December 3rd



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There is a light that this world cannot give.

Yet you can give it, as it was given you.

And as you give it, it shines forth to call you from the world
and follow it.

For this light will attract you as nothing in this world can do.

And you will lay aside the world and find another.

This other world is bright with love which you have given it.

And here will everything remind you of your Father and His holy Son.

Light is unlimited, and spreads across this world in quiet joy.

All those you brought with you will shine on you,
and you will shine on them in gratitude
because they brought you here.

Your light will join with theirs in power so compelling,
that it will draw the others out of darkness
as you look on them.

You, maker of a world that is not so,
take rest and comfort in another world where peace abides.

This world you bring with you to all the weary eyes and tired hearts that look on sin and beat its sad refrain.

From you can come their rest.

From you can rise a world they will rejoice to look upon,
and where their hearts are glad.

In you there is a vision that extends to all of them,
and covers them in gentleness and light.

And in this widening world of light
the darkness that they thought was there
is pushed away,

Until it is but distant shadows,   far away,

Not long to be remembered as the sun shines them to nothingness.

And all their "evil" thoughts and "sinful" hopes, their dreams of guilt and merciless revenge, and every wish to hurt and kill and die,

Will disappear before the sun you bring.

- A Course in Miracles
Chapter 13, Section 6, paragraph 11
Chapter 25, Section 4, paragraph 3

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