 We are going through the workbook lessons of the Course in Miracles. We're on a roll with these lessons that are clearing away the grievances, opening to God's plan for salvation in the present moment, and and today we have a beautiful beautiful lesson which is Lesson number 75, the light has come. The light has come. You are healed and you can heal. The light has come. You are saved and you can save. You are at peace and you bring peace with you wherever you go. Darkness and turmoil and death disappeared. The light has come. Today we celebrate the happy ending to your long dream of disaster. There are no dark dreams now. The light has come. Today the time of light begins for you and everyone. It is a new era in which a new world is born. The old one has left no trace upon it in its passing. Today we see a different world because the light has come. Our exercises for today will be happy ones in which we offer thanks for the passing of the old and the beginning of the new. No shadows from the past remain to darken our sight and hide the world forgiveness offers us. Today we will accept the new world as what we want to see. We will be given what we desire. We will to see the light. The light has come. Our longer practice periods will be devoted to looking at the world that our forgiveness shows us. This is what we want to see and only this. Our single purpose makes our goal inevitable. Today the real world rises before us in gladness to be seen at last. Sight has given us now that the light has come. We do not want to see the ego's shadow on the world today. We see the light and in it we see heaven's reflection lie across the world. Begin the longer practice periods by telling yourself the glad tidings of your release. The light has come. I have forgiven the world. Dwell not upon the past today. Keep a completely open mind washed of all past ideas and clean of every concept you have made. You have forgiven the world today. You can look upon it now as if you never saw it before. You do not yet know. You do not know yet what it looks like. You merely wait to have it shown to you. While you wait, repeat several times slowly and in complete patience. The light has come. I have forgiven the world. Realize that your forgiveness entitles you to vision. Understand that the Holy Spirit never fails to give the gift of sight to the forgiving. Believe he will not fail you now. You have forgiven the world. He will be with you as you watch and wait. He will show you what true vision sees. It is his will and you have joined with him. Wait patiently for him. He will be there. The light has come. You have forgiven the world. Tell him you know you cannot fail because you trust in him. I am thinking of that Barbara Streisand and Celine Dion song. Tell him you know you cannot fail because you trust in him. Tell him you know you cannot fail because you trust in him. Tell yourself you wait in certainty to look upon the world he promised you. From this time forth you will see differently. Today the light has come and you will see the world that has been promised you since time began and in which is the end of time ensured. The shorter practice periods too will be joyful reminders of your release. Remind yourself every quarter of an hour or so that today is the time for special celebration. Give thanks for mercy and the love of God. Rejoice in the power of forgiveness to heal your sight completely. Be confident that on this day there is a new beginning. Without the darkness of the past upon your eyes you cannot fail to see today. And what you see will be so welcome that you will gladly extend today forever. Say then the light has come I have forgiven the world. Should you be tempted say to anyone who seems to pull you back into darkness the light has come I have I have forgiven you. We dedicate this day to the serenity in which God would have you be. Keep it in your awareness of yourself and see it everywhere today as we celebrate the beginning of your vision and the sight of the real world which has come to replace the unforgiving world you thought was real. Beautiful beautiful the light has come I have forgiven the world. So we have a couple sections from the course to back us up on on this beautiful idea the light has come and this morning when I got up too I glanced at my phone and my friend Netta Bowen had sent me a song this she did a song which is the title of the lesson for today so she she sent that along to me this morning so I thought before we get to the two sections in the in the text I would just play that song for you so you can have that song in your heart have the lesson in your heart as we roll on today and maybe this song will come back maybe the lesson of the day will come back with with these words in Netta's voice singing them beautifully so this is Netta Bowen singing the light has come beautiful and to support us today with that lovely idea let's go to chapter 17 and section two the forgiven world can you imagine how beautiful those you forgive will look to you in no fantasy have you ever seen anything so lovely nothing you see here sleeping or waking comes near to such loveliness and nothing will you value like unto this nor hold so dear nothing that you remember that made your heart sing with joy has ever brought you even a little part of the happiness this site will bring you for you will see the Son of God you will behold the beauty the Holy Spirit loves to look upon in which he thanks the Father for he was created to see this for you until you learned to see it for yourself and all his teaching leads to seeing it and giving thanks with him this loveliness is not fantasy it is the real world bright and clean and new with everything sparkling under the open sun nothing is hidden here for everything has been forgiven and there are no fantasies to hide the truth the bridge between that world and this is so little and so easy to cross that you could not believe it is the meeting place of worlds so different yet this little bridge is the strongest thing that touches on this world at all this little step so small it has escaped your notice is astride through time into eternity beyond all ugliness into beauty that will enchant you and will never cease to cause you wonderment at its perfection this step the smallest ever taken is still the greatest accomplishment of all in God's plan of attainment all else is learned but this is given complete and holy perfect no one but him who plans salvation could complete it thus the real world in this loveliness you learn to reach fantasies are all undone and no one and nothing remains still bound by them and by your own forgiveness you are set free you are free to see yet what you see is only what you made with the blessing of your forgiveness on it and with this final blessing of god's son upon himself the real perception born of the new perspective he has learned has served its purpose the stars will disappear in light and the sun that opened up the world to beauty will vanish perception will be meaningless when it has been perfected for everything that has been used for learning will have no function nothing will ever change no shifts nor shadings no differences no variations that made perception possible will still occur the perception of the real world will be so short that you will barely have time to thank god for it for god will take the last step swiftly when you have reached the real world and have been made ready for him the real world is attained simply by the complete forgiveness of the old the world you see without forgiveness the great transformer of perception will undertake with you the careful searching of the mind that made this world and then cover to you the seeming reasons for your making it in the light of the real reason that he brings as you follow him he will show you that there is no reason here at all each spot his reason touches grows alive with beauty and what seemed ugly in the darkness of your lack of reason is suddenly released to loveliness not even what the son of god made in insanity could be without a hidden spark of beauty that gentleness could release all this beauty will rise to bless your sight as you look upon the world with forgiving eyes for forgiveness literally transforms vision and lets you see the real world reaching quietly and gently across the chaos removing all illusions that had twisted your perception and fixed it on the past the smallest leaf becomes a thing of wonder and a blade of grass a sign of god's perfection from the forgiven world the son of god is lifted easily into his home and there he knows that he has always rested there in peace even salvation will become a dream and vanish from his mind for salvation is the end of dreams and with the closing of the dream will have no meaning who awake in heaven could dream that there could ever be need of salvation how much do you want salvation it will give you the real world trembling with readiness to be given you the eagerness of the holy spirit to give you this is so intense that he would not wait although he waits in patience meet his patience with your impatience at delay in meeting him go out in gladness to meet with your redeemer and walk with him in trust out of this world and into the real world of beauty and forgiveness and from chapter 18 section 5 the happy dream prepare you now for the undoing of what never was if you already understood the difference between truth and illusion the atonement would have no meaning the holy instant the holy relationship the holy spirit is teaching and all the means by which salvation is accomplished would have no purpose for they are all but aspects of the plan to change your dreams of fear to happy dreams from which you awaken easily to knowledge put yourself not in charge of this for you cannot distinguish between advance and retreat some of your greatest advances you have judged as failures and some of your deepest retreats you have evaluated as success never approach the holy instant after you have tried to remove all fear and hatred from your mind that is its function never attempt to overlook your guilt before you ask the holy spirits help that is his function your part is only to offer him a little willingness to let him remove all fear and hatred and to be forgiven on your little faith joined with his understanding he will build your part in the atonement and make sure that you fulfill it easily and with him you will build a ladder planted in the solid rock of faith and rising even to heaven nor will you use it to ascend to heaven alone through your holy relationship reborn and blessed in every holy instant you do not arrange thousands will rise to you heaven in to heaven with you can you plan for this or could you prepare yourself for such a function yet it is possible because god wills it nor will he change his mind about it the means and purpose both belong to him you have accepted one the other will be provided the purpose such as this without the means is inconceivable he will provide the means to anyone who shares his purpose happy dreams come true not because they are dreams but only because they are happy and so they must be loving their message is thy will be done and not i want it otherwise the alignment of means and purpose is an undertaking impossible for you to understand you do not even realize you have accepted the holy spirits purpose as your own and you would merely bring unholy means to its accomplishment the little faith it needed to change the purpose is all that is required to receive the means and use them it is no dream to love your brother as yourself nor is your holy relationship a dream all that remains of dreams within it is that it's still special relationship yet it is a very useful to to the holy spirit who has a special function here it will become the happy dream through which he can spread joy to thousands on thousands who believe that love is fear not happiness let him fulfill the function that he gave to your relationship by accepting it for you and nothing will be wanting that would make a bit what he would have it be when you feel the holiness of your relationship is threatened by anything stop instantly and offer the holy spirit your willingness in spite of fear to let him exchange this instant for the holy one that you would rather have he will never fail in this but forget not that your relationship is one and so it must be that whatever threatens the peace of one is an equal threat to the other the power of joining its blessing lies in the fact that it is now impossible for you or your brother to experience fear alone or to attempt to deal with it alone i'll read that one again the power of joining its blessing lies in the fact that it is now impossible for you or your brother to experience fear alone or attempt to deal with it alone never believe that this is necessary or even possible yet just as this is impossible so it is equally impossible that the holy spirit the holy instant come to either of you without the other and it will come to both at the request of either whoever is the saner at the time of the threat is perceived to remember how deep his indebtedness to the other and how much gratitude is due him and be glad that he can pay his debt by bringing happiness to both let him remember this and say i desire this holy instant for myself that i may share with my brother who my love it is not possible that i can have it without him or he without me yet it is the wholeness it is wholly possible for us to share it now and so i choose this instant as the one to offer to the holy spirit that his blessing may descend upon us and keep us both in peace wow okay so we've had it lesson 75 we've had it spoken to us the light has come and the light has come i have forgiven the world we heard neta bowen sing the song the title song of the album the light has come and we just reviewed chapter 17 the forgiven world and we rolled into chapter 18 the happy dream so uh yeah this is is a glorious happy day and uh the song that's coming to my mind now in my heart is uh is uh the carpenter's song remember karen and richard carpenter on top of the world such a feeling's coming over me there is wonder in most everything i see not a cloud in the sky got the sun in my eye and i won't be surprised if it's a dream i won't be surprised if it's a happy happy dream and basically the chorus is i'm on the top of the world looking down on creation and the only explanation i can find is the love that i've found ever since you've been around your loves put me at the top of the world thank you holy spirit thank you jesus the love that i've found ever since you've been around your loves put me at the top of the world have a blessed day have a forgiven world day have a happy dream day and remember the light has come i have forgiven the world amen