  It is impossible to remember God in secret and alone.  For remembering Him means you are not alone, and are willing to remember it.

Change is the greatest gift God gave to all that you would make eternal, to ensure that only Heaven would not pass away.  You were not born to die.  You cannot change, because your function has been fixed by God.  All other goals are set in time, and change that time might be preserved, excepting one.  Forgiveness does not aim at keeping time, but at its ending, when it has no use.  Its purpose ended, it is gone.

Where could your Peace arise but from forgiveness?  The Christ in you looks only on the Truth, and sees no condemnation that could need forgiveness.  He is at Peace because he sees no sin.  Swear not to die, you Holy Son of God.  You make a bargain that you cannot keep.  The Son of Life cannot be killed.  He is immortal as his Father.  What he is cannot be changed.  He is the only thing in all the universe that must be One.  What seems eternal all will have an end.  The stars will disappear, and night and day will be no more.  All things that come and go, the tides, the seasons and the lives of men; all things that change with time and bloom and fade will not return.  Where time has set an end is not where the Eternal is.  God's Son can never change by what men made of him.  He will be as he was, and as he is, for time appointed not his destiny, nor set the hour of his birth and death.  Forgiveness will not change him.  Yet time waits upon forgiveness that the things of time may disappear because they have no use.

Think what a happy world you walk with Truth beside you.  Nothing around you but is part of you.  Look on it lovingly, and see the Light of Heaven in it, so you will come to understand all that is given you.  In kind forgiveness will the world sparkle and shine and everything you once thought sinful now will be reinterpreted as part of Heaven.  You will see the Christ in your brother because you let Him come to you.  And when He has appeared to you, you will be certain you are like Him, for He is the changeless in your brother and in you.  This you will look upon when you decide there is not one appearance you would hold in place of what your brother really is.

At God's altar, Christ waits for the restoration of Himself in you.  God knows His Son as wholly blameless as Himself, and He is approached through the appreciation of His Son.  Christ waits for your acceptance of Him as yourself, and of His Wholeness as yours.  For Christ is the Son of God, who lives in His Creator and shines with His glory.  Christ is the extension of the Love and the Loveliness of God, as perfect as His Creator, and at Peace with Him.