 Ford is bursting joy going around us. We have an amazing lesson for today. It's lesson number 42 from the workbook of A Course in Miracles. God is my strength. Vision is His gift. The idea for today combines two very powerful thoughts. Both of major importance. It also sets forth a cause and effect relationship that explains why you cannot fail in your efforts to achieve the goal of the course. You will see because it is the will of God. It is His strength, not your own, that gives you power. And it is His gift rather than your own that offers vision to you. God is indeed your strength and what He gives is truly given. This means that you can receive it anytime and anywhere, wherever you are, and in whatever circumstance you find yourself. Your passage through time and space is not at random. You cannot but be in the right place at the right time. Such is the strength of God. Such are His gifts. We will have two three to five minute practice periods today. One as soon as possible after you wake and another as close as possible to the time you go to sleep. It is better, however, to wait until you can sit quietly by yourself at a time when you feel ready than it is to be concerned with the time as such. Begin these practice periods by repeating the idea for today slowly with your eyes open, looking about you. Then close your eyes and repeat the idea again even slower than before. After this, try to think of nothing except thoughts that occur to you in relation to the idea for the day. You might think, for example, vision must be possible. God gives truly or God's gifts to me must be mine because He gave them to me. Any thought that is clearly related to the idea for today is suitable. You may in fact be astonished at the amount of course related understanding some of your thoughts contain. Let them come without censoring unless you find your mind merely wandering and you have let obviously irrelevant thoughts intrude. You may also reach a point where no thoughts at all seem to come to mind. If such interferences occur, open your eyes and repeat the thought once more while looking slowly about. Close your eyes, repeat the idea once more and then continue to look for related thoughts in your mind. Remember, however, that active searching for relevant thoughts is not appropriate for today's exercises. Try merely to step back and let the thoughts come. If you find this difficult, it is better to spend the practice period alternating between slow repetitions of the idea with eyes open, then with eyes closed. Then it is to strain to find suitable thoughts. There is no limit on the number of short practice periods that would be beneficial today. The idea for it today is a beginning step in bringing thoughts together and teaching you that you are studying a unified thought system in which nothing is lacking that is needed and nothing is included that is contradictory or irrelevant. The more often you repeat the idea during the day, the more often you will be reminding yourself that the goal of the course is important to you and that you have not forgotten it. Wow! God is my strength. Vision is His gift. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Well, I looked into our text to find support for our practice today, support for our beautiful workbook lesson. God is my strength. Vision is His gift. I just typed into the Course in Miracles search program, God's strength. I have a few wonderful related ideas to share with you to go forth rejoicing today. From the text, chapter 4, section 4. Your mind and mind can unite in shining your ego away, releasing the strength of God into everything you think and do. Text, chapter 8, section 3. The Holy Spirit teaches that all strength is in God and therefore in you. Again, chapter 8, section 4. I can offer my strength to make yours invincible, but I cannot oppose your decision without competing with it and thereby violating God's will for you. Chapter 13, section 8. Unite with me under the holy banner of His teaching. And as we grow in strength, the power of God's Son will move in us and we will leave no one untouched and no one left alone. Text, chapter 15, section 2. God's teacher and His lesson will support your strength. Chapter 15, section 9. It is impossible to divide your strength between heaven and hell, God and the ego, and release your power to creation, which is the only purpose for which it was given you. Okay, so we can't divide our strength and the strength of God is only for the purpose that was given for us, which was forgiveness, forgiveness of illusions, releasing error. Text, chapter 16, section 1. The power of love, like Huey Lewis, that's the power of love. The power of love, which is its meaning, lies in the strength of God that hovers over it and blesses it silently by enveloping it in healing wings. Chapter 16, section 5. A special relationship must be recognized for what it is, a senseless ritual in which strength is extracted from the death of God and invested in His killer as a sign that form has triumphed over content and love has lost its meaning. Okay, that's telling us, if any of you are going, what? That's telling us, go back to chapters 15 to 24 and read about the exposing and the uncovering of the ego's special relationship, which is a substitute for God. That's why Jesus is using words like senseless ritual and strength is extracted from the death of God and invested in His killer. That's just talking about the ego's use of relationships. Sticky, codependent, dark, full of guilt and the projection of guilt. Sticky, sticky, sticky. He's telling us, go back to your strength. God is my strength. Vision is His gift. Vision of Christ is what I want, not a codependent relationship based on form. Texts, chapter 20, section 2. For you have asked for and been given the strength to look upon this final obstacle and see no thorns nor nails to crucify the Son of God and crown Him king of death. Okay. Yes, we have been given that strength. Strength is my gift today. God is my strength. Vision is His gift. Texts, chapter 22, section 5. God rest with you in quiet, undefended and wholly undefending for in this quiet state alone is strength and power. Texts, chapter 23, section 4. Those with the strength of God and their awareness could never think of battle. Okay. Jesus is having fun. This is Super Bowl Sunday. And just remember, when you go through the day, God is my strength. Vision is His gift. Just remember that line. Those with the strength of God and their awareness could never think of battle. Can't think of a Super Bowl. God is my strength. Vision is His gift. No competition in that strength. It's just pure light. Love and joy. Texts, chapter 27, section 6. And God himself has guaranteed the strength of miracles for what they witness to. Yeah. Texts, chapter 30, section 4. And you are asked to let yourself be free of all dreams of whatever you never were and seek no more to substitute the strength of idol wishes for the will of God. Texts, chapter 31, section 8. His God's strength is yours because He is the capital self that God created as His only Son. It really is. Christ's strength is yours because Christ is the self, the capital self, divine self that God created as His only Son. There's one Christ and the illusion of people and bodies, private minds, private thoughts is not so. It's an illusion. Texts, chapter 31, section 8, continues. Thus is Christ's strength invited to prevail, replacing all your weakness with the strength that comes from God and that can never fail. Period. Float, float, float, float in the glory. Float in the love of God today. Go forth with joy in your heart, remembering. Say it slowly. Remind yourself slowly of this throughout the day. God is my strength. Vision is His gift. Amen. Okay, thank you. Thank you for coming on here. Thank you for joining. I love you. I send my blessings. Stay in the prayer. God is my strength. Vision is His gift. God bless you.