·        Let me place my future in the hands of God and pass all anxiety, all pits of hell, all blackness of depression, thoughts of sin, and devastation brought about by guilt.

·        Let me place my future in the Hands of God and release the world from all imprisonment by loosening the heavy chains that locked the door to freedom on it.

·        I let the future go, and place it in God’s Hands. For 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.

·        What worry can beset me now that I have given my future to the loving Hands of God? What can I suffer? What can cause me pain, or bring experience of loss to me? What can I fear? And what can I regard except with love?

·        I have escaped all fear of future pain and found my way to present peace, and certainty of care the world can never threaten.

·        I am sure that if my perception is faulty, I will never lack correction. I am free to choose again when I have been deceived; to change my mind when I have made mistakes.

I place my future in the Hands of God and I call the memory of Him to come again, replacing all my thoughts of sin and evil with the truth of love.

Amen.

                                                                                            Based on Lesson 194.

Let my weak commitment be strong.

Let my scattered goals blend into one intent.

Let my dedication become total.

Let me give my total willingness to following the way the Course sets forth.

Let the blocks that keep my vision narrow be lifted.

Let me give up my tight control of what I see and experience peace and freedom.

Let me concentrate on what impedes my progress still.

Let me experience of what exists beyond defensiveness.

Let me go past all defences.

And, I trust that the rest will come.

                                                                    Amen.

                          Based on the introduction to Lessons 181-200

Let not my mind deny the Thought of God.

-          Lesson 166-

The Thought of God created me.

It has never left me, nor have I been apart from It an instant.

It belongs to me.

By It I live.

It is my Source of life, holding me one with It, and everything is one with me, because It left me not.

The Thought of God protects me, cares for me, makes soft my resting place and smooth my way, lighting my mind with happiness and love. Eternity and everlasting life shine in my mind, because the Thought of God has left me not, and still abides with me.

Has the Thought of God created this world?

Is it possible this world of misery and fear to be an extension of a Thought of Love?

Of course not!

So, this world is not real.

What makes this world seem real except my own denial of the truth that lies beyond?

What but my thoughts of misery and death obscure the perfect happiness my Father wills for me?

And what could hide what cannot be concealed except illusion?

What could keep me from what I already have except my choice to see it not, denying it is there?

Let me not deny Heaven!

Let me not forget it is mine but for the asking.

I accept the gifts of Heaven. I ask to receive it and it is given me. I accept the Thought of God as my inheritance.

One walks with me Who gently answers all my fears with this one merciful reply, “It is not so”.

He points to all the gifts I have each time the thought of poverty oppresses me, and speaks of His Companionship when I perceive myself as lonely and afraid.

The gifts are mine; entrusted to my care, to give to all who chose the lonely road I have escaped.

I teach them by showing them the happiness that comes to those who feel the touch of Christ, and recognize God’s gifts.

Let sorrow not tempt me to be unfaithful to my trust.

My hand becomes the giver of Christ’s touch; my change of mind becomes the proof that who accepts God gifts can never suffer anything.

I am entrusted with the world’s release from pain.

Let me not betray it.

Let me become the living proof of what Christ’s touch can offer everyone.

Such is my mission now.

For God entrusts the giving of His gifts to all who received them.

He has shared His joy with me.

And now I go to share it with the world.

I am entrusted with the gifts of God

                                               - Lesson 166-

Based on Lessons 165 and 166.

There is a light in you which cannot die, whose presence is so holy that the world is sanctified because of you.

All things that live bring gifts to you, and offer them in gratitude and gladness at your feet.

The scent of flowers is their gift to you.

The waves bow down before you, and the trees extend their arms to shield you from the heat, and lay their leaves before you on the ground that you may walk in softness, while the wind sinks to a whisper round your holy head.

The light in you is what the universe longs to behold.

 All living things are still before you, for they recognize Who walks with you.

The light you carry is their own. And thus they see in you their holiness, saluting you as a savior and as God. Accept their reverence, for it is due to Holiness Itself, which walks with you, transforming in Its gentle light all things unto Its likeness and Its purity.

This is the way salvation works.

As you step back, the light in you steps forward and encompasses the world. It heralds not the end of sin in punishment and death. In lightness and in laughter is sin gone, because its quaint absurdity is seen. It is a foolish thought, a silly dream, not frightening, ridiculous perhaps, but who would waste an instant in approach to God Himself for such a senseless whim?

                                                                                         Excerpt from Lesson 156

Let me be humble today, and accept what I have made as what it is.

Let me accept my rightful place as co-creator of the universe.

Let all I think I made disappear.

Let all that there ever was, rise to my awareness.

Let it take the place of self-deceptions made but to usurp the artar to the Father and the Son.

Let me be truly humble, abandoning the false pretense by which the ego seeks to prove it arrogant.

Truth is humble in acknowledging its mightiness, its changelessness and its eternar wholeness, all-encompassing, God's perfect gidt to His beloved Son.

Let me lay aside the arrogance which says I am a sinner, guilty and afraid, ashamed of what I am. Let me lift my heart in true humility instead to Him Who has created me immaculate, like to Himself in power and in love.

Amen...

The Power of decision is my own. (LESSON 152)