 the thought is, on my mind, is perfect, pure innocence. That's it. And we're talking about the innocence of eternity, because this is a world, a projected world of time and space, duality of past and future. Let's just base it. The projected world of the ego is a world of opposites. And basically, two of the opposites that the ego made up in its own world is guilt and innocent. And in the ego's eyes, there's a big difference between guilt and innocence in the world, because the guiltier are those that have done wrong and the innocent are the ones that have not done wrong. And Jesus is so beautiful. He's going to give us the direction to the kingdom of heaven within, to the kingdom of God within, which is eternal life. And you may have noticed in this world of multiplicity and world of opposites that whatever you strive for, you always seem to get the opposite. That's because this is a world that's built on scarcity. It's built on lack. So even in this projected world, the ego has made up its own definition of scarcity and its own definition of abundance. That tends to revolve around money and ownership and possession. But all of this, this entire world is a smokescreen designed by the ego, the error, the devil, Satan, call it whatever you want. But basically this world is a fail drawn over the truth. And we're interested in the innocence because we know that the truth of God is pure love and pure innocence. Eternal life is eternal innocence, and that you could say is the I am presence. So the reason that we're focusing on this innocence is because the desire is to wake up from the dream of opposites, the dream of duality, the dream of past and future and come back to the present moment, our gateway to eternity. So I'm so excited to join with you in that today because it feels like innocence is our birthright. Innocence is our natural state of being, our natural state of mind. It's the state of our heart in its original state. And that's innocence. Back in the days of St. Francis, some of you might know that the Pope, back in the days of St. Francis, the Pope was called the Pope Innocent III. And that Pope was the one who said, in our obsession with original sin, we sometimes lose track of original innocence. Yay for the Pope. Pope Innocent III, no wonder you have that name, Pope Innocent, because you're not going to find the kingdom of heaven through guilt. You're not going to find the kingdom of heaven through error. Even the word sin in Aramaic is missing the mark. And why would you want to focus on missing the mark when you can be taken inside in grace, in joy, in glory, to the innocence of God's Son, the Christ, the Christ, the I am presence, prior to time and space. Remember what Jesus said 2000 years ago, before Abraham was I am, he was pointing us to the I am presence, to the innocence. So today I thought I would read a little passage from A Course in Miracles, Jesus' great expression of spiritual awakening to the presence of Christ, to the Holy Christ, through the Holy Spirit's guidance and instructions. And I would read, I'll first read about a paragraph or so from the text of A Course in Miracles. Then I'm going to jump to the lesson of the day for those of you that are doing the Course in Miracles workbook lessons based on the chronological lessons of the day, starting January 1st with lesson number one. I will read from today's lesson. That's right, we're already into November, so we're pretty far through the workbook. And then as usual, I will conclude with a beautiful song from Svava, and this song will be the answer to our innocence. So we can meditate on it at the end. So let's move forward here. First of all, I'm going to start off with chapter three. And Jesus starts off with paragraph six by saying innocence is incapable of sacrificing anything because the innocent mind has everything and strives only to protect its wholeness. It cannot project. It can only honor other minds because honor is the natural greeting of the truly loved to others who are like them. The lamb takes away the sins of the world in the sense that the state of innocence or grace is one in which the meaning of the atonement is perfectly apparent. The atonement is entirely unambiguous. It is perfectly clear because it exists in light. So for those of you that want a definition of atonement, I will just say that atonement is total escape from the past and a total lack of interest in the future. Atonement is the first miracle and the last miracle and all the miracles in between. Atonement in terms of sleep or in terms of the fall from grace, we'll just say atonement is the correction to the error we could call ego or sin or we could call it Satan. You could call it whatever you want. We'll just say that the atonement is the correction for the error of separation, for the error of the belief in separation from God. So atonement is where we find our divine innocence. Atonement opens the door to eternal life, to eternal innocence, to the I am presence prior to time, prior to the possibility of time, is eternity. Eternity has no beginning and no end. Eternity just is. Jesus tells us in his workbook, he says we say God is and then we cease to speak. Isn't that nice? From the Bible you could say if you wanted to summarize all Jesus' teachings from the New Testament in the Bible, let's go to the Sermon on the Mount and let's just say two words, judge not. That is the essence of forgiveness, judge not. And then we could say God is is just a state of acceptance of what is real, what is true. Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists, herein lies the peace of God. Okay, all right now let's do the lesson of the day. For those of you that are following along, today's lesson is 309 and this is the lesson. I will not fear to look within today. Within me is eternal innocence because it is God's will that it be there forever and forever. I, his son, whose will is limitless as his own, can will no change in this. For to deny my father's will is to deny my own. To look within is but to find my will as God created it, as it is. I fear to look within because I think I made another will that is not true and made real. Yet it has no effects. Within me is the holiness of God. Within me is the memory of him. The step I take today, my father, is my sure release from idle dreams and sin. Your altar stands serene and undefiled. It is the holy altar to my Christ self and there I find my true identity. So there it is, there is the answer to the search. You might say time and space is the search for an identity in a time and place where the identity can't be found. The kingdom of heaven is within. The kingdom of God is within. What does that even mean? It means that the kingdom of heaven is spirit. The kingdom of God is spirit, is eternal spirit. So the search for identity in time and space is what we would call the self-concept. It's the self-image of being a body and a person in a world of linear time. If you've tried that experience, I think you could agree that it's frustrating, it's stressful, it's conflictual. You might even call that state of linear time war. That's a short word for time and space. And so the answer is within and the answer is our eternal grace, our eternal innocence. So let's sit back and just enjoy a beautiful song from Sava called The Answer. Gentle, sink in, relax, feel the grace of eternal, divine innocence. Have a beautiful day.